Bill Ryan's Mission and His Lunchbox, Sociopath du Jour, and Unicorn Urine

[thepainterdoug]

I think the Frankenstein monster was a liberal. The way he always wanted to say, friend? camon man.

in all seriousness , these terms have morphed and changed and traded costumes of the many years. Common sense is actually not really argued over when understood. Its the people that redefine what common sense is, in order to make money off it, thats the problem. And all politicians are very keen on making money off their positions. How many politicians are running on, nothing to change, all is pretty good? Ocassio is going from bartender to billionaire.

Thats why Ill take a beyond rich person as president who employs common sense. hummm, who would that be?

[Flash]

Posted by Mike (here)

Posted by Flash (here)
Wow! What an outstanding first post Dennis. As for the political ultra right forum tendencies, I cannot agree more.

No discussion allowed when it is related to Trump. Complete brain washing of many to a fanatic level. No real intelligent critical thinking regarding Trump and his oligarchs. It is about banned on this forum.

The guy and his family have made billions personnally on our back within 5 month and I still hear lets wait and see

He destroyed the US in 5 months!! Nobody in the world want to trust the US anymore. You do not have the real news, it is more controled than ever.

By the way, Elon Musk finally got his black eye, have you noticed.

As for Trump, my real life specialty is Cluster B personnalities as described in DSM-5. I write on the topic and train corporate managers to handle the bastards.

Trump ticks absolutely all the cases of psychopathy with a thread of comorbidity huge vengeful pervert narcissism too.

USA is heading straight towards dictatorship head first with a 105 IQ, at the most, president.

And Lunaflore, Dennis post does not divide, it is an alarm bell. And no it is not fashion to hate the US. This is thinking based on ignorance. Nobody worlwide wants what is happening in and to the US. The senile Biden and the more corrupt and way less intelligent Trump. Wake up America.

The consequences are felt worldwide, right now, and US is soon to follow.

F.. read about Germany in 1930-32, read read read history. America do not remain ignorant. Read about Staline! Read!

Flash, if Trump hadn't closed the southern border, there would be no United States. He didn't destroy anything; he saved it.

Trump is not a psychopath. He's not Cluster B. The world would be on fire right now if he were even half of what you suggest. Cluster B people are utterly humorless, for starters. Trump is endlessly joking. I have read about Stalin and Hitler (tiresome, silly comparisons) and neither of them worked at Macdonald's on the campaign trail or trolled political opponents by staging photo ops in a garbage truck.

Any and all discussion is permitted here on Trump. Bojancan has practically made a living at it. Your assertion is self-evidently false.

Elon Musk has a black eye. And?

It is fashionable to hate the US. It's mostly fashionable to hate the US in the US. How do I know this? Because I live here.

If "ultra right" means prioritizing your own country above others, kicking out illegals, squashing woke, and restoring freedom of speech, you can call me ultra right all day long.

It sounds like you're getting your news from that government subsidized Canadian media. Nearly everything you've written here is inaccurate. If I was forced to steelman your post, and my mother's life was on the line, I still don't think I could do it.

That is what I am talking about. First, being right about the southern border does not mean it has to be closed in ways that are quite heartless. Second, what had the Northern border to do with it. About nothing, just trickle of immigrants and still less trickle of fentanyl.

Same with the trade unbalance. Take off crude oil, processed in the US, sold at a much lower price than the market, and we have no more trade unbalance with the US - the US profit from that trade deficit because it comes entirely from the oil we sell you.

But.. have you read it anywhere in the US, have you heard it anywhere? No - those sayind different than the official propaganda are banned or imposed illegal tariffs on.

In the mean time, while you are hooked on one thing, the border for example, you do not see the most important and you do not get informed.

For this you actually have to get the info from somewhere else than the US, in order to have an all around view and then have intelligent critical thinking. Which is a must, independent of which government you are under.

Finally, it is obvious to me that you have never really dealt with pervert narcissists or psychopaths. Only a rare few do not have a sense of humour when in public. In public they look genuinely funny and empathetic, they use all the emotions and ways that will propulse them forward for their own gain.

A level of manipulation you cannot even fanthom. I personnally usually find them truly funny and more if with some intelligence. I have to always remind myself to remain on guard because they break through it easily. You,ve read on the topic, that is it otherwise you would know.

Please read, pleaaase read history from other countries. Only The very close circles to psychopaths sometimes see the realities. And yet often even the close circle cannot understand what they are dealing with.

Even Dr Hare who worked with diagnosed psychopaths for decades would have to listen to the videos of his meeting to see where they fooled him. In the action he would be obliviously used by them. They had humour and interesting conversations.

[Mike]

Posted by Flash (here)

Posted by Mike (here)

Posted by Flash (here)
Wow! What an outstanding first post Dennis. As for the political ultra right forum tendencies, I cannot agree more.

No discussion allowed when it is related to Trump. Complete brain washing of many to a fanatic level. No real intelligent critical thinking regarding Trump and his oligarchs. It is about banned on this forum.

The guy and his family have made billions personnally on our back within 5 month and I still hear lets wait and see

He destroyed the US in 5 months!! Nobody in the world want to trust the US anymore. You do not have the real news, it is more controled than ever.

By the way, Elon Musk finally got his black eye, have you noticed.

As for Trump, my real life specialty is Cluster B personnalities as described in DSM-5. I write on the topic and train corporate managers to handle the bastards.

