Slightly off topic.......

For some silly reason out of curiosity,  I looked through Martins public blog, going back to the beginning of May. It's the same old, same old fear mongering stuff. I'm not saying it is not true. I have similar thoughts about this virus ...ummm....nonesense as well.
I also get that it is in some way devised to get people to sign up for the 'super secret private stuff'.

What really annoys me about this type of subject, (fear mongering), is that in this case, like others, Mr Armstrong usually ends in some way with, 'You must make this change'. 'They must put a stop to it'.  You, they.........

"......that Trump perhaps should look at"
"Trump should give them....."
"The real question is how long will it take for the people to rise up against their own corrupt politicians...."


Mr Armstrong tells us that he has a lot of 'insiders', powerful(?) insiders in some cases, and yet, other than a supposed letter to President Trump, he does nothing himself? He openly tells the public that reads his blog that they must do something, or some arbitrary individual must do something?

What have you done Mr A?
Why doesn't your worldwide circle of friends band together and do something? Maybe if you start, the ordinary folks might join in. Probably not but still, a little influence can go a long way...in either direction.

This is why I have pretty much distanced myself from all of these, "Here's the problem' blogs which offering no solution, or a solution that a citizen can actually successfully do. I find that none of these type of blog writers lift a finger to help right the wrongs that they are so expert at pointing out.

The 'Market ticker's' Denninger is another example. "Hand cuff them all' is the best he can come up with. Useless.

Though it sounds like I am..........I am not arguing against Mr A for the sake of just not liking the feller. I have no like or dislike for him. It's true I no longer have any use for his Socrates system. It's worthless to me. Again though, what annoys me is that he offers no help...........eh..........you get the picture.

So Mr A. What have you done for me lately?

Digi,
You found it. I got tired of looking.

I did not mean that Mr A deleted the 3rd 'gold to 1000' post from the blog, rather, I KNOW he deletes posts in general from the blog.

One time he posted a rather badly structured and poorly spelled post about something. I thought to myself that either he had one of his foreign minions, who did not have a full grasp of English, write it or Mr A was slightly drunk when writing it, lol. ( I have no problem with that.). Some on the Slack group notice that as well. Not exactly sure when but quite quickly that post was removed from the blog. Understandably.

I'm a 2nd shifter. Usually when I got home I'd go on the net and amoug other things, would read Mr A's blog. Most of the time he would enter his daily blog posts around 1 -2 am. I'd refresh and there they were or after a couple of refreshes, there would be another, and another and of course I would read them.
Every once in a while though, when I awoke the next day to read the blog, one of those items posted at 1-2 am was no longer on the blog. It was gone.

So knowing that he deletes blog posts in general, what is to stop him from altering posts in hindsight as well? Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't, but I cannot completely rely on going back to re read previous posts for current day confirmation.

Thanks
Angus_P

Wow. Ok.
Thanks Digi and Over for your replies, but I have a few problems with them.

I cannot rely on going back to those blog posts. I know for a fact that Mr A deletes posts. Not often, but he does. What is to stop him from changing them as well.

I remember pretty clearly what was said in the first public post about gold under 1000. I, and a whole lot of other people apparently, shorted gold based on that post and the other 2 posts, (though I can only find 2 total now as well), and kept a pretty close eye on the blog for more info.
Why would we short it? Mr A had a computer that could tell the future and Mr A was rather convincing about it being true. Gold must be going under 1000 since if he has such a computer, he must be telling us what it was telling him. right?
I remember very clearly, after Mr A said in June '16, 'See? I told you it was going up', very clearly going back to that same post and seeing one sentence mentioning about the number it was to go over for a bullish run.
I remember very clearly posting that exact same bearish paragraph containing the bullish number about a year after on another forum which at the time consisted of mostly ECM attendees.
After reading this blog and wanting to ask the questions I now ask, I went back and read that first post again and it doesn't really appear to be the same as I remember. Yes, It could be me. I am not able to pull all of these various numbers out of my head like some folks can so I have to go by what I remember..........and yea, I know that can be an issue right there.
I wish I had access to the copy and paste post I did in around 2017 of that paragraph and sentence, but that part of the forum is locked up. It's a Slack forum and they lock up old posts so you have to pay to see them.

Anyway, I understand the point of view that Mr A is fallible, but he has in the past called his computer infallible. Doesn't he check the computer once in a while before or after writing posts?
Sure Mr A says time is the hardest to predict.....

At some point gold rose above that number in the first gold under 1000 post. Why didn't he then, after gold closed above that number, then turn around and publish on the public blog that gold was now going to go higher? He told a lot of readers it was gong under 1000 shouldn;t he have told those same readers it was now going on a bullish run?

Uuhhhh....At this point I'm beating a dead horse. Ha ha haaaaaa............

I'll sum up my thoughts another time.

Thank you Over45 for answering in a clear and concise manner. Seriously.
I'm not a goldbug either and I appreciate your point of view on gold.

However......(I'm not trying to make this a hit piece. Please don't take it that way. I'm looking for answers).

I am using that particular period of time, and those PUBLIC blog posts at that time,  to get to a precise question, one that I sort of made in my previous post.

If Socrates can predict events to the day, why did Mr Armstrong post, at least 3 times in the PUBLIC blog that gold was going to drop under 1000? ......he did not say that gold should drop in the future, he said he was convinced that gold would go under 1000 sometime in the beginning of 2016. It didn't. Why?

Since Socrates is supposedly perfect in predicting events, what did it say at that time frame, end of 2015 to Jan/Feb of 2016, about gold? Did it say it would drop under 1000 as Mr A suggested several times in the PUBLIC blog?
Did Socrates change it's mind at some point? If the computer saw a bullish change in golds trend, (we have to assume the computer saw a bearish trend in gold since Mr A was calling for gold under 1000), why didn't Mr A say so on the PUBLIC blog? He made it very public that in his opinion gold should drop, but he did not publicly change that point of view at any time on his public blog until June, 6 months later. After the fact.
That lack of information about gold and it's trend at that time financially hurt a lot of folks who read the public blog because they...we believed that he was what he said he was, had a machine that does what he says it does, and relied on him to give us the information he got from his, event predicting to the day, machine.
I know he does not post trading ideas on the public blog any longer, but at that time he did.

Maybe these are more rhetorical questions that you cannot answer Over45, but if you can shed any light that would be appreciated as well.

Thanks,
Angus_P

I'd like to ask the Pro Armstrongers a few serious questions.

For the rest of you, I know your thoughts about the following so please give Over45, Truth777 and the rest a chance to respond. Thanks

According to various people, Mr Armstrong included, he has a computer named Socrates that can predict market, economy and other changes to the day. If this is so, why at the end of 2015 into Jan./Feb. 2016, did he write at least 3 public blog posts saying that gold would go under $1000.00, while during the time of at least the 3rd one of those blog posts, and after, gold climbed up into June?

Why did he wait until June to say, 'see I told you' and referenced a one sentence item stuffed in among the several paragraphs in the first 'gold under 1000' post, (that may have been there originally, assuming he did not add that at a later time), saying that if gold closed over such and such a number, (which it did at some point), it would be bullish?

If that bullish scenario was in fact coming true, why did he not give his many readers on the public blog, the same ones that he was telling in at least 3 public blog posts that gold was going under 1000, an early heads up and say, 'hey, it's bullish now' , instead of waiting 6 months to point it out after the fact?

These are serious questions and I would like a serious answer if possible please.

Thanks
Angus_P