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SlaveIndigochild -> RE: Mainstream verse Absolute D/s (9/14/2008 5:13:45 AM)
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ORIGINAL: SirLordspet
Specifically one way is not better than the other. It is acknowledging that there is a difference is what is important.
Dear SirLordspet
i don't doubt the integrity of your intentions and/or the integrity of posting about the book. All of and any of the books written about bdsm have a validity evem if it is only the validity of the writer needing to write.
i started being extremely critical of 'factual' books when at university as i went there somewhat older than my peers (by only about 4 years) and was therefore classified a mature student lol. i felt i had to live up to it. However, in my first year (of a Social Science degree) i had been given a bokk to read and the essayed task was to critique its content as a piece of sociological methodology. Well: i read the thing and looked at the few pictures. Low and behold it was a sociological/class analysis of where i had been born and lived as a child. The methodology was what is called participant observation. You may be aware of the method. Basically i KNEW, from at least 20 years of participant observation in that particualr city myself, that anyone who didn't 'blend' in, anyone who didn't speak with the same accent (this was England fairtly post war afterall) wouldn't be able either to participate fully OR observe with the degree of accuracy necessary to form general theories about social deprivation in birmingham. Afterall; one is NOT deprived whilst living off a researches grant and one is NOT participating in the contingencies of a factory workers' lives whilst making sociological observations.
FULL participation in a lifestyle does not enable clear objective analyses generalisable to others. that's just my personal opinon by the way and is as claose as i will ever get to making a valid contriubution.
Master and i as 24/7. We are absolute. We are also playing some of the time. There is no distinction between the two as far as i am concerned. Our 24/7 absolute also means we both work, clean, wash, cater, taxi, play, create, cook, eat and shit just like anyone else on the planet.
And i never ever observe (in the sense of stepping outside) of what it is that we do. i am completely and absolutely fully immersed and therefore if what it is that we do approxomtaes what it is that others do then so be it. e might as a couple be able to share a tantalising discussion of what it is that we do over dinner with others.
Conformity is great. Some ned to conform. And some need to read a book in order to be sure of their conformity and or to validate what it is that they do. Far far far be it from me tpo prescribe what it ok/what is not ok about anyone else.
It's just so tiresome sometimes though to be the skave around here and to come up against a dominant view of yet another who feels they have the right true approach and that they find it unfair to do it any other way. irksome, ok, i find yet another dominant piont of view irksome, tiresome and therefore choose to be mastered by my Master and not to read a book about it. But not UNFAIR surely? If the last paragraph of what was delivered as a thesis had said words to the effect of it being a subjective experience well i might have been more interested in the read. (i like emotions/pain/pleasure/poetry/suffering/personal development/madness exposed but not all of that disguised as fact).
Occupying troops, credit crashes, high winter fuel bills, two thirds of the world's population without running water is unfair?
Just thinking out liud about the difficulties of participating by default in an unfair world and choosing to participate in it as a slave.
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