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

[Kryztian]

Bill, you've been posting some of Donald Trump's posts from his "Truth Social" account and doing so without any comment of your own, and I am guess you are hoping for a few comments from form members on this.

I'll just insert a short comment of my own here, which is that every time I read one of these, I suddenly think of Winston Churchill, who could say eloquent things that spoke to tens of millions of people in their heart, and how much we have fallen since then - how surreal and ugly the world has become.

Just wondering if you have any thoughts on what Trump's posts mean or say about the world? Considering he has a large staff of speech writers and other figures who craft his media personality, do you think he writes them by himself? Are they sincere expressions of what he is thinking or is there some other purpose or intent with these posts?

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Donald Trump posted this on Truth Social an hour ago:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...69904214662301

~~~

Sometimes in life you waste time! T.V. Host Bill Maher asked to have dinner with me through one of his friends, also a friend of mine, and I agreed. He came into the famed Oval Office much different than I thought he would be. He was extremely nervous, had ZERO confidence in himself and, to soothe his nerves, immediately, within seconds, asked for a “Vodka Tonic.” He said to me, “I’ve never felt like this before, I’m actually scared.” In one respect, it was somewhat endearing! Anyway, we had a great dinner, it was quick, easy, and he seemed to be a nice guy and, for his first show after our dinner, he was very respectful about our meeting — But with everything I have done in bringing our Country back from “OBLIVION,” why wouldn’t he be? But then I noticed his show started to devolve into the same old story — Very boring, ANTI TRUMP, no mention of the PERFECT Border, Lowest Crime in 125 years, the Mass Removal of Stone Cold Criminals, the 50,000 DOW, the 7,000 S&P (Both Highest Ever!), Least Number of Murders since 1900, Venezuela, “Midnight Hammer,” Soleimani DEAD, al-Baghdadi DEAD, Lowest Inflation in YEARS (1.2% for last three months!), the Rebuilding of our Military, Eight War Stoppages, and on, and on, and on! In any event, it was a total waste of time for me to have this jerk at the White House and last night, after explaining what a DISASTER Canadian “Leaders” are to deal with, how Canada has “ripped off” the United States for years on TRADE (But not anymore!), I jokingly stated in a TRUTH that, “The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup.” Well, he went on and on about the Hockey statement, like “What kind of a person would say such a foolish thing as this,” as though I were being serious when I said it. Fortunately, his Television Ratings are so low that nobody will learn about his various Fake News statements about me. He is no different than Kimmel, Fallon, or Colbert but, I must admit, slightly more talented! Anyway, Bill Maher is a highly overrated LIGHTWEIGHT, and Republicans should stop using him to show how the Left is coming over our way — Our Base, the Greatest of All Time, laughs at your weakness when you do it! Maher asked me if he could come back to the White House again and, with his friend, also asked to come to the wonderful White House Christmas Party, but he didn’t. Regardless, I’d much rather spend my time MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN than wasting it on him. Bill continues to suffer from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS!), and there is nothing that will ever be done to cure him of this very serious disease. Thank you for your attention to this minor matter! President DJT

[Mike Gorman]

I wondered exactly the same thing, I suspect Trump does write these as the style is consistent & shows aspects of Trump's personality which also appear in his talks with journalists e.t.c...but of course I don't know this for certain: Maher is a strange mix, he is probably not that popular right enough. I think there are many, many aspects to the 'underbelly' of global politics & Trump's machinations that we know nothing of, I suspect he is a species of genius that people love to hate...just my ruminations.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Kryztian (here)
Bill, you've been posting some of Donald Trump's posts from his "Truth Social" account and doing so without any comment of your own, and I am guess you are hoping for a few comments from form members on this.

I'll just insert a short comment of my own here, which is that every time I read one of these, I suddenly think of Winston Churchill, who could say eloquent things that spoke to tens of millions of people in their heart, and how much we have fallen since then - how surreal and ugly the world has become.

Just wondering if you have any thoughts on what Trump's posts mean or say about the world? Considering he has a large staff of speech writers and other figures who craft his media personality, do you think he writes them by himself? Are they sincere expressions of what he is thinking or is there some other purpose or intent with these posts?

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Donald Trump posted this on Truth Social an hour ago:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...69904214662301

