[Namron] help with SCA class project

Zach Greggs chrisfroste at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 29 07:28:00 PST 2004


SOME of us wish we could have grown up in the Society,
simply because of how different we would have turned
out. :P
--- Matthias the Brewer <matthiasthebrewer at cox.net>
wrote:
> Now now.  Don't just us all by Kylie!!!!
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: namron-bounces at ansteorra.org
> [mailto:namron-bounces at ansteorra.org]On
> Behalf Of Fox
>   Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 2:19 AM
>   To: Barony of Namron
>   Subject: RE: [Namron] help with SCA class project
> 
> 
>   Lord Gavin,
> 
>   Thank you for your input.  I really like what you
> said about the SCA being
> like the extended family for children raised within
> the Society.  I wasn't
> raised in the SCA (obviously), and I notice a vast
> difference between my
> values and sense of trust from, say, Kylie and
> Denee.  I think it's
> wonderful that they had such a broad support base
> growing up.
> 
>   Thanks again!
>   YIS,
>   >Fox< ~*
> 
>   "G. Gibeson" <gurhal at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     The SCA fills many gaps that mundane life
> cannot. It walks the line
> between
>     education, fantasy play and supportive, real
> world community.
> 
>     For adults, it offers an oppurtunity to step
> away from everyday life, to
>     learn things they would never otherwise be
> exposed, and and have other
>     people get to know them in ways andd see aspects
> of their personalities
> that
>     the people in the "real world" would never see.
> 
>     The SCA provides an aspect of community that has
> been lost in modern
>     (post-modern) society. A weekend event is in
> many ways like creating a
>     temporary a small town out of the past, where
> all those present share a
>     knowledge and level affection for others that
> fills the rather large gap
>     between the nuclear family and the outside
> world.
>     Children raised in this environment enjoy all
> the aspects of this
>     extemporized community ! and in effect have a
> multitude aunts, uncles
> and
>     extended family to care for and teach them as
> they grow.
> 
>     This is simalar to the small town/ urban
> neiborhood of the past when the
>     neighborhood culture was a central binding force
> and there was a level
> of
>     social enforcment that filled that area between
> the parents and the
> police,
>     where a child could not get into serious
> mischief without intervention
> from
>     some member of the community.
> 
>     Ld Gavin
> 
> 
> 
> 
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