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Showing Respect at the Cemeteries
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MageSteff
Pretty talky there aintcha, Talky?


Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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imbri wrote:


gah. I'm tired and frustrated and really not meaning to argue with you and am sorry that you seem to be taking it that way.

/me shakes her head no

No, no, no, no, no. I like to strongly discuss things, I am not yelling, I am passionate. The purpose of most games are to get one to open their mind to the reality around them. To see the hidden secrets in the reality as well as what is manufactured. Is that not so? Smile

The very real part of this game is death, the representative in this game is the cemeteries. I have grown up around more old people than I have with kids my own age. We didn't have a kiddie table at holiday meals, there weren't enough kids. We sat with people who were the brothers and sisters of my grandparents. Who grew up during the depression and following it. So I am terribly familiar with what older people see as appropriate and what they do not. My goodness if they heard about Lucy living in William's apartment, well in their day that just wasn't done. Nor was marrying outside ones "brand" of religion. Protestants did not marry Catholics did not marry Jews... These days, most of us don't think in those terms.

If the purpose is to get people out from behind the computer and out into the real... well, a cemetery should be uncomfortable to most, since most people only go to a cemetery a few times in their lives.

The people who have done any small favors or attended a poker tournament have gone to one about the same, or more times, as the average human being (at least in America). Most people only deal with it directly when their parents die. They may attend other funerals, but they only have to deal directly with it once or twice in their lives. For most people, that is an uncomfortable situation. For most people they will be in too much shock to be able to remember half of what is discussed with the funeral director/mortician when they make those arrangements, and may not remember why it shows up on the bill. Those feelings are "normal" and nothing to be ashamed to feel.

Personally speaking from what I have seen as the responses to both the small favors, and to the larger event, I personally think the small favors are having more of an impact. That is when the players are taking time to stop and think about those who have passed on. But the larger event, they are thinking about poker, about completing a task, and meeting up with people they may only see once in a blue moon.

Death is a normal part of life, but not a part most people like to think about. I think it is OK to feel a bit uncomfortable by it. It makes you think more about it, makes you pay more attention to it. That is part of what is special about this game.
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colin
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 		OMGWTFBBQ!!one Cemeteries are like religion-n-stuff there?s lots of different ones and people interpret them in different ways?even the same religion has different meaning to different people. Shocked

To continue the idea?you don?t play games in churches, or if you do, you book out the venue. I.e. you have it exclusively? people don?t walk in and start praying while your playing. This isn?t happening with the cemetery games, it?s not just us. That is a problem.

Not much you do about it really, I?m leaving the decisions on that to the PMs, I trust that they have the right structure in place to handle this.

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