SR - Ps can't be fun!?! (was A Question Concerning Principal ity)

[Martin, Brian]

Hey Gilli,

You sent the message meant for me as well as the one to Lionardo to the
southern region list. You have to be careful sometimes, but it happens
to the best of us.

Pendaran

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bob Dewart [SMTP:gilli at seacove.net]
> Sent:	Friday, June 26, 1998 9:29 AM
> To:	southern at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject:	Re: SR - Ps can't be fun!?!  (was A Question Concerning
> Principality)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It concerns me greatly that you got this message.  Did Pendaran give
> it to
> you?  I made sure that it was to author.  Did every one get it.
> 
> Anyway fun is it's own reason for doing something.  But, you see the
> first
> reasons I heard were those submarine screen doors.  If in deed the
> principality concept is fun, i susspect that most of the work will be
> done
> by those having the most fun.
> 
> If anybody else gets this message please let me know.  I'm sending it
> to
> author.  I'm stil an FNG with this thing.
> 
> Gilli
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zimmermann, Leonard <zimmerml at kci1.com>
> To: southern at Ansteorra.ORG <southern at Ansteorra.ORG>
> Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 8:24 AM
> Subject: RE: SR - Ps can't be fun!?! (was A Question Concerning
> Principality)
> 
> 
> >Gilli wrote:
> >
> > [snip of discussion of motivations]----------
> >
> >
> > If they would have just said "hey, lets form a principality
> >because it
> > sounds like a neat thing to do and we want to."  I'd said cool.
> >But all
> > thoses BS reasons that are as useful as a screen door on a
> >submarine just
> > shot it dead in the ass.
> >
> > I respond:
> > Actually, Gilli, if you run back through the archives of this
> >list you will find that one of the first arguments put forward as a
> >reason to have a Principality, often posited by Sir Conner, is that
> it
> >would be fun. All the other reasons are only attempts to persuade
> those
> >"on the fence" that there are also other possibilities for why a
> >Principality might be useful. However, just because other reasons are
> >espoused does not invalidate that we still think it would be fun! So
> now
> >you want to shoot it down because not only do we think it will be
> fun,
> >but we toss out a few extra reasons as well!??!!!???? Every where I
> look
> >it's damned if you do, damned if you don't! (Please note that
> Mistress
> >Meadbh, as I am sure others do as well, proclaim that wanting a P
> just
> >for fun does not fulfill a need and, therfore, is not a legitimate
> >reason for having one. All of these views are valid, IMHO, but
> please,
> >Gilli, why are you throwing this at us too?)
> >
> > I'm REALLY not understanding things, now!
> >
> > Honos Servio,
> > Lionardo Acquistapace, Bjornsborg
> > Lenny Zimmermann, San Antonio
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