Trump ticks absolutely all the cases of psychopathy with a thread of comorbidity huge vengeful pervert narcissism too.

USA is heading straight towards dictatorship head first with a 105 IQ, at the most, president.

And Lunaflore, Dennis post does not divide, it is an alarm bell. And no it is not fashion to hate the US. This is thinking based on ignorance. Nobody worlwide wants what is happening in and to the US. The senile Biden and the more corrupt and way less intelligent Trump. Wake up America.

The consequences are felt worldwide, right now, and US is soon to follow.

F.. read about Germany in 1930-32, read read read history. America do not remain ignorant. Read about Staline! Read!

Flash, if Trump hadn't closed the southern border, there would be no United States. He didn't destroy anything; he saved it.

Trump is not a psychopath. He's not Cluster B. The world would be on fire right now if he were even half of what you suggest. Cluster B people are utterly humorless, for starters. Trump is endlessly joking. I have read about Stalin and Hitler (tiresome, silly comparisons) and neither of them worked at Macdonald's on the campaign trail or trolled political opponents by staging photo ops in a garbage truck.

Any and all discussion is permitted here on Trump. Bojancan has practically made a living at it. Your assertion is self-evidently false.

Elon Musk has a black eye. And?

It is fashionable to hate the US. It's mostly fashionable to hate the US in the US. How do I know this? Because I live here.

If "ultra right" means prioritizing your own country above others, kicking out illegals, squashing woke, and restoring freedom of speech, you can call me ultra right all day long.

It sounds like you're getting your news from that government subsidized Canadian media. Nearly everything you've written here is inaccurate. If I was forced to steelman your post, and my mother's life was on the line, I still don't think I could do it.

That is what I am talking about. First, being right about the southern border does not mean it has to be closed in ways that are quite heartless. Second, what had the Northern border to do with it. About nothing, just trickle of immigrants and still less trickle of fentanyl.

Same with the trade unbalance. Take off crude oil, processed in the US, sold at a much lower price than the market, and we have no more trade unbalance with the US - the US profit from that trade deficit because it comes entirely from the oil we sell you.

But.. have you read it anywhere in the US, have you heard it anywhere? No - those sayind different than the official propaganda are banned or imposed illegal tariffs on.

In the mean time, while you are hooked on one thing, the border for example, you do not see the most important and you do not get informed.

For this you actually have to get the info from somewhere else than the US, in order to have an all around view and then have intelligent critical thinking. Which is a must, independent of which government you are under.

Finally, it is obvious to me that you have never really dealt with pervert narcissists or psychopaths. Only a rare few do not have a sense of humour when in public. In public they look genuinely funny and empathetic, they use all the emotions and ways that will propulse them forward for their own gain.

A level of manipulation you cannot even fanthom. I personnally usually find them truly funny and more if with some intelligence. I have to always remind myself to remain on guard because they break through it easily. You,ve read on the topic, that is it otherwise you would know.

Please read, pleaaase read history from other countries. Only The very close circles to psychopaths sometimes see the realities. And yet often even the close circle cannot understand what they are dealing with.

Even Dr Hare who worked with diagnosed psychopaths for decades would have to listen to the videos of his meeting to see where they fooled him. In the action he would be obliviously used by them. They had humour and interesting conversations.

Shutting down the southern border wasn't heartless. It was the exact opposite. By prioritizing the U.S. over illegals it was actually full of heart and compassion for the American people. When a government chooses illegals over it's own, that is not an act of compassion; it's an act of treason. Trump stopped all that and saved the country. I"m "hooked" on the border as you say because were it not remedied the country would no longer exist. So, in the short term anyway, there was no more important issue.

I would implore you to read that world history you keep insisting I read. Read about Stalinist Russian; read about the Holocaust. Compare Hitler and Stalin's acts to Trump's and come back to this thread and honestly try to compare them. I'm not asking you to make hypothetical diagnosis' from the armchair about their psychological profiles; that's not useful. We don't have to guess at their intentions and inner world when we can simply compare their resumes. Compare their acts, and it will be immediately obvious to anyone on this planet - or any other planet - that any comparison is not only invalid but completely and utterly preposterous.

[onawah]

The core problem remains though, which is how long can any POTUS (and that certainly includes Trump) hold back the agenda of the controllers behind the scenes?
They only allow so much reform to keep the people pacified before they play their winning hands.
In this case, it sure looks like that's going to be CBDC in which case in the long run, those reforms won't matter nearly as much as they seem to now.
It takes a huge grass roots movement to bring about even temporary change, and with so much ongoing division and so many existing and developing crises, that will continue to be very hard to accomplish.
The Kali Yuga isn't over yet and the Dark Side is still a force to be reckoned with, something which I think the 78 year old billionaire POTUS probably knows very well, so it may be that the best he can really do is hedge his bets.
And see: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1670582

If RFK remains staunch, the current administration may continue to score some sizeable victories, but in the face of all the corruption that has led the US and the world to this juncture, will that put the US in the clear?
No man is an island, and neither are nation states; the fate of each is very much dependent on the all, and until there are practical common goals no one nation will be succeeding in the face of the changes that are coming.
In reality, it looks more like all nations are barely hanging on at this point...

[Raskolnikov]

Posted by Merkaba360 (here)
Its NOT about Trump. This is the collective consciousness breaking the old patterns. The globalists have no choice but to roll with it and will claim its all their doing but its not. They are sociopaths remember, impossible they all get along . Infighting yay.

