Bryan Bishop

YOU WANT ACTION – THEN ACT

@russell I can’t help but notice that this sentiment also aligns with what Joyce told me Friday night: “Do you always do what they tell you to?”

@chelsea I tend to find self-proclaimed “darkness” and “edginess” to be nothing more than junior high theatrics. Same with the kind of posturing that comes with tribalization / factions (something we’re seeing on a nationwide scale right now). Any true darkness comes from the self, when the safety net of friends, co-conspirators, and alliances are…[Read more]

No allegiances. No factions. There is only the self, and where our true nature leads us – as dark a place as that may be.

Thanks for sharing some wisdom, @russell.

Connecting some dots: if “Mason” was just a role somebody was playing, than it’s quite likely “Joyce” is also just a role somebody is playing. Which could mean HCDI in its entirety was just a fiction. All of OSDM for that matter.

And wasn’t it Clint Sears that said he thought Mason was real? If so, was Clint misguided… or lying to establish…[Read more]

One possible read on this…

“Today’s message was not for you.” <– It was possibly meant for DLB?

“You no longer matter.” <– The ticketed event is on its way. They do not need us to spread the word anymore. They’ve already reached beyond us.

“He lets this charade continue as long as you do not threaten him.” <– Somebody that we’ve always a…[Read more]

This is all stuff we’ve talked about (over and over again), but it’s becoming more prominent now. Why?

The one quote that I keep thinking back to is The Controller, from way back in April:

You have no idea what you are celebrating and you will soon need each other more than you could ever realize.

First, responses to The System divided us. The…[Read more]

The posting, and deleting, and posting, and deleting of that image in Slack has left me feeling a little uneasy. It’s also worth pointing out that I also tried posting the link to the story I wrote that went up Friday, which was also deleted by forces unknown.

I don’t really want to go into the why of it all right now, but I have reason to…[Read more]

Lots to chew on here, Addison, and it sparked an idea that I actually hadn’t considered before. What if there is no “helmet” in the sci-fi way we’ve been thinking about it all this time?

What if The Experience itself is the helmet?

This past week we’ve seen our fellow community members do things that seem out of character. That make us distrust…[Read more]

@larry @unseenpresence What’s funny is that one doesn’t need to stand outside to understand that we are all mice, and that one force is likely behind it all. One just needs humility… and, well, we as human beings aren’t too good at that.

This kinda goes back to something we’d been discussing previously, @larry. The only thing we can really…[Read more]

I’ve been turning last night over in my head and trying to make sense of it all. I can’t. Not yet. What I do recognize is that I’ve gone from a place of feeling quite certain about where I stood, and how I feel about certain people in this world, to suddenly feeling… unmoored. Adrift.

There was no way I was going to discover Joyce was alive…[Read more]

First – thank you @chelsea for starting the topic and posting the various Periscope links. Here’s what went down in text format:

Around 6pm tonight I received a phone call from @wanda102, who said she needed to meet me at 7:15 tonight. We picked a coffeehouse in Hollywood (this is the caffeine chapter, apparently) and I walked in at the appointed…[Read more]

Agreed, @nothenrygale. But the more I think it over, I find myself wondering one thing. DLB references “the powers that be doing what they needed to do” as something he and Clint may have almost prevented.

Who, then, ARE the real powers that be… and what did they want to do to us?

Thanks for sharing this @nothenrygale. I appreciate your detailed report, but I’m not gonna lie: I wish you’d demonstrated some of that assertiveness when it came to determining the fate of one of our own.

I wonder how Morgan would have handled the situation if he’d been there. :-/