~~~

Sometimes in life you waste time! T.V. Host Bill Maher asked to have dinner with me through one of his friends, also a friend of mine, and I agreed. He came into the famed Oval Office much different than I thought he would be. He was extremely nervous, had ZERO confidence in himself and, to soothe his nerves, immediately, within seconds, asked for a “Vodka Tonic.” He said to me, “I’ve never felt like this before, I’m actually scared.” In one respect, it was somewhat endearing! Anyway, we had a great dinner, it was quick, easy, and he seemed to be a nice guy and, for his first show after our dinner, he was very respectful about our meeting — But with everything I have done in bringing our Country back from “OBLIVION,” why wouldn’t he be? But then I noticed his show started to devolve into the same old story — Very boring, ANTI TRUMP, no mention of the PERFECT Border, Lowest Crime in 125 years, the Mass Removal of Stone Cold Criminals, the 50,000 DOW, the 7,000 S&P (Both Highest Ever!), Least Number of Murders since 1900, Venezuela, “Midnight Hammer,” Soleimani DEAD, al-Baghdadi DEAD, Lowest Inflation in YEARS (1.2% for last three months!), the Rebuilding of our Military, Eight War Stoppages, and on, and on, and on! In any event, it was a total waste of time for me to have this jerk at the White House and last night, after explaining what a DISASTER Canadian “Leaders” are to deal with, how Canada has “ripped off” the United States for years on TRADE (But not anymore!), I jokingly stated in a TRUTH that, “The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup.” Well, he went on and on about the Hockey statement, like “What kind of a person would say such a foolish thing as this,” as though I were being serious when I said it. Fortunately, his Television Ratings are so low that nobody will learn about his various Fake News statements about me. He is no different than Kimmel, Fallon, or Colbert but, I must admit, slightly more talented! Anyway, Bill Maher is a highly overrated LIGHTWEIGHT, and Republicans should stop using him to show how the Left is coming over our way — Our Base, the Greatest of All Time, laughs at your weakness when you do it! Maher asked me if he could come back to the White House again and, with his friend, also asked to come to the wonderful White House Christmas Party, but he didn’t. Regardless, I’d much rather spend my time MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN than wasting it on him. Bill continues to suffer from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS!), and there is nothing that will ever be done to cure him of this very serious disease. Thank you for your attention to this minor matter! President DJT

Here's my best answer:

Back in October, I posted this on the Is Civil War in America coming? thread:

~~~

I have the increasing sense that something will happen to Trump before the end of his term, and possibly next year.

That 'something' isn't an assassination or an accident, but it could be a health issue, a scandal (a real one), or even an impeachment or the beginnings of the proceedings. (This isn't really a 'prediction', but I'm finding that for whatever reasons, the thought is lingering with me and will NOT go away. )

~~~

So I'm kind of tracking that thought from 4 months ago (and a lot has happened since then!). I confess I increasingly feel it may be quite accurate. One of many ways of doing that is following his Truth Social posts, noting what issues he seems to be focused on, and at the same time watching all the reactions both from his supporters and his opponents.

[onawah]

I hope more attention will be paid to the problem that has been posed in this revived thread starting at:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...1#post1708392:
...some of which is copied following.
Including a solution I have proposed, which I hope will be discussed more and a resolution reached.
It's kind of pathetic that no resolution to the "signal to noise ratio" has been reached after all this time, and I think some longtime, valued Avalon members have essentially given up because of it and are becoming dropouts (as you will see even if you just read that last section of the thread).
It's possible that the feelings of disillusioned malaise that have been expressed in various ways on that thread recently, may characterize what many sincere Avalon members are actually feeling.
I wonder if it's just going to continue simmering under the surfare, or are Bill and the Mods going to do anything about it?
Though that may depend on how many more members will speak up...

Posted by Tigger (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
-------------
Hi, Guys, please listen up for a moment.
There ARE very critical things happening quietly in the world, and the real signals get lost in all the 'noise'.
Be very sure that this is intended.
Folks, I ask you: don't needlessly add to the noise.
I always wanted Avalon to be about quality rather than quantity: for people to be able to come here quickly and find a digest of good information and intelligent discussion.

