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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.12 18:18:00 -
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Got any feelings about it, Manwe? |
Manwe Todako
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.13 01:45:00 -
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Extra, Extra, Read all about it! Headline: "Scientists Discover De-evolution After Multiple Clone Deaths"
A multi-national consortium of informorph psychologists and human endo-biologists have discovered a disturbing trend. Over the span of repeated clonings, researches have detected cranial thickening that is reducing the size of the frontal cortex of capsuleers resulting in reduced evidence of higher brain function. Those effected are reported to lose the basic ability to speak or write or express themselves without resorting to profanity and sexual inuendo.
"This de-evolution of the capsuleer brain is a disturbing trend," commented one researcher. "We are at a loss as to how to curtail the trend short of lobotomizing the victims," commented another researcher. Could the immortality of the capsuleer finally be coming to an end? |
Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.13 14:09:00 -
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DEAD CLONE BODIES TO BE DONATED TO CADAVER DOG PROGRAM
While in Jita a little over a week ago, I harvested about a dozen or so clone bodies left in the aftermath of the barbaric sport battles that characterize that system. Pilots were notified and given three options: 1. Bodies could be returned to them via secure contract in Jita, 2. Bodies could be cremated in a solemn ceremony provided by DSTON, or 3. Bodies could be donated to the Cadaver Dog program witht he pilot's permission. Two pilots immediately responded and donated their bodies. These were taken to Korama to help the program get underway. Thank you to those pilots. One pilot had his lawyer contact us and threten to sue us if we didn't return his body immediately. We still have that body and soon, together with the others, it will become a part of the cadaver dog training program at our vocational center.
We have changed our policy regarding the bodies we recover. If contact is not returned by the pilot within a week, the body automatically is given to the Cadaver dog program. We have another 30+ former slaver hounds that wll be brought into the program shortly. Some will become Cadaver dogs, others will become seeing eye dogs, service dogs for the hearing impared, elderly, and a host of other purposes to serve humankind. Dogs that once were used to hold people captive will now be used to help people have more freedom.
The Disciples of Ston bid you peace |
Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.13 14:56:00 -
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Quick update on the post above: 4 slave traders were just transported from M-Center #1 to Jita 4-4 where they were transfered to a prisoner transport along with 19 clone corpses and taken to Corp HQ in Korama where the corpses were handed over to the Voc Center Administrators and trainers. The 4 slavers were admitted to the detention division and placed under guard. I will be addressing the slave trader issue at a future time as our M-Center Elders and Development center are working on a model for a rehabilitation plan. We have concluded that we cannot wait for concord to act as they seem to have no intention to address our concerns. |
Manwe Todako
Disciples of Ston
19
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Posted - 2011.12.14 17:16:00 -
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Confidence is restored in the function and performance of "The Redemption" after today's journey to Pator through heavily guarded State, Federation, and Republic territory right into the lap of the Republic Central government system with a community of former slaves. "You cannot jump because you are cloaked." I got a bit tired of hearing her say that about every third gate we passed through. One cannot always depend of the jump command to take you to the cusp of decloaking and jumping. Still, no one scanned us or locked us. No fines were levied nor standing lost; at least today.
Peace and Freedom for all Peoples in all places. |
Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.14 19:41:00 -
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WHAT DOES 138 SLAVER HOUNDS SOUND LIKE?
They make hardly a sound. Part of my delivery to Korama today was another group of former Slaver hounds to our service dog training program in Korama. I am amazed at the skill and quietness of these majestic and beautiful animals. The only time they make a sound is when they are supposed to as a signal to their handler or trainer. This dog training center is an amazing place to see.
I also ran a couple delivery errands for Manwe and Edaine. I have not heard from Ta Pang if he has any passengers that need transport to Korama. He must be out of pod tending to other matters. Anyway, the exotic dancer that Edaine rescued a while ago, has taken up our offer. She is now training at our Voc Center and will be joining our Development Center as a Secretary. Nine more Slave Traders were processed into our Detention Center as well.