Sorry but my country was falling fast and im happy to see an attempt to reverse that momentum whether successful or not. Be excited, this much change has never been seen in our lives. Our excitement will ensure much of the globalists plans to fake us out will fail and we will end up with so many upgrades cuz they tried to pretend to be on our side.

The tech is gonna be wild 10 years from now. Im quite confident that means much more good news for the little people than it does evil people. 2030-2032 seems to be the window of when things will likely be much better.

The rising of our frequency and the falling of of the veil/illusions is stressing everyone out similar to when some psychedelics start lifting our frequency. Its just a slower progress. Its bringing much crap to light each individual has inside as well as the powerful individuals having their horror secrets exposed. If that all came out at once people would lose their minds, its far worse than any horror movie. Just some of that exposure will set off a huge shift in the people , no way the globalists can control us then. The level of distrust and resistance toward those in power and their unforgivable actions would mean nobody wants to hear a word they are saying.

Possibly a good motivation to force the development of AI lie and transparency detectors. lol

Posted by edina (here)
This is the lens I tend to look through, the lens of consciousness, maybe it's that orbital view that Bill and norm mentioned, or even beyond that.

I have a strong belief we are souls first and so much of the dynamic happening in the world is truly orchestrated from that level of OUR being. In so many NDE's people talk of how their perspective dramatically shifts because of the insights of this bigger picture they experience. And I think soul growth individually, and as a whole people, plays a much bigger role than we can presently imagine.

As an empath, I can feel the movement of the field of consciousness. Like watching a murmuration of a flock of starlings, but felt kinesthetically. I can remember, in the past, back in the 80's, becoming energetically aware of when people in Africa were being hacked to death. It was awful. That was before I understood what was happening. As more and more people become increasingly empathic and telepathic, healthy boundaries are going to be essential.

There have been forces that have been trying to start a WW3 for at least 20 years now, and they haven't yet been successful. That's because of what is happening in the field of consciousness.

The level of awareness is increasing all across the planet. On the whole, more and more people are aware of situations and events that 30 or 40 years were hardly a blip in their awareness screen. It can feel overwhelming and one can feel powerless to be able to do something directly, or rather materially, to positively impact situations. Prayer and meditation, and cultivating a state of present serenity (or serene presence) may seem insignificant, but it's not. And it's something anyone anywhere can do. And may actually be the more powerful action to DO, in any case.

I feel more encouraged than discouraged and the energetic space of encouragement is a more energetically powerful state from which to take effective action.

The spiritual side of me resonates very strongly with both of the above statements, thank you both, while at the same time, my business sense, the practical and logical side, agrees with onawah as well. I'm rooting (not what you think it means Australians!) for the spiritual side, while preparing for the practical...

[rgray222]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
But the important thing here seems to be to be that in recent years the terms 'left and right' have to a very great extent been reversed.

Bill, this is exactly what I used to think, that the Democrats and the Republicans had simply reversed. But upon deeper reflection, I now believe that Donald Trump's candidacy and subsequent election exposed the true nature of the Democratic Party. Their hate for Trump can also be described as a dangerous and audacious desire for power. They did not lift a finger to help or align with Black, Latino, women and young voters because every ounce of energy was used trying to destroy Trump. The Democrats won the women's vote, but that was largely due to their position on abortion rather than any effort they put forward. The Democrats were truly exposed; they alienated the working-class people because it could easily be seen that Democrats cherish power and not the people.

While many voter remain under the spell of the mainstream media, I was happy to see that the majority (although slim) of American voters still had the ability to critically think and elect Donald Trump.

I have much more to say but this is not the place for that discussion.

[Denise/Dizi]

I just want to say to Flash, it is much different when you live in America versus watching some news program tell you what is really happening here. I remember when you were surprised when we spoke about the airports having signs about human trafficking in the stalls of the ladies bathrooms, and you were surprised they were there.. That was 6 years ago.. BEFORE the rush of illegal immigration...

The issues facing America right now, especially with the illegal immigration and drug cartels, and the homeless crisis is beyond fathomable at this point. Regardless of what news you are watching, we are living it in real time...

If you saw the repercussions of the illegal immigration issue here in my state, you would be horrified.. And it is traveling up into middle America... It has hit the top of California at this point... And is up much higher in Eastern states like New York at this point... And if left unchecked, WILL BE at your door next... So before you write it off based upon what the "news" says? You will be selling yourself a bit short...

As far as Trump? No man works alone, and while there are millions of issues we can discuss here... I know you have a huge heart, and if you saw what was happening in my state alone, you too would have some changes of opinions on a few issues, regardless of who was in office.

All news lies in my opinion... It is perception management at this point... And sadly the humans lose as a result, versus much of any truth being told. So many people want good for the world, and that isn't about inclusion and diversity, etc... It is about just being honest, humane, and a caring individual.

Americans have to jump so many hoops in order to travel into Canada, or anywhere for that matter... Your country being one of the most strict... And that is a good thing... It seems most do not believe America should have the right to police it's own borders however... Which I find baffling... One only need to live here for any length of time to realize it is a necessity... Even those who have come here legally and became citizens wold tell you they agree with those being stopped and deported... Those wiling to break the law to get here aren't going to care about any laws once they're here...

Love ya girl!