You know what? My feeling is that Bill’s original message (and the context of why it was posted) has been lost in the maelstrom of complete and utter ‘noise’. And here we are, contributing to more ‘noise’. Go figure…

Posted by onawah (here)
Agreed. Though the issue these days for me is not so much who is right and who is wrong, as it is how many posts are actual contributions to the forum and how many are just fillers, and given that is obviously an issue, how does that affect the overall impression the forum is giving to the public eye?
When I see dozens of posts per day from one "person", I question whether it is actually one person posting under a particular moniker, or whether it is actually a spokesperson for an undisclosed group with a particular agenda...
...An agenda that has much less to do with contributing to a discussion or adding to the understanding of an issue, as with just filling up the forum to make it look ...what?...like there's a lot going on here?
...Or that most members agree with a particular perspective?
...Or that there's not much point in even trying to separate the filler from the worthwhile content?
...Because providing worthwhile content isn't really the purpose of the forum...(?)
In which case it's basically just a free-for-all.

Whatever the intention is, when there is an overkill of posts per day from particular forum monikers, I highly doubt that that one "member" is actually reading all the articles or watching all the videos he/she/they are posting.
There just aren't that many hours in the day, 24/7, week to week, month to month.
And when the content of those posts is so often from such dubious sources, adding nothing but innuendo, rumor, toxic invective, or just trash, the quality of the forum goes down and down and down.
To the point where sincere members who actually have something worthwhile to contribute begin to wonder if they are wasting their time on a bad investment that just isn't worth the effort.

Posted by JackMcThorn (here)
Serial Posters - Propaganda - and other rantings..
I may be wrong but the forum is intended to be a high quality collection of information, sources, and resources over time. With a careful selection of membership -not exactly exclusive but limited. So we sort of have a duty of contribution. What is the best service to the collective? Probably the top 1%. Which the posters will never agree on, particularly the serial posters. Notwithstanding, I consider myself no longer inundated with lies with my management idea and these postings do not get my views count.
But it begs the question: does this data/video/tweet help or hurt the collective? Because I'll tell you the stress from over doing it is real. The stress from trying to discern or search for truth is real [and the time investment most of us are short on].

Posted by Isserley (here)

Posted by onawah (here)
I like the idea of limiting the number of posts each member can make per day--that would take care of a lot of the noise.

That will just result in a few gigantic posts a day that you'll scroll through for just as long as those 20.

Posted by onawah (here)
What about the members in question creating their own thread (like Wade Frazier's thread, which he uses basically as a blog) that they can make as long as they want to, but it only shows up as one post per day.
They can organize it by topic if they want to make it easier to navigate.
And perhaps make ONE very BRIEF note on each thread that is about the topic they are commenting on, just indicating that they have new posts on that topic in their own thread.
That would be preferable to all the posts on so many threads that take up so much room all over the forum.
Perhaps a new subforum could be created for it, for just those kinds of threads, for just that kind of member who make innumerable posts per day and take up so much space, so much of it just noise.
I hope this will be resolved soon. A lot of members are quite fed up with this problem which has been going on for far too long.

[Johnnycomelately]

That would be preferable to all the posts on so many threads that take up so much room all over the forum.

Hey you kettles out there, seems like a pot is calling you out.

[Tigger]

Posted by Johnnycomelately (here)

That would be preferable to all the posts on so many threads that take up so much room all over the forum.

Hey you kettles out there, seems like a pot is calling you out.

C’mon mate, that’s a really unhelpful (and unnecessary) comment. And proves the point: Onawah is calling out a viewpoint on the QUALITY of Avalon, not the ego and sensibilities of Avalon members. Whether you agree with that or not, I feel that we all have a responsibility to offer constructive feedback if it is warranted / helpful. If you have another viewpoint, then let’s hear it. Tell us why you think Onawah’s post is contradictory. But please don’t make cryptic comments like this. I mean, this idea of just taking umbrage and bickering at each other is a nonsense. More to the point: it adds to the ‘noise’, and Avalon will become further diminished by it.