I had a conversation with them on com during the trip. Manwe had said that their can was separate from the can used to jettison the former slaves. I asked them about it. They said that the pilot told them that she would let them die with "their own kind" in stead of with slaves. Here is the riddle: In the time it took between jettisons, the pilot could have delivered all safe to a station instead of dumping either group. The level of sadism in some capsuleers never ceases to amaze me.
I miss the sounds of the station here in Korama. I spend little time now here in our Corporate HQ. I think I'll stay a few hours and relax before heading back to the fray.
The Disciples of Ston Bid You Peace |
Manwe Todako
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.15 15:50:00 -
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I watched the Voluval with an ache in my soul for the culture and community I was denied as a young man. Having spent my childhood as a slave of the Amarr and then the Caldari, I never went through the Voluval. The young men and women I witnessed yesterday exited the ceremony with the blessing of clarity and purpose. As they became part of the new community in Pator, each sensed their connection with the group as a whole and knew their contribution would fulfill a destiny they were intended to have.
I was denied this. I want it. I know that the tyrosene injection will only impact one of my bodies. I need to speak to my tribal Elders and the M-Center Elders before going any further. I respect their thoughts on the matter. I recently spoke with a Shaman who said that occasionally an older capsuleer will go through the Voluval.
Would cloning facilities duplicate the mark if so requested? Is it respectful to do so? Would the ceremony happen among my Vherokior brethren or in one of our Centers? These are just a sample of questions I wish to ask the Elders. I will be going back to Eldulf soon to speak with the Vherokior there after consulting our Elders here.
I hope to be able to fill in this missing part of the life I was denied as a slave. |
Manwe Todako
Disciples of Ston
19
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Posted - 2011.12.16 02:39:00 -
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The Elders have sent me into a remote area of space and instructed me to explore 0.0 areas for a time and then return for the Voluval. The Matriculation Center Elders have given their blessing for me to participate and the Elders of Eldulf were contacted by those in the M-Center before I left for Eldulf. I will follow the directions of the Elders and have begun the exploration of the system adjacent to Egbinger. It is peaceful out here. I am mapping my first stellar core of a 0.0 system. There is a significant Vherokior presence in this area of space. Something tells me that the Elders know something about me that I do not. It is a strange feeling. |
Istvaan Shogaatsu
Guiding Hand Social Club
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Posted - 2011.12.16 05:21:00 -
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Manwe Todako wrote:The Elders have sent me into a remote area of space and instructed me to explore 0.0 areas for a time and then return for the Voluval. The Matriculation Center Elders have given their blessing for me to participate and the Elders of Eldulf were contacted by those in the M-Center before I left for Eldulf. I will follow the directions of the Elders and have begun the exploration of the system adjacent to Egbinger. It is peaceful out here. I am mapping my first stellar core of a 0.0 system. There is a significant Vherokior presence in this area of space. Something tells me that the Elders know something about me that I do not. It is a strange feeling.
You're pretty old for someone who hasn't had the Voluval yet.
edit: nevermind, you explained why in the previous post, didn't see it. |
Manwe Todako
Disciples of Ston
19
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Posted - 2011.12.16 16:00:00 -
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As per instructions from the Vherokior Elders, I have embarked on a short exploration of null space, including my first scanning, pinpointing and travel through a wormhole into unknown space.
I made a big mistake and revealed my inexperience. Sometime anxiety can be our worst enemy. I had been told to be careful when coming through a wormhole to get away fairly quick because there are often pirates and gankers ready to kill you upon exit. That I did. However, I failed to mark the wormhole for my return to known space. Oops.
The system was deserted and very peaceful. I thought to myself, GÇ£One could spend a long time just travelling and wandering through the unknown. How peaceful, how tranquil.GÇ¥ But, in the back of my soul, I felt that this was not my destiny. Something seemed to be calling me back to the mission of bringing freedom to others. I long for the solitude and separation, but in spite of the feeling of peace, there is no peace if I am not doing what I should do.
I need to speak to the Elders of this.
