Originally posted by
Fred Steeves
Originally posted by
Aragorn
If
The One Truth and
Project Avalon can turn over the scorched Earth and create a new fertile soil bed, then perhaps some interesting fruitbearing trees might eventually end up growing there.
Bill was courteous enough to attempt to warn us about the entities that Chris was channeling, and after having extensively talked about this in private with Chris, I can now see why, because Bill was right.
In his communication with myself via email, Bill was also cordial and showed respect for The One Truth as an alternative community forum, and for the way that my colleagues and I are running it. Therefore, if Bill can muster this respect for us, then I don't see why we should continue to feed the old — and frankly, energy-wasting — animosity.
Growing up means that one must acknowledge one's own responsibility, and I will openly admit that I've allowed myself to get drawn into these puerile games all too easily. With so many refugees from Project Avalon signing up here — and I've been one of them myself at some point in the past — the temptation was all too big. I plead guilty as charged.
I have however noticed when I'm looking at threads at Project Avalon where Bill Ryan is one of the participants, that he seems to have changed quite a bit in recent times. He seems to have learned from his mistakes, and everyone deserves a second chance. After all, we here at The One Truth are now giving Chris a second chance too, knowing full well why he was banned from Project Avalon.
I believe that the time has come to stop looking upon Project Avalon and Bill Ryan in person as our enemies. In the end, we're all fighting for the same cause, albeit in different ways. And that's not a bad thing, because we must all be allowed to be who we are, and to do things in our own way, so long as we're not harming anyone else in the process.
The above does not necessarily mean that I suddenly agree with all of Bill's management decisions over at Project Avalon, nor with his promotion of people who later on turn out to be frauds. I personally think that the promotion of any kind of whistleblower's testimony as The Truth™ is dangerous, and this has so far always been the position of The One Truth in that regard. We give them a platform where they can present their material, but that doesn't mean that we're promoting it, nor that we would necessarily be in support of it.
We don't even allow anyone to promote themselves here, because that is not the scope of our forum. Sadly enough, Corey Goode did indeed walk a very thin line between self-promotion and sharing information in the few weeks before his departure from The One Truth, and because on the one hand it was all so borderline while on the other hand we also knew that he was on his way out, we let it stand — which is a situation I hope we'll never have to be in again, because it was annoying the hell out of us in the mod room at the time.
Bill Ryan's approach in this is different, and that is exactly why he's Bill Ryan and not The One, or Aragorn, or Dreamtimer, or Elen, or Kathy, or Wind. And it's exactly why Bill Ryan's forum is called Project Avalon and not The One Truth.
As I wrote to him already in an earlier communication a few months ago, the internet is big enough to have a place for all of us. And given that we're all on the same side, I think it would only benefit everyone — and especially, our respective quests to get to the truth about everything that's playing out in the world, whether before our eyes or behind our backs — if our respective forums can on occasion work together. Don't forget that until Kathy and I became friends, there were plenty of people on the Eye-Rise forum who considered The One Truth their enemy, and I think that there might possibly be still somewhat of a bitter taste on account of The One Truth in the mouths of a few of the Eye-Rise members who've remained after the big exodus of the Ruiner followers from Eye-Rise.
We've had several exoduses here at The One Truth as well. Immediately connected to the above paragraph, the very same people who left Eye-Rise — and who nearly destroyed it on their way out, out of nothing but sheer spite — were also the ones who left The One Truth somewhere in 2016 because they were so badly enamored with Shane "The Ruiner" Bales, and because Shane and Corey Goode had become enemies when Shane willfully declared Corey Goode a liar in order to promote his own fantasy story and gather a cult following around himself. But Shane was smart, so he wasn't doing it here at the forum — a few exceptions notwithstanding. He was doing it by way of his blog, which was then copied and pasted here in its entirety — with color and in a larger font — by Ria and Breeze (known over at Eye-Rise and Project Avalon as "Realeyes").
But that's not all, because in the (northern) spring of 2015, we had an even bigger exodus here, where somewhere between 20 and 40 members all left The One Truth in a single day over the fact that 777 (Ben) had voluntarily stepped down as administrator, and the additional fact that neither of those people had enough of an understanding of how a forum works at the technical level, so that they mistook the restoring of a backup — which caused all of the newest posts submitted to the forum since the last backup to disappear from the records — in addition to their misinterpretation of our sincere and neutral moderation of their confrontational and ego-driven posts as censorship. And it didn't exactly help our situation either when Pris and a couple of her friends then started an insurrection that included mass-messaging, spamming other people's threads and other such "civil disobedience".
And then there was the fact that Corey had landed here on the forum, and that those members were literally jealous of the attention he was getting, and wary of the new members who were joining up here in Corey's wake to hear him tell his stories. Because when push comes to shove — and I've already said this a hundred times — this so-called alternative community isn't all that alternative. Just because one believes in UFOs, Bigfoot and/or reincarnation, or because one happens to be a vegetarian who grows their own food, meditates for a whole hour six times a day and smokes pot or ingests LSD, doesn't make one any more alternative than the people in the mainstream of society.
Being alternative is not in what you do, but in who you are as a person.
Some of the people who left us back in 2015 have returned in the meantime, even if only as lurkers. Some of those who've returned are also actively posting again. Many of the others have for whatever reason vowed to never return, and are most likely still holding a grudge against us because they mistook the prejudices of their ego for the truth of what was really going on at the time.
Member Dumpster Diver has the following quote in his signature...
"Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the object of your anger to die."
I agree with that. It is time to turn over the leaf. That doesn't mean that The One Truth and Project Avalon are suddenly going to become sister forums, as The One Truth and Eye-Rise are. There's a significant difference there, as Kathy is now a staff member here, and I myself am now also a staff member at Eye-Rise.
I don't exactly see myself becoming a staff member at Project Avalon any day soon, nor do I see Bill Ryan becoming a staff member at The One Truth any day soon either. The difference in atmosphere between Project Avalon and The One Truth is genuinely huge, and I prefer sticking to our own little Shire here in this neck of the woods. Besides, it's already difficult enough as it is — not impossible, but difficult nevertheless — to keep an eye on two forums, let alone three.
But if The One Truth and Project Avalon could be working together on certain things in the future, then — again — that would definitely be beneficial to the so-called alternative community, in my opinion. And it's not just Project Avalon that I'm talking about either. Even though I am not a member at Earth Empaths, I applaud Christine Anderson for having made the decision to create a forum of her own, and for her commitment. I have the utmost respect for Christine, and she knows that.
Ultimately, the one truth is that together we make a difference, remember?
Anyway, I'm writing all of this because I have the feeling that my holding out an olive branch toward Project Avalon is being frowned upon now, and this while we've had members in the past who would have liked nothing better than for The One Truth and Project Avalon to bury the hatchet, and who left us because we weren't willing to go there yet.
I guess that after 55 years on this planet, I still don't understand humans, and I doubt whether I ever will. 
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I had a messiah complex when I was 15 but I grew out of it at 15 and 1/4. If you want to discontinue re-evaluating your truth...just listen to me and accept that as truth...then you're done...finis...never have to worry about it again... 
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