I respect you both. Each of you brings some important and very valuable perspectives to the forum, and I enjoy reading your posts. But please, let’s not give-in to this kind of behaviour; we all know that Avalon members can do far better than that.

Look, we’re all under our own pressures right now. I get it. Sometimes irritabilities gain the upper-hand. But that’s precisely the point: we owe it to ourselves as members of a privileged and prominent online community - now more than ever - to step back and take a breath when someone posts ideas that are contradictory to one’s own perspective. It doesn’t help to bicker or heckle. That’s exactly what “they” want us to do. (And you know very well who “they” are).

[Bruce G Charlton]

I wonder if you resonate at all with my current attitude to (what we might term) Western Civilization?

Despite that I owe my continued existence to Western Civ, am very patriotic in many ways, and am naturally concerned by conditions in the world that I and (more so) my family inhabit --

I also believe that W.C. has become a very evil entity overall, and continues to get worse - indeed I find that my culture now actively seeks-out and destroys much that is good both at home, and also abroad in many other places.

This leads to a rather strange and uncomfortable attitude; that while I do not want my civilization to "lose" in competition and conflicts with others; at a deeper level of discernment I am even more concerned that we do not win. Because (it seems to me) the more we win, the more evil destruction will deliberately be wrought - both here and elsewhere.

This is a very strange and uncomfortable state of mind, and probably rather unusual in the history of the world.

What do you think?

[Arcturian108]

Posted by onawah (here)
I hope more attention will be paid to the problem that has been posed in this revived thread starting at:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...1#post1708392:
...some of which is copied following.
Including a solution I have proposed, which I hope will be discussed more and a resolution reached.
It's kind of pathetic that no resolution to the "signal to noise ratio" has been reached after all this time, and I think some longtime, valued Avalon members have essentially given up because of it and are becoming dropouts (as you will see even if you just read that last section of the thread).
It's possible that the feelings of disillusioned malaise that have been expressed in various ways on that thread recently, may characterize what many sincere Avalon members are actually feeling.
I wonder if it's just going to continue simmering under the surfare, or are Bill and the Mods going to do anything about it?
Though that may depend on how many more members will speak up...

Posted by Tigger (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
-------------
Hi, Guys, please listen up for a moment.
There ARE very critical things happening quietly in the world, and the real signals get lost in all the 'noise'.
Be very sure that this is intended.
Folks, I ask you: don't needlessly add to the noise.
I always wanted Avalon to be about quality rather than quantity: for people to be able to come here quickly and find a digest of good information and intelligent discussion.

You know what? My feeling is that Bill’s original message (and the context of why it was posted) has been lost in the maelstrom of complete and utter ‘noise’. And here we are, contributing to more ‘noise’. Go figure…

Posted by onawah (here)
Agreed. Though the issue these days for me is not so much who is right and who is wrong, as it is how many posts are actual contributions to the forum and how many are just fillers, and given that is obviously an issue, how does that affect the overall impression the forum is giving to the public eye?
When I see dozens of posts per day from one "person", I question whether it is actually one person posting under a particular moniker, or whether it is actually a spokesperson for an undisclosed group with a particular agenda...
...An agenda that has much less to do with contributing to a discussion or adding to the understanding of an issue, as with just filling up the forum to make it look ...what?...like there's a lot going on here?
...Or that most members agree with a particular perspective?
...Or that there's not much point in even trying to separate the filler from the worthwhile content?
...Because providing worthwhile content isn't really the purpose of the forum...(?)
In which case it's basically just a free-for-all.

Whatever the intention is, when there is an overkill of posts per day from particular forum monikers, I highly doubt that that one "member" is actually reading all the articles or watching all the videos he/she/they are posting.
There just aren't that many hours in the day, 24/7, week to week, month to month.
And when the content of those posts is so often from such dubious sources, adding nothing but innuendo, rumor, toxic invective, or just trash, the quality of the forum goes down and down and down.
To the point where sincere members who actually have something worthwhile to contribute begin to wonder if they are wasting their time on a bad investment that just isn't worth the effort.