It took a long time to scan it back down. I kept getting real close but couldnGÇÖt hit 100%. Finally I did. I left that lonely system with some sadness. It was a beautiful place.
When I returned to Egbinger there was a message from the Elders to return to Eldulf at my convenience for counsel. I wonder what they will say.
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Manwe Todako
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.16 17:28:00 -
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For those interested, details of the Voluval can be found here. |
Seraph Dalesi
Native Freshfood Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2011.12.16 20:35:00 -
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I like what you are doing, but I suggest that you take extreme care about where you deploy your service hounds. Slaver hounds are an icon of oppression and terror for our people, and in many places in the Republic they may be ill-received even as helpers. Just imagine how horrible it might be for a recently freed slave who bears real scars from real encounters who ran into one of your helper hounds on a narrow street. I know that you engage with your resident Elders on many of your programs, but you will need to expand your outreach to the communities in question here, and be patient because I am sure that you will see a lot of skepticism. There are a great many Matari in need but you might actually want to start your placements with Amarrians first, as at least there the recipients will not suffer any additional social stigma from having such a companion.
Also - congratulations on your coming Voluval! You have my best wishes that your mark is a worthy one. It is a fairly standard practice to include your mark on your clones, and you can add a simple clause to your clone contract to have it copied. Some traditionalists may even question you if you do not. As far as I know the cloned version is merely a decorative copy of the final pattern - it's not like the shamans are about to share their closely-guarded formulas with the other Empires, and anyway most clones are sculpted from biomass and polymers and might react differently than your original body. I don't know the formulas myself so I can only guess about that.
I suppose that a few capsuleers might be able to use their connections and wealth to convince a shaman to give them a new injection in the hopes of getting a different mark or one in a different spot. Anyone who has would keep quiet about it - it would be quite shameful. I know one Minmatar capsuleer who had the mark moved while living outside the Republic but I am not about to tell you who that was. I have hopes that said pilot will return home someday. |
Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
34
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Posted - 2011.12.16 22:42:00 -
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Dear Ms. Dalesi,
I know that you were mostly addressing Manwe, but I thought I would respond since I was on the channel. Your counsel is wise and much appreciated. We will heed your words and double our efforts to handle the dog training program with care and sensitivity.
Our trainers are former slaves and that helps the program proceed slowly and carefully. Even so, we need to make sure that these trained dogs are not sent out indiscriminately but carefully and intentionally. We sincerely appreciate input like your's and wish more experienced pilots would give positive, helpful suggestions for improving our work.
We are all excited and anxious for Manwe and his upcoming Voluval.
The Disciples of Ston bid you peace. |
Manwe Todako
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.17 14:45:00 -
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I had read accounts of the Voluval before and witnessed but one. Tyrosine and ventril root injections were prepared but the first thing I really noticed was the smell of the cleansing anointment. The sounds of the humming and the rhythms were strange but intoxicating to the mind. The Voluval had begun. One went in the heart, the other in the lumbar. I am a bit of a wimp when it comes to pain, but the adrenaline of the moment helped quite a bit. After the course of the ceremony, the conductor bid me rise.
I cannot see it! There is no mark! The Elders said, GÇ£there is indeed a mark. It is in the center of your back, exactly where it should be.GÇ¥ GÇ£You have received the Sankofa, just as we foresaw that you would in our visions.GÇ¥ GÇ£You were sent into the unknown, to test your feelings, Manwe.GÇ¥ GÇ£And you have confirmed to us what the visions reveal.GÇ¥ Let me see it! Let me see it! Mirrors were arranged so that I could see the symbol emblazed in melanin in the skin of my back. GÇ£I donGÇÖt like it!GÇ¥ GÇ£It isnGÇÖt masculine.GÇ¥ GÇ£My back looks like the back of a woman!GÇ¥ GÇ£It is shameful to receive your mark on the back.GÇ¥ I was distraught when I first saw what the Elders called the GÇ£Sankofa.GÇ¥ I thought the spirits had played a cruel joke on me. Then they explained it to me and I understood.
