Hey hello from a long time lurker

Hello anyone who takes the time to read this!

I have been an ats reader since 03/04 and made this account some years back. After years of not being able to remember my username and password, I came across a post it note while going through some old paperwork that had my ats login information on it. I couldn't believe it! I was even more shocked when it actually worked and I was able to log in! I had made another account in 2020 to post in the Corona Virus Updates threads but I can't get into that one now for some reason. Google says it's not supported. Oh well though.

Anyway, I figured I'd make an introduction thread and try to be more of an active poster now. Ats going down for days made me appreciate this place a lot more. I didn't consciously know how much I cared about this being part of my daily routine until I found myself searching the internet all night long trying to find answers when it was down. Thankfully I found the ats discord and was able to lurk there for information and entertainment during the dark period. It's good to know that everyone here rallies together for alternative meeting places. If ats truly goes down one day, I find it comforting that the community will live on somewhere.

Welp, I guess my name is ucantcme, no idea why. You'd have to ask teenage me. But I am very happy to be here and I appreciate everyone and all that you do here!

You aren't alone lots of us had ATS withdrawals I know I did, like a well....

originally posted by: putnam6
You aren't alone lots of us had ATS withdrawals I know I did, like a well....

I actually stooped so low as to visit r/conspiracy on Reddit. I am not proud of it.. Halfway through some crazy post about Jim Carrey being a serial killer at 4am, I realized I have a problem lol!

It's not that I believe them all perse, but they are entertaining to read pretty much I began in the 70's reading about all the JFK theories. It can't be them all, but the Oswald background and Ruby's FTM seemed a bit hinky to my younger self. Still do.

originally posted by: putnam6
It's not that I believe them all perse, but they are entertaining to read pretty much I began in the 70's reading about all the JFK theories. It can't be them all, but the Oswald background and Ruby's FTM seemed a bit hinky to my younger self. Still do.

I have always thought that the more "out there" conspiracy theories are spread to discredit the ones that have factual evidence and are most likely true conspiracies. But both are good reads for me, just in different ways.

a reply to: ucantcme

Well, then Welcome. and better late than never.
I think ATS being offline for those few, LONG days made us realize what we have here.

I hope we don't forget that as the outage sinks into our past.

I hope to see more of your posts, and consider:
ATS Forum Survival Thread

Spam removed.

a reply to: ucantcme

Welcome back to the party! ICU now. I had the same/similar issue with Google and recently had to create a new acct...this time using email/password.

Many of us, myself included had anxiety attacks during the days of darkness, which I'm now taking as foreshadowing of things to come in near future. Not so much regards to ATS, but life in general. I don't think very many had rallying places or any specific rallying comfort zone. I was unaware of the Discord channel. Many of us were floating around the ether wondering WTF just happened like a dog just been kicked to the curb. Oh well, sometimes that's life; live & learn.

Ok, back to work.

originally posted by: DontTreadOnMe
a reply to: ucantcme

Well, then Welcome. and better late than never.
I think ATS being offline for those few, LONG days made us realize what we have here.

I hope we don't forget that as the outage sinks into our past.

I hope to see more of your posts, and consider:
ATS Forum Survival Thread

Thank you! I browsed those threads a bit yesterday but I'll try to read through them fully if I get some time today.

originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow
a reply to: ucantcme

Welcome back to the party! ICU now. I had the same/similar issue with Google and recently had to create a new acct...this time using email/password.

Many of us, myself included had anxiety attacks during the days of darkness, which I'm now taking as foreshadowing of things to come in near future. Not so much regards to ATS, but life in general. I don't think very many had rallying places or any specific rallying comfort zone. I was unaware of the Discord channel. Many of us were floating around the ether wondering WTF just happened like a dog just been kicked to the curb. Oh well, sometimes that's life; live & learn.

Ok, back to work.

It did kind of feel like a type of foreshadowing to me too.

I hope you managed to track down the link for discord as a back up. The chat was very entertaining during the dark time and prevented any anxiety attacks. It also took me back to the days when ats had a chat!

Though I was down to my last thread of hope when I saw the message that it was back online. Nearly wept with relief. Some people on the discord server made forum backs ups as well for people to gather as an alternative, so I grabbed those links. I made an account at rougenation so I could read the ats thread there. I saw that Dashen had a website too but I didn't find a link for that one.

Hopefully ats never permanently goes dark but these backups feel like a kind of safety net. I'll just need to make sure I am saving any threads or posts I find important offline from now on.

a reply to: ucantcme

Welcome back. I joined here in October 2012 to look for conspiracies about Camp Minden after after one of its ammo bunkers mysteriously exploded and nearly shattered every double paned storm window in my house 3 miles away. I drove to the entrance of Camp Minden right after that and saw smoldering. The Sheriff changed his story overnight and the government was out there the next morning, along with lots of State Troopers. Sometime in 2018, I suddenly couldn't login and had to create a new user name.

What just happened in NW Louisiana?

a reply to: ucantcme

Welcome.

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originally posted by: LSU2018
a reply to: ucantcme

Welcome back. I joined here in October 2012 to look for conspiracies about Camp Minden after after one of its ammo bunkers mysteriously exploded and nearly shattered every double paned storm window in my house 3 miles away. I drove to the entrance of Camp Minden right after that and saw smoldering. The Sheriff changed his story overnight and the government was out there the next morning, along with lots of State Troopers. Sometime in 2018, I suddenly couldn't login and had to create a new user name.