[araucaria]

I can sympathise with the people those referred to in Dennis Leahy’s opening post who have pretty much abandoned this forum – I find nothing much readable these days and only rarely post when really, like Melville’s Bartleby the scrivener, ‘I would prefer not to’. Like now, taking my time: this won’t get posted until morning on D-Day! I do have something to say about what is going on here from this ‘former member’ viewpoint. I would take issue with the good guys/bad guys approach on the one hand, and with the political slant of left v. right on the other; in both cases you have a binary view where two poles appear to have switched places. Maybe this has something to do with a magnetic pole shift, I don’t know. I want to take this to a different level by expounding some theoretical ideas illustrated with some examples from literature.


If you view things statistically, then humanity will form a bell curve of some shape or form. On a scale of good and bad, you will have a tiny minority of angels and devils and a huge majority of more or less neutrals capable of evolving somewhat in a given direction. The tendency for many is to see themselves towards the good end, with the result that they will see nearly everyone else comparatively speaking as more or less bad. A short story by Isaac Asimov (‘That Thou Art Mindful of Him’) has two humanoid robots, George Ten and George Nine, deciding that not only are they human beings, they are superior to all the real ones! And although neither spiritually enlightened nor testosterone-driven, they conspire to take charge. (This story was written in the seventies, long before George 41 and George 43 came along…)


Contrast this type of superiority complex with the enlightenment of the genuinely good who are knowingly in touch with reality. Anyone else is going to be living an illusion to some extent. And the complete satanist will have turned the entire system upside down and back to front. How then do we describe the silent minority – or possibly majority – who correctly see themselves as average? Politically speaking these are the floating voters who sway an election one way or the other. They are often religious, looking up to their ‘betters’; however, if they lack discernment, the people they look up to will sometimes be those satanists from the opposite end of the spectrum. Finally, complementing the superiority complex is the inferiority complex of some people who are actually better than they think, not necessarily humble but possibly humiliated. So the recipe for positive evolution would be a little more genuine humility and a little more courage through less humiliation – the two things go together. If I may suggest, this forum being a kind of humanoid robot, having greater knowledge/information than any given individual, would seem, amid this muddle of good and bad guys, to be in the process of seeking greater discernment. This at least is what motivates me to speak out.


The above analysis can only be made from the viewpoint of humanity as a whole; to that extent, the analyst is no longer one human individual but an aspect of an all-seeing, all-feeling ‘God’ (or whatever is one’s preferred terminology). Hence the value of a public forum. The individual is never a stable point on a graph but a moving cog in an ongoing overall process. This is crucial, as it leads to tolerance and forgiveness. The battle of good and evil would then be about pulling the median value one way or the other by producing either a mass awakening or the opposite. But it is precisely not a battle to be won or lost; more simply, humanity as a whole needs to improve somewhat in order to evolve. A case of shifting the goalposts, like taking the entire graph and raising or lowering the horizontal values while keeping the same spread. Another approach might be to reduce the spread and stretch the vertical axis upwards. This would amount to reducing our differences at the cost of making us all very much the same. Writing before Shakespeare, John Lyly describes it best: ‘I have wished oftentimes rather be a bee than not be as I should be’. However, this comes at a cost. The spread of profiles may possibly be seen in terms of different levels of skill and experience, e.g. old souls/young souls operating in a mutually educational environment, which is different from and doubtless a much richer, more evolved experience for all than the well-oiled machinery of the hive mentality. What we are seeing would appear to be moves in that direction, likely with the best of intentions, in order at least to achieve the human survival that in the atomic age one fears is not going to happen this time around. Writing after John Lyly, Shakespeare puts it best (16th century spelling): ‘To bee or not to bee, that is the question.’


The paradox here is that a little more order and discipline (such as we find in the destructive work of armies) is also required for greater creativity. While we are not robots, unconditional love may be seen as creativitybuilt upon the automation of the harmonious relations humanity yearns after. This is something we also find in Asimov, in the Foundation series, where the psychohistorian Hari Seldon is married to a robot, Dors Venabili, until death (sadly hers!) do them part. Together they add a new telepathic layer to everyday politics, bringing predictability and stability through enhanced communications.


To sum up, given the numbers involved, what goes on in the world has very little to do with the good guys and the bad guys and a great deal to do with the silent majority being slightly swayed in one direction or the other. Where a given individual stands on the bell curve is in a sense immaterial and in any case temporary: we are all as unique as the few outliers. That would be the leftist view. The rightist approach would be to see the two minorities as somehow running the whole wild west show. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: ‘You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns, and those who dig.’


Thesis, antithesis: what would be the synthesis here? If we consider that we are all facing in our individual lives the combined effects of all these tensions, then it comes down to walking a tightrope. Paul Auster translated and prefaced a book, On the High-Wire, by the French tightrope artist Philippe Petit, whom he heard about dancing for three hours between the twin towers of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, and later saw between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, where Auster the poet, standing between secretary of state Cyrus Vance and a child looking up into the heavens, was struck by both the inner experience for the performer and the democratic experience for the spectator on the ground. Conversely, I take it that such balance requires a momentary disregard for all that is going on down below – which I come to now, putting to one side however the fact that this entails, physically but also perhaps symbolically, the destruction of the twin towers, narrowly avoided in the case of Notre-Dame. No towers, no high-wire jinks.


