[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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