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- From: comptec92024@camins.camosun.bc.ca
- Subject: Re: non-fighting rulers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.155149.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:51:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.170200.19888@news.unomaha.edu>, dburgdor@cwis.unomaha.edu (Darryl Burgdorf) writes:
- >
- > Unto (Lord?) Graydon, and the rest of the Rialto, come greetings!
- >
- >
- >> Lord Elwyn, pray, why is being royalty the appropriate reward for all
- >> excellence?
- >>
- >> The poetry that moves this great clanking anachronism has room for a
- >> lot of things; permit me to doubt that it has room for 'I am Arthur,
- >> King of the Britons, because I was given a set of carpentry tools
- >> by the Lady of the Lake and am the second best woodworker the world
- >> will ever see.' (He can't be better than St. Joseph, and Jesus is
- >> unfair competition. :)
- >>
- >> Royalty are only special because you think they are special.
- >> ( I mean, come on, what are the going to do - ride over and burn
- >> down your house?)
- >>
- >> Graydon
- >
- >
- > I must admit, I truly like the carpentry line. ;)
- >
- > I am not at all sure that being royalty is "the appropriate reward" for
- > all excellence. I simply feel that, as (arguably) the highest station to
- > which one can rise, it ought to be open to those who excell in *any* area,
- > rather than only one particular one. One can attain a peerage, after all,
- > through excellence in any endeavor; why cannot one likewise aspire to the
- > throne similarly?
- >
- > Royalty are not special only because I "think they are special". They are
- > special because the "mythos" of the SCA tries very hard to *make* them
- > special. I didn't give them regalia or ceremony .... the SCA did.
- >
- >
- > In service,
- >
- > Ld Elwyn of Thornbury
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-
- I tend to agree with Graydon that our Royalty are what we make them. They
- really have no way of inforceing their whims on us other then what we are
- willing to accept as individuals. It is our desire to make our lives better
- that creates the "mythos" in the first place. It was some individual like you
- or me who donated his time and skills to produce the regalia. It is only when
- we come together as individuals that the SCA has meaning. It is you and me and
- every newbee and duke who are the SCA. It is us who make Royalty special
- becouse " WE ARE SPECIAL ".
-
- Mackenzie.
-