Back down to earth, there is a book I have owned for over twenty years and only just got round to opening: The Life of Jonathan Wild by Henry Fielding (1740). The real life Jonathan Wild was executed 300 years to the day of my beginning to read (May 24), so before we even start you have a big synchronicity – by which I mean something exceptional that pops up as though it happened all the time, and it does so for being relevant to the here and now. Hence I see this 18th century novel as a view in miniature, a kind of prototype – mise en abyme is the technical term – of what we are talking about here. What makes it fascinatingly persuasive is the way Fielding is writing up in a novel a real-life situation which he dealt with as a magistrate only a couple of years LATER. Nothing extraordinary here: he simply plans a course of action based on past events and then carries it out – which is perhaps unusual in fiction writing but otherwise standard procedure for effective action.


Fielding’s main weapon is irony. Bad people have an inverted vocabulary in a system based on hate and fear where the ‘Honour’ that makes ‘great men’ tick is governed by hypocrisy (false superiority) and secrecy (ditto), where decent people are ‘stupid’ and so forth. The fictional Jonathan Wild is one of these ‘great’ men, influential in various walks of life, especially crime. He runs a ‘gang’ of people who are mostly unknown to each other and are told only enough to carry out orders – not really a gang at all in fact. They are typically ordinary or even good people who out of fear are made to do a little more than they feel is right and threatened with punishment if they refuse. Those who stop at killing, or sometimes less, will be murdered or ‘legally’ executed. Bottom line: when acting with, quote, ‘great greatness’ (does this sound a bit Trumpian?), everyone deserves to be taken out. So for example an honest jeweller, totally out of his depth, is robbed of his jewels and then arrested for bankruptcy, a capital offence back then. While the story is ostensibly about the positive slant unconvincingly placed on his ignominious demise by the arch-villain Jonathan Wild – give him enough rope and he hangs himself – it also describes in ironic detail the survival of this jeweller aptly called Heartfree and his nearest and dearest. Hence the full story is really about how one of these two very different tales, of the self-centred misanthrope and the loving family, is transformed into the other.


It is altogether a very modern affair inasmuch as you have perpetrators who are also the victims of seemingly unrelated incidents coming together and joining dots, and when they have a bigger picture blowing the whistle, and all together bringing the invisible hand to justice. The web of lies based on the deliberate absence of connections nevertheless points to the common denominator, the aptly named mastermind Wild, as being ultimately responsible for all the crimes committed by these others. The system collapses under its own weight. Nothing revolutionary is required beyond the structures already in place, which come into action once this tipping point in the collective awareness is reached. Police, judge and hangman all just doing their jobs when the witnesses overcome their guilty consciences and finally come forward.


The bottom line, then, is that the really ‘bad guys’ are vanishingly few, and the clean-up is carried out by all the rest, who have dirty hands but are also the first to benefit from the major change that they have made possible. There is plenty of wisdom teaching out there saying that there is no one coming to save us, we need to clean up our own act. This is what it looks like on the ground on the tiny scale of 18th c. London: not exactly original sin, but a universal sin we all pick up to some degree along the way. While of course today the situation has reached a Tower-of-Babel state of chaos and white noise, the lesson would seem to be the same, and likewise the ultimate outcome. The early signs of system collapse may well be nations becoming ungovernable along with major fallings-out among people supposedly on the same side, such as we are seeing right now.


Meanwhile, we anonymous public share our insights on the off-chance of reaching someone able to use them in achieving this common goal. This is where altruistic love is an indispensable tool as opposed to the hate and fear to be revealed as based on nothing but an illusion. All of which is why although I have more or less given up posting on this forum, I have been making one or two exceptions. Enough of the ‘bad guys out there’ stuff: with a little collective self-improvement we can live without it. Isn’t that the whole point? An altruistic slant on ‘charity begins at home’…

[Bruno]

I use to post here fairly frequently but stopped during the first Trump term. I still occasionally lurk. And this thread caught my attention.

Thank you Dennis for writing about the reasons I felt like there was no point in posting any longer. I feel like for years the forum has lost the plot, and has not been critical enough of Trump and Republicans in general.

Please understand that I don't believe that Biden was a great guy or that democrats will save us. There are plenty of self interested greedy misguided people on both sides of the narrow political isle.

Democrats are in the Epstein files.
Republicans are in the Epstein files.

Republicans in office are making money from insider trading.
Democrats in office are making money from insider trading.

Democrats are bought and sold by corporations and billionaires.
Republicans are bought and sold by corporations and billionaires.

It is the rare politician that is not bought off or blackmailed into falling in line. It drives me crazy that there are still people that think a man born into money who made a real estate business and reality show career off being self-interested, crude and deceptive would have the interest of common people in mind when doing anything.

[Bill Ryan]

Dear Araucaria and Bruno (and everyone else! ), here's a copy of what I posted here a week ago. But I do think it may bear repeating.

As I've mentioned quite a few times, we have over 100,000 threads on (literally!) every topic under the sun and beyond.

There are literally thousands of threads on the forum about beauty, philosophy, spirituality, nature, creativity, profound personal experiences, health and wellness, ancient history, non-human intelligence, and every aspect of the human condition.

And that's just a very partial list. I contribute to them all, and bump them whenever it seems relevant. Every other active member can add value and interest to all those topics any time they want to.

Always remember, as in any community: This forum is what we all make it.

