I won't call you a Blue, if you don't call me a Green

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[Betony Baryl]

* Betony Baryl chuckles at Elle. "You can call me the Green Lady only if someone pours green paga over me!"  Laughs and runs out of the room shrieking. 

Of course, green paga is yet another of those onlineisms that hopefully is dying off.  It's been surmised that this got started from the book (I think Assassins . . My mind tends to blur on the fighting stuff  LOL ) where the city's tarn contestants were identified by colors.  One tavern owner who supported the contestant whose color was green, bedecked his tavern with many colorful green banners and such. I can't remember, but it may be that the city physicians were known to favor that tavern as well???  Anyhow, somehow that evolved into green paga. 

Unless .  .  .  do you suppose they celebrated St. Patricks Day in Gor too, Mr. Black? 

[Randall Reich]

I wouldnt know Ms. Green as I am Scottish by ancestry. 

[Persis Ishtari]

I always thought Green paga, was named that because it was used by greens

[Betony Baryl]

Yup!  I think that tavern was frequented by the many physicians  ( chuckles . . not Greens) of that city.

[Vincent Cassady]

I'm Blue if I was Green I would die.

[thyri Carver]

Can I stab Mr Green, in the Hall, with the Knife?

Seriously I've been called "a blue" before.  Its pretty annoying

[Sayrax wiefel]

Not to hi-jack this thread to much, but what says onlinism are fully 100 percent bad. Sure..aye ..nay or whatever may be said to much. Although ill sadly admit i once called a tomato a larma in a grocery store. Alot of these factors you could be said making it your own. Blue, Green, Servary, Scribary, and well red. Are so far ingrained within the online gorean culture wouldn't that make it part of gor then, well at lest our gor?

((Disclaimer, this is in now way saying we should allow female warriors,outlaws, or ninja turtles. A few words changed in relational does not change the core values of the role-play.

[Kaitlin Eiren]

Not to hi-jack this thread to much, but what says onlinism are fully 100 percent bad. Sure..aye ..nay or whatever may be said to much. Although ill sadly admit i once called a tomato a larma in a grocery store. Alot of these factors you could be said making it your own. Blue, Green, Servary, Scribary, and well red. Are so far ingrained within the online gorean culture wouldn't that make it part of gor then, well at lest our gor?

((Disclaimer, this is in now way saying we should allow female warriors,outlaws, or ninja turtles. A few words changed in relational does not change the core values of the role-play.

The genre tends to be rich enough on its own without the addition of made up words and titles.  Can they affect the spirit of Gor if singular?  Perhaps not but usually they are plentiful if they are around at all and only testament to the what saddens me most in SL Gor.  Most don't bother to even read one book or ensure that the knowledge they have gained is sourced from the books.

[Betony Baryl]

At times I rebel about not being able to create something that wasn't written in the books.  To a degree, we must fill in the blanks; but as Kaitlin says, the problem is . . we have some creating new words or ceremonies without benefit of direct knowledge of the books.  And in SL, these things spread like wildfire and become real because someone made a notecard or posted it on their website, so now, I am being faced with someone's "wild imagining" and being told it's what is right.

That is why creations like this are dangerous.  For instance, because of there once was a rarity of physicians, they fell into a "protected" status. It became protocol not to kill, imprison or enslave physicians. At least, that is one explanation offered for the start of this.  Of course, trained physicians no matter whether SL or the books were a valuable commodity; but certainly, there was no "free get out of jail or collar" pass.  Gor was dangerous and even members of the Green Caste could fall to the sword or collar.  Now I find, that with many sims; as soon as it becomes known I am a healer/physician, I get released and often without role play.  Go home Florence Nightingale.  The feeling of danger and risk is minimized for me.

The Green Caste like other castes would have codes. I'm not disputing that. But I do feel SL's are too strongly modeled after modern medical oaths.  Yes, most would have a nature that would be nurturing; but remember that many were born into their castes and not drawn to it as a vocation. Gor was world where treachery and battle were rife; where humans were enslaved and considered animals (gah!  Ever read Slave Girl of Gor?), impaled and dismembered for offenses.   Think of the physicians that created slave goads; that wordlessly went up lines of restrained captives administering painful shots to the "animals".  Blinks.  I think for every quote you can find about a gentle physician; another can be found to highlight the cold, uncaring physician.  And like RL; people are made of all different personalities.  I do not play a cold-hearted healer (though that depends on the role play); but neither am I a sweet, mothering Florence Nightingale.  My character has some weaknesses and I resent the expectations of my patients.  The second I role play not being overly concerned about a kajira's discomfort; out come the negative emotes . . as if I were a devil with two heads.