Is Ben Davidson starting to run a Doomsday cult?

[onawah]

Ben in mellow mode. At 30 minutes in, he says that many visitors at the Ranch remark on how he is nothing like the salty guy on the past live Q&As. Two of his kids stop by to give him a hug and kiss. I'd say he's in recovery now.

Posted by onawah (here)
Ben is LIVE now, very mellow and answering a lot of good Prepper questions.
Live from Observer Ranch
SpaceWeatherNews (S0)
821K subscribers
Started streaming 32 minutes ago 7/21/25

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VRUys3mwilE

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by onawah (here)
Ben in mellow mode. At 30 minutes in, he says that many visitors at the Ranch remark on how he is nothing like the salty guy on the past live Q&As. Two of his kids stop by to give him a hug and kiss. I'd say he's in recovery now.

Posted by onawah (here)
Ben is LIVE now, very mellow and answering a lot of good Prepper questions.
Live from Observer Ranch
SpaceWeatherNews (S0)
821K subscribers
Started streaming 32 minutes ago 7/21/25

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VRUys3mwilE

Am listening to this now, 32:20/56:07. OK 33:43 for silence.

This is a soft power pitch., imo. The weird eyes are still there, and the fact that he had his kids come hug him on cam, that is borderline weird.


Ben, if you read here, I wish you the best. If you decide to dial back on your ego, please do it carefully, one step at a time. You do have time to do it right the first time. Cheers from Alberta.

[onawah]

Anyone still following this thread who is waiting for a rebuttal from me in reply to the above post--I have put Johnny on my Ignore List, so there won't be one.
It's a waste of time to debate, when anyone who is really interested in the subject of Ben Davidson's work would be well advised to go to his websites to see if his operation is legitimate or not, or listen to the many interviews he has given to various sources online.
I think the truth is obvious, but it's probably more of a question as to whether you are convinced that the information he is disseminating is accurate or not.
And that may be more a question of what you want to believe...

[Delight]

Posted by onawah (here)
I think the truth is obvious, but it's probably more of a question as to whether you are convinced that the information he is disseminating is accurate or not.
And that may be more a question of what you want to believe...

The world is so much more strange and mysterious than one may even imagine because all we can imagine is all we CAN imagine.

I wish him and all the best. Today is the best day ever.

[Johnnycomelately]

Ben looks drugged. Anybody?

I am guessing blow, by the/his animation, plus he wiped his nose in there. Like elensky does.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MfgKlcodalI

[Casey Claar]

Posted by Johnnycomelately (here)
Ben looks drugged. Anybody?

I am guessing blow, by the/his animation, plus he wiped his nose in there. Like elensky does.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MfgKlcodalI

He looks tired -and I am sure he is. I feel he is traversing his challenges well, one of which I would highly doubt is drugs.

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by Casey Claar (here)

He looks tired -and I am sure he is. I feel he is traversing his challenges well, one of which I would highly doubt is drugs.

Dear Casey, you are too kind.

I have watched him since near the start of his space weather career, and have even seen a clip of him onstage speaking in a previous career, tho that topic is lost to memory.

He has always struck me as being like me. A friend once told me, that I have an “addictive personality”, and that people she had known with that trait always went on to destroy themselves trying to keep getting high, always moving on to more potent crutches. She saved my life, I still think.

I am not saying he has not done lots of good work. IMO he has, and I am grateful for that. Bringing into common discourse ideas like the Earth’s electric circuit and it being forced/powered by Sun ejaculate ionized matter, and connections of that to earthquakes and volcanoes and some perils of that to airliner and space station riders.

I just think he is raging now, not on his morning Daily show, but he is def abrogating that old steady good vibe in his livestream rants these days.

[Mike Gorman]

Ben is navigating a marriage breakdown, if any of you have been through this you will know just how devastating this can be to one's sense of self, to one's confidence & surety, your whole world view can be injured. What if what Ben is declaring is indeed unfolding? Then it is no longer a cult, but a true warning - Greenland at the equator, the profound wash of planetary tsunamis, the intense flash of the sun as it throws off the cosmic dust - the ancient damage of Egyptian pre-dynastic stone works, & other locations showing very intense heat/plasma activity-the flood accounts show us this has happened before (Tropical plants buried deep in the ice of Antarctica, other signs) - I think Ben is sincere, he is also a scholar, yes he can be unpleasant, even arrogant, but less so these days. Something very big is brewing, can you not feel this? The recklessness of recent global governance points to some 'what the hell' attitude, this is clear to me, things are now very different.

[I am B]

Imho, as mentioned, and as someone who rather regularly deals with addicts, this guy is high on coke and probably hooked to it.

That is why he gets so cocky and aggresive and at the same time sometimes he is just normal.

He may be 200% right (i believe so) but I stopped watching other than the quick updates, those livestreams are just unbearable.

[onawah]

There are 3 young kids in the middle of the marriage breakdown as well, one of them autistic, and the ex-wife is still on the staff at Observer Ranch in a place of power.
I imagine those factors add stress to Ben's readjustment to single life.
Not to mention having a high profile now as a whistleblower and being at the helm of a whole Prepper movement/settlement, and we all know what can happen to whistleblowers.
He used to say he didn't want to be well known, and now that he is, I doubt he finds it to be a comfortable fit.
Another problem I think is that he is on a high meat Keto diet which is probably very bad for his body type, keeping him angry, edgy and off balance.
I skip through his live talks for the most part as they are so unpleasant, though as far as the science goes, he continues to be among the top whistleblowers of the day, imho.
(For example, he just pointed out that the current changes being seen on Saturn are caused by the 12,000 year solar cycle, which is affecting the other planets in the solar system as well as Earth, which makes more sense than the silly mainstream scientists' explanation. See:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=i4bcXuqe_PA )

For all we know, he may be a Targeted Individual now as well.
I continue to pray for him.

Posted by Mike Gorman (here)
Ben is navigating a marriage breakdown, if any of you have been through this you will know just how devastating this can be to one's sense of self, to one's confidence & surety, your whole world view can be injured. What if what Ben is declaring is indeed unfolding? Then it is no longer a cult, but a true warning - Greenland at the equator, the profound wash of planetary tsunamis, the intense flash of the sun as it throws off the cosmic dust - the ancient damage of Egyptian pre-dynastic stone works, & other locations showing very intense heat/plasma activity-the flood accounts show us this has happened before (Tropical plants buried deep in the ice of Antarctica, other signs) - I think Ben is sincere, he is also a scholar, yes he can be unpleasant, even arrogant, but less so these days. Something very big is brewing, can you not feel this? The recklessness of recent global governance points to some 'what the hell' attitude, this is clear to me, things are now very different.

[Casey Claar]

Posted by onawah (here)
I continue to pray for him.

Me, too, Onawah

I enjoy days when we get to see him in his highest light.

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QL4zEEWMmRc

[onawah]

Ben said at one point in one of his updates that the combative behavior he displays during his live broadcasts is not repeated when interacting with others at Observer Ranch. Apparently he reserves that live time for venting, which is a terrible PR practice, but at least online viewers can turn him off as needed. I doubt he would have many visitors at the Ranch if he behaved that way in person, and the ones that would show up would probably not be very desirable.

Posted by Casey Claar (here)

Posted by onawah (here)
I continue to pray for him.

Me, too, Onawah
I enjoy days when we get to see him in his highest light.