[Ansteorra] What has happened?

[Trish Kvamme]

I disagree with Morgan on the people tend to forget stuff end.  The SCA 
lovingly hands down that it is based upon courtesy, chivalry, honor and all 
those virtues to each of it's new members.  It is reiterated in our 
ceremonies, our art, our greetings.

It was one of the reasons that when I was Queen I created "The Order of the 
Queen's Ring", an award for courtesy and keeping these ideals alive.  To 
encourage the small things that are what brought us to stay in the SCA, the 
graces, the responsibility to the site and to each other, that all Lords are 
valient and all Ladies beautiful within our Kingdom.

It is when people choose to look at their shoes or anywhere around them but 
at the faces of those that are part of their community in this endevour, 
when goals do not include the virtues of what we teach that these things are 
pushed aside or left to gather dust, when values are put aside for singular 
goals that our ideals wither and fade.   Bors and Artorius posted some of 
the things that have really been bothering me that have become quite 
prevelent in this Kingdom.

Change can only come from within.  As a Kingdom we have to decide that we 
want grace and beauty, honor and courtesy to others.  When those things are 
practiced by the majority, the less motivated feel the pressure to behave 
more genteel.  Or as Morgan said, a kick in the pants ;).

Larissa ;)


>From: "Michael Smith" <morganbuchanan at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
>To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] What has happened?
>Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 08:09:14 -0500
>
>Plato and Aristotle said the same of the youths of their day.
>
>50 years ago, you might find someone who would ask around as to who dropped
>a dollar.  It was worth more.  And before you jump me for suggesting that
>morality is relative, ask yourself:  If you found a quarter on the ground
>today, woulnd you do anything but pick it up and think "half way to a soda
>out of the cheap machines at work" or some such?
>
>But frankly, I don't buy your degeneration examples.
>
>Maybe it also depends on where you are.  I bet money I could drop a dollar
>on the ground at our fighter practice and the children there would find it
>and ask every adult if they'd dropped it.  A TWENTY?  If it was gone, it
>wasn't someone in the SCA from my local group who got it.
>
>As to the lack of site-respect: The world goes by pretty fast, and people
>tend to forget stuff.  Human beings, being what they are, need the
>occasional kick in the pants to let them know they're straying.  If every
>one  of us just makes the decision to go out and do better personally and
>teach those lessons by word and deed, we'll get back to where we belong.
>
>Respectfully submitted,
>Morgan
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <Baronman at aol.com>
>To: <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
>Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 7:13 AM
>Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] What has happened?
>
>
> > 20 years ago, when I first started playing SCA it was said you could 
>leave
>a
> > $20 bill on a table at fighter practice and it would still be there when
>you
> > got ready to go home. 10 years ago it was said you could leave a $20 
>bill
>on
> > a  table at fighter practice and it would still be there when you got
>ready to
> > go  home but it might be a different bill.  5 years ago it was said you
>could
> >  leave a $20 bill on a table at fighter practice and the change would
>still
> > be there when you got ready to go home.  Today I don't  think there 
>would
>be
> > anything left.  Declining moral  values????? Sure see it in my 8th
>graders.
> > B Bors
>
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