Posted by JackMcThorn (here)
Serial Posters - Propaganda - and other rantings..
I may be wrong but the forum is intended to be a high quality collection of information, sources, and resources over time. With a careful selection of membership -not exactly exclusive but limited. So we sort of have a duty of contribution. What is the best service to the collective? Probably the top 1%. Which the posters will never agree on, particularly the serial posters. Notwithstanding, I consider myself no longer inundated with lies with my management idea and these postings do not get my views count.
But it begs the question: does this data/video/tweet help or hurt the collective? Because I'll tell you the stress from over doing it is real. The stress from trying to discern or search for truth is real [and the time investment most of us are short on].

Posted by Isserley (here)

Posted by onawah (here)
I like the idea of limiting the number of posts each member can make per day--that would take care of a lot of the noise.

That will just result in a few gigantic posts a day that you'll scroll through for just as long as those 20.

Posted by onawah (here)
What about the members in question creating their own thread (like Wade Frazier's thread, which he uses basically as a blog) that they can make as long as they want to, but it only shows up as one post per day.
They can organize it by topic if they want to make it easier to navigate.
And perhaps make ONE very BRIEF note on each thread that is about the topic they are commenting on, just indicating that they have new posts on that topic in their own thread.
That would be preferable to all the posts on so many threads that take up so much room all over the forum.
Perhaps a new subforum could be created for it, for just those kinds of threads, for just that kind of member who make innumerable posts per day and take up so much space, so much of it just noise.
I hope this will be resolved soon. A lot of members are quite fed up with this problem which has been going on for far too long.

I am getting quite disappointed in the Middle Eastern thread which is dominated by one person's opinion, and this person exhibits one-sided propaganda, that doesn't really reflect the complexity of what is occurring, especially in Iran. It does make me wonder if I should continue to be on the Forum, or not? There needs to be more balance than what I am currently seeing.

[DNA]

Just curious, as the world makes absolutely no sense.
Do you think ultimately a negative ET race or races are running things as this caption insinuates?

[onawah]

As you have no doubt noted, Arcturian, you are one of many longtime members feeling this way, that the forum is being inundated in propaganda and/or garbage which is creating a bad ratio of signal to noise, making a lot of us wondering if we really want to participate anymore.
Thanks for voicing your feelings!
I hope more members will do so as well.

Posted by Arcturian108 (here)
I am getting quite disappointed in the Middle Eastern thread which is dominated by one person's opinion, and this person exhibits one-sided propaganda, that doesn't really reflect the complexity of what is occurring, especially in Iran. It does make me wonder if I should continue to be on the Forum, or not? There needs to be more balance than what I am currently seeing.

[Jad]

Posted by onawah (here)
As you have no doubt noted, Arcturian, you are one of many longtime members feeling this way, that the forum is being inundated in propaganda and/or garbage which is creating a bad ratio of signal to noise, making a lot of us wondering if we really want to participate anymore.
Thanks for voicing your feelings!
I hope more members will do so as well.

Posted by Arcturian108 (here)
I am getting quite disappointed in the Middle Eastern thread which is dominated by one person's opinion, and this person exhibits one-sided propaganda, that doesn't really reflect the complexity of what is occurring, especially in Iran. It does make me wonder if I should continue to be on the Forum, or not? There needs to be more balance than what I am currently seeing.

As long as members are not violating forum rules, I do not believe it is necessary to police their views simply because they differ from our own. There are also personal options available, such as blocking members, or choosing not to engage in threads dominated by perspectives you may not agree with. It is also worth remembering that when it comes to events in the Middle East, outside observers, particularly those from the West, may never fully understand the lived reality of someone who was born there and has experienced it firsthand. The same is true in reverse, as people in the Middle East may not fully grasp the realities of life in the West from their own perspective.

[Ewan]

Where did all the question's for Bill go?

Pretty sure this thread was never intended for soapbox oratory.

[Sue (Ayt)]

Posted by Ewan (here)
Where did all the question's for Bill go?

Pretty sure this thread was never intended for soapbox oratory.

Agreed - why not discuss these things here?

