Bill's House

[Mandala]

I work with middle school kids and they are sometimes tough to deal with, but as of late, it's been pretty rough around here. My class is a mini-UN, with kids from many different countries, all in the 12-14 age group. They are taught to mediate conflicts for others in a school of 1,600 kids, of the same age.

This is how I feel about Avalon.
I love it and it means a lot to me.

This is Bill's house and he has invited us in, given us a key and use of the grounds. In return, we should be grateful, respectful of other guests, and engage in entertaining, educational and enlightening conversation and debate. Wonderful, engaging, respectful, civil discourse.

Of course we will have disagreements and misunderstandings, but we should approach each other immediately with the problem, attacking the problem not the person.

No games, no mysteries, no long, drawn out mystery-posts with more drama than we even have time to keep up with.

Go to the source first, seek to understand, and then to be understood.

Folks, we need to be a cohesive team more than ever now. We are here to foster an understanding for new people and visitors to our site.

This is an excellent alternative news source and research group, not the latest edition of National Enquirer.

Bill, thank you for my key.

Respectfully, Mandala

[Ruby L.]

Agreed with 100%, Mandala!

[corson]

Mandala i agree with you wholeheartedly, this is Bill's house, and we are guests. Thanks so much for posting this.
warmest regards, corson

[Lord Sidious]

And the other rule too, you forgot.
Bring your own damn carrots and leave Bills alone.

[Inelia]

I am totally baffled by the carrots. I see them popping up everywhere and have no idea what they mean. Google just gives me recipes using carrots. can someone explain pls? lol

Thank you Mandala for your post, a VERY GOOD REMINDER.

[mondaze]

carats something to do with buying gold or diamonds? i think thats it

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Lord Sidious (here)
And the other rule too, you forgot.
Bring your own damn carrots and leave Bills alone.

[Mod Hat on]

I sent this PM to Lord Sidious just now. I love him dearly - but:

No more [real name given here] - no longer funny. You mean to help and cheer people up, but you're inadvertently starting to trivialize everything. There are serious discussions that need to be had. Please.

All best wishes, Bill

[Belle]

If it weren't for Lord Sidious's carrots, we wouldn't have made it through the worm tongue thread and the follow-up to the worm tongue thread as well as we did. Carrots kept us together, you could say.

I'm sorry, Bill. I just wanted to answer Inelia's question. I won't mention it again.

[ghostrider]

Yes it's Bill's house, we get the honor to be a part of the bigger picture, strength in unity...

[fopa]

Totally agree with Mandala.

As a side note: Homicidalscreamingcarrotaphobia, i will seek therapy if it persists

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Mandala (here)
I work with middle school kids and they are sometimes tough to deal with, but as of late, it's been pretty rough around here. My class is a mini-UN, with kids from many different countries, all in the 12-14 age group. They are taught to mediate conflicts for others in a school of 1,600 kids, of the same age.

This is how I feel about Avalon.
I love it and it means a lot to me.

This is Bill's house and he has invited us in, given us a key and use of the grounds. In return, we should be grateful, respectful of other guests, and engage in entertaining, educational and enlightening conversation and debate. Wonderful, engaging, respectful, civil discourse.

Of course we will have disagreements and misunderstandings, but we should approach each other immediately with the problem, attacking the problem not the person.

No games, no mysteries, no long, drawn out mystery-posts with more drama than we even have time to keep up with.

Go to the source first, seek to understand, and then to be understood.

Folks, we need to be a cohesive team more than ever now. We are here to foster an understanding for new people and visitors to our site.

This is an excellent alternative news source and research group, not the latest edition of National Enquirer.

Bill, thank you for my key.

Respectfully, Mandala

Thanks for this terrific post. So important to understand.

Yes, this is the way I feel it too.

When a guest starts looking like the kind of person I (or others) should not have invited in the first place, then we will uninvite them. Recent events will make it clear that no-one is immune from the principle - which is a principle that holds to us all simply because we are all equal in essence.

I don't care at all if someone has been here forever, or arrived just yesterday. In families, the newest member sometimes does not yet know their way around - but just may be the person who will be a great teacher and will transform the world.

Age means nothing when it comes to value. And so it is with membership of the forum.

And the guiding principles apply to us all. It's one of the cornerstones of the creation of a new civilization.

[Herbert]

Every time I come to make a comment, I ask myself : "Is this really important?" The answer is always "No". That is very frustrating. Then I think of advice a successful man once gave me: "The best idea in the world is no good if it is not acted on!!" What if I know something that might be of interest to others but don't know if they already know it? Is it worth the risk of wasting someone's time? So most of the time I say nothing.
I have a kitten who looks just like your's Inelia. It's very intelligent and very sensitive. It shows in her eyes which have all manner of thoughts and expressions and sometimes she frowns upon my silliness..
I only wish I could teach mine to type too.

[seko]

Well said. I'm here to learn and to share little I know and I know I came to the right place. Lets us it wisely.

[fopa]

Hi Herbert

Not to worry everybody gets that feeling at a new forum (i still do here also) it is a very natural feeling. I/we/you could associate it with being in the schoolyard as a new member of the school you feel somewhat tentative about your approach to making an impression with those who will be friends of the future.
You will soon settle into the stride.

[Whiskey_Mystic]

I very much look forward to the day when I can help with the upkeep of the grounds. Being here is a joy and a privilege, even when there is stress in the house. I am a person who has not been blessed with an abundance of friends and community, so all of you are like diamonds to me. You are still a shining light in the darkness; perhaps more than ever.

Let's help Avalon vibrate in a way that attracts ever more loving and brilliant people!

*refills the ice trays and takes out the garbage*

If I ever win that lottery, I am hosting AVALON-CON and you will all be invited. Camelot folks too! And yes....free carrots.

command: initiate lovefest sequence. Execute.

[TWINNICK]

And if I win millions on xlotto I would like to buy Bill a nice motor home so he can travel around and work in comfort with all the trimmings..bathroom, air conditioning, comfy double bed, solar panels, battery banks, 12 VDC fridge and appliances, pure sinewave inverters, back up generator, satellite telly, and maybe 4WD if possible, just so he can get out in the bush if he wants.

Hell, I'd like that too.

..Nick..

[Lord Sidious]

Posted by TWINNICK (here)
And if I win millions on xlotto I would like to buy Bill a nice motor home so he can travel around and work in comfort with all the trimmings..bathroom, air conditioning, comfy double bed, solar panels, battery banks, 12 VDC fridge and appliances, pure sinewave inverters, back up generator, satellite telly, and maybe 4WD if possible, just so he can get out in the bush if he wants.

Hell, I'd like that too.

..Nick..

Having seen the Mercedes Unimog in action, I can say that you wouldn't be disappointed with one.

Or this missile tractor.

[eaglespirit]

Posted by Mandala (here)

This is an excellent alternative news source and research group, not the latest edition of National Enquirer.

Respectfully, Mandala

...and so it is! Thank You Mandala!

A 'Spiritual' Research Group of the "Higher" Action-Oriented Kind...imho.

[TWINNICK]

G'day sid,

yeh, and these, I think that missile truck would cost a packet to shod new tires though (LOL)


http://www.amesz.com.au/view/4wd-motorhomes/

..Nick..

[Sidney]

Thank you for inviting me into your house Bill. If it were not for you, none of us would be here and it will not be taken for granted! I will take my shoes off at the door, and hang my coat neatly. I brought you some cookies, and a spot of tea. (I have brought quite alot, as I see you have many friends over).