For me, and I think for many others, all the above together make up the very healthy and strong beating heart of the community. (And to add one more time, if I may: the vast majority of the members, if not every single one of them, are deeply anti-Zionism.)

US Politics is just one of many topics that some (though not all!) people feel they care about. But as more of a view from orbit, I'd like to remind my friends here of two threads which I do feel are a useful reminder to us all:

• Shiny Object Syndrome
• Watching the Reality Show

In life, what comes to us is so often what we have our attention on — whether that's positive or negative.

I'm sure we have threads about that too!

[Mike]

Since 2016, almost the entire world has been vigorously anti-Trump.. or at least that's what the legacy media would have us believe. After Biden got elected in 2020, you couldn't find a single positive article or news program about Trump anywhere (except for FOX). Google tells us that the writing platform, Medium, has 100 million active users..and it was my habit to search for Trump pieces whenever I wrote one of my own, just to sort of gauge the climate. And most of the time I couldn't find a single positive Trump article among the hundreds or thousands being written. Think about that! I was kicked off Medium, unsurprisingly (right when I was starting to make decent $, ))and Avalon was the only remaining refuge for a guy like me.

It was one of the only places you could connect with like-minded Trump supporters. But there are some people who wouldn't be happy until that was ripped away as well! And they're still at it.. but Avalon remains a place where we can still openly support Trump without any kind of authoritarian pushback. And it remains a place where you can openly criticize him without any authoritarian pushback either. So I really don't see the issue.

Having said all that, I'm just as happy to post about cryptids and demons and UFO's as I am about anything Trump-related or political. But if the earth is a stage, Trump is its most colorful actor, and will naturally get the most attention as a result. I don't think it's a U.S. politics thing per se, it's a Trump thing. Were he prime minister of England or Canada, we'd be talking about England or Canada.

I really wish members would write more about the other topics Bill listed above (and selfishly some of the topics I particularly like). But human nature is what it is.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

To add: Geopolitics, Politics is just one of over one-hundred topical sub-forums available on the forum (that doesn't include the Members Only section). That's just 1% of the subjects of interest. Despite certain persons intimating as such, Politics does not define Avalon, nor does any one political stance represent it.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
To add: Geopolitics, Politics is just one of over one-hundred topical sub-forums available on the forum (that doesn't include the Members Only section). That's just 1% of the subjects of interest. Despite certain persons intimating as such, Politics does not define Avalon, nor does any one political stance represent it.

Yes. Here they all are...!

(Anyone visiting this thread, what would you like to read about, learn about, share about, or ask about? There's enough here to interest and occupy any curious and aware person for many years. And that's not even considering the vast wealth of material in the Avalon Library.)

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[wondering]

I am just tired. Too tired to read much, too tired to write much. I feel I have been buffeted about by the never ending turmoil of the past several years. I try to stay centered, anchored in the belief that we are in a battle of the ages between good and evil. What I feel I can contribute is to live in the belief that how I use my personal power of intent and belief is the only way I can make a difference. No idea for sure if Trump is a good guy or a bad guy, but I knew this was going to be chaotic and exhausting, and it is, for me. My age is a factor, I'm sure, and at the same time my age has brought me to a place of wisdom and acceptance, and I am content to just trust that all is as it should be.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by wondering (here)
I am just tired. Too tired to read much, too tired to write much. I feel I have been buffeted about by the never ending turmoil of the past several years. I try to stay centered, anchored in the belief that we are in a battle of the ages between good and evil. What I feel I can contribute is to live in the belief that how I use my personal power of intent and belief is the only way I can make a difference. No idea for sure if Trump is a good guy or a bad guy, but I knew this was going to be chaotic and exhausting, and it is, for me. My age is a factor, I'm sure, and at the same time my age has brought me to a place of wisdom and acceptance, and I am content to just trust that all is as it should be.

A big bear hug to you, Diane.

My silence on the non-stop calamities is not from a lack of care. I recognize that my strength lies elsewhere. I cultivate resilience, clarity, and peace from within. And hold space energetically and emotionally for others to process where and how they believe.

[wondering]

So kind, Paula...how like you! 😍

[onawah]

“What is a Petty Tyrant?”
June 26, 2017
https://suzannewagner.com/showcase/w...rlos-castaneda

"A petty tyrant is a tormentor. Someone who either holds the power of life and death over warriors or simply annoys them to distraction.
~Carlos Castaneda – The Fire from Within~

“My benefactor used to say that a warrior who stumbles on a petty tyrant is a lucky one.”
~Don Juan~

A petty tyrant is a person who causes distress by imposing his/her will on others using psychological pressure rather than physical force. The petty tyrant feels he may impose his will because he believes that he is a superior being and because he wants to operate from a position of authority.

Petty tyrants are the button-pushers, the individuals that have the ability to throw things off-balance for you if you let them. Many petty tyrants are unaware that they are the cause of so much frustration. They are effective teachers because they force the warrior to closely monitor their own reactions and habitual behaviors. The result is mindfulness and the ability to shift the assemblage point, even if ever so slightly, in order to loosen the fixation to the conditioned response that causes the reaction in the first place.

Castaneda believed that by looking at the petty tyrant through a different filter, a person could not only co-exist with a petty tyrant but also benefit from the relationship. This type of relationship would be most common in the workplace, school or other public forum when you have no choice but to be in close proximity to the petty tyrant. The challenge for the warrior is to try to consciously get along with this co-worker without being petty yourself. It’s a “rise above it” opportunity that could challenge one to the core.

