ANST - A clarification (was Rant)

[Screamin Gael]

Apparently, the message got lost in the text, so I'm going to explain this 
as simply as possible....if it's still missconstrued by some, oh well, I 
tried.

Put aside the inate desire of a SCAdian to research everything to death and 
the indignance when that is called into question (I'm working on a Masters 
in History, so I know how hard that is) and read the following, which is the 
intended message:

We should keep our legends alive (as legends), and strive to live the way 
they teach us to.

Thats it, thats the message.

Putting into an example, which would you rather have: a gang banger who 
knows that the first crusades was a rapascious invasion using religion to 
claim land and booty and has no role models, thus no problem blowing one of 
our officers away.

or a 15 year old kid who was raised on stories of knights of old and took 
the chivalric code to heart and chose to live with honor rather than lead a 
life of crime.

I have seen firsthand what happens to those who have all faith in their 
legends and in the Right way to live ripped out from underneath them by some 
historian trying to astound the accademic community with his "new finding", 
and it has directly (I kid you not) led to at least one death that I know 
of.

I had assumed that members of the Society, a society based on re-introducing 
Honor and Chivalry into the world, would understand the message, and some 
did....others...well, they need to talk to a knight or two and ask them 
which is more important: Historicaly accurate knowledge, or living the 
Chivalric life

This will probably be the last post I put here for a while, for I have to 
rethink a few concepts I had about the SCA. To the Honorable, I salute you; 
to those who strive to discover more of our history, I salute you; to those 
who live the Dream, I salute you. Remember always, keep legends alive, and 
keep them legends. Make them not into truths, nor debunk them as false, 
simply keep them as legend.


Yours in the Dream,

Breandan Mac Aodha Bhui


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