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RE: Does a Dominant Serve a Submissive - 9/15/2004 7:33:19 AM

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Draxxe -
A Dominant may serve a sub in a sort of symbiotic relationship. Each party gets something they need from the other.
However a Master does NOT serve a slave. To make that leap requires total commitment, and any serving that may have been done when the relationship was at the Dom/sub level now must be replaced by TRUST. Trust from the slave that the Master will consider his/her needs and wants while satisfying his/her own.
The slave is owned property, there to be of service, not to serve.

Webster's Dictionary, "serve" -- 6a : to furnish or supply with something needed or desired. 12 : to provide services that benefit or help
Webster's, "service," -- 2C : contribution to the welfare of others

My slave gets housing, clothing and food from me. Because I am giving her things which she needs, because I am contributing to her welfare, Webster's says that those things are services. It says nothing about my intent in doing so, about whether she has any right to expect those things, or anything else. Until such a time as I take away her clothes, throw her out of the house and tell her to go dumpster dive for food, the dictionary says that I am providing service. So while I agree that being an owner does not necessarily entail providing any service, realistically, how many do not? Even prisoners in forced labor death camps are given housing, a ragged uniform and an occasional scrap of food.

NoCalOwner - I rarely put stock in definitions written by someone else... I usually like to use my own views to decide what something means for me... but then again I'm big on perceptions... but I do so enjoy your posts... well written and well said.

My take on all this is that I do not serve Syn's wants... I do serve her needs... I will take care of things she needs taken care of, and will sometimes give her things she wants... if it happens to coincide with what I want. Reason for this is dynamics for the most part... but if I do not take care of things she needs, she can no longer serve and to me... it would be a failure on my side of things.

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RE: Does a Dominant Serve a Submissive - 9/15/2004 5:48:49 PM

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This abhorence of the word "serve" in relation to someone on top is just silly.

J, in my first draft of the letter about sea captains I quoted the same Navy rhetoric that you did: "Authority can be delegated but not responsibility" I don't see how you can believe that statement supports the idea that a captain DOESN'T serve his crew.

I own my truck. I have complete control over it and can push it off a cliff if I chose. Yet I serve even my truck. Samples of such service include oil changes, gasoline, wiper fluid, and unfortunately a repalcement transmission. I didn't do the work myself but I payed for it and I took it in. Thanks to regular service of my truck, it serves the purpose of taking me where I want to go, exceptions for that transmission crap. Even if I chose to do none of these things for my truck, I would be serving as the end of it's function. Even if you truly believe a slave is nothing more than an object, you still serve it.

Some of the linguistic gymnastics get absurd. Please take No Cal's lead and pick up a dictionary from time to time.

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RE: Does a Dominant Serve a Submissive - 9/17/2004 3:09:35 PM

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Even prisoners in forced labor death camps are given housing, a ragged uniform and an occasional scrap of food.

Reading some real life accounts of those camps, the rations of those items were calculated scientifically to generate the best output. Ultimately, in this grotesque and obviously beyond what we are dealing with in our life, the 'used up' slaves were killed and replaced by a fresher crop.

I hate literal dictionary definitions. It would GE great if each specific word had one specific definition, but alas, few do. And until we adopt Orwellian 'New-Speak' or telepathic communication we are all doomed to miscommunicate our true intention.

Using my own example, when beth read this she commented that she assumes she'll be kept alive for as long as the service she provides exceeds the effort it take by me to feed, cloth and house her. Ummmm, I guess in some context that's correct! Except I assured her, that I would try to sell her to another Master before having to send her to a rendering plant. After all, there is still the return on investment to consider. Does anyone know if a slave depreciates or appreciates?

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RE: Does a Dominant Serve a Submissive - 9/17/2004 4:48:04 PM

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Does anyone know if a slave depreciates or appreciates?

I know that mine appreciates, since I had her get one degree last year (with highest honors, she got a nice reward for that!), and a second one this year. Now most of her otherwise unallocated time is divided between working out in the gym and practicing cabaret-style bellydance, while she looks for good opportunities to put some work experience on her resume. So I guess it all depends on what you're willing to invest.

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RE: Does a Dominant Serve a Submissive - 9/18/2004 7:10:27 PM

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Does anyone know if a slave depreciates or appreciates?

