[Ansteorra] Question 11/11

[j_smallw at titan.sfasu.edu]

I've read a lot of good responses to this question.  Thank you, Lorraine for
asking it.

Personally, I don't see much difference between Ansgar and Bill.  I don't
particularly have two (or more) different ways that I interact with other
people whether it be in the SCA or otherwise.  Maybe it just takes too much
energy to do that<G>.  For some people, persona is a way of role playing and
allows them to express themselves in ways that they don't or can't do in real
life.  Most of the people I know aren't much different and as some have already
said, the longer it goes, the more persona tends to meld with the real life
persona until there is little difference.

As for the situation Lorraine brings up (manipulative, etc in SCA but
supposedly trustworthy, etc in real life), I don't tend to feel comfortable
around such people, just as I don't feel comfortable around those who are
paragons of virtue on the weekend but otherwise during the week.  That much of
a difference between persona and real life bothers me.  Maybe it's because if I
feel I can trust my back to someone in the SCA, I should be able to trust my
back to them outside the SCA.  It's the ones that unselfishly give of
themselves in the SCA, and that if any of us needed help in real life, they
would be just as giving there, who are the real jewels, the real heroes, the
true role models.  They are the ones I aspire to be like.

In many ways, the SCA gives us ideals to work towards.  As Mahee
wrote, "Russell is who I am, Mahee is who I want Russell to be".  If we can set
our personas to an ideal and work toward that goal, then, hopefully, one day,
we can come close.  One day Russell will be Mahee.<G> But even then, we should
always strive to better ourselves.

Some have reached that point, some are well along the path.  Personally I think
it would be great if, as Amberlea and Siobhan wrote, clothes or the outside
things are the most significant difference.

Ansgar
Quoting L T <ldeerslayer at yahoo.com>:

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> To you, are your actions and personna in the SCA seperate from your
> everyday existance. Meaning do you hold a different standard of
> behaviour and interaction in the SCA than you do with people in other
> parts of your life?
>
> I ask this because there are several people whom I  have interacted with
> who I have seen be very manipulative, controlling, and have been
> dishonest, underhanded  and destructive in respect to their actions in
> the SCA (they seem to see all their interactions with the SCA as
> personna play)...but when seeing them outside an SCA context they expect
> me to still trust them and see them as friends...I just want to know if
> this is a "norm"
>
> Lorraine
>
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