No confusion Exit0: I did say maybe not all. In your case, Bill Ryan was possibly just concerned with the volume of traffic involved. You make no suggestion that he was actually reading your stuff....
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No confusion Exit0: I did say maybe not all. In your case, Bill Ryan was possibly just concerned with the volume of traffic involved. You make no suggestion that he was actually reading your stuff....
The endless controversy over private messages may have a simple explanation. PMs per se are off limits, yes, but member-to-member exchanges (Visitor messages) gathered up into conversations on a...
Well Aragorn, if you don’t see how my post is on topic regarding what motivates Bill Ryan, then let me spell it out. The idea of perceptions changing from a prison planet to a place of education...
If you see the elite as incorrigible, then the prison planet model would seem to apply best to the situation – provided one takes the analogy all the way. The deprivation of our freedom by this elite...
There is no relief from embarrassment by coming here. It is embarrassing to be human, which is merely to say one feels in the wrong place at the wrong time. I am content with the protection of...
I rarely visit this forum – my apologies, but I’m here now :) – I came, a week after the event, to find out why Aragorn left Avalon.
I see that forum as a local watering-hole. I go there because...
You misunderstand me: I wasn't referring to Mr Pirsig. Never mind.
Harley Davidson? No. I think it’s Harley Hawkins. Yet I recall BR recently (this year) describing the end of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance as something very special. I have not read the...
It IS very sad, and the normal reaction is to want to help. But of course, it is a difficult thing to get through to anyone needing help, partly because they can’t trust you.
I don’t see...
Hi there Dumpster Diver, nice to meet you (or am I supposed to know you from elsewhere? :))
I intend to get off this thread and do my own thing just as soon as new members are allowed to....
Thank you Fred and others for your welcome and comments. I do not see this as a kind of ‘Road to Damascus’ moment. I mentioned traffic lights. What has happened is no more than a bump at a...
The idea behind this second post is to tackle Bill Ryan in the open on his home turf, which I take to be providing an enabling platform for whistle-blowers. That at least is how he started out with...
Hi Gio, good to be interacting again with you and some others. I gather you have a health issue; I am sure it will be resolved with all due haste.
I have no speculations to make about Bill Ryan’s...