Posted on 08/27/2019 12:54:19 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue
Ann,
My husband and I have been in the SCA for many years and have been re-thinking our membership lately for a number of reasons. You are absolutely correct, the SCA is a cult, but it is a very subtle one.
First, I must point out (and this isn’t meant as a blanket defense of the SCA) there are plenty of conservative folks in the organization, like my husband and myself. I read your post about the SCA after seeing a near-hysterical rant about it on FB from a lady who, to my knowledge, is not a swinger; there are a lot of people in the SCA who aren’t. It’s entirely possible they are unaware of a lot. There are many women in the SCA who enjoy hand sewing, costuming, and cooking — and that’s all (although it’s hilarious listening to them sit around, hand sewing in their laps, pots aboil on the stove, raging on about feminism and the patriarchy. I’m not kidding.) My husband has enjoyed the “heavy weapons” fighting; it’s good exercise, and just as with the women, there are plenty of fairly conservative men in the SCA. For many years politics was simply not mentioned, although one was expected to be a good sport and be “tolerant.” Also, when my husband and I first joined we weren’t Catholic or even practicing Christians. We live in a small city with a smaller group so we’ve probably missed some of the worst but we’ve heard about it.
(Excerpt) Read more at barnhardt.biz ...
Which is it? Winching or wenching? The first might describe a particularly odd perversion. The second is just chasing after wimmin.
Like I said, I never heard of them...I have no idea what they do or who they are....
At least I’m not the only one
Now that I understand
A friend of mine’s ex got all involved in that Medieval Times stuff brought home something that wouldn’t wash off.
It’s too bad you suffer such delusions. It won’t help later.
Is that “Burning Man” thing in Nevada an SCA thing????
This posting by FR’s says it best and when printed up makes a good bumper sticker or poster;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3749188/posts/#40 it reads CELEBRATE PERVERSITY each word is against a rainbow background. I suggest adding VOTE PERVOCRAT when you print it up and place that below the two words.celebrate, perversity.
“Winching” was a typo. It’s “wenching”.
And the advice given was told to my then-16-year-old nephew. Happy to say he was a good kid, avoided the wenching, and the associated diseases.
No...Burning Man is a special kind of weirdness all it’s own. And I mean WEIRD in every sense of the word.
Yeah...I’ve seen a lot of pictures of the Burning Man thing...It is weird... A whole week of weird...
I’m leaving soon. Don’t take the mark when commanded to you, regardless of what signs and lying wonders are accompanying the exercise.
No, she's Catholic... as you know, it's the Christian religion founded by Christ on the Apostles
Not since at least 590AD, but that isn’t relevant to you now.
See post #73 ... don’t forget someone told you.
The encyclopedia lists 64 Popes before that.....including St.Peter and your 590 date is still 1,100 years earlier than any Protestant denomination....
Right. I was referring to post #2 which is classic Barnhardt.
Arthurus was, of course, talking to you and he was correct!!
When Gregory was appointed the first Pope traditions started worming its way backwards, assigning the title to men who would be surprised to hear they were popes. Most were Bishops of churches/bodies of believers. And what does the Bible say about who is the Apostle to the Gentiles and who is Apostle to the Jews? You have many gaps in your education.
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