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    The natural hook is that 'if one is accepted' then all is well. Not always the case in my experience but it surely does make things much smoother than sand. It provides the latitude of bowing out according to one's own conditions. Another natural hook, one's own auspices is always better than a boot in the ass.
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    Am not seeing any Q threads on PA today? So, what is happening there, I wonder.

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    Quote Originally posted by Octopus Garden View Post
    Am not seeing any Q threads on PA today? So, what is happening there, I wonder.
    No its still public, i believe RunningPaula just took a toilet break ...
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    Okay, There it is, in all it's moronic glory. Just spotted it. Thanks Gio

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    Quote Originally posted by Malisa View Post
    That’s exactly how I feel reading all these comments

    Dwelling in the past, unable to move forward deep inside, trying to push their feelings about things that no one cares about anymore, being bothered by things that don’t matter at all

    So boring and pointless

    I have better things to do in life than go read a lot of boring bickering between old mindset people who are uncapable of understanding they will never agree on anything because their mud is not better than the mud being thrown from the other side of the river, even if they think it is because of primal behavior

    Meh
    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 it’s handy, the beer is OK, and there are few regulars whose company I enjoy. Most of what goes on there is background noise, as it is to anyone present. There are doubtless nicer places to go – just as there are certainly nicer places to go than Planet Earth. Some members here may recall a couple of posts I made on this very thread a few years ago; if you don’t, please don’t bother scrolling back. Let’s just say the beer tasted off and eventually a barmaid was sacked.

    However, the subject of this thread is the landlord. Generally a landlord is a genial guy just as long as you steer clear of politics. Aragorn doesn’t like his politics: OK let’s see what can be said on the subject, with zero expectations beyond the intellectual exercise per se. Note that I have made no bones about being a man of the left, and to date I have neither been banned nor seen the need to retire for my views. Others have other experiences: I understand.

    For example, when Bill Ryan warmly recommended Daniel Schmachtenberger, I pointed out that Daniel’s thinking and thinking process was Marxist/dialectical. Nothing nasty happened to me. Dialectical thinking adds rigour to one’s thought processes, notably because contradictory – antithetical – ideas are built into the process. This can be seen as a fact-checker function if you will: it keeps you on topic, it keeps you on target, and it keeps you honest. Notice how even in the USA, politics pays lip service to this process, in the shape of a two party system. Except that every 4/8 years you have thesis, then every 4/8 years antithesis, with no synthesis in sight. In the UK this sometimes translates as the right bringing in leftist measures, and the left rightist; but usually it is us versus them.

    The problem with politics then is a) a lack of rigorous thinking, b) rejection of the opposition, and c) downright dishonesty. In light of a) and b), downright dishonesty becomes the norm – which is a fair definition of Johnsonism. What I mean by honesty is ‘'grounded truth’ . The concept of truth is groundless, i.e. other-dimensional, whereas honesty is testable e.g. in a court of law. The problem with left-right politics is that it is trumped by issues of integrity. A rightist with integrity will denounce a dishonest/criminal rightist regime. And if one is honest, a leftist with integrity will denounce a dishonest/criminal leftist regime. This is where party politics can break down: honest people, whoever they are, call out dishonesty, regardless of party allegiance.

    But a greater issue seems to be American politics: how does it compare with Johnsonism – going beyond the simple (simplistic) equation Trump = Johnson? (Generally speaking, I don’t know enough about American politics to have a valid opinion). I am troubled when northern England Labour voters change their allegiance because, from my standpoint, and for anyone suspicious of the mainstream media message, they are going in the wrong direction. But I am satisfied to see that they are probably doing so with the best motives.

    If someone like Bill Ryan – coming relatively late to the game – sees Donald Trump as an asset, then from my standpoint, it would be because Trump is poles apart from Boris Johnson. Meaning that his outer exterior is pure bluff. He projects the persona of a Boris Johnson, but with a totally different – intelligent – agenda. Johnson’s bluff is to create the illusion of reality behind a clown. Trump on the other hand, hiding behind a clown, is for real. In other words he is a double agent. This would indicate that anyone in agreement with his project to ‘drain the swamp’ would refrain from compromising him by proclaiming what he is about. Conversely (and as a consequence!), this would suggest that any misunderstanding about Trump would be due to lack of information.

    I don’t think many people are comfortable with the idea of such a level of duplicity in the service of honesty. But they should be, if they accept the notion of ‘honest duplicity’ being fostered by any regime involved in purely defensive espionage against duplicitous enemies. Americans have accepted this for decades with respect to the CIA for example. The logical inference from this is that people choose a side depending on whether or not they see the CIA as an angelic or less than angelic organization. This of course is pure speculation on my part, as I don’t know if such a correlation has ever been attempted.

