AN EMAIL I RECEIVED--NEED OPINIONS
Alright all...here is the first negative comment I have received regarding the new site:
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Hi Icedawg,
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After describing on an internet message board how I could sometimes know I was dreaming, and actually control what happened in the dream, another poster posted your link. Before I even had time to read it I was severely warned by the other posters (who had glanced at it) to stay away from your site because of the \"demonic\" pictures on it. I went to your site and realized these posters were disturbed by the rabbit picture and especially by the \"evil eye\" picture at the bottom of the page. *
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Now personally, after reading your entire site, I think you just put those pictures on there as a sort of gimmick to get people to think this was something cool and mysterious and \"magical\". However I don't think it is (magical) and I don't think you do either, so I don't really get the connection or think you need it. *
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Anyway, I enjoyed reading your site, but I just wanted you to know that those 2 pics are REALLY turning some people off and leading them to believe you are teaching some sort of occult practice. [/b]
Any one of you who has read the new site will hopefully know that I am trying to dissuade people from labeling lucid dreaming as anything new-agey or occult like, and instead trying to show it in a down-to-Earth and practical light. My best guess here is that people have become so entangled with the stigma that encompasses lucid dreaming that they already fully see it in a bad light, thus are eager to jump at the chance to perpetuate their intransigent stance.
Never in a million years would I have viewed either of the mentioned graphics in the manner in which was stated. What troubles me most of all is that it wasn't just her opinion--she states several others in her forum shared that sentiment, and that's just one forum. On the one hand I certainly don't want to dissuade anyone from visiting our forum; on the other, if two such trivial pictures should be so instrumental in repelling someone from our site, I wonder if there's really any way to appease everyone no matter what I do.
Regardless, comments would certainly be appreciated.
thanks.
Re: AN EMAIL I RECEIVED--NEED OPINIONS
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Originally posted by icedawg
Alright all...here is the first negative comment I have received regarding the new site:
Quote:
Hi Icedawg,
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After describing on an internet message board how I could sometimes know I was dreaming, and actually control what happened in the dream, another poster posted your link. Before I even had time to read it I was severely warned by the other posters (who had glanced at it) to stay away from your site because of the \"demonic\" pictures on it. I went to your site and realized these posters were disturbed by the rabbit picture and especially by the \"evil eye\" picture at the bottom of the page. *
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Now personally, after reading your entire site, I think you just put those pictures on there as a sort of gimmick to get people to think this was something cool and mysterious and \"magical\". However I don't think it is (magical) and I don't think you do either, so I don't really get the connection or think you need it. *
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Anyway, I enjoyed reading your site, but I just wanted you to know that those 2 pics are REALLY turning some people off and leading them to believe you are teaching some sort of occult practice.
Any one of you who has read the new site will hopefully know that I am trying to dissuade people from labeling lucid dreaming as anything new-agey or occult like, and instead trying to show it in a down-to-Earth and practical light. My best guess here is that people have become so entangled with the stigma that encompasses lucid dreaming that they already fully see it in a bad light, thus are eager to jump at the chance to perpetuate their intransigent stance.
Never in a million years would I have viewed either of the mentioned graphics in the manner in which was stated. What troubles me most of all is that it wasn't just her opinion--she states several others in her forum shared that sentiment, and that's just one forum. On the one hand I certainly don't want to dissuade anyone from visiting our forum; on the other, if two such trivial pictures should be so instrumental in repelling someone from our site, I wonder if there's really any way to appease everyone no matter what I do.
Regardless, comments would certainly be appreciated.
thanks.[/b]
Some people are so fuckin' stupid it makes me want to barf.
I want to hunt that person down and cut his...off.
These people who are so narrow minded deserve to not be here. Don't mind it ice, they are especially dumb.