The Elders began, In our visions we saw your destiny calling you back to help your people, your forgotten, enslaved people. In our visions we saw your destiny as a Capsuleer going back to the knowledge you have gained and bringing it into the future for benevolent use and the good of others. We did not see warrior images, Manwe. Your strength is one of healer, rescuer, protector, not warrior.
The Sankofa is a sacred symbol of mission. The Spirit has called you from your wanderings to accomplish a divine purpose. You yearn for solitude, loneliness, and serenity. These are your natural longings as a Drifter. But this is not your destiny. Your testing confirmed what the visions revealed. You are called from your drifting to accomplish the Sankofa. GÇ£What is Sankofa?GÇ¥ I asked.
The Elders continued: It is the Sanko; GÇ£the going back.GÇ¥ And it is the Fa GÇ£to take.GÇ¥ GÇ£Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi.GÇ¥ GÇ£It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.GÇ¥ In your testing, you were tempted to forsake your destiny of freeing your brethren, but your soul felt the destiny stronger than you felt the need to wander. Yes, usually a back mark is one of humiliation, but you have chosen the life of a man of peace, not the life of a warrior. For a warrior, a back mark is a mark of shame and cowardice. For a man of peace a back mark is a sign of humility, but that of his own choice and not of cowardice. Your choices are courage of their own right. Regret not your choices, Manwe. DonGÇÖt long for a warriorGÇÖs mark if you are not a warrior. Your war is a different one and your weapons are not those of killing but those of saving.
Now, fulfill your destiny. Keep the work you have begun as your foremost passion for you must fulfill the Sankofa; it is your mark. DonGÇÖt forsake your longings though, for in them and in your drive to explore the serene, you will find ways to accomplish the Sankofa. You will also find the refreshment needed to sustain you.
Sankofa: Go back and take. I will go back and take my brethren to places of freedom. I will go back and take the forgotten ones out of the places of death and into places of life. I must fulfill the Sankofa.
SANKOFA |
Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.17 16:46:00 -
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Congratulations Manwe. I know that you will never let me see the mark, so I hope it is OK to kind of give people an idea of what it might look like. Sankofa The Disciples of Ston bid you peace |
Shaera Taam
Minmatar Death Squad Broken Chains Alliance
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Posted - 2011.12.18 09:41:00 -
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Ston Momaki wrote:Congratulations Manwe. I know that you will never let me see the mark, so I hope it is OK to kind of give people an idea of what it might look like. Sankofa
i can think on no better mark to be bestowed, todako-san
i think i understand now a blessing verin gave me once, though i do not believe i deserved it as much as you do now: "makers-in-the-dream follow and protect you for all your days and all your nights"
congratulations!
ST
Thus Spake the Frigate Goddess! |
Manwe Todako
Disciples of Ston
19
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Posted - 2011.12.18 19:47:00 -
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Thank you for your words, Ms. Taam.
While catching up with things a bit, I opened a message from another pilot with a list of 174 names of pilots that she has recorded as dumping former slaves at border crossings. The Scope of rescue work is great. I am concerned that there are not enough to do the work that is needed.
I am asking the Disciples to brush up and/or train scanning skills and to prepare for a greater presence in Wormhole space, null, low sec, and sub null space. I am hoping that we all can take some rotations near our new office in Egbinger. I think that perhaps there will be humanitarian work that is needed in those areas as well as the need to transport rescued people to new homes in less central areas.
Congratulations Ston, for your first trip into wormhole space. We hope to hear of your experience. SANKOFA |
Manwe Todako
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.19 17:45:00 -
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Our new office in Egbinger is now partially staffed. Since our Matriculants are now staffing most everything back here in high security space, we were able to transfer our outside hired security staff to the new office in 0.1 space. For now, each of the divisions just has a security superviser, 3 security officers, and 5 security patrolmen or women. We have not yet staffed the offices and the security will pull double duty until that happens. Some supplies such as food and research supplies have been brought in with the first transport. When we are satisfied that security is established, faculty, students, maintenance staff, secretarial staff, etc will be brought in on the second transport. Our hired security executive has also made the transfer as his skills are more needed in Egbinger.
