[Artemisia] Reading

[Stephanae Baker]

Dear Sir Conrad,

No that doesn't seem reasonable to me. For me, the Aerie is sort of a  
place to stay-in-touch with other Artemisians between  events on any  
topic we choose. I know you don't mean to be rude and I consider you  
no less a friend than I did before; however, your post yesterday hurt  
me. To me, the Aerie is sort of like a large pavilion full of  
Artemisians. We mingle and start up conversations. If no one is  
interested in what we say, it dies quickly. If some people are  
interested, they form groups and talk. People who aren't interested  
fall away and find other conversations. I've never had anyone walk  
into my conversation from the outside and say, "What you're saying  
doesn't interest me and it isn't appropriate in this pavilion. Please  
take your conversation outside." I do think that's rude--even cruel-- 
whether intentionally so or not.

If you were to bring up Amway on the list and other people responded  
with interest, it would not be my place to tell you to shut up. I'd  
delete and wait for a topic that interested me.

Belladonna



On Jul 26, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Chuck Heisler Jr. wrote:

> Sure,
>
>   Here is a brief outline for you.
>
>   Things related to:
>
>   The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) or medieval history in  
> general up until about 1650 AD.  If you want to throw in the  
> occasional Artemisia specific sort of information, like where to  
> find something related to an SCA centric project that seems fine.
>
>   Does that seem reasonable?
>
>   Otherwise, if you just want to talk about anything at all, lets  
> talk about the War in Iraq, or why Mormons don't make good pets, or  
> perhaps how you discipline your children (if you have any) or why  
> its ok to say the "N" word in rap songs but not in public.  Cause  
> if you just want to debate mundane topics, I'll be happy to tell  
> you why you are wrong because you don't agree with me.
>
>   So, really, if you want to talk about Harry Potter or some other  
> mundane subject, go ahead, just consider that you are doing it on a  
> topic specific environment on which it does not belong.
>
>   I'm not trying to be rude.  Honestly I'm not, I'm very good at  
> rude and this isn't it.
>
>   CvZ
>