[onawah]

We have been discussing the issue in question for Bill there on that other thread, but still no real response from Bill or the Mods to the problem of how to get a better balance of signal to noise on the forum.
It seems like it is being avoided or glossed over as something that cannot be resolved, which I don't think is true at all.
It's also been confused with other, separate issues which have to do with conflicts over opinions and points of view (such as Jad mentions in post # 1971, just above in this thread).
But I think if the problems are solved of signal to noise and especially the overwhelming volume of noise that is filling the forum, that would help take care of those other problems as well, and the forum would stop feeling like the free-for-all it is becoming. )

Posted by Sue (Ayt) (here)

Posted by Ewan (here)
Where did all the question's for Bill go?
Pretty sure this thread was never intended for soapbox oratory.

Agreed - why not discuss these things here: here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?7330-The-quality-of-Avalon-keeping-the-signal-to-noise-ratio-high&highlight=quality?

I also asked why imposing sabbaticals on members who are causing problems is not being implemented, which has worked well in the past, but no answer to that, either.
If there is at present no rule which prevents excessive posting of propaganda, garbage and noise, there definitely should be!

The main problem being that there are far too many "noisy" posts every single day from certain members.
( Ravenlocke and bojancan are great examples if names have to be named, though it's quite obvious who is guilty of this practice of posting excessive "noise", padding the forum to make it look like there's more activity and participation than there actually is, but adding little of real value.
( I don't include a member like Exomatrixtv, for example, in that category at all; he posts a lot but he is clearly careful and puts a lot of thought into what he posts, adding quality to the forum, not just quantity.
The difference is obvious.
Bill and the Mods no doubt have a lot to deal with already, but the discontent is growing, and I think my suggestion is reasonable and hopefully helpful.
...As follows (slightly edited since I first posted it):

Posted by onawah (here)
What about the members in question creating their own personal thread (like Wade Frazier's, which he uses basically as a blog) that they can make as long as they want to, but making sure it only shows up as one long post per day at most?
They could organize it by topic to make it easier to navigate.
...And perhaps make ONE very BRIEF note on other threads that are about the topics they are focusing on that day, just to indicate that they have new posts on that topic in their own personal thread, so anyone who is interested in taking a look will be alerted and can go to that personal thread to check it out.
If those personal threads are kept tidy and in order by subject, then interested viewers won't have to scroll through a long list of various unorganized topics to find the one they are looking for.
I think that is fair and would be extremely preferable to having to see all the posts (signifying nothing or nearly nothing but propaganda, so the forum is beginning to look like a wasteland) on so many threads that take up so much room all over the forum every single day.
A new subforum could be created for just those kinds of threads, for just that kind of member who makes those innumerable posts daily.
I hope that I have made it clear exactly what the problem is and that it will be resolved soon, as a lot of members are quite fed up and it has been going on for far too long.

[Bruce G Charlton]

Posted by Sue (Ayt) (here)

Posted by Ewan (here)
Where did all the question's for Bill go?

Pretty sure this thread was never intended for soapbox oratory.

Agreed - why not discuss these things here?

Also agreed. This thread is inappropriate for such a theme.

Please stop now.

[jaybee]

Posted by onawah (here)
I wonder if it's just going to continue simmering under the surfare, or are Bill and the Mods going to do anything about it?
Though that may depend on how many more members will speak up...

{post snipped - see above #1964}

Just want to take the opportunity to express my agreement with what onawah has said - (here and in the other thread mentioned) I believe she is sticking her head above the parapet and being persistent to try and actually save the forum that we love, from drifting into being a platform for something very similar to MSM propaganda + part of the psychological warfare that's going on 24/7 -

So thank you onawah for speaking up and saying what many of us are concerned about -

[Tintin]

Posted by Bruce G Charlton (here)

Posted by Sue (Ayt) (here)

Posted by Ewan (here)
Where did all the question's for Bill go?

Pretty sure this thread was never intended for soapbox oratory.

Agreed - why not discuss these things here?

Also agreed. This thread is inappropriate for such a theme.

Please stop now.

The issue has been raised in the backroom here. These posts would be much better moved, and/or included on the relevant 'quality' thread that Sue has mentioned, or the recent poll that Bill has created specifically related to video and X post volume/s and their helpfulness. We are paying attention to how people feel about certain issues and will address them in due course along with suggestions that have been offered.

