A stranger asked me to have a conversation; here's why I'm glad I agreed

The Blaze ^ | October 10, 2025 | O.W. Root

[BipolarBob]

You didn’t happen to write post #2, did you. It was deleted and it always makes me curious as to what it was.

[Carry_Okie]

Yours sounds like a fascinating story.

Sorry for the length of this, but I think you'll get it before it's done.

It was a grind. I worked on boats and went to school for eight years until I got into college (Harvey Mudd in Claremont). Arrived there $4000 short of affording the first year. Lived in my car for the second semester.

Frankly, I'm too wild and crazy to the the engineer I became, but then I didn't become an engineer to be one; I wanted to understand tangibly how wealth is created because I saw a serious social problem developing as the Japanese were killing us in manufacturing. I was fired twice and then executed a turnaround for a division of a Fortune 200 company.

Now I live in the mountains above Silicon Valley having done research in restoration ecology no one had even contemplated, currently studying and writing about the guy who precipitated our social meltdown and comparing that to a novel interpretation of the Hebrew Torah from a pastoralist's perspective.

Everything in my life was necessary for me to understand what I'm working on, from my dad's career in municipal finance and bonds, my parents' divorces, going through private Catholic school, after school daycare at the Jewish Community Center, and at Church as an Episcopalian. Through the drug craze of San Francisco, to being homeless. Then clawing my way back in analyzing the wreckage of my life in EST. Then Mudd and the jobs. Then marriage to a woman who actually understands and can tolerate me. I was the first author of a local Agenda 21 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management document. When I quit my last job to home school the girls and write that first book, I became free as an intellectual to research the causes of our economic decline having been a project manager.

In doing so, I learned of the globalist project and decided to take my family "the other way." We joined a Messianic Jewish congregation. There I discovered the original purpose of the Biblical Sabbath for the Land. That became the second book and is an element of current research, as it exposes an entirely novel way to see the antediluvian Torah. It was too radical for the congregation to handle it.

Out of that book came documentation of our restoration project. That is the third book. Then, after my beloved daughter and FReeper NattieShea, was turned into a childless leftist harpie by Stanford, I embarked upon the fourth book I'm working on now about the guy who engineered that social meltdown, whom I regard as the most influential person of the 20th Century. Virtually nobody has ever heard of him.

I'm the luckiest researcher alive to have made so many unprecedented discoveries along the way. It's been amazing.

It's a challenge before G_d to finish this work before I die, to trust Christ to keep me alive that long. If I become famous, I'm surrounded with leftists who would gladly do me in for it, despite that I've created a way for us all to get out of this witless conflict, to allow reality to teach us how we must conduct ourselves to keep the planet alive. It has taught me to drop much of the anger at what they've done in the interest of healing. Reality on the land is a better teacher than I am anyway.

[Carry_Okie]

You must have been close to Jack London Square if you were hanging out at the Sambo’s I’m recalling....

The West Basin of Jack London Square, right behind KTVU.

[Wilderness Conservative]

Sad but that’s the way it is. My response would be based on experience. It’s almost always been a trolling homo, hooker, or scammer who initiated a conversation.

[Albion Wilde]

Part of his job was to install a specific type of flow meter that I happen to work on years before. It was a good conversation that would have never happened if stayed in my shell.

That right there is known as a “Divine Appointment.”

[Albion Wilde]

That is a wonderful thing to have done! Has it had lasting effects, in your opinion?

[ansel12]

Yes, it changed the community but not to the degree that I desired.

I don’t like that sort of thing and the entire time I was doing the first one entirely by myself, I kept thinking that some people would take over and I could get back to my reading and privacy, but I ended up having to finish it alone,

The second year people did step in but they are happy with any bodies they can get, which means people from other communities and parts of town, outsiders, and not those hard to drag out of their homes people whose doors I kept going to until I could see them in person and give them my flier and sell them on attending, it is better than nothing, but not as good, focused, and purposeful as it could be.

My real purpose was to focus on the loners living alone, the drinkers and stoners who come home and flip on the TV, I knew the normal family people would show up and I wanted everyone to see each other’s faces so that they would nod or wave at each other in the future, the first year did work but it took a lot of door knocking and selling on my part, and other people don’t understand that sort of intimate and labor intensive effort, and don’t even seem to understand the reason for it.

At least the community event still takes place every year now, and it did stir a lot of volunteerism and connections for some of the more social people, people are a touch more aware of each other.

Something else I did when I saw there were no Christmas lights here was to start making a big deal with outdoor Christmas lights, it worked, and now I see a lot of houses with Christmas lights, and more every year, it started spreading, this year I made a huge production with outside July 4th lights and led flags for July 4th, trying to get people to get ready for the national birthday next year.

It is amazing how people start expressing themselves when someone steps in to break the ice and clear the path, the good people start living freer and bolder.

[Albion Wilde]

You’re heroic! God bless your efforts!

[ansel12]

I prefer living where everyone else is doing the good stuff and I can stay away from that kind of thing and not be around all that social stuff, unfortunately this oddball loner community needed a trouble maker to stir them up and get them moving.
Except for the lights, I quickly got back to my own life and avoid all that stuff I got started.