For The Record: Regarding THE AGORA...

[BryonMorrigan]

I just wanted to let everyone here on Mystic Wicks know that, although I helped create a new forum (THE AGORA), and mentioned that one of its purposes is to give people a forum for when MW is down...that I do not harbor any ill will towards MW or any of the people responsible for it. I hope you fix whatever the problem is...but considering the fact that MW is down so often, and another board announced that it was shutting down, that I'd help create a place for people to go, as an alternative. Thanks!

Bryon Morrigan

[Tiberias]

Probably a good idea. Seems as though MW has been up for me a total of two or three days in the past two weeks.

[Micheál]

It's a pretty spiffy place, I might add

[Twinkle]

I kinda like that place, too!!

[MonSno_LeeDra]

Can we clarify this?



Some recons have switched the line "You're doing it wrong" to "your appropriating from us". They think it gives themselves some kind of moral authority to attempt, and I emphasize attempt because it looks pretty silly on a priveledged demographic, to align themselves with indiginous peolple who are having their spirituality exploited after almost everything else has been taken from them.

If some one has experiences with deity that they don't feel comfortable with they lay the accusation of "appropriation"

If it's a Norse recon forum then you should just say so. The more general label of Norse/Germanic Polytheism implies that the recon paradigm is the only one to be regarded as authentic, everything else is just ""usage" or appropriation"

Now because of things I have seen on other boards I might be misinterperting your guidelines so I just wanted to make sure there is no misunderstanding.

Just out of curosity but wouldn't that have been better suited to have been placed on the AGORA site than here? I can see the announcement being made here so it doesn't look like Bryon is minning for members but discussing the site specifics seem's a little wrong to be done here.

[MonSno_LeeDra]

You have a point

But I am not trying to tell Byron how to run his forum, I'm just trying decide if it's somewhere I would want to go

This issue is the only one I have with the Agora, I am touchy about it, and I think may be I'm just reading it the wrong way because I am seeing it in the wrong context

PMing it might have been better but it's just not a medium I am used to

The main thing I was looking at is if it is a potential issue for you then to have asked it at the site and in the area would have possibly answered the same thing that others might have questioned on the site. If it was an issue to you then it probably would or might have been an issue for others who happened to find the site through a different means.

[Garm]

The main thing I was looking at is if it is a potential issue for you then to have asked it at the site and in the area would have possibly answered the same thing that others might have questioned on the site. If it was an issue to you then it probably would or might have been an issue for others who happened to find the site through a different means.

OK I see what you mean

I'll try to sign up

I'm taking down the previous posts

[Moon_reaper]

Looks good Bryon! I'll sign up later today.