Bear in mind, also, that we are very low in number on active moderators at the moment, and simply cannot respond immediately to all concerns, but we're doing what we can.

If one hasn't already, please respond to the poll, here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...Avalon-content.

Thankyou

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by onawah (here)
We have been discussing the issue in question for Bill there on that other thread, but still no real response from Bill or the Mods to the problem of how to get a better balance of signal to noise on the forum.
It seems like it is being avoided or glossed over as something that cannot be resolved, which I don't think is true at all.

Dear Friends, my apologies for not replying sooner to the various posts that have accumulated above.

We have 3 (three) active mods on duty right now, all part-time. That's Sue, Tintin, and myself. Paul (ThePythonicCow) is engaged full-time on tech/admin issues. His current project, now that he's successfully insulated the forum from the many DDoS attacks over the last year, is reconfiguring the library, making it faster, larger, and also cheaper to host. (A big job, important and very much needed, and for which we're extremely grateful.)

Mark has been offline for the last 83 days (we're counting them ), taking care of a a convergence of serious family health issues. He himself is fine, but he has zero available time, energy or attention to help us out on the forum. And Harmony is recovering from 3 months in hospital and (see this thread) is gradually learning to walk again. We're immensely appreciative that despite her difficulties she's so selfless that she still finds a little time to add value to the forum every day when she can.

