[Ansteorra] was the saddness of the sca - Now the Awesomeness of the SCA!!!

[Barone Orlando Di Gilead]

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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Doug Copley <doug.copley at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am having fun, doing things, making friends, and trying to improve.
>
> First - I am not pointing fingers at anyone, I am speaking of human nature.
>
> I think that this conversation has been a little bit like a drug addict,
> when they first start it only takes a little bit to make them happy, as
> time goes on they "need" more and more and more to get to where they feel
> happy. Perhaps we have the same thing going now in the SCA. I have seen
> pictures of past events and I hear stories of past events and I know a
> little pit of human nature, and they don't match up. When people think of
> the "Good 'Ol Days!" they forget the carpet worn as armor and remember the
> knight wearing shinning armor, they forget the bugs, the lack of toilets,
> or broken toilets and instead they only remember the camp fire. They forget
> that the court was held in an old building or under an old military GP tent
> and only remember that so-and-so got knighted. None of this is bad, except
> perhaps with the fond memories they remember the parts they loved and
> enjoyed and they now want the entire event to be that way and lament how
> pathetic things are now because the stain on the poles of a period baronial
> pavilion was not the correct color shade:-(
>
> I prefer to focus on what we do have and the things we get to do. We know a
> great deal more about A&S, fighting styles, archery, makeup, clothing,
> habits, manners, and actual events then was known 30 years ago. We can
> accomplish more research now on the internet in a single evening then they
> could in 6 months when they had to request books from other libraries, and
> try to find things.
>
> So maybe, just maybe, we are not so bad off? Maybe we should look at some
> of the great things that are going on and that we have and be happy for
> them. Then look at some of the not so great things and figure out how to
> improve them.
>
> Vincenti
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