S.C.A. Moral Attraciveness

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    Unto the Merry Rose does Niall MacFarlane send greetings!


I have been doing some reading on the history of the Catholic
church and came across some parallels between some of our morals and
morals of the early christian church. Not all of them mind you,
but certain things like showing decency and care to your fellow
man, and "taking care of brethren on journeys" and generally
trying to behave in a decent and honorable way.
  This is one of the things that at first kept me in the S.C.A.
was the fact that "the dream" seemed to be the goal we were all
after. a lifestyle of honor, chivalry and brotherhood that I had
never seen before. Even I, a relative youngster that I am, only
being in 6 years, remember at the war being able to leave your
wallet out in plain view in a commons tent and not have to worry
about it. An automatic assumption of trust was a thing that
truely attracted me to this society.

	Since then, However, I have learned that the sca either
was not the place I originally thought, or that we are going
through some really bad changes.
   I have seen and heard of cases of dishonesty and outright
thievery that have really appauled me. First starting out with
someone that I knew preaching to newbies that "you dont have to
pay for events.. you can just sneak by troll and go for free"
and then going to people outright stealing money from events
wholesale. Another example is when a former queen (or was it princess
at the time.. I cant quite remember...) having her crown stolen
from camp. I know just at this last pennsic that we had several
things stolen just from my camp alone. And on top of all that,
cases of just plain intolerance to the point where one group or
individual tries to completely drive another out of the society!
  I have seen that one more thimes than I feel comfortable with.
These things are not only done by your everyday member, but thoes
we have put the highest accolades apon.

	What I am trying to relay in all this is.... what is the
solution to all this? I have heard trying to provide good
example.. which is good, but not always effective. We are a
society that has grown by leaps and bounds, and I think that in
our growing we have lost some of what we hold dear.
    Like the Pennsic pamphlet said this year.. we need to take
back what is ours.... my question is .... How?



Ld. Niall MacFarlane

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