So the very limited team of mods rather has their hands full right now. But we are discussing the views which have been presented on the signal-to-noise ration thread.

~~~

I think the only thing I can really say right now is this: there are so many difficult and serious issues in the world right now, some of which directly affect some members — as opposed to being mere onlookers — that feelings are sure to be running high about MANY MANY things.

That happens to me too, even though my life in practical terms is so far unaffected. Being human, I have quite strong personal opinions, but I usually manage to sit quite tightly on my hands to try to be the best chairperson that I can be while the many discussions take place (and occasionally rage!). Sue, Tintin and Harmony, the active mods that we have, all do the same: great kudos to them. It's not always easy.

Regarding forum content, we do quite a good job, I think, of being a genuine free speech platform. When someone voices an opinion I strongly disagree with personally I almost always thank the post, move on, and refrain from getting into any argument.

Because that's an invisible non-action, it might not always be noticed. But I do sometimes wish that others might follow the example I try to set and do the same.



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Posted by Ewan (here)
Where did all the question's for Bill go?

Thanks for making me laugh! (I needed that.)

Yes, please continue to ask me questions. My role is to answer them in the most thought-provoking and interesting way that I can. (Thought-provocation and interest are two of the many values of the forum. )

The best questions are probably not about the forum itself (which is a kind of 'introversion', if you see what I mean), but about the human condition and the current state of the planet, life the universe and everything. I'm an immortal — as are you reading this — and doing our collective best to stay focused on the biggest pictures and not getting sucked into daily political dramas may be helpful to us all.

So here's a great example of two big-picture questions. My thoughts in reply right now may be simple and fairly brief, but I'm very grateful that they've boith made me think quite a lot.

Posted by DNA (here)


Just curious, as the world makes absolutely no sense.
Do you think ultimately a negative ET race or races are running things as this caption insinuates?

In a one-sentence answer, yes I do.

The characterization may take different forms. Some may call it an evil or satanic influence, without bringing in any 'ET' factors. But the effect is the same.

If we permit ourselves to include ETs in the discussion, some will remember that Bill Cooper, back in 1988-89, was the first to say out loud that no global events can be fully understood without considering the ET question as an embedded core factor. (And I tend to believe he may have been right.)

Regarding Karen Hudes' comments (she's an Avalon member, btw!), we have a thread about those here:

• Amazing new revelations in latest Karen Hudes interview

I have no information or insights at all about whether homo capensis (who definitely once were all too real: see the thread DNA results: the Elongated Paracas Skulls) are alive and well and actively manipulating events behind the scenes. I tend to doubt that, but I've been told that the Annunaki (whoever they might really be) are currently active behind the scenes geopolitically, and I was also told exactly what they look like. (See my thread titled The Anunnaki. Not to get too much off-topic here, but whatever Zecharia Sitchin said about them can be dismissed.)

Many reading this will know that David Icke has consistently stated that reptilian ETs (or ultraterrestrials) are manipulating global events to their own ends. (We have a bunch of threads about this, but here's a recent one: A David Icke Masterclass.) I don't know if the manipulators are 'reptilians' or not, but they're somebody out there.

To summarize on a very complex and highly charged topic:

Whether the manipulating influence is homo capensis, the Anunnaki, reptilians, or Satan himself, there seems to be overwhelming evidence, circumstantial or otherwise, that many or most political leaders, billionaire technocrats and financial oligarchs have been completely taken over and are working to an agenda that is inhuman and anti-human in every sense.

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Posted by Bruce G Charlton (here)
I wonder if you resonate at all with my current attitude to (what we might term) Western Civilization?

Despite that I owe my continued existence to Western Civ, am very patriotic in many ways, and am naturally concerned by conditions in the world that I and (more so) my family inhabit --

I also believe that W.C. has become a very evil entity overall, and continues to get worse - indeed I find that my culture now actively seeks-out and destroys much that is good both at home, and also abroad in many other places.

This leads to a rather strange and uncomfortable attitude; that while I do not want my civilization to "lose" in competition and conflicts with others; at a deeper level of discernment I am even more concerned that we do not win. Because (it seems to me) the more we win, the more evil destruction will deliberately be wrought - both here and elsewhere.

This is a very strange and uncomfortable state of mind, and probably rather unusual in the history of the world.

What do you think?

I completely agree. And I think this might overlap with my reply to DNA above.

It's hard to imagine what we each might think and feel about the world if we had been born into and brought up in a different society and culture — such as Chinese, Iranian, Russian, or Indian. How might 'Western Civilization' appear to us then??

If we step way back and look at all the history we know, so-called 'Western Civilization' (which as Jeffrey Sachs points out here is just 11% of the current world population) has wrought tremendous death, devastation, exploitation and subjugation on the planet, fueled by hubris and greed in many, many forms.

What we may be seeing now in all the recent geopolitical developments could be the beginnings of its long drawn out death throes. But the problem, as I think we can see in the Middle East right now, is that it will go down fighting, maybe tremendously destructively, before it finally dies.

[sdv]

I greatly fear that US/Israel and allies are going to go nuclear on Iran in the next 24 hours. Bill, have you had any intuituve insights about such an event possibly happening, or an analytical view?

It could be deranged Trump venting on social media, but he seems to be getting more enjoyment out of threatening and causing death and destruction, and Hegseth is not the only one in the military who would gladly 'drop the bomb', and get a massive rush of 'ego high' in doing so.

Ironically, you don't have to use a nuclear bomb to cause massive death and destruction, as we have seen in Gaza ...

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by sdv (here)
I greatly fear that US/Israel and allies are going to go nuclear on Iran in the next 24 hours. Bill, have you had any intuitive insights about such an event possibly happening, or an analytical view?

I don't think so, not by the US. There are too many checks and balances in the US system (still!!) to allow that to happen simply on a president's angry whim.

But re Israel, I would not bet everything I own against it. I think the Samson Option is a real thing. And Netanyahu is sufficiently convinced of his own Messianic destiny to bring about Armageddon, that this might possibly happen.

If it does, though, Iran itself will not be destroyed. It's too huge an area, and there are too many people. (It has 10 cities with populations of over a million, something known by very few people in the west.)

But Israel is the opposite: small and compact, with only two large cities, very vulnerable infrastructure that's easy to target, and not that many people at all. If there were nuclear weapons deployed anywhere in the region, while the entire Middle East would be devastated in a whole bunch of ways (a) Iran would survive but (b) Israel would not.

Posted by sdv (here)
Ironically, you don't have to use a nuclear bomb to cause massive death and destruction, as we have seen in Gaza ...

Exactly. The US may start carpet bombing indiscriminately, one of the few things the American military can now do. But students of military history will know that that didn't work in Vietnam... and it's never worked anywhere else either.