    Let me say that for me American politics is a difficult area, because what passes for the left, i.e. ‘liberalism’, has the same roots as Toryism in the UK. The east coast Ivy League was deliberately based on the methods of Eton-Oxford of the Tory establishment. Historically, the CIA is an offshoot of this elite, although of course it created its own internal opposition. ‘Conspiracy theory’, as a CIA concept, was spawned when two liberal clans, Kennedy and the CIA, came to blows.

    I say these things as an unrepentant leftist. I am not about to say that salvation lies in extreme right-wing politics. If Donald Trump is to represent any kind of answer, then it would have to be as a kind of middle-of-the-road honest family man embracing values that the ordinary honest citizen can identify with.

    Given that my core skill is in creative writing, what follows is neither a judgement nor an opinion, just a stream of consciousness.
    I saw an interview from the 1980s, in which billionaire Trump stated that the role of self-appointed world policeman was draining the US domestic economy of 200 billion a year. On the face of it, this was said in relation to the ordinary American, not in relation to any loss of income for himself and others like him. In other words, he was defending a ‘leftist’ policy from which he has never wavered… Notice the parallel with Communist ‘socialism in one country’. But notice also the internal contradiction (antithesis): ‘socialism in one country’ is a contradiction in terms because socialism of necessity involves the whole of society. The Soviets came to grief on that account.

    But if Trump is ‘honest’, has integrity, meaning that the man of the 1980s was mutatis mutandis in line with the man we know today, then that would mean that he has the best interests of his people at heart, which would logically lead to an electoral majority. What is his record so far? As an outsider, I honestly don’t know – zero wars? The total demolition of his adversaries in court would answer this question. This cannot be ruled out – post-election, so everything is up for grabs.

    You understand my problem: the ‘Democratic’ ‘left’, corresponding to British Toryism, the Establishment, the stable diet from which an occasional Labour government offers a little light relief, is ‘trumped’ on its right by a little honesty. Joe Public is much more confused than I am. But it is nothing a few independent court cases could not put to rights.

    While this is just an Internet post, not a doctoral thesis, some sort of conclusion is required. We know that a correct answer can be reached by correct or incorrect reasoning, and that an incorrect answer can be reached by incorrect or correct reasoning. Here, from the outsider perspective, reasoning is unavoidably inadequate: all anyone can do is to vote, or not, with one’s feet, for honesty. It really doesn’t matter where you are or what you are doing. ON a supposed planet of choice, yes or no, which is it?

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    This doesn't represent a problem, it represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the Golden One. He has been duplicitous since knee-high to his daddy. He was not being honest decades ago and he is not being honest now. His concern then and now has been his fortune despite the fact that he was not ignorant enough, nor completely matured in his narcisissm, to be stupid enough then to state such. He might have been having a good year way back in the 1980's while his daddy was still protecting him with his own extorted billions. You actually need to research the Golden One's moral trail and you will see clearly that for the 'ordinary' guy it is a trail of tears and doesn't speak well for the avenger of the deep state. Material is readily available, one can start with his wife and niece and then proceed to his sister. It will be an easy leap from there to business partners, media, employees, hapless individuals that were chewed up and spit out for monetary gain and the list goes on. It is clear now that even the most highly trained James Bond counterparts, spies, counterspies, double agents, and the most sophisticated of any other legal arm in civilized society is able to track his money?

    Would you really believe that such a depraved moron would be capable of pulling that off for himself? No, he has help, some very deep state knowledgeable types aiding and abetting him for their own ends of course.
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    He has elements of the DIA supporting him. For some reason, people don't get these guys are about as deep as deep state gets. Cambridge Analytica, of which Steve Bannon (an avowed militarist) was a board member is chalk full of former military people. They got the creep elected.

    You can look at it this way. If you were military and wanted to stage an overt coup, you would help manipulate into power an unstable ninkempoop who would require a military intervention....eventually. Very loosely speaking, the Dems have their letter agencies but the repuglicans have theirs too. And the repugs are tied to those with all the guns, plus traditional ties to tabloid media, which has segued into alt right online media.

    The dinosaurs in both parties deserve each other, but those they manipulate and control don't deserve what is coming. Nobody deserves a military dictatorship.

    I should rephrase that. What might be coming. A right wing military dictatorship isn't a sure thing. This is how they get started though.
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    Yikes. I gotta get that island.

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    Quote Originally posted by araucaria View Post
    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 it’s handy, the beer is OK, and there are few regulars whose company I enjoy. Most of what goes on there is background noise, as it is to anyone present. There are doubtless nicer places to go – just as there are certainly nicer places to go than Planet Earth. Some members here may recall a couple of posts I made on this very thread a few years ago; if you don’t, please don’t bother scrolling back. Let’s just say the beer tasted off and eventually a barmaid was sacked.

