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RhajKa
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Posted - 2008.08.03 04:20:00 -
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Edited by: RhajKa on 03/08/2008 04:24:28
Transcript of the Sermon on the Delights of Slavery given at the Imperial Chapel on The Carthum Conglomerate Station, Shesha III
Date: 03-08-105
Part 1
This sermon offers theological, historical, and political evidence in a point-by-point refutation of the anti-slavery arguments of our day. Slavery is not a sin, but an established institution in which God guides us to everlasting glory:
Nor is slavery immoral, for as long as masters treat their slaves with benevolence and fairness it has always been witnessed that slaves respond with joyful obedience and holiness.
In fact, the relationship between master and slave rivales that between a parent and a child. It is through the enslavement of the newly enlightened that all Amarr peoples ascend to the same level of holy attainment.
Threats to the security and prosperity of the Empire come from unbelievers of the faith who should be regarded as strangers and lunatics who do not understand that it is faithfullness and devotion that binds slaves to their masters.
As with the law and other social institutions, slavery should remain for the course of its spiritual developmentùany force exerted to the contrary would result not only in bloodshed and violent destruction but also in the damnation of human souls.
It is said slavery is wrong, in the abstract at least, and contrary to the spirit of Humanity. To this the faithful answer that any question must be determined by its circumstances, and if, as really is the case, we cannot get rid of slavery without producing a greater injury to the souls and spiritual development of both the masters and the slaves, there is no rule of conscience or revealed law of God which can condemn us.
If slavery had commenced even contrary to the laws of God and man, and the sin of its introduction rested upon our hands, and it was even carrying forward the nation by slow degrees to final ruinùyet if it were certain that an attempt to remove it would only hasten and heighten the final catastrophe then, we would not only not be found to attempt the extirpation, but we would stand guilty of a high offence in the sight of both God and man, if we should rashly make the effort.
If there is any original sin of introduction it does rest not on our heads, and we shall soon see that all those dreadful calamities which the false prophets of our day are pointing to, will never in all probability occur.
With regard to the assertion, that slavery is against the spirit of humanity, this is denied most positively in the scriptures, which would go to show that slavery, when once introduced, ought at all events to be abrogated, or that the master commits any offence in holding slaves. Our ancestors themselves were slave holders, and were not condemned for it.
When we turn to the Scriptures, we find not one single passage at all calculated to disturb the conscience of an honest slave holder. No one can read it without seeing and admiring that the Lord in no instance meddled with the established institutions of mankind. God's plan was offered alike to allùto the monarch and the subject, the rich and the poorùthe master and the slave.
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RhajKa
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Posted - 2008.08.03 04:21:00 -
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Edited by: RhajKa on 03/08/2008 04:23:00
Part 2
We may rest assured, in this intercourse between a good master and his servant, more good than evil may be taught the child, the exalted principles of morality and religion may thereby be sometimes indelibly inculcated upon his mind, and instead of being reared a selfish contracted being, with nought but self to look toùhe acquires a more exalted benevolence, a greater generosity and elevation of soul, and embraces for the sphere of his generous actions a much wider field.
Look to the slave holding population of our Empire, and you every where find them characterized by noble and elevated sentiment, by humane and virtuous feelings. We do not find among them that cold, contracted, calculating selfishness, which withers and repels every thing around it, and lessens or destroys all the multiplied enjoyments of social intercourse. Go into our Imperial councils, and ask for the most generous, the most disinterested, the most conscientious, and the least unjust and oppressive in their principles, and see whether the slave holder will be past by in the selection.
Is it not a fact, known to every faithful believer in the Empire, that the most cruel masters are those who have been unaccustomed to slavery. It is well known that non Amarr Lords who marry Amarr heiresses, are much severer masters than true Amarr Lords. And yet, if the Critics of slavery's reasoning were correct, they ought to be much milder: in fact, it follows from their reasoning, that the authority which the father is called on to exercise over his children, must be seriously detrimental; and yet we know that this is not the case; that on the contrary, there is nothing which so much humanizes and softens the heart, as this very authority; and there are none, even among those who have no children themselves, so disposed to pardon the follies and indiscretion of youth, as those who have seen most of them, and suffered greatest annoyance.
