[Ravensfort] Theory

SCOWL 13 scowl13 at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 23 15:47:16 PDT 2003


what about emmisaries, that seems like a fitting title for those type of 
people.



What exactly was that farmer doing the first time he discovered you can milk 
a cow?





>From: L T <ldeerslayer at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: The Barony of Ravensfort <ravensfort at ansteorra.org>
>To: The Barony of Ravensfort <ravensfort at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Ravensfort] Theory
>Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:34:41 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>
>Cathal SilAlmhain <silalmhain at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >replies inserted below . . .
>
>(snip)
>
>
> >Except that all these other communities deal with--for
> >lack of a better term--"real life." The SCA gives a
> >person the opportunity to dedicate as much of their
> >lives to it as does any whole-life endeavor (e.g., a
> >profession, a religion, school, dare i say even a
> >marriage) yet the SCA is--no matter how much one may
> >protest--only a game.
>
>please define game for me...I think we might have different definitions...
>
>(snip)
>
> >>
> >> Transients - those who feel their sole purpose in
> >> the SCA is to entertain themselves. They have little
> >> or no interaction with the local group and seldom
> >> participate in scheduled
> >> activities...
>
> >Well, calling them transients, while an accurate term
> >analogistically, certainly isn't very flattering :-)
>
>
>It's the most neutral thing I could come up with...people I ran this by 
>didn't like the term gypsy because lots of people in the SCA have an 
>idealized view of gypsies, tourists was even more negative...I guess I 
>could have said travellers...but that relates back to gypsies...
>
>If you have a better term I'd use it!
>
> >
> > I'm still trying to figure out terminolgy for those
> > who participate minimally on a local level but
> > participate and take responsibility on a Kingdom or
> > Society level...got any ideas?
> >
>
>Nobility. Scholars. The clergy.
>
>
> > I'd like to hear what you think about this model!
> >
>
> >I think the model works well. Except--what category
> >would i fall in? I don't participate for years at a
> >time sometimes, then i'll have a period of intense
> >participation that lasts for about a year and is
> >characterized by involvement on all available levels.
> >I don't get involved simply for my own amusement, so
> >i'm not quite a transient, but i'm not frequent enough
> >to be a townsperson, or even a country folk. I think
> >I'm a merchant--appearing in one place at one time and
> >being deeply involved, and then dissappearing
> >"overseas" to pursue my business interests in some
> >other community. hmmmmmm . . .
> >No, I've got it. I am a country dweller. I just live
> >WAY out in the country and I live alone. :-)
>
>"your" catagory was one I didn't even try, cause...I couldn't think of a  
>term for it...like you said ...when you come out...you are extremely 
>active...and invest a lot of time and energy into both the groups and the 
>people in the SCA...but your visits are sporadic...
>
>
>Cathal
>I love theories. I think about them all day long.
>
>=====
>Cathal SilAlmhain
>
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