The Devil is in the details, as they say. Many of our Matriculants were technical professionals on capsuleer and military ships before being rescued. As such, they posses unique skills. We hire many of them particularly to look after our computer systems aboard our covert transport ops. How important is it that the captain tells the tech crew all the details of what is happening on any particular trip? Vital!
On the trip out, I occupied a clone body that had two hardwire augmentations that included small bonuses to CPU performance. Because I wanted better training times, I switched to a clone with standard implants that was already in system. I did not let my crew know of the change. For transport of illegal cargo and for travel through low sec, our computer mechanics play the vital role of making sure that nothing goes wrong with the computers. While the cloaking operation is our priority, the default computer program may see otherwise.
Out of station we warped to the gate for our first jump when I noticed that the warp drive was offline. The crew acted very quickly in putting our probe launcher offline and putting cloak online the instant we were out of warp at the gate. Arriving at the other side, we now had cloak. My apology to the crew for not briefing them on the change. Though only minute, it was enough that the computer shut down the cloak module by default. That is an oops on my part that could have cost lives.
We have corrected the CPU problem by removing one warp core stabilizer and replacing it with a inertial stabilizer. Safety of our passengers is our priority while keeping our ships ready for 0.0 and wormhole space. SANKOFA |
Edaine Numenor
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.20 00:42:00 -
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What do you get when you combine Youthful Naivete with proficient battle skills? You get a Violent Ideologue. These, we have too many of in our cluster. |
Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.20 13:52:00 -
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EVERYONE IS GUILTY
Let us posit this proposition as true: Everyone is guilty of wrongdoing of one sort or another. There is no human or capsuleer infomorphed corporeal being who has not or does not continue to ere morally and ethically to one degree or another.
No one can claim moral perfection. For the moral relativist, this is a rather meaningless statement, but this post is addressed more toward those who tend to claim a standard of ideals or religion. I recently was struck by the statement of a young ideologue (borrowing Edaine's language). This person made the statement that they had followed the right spiritual path without deviation. Without asking that person for clarification, I want to examine such a claim just by virtue of the claim itself, without the benefit of further context.
Those of you who accept a certain spiritual path might be able to see the path with greater clarity if you admitted that you cannot, in your imperfection, always walk on it. We are all guilty of straying, sometimes just a little, other times quite a bit. Combine this with the enormous power, influence and destructive ability of the capsuleer and we have potential for a conflagration of murderous hatred that is difficult to quench. "I am right and you are wrong and I will kill you to prove it." Hmm, I think thou dost protest too much.
I have found that the closer to "right" you are, the less extreme you become in argument and the less likely to strike the first blow.
If your spiritual path does not lead you to a self-awareness of your own sin, it isn't a path to truth. The Disciples of Ston bid you peace |
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Edaine Numenor
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.22 15:07:00 -
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I had my first encounter with sleepers today. It was a bit unnerving, but I survived it and brought away some interesting data. So far I have not encountered anyone else in wormhole space. I will let the Disciples know if I see any work for them to do in the areas I explore. |
Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.22 15:59:00 -
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THE PERILS OF LIBERTY
Those who were born in a free society often forget and under appreciate the complexities of liberty. With liberty comes a certain insecurity, because one's place in society is fluid and can change according to choice and not just birth. When we are conditioned to live with the structures of freedom, it becomes part of our daily way of conducting ourselves. What happens when those who have never been free are faced with the first challenges of liberty? Most take to it quite well and if facilitated, learn to function as free citizens. Others, when facing a crisis, may long to return to the predictability of bondage. The irony, of course is that they are making this choice, because liberty has been afforded to them. In a sense, the first and last exercise of self-determination is to reject it. This isn't a judgement, just an observation. Each must exercise his or her own wisdom in what is best in this regard.
