Most everything within the series can be traced back to its roots in history but the way some people carry on like everything must be done as per the books just shows their glaring lack of experience living it in reality. They either have no experience or they enjoy the thought of spending the rest of their days in jail, either one.
An example to unrealistic approaches online is the very obvious restricted slave/ slutty free woman example.
Sure, online you can rape, beat and force collar whoever the hell you want but if you want to actually -live- offline without being someone who deserves their head kicked in, then you have to look at reality, life is not a roleplay game with no consequences.
As in the 'Gor' we know, men defined their slaves service as they saw fit. A man has the freedom to lay whatever demands he chooses over his slaves, they have no choice, no say, they are slaves. Nor do other free have a choice or say in what one man does with his own slut.
So why should online be any different?
Offline if I have a disagreement with a man, I don't click him, I don't boot him.. I may punch him in the nose occasionally depending on how much of an arse he is but in our own ways we sort disagreements and discussions into their own catergories of worth, and we certainly don't lop off heads or create giant fusses about them.
So why should online be any different?
Offline we all have friends and aquaintances that do not share the way we live, yet we are still friends. We do not ignore them on sight if we happen to be hanging out with someone who shares a way of life with us, we don't hide who we are from them, we aren't embarrassed by our nature nor afraid to have a laugh and a banter with those who believe differently, yet online people do.
Why should online be any different?
Playing in the books is a major problem for many, they get lost among the grandeur they imagine lays around that hidden corner, they get lost in their new found psuedo strength online, they get lost thinking that the books are the be all and end all of Gor, they get lost in the pleasure of whatever the hell it may be that they don't get offline and these are the types who just drag away the realism and this is an enormous "part of the problem" that is "New Gor".
A person can know the books inside and out, backwards and forwards and still be an inexperienced weak sheltered person hiding behind that powerful Gorean facade on here.
Books don't lend experience.
People who have mastered themselves and others know very well,
"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should".
It's really that simple, its where self control and understanding come in yet in most cases such phrases are thrown off as being something other than truth, something 'softer' than "Gorean".
I simply call it, smarts.
� Zedojehn 2006 Permission to use required
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