[Ansteorra] Group Status Changes

estarkey at camalott.com estarkey at camalott.com
Wed Jul 16 06:38:42 PDT 2008


i could not have put it better.
ryah
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul DeLisle" <ferretpd at gmail.com>
To: <dbw6969 at yahoo.com>; "'Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.'" 
<ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Group Status Changes


> No-one really cares about the administrative fiction called the Western
> Region...it was the high-handed disbanding of most of the groups *in* that
> area; the usurpation of their funds, and the insistence that "FOR YOUR OWN
> GOOD, if you want to play, you must now go X (or XXX) miles to this Barony
> that you are now a part of, because we say so."
>
> With everything else against them, taking away their identity and 
> everything
> they have worked for for years is One More Thing (in many cases, The Last
> Straw.) There comes a time for everyone when they must say "enough!"
>
> If the Crown (or the BOD) were to suddenly say that in spite of the 
> decades
> of dedication and development, and the thousands of people involved, "we
> have decided that fencing is a Bad Idea, and now you can't do it...but 
> here,
> you can play with these nice pieces of foam...or you can play on the 
> Armored
> field"...would you just go "play the game, and enjoy life"?
>
> Alden
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ansteorra-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org [mailto:ansteorra-
>> bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of David Whitford
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:26 AM
>> To: Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.
>> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Group Status Changes
>>
>> Alden (and the other folks in places out west),
>> I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything but Im really curious about
>> something and maybe you (or another of the west folks) could answer.
>> Before the area known as the Western region existed as an
>> administrative collective there were groups out there, there was a
>> unique sense of self, that they could handle anything. Now that the
>> buisness label has been removed how does that remove what existed
>> before the label? In many ways (to an outside observer) it seems it
>> would free the folks from more than a few burdens (regional offices as
>> just one example), and allow them to get back to what they always
>> wanted...to just be able to play the game and enjoy life.
>> Call me many things but in this case curious
>> Robert
>>
>>
>> --- On Tue, 7/15/08, Paul DeLisle <ferretpd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> A WHole lotta stuff-snipped to save peoples eyes and rest their
>> fingers.
>>
>>
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