Memoirs of Synthetikal
By Syn
Do not fear, all is not lost, for Synthetikal is not dead, it is merely sleeping.
I have a responsibility as “creator” of Synthetikal to express what is happening, what has happened, and what shall be…
I think the best way to do this will be to start from the beginning and work through to the end, thus disparaging all if any rumours, and laying out
the critical truth evenly and carefully.
Synthetikal was begun by myself, with the aid of co-programmer Naz in Feb 2005.
It was created as a study guide primarily for myself for my University studies,.
Never in my wildest dreams did I hope the capture the attention of thousands of keen members, nor did I foresee my name and file being passed around
amongst security and law enforcement bodies, only to appear as a “king Pin” in a network of so many in accuracies and unwanted attention.
We begun our site on Shroogle’s Free servers upon which we quickly out grew, leading us into our own server.
To fund our server, we employed the same tactics as Shroogle, and put adds on our site to pay for our server.
Controversy always shrouded the necessary ads, as people always complained, but little did they know that the ads barely covered costs.
Occasionally we were able to buy the odd stick of butter and loaf of bread, but to us, the ads were a way to remove the burden of having the server in
the first place.
Surprisingly when the ads disappeared, nobody wanted to donate, as no funds were received in the last 2 months of Synthetikal stay.
Quite funny really, but it begs the question, why would any one want to work for free anyway,
A minority of members had trouble with this;
We always had a good chuckle about this
Anyway- 5 months down the track our site gained the attention of 1000’s of members, not to mention the drug force and most probably the security
intelligence service- no doubt- My Bad
The site grew at a phenomenal rate, the community as a whole was in control of the site, and it was an amazing thing to watch evolve.
We had nay Sayers, but what organization doesn’t.
It was like serving 1000 customers in a fast food business, always trying to soothe the majority, and dispel the miss-truths that the minority may
have.
Giving members absolute power and control over the site solve this very nicely.
As I am sure that this style of management is exactly what the world needs,
Let the people be the governments, but lets not get into to that
- Go NGO’s
Altruism powered the website, hundreds of passionate people dreaming always of a better place, and doing the work to make this so,
Self medication and synthesis is hundreds of years away for our cultural climate,
But we all dared to dream. An oasis for the intellect & independent thinkers, a pursuit not unlike Albert Hofmans island concept.
Synthetikal was also a gold mine for all law enforcement agencies across the world, as was the hive.
Simply by accessing all local internet providers log files, such groups could easily locate all those that visited the magical Synthetikal.com.
As this is what the police were and have been doing,.
I have no doubts that this is what happened to the hive, but this time I was able to witness it in progress with real proof.
Early June, my phone was tapped, along with many others, Ip addresses were collected and raids were maid, and are still commencing.
2 people that I know told me of the harrowing police experiences.
2 friendly cops(Oxymoron?), 30’ish in age, from the drug task force approached them on numerous occasions asking them what they were doing , and
what there relationship to me, and the site were,
They were quite aware all there internet activities.
Fame has a price.
It probably wouldn’t be a good idea to invite me to dinner at your house over the next few months, unless you set two extra plates.
Regardless of all the things I said in the site, my beliefs against all things illegal, the scarce pieces of the puzzle they had, still shone like a
neon light to them, saying” this is your man”
-Tens of thousands of taxpayers dollars were wasted, on such uneventful monitoring.
The police seemed hell-bent on gaining admin access to the site, so I ‘m sure there is a moral here somewhere, anyway I was furious, and felt
completely violated.
All in all, as I have always said, I just love chemistry, like hoffman, Shulgin, the wacker Bros, you , me , we all share something in common.
A passion for chemistry, which must stay in the theoretical world until the laws catch up- Don’t hold your breath.
There are many ways to fight back, but I will leave them up to you,
In truth, we all have always had the power, it’s just that we are too busy usually or distracted by the house keeping duties of the collective
primal mind,-work play sleep work, ant logic right?
Anyway backups were made of synthetikal, it is just a matter of time before it re-opens, next time it will truly be run by the community.
So stay tuned and watch Wetdreams and sciencemaddness for information of its return.
Thanks to all those that contributed, as I have had one of the best times in my life, getting to know all of you.
Peace and love
Synthetikal
p.s
Synthetikal became what it was by the many talented passionate people that gave their time, all is not lost and we all can play a part in the gradual
acceptance of hobbyist chemistry, and the freedom of individual ideals.
I have played only a small part in the greater scheme of things, and this is not the end.
We can all in our own way lubricate the wheels of progress and acceptance.
We are the people, and eventually we shall get what we want, otherwise those who try so hard to govern, will have their followers look somewhere else
for their pursuits of freedom,.
Stay safe Synthetikal
p.p.s A short poetic finale’
(trite poetic excrement has been edited out) |
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