Don Miguel Ruiz summarizes by saying “don’t take anything personally.” This is the biggest gift of the petty tyrant. To be able to recognize that even though you will be annoyed to no end by the petty tyrant one must not allow themselves to be energetically attached to the petty tyrant. They are ruthless and are often painfully consistent in throwing someone off of the center quickly and effectively. To fall prey to a petty tyrant means that you allow yourself to become agitated repeatedly by the same words, behaviors and attitudes over and over again.

The freedom arrives when the petty tyrant no longer affects you. You are in their presence and they are the same they have always been. Annoying to no end, distracting and even disruptive but they just don’t have the same affect on you anymore. You are no longer annoyed or imbalanced by them. You have accomplished the feat of shifting your assemblage point so that you no longer perceive annoyances in the same manner you did in the past and you have successfully severed the energetic stronghold that the petty tyrant had on your self-importance. In fact, you can’t even remember what it was that annoyed you so much in the first place.

This is the gift. The petty tyrant pushes and pushes and pushes until the very thing(s) that bothered you about them in the first place no longer do. Unwittingly, they set the stage for growth in areas you may not have even realized should be addressed. The petty tyrant can stop your world by activating a series of emotions and responses within you that you could not even imagine existed. They are, in their own right, a portal for deepening your quest for freedom.

Even the worst tyrants can bring delight, provided, of course, that one is a warrior. This may be incomprehensible to those who are in the middle of working with one of the nastiest petty tyrants. How can someone who causes so much emotional turmoil and revulsion possibly bring delight? The delight is found in the moment that the warrior rises above the tyranny and recognizes how utterly ridiculous the seriousness of the petty tyrant is! Petty tyrants are, for the most part, trying desperately to become stronger by stealing your personal power, to build up their own egos by belittling you and pushing you around. The moment you pull the carpet out from under them and stop energetically feeding them leaves them in such a state of confusion and no other choice but to go and find their next “victim”.

The petty tyrant teaches the warrior to develop a strategy utilizing the four attributes of warriorship: control, discipline, forbearance, and timing. As a result the warrior deepens so much so into these four attributes that it may be a very long time until the next petty tyrant appears. And then, the ultimate pleasure arises when you become aware that you have become someone else’s petty tyrant. And the gift, in this case, may be pure awareness and detachment to the petty tyrant as the result of your fluidity and energetic efficiency.

Quotes from Carlos Castenada’s Book"

Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to stand the pressure of the unknowable.

The perfect ingredient for the making of a superb seer is a petty tyrant with unlimited prerogatives. Seers have to go to extremes to find a worthy one. Most of the time they have to be satisfied with very small fry. Then warriors develop a strategy using the four attributes of warriorship: control, discipline, forbearance, and timing.

He said that what the new seers had in mind was a deadly manoeuvre in which the petty tyrant is like a mountain peak and the attributes of warriorship are like climbers who meet at the summit.

Control and discipline refer to an inner state. A warrior is self-oriented, not in a selfish way but in the sense of a total examination of the self.

Forbearance and timing are not quite an inner state. They are in the domain of the man of knowledge.

The idea of using a petty tyrant is not only for perfecting the warrior’s spirit, but also for enjoyment and happiness. Even the worst tyrants can bring delight, provided, of course, that one is a warrior.

The mistake average men make in confronting petty tyrants is not to have a strategy to fall back on; the fatal flaw is that average men take themselves too seriously; their actions and feelings, as well as those of the petty tyrants, are all-important. Warriors, on the other hand, not only have a well-thought-out strategy, but are free from self-importance. What restrains their self-importance is that they have understood that reality is an interpretation we make.

Petty tyrants take themselves with deadly seriousness while warriors do not. What usually exhausts us is the wear and tear on our self-importance. Any man who has an iota of pride is ripped apart by being made to feel worthless.

To tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control. Instead of feeling sorry for himself a warrior immediately goes to work mapping the petty tyrant’s strong points, his weaknesses, his quirks of behavior.

To gather all this information while they are beating you up is called discipline. A perfect petty tyrant has no redeeming feature.

Forbearance is to wait patiently–no rush, no anxiety–a simple, joyful holding back of what is due.

A warrior knows that he is waiting and what he is waiting for. Right there is the great joy of warriorship.

Timing is the quality that governs the release of all that is held back. Control, discipline, and forbearance are like a dam behind which everything is pooled. Timing is the gate in the dam.

Forbearance means holding back with the spirit something that the warrior knows is rightfully due. It doesn’t mean that a warrior goes around plotting to do anybody mischief, or planning to settle past scores. Forbearance is something independent. As long as the warrior has control, discipline, and timing, forbearance assures giving whatever is due to whoever deserves it.

To be defeated by a small-fry petty tyrant is not deadly, but devastating. Warriors who succumb to a small-fry petty tyrant are obliterated by their own sense of failure and unworthiness.

Anyone who joins the petty tyrant is defeated. To act in anger, without control and discipline, to have no forbearance, is to be defeated.

After warriors are defeated they either regroup themselves or they abandon the quest for knowledge and join the ranks of the petty tyrants for life."

(Starting with a very notable quote from Castaneda's mentor, Don Juan Matus: “... a warrior who stumbles on a petty tyrant is a lucky one.”
In which case, think of how lucky we are today, to have so very many petty tyrants to choose from!!

