Jeff Wells

[overcoming hope]

When I glanced at the headline I thought, oh no Jeff Wells died! Guess that is my pessimistic outlook, but also yeah life is short. I would love to read something new from the RI blog, however this subject matter can be pretty depressing especially if the author doesn't necessarily think there are any correct solutions, or even questions to be asked or if he doesn't feel like he has anything new to add at this point, or he just isn't in the mood then who am I to pressure?

I've been reading some old blog posts lately, still fucking awesome. Best blog on internet, super unique forum, super good job!

edited to change the word community to forum

[NeonLX]

I gotta say, I love your screen name, overcoming hope!

I was in a particularly awful state yesterday; as fatalistic as I've been in years. So your screen name really jumped out at me!

[overcoming hope]

I gotta say, I love your screen name, overcoming hope!

I was in a particularly awful state yesterday; as fatalistic as I've been in years. So your screen name really jumped out at me!

Thanks I thought it was clever when I wrote it, but now I pretty much hate it like a bad sitcom name, but seriously thanks, I just don't like how vaguely cynical it sounds anymore I'm trying to be more positive!

[Iamwhomiam]

Well, we could write a book about Jeff. A collective work. It could be a "choose your own ending" type of story, involving every imaginable conspiracy.

Like, he's been kidnapped and being held chained in slad's basement, forced to write for her pleasure alone!


Surely, you can do better than that.

[norton ash]

I think he's enjoying being a dad and not staring into the abyss. His Facebook is cheerful, funny and politically engaged... he's just not going DEEP like he used to.

[Novem5er]

I think he's enjoying being a dad and not staring into the abyss. His Facebook is cheerful, funny and politically engaged... he's just not going DEEP like he used to.

That makes a lot of sense. I became a dad eight years ago and I had to stop reading the RI blog for awhile. I kept checking back, but I couldn't read as deep as I had. There came a point where I told myself that I could spend my hours focusing on what was right in front of me, the reality that I had some control over, or I could keep staring out at the abyss and my own little world wither.

It's sort of funny that I only started reading the forums and posting again last year when my own little world DID wither a little bit with the violent death of a close family member. If I was paranoid about things like gang-stalking back in the day . . . oh boy.

[zangtang]

I fear the ending may have been chosen for us.
I don't wish to 'overcome hope'.......I 'd like to visualise hope collectively creating a template, etheric or no, for manifesting some kind of positive outcome, even if only for a fraction......of us.

[Laodicean]

Drew, code his facebook feed to the RI boards, stat.

[minime]

He said he was back.

Maybe he is. And posting under a different name. So people will read what he writes... without the idle worship.

That's what I would do.

I noticed/imagined a change in Wombaticus Rex also. A major version upgrade, I thought.

So, self-aware in 2018?

[Nordic]

I think he's enjoying being a dad and not staring into the abyss. His Facebook is cheerful, funny and politically engaged... he's just not going DEEP like he used to.

That makes a lot of sense. I became a dad eight years ago and I had to stop reading the RI blog for awhile. I kept checking back, but I couldn't read as deep as I had. There came a point where I told myself that I could spend my hours focusing on what was right in front of me, the reality that I had some control over, or I could keep staring out at the abyss and my own little world wither.

It's sort of funny that I only started reading the forums and posting again last year when my own little world DID wither a little bit with the violent death of a close family member. If I was paranoid about things like gang-stalking back in the day . . . oh boy.

My experience as a Dad is that now my son is 13 and he has access to the Internet, he's started asking me a TON of questions about the sorts of things we talk about here! How to answer him truthfully without being completely fatalistic?? (It must be genetic, how interested he is in this stuff)

Some of the experiences Jeff describes about his son on FB -- that kid is bright!! Like scary bright. Figures though, right?

[Novem5er]

I think he's enjoying being a dad and not staring into the abyss. His Facebook is cheerful, funny and politically engaged... he's just not going DEEP like he used to.

That makes a lot of sense. I became a dad eight years ago and I had to stop reading the RI blog for awhile. I kept checking back, but I couldn't read as deep as I had. There came a point where I told myself that I could spend my hours focusing on what was right in front of me, the reality that I had some control over, or I could keep staring out at the abyss and my own little world wither.

It's sort of funny that I only started reading the forums and posting again last year when my own little world DID wither a little bit with the violent death of a close family member. If I was paranoid about things like gang-stalking back in the day . . . oh boy.

My experience as a Dad is that now my son is 13 and he has access to the Internet, he's started asking me a TON of questions about the sorts of things we talk about here! How to answer him truthfully without being completely fatalistic?? (It must be genetic, how interested he is in this stuff)

Some of the experiences Jeff describes about his son on FB -- that kid is bright!! Like scary bright. Figures though, right?

I hadn't really ever considered when my own kids would start asking about these things. I have encountered this in the school system, though. I taught teenagers in public schools for a few years and I was actually very surprised that so many of them were obsessed with the Illuminati. I quickly found out that half of the pop/rap/hip-hop culture had sold their souls to the illuminati. Part of me wanted to laugh at this, but then part of me actually believes that a lot of these pop acts have hidden occult messages hidden inside, even if the artists themselves don't understand them.

Wasn't there a Hughmanatee around here that brought up a lot of links between pop culture and our intelligence agencies?

[Project Willow]

I think he's enjoying being a dad and not staring into the abyss. His Facebook is cheerful, funny and politically engaged... he's just not going DEEP like he used to.

Yep. This is exactly the case. "Going deep" is as much a personal as a political journey and therefore subject to personal needs. Artists shift their focus, real life demands attention. In the interim, the forum rolls on in whatever form it takes. If it truly careened over an established boundary, I'm sure its host would pop back in long enough to steer it back to where it should be.

Let it go folks. If you gain something from your participation here, great! No need to keep poking at a very gracious, but busy elsewhere at the moment, host.

[JackRiddler]

I have absolutely zero problems with Jeff Wells, long may he reign.

I would like to see a site mirror/backup/solution to the archiving insurance problem.

Thank you.

[Grizzly]

HEY EVERYONE, I'M GOING TO SAY SOMETHING....

[MacCruiskeen]

I think he's enjoying being a dad and not staring into the abyss. His Facebook is cheerful, funny and politically engaged... he's just not going DEEP like he used to.

Yep. This is exactly the case. "Going deep" is as much a personal as a political journey and therefore subject to personal needs. Artists shift their focus, real life demands attention. In the interim, the forum rolls on in whatever form it takes. If it truly careened over an established boundary, I'm sure its host would pop back in long enough to steer it back to where it should be.

Let it go folks. If you gain something from your participation here, great! No need to keep poking at a very gracious, but busy elsewhere at the moment, host.

Seconded, heartily. Leave Jeff alone!

One of my favourite English writers went seventeen years without publishing a book, then another six years before publishing the next. (They weren't long books either, but great ones.)