Here are some thoughts that might have been appropriate for another bigger thread (you know the one I mean), but I prefer to air them here as a concrete example of what is being discussed in this thread.
Inelia describes what she does as sitting with the dark force and bringing light to it. This sounds like a useful description of the ‘good’ that many here are trying to do, each in their own way. Now some say Inelia is not what she claims to be. If I may say so, as a mere forum user, what Inelia does is of no concern to me. If she doesn’t practise what she preaches, what is that to me if what she preaches on this forum resonates with me?
She might then have personal issues with good and bad – how a ‘bad’ person can be doing ‘good’ – like Graham Greene’s whisky priest in ‘The Power and the Glory’. But you can turn it around: how can a person doing ‘good’ be in any way ‘bad’?
Ultimately, when you sit with the dark force, you are just acknowledging that the dark force is within yourself. So don’t judge Inelia: you would be judging yourself.
The above of course also applies to Bill Ryan. But as the owner of this forum, his case is a little more complex, as we are affected by his practice as well as by his ‘preaching’. Several people who formerly loved the man have focused on the idea of censorship by him as being the thing that made everything go pear-shaped. One person (probably on Nexus) even equates censorship with fraud.
So in this analysis of good and bad let’s take censorship as one instance of ‘bad’. In the half-hour of audio where Bill is apologizing to Charles (who says Bill doesn’t do apologizing? You could have fooled me!), Charles makes it known that this ‘Q&A interview’ does not have his approval and that he would have preferred not to have given the earlier video interview either - the one he gave after months and months of delaying.
Normally speaking, Avalon and Camelot witnesses are in the business of seeking out an audience for as much as they dare reveal. This one was in the business of self-censorship coupled with effective censorship of Bill, who as far as I know was getting nothing else done during this time either.
This leads to an interesting paradox - Bill was wanting to release uncensored info (already no doubt to combat Charles’ behind-the-scenes influence by being upfront – this is what he does) while the mods and others were claiming that their misgivings were being… censored. Even back then, their misgivings were in actual fact aligned with Charles’ own wish to say as little as he could get away with. In other words, silencing Charles amounted to silencing Bill. The real censors were the ones crying foul.
This is how I see Bill’s interests coming temporarily and perfectly innocently into alignment with Charles’. He was just doing his job, treating him like a normal witness, coaxing him into saying things he perhaps did not want to say, not for fear of reprisal like the others, but for fear of giving his little game away, as indeed he did for many.
Was Bill being duplicitous, i.e. mixing ‘good’ and ‘evil’? Yes, but not towards his friends at Avalon!
Kerry Cassidy recently released a video of Neil Armstrong in which she suggests he blinks the word LIE in morse code. I would suggest that Bill was acting uncharacteristically highhandedly for similar reasons: Charles was and is a very real threat and not acting alone, and giving him a microphone was the only way to escape his unsolicited and unwanted influence.
This is one possible explanation for the probably mistaken impression some people are getting of Bill Ryan somehow being a ‘fraud’. Bill may have different explanation. Either way, don’t judge him: you would be judging yourself.
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