And what an opportunity, to see so many petty tyrants being revealed on the world stage, and even battling amongst themselves, making it ever more evident exactly what they are and how they operate to achieve their goals.

I think for me, the most perfect petty tyrant today is Bill Gates.
He is so slimy and despicable, I am reminded of the entity which the Thesophists call " Ahriman", who differs from Satan in that his realm is grounded in technology.
See: "Ahriman: The Synthetic Soul of Transhumanism - The Great Ctrl+Alt+Del In the fast-evolving landscape of technology, the transhumanist movement seeks to transcend the limitations of the human condition through the integration of advanced technologies. Central to this vision is the concept of the "synthetic soul")
From: https://whowhatwhere.substack.com/p/...-transhumanism
Who better fits that description than the founder of Microsoft and the worldwide purveyor of the "VAXX", which Steiner foretold in 1917 would be developed and would "drive all inclination toward spirituality out of people’s souls".
From:https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/hu...ple-s-souls-1/

More about Ahriman from Rudolf Steiner's writings:
https://anthroposophy.eu/Ahrimanic_b...eir_influences
Steiner's sculpture of Ahriman


Also see:

Posted by onawah (here)
Elon SCORCHES Bill Gates Over Epstein Island!
The Jimmy Dore Show
1.55M subscribers
Jun 5, 2025

The description on this youtube page from the Jimmy Dore show doesn't mention Musk's comments about Bill Gates' association with Epstein, long after Epstein's pedo crimes were known, or the clip that is shown of Gates being interviewed and queried about that.
But that IS the subject of the 9 minute video (not Musk and Trump's disagreement, which is what the video description mistakenly says.)
It's well worth watching as Gates is asked by the interviewer about his long association with Epstein, even after Epstein was publicly outed as a pedophile.
Gates clearly did not expect that question, and his face betrays him as he tries to justify his actions.
The barely masked rage and hateful sneer are impossible to mistake for anything else...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fz1CI6WRPrk

Compare the sculpture of Ahriman by Steiner and the sour face of Bill Gates in the youtube video above, as he is unexpectedly confronted with his own evil.

But then again, I can see Ahriman as a synthesis of several men currently battling for global domination.
Wouldn't it be ironic if in the process, they bring about each other's defeat...

[Orph]

Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham and one of his "dummies". (below)

Posted by onawah (here)
June 26, 2017

Steiner's sculpture of Ahriman

[Ernie Nemeth]

Trump came onto the political scene in 2015 and I could not have cared less.

Then came the vax and everything changed.
The world went crazy over that crack head George whatever's drug-fuelled death and the radicals proceeded to burn down America. Common sense was rejected for emotional virtue signalling. Then derelicts of all stripes and all the fringe lunatics took center stage. Like a three-ring circus, we were left not knowing where to turn our attention next. One mind rape after another desensitized the entire world to the travesties of justice all around us.

No one in authority would take our side. No one in the media opposed the rhetoric. Lies were spewed in all directions and the public sucked it up like a hoover. Hate and fear took over. Irrational decisions became par for the course.

Then the election was stolen in 2020 and most had had enough. Some tuned out, others gave up. Most kept their heads down and their opinions to themselves. I feared for the future of logic and reason. How could it ever come back? How could we return to a time of peace and acceptance without radical ideologies shoved down our throats?


Since the focus was "Get Trump", it wasn't very hard to figure out where hope resides.

That is why I support Trump. Not the man, not the movement, not the allure. Just the hope. The hope that although we may never go back to "the way things were", we can at least hope for a future that includes sanity and justice.

And let's face it, is there even another person in his league? He is a winner and he tells it like it is. No one else is in a better position to help us win back our lives.
I need that. Deep in my soul, I need that so much...

[Raskolnikov]

I can agree with your take on Trump, Ernie, never cared for the guy until he became President, then at least the Presidential reality show became more entertaining, "You are fake news." Definitely felt closer to the voice of the people.

Since I don't know where else to put this, and because it seems to encapsulate my belief that it's not about Trump or the two-party-divide-and-conquer-system but the hidden hand now playing its hand, this video is interesting for the fact that it shows the pallets of bricks (cinder blocks this time) left for protesters in the current ICE protests taking place in Los Angeles.

It's worth mentioning that there is a grey area here unless they're strictly going after violent illegals and not those who may be illegal but have been living there for years or decades even and have families, jobs, lives and actually love America. LA has always had that illegal element from Mexico. It was never that difficult to cross the southern California/Mexico border. We'd see 'em on north bound freight trains when I was growing up down there. So I hope they're going after the more recent influx of military aged men and not the family men.

But the pallet of blocks (shown at the 5:00 mark in the video) shows the hidden hand at play again just like during the "mostly peaceful" riots of 2020. So Trump gets elected and now they're picking up right where they left off before the stolen the election. And I heard these ICE protests are happening in many cities across America right now. Be interesting to know if the pallets are there too. So they're starting things up again, many in the riots actually look like antifa in all black and masked. And if you take into account the Event 201-like warning for July 4th, it sounds like we may be in for a bumpy ride.

My "hope" is that we can somehow overcome all this orchestrated division, stop viewing others as enemies and more like those who've been misguided and need help, albeit professional help, and then come together and unmask the real villains behind the scenes like the ending of a Scooby Doo episode.

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