SC - questions/kinda long, sorry
CBlackwill@aol.com
CBlackwill at aol.com
Thu Jun 15 23:41:01 PDT 2000
In a message dated 6/15/00 7:34:27 PM Pacific Daylight Time, phil at spis.co.nz
writes:
> My experience is that newcomers are quite often keen to be
> authentic, and that they can lose this enthusiasm if too many people
> tell them they "don't need to bother".
My experience, oddly enough, is to the contrary. I have seen many newcomers
enter the society wrapped up in a swaddling cloth of enthusiasm, only to have
it ripped away by too many people saying things like "swaddling cloths aren't
period..." :)
>
> I don't want to see the SCA set rigid standards of authenticity; I
> _do_ want to see newcomers consistently encouraged to put some
> effort towards doing things they are interested in authentically.
Gently, tactfully encouraged??
>
Balthazar of Blackmoor
Mr. Wizard, what happens when you combine pasta and antipasta?
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