Bill Ryan's personal Question-and-Answer thread. Pile it on. :)

[onawah]

Bill can you tell us please what you know about the authenticity of Richard Alan Miller, or lack thereof? New thread about him starting here:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1662562
Thanks!

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by onawah (here)
Bill can you tell us please what you know about the authenticity of Richard Alan Miller, or lack thereof? New thread about him starting here:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1662562
Thanks!

I don't think I know enough to comment. Mike asked this question on your new Richard Alan Miller thread:

Posted by Mike (here)
I like listening to Miller as a novelty, but is there any evidence at all that suggests he's done what he says he's done or worked with the Navy etc? Does he have any credentials or anything like that?

And I just don't have an answer to that. But in his focus on the Secret Space Program, and the base on Mars (yes, that's a thing, and has been since the 1960s), he's on the money — as long as he never mentions Corey Goode.

[Bluegreen]

Hi Bill

Which of the forum's visual formats do you use? As in:

Breeze
Air
Mist
Night
etc

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Bluegreen (here)
Hi Bill

Which of the forum's visual formats do you use? As in:

Breeze
Air
Mist
Night
etc

Avalon Breeze. That's the default (I believe!), and I've never used anything else.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Avalon Breeze. That's the default (I believe!), and I've never used anything else.

.........

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Bluegreen (here)
Which of the forum's visual formats do you use?

The other visual formats (other than the default Avalon Breeze) has some defects, such as occasional text being difficult to read, depending on how the original poster marked up the text color. Proper changing of color schemes requires changing practically all colors with pervasive use of Cascading Style Sheets, which is not fully supported in our "elderly" vBulletin platform, and which we have long lacked the skills and resources to even consider trying.

(And if I technically misstated the problem above, consider that further evidence that we, or at least myself, lack(s) the necessary skills, and be cautious in posting a correction, lest we try to enlist your services working on some of our back end software .)

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)

Posted by Bluegreen (here)
Which of the forum's visual formats do you use?

The other visual formats (other than the default Avalon Breeze) has some defects, such as occasional text being difficult to read, depending on how the original poster marked up the text color.

I'm not aware of any defects. Can you point them out [in the sandbox thread or somewhere suitable]? As far I know, as long as a post is written in the default colour [black], it shouldn't matter what theme you're using.

[Vicus]

Visual Formats

From last introduce formats,I use "Mist", all dark grey, optimal for relax my eyes. And NO problems what so ever!

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
... such as occasional text being difficult to read, depending on how the original poster marked up the text color.

... As far I know, as long as a post is written in the default colour [black], it shouldn't matter what theme you're using.

My recollection (many years old now) is that a problem occurred with text that was marked up to some other specific color.

See further Sandbox post #1838

[grapevine]

How many PA members have you met over the years, Bill, and have there been any surprises?

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by grapevine (here)
How many PA members have you met over the years, Bill, and have there been any surprises?

Not many. The principal (and only!) meetup I've been part of myself was at a UFO Convention in Laughlin, Nevada in 2019. There's a thread about it here:

• An Avalon Conference, 31 March - 2 April 2019

There were few 'surprises', just a very fun shared experience of the terrific combined personality and intelligence of everyone who attended.

One of the small things that did rather amaze me was a demonstration of sticking a dime (and a penny) to a wall (yes, you read that right ), when we were all practicing some spoonbending together, (Do see the Avalon Spoonbending thread: Spoonbending (how to!). It's a real thing. )

The post about that is here, with a fun photo copied below. The bottle of water is included to show that the wall was 100% vertical. The penny stayed there for quite a long time, witnessed by everyone present.

[Bruce G Charlton]

Bill

In case you don't already know, I think you would find the story interesting - about the Mosquito (the "wooden wonder") aircraft from WWII, and the urgent need for Balsa in its plywood construction.

This wood could only be sourced from Ecuador (at least until a suitable additional alternative could be located).

The British were compelled to make considerable efforts to ensure a sufficient supply and its delivery.

I read about this in an interesting recent book called Mosquito - by military historian Rowland White.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Bruce G Charlton (here)
Bill

In case you don't already know, I think you would find the story interesting - about the Mosquito (the "wooden wonder") aircraft from WWII, and the urgent need for Balsa in its plywood construction.

This wood could only be sourced from Ecuador (at least until a suitable additional alternative could be located).

The British were compelled to make considerable efforts to ensure a sufficient supply and its delivery.

I read about this in an interesting recent book called Mosquito - by military historian Rowland White.

Yes! I knew it was made of wood, but never knew the wood came from Ecuador.

Here's a video which you may enjoy (...if you've not already seen it)

Why was the de Havilland "wooden wonder" Mosquito aircraft built of Wood, instead of Metal?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=S2QdShPVFaQ

Also of interest may be this:

• Could a spacecraft be made out of wood?
• World's first wooden satellite, developed in Japan, heads to space

A great comment from the first of the two articles above:

One way of looking at wood is that it is an advanced fibre composite.

[grapevine]

1. Over on the Nuggets of Truth Thread you recently commented on US WW2 soldiers' daily rations, and I wondered what the equivalent would be for a (a) hiker and (b) mountaineer. Weight would probably be a consideration together with high protein, but then presumably you'd need double for the journey back?

2. Before you awoke, what one particular thing or incident caused you to view the world differently and how old were you when it happened?

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by grapevine (here)
1. Over on the Nuggets of Truth Thread you recently commented on US WW2 soldiers' daily rations, and I wondered what the equivalent would be for a (a) hiker and (b) mountaineer. Weight would probably be a consideration together with high protein, but then presumably you'd need double for the journey back?

The difference between hiking/mountaineering rations and military ones is that (most) hikes and climbs last only a few days, while soldiers on the battlefield have to maintain their positions (and strength/energy) for weeks on end or even longer.