    However, the subject of this thread is the landlord. Generally a landlord is a genial guy just as long as you steer clear of politics. Aragorn doesn’t like his politics: OK let’s see what can be said on the subject, with zero expectations beyond the intellectual exercise per se. Note that I have made no bones about being a man of the left, and to date I have neither been banned nor seen the need to retire for my views. Others have other experiences: I understand.
    Just for the record, I don't really have a problem with the fact that Bill supports Donald Trump, because I know why Bill believes that Trump would be the better choice. I think that Bill is being naive in this matter, and that, in this naiveté, Bill has also completely forgotten that there are still alternatives beside the US Democrats and the US Republicans.

    Bill's motivation for supporting Donald Trump is not driven by what Trump truly stands for ─ i.e. nationalism, corporatism and both personal and cultural narcissism. No, Bill supports Donald Trump because he believes that the alternative would be even worse, because Joe Biden is after all a candidate from within the corrupt corporatist-globalist establishment.

    So Bill's outspoken support for Trump, even if I don't agree with him in that, was definitely not why I left Project Avalon. There were several different reasons why I left, but I guess you could say that most of them boil down to the insanity of a very vocal group of members ─ some of whom are quite arrogant, others are quite disdainful and cynical, and yet others are blinded by a frothing hatred for anything perceived as left-wing. Just as Joseph McCarthy would have wanted it.

    A large contingent of these people has been completely hypnotized by Donald Trump and the Q phenomenon, and they are embracing fascism without knowing that they are, because they don't even understand what fascism really is, just as they don't understand what socialism is.

    Another contingent exhibits Pavlovian knee-jerk reactions on account of anything mainstream, in favor of both unproven and disproven pseudoscience. Among other things, we're talking of incessant Covid-19 denial, paranoia regarding 5G, the belief that autism would be caused by vaccines ─ coupled to the vehement defense of Andrew Wakefield, who was barred from every practising medicine again ─ and more anti-truth.

    There is a significant overlap between both of these contingents ─ albeit that it's not a one-on-one match ─ and there is most definitely intellectual dishonesty among the both of them. If you present them with the facts, then it's like you're suddenly speaking another language and they can't understand a single word you're saying, with as a result that they'll simply flat-out ignore what you just said.

    What makes everything worse, however, is that Bill is protective of both of these groups of people and has as such allowed Project Avalon to degrade into merely an echo chamber for the alt-right and the truth-deniers. Yes, when it comes to hard science, Bill still puts his foot down, and in the battle against the Covid-19 deniers, we stood side by side as hard-scientists. But that is not enough, and it backfired, because then we got to see reactions from members who couldn't tell our personal opinions and knowledge apart from the Project Avalon leadership and "party line". Anything we said was interpreted as an almost dictatorial intervention on account of the members' freedom of speech.

    There were a couple of other reasons as well on account of why I had to leave Project Avalon, among which (but not limited to) the fact that I was still suffering from a second Covid-19 infection ─ which, like the first time around, has long-term consequences that I'm still battling with ─ and the fact that I'm a very busy man. I'm also still the administrator here, and I'm a moderator at the Manjaro Linux forum. But the most significant factor in my decision to leave Project Avalon was without any doubt the amount of lunacy from those two very vocal and entitled contingents, and the fact that Bill is allowing these people to bring down the quality of Project Avalon.

    I was literally feeling embarrassed to still be a member there, let alone a staff member, and I've told Bill. It all became too much to bear, and something had to give. It had been brooding in my mind for quite some time already, and it was a serene discussion in the Project Avalon mod room ─ not an argue, but a very serious and somewhat intense discussion ─ that prompted me to bite the bullet and leave.

    But that said, I don't hold any grudges against Bill. In fact, I sent him an interesting article regarding Covid-19 ─ which I've posted on a pertinent thread here ─ via email only yesterday, and he posted it as a new thread at Project Avalon, crediting me in the process. So it's not like we're not on speaking terms anymore. We parted as friends, and I still respect the man. But it was obvious that I, being who I am, don't belong at Project Avalon.

    So there you have it.
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    Quote Originally posted by Aragorn View Post
    But that said, I don't hold any grudges against Bill. In fact, I sent him an interesting article regarding Covid-19 ─ which I've posted on a pertinent thread here ─ via email only yesterday, and he posted it as a new thread at Project Avalon, crediting me in the process. So it's not like we're not on speaking terms anymore. We parted as friends, and I still respect the man. But it was obvious that I, being who I am, don't belong at Project Avalon.
    And this is exactly how i believe it should be, not keep going on and on over things that already happend and can't be changed, but move forward and don't focus on the past or irrelevant things

    Personally, if something doesn't affect me, i can look at it but not get all twisted over it, and that's true for most that happens, and just moving forward if you feel you are not happy is the best way to go. But not to keep going for years with a hidden grudge while pretending is not there, i found that not very honest and a complete waste of time, because it will never change anything around you or anyone else, it just completely wastes the person

    But anyways, everyone is entitled to their opinion and perception, no time to lose trying to explain

    I'm just glad you are doing better, even if it's very hard to get through <3

    Quote Originally posted by sourcetruth View Post
    Bill Ryan also made a false claim on the Avalon thread when he claimed that Lisa the art dealer had been compensated by insurance.