I would think that would depend on her Master - does he enhance her/build up her value (education, talents, etc) or degrade her/tear her down (destroy her self esteem, abuse her, let her top from the bottom, let her become complacent in her slavery, etc)?

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RE: Does a Dominant Serve a Submissive - 9/19/2004 6:08:52 AM

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Hi,
im new here and saw this post and just wanted to say YES! im not sure "serve" is the right word but a Dominant definantly "meets" her needs...thats what makes him Dominant!

Thanks for letting me share
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RE: Does a Dominant Serve a Submissive - 9/24/2004 7:37:25 AM

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if serving is teaching and training the submissive, then yes . i think O/one must satisfy E/each O/other to be complete.Without both pieces of the puzzle, is it complete? ~sorriah

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RE: Does a Dominant Serve a Submissive - 9/24/2004 9:52:32 AM

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I think there is a huge difference between "service" to another and being responsible for another's well being. The analogy of a captain taking care of his crew doesn't strike me as service to the crew. The captain has a responsibility to the ship and the crew in order to complete his mission. The crew serves the captain due to his legal authority. The captain is responsible for the accomplishment of his mission and the welfare of his crew. That's his duty. He doesn't serve the crew... He governs them.

Can this be seen as service by some people? Of course. We all seem to have a knack for defining things differently.

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RE: Does a Dominant Serve a Submissive - 9/25/2004 5:53:30 AM

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In many ways B/both "serve" each other which in return "serves" the needs of B/both. When a Dom is pleased by their sub, their sub is pleased to serve them. When a sub's needs are met by their Dom, a sub is happy to serve their needs. It's that YingYang thing going on.

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RE: Does a Dominant Serve a Submissive - 9/26/2004 4:50:31 AM

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Just gonna repeat what most have already said.

I actually take this one step further. My own philosophy is that, as opposed to the Master's, it is the SUBMISSIVE's happiness that comes first and foremost. It is only then they will be able to serve you whole heartedly in return. This does not mean that I am not strict; the rules I lay down from the beginning are well enforced, and I am adamant about discipline. But I am never oblivious to my pet's problems.

No doubt, this is a very fine line to walk, and it takes alot of practice and even more judgement to perform successfully. I am still trying to pin it down after three or four years of online Dominance with varying levels of serious relationships.

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RE: Does a Dominant Serve a Submissive - 10/2/2004 3:50:54 PM

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Does a Dominant Serve a Submissive,,, This is a current topic we have in the chat room in Old Guard and wanted to share it with you!

I personnely say yes so bring on the bashing and after you do I will tell you why!

Draxxe

Ok I am a male Dominant who had my ex for over 11yrs after she wore my collar 4 yrs I honored her with my name. {just so you understand were i am comming from.} In the time i was with kim i learned everything i did i had to think of her needs as well as my desires, granted if i told her to run out in front of a 18 wheeler she would have but that wouldnt have been useful. Keeping her needs in mind over the years i learned was a form of service, to her and her son, was paying medical, clothes, food, living, school, ect. I was also giving her guidance and support and training her what i liked and did not like, taught her what pain was and how to overcome it taught her how to fight and how to love. she became a woman who was sucure in life and happy with what we shared, Now if you tell me that is not serving somone fine that is up for debait, but to me my honor tells me a submissive serves a Dominant so the Dominant will serve a submissive in the ways the submissive cant do. after all if they could do it alone they wouldnt be submissive would they. Too many times people assume i speak of controlling in the mannerism of Dominant, that is not the case, after all a well trained slave needs not to be told you want coffee do they, after all if you say you do not serve your slave then i find it hard to see your slave trained,,just more food for thought.

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RE: Does a Dominant Serve a Submissive - 10/2/2004 3:56:01 PM

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depreciates
lol and thanks my friend for the post

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RE: Does a Dominant Serve a Submissive - 10/3/2004 11:59:57 PM

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Does anyone know if a slave depreciates or appreciates?

Something worth talking about from a thread otherwise degenrating to a tedious argument about semantics...

A slave can appreciate or depreciate (and if she "appreciates" her treatment, does that mean she's really just a submissive LOL). In my own philosophy, the degree to which a slave appreciates is the measure of the quality of her master and likewise the degree to which she depreciates shows his unworthiness. Not everyone lives and plays that way, but it's definitely how I rate myself as a dominant....

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