The Death Of The Stump
Sunday Morning
I’m facing the end of an era in my ministering to God’s people today. It was twelve years ago today, 06.18.2011, the first website I built went online. Like as my presence on Youtube and Twitter… or my reach on Facebook… my blog TheHolleringStump.com has become a casualty of the war. After today, my “Scriptural Observation of the Human Condition” is no longer due to my not willing to bow to Google’s dictates of which got me locked out of my Blogger account four or five months ago. That was the last straw for me.
Google didn’t need to behave that way. I would have renewed my financial information and registration for not only my blog but the other two sites I had built. One for my first duty assignment unit in the Marine Corps, the other for my business, which have both been taken down months ago. Why Google feels like they need to “ping” my bank account six months prior to a site renewing I don’t even know. But I suppose I didn’t jump fast enough for them when they told what to do and they locked my out of Blogger until I complied. That pissed me off enough to not want to have any association with Google.
Sure, it could have been avoided. All I had to do was bow to the dictates of Big Tech, do as I was told to remain in their good graces and everything would have been fine. Except it isn’t fine when one party demands the obedience of other parties to dictates grievous to others in order for the other parties to participate. Not in my atmosphere! Since I was already on Substack, I decided to repost my blog posts here. Specifically, the posts that shared God’s Word and a few observations concerning everyday kind of stuff. I didn’t see any need to repost posts that dealt with what was going on in the world at the time. So some of that work is preserved here on Substack.
The whole purpose of TheHolleringStump.com was to make available the truth of God’s Word on the internet giving God another venue to perhaps get His truth to His people around the world. And it did. The tracking tools on Blogger were rather limited but for about eight years I had a traffic tracker widget in the side column of every page that showed where and how hits to the site were coming. It was interesting to see flurries of hits coming from nations under distress at the time. Like hits from Ukraine and Russia when Russia took back Crimea when Obama was President as an example. The Stump got a lot of traffic from China… until the CCP cracked down on their access to the internet. But the widget was showing some in China still accessing my site after that but no longer directly. They had to use “search” to access it. The site had consistent hits from countries all over the world, including countries I had never heard of! But that widget went offline due to regulations that came up near the end of Obama’s Presidency, the authors of it not wanting to be entangled with the bureaucracy. And I don’t blame them. A few years after that, Facebook killed the app I had installed on The Stump for readers to use to comment on posts. And there was some awesome comments on the posts too!
Speaking of Facebook, the blog’s page there was rather successful. That page had gotten six shy of ten thousand followers when I got involved in The Great Awakening and the posts there were getting out to most of them. All over the world! Brazil being the top international country for followers of that page. But my “90 day restriction” on Facebook has lasted for three years now and during that time fb has peeled off about four thousand followers. If their tracking tools for admins is correct (and I believe them to be misleading), my posts there haven’t been getting out to but maybe a few dozen followers. When it used to be thousands! The only reason I believe I haven’t been banned from fb is God’s intervention somehow as my personal page still gets out to my many friends I’ve had there since Yahoo’s 360 went down and I joined Facebook. Fourteen years ago.
Fourteen years ago my life was in ruins. I was still in shock from my only son committing suicide and I saw I was not going to be able to save my marriage. Again. My youngest daughter and I moved to where I am now in this single wide tin can in the woods on the side of a Smoky Mountain foothill and it wasn’t long after that I decided to blog knowing I had to keep putting God’s Word out there somehow but not wanting to be around anybody as much as humanly possible. Especially after eleven years ago… about a month after I posted, “Death Can Really Suck The Life Out Of You” my oldest daughter committed suicide. (Their mother a prime example of what a “snake in the grass” is, rejecting God’s Word but putting on a façade showing otherwise. The divorce coming in-between the two suicides.) Writing for me became therapeutic and I was able to keep giving. I had language and writing is school and picked up some writing experience having been a “sports” reporter for a small, local bird cage liner production facility, but they had me reporting on local politics and events seeing there was only three of us writing the whole weekly newspaper. It didn’t last long as the publisher was a cheap son-of-a-bitch that didn’t pay and had me watching his middle school kids at high school football games I was supposed to be covering. Anyways… I withdrew to this hilltop, secluded but offering God’s Word on TheHolleringStump.com continuing to develop my writing style and learning to dig on my own. I’ll admit I was rather astonished at what I could do when I dug into why a honeybee die-off was occurring years ago. And learned it was Monsanto GMO corn that was killing them.
Anyways… times have changed. I believe I’m about as healed up as I’m gonna get from those tragedies. I find it disgusting now that I was requesting of God to die multiple times a day for months. (Guess I took that “Marines aren’t allowed to die without permission” too far.) Becoming a grampa contributed much to that healing. As did many of the comments that used to be on my blog expressing appreciation for what I was sharing. And today… the war for humanity has reached a fever pitch with The Great Awakening exploding across the world of men. There’s too much to do than to sit around wallowing in self-pity for how much of one’s life has sucked. I did after all bring it on myself for choosing Christ over the world.
- And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
- Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
- And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
- Isaiah 59:14-16
So… after today… TheHolleringStump.com is no longer available. It was this endeavor that I picked up my online mascot. Rocky Top Raccoon, of which my eldest daughter thought was perfect for me, as was the name for my blog. I would like to express my gratitude to the many readers of my blog across the world this one last time. Thank You! And to those of you who came to and subscribed and will subscribe to my Substack thank you even more!... as we continue to gain ground in this war and work together in overcoming the lies of our common enemies as we wait for King’s return!
Side Note: Wanted to share my latest builds with ya. Just finished a couple of days ago. For a young couple friends of mine. A “His & Hers” 8” barreled 9mm Colt mag rifles. His is black. Hers has her favorite color on it. My 12th and 13th builds. Never dreamt I’d build a purple one! They’re coming over this morning to pick them up and get in their first-fires. And a couple of disciple, shooting friends are coming over also to join us for some range time on the 100 yard range I built at the bottom of this hill I live on. Paper and steel targets.
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