    There's no reason to drag her into this conversation.




    That's just a negative way of saying that I was upset. With the kind of attitude that you and them have given me, its absolutely justified for me to have been upset by it, and I am not ashamed about how I feel.



    The US court doesn't have to be the court of the world in order to make decisions within its own jurisdiction. They have already made that decision, weighing the available information about the case.
    What basis do you have to claim what somebody else would think of my words? Just because you don't want to acknowledge any value of my words, doesn't mean that someone else won't.
    You could write a book about all the things that go through your head, and it would still be meaningless and forgettable due to your own past

    You hold a terrible grudge against Bill Ryan because he removed you from Avalon, due to your own actions

    You believe the entire world, and all the people on it are produced by your own brain, you think you are a God figure for imaginary humans with no souls

    And somehow you want to talk to us, the "imaginary humans". are you even capable of understanding your own issue around this broken concept? By your own standards and broken teachings and knowledge, Bill Ryan doesn't exist beyond an avatar, yet you are so broken by his rejection you have kept your grudge for more than a year now and continually attack him. Such a God you are

    All you say is not acceptable due to this, it comes from the wrong place, every single time
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    LOL

    "I was literally feeling embarrassed to still be a member there" ...



    When one man's religion is another man's watering hole ...




    So there you have it.
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    Quote Originally posted by Lord Sidious View Post
    Be very careful of projection, for you speak of someone else, not the Modern Wizard.
    I know him very well and he is nothing like that.
    However, this post tells me that you're in for a rough ride, as you won't listen to others who went up the road before you.
    Oh i don't necesarily have to listen and follow every single person who has been here on this planet before me, if that were the case i would be more crazy than i am already

    Assuming that because someone is older or "more experienced" they know better, is going the wrong way about life

    I'm not in for any rough ride, i already went through that one way before i came here. Trust me, a few posts here and there are not going to change reality for me. I'm going through way worse than egos being hit on the internet. If someone gets hurt by something someone else posted on the internet, they have bigger issues to deal with. And i can tell you i have done and went through things that most people can't deal with, i just don't care about small minds and hurt internet egos, at all

    LOL
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    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 personal integrity not to be too embarrassed by my own actions. Integrity is the knowledge of being in the right place at the right time, just about the only knowledge I for one would claim to possess. Injecting integrity into US politics may not be possible, but it would seem that some people at least are exploring how it might be done. No doubt they are embarrassing themselves in the process. If you have been unblocking a sewer, you will not like the way you smell either, but the job’s got to be done. Embarrassment washes off. But there is only so much any one individual can do, which is not very much at all, embarrassingly little in fact. It would seem that the humbling experience is an integral part of the package.

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    I would agree with Malisa on this one, it is a 'virtual' experience, virtual degradation, virtual accolades, it is all virtual but then creation has more elements of virtual content than provided by physical reality. And therein is the focal value. The zeitgeist of virtual discussion falls out in a very real manner. Propaganda is the quintessential example of 'virtual' twisting of truth and lies and serves the purpose of those that do not have the best interests of society in hand. It's only my virtual opinion, of course.

    We can't let our minds be fooled by those that are not motivated by the high moral road. I truly believe that anything less is sinister.

    It really isn't necessary to browbeat ourselves to determine the truth. Take a breath, clear thoughts, forget just for a second that we believe anything and then 'think'. Check our instincts at the door and then look at what is slapping us in the face. It is surprisingly easy to understand what is happening around us when viewed from that perspective.
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    I sure do wish Trump was unblocking the sewer. But he's not. He does not have a history of integrity. His patterns of behavior have been the opposite of integrity.

    Dwelling on the past is surely not good. But forgetting it and failing to learn from it lead to disease and worse. If we ignore Trump's own history and patterns of behavior then we utterly misunderstand the man.

    People are chasing phantoms while Trump bilks the US taxpayers for as much as he can. He has lined his pockets with money from his own campaign, hurting his own donors.

    That is the kind of man he is. He did the same thing with his charitable foundation. It's called self-dealing.

    He has numerous failed businesses, most notably several casinos. How does a brilliant businessman bankrupt casinos?

    The answer is because he was never a brilliant businessman. He was bailed out time and again by his father.

    We must understand our history in order not to repeat it.

    This is why it is such a deep concern that so few folks really seem to understand what communism and socialism really are.

    A very deep concern.

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