Re: Pandora's Box

["MTR/AAHR" <wolffe@onslowonline.net>]

Poster: "MTR/AAHR" <wolffe@onslowonline.net>

Ok, can we say it's done and over now? Enough? Finite?  I for one am tired
of wading through those posts to get to the good ones. Come on, people, are
we or aren't we all adults here? This turned in a flame war for gods sakes!
Sheesh!

>From the Oaks,

-Wolfe

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Mettler <mettler@bulloch.net>
To: Atlanti <atlantia@atlantia.sca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 08:43
Subject: Pandora's Box


>
>Poster: Mark Mettler <mettler@bulloch.net>
>
>Well it seems that I Gryffri, have opened the can of Worms or Pandora's
>Box as it may well be on this fighting issue.
>
>First to the good gentles of Atlantia, who are gentle indeed and have
>yet to injure anyone on the battlefield, I send my humble apology.
>
>To the not so gentle gentles of Atlantia, who wear their SCA battle
>scars like medals on their chests and proudly display their list of
>people  "injured, bruised, and 'left fighting' " like they were scalps
>from raiding Nordic tribes, I say; "Seems to be more to this than any of
>you realized."
>
>Clearly, you all agree that Atlantia is different from most of the
>Knowne World, and possibly you are proud of this distinction.  I
>appreciate the open and honest commentary, and appreciate that no one
>made me a pummel to practice, "The pen is mightier than the sword" on.
>It was not my intent to divide a house on itself, and so I ask all good
>gentles to possibly let this topic cool down for a few days before
>picking up where we left off, as to prevent us from saying anything we
>can't recover from.
>
>I do imagine, back in the beginning days of the SCA in California where
>I did grow up, if any of this type of rough combat went on during the
>first couple of events, the SCA would have died out 1970,  and we would
>not be having  these conversations.
>
>I wish you all good cheer.
>
>Gryffri de Newmarch
>----
>"il est bon de frotter et limer notre cervelle contre celle d'autrui."
>(Which means: "It is good that we should rub and polish our minds
>against those of others.")
>
>
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