🚀 go-pugleaf

There is a natural growth of all organizations, and all participants
within organizations, from innocence to knowledge to cynicism in the
modern sense.  At the best of times, one can capture the knowledge
yet remain innocent, and approach new subjects with joy.

Rec.org.sca as a newsgroup has recently become as contentious as other
good newsgroups, and is losing the polite edge as well.  Now innocents
do not post here, nor organize parties at events, or propose badges;
they receive too much negative feedback, and have as a behaviour example
various argumentative types.

I have learned of many good things here, and improved some friendships
as well.  But the time has come to go autocrat narrow focus events,
and interpret the way of the Axe (thanks Steve), and return to the joy
in the SCA that I have found--which is mainly in the medieval romantism
from modernity, that is, that knights can be shining, maidens like
being rescued and Camelot did exist.  And that there is a place to play
the faithful english soldier at Agincourt, or what have you, for a 
few moments.

My final comment (the only excuse for this post) is that the Rialto
went from the second stage to the third somewhere when people argued
that we are more a debate or an academic squabble than a meeting, for
it was when people were more personal, and thought of the consequences
as if all was said face to face, that this newsgroup was more polite,
overall.

Cheers, and may you enjoy your tenures here.

Good bye.

John Schmidt/ Sir John Theophilous