Now to the perils of liberty. All meaningful life requires a cost. To the three from M-Center #4, the price of liberty is its loss unless they are allowed to return, which is doubtful. But, to remain free is also full of daily perils. All our choices have consequences. For argument's sake, what if our M-Centers have substandard medical facilities? Then to remain and live in liberty will involve the choice to endure certain risks. These are much like the risks of loss that we as capsuleers regularly choose to face in the dangers of space.
No free choice is without positive and negative potential. In spite of this, The Disciples of Ston believe that liberty is better than bondage. Liberty makes our spirituality of choice more honest and risky. We own it. Liberty keeps us from becoming lazy intellectually, spiritually and mentally. Liberty prevents us from blaming others for the condition of our lives. We recommend liberty to all humans, but do not promise that it will make you happy or well or wealthy. The Disciples of Ston bid you peace |
Manwe Todako
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.23 16:49:00 -
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I had an experience yesterday that caused me pause about my own perspective on life and how being a capsuleer has changed it at a subtle level. I was on my way back to Egbinger after an unfortunate podding and subsequent delivery of medical care specialists to our centers, when I was podded again at a gate camp. Here;s the thing, my home clone base is closer to my destination than where I was when podded. My first reaction was, "good, a shortcut."
Where does the value of life fit in with the capsuleer? We studied this hard when I first join the Disciples, but we haven't focussed much on it lately. Our focus has been on helping non-capsuleers in their plight. While doing this, our own connection with humanity can fade in subtle ways. In our task orientation, we forget that even the death of our clone bodies means something. It should definitely be more than just a shortcut to another location.
Perhaps I need some time off planetside away from tribal business and Disciple business, away from the pod.
SANKOFA |
Edaine Numenor
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.24 22:00:00 -
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There is something I need to do for two reasons. The thing I need to do is to spend some time running some level four mining missions. Reason one: Certain corporations have been very kind to the Disciples of Ston and have secretly assisted us in our efforts to help former slaves. Some of this help is not "official" corporate help, but people in places of decision have helped us. I will return the favor by helping them. Reason Two: I would like to save up some LP's for some special gifts for the Disciples. Since I can do gas cloud, ice, and regular mining, I do not need to decline any missions. The time will also allow me to train to use cloning. This is gonna take some time, so I might as well make myself useful while doing it. |
Manwe Todako
Disciples of Ston
20
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Posted - 2011.12.28 14:29:00 -
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Managing business interests is part of Sankofa. While this is not where my aptitudes lean, this is part of providing for those we rescue. Edaine says that we are almost ready to begin livestock production at one of our planetary colonies. Taxes are an issue. It is quite costly to export and import products and resources. We are not prepared at this time to establish colonies in high risk areas. SANKOFA |
Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2011.12.30 01:43:00 -
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I SUPPOSE WE ARE SMUGGLERS
When we first began our work as Disciples of Ston, our focus was on the study of the capsuleer and finding ways to encourage peace and non-violence. These values evolved the organization into what it has become today and brought about our focus on helping former slaves that we rescue from space. At the time of our beginnings, I would often remark that I was a petty thief and that our thievery was means of provocation to uncover the hidden motivations of capsuleer pilots. Those were interesting and informative days.
Now, however, we are smugglers rather than thieves though some may argue otherwise. Some may ask why we feel justified in disobeying established laws of governments in the pursuit of our work and values. Manwe recently gave me the following ancient text as he calls it, though he will not tell me where he found it. I believe it to express well how we feel about when governments fail to do justice and what actions perhaps are needed by conscientious people of shared values.
Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends (Equality and Liberty), it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The Disciples of Ston bid you peace |
Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
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Posted - 2012.01.01 22:54:00 -
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VIGILANCE WHEN WORK IS SLOW
I am not a military man, so I have no personal combat experience to reflect upon. However, I have been told by men and women who have served in the military that life in combat is 90% boredom punctuated by 10% sheer terror. WHile I am not comparing our work with the life of a mortal soldier, one principle I have come to understand in the last few weeks is the need for vigilance when nothing seems to be happening. We have found this to be the case in our rescue work. Sometimes, there are rescues every day. Sometmes days go by and we find no one to rescue. Either way, we stay alert and watch. One never knows when someone will need help.
