Ancient_Scribe discusses the balance between logic and reason versus imagination and emotion in regards to faith.
Sorry I have been gone so long. I'm likely to be gone for another month or so. I've had a lot of content which I would have liked to type down, but no time to do so.
This past weekend I was at-con Program Director and at-con Participant Green Room for LepreCon XXXIII. Lea was good enough to take care of the two departments pre-con. This past weekend also saw family from Pennsylvania and New York in town. Oh, and my bicycle was in the shop again.
One thing I found interesting about the convention is how con-com past and present began similar conversations with me. The basic premise between them all is that conventions are attracting smaller numbers because the old guard feels that they've done their share of the difficult work already and the new guard doesn't have anyone willing and/or capable of doing the amount of work that's actually required. I wonder if it's fixable or if you'd have to build a new organization from scratch. The folks at ConEvents did that for local gaming conventions.
I have to admit that I rarely make long term personal goals. For the most part, I'm content with what I have. Currently, my long term plans include paying off my credit cards and deepening my relationships with God and the people in my life. Perhaps that's why I enjoy assisting others in making and realizing their long term goals. When I arrived a few minutes earlier than usual to a friend's house I ran into another friend who was to have left before I was to arrive. The two were discussing the trouble with conventions way back then. As usual, I suggested doing something rather than just lamenting. I've always been a doer than a complainer. It makes me loved and hated in the workplace.
That's how I ended up working conventions at all. I wasn't attending conventions in their heyday, so I didn't know they were broken except through other people. Working the conventions has made me a lot of new acquaintances and friends I would never have made otherwise. It's given me life skills which have proven useful in the workplace, and exposed me to life in ways to lessen my naivety. Has it impoved anything? Minutely. Can I do more? Possibly. It all depends on how much energy I want to divote to the project.
There was once a gaming group that was draining all of my energy. I joined them during a transition period in my life. Everyone was telling me to drop them, but I was seeing the progress I was making with them and kept pushing myself for them. And to this day I do think that I did a lot for them, but I reached a point where I had to decide between my health and them. I ran into a few of them many years later. They had kept the lesson I gave them and even grown a little in the interim. They still need a lot of work, and I occassionally pray for them.
Conventions haven't reached that point. It's true that I don't want to do Program Director every year ad nausium. It's not good for my health, and it's not good for the health of the convention. Doing Program every year would make me reach that point where I'd cut conventions from my life.
I also helped found Tricuspa Figment Live Action Systems in order to help Tricuspa realise his dream. He wanted to run a live action game based around Pokémon. He saw an untapped gaming market: live action games trageting youth and their families. Pokémon Live Action gave children and adults alike something to do at Hexacon for as much or as little as they wanted. He broke a lot of moulds on how live action systems are supposed to be run. However he couldn't do it on his own. Since then we've continued to innovate each year: pushing ourselves and the systems he creates to new levels. It's not my dream, but I enjoy helping him reach his. So far TFLAS is a fun challenge. I'm willing to see where it might go.
Due to conversations with folks at the convention this past weekend, I'm reevaluating my relationships to both concom and TFLAS. How do I help both reach the next level? What can I do, and what is beyond me? Is there a point after which I cannot go? What could such a point be?
Luke Skywalker
You scored 86% wisdom, 15% aggression, 38% power, and 88% morality! |
| Last of the Jedi, you carry heavy burdens and have great potential. Your fighting prowess has only progressed so far, having started your training later in life, but you can hold your own regardless. You have great wisdom and insight beyond your years and experience, and your moral code could not be any stronger. You find the paths no one else can see, and save the galaxy because of it. |
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 87% on wisdom | | You scored higher than 0% on aggression | | You scored higher than 1% on power | | You scored higher than 91% on morality |
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"Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life-long attempt to aquire it." ~Albert Einstein
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