What just happened in NW Louisiana?

Wow, that is an intense way to be introduced to conspiracies. My introduction to conspiracies was the 9/11 official story not adding up. It was a couple years after it happened that I fully started looking into it. I may have been young at the time but even I saw something was amiss. Back then, I watched this video that was pointing out multiple inconsistencies and some very suspicious circumstances. While I didn't fully believe anything presented I also couldn't rule some of it out either. It opened my eyes to a much darker world than my young and naive self ever dreamed existed. From there I researched confirmed conspiracies and then dove into the world of conspiracy theories. Have been here ever since!

originally posted by: MykeNukem
a reply to: ucantcme

Welcome.

Thanks!

That's hilarious!

originally posted by: ucantcme
Welp, I guess my name is ucantcme, no idea why. You'd have to ask teenage me. But I am very happy to be here and I appreciate everyone and all that you do here!

Evidently your teenage self liked the idea of being invisible. For that matter, we still can't see you.

originally posted by: ucantcme

originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow
a reply to: ucantcme

Welcome back to the party! ICU now. I had the same/similar issue with Google and recently had to create a new acct...this time using email/password.

Many of us, myself included had anxiety attacks during the days of darkness, which I'm now taking as foreshadowing of things to come in near future. Not so much regards to ATS, but life in general. I don't think very many had rallying places or any specific rallying comfort zone. I was unaware of the Discord channel. Many of us were floating around the ether wondering WTF just happened like a dog just been kicked to the curb. Oh well, sometimes that's life; live & learn.

Ok, back to work.

It did kind of feel like a type of foreshadowing to me too.

I hope you managed to track down the link for discord as a back up. The chat was very entertaining during the dark time and prevented any anxiety attacks. It also took me back to the days when ats had a chat!

Though I was down to my last thread of hope when I saw the message that it was back online. Nearly wept with relief. Some people on the discord server made forum backs ups as well for people to gather as an alternative, so I grabbed those links. I made an account at rougenation so I could read the ats thread there. I saw that Dashen had a website too but I didn't find a link for that one.

Hopefully ats never permanently goes dark but these backups feel like a kind of safety net. I'll just need to make sure I am saving any threads or posts I find important offline from now on.

Yep, came across the Discord link from another thread yesterday.

I archive many of my posts at same time as I post them here. Now I'm looking into archiving methods (aside from the obvious that most utilize) for full pages & various threads.

One thing I keep in mind here is that this board is FREE, it's not big tech funded, so I don't expect all the bells & whistles and don't complain.
Don't ever say 'never' in this climate, might jinx the whole damn server.😅
Course, if the power grid goes down we'll all have bigger problems.

originally posted by: DISRAELI

originally posted by: ucantcme
Welp, I guess my name is ucantcme, no idea why. You'd have to ask teenage me. But I am very happy to be here and I appreciate everyone and all that you do here!

Evidently your teenage self liked the idea of being invisible. For that matter, we still can't see you.

Only because I put a piece of tape over my laptop's camera

originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow

originally posted by: ucantcme

originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow
a reply to: ucantcme

Welcome back to the party! ICU now. I had the same/similar issue with Google and recently had to create a new acct...this time using email/password.

Many of us, myself included had anxiety attacks during the days of darkness, which I'm now taking as foreshadowing of things to come in near future. Not so much regards to ATS, but life in general. I don't think very many had rallying places or any specific rallying comfort zone. I was unaware of the Discord channel. Many of us were floating around the ether wondering WTF just happened like a dog just been kicked to the curb. Oh well, sometimes that's life; live & learn.

Ok, back to work.

It did kind of feel like a type of foreshadowing to me too.

I hope you managed to track down the link for discord as a back up. The chat was very entertaining during the dark time and prevented any anxiety attacks. It also took me back to the days when ats had a chat!

Though I was down to my last thread of hope when I saw the message that it was back online. Nearly wept with relief. Some people on the discord server made forum backs ups as well for people to gather as an alternative, so I grabbed those links. I made an account at rougenation so I could read the ats thread there. I saw that Dashen had a website too but I didn't find a link for that one.

Hopefully ats never permanently goes dark but these backups feel like a kind of safety net. I'll just need to make sure I am saving any threads or posts I find important offline from now on.

Yep, came across the Discord link from another thread yesterday.

I archive many of my posts at same time as I post them here. Now I'm looking into archiving methods (aside from the obvious that most utilize) for full pages & various threads.

One thing I keep in mind here is that this board is FREE, it's not big tech funded, so I don't expect all the bells & whistles and don't complain.
Don't ever say 'never' in this climate, might jinx the whole damn server.😅
Course, if the power grid goes down we'll all have bigger problems.

Seriously though...I feel like if something is going to go down in a "shtf" kind of way, it will be a major power outage. It's the easiest for the elites to control while completely screwing a large percentage of the population. Most who probably have little to no knowledge on how to be self-sufficient anymore. They'll still have power, we will not. It is a scary thought. Even just the internet going to down for any significant amount of time would cause a mass chaos in a lot of places.

I kind of think the world set itself up to fail by transitioning to a completely internet reliant society. Even if certain people who have control issues don't make some kind of move to screw over the little people, eventually an unavoidable natural disaster will significantly disrupt a digital system. It's really only a matter of time.