I doubt very much if this principle will diminish as we expand our work into more lawless areas. To do so would be to our peril and the peril of those we seek to help. The Disciples of Ston bid you peace |
Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
170
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Posted - 2012.01.02 02:31:00 -
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THE LOST SKILL OF DECORUM
The Disciples of Ston regularly monitor different communication channels in our ongoing study of capsuleer behavior. We have noted that among religious people, capuleers seem to consider themselves exempt from the usual expectations of verbal decorum that are demanded of others in similar positions. Most religious organizations demand of their clergy a strictness of language that forbids both profanity and crude jocularity. Both of these seem to flow rather freely from the self-proclaimed capsuleer clergy of the New Eden Airwaves. The members of the Disciples of Ston are encourage to conduct their language without profanity as an exercise in enhanced humanity. Self-control is one of the greatest ways to show self-respect. It is a struggle for sure especially if one has been nurtured in a culture of profane self-expression.
However, clergy or spiritual leaders, be they bishops, cardinals, shamans, or whatever, are called to shine a light upon the path of enlightenment and to show the way to ascend beyond the gutter of base humanity. Your mere human counterparts generally abide by these standards; should they not apply also to the capsuleer? Your credibility as a spritual person of whatever system you espouse is at stake. Should fresh water and brine flow from the same spring?
Should not those under your tutelage expect the words that flow from your mouth to reflect a refined and spiritually enlightened heart? The Disciples of Ston bid you peace |
Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
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THE URBAN BLIGHT OF THE SPACE LANES
One of the space routes that we patrol is refequented by advertisers. Most of this are corporations seekng to recruit memebers but some advertise other things as well. The typical MO is to anchor a secure container far enough from the gate to make anchoring possible but close enough to be seen on the neo com as approaching the gate. This blight of adverts doesn't usually get under my skin too much until today.
Someone dropped a small standard can advertising a gambling scam to make you rich quick. Greed, being one of the basest of human vices, is easy to pull on. Greed can easily cloud the senses and contaminate good judgement. Now, try to catch the point here: The advertiser used a small, unanchorable container costing a couple thousand ISK. He probably assumed that those who frequent this corridor would leave it be, knowing it was of little value. That way the advertisment could stay for some time and maybe catch a few. Afterall, who bothers with thousands, when millions can be made?
I felt compelled to scoop it up and repackage it for something more useful. I am sure the centers can use it for some good. The Disciples of Ston bid you peace |
Thgil Goldcore
PIE Inc.
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Posted - 2012.01.03 16:23:00 -
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Ston Momaki wrote:THE URBAN BLIGHT OF THE SPACE LANES
One of the space routes that we patrol is refequented by advertisers. Most of this are corporations seekng to recruit memebers but some advertise other things as well. The typical MO is to anchor a secure container far enough from the gate to make anchoring possible but close enough to be seen on the neo com as approaching the gate. This blight of adverts doesn't usually get under my skin too much until today.
Someone dropped a small standard can advertising a gambling scam to make you rich quick. Greed, being one of the basest of human vices, is easy to pull on. Greed can easily cloud the senses and contaminate good judgement. Now, try to catch the point here: The advertiser used a small, unanchorable container costing a couple thousand ISK. He probably assumed that those who frequent this corridor would leave it be, knowing it was of little value. That way the advertisment could stay for some time and maybe catch a few. Afterall, who bothers with thousands, when millions can be made?
I felt compelled to scoop it up and repackage it for something more useful. I am sure the centers can use it for some good.
Not to be contrary, but isn't that like removing his freedom of speech you value so much, simply because you think hes morally inferior. Many talk strong against the empire for removing freedoms for sake of morality or order, but when given the same choices in miniature they almost all do the same thing.
Now before you go saying 'this is different!' No, its not. Did you act because you felt you where morally superior and thus your voice should be stronger than his? Yes, you did. There is nothing wrong with that, you where in the right, obviously, but I am trying to make you understand the Amarrian point of view, something that your apparently not too far from yourself. |
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