Made to Swear Fealty)

[Traci C Underdown]

On Mon, 09 Jun 1997 15:34:00 -0500 "Mitchell, Paul T"
<MTCHPTAA at SMTPGATE.lmtas.lmco.com> writes:
>
>Galen of Bristol picks on Bors again!
>
>Baronman at aol.com wrote:
>> Very well stated, but what you fail to realize is that  many people  
> 
>within
>> the SCA consider it (the SCA) to be reality.  They not only have one 
>  
>foot
>out
>> of the stirrup but both.
>>   Your thoughts???????
>
>OK, this is one of my hot button issues.  The notion that the SCA 
>isn't
>"reality".  The hours we spend on it are real.  The money we spend on
>it is real.  The way we behave in it is real behaviour.  The ideals we
>try to live up to are real.  The feelings we hurt are really feelings, 
>  
>and
>they're really hurt.  The good deeds we do are actually good deeds.
>The people we meet in it, make friends with, marry, _give birth to_, 
>are
>real people.  The things we teach and the examples we set are real.
>The enjoyment and fulfillment we realize from SCA activity is real.  
>Just
>as much as bowling night, watching TV, going to ball games or movies,
>picnics, non-SCA camping, mountain-climbing, flying, scuba-diving,
>sky-diving, bridge, poker, gambling, bar-hopping and so forth are 
>real.
>
>People enjoy telling me that wrestling isn't real.  Indeed?  Watch it
>for ten minutes.  Then you jump off the top rope, catch your 
>opponent's
>head between your knees and throw him to the mat.  Even _with_
>his help.  Now get up and do it again.  That's what they _really_ do.
>I know the outcome is predetermined, but that doesn't make the display
>less real, only less spontaneous.  Cartoons -- they're not real.
>
>No, I'm not really killing people, I wasn't born into a noble family, 
>and   
>I
>do in fact acknowledge the authority of the U.S. Constitution.  But 
>don't
>tell me that the SCA isn't reality, because I never could have 
>imagined
>the last 18 years.  And I'm a much better man -- in any context -- for
>having been a part of the SCA.
>
> - Galen of Bristol
>Paul.T.Mitchell at lmco.com
>pmitchel at flash.net
>http://www.flash.net/~pmitchel/galen.htm
>
>



Ok.. okay.. okay... what the heck is going on here people... What are you
talking about having to swear Fealty to the King??? You don't have to do
anything!  The SCA is there for learning and enjoyment...  for having fun
and making friends.  Sure, the money and time spent  are both very real..
but come on... the King and Queen are  not REAL Kings and Queens... they
are people portraying a King and Queen.  This is the USA... we have a
president now...  Sheesh! (grin)

A concerned member of the dream....

Kara McCloud
The Jingling Highlander