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Most people on ATS have no clue what it takes to real research - he goes to the sites (probably all travel, accommodation, food at his expense), arranges interviews, takes notes, compares data. I have done these things years back and it's very expensive and very time consuming - there are no 'jobs' and 'funding' in this kind of research - if you want to know you pay the price figuratively and literally. Then to manage putting together a book and hear people gripe about knowledge should be free is also ridiculous. We pay for food, we pay for gas - should we get free food and gas because we want to learn? Very few authors make any profits from selling books and even fewer 'get rich'. Just had to say that for the record - I see people decry all the time "oh he's selling books, must be in it for the money", "oh she's selling books, info should be free", "oh they're selling books, they have ulterior motives". I've told people before if they want someone's book and don't like the price or can't afford it - find a friend to go halfers with you or get your local library to purchase it.
Is real easy to sit in front of a computer screen and criticize - too easy - in future "Ask Me Anything" forums I would hope the mods would post protocols at the outset (not just things like 'one question per person', be polite, etc.) but to specifically insist posts be concise, to the point, polite and be focused on the guest's work, period. No challenges, no long pages of rhetoric and complaints and whining. But people will ignore the rules regardless - so those posts that are rude and challenging should be removed by mods promptly and not subject the guest to them. If you went to a seminar to hear someone speak and random people stood up and wanted to argue about this and that how annoying and rude would that be!
I really appreciate the Ask Me Anything - and the effort it takes to round up people with years of research under their belt to come here at all - for free - when they could be home with their family or doing research or anything else. Instead of complaining dig in and start adding to the information.
I think David was mysteriously very reluctant to get into much on ATS. I think that was extremely frustrating for most ATSers. I think the contrast between ASK ME ANYTHING paired with 'but don't expect very meaty answers' was almost exasperating to many ATSers.
He seemed to believe that the ATS format or his time to devote to it or something . . . was not suitable for more than short answers of a paragraph or 3 long.
Ugh, ever since DP came on AMA, I've been sooooooo interested in this subject, I honestly had never known about this and it's impacted me so much that I have to just keep looking into it and wonder just really,
WHERE THE HELL DID ALL THESE PEOPLE GO? WHY THE IMPOSSIBLE DISTANCE OF BODIES FOUND??
Maybe something drained the life force from them...
Something in the woods, unseen that carries off the individual, then drains their life force, like some etheric vampire creature, mass-less and very fast.
Whatever the case may be, DP has literally really opened my eyes.
Komodo
Have to put it in perspective,
~The amount of hours put into researching can't even possibly scrap the surface of what they've found out in a forum such as ATS, there's just not enough time unless your personal time to do so dictates such. With so much going on in his life, time is precious and what we got is clearly enough for me to look deeper into the subject.
~He's an intelligent man, and there's also a reason he answers the way he does.
~He does love people, or he wouldn't have the energy to continue what he's done for so long if he didn't. (IMHO & personal experience, there are 2 types of people; those that do something for long periods of time for money, and those who will do the same for no money because they're connected to it...personally)