The illusion of free speech
At times I see people on the forum telling me they want 'free speech'. I see arguments that without this free speech "Spontaneous creativity and inspiration" will be lost. however, what they try to say with this 'free speech' talk is that they want their form of 'free speech' on the forum but not a complete freedom of speech.
And how can we? Should we allow free speech about dosing unknowing people? Should we allow free speech about buying/selling? Should we allow free speech about personal attacks on our members? Should we allow free speech that is bashing spiritual posts in the most destructive way possible?
Of course not. Some rules are here to protect us all from law enforcement, others rules are here to make sure we can all come along and some rules are here to protect and improve the social status of DMT. It is impossible to satisfy all members to the full 100%. And with this knowledge in the back of my mind I try my very best to be as fair as possible to as many members as possible.
THE DMT-NEXUS PLATFORM
I chose to make a platform where we can share our experiences and where we try to evolve the knowledge we have about this molecule. One other thing that is very important to me is that we also are a place where people from outside the DMT-Nexus can come visit us, people who do not have much knowledge about entheogens. I want them to see that unlike all the prejudice that is out there, that we are a reasonable bunch of people who are actually a lot like them. The only difference between them and us is that we take entheogens and that we try to do that in the most responsible way possible, and that in turn requires critical thinking and reliable information.
For some that might not be important and they might reason that they do not come here to be a nice example for the outside world. However, it matters to me and not a little bit, no it matters a lot to me! Without this progressive platform I highly doubt that we will ever move forward the way we are doing now, combine this with the hope for a better acceptance of DMT in this world and I will work damn hard to reach that goal! I don't want to go jail for just taking DMT or any other entheogen, I want to explore the world of hyperspace without any fear for law enforcement and in total personal freedom.
DRAWING A LINE BETWEEN GROUPS
Because I know that certain visions about life bite each other I made a special section for one of them: the more spiritual inclined group. I made a special subforum where we can discuss all things spiritual and anything out of the ordinary without the need for that much needed critical thinking that we need so hard in the rest of the forum. If people also want to receive the more 'scientifically' or critical replies to their posts in that subforum they can state in their threads something like: 'scientific/critical replies are appreciated'.
If needed I can even make a special subsection that has several subfora for the more spiritual inclined group instead of the one "Through the Looking-Glass" subforum that we have now. Let me know how you feel about this by replying in this thread.
With this new approach I think that we will keep as much "Spontaneous creativity and inspiration" as possible.
This post shows a bit of my vision and how they influence the choices I make for the DMT-Nexus. If people come to me complaining about 'free speech' and 'censorship' then I can only come to the conclusion they do not fully understand how many different opinions we have here on the DMT-Nexus and how hard it is to come even close to making them all happy.
Kind regards,
The Traveler
At times I see people on the forum telling me they want 'free speech'. I see arguments that without this free speech "Spontaneous creativity and inspiration" will be lost. however, what they try to say with this 'free speech' talk is that they want their form of 'free speech' on the forum but not a complete freedom of speech.
And how can we? Should we allow free speech about dosing unknowing people? Should we allow free speech about buying/selling? Should we allow free speech about personal attacks on our members? Should we allow free speech that is bashing spiritual posts in the most destructive way possible?
Of course not. Some rules are here to protect us all from law enforcement, others rules are here to make sure we can all come along and some rules are here to protect and improve the social status of DMT. It is impossible to satisfy all members to the full 100%. And with this knowledge in the back of my mind I try my very best to be as fair as possible to as many members as possible.
THE DMT-NEXUS PLATFORM
I chose to make a platform where we can share our experiences and where we try to evolve the knowledge we have about this molecule. One other thing that is very important to me is that we also are a place where people from outside the DMT-Nexus can come visit us, people who do not have much knowledge about entheogens. I want them to see that unlike all the prejudice that is out there, that we are a reasonable bunch of people who are actually a lot like them. The only difference between them and us is that we take entheogens and that we try to do that in the most responsible way possible, and that in turn requires critical thinking and reliable information.
For some that might not be important and they might reason that they do not come here to be a nice example for the outside world. However, it matters to me and not a little bit, no it matters a lot to me! Without this progressive platform I highly doubt that we will ever move forward the way we are doing now, combine this with the hope for a better acceptance of DMT in this world and I will work damn hard to reach that goal! I don't want to go jail for just taking DMT or any other entheogen, I want to explore the world of hyperspace without any fear for law enforcement and in total personal freedom.
DRAWING A LINE BETWEEN GROUPS
Because I know that certain visions about life bite each other I made a special section for one of them: the more spiritual inclined group. I made a special subforum where we can discuss all things spiritual and anything out of the ordinary without the need for that much needed critical thinking that we need so hard in the rest of the forum. If people also want to receive the more 'scientifically' or critical replies to their posts in that subforum they can state in their threads something like: 'scientific/critical replies are appreciated'.
If needed I can even make a special subsection that has several subfora for the more spiritual inclined group instead of the one "Through the Looking-Glass" subforum that we have now. Let me know how you feel about this by replying in this thread.
With this new approach I think that we will keep as much "Spontaneous creativity and inspiration" as possible.
This post shows a bit of my vision and how they influence the choices I make for the DMT-Nexus. If people come to me complaining about 'free speech' and 'censorship' then I can only come to the conclusion they do not fully understand how many different opinions we have here on the DMT-Nexus and how hard it is to come even close to making them all happy.
Kind regards,
The Traveler