And when moving, they often have to haul or carry a lot of weight, up to 100 lbs on their backs as well as heavy clothing and weapons. That's why (as I posted here) an day's ration for a Russian soldier contains as much as 4700 calories.

Mountaineers, even in the Himalayas, are much more on a kind of lightweight sprint. Reinhold Messner, probably the greatest mountaineer of all time, famously said before one of his super-fast record-breaking climbs: We couldn't afford to carry one match too many, or one too few.

When climbing very high, dehydration is much more of a potential problem. So taking enough fuel (for melting snow with a small lightweight stove) is actually far more important than food.

There have been many reports of successful extreme ascents where the climbers ran out of food several days before descending to base camp again. But for most mountaineers who are strong and in good shape, a few days with little or no food, as long as they can stay hydrated, is almost no serious problem at all. (For a soldier under fire on a battlefield, needing to remain physically strong for weeks on end, that might mean death.)

Here's a great photo of well-known Czech climbers Marek Holecek and Radoslav Groh having returned to Kathmandu, after one of their extreme climbs in which they lost a third of their bodyweight after being stuck high on the mountain (Baruntse) in a severe storm with no food for 4 days. But they succeeded in their climb, and were no worse for wear after their ordeal.

Posted by grapevine (here)
2. Before you awoke, what one particular thing or incident caused you to view the world differently and how old were you when it happened?

Well, it seems I've somehow always been 'awake', as it were. When I was 8 years old, after been asked to write a little story at school on anything I wanted, I said I wanted to write about "Ghosts and Flying Saucers". But my teacher wouldn't let me. (My first experience of censorship! )

In all those very early years I was continually reading about UFOs, paranormal experiences, the Loch Ness Monster, and reports of sightings of lost pyramids under the sea. One book that had a huge personal impact was by Alan Watts, called The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (in the library here). And shortly afterwards, I read Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (here also), an immensely profound but fun-to-read, page-turning philosophical journey (a literal one), and not really about motorcycles at all.

When I was about 10, my mother told me all about J.B. Rhine's telepathy experiments at Duke University way back in the 1930s (decades before Hal Puthoff at the SRI), and I was instantly enthralled. I also recall having spirited arguments with adults far older that I was about (a) how the BBC news was merely daily entertainment, and (b) how all advertising is immoral. (The latter was always crystal clear to me, years before I ever heard of Edward Bernays. And that still feels 100% self-evident, a topic which I almost never hear anyone else speak of.)

[onawah]

Bill, I thought you might like to weigh in on the thread here:https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1672192
And please don't miss Casey's informative post here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1672235

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by onawah (here)
Bill, I thought you might like to weigh in on the thread here:https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1672192
And please don't miss Casey's informative post here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1672235

Yes. The new thread asked: Is Ben Davidson starting to run a Doomsday cult?

I'm going to quote Casey's post here, because I entirely agree.

Posted by Casey Claar (here)

It is opportune to say something at this point.

Ben began reporting daily, and I want to emphasize this - DAILY - in roughly 2008.

Back in the beginning, it was just REPORTING, no live-streaming or "salt". No-one really knew who Ben was, his age, or what he looked like, he was just a voice, - a voice reporting HIGHLY INTERESTING things about the sun's daily activity. He had his eye on something, but I couldn't say for sure when the moment came that even he knew exactly what that was. But when he was sure, when he felt certain, he stepped out in front of camera and began to let everyone know. Goodness -he is barely 40 now, to think he was in his very early 20s when he began his daily reports (which used to be much longer and pure raw data) it blows my mind. Anyone with this kind of discipline has my genuine respect. When, just recently in the last year or two Ben started the live-streams, and people SO easily began donating to him I felt he had earned this, every single penny. Again, I will say, he has a decidedly certain skill. He observed the patterns religiously, hours on end, day in and day out for decades and a potential, and even probability presented to him. He has honed his skill for decades, his dedication to collecting incoming data consistently in real time is to me quite clear (regardless of the in front of the camera persona he also began sharing). His work had at this point gained a foothold of deep appreciation in me. I am far more alert to the sun, the magnetic poles and magnetosphere than I ever would have been otherwise. I have been able to use this data to quite successfully help myself, as I age, and also my elderly care clients. I won't go into details, but what the sun is doing is very important to our health, notably our heart health and increased incidence of stroke (all highly important to those I care for).

The entire body of Ben's work is online and on his youtube channel. If it were not important, this work, I would not point this out. Like the man or not what he is doing is important. He is young, and like the rest of us he will make mistakes. The most beneficial thing any one of us can do for him, our fellow man, is see him in the highest light, for the greatest good of one and all. This is what will bring just this more out of him. It is not an easy experience, being known to millions of people, his life experience is now connected to everything we think and feel of him. Help him be more successful/beneficial than not, while lifting yourself in the process by sending nothing but the best in thought-streams out into the ocean in which we all swim.

I am sending my advance gratitude out to you all

Casey

I'll say it more simply (and far less elegantly!): I have no concern about Ben's personality, his personal affairs, or what he may or may not be doing at the Observer Ranch.

I'm only interested in the data he reports, which I'm as sure as I can be might be very important. As some of you may be aware, 6 months ago in November 2024 I received a strong clear message — twice! — from an unknown invisible source, that a major solar event would strike and incapacitate the US in (I believe) early 2029.

While I can't possibly know for sure if that will happen (let alone prove the 'reality' of my experience!), it all felt extremely vivid, real and plausible to me. Moreover. it's 100% consistent with the level of increased solar activity Ben Davidson has been predicting for a while now. That's why I follow his updates daily.

[onawah]

Thanks Bill!