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To: d:oug who wrote (60965)	11/14/2000 6:14:12 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116759

A New Gloom & Doom Thread to Warm the Hearts of Gold Bugs Yes, Gata Nut News is overjoyed to learn that folks who do not have GBS (Gold Bug Syndrome) are starting to display the talk and walk of those who know that the world is inherently Good and free of corruption and evil manipulation, and if it is not so, then one must speak up and proclaim that lies and hurt along with pain and hunger are creations counter to Life and should not continue. If misery is created for 50% of world's population, through the activity of 1% of world's population, and if these people living under the suffocating heavy hand of that 1% to deny them suffrage to determine which rule of law and freedom to express themselves with education and employment, then what say those remaining 49% that allow that 1% to do what they do? Money & Power can do good can do evil can let people escape that created by evil but its not a complete escape only one of distance using one's senses like out of sight and sound to create a distance as in a barrier to block, to ignore, to rationalize to fog one's own awareness to cry to those "unable" to tell them "to do" while ignoring that they are prevented by that 1% they have keep at a distance of sight and sound so that they do not know what they have hidden but they know what to hide from self so they keep it at a distance and keep pushing it away further and further until all they know is that they do not know except to know that they know something that they do not know for they know and they strongly know that they know enough about what they do not know that to know what they do not know will cause them to know what they do not want to know has already been knowned by them, it has proclaimed them "guilty" and so there they go to a place where anything can go anything goes they ask you to define "Truth" they say Manipulation is Life they say Life is Manipulation they call you mindless, yet talk to you they say you are mindless, yet they are afraid of you they say what they have become they know what they wish not to know that they wish not to know that they wish not to know they then say and act and display as if they know they tell you that you do not know but we know A is A and they use Plato to help them not know what they know. interactive.wsj.com In Internet Chat Rooms, Mood Becomes Gloomy By AARON ELSTEIN WSJ.COM Two weeks ago, an anonymous investor posted a new topic for discussion on the Internet: SI: StockTalk: Market Trends and Strategies The Coming Financial Collapse of 2001 Monday, it was the most popular stock topic on the Web site Silicon Investor, with more than 600 responses so far. Not far behind is... ... earlier this year, when chat rooms celebrated the frequent new highs... ... where's the bottom?" The person who started it made clear that this discussion is for investors who "don't deny that we are in a bear market." Not long ago,... the chatter in the chat rooms was positively euphoric. But now, with the Nasdaq breaking through 3000 in the opposite direction, the mood has turned decidedly gloomy. Many individual investors are battered and scared as the once unstoppable Nasdaq composite has dropped 41% from its high in March. Thus, the change in tone on Silicon Investor and other Internet message boards, which for years were places where naysayers were only grudgingly tolerated and certainly outnumbered. "I'm beyond disgusted" with the market, confesses... ... for good reason: He says his portfolio has plummeted from a high of $700,000 at the end of February to about $70,000 today... "Anyone who thinks we are NOT in a bear market for the past six months had better have rich parents,"... ... sidelines since the summer... waiting for the Nasdaq to drop to 2500. That would mean a 50% drop from its peak... "I know we have a bear on our hands," "When I look at the macros, they look terrible. Euro sinking, oil high, no president, Middle East trauma, Fed overdoing it with rate hikes, corporate profits slowing, corporate credit crunch, liquidity drying up, and markets tanking to ridiculously low levels... You don't have to tell me we are in a bear market." ... his portfolio is up 5% for the year, he says. "I still love the market... Ruth Simon contributed to this article. Write to Aaron Elstein at aaron.elstein@wsj.com KJC