http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/ ThinkWellTNG Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:37:05 GMT Sandra Dodd http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/822 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/822 I knew what you meant, but it just seemed overstated. I like the idea of playing really well. Not every moment can be evocative of the period, but the more Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:25:51 GMT Jane & Mark Waks http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/821 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/821 ... Oh, I don't know -- just because the extreme is unattainable doesn't mean it doesn't make a useful marker. In this particular case, I'm referring (a bit Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:11:09 GMT Sandra Dodd http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/820 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/820 -=-the tension between the "living in period" mindset and the "playing period" one.-=- We can't begin to "live in period." That tension isn't worth even Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:58:21 GMT Jane & Mark Waks http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/819 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/819 ... Interesting. While I can understand that, it clearly isn't why I stay so active: it's at least as true of the LARP communities I'm close to. I suspect that Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:35:48 GMT Sandra Dodd http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/818 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/818 -=-a Halloween party Marty/Bardolf threw, and they did have some of the coolest of the costumes, while their friends from work or school (not from the SCA) had Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:04:53 GMT Sandra Dodd http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/817 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/817 -=-I still miss philosophy chez Mistress Aelflaed, though.-=- Thanks. Some of that group was over for a Halloween party Marty/ Bardolf threw, and they did Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:30:51 GMT Lily Rose http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/816 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/816 ...     When I moved to the Outlands after I retired, I considered various other hobbies, and I still pay my dues in some of them.  But my level of Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:25:01 GMT Sandra Dodd http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/815 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/815 -=- There does not seem to be a venue for discussing philosophy.-=- That used to be ThinkWell, back in the ancient days (well, medieval days of the SCA maybe Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:53:06 GMT Kathy Keeler http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/814 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/814 AEdward raises a point I have wanted to talk about. There does not seem to be a venue for discussing philosophy. Now, the philosophy that interests me is Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:57:00 GMT Kathy Keeler http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/813 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/813 On Oct 26, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Gilbert Head wrote , ... Greetings I think like minds in the Present Known World are scattered, as they always were, and so you Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:33:07 GMT Gilbert Head http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/812 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/812 Good Morning, All. To focus on AElflaed's last point, to the degree that the Society appears to be increasingly a place in which the majority of folks playing Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:42:23 GMT Sandra Dodd http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/811 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/811 This was on one of those lists limited to a certain subgroup of SCA members. I always think it's a shame to write something potentially useful and not have it Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:05:36 GMT Sandra Dodd http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/810 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/810 -=-if I'm doing the right things for the right reasons, I generally know it. If I'm not, I for certain know *that*...... and should stop. -=- That's exactly Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:55:46 GMT Gilbert Head http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/809 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/809 Good Morning, All. I don't keep score with myself on my GQ (Goodness Quotient); if I'm doing the right things for the right reasons, I generally know it. If Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:16:33 GMT Sandra Dodd http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/808 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThinkWellTNG/message/808 Lady Ansteys Darcy will be made a Mistress of the Laurel on September 12. I had a little vigil speech planned, and Duke Artan hosted a little vigil in