SWIM is pointless...disclaimers in your signature are pointless (but fun/amusing nonetheless). As acknowledged numerous times, in numerous places SWIM = Someone Who Is Me just as easily as it = Someone Who Isn't Me

The reason that I say SWIM is pointless is because its intended point/purpose would be to provide legal protection, and put simply:
It provide none (zero, zip, nada)

So have fun SWIMming, but know that it's no legal life-boat.

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It always makes me feel a bit schizophrenic when I refer to myself as someone who isn't me. I feel like I'm slipping into the deranged world of one of Philip K. Dick's characters, losing touch with reality. I don't see the point in using it though, other than messing with my identity...

that being said, of course, these were SWIM's words, who the hell am I anyway? If SWIM isn't me, then who is?
* Enoon shakes head in confusion

It's nice to get some clarity on this issue from the more experienced posters. I have only been using it so far as it seems to be the done thing from reading other forums on similar subjects, so I kind of assumed it would be expected (but not required) here also.

Now that I know it isn't, and that it only serves to annoy, I (yes, I!) shall stop using it.

Great insight!

Now that I know who I am and am not now, how about these magical substances, who are they? What do you folks call these substances in everyday speech? I'm enough of a hippie that "drugs" is starting to sound more and more harsh, and, more importantly, horribly inaccurate from most points of view. I don't like "sacred medicines" because "medicines" can be synonymous for "drugs"; and if "drugs" is an inaccurate name, then, by flimsy logic, "medicines" must be too.

"Sacrament" was a word that got tossed around with some friends and I when we were first experimenting with some of these substances.

That works for me, and I like some of Dictionary.com's definition of "sacred":


So "sacred sacraments" for SWIM, er, me. What would SWIY potentially call these substances?

People do it to protect themselves from potential prosecution. However, the moniker SWIM does stand for "someone who is me", so essentially it can be argued that SWIM is a pronoun for self. However, the matter is legally moot because prosecuting someone for the content of their posts is 100% inadmissible. There is NO need to use the word SWIM. It will never-ever make or break you even if you found yourself and your hard drive in a courtroom. By using the moniker "SWIM" you will be in the same exact position legally as if you were using the moniker "I".., Absolutely Zero.