There may be many cruel relentless masters, and there are unkind and cruel fathers too; but both the one and the other make all those around them shudder with horror. We are disposed to think that their example in society tends rather to strengthen, than weaken the principle of benevolence and humanity.
Let us now look a moment to the slave, and contemplate his position. Ignorant critics have described him as hating, rather than loving his master. We assert again, that non-believing Critics are not borne out by the fact. We are well convinced that there is nothing but the mere relations of husband and wife, parent and child, brother and sister, which produce a closer tie, than the relation of master and servant.
We have no hesitation in affirming, that throughout the whole slave holding Empire, the slaves of a good master, are his warmest, most constant, and most devoted friends; they have been accustomed to look up to him as their supporter, director and defender. Every one acquainted with Imperial slaves, knows that the slave rejoices in the elevation and prosperity of his master; and the heart of no one is more gladdened at the successful debut of young master on the great theatre of the world, than that of either the young slave who has grown up with them, and shared in all their gains, and even partaken of all their delicaciesùor the aged one who has looked on and watched them from birth to manhood, with the kindest and most affectionate solicitude, and has ever met from them, all the kind treatment and generous sympathies of feeling tender hearts.
In an emergency I would rely upon my own slaves for my defence ù I would put arms into their hands, and I have no doubt they would defend me faithfully. In the late Minmater insurrection, we know that many actually convened their slaves, and armed them for defence, although slaves were here the cause of the evil which was to be repelled.
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RhajKa
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Posted - 2008.08.03 04:22:00 -
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Edited by: RhajKa on 03/08/2008 04:23:48
Part 3
Why then, since the slave is becoming spiritually enlightened, and this enlightenment is the great object of all animated creation, should we endeavor to disturb his purity by infusing into his mind a vain and indefinite desire for libertyùa something which will damn his soul, and which must inevitably dry up the very sources of his faith.
It seems to us, that those critcs who insist most upon it, commit the enormous error of looking upon every slave in the whole slave-holding Empire as actuated by the most deadly enmity to the Amarr faithful, and possessing all that reckless, fiendish temper, which would lead him to murder and assassinate the moment the opportunity occurs.
This is far from being true; the slave, as we have already said, generally loves the master and his family; and few indeed there are, who can coldly plot the murder of men, women, and children; and if they do, there are fewer still who can have the villainy to execute.
We can sit down and imagine that all the slaves in the Empire have conspired to rise on a certain night, and murder all the masters in their respective families; we may suppose the secret to be kept, and that they have the physical power to exterminate; and yet, we say the whole is morally impossible.
No insurrection of this Empire can ever occur where the slaves are as much spiritually enlightened as they are in our Imperial Regions. The Slave's whole religous education and course of life are at war with such fell deeds. Nothing, then, but the most subtle and poisonous principles, sedulously infused into his mind, can break his allegiance, and transform him into the midnight murderer.
Any man who will attend to the history of the Minmater insurrection and massacre, must at once see, that the cause of even the partial success of the insurrectionists, was the very circumstance that there was no extensive plot, and that there leaders, demented fanatics as they were, were under the impression that heaven had enjoined them to liberate the slaves.
To conclude with, we must protect our slaves as we protect our very souls. The spiritual enlightenment that slavery brings is of the highest value. Pray bretheren for your slaves and strive hard to bring them and their children fully within the bosom of our Holy Empire.
Your most humble of servants
Rahj Ka -
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Tobias Creed
Minmatar
Rens Ex Slave Acadamy
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Posted - 2008.08.04 10:42:00 -
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 Originally by: RhajKa
Edited by: RhajKa on 03/08/2008 04:24:28
Transcript of the Sermon on the Delights of Slavery given at the Imperial Chapel on The Carthum Conglomerate Station, Shesha III
Date: 03-08-105
Part 1
This sermon offers theological, historical, and political evidence in a point-by-point refutation of the anti-slavery arguments of our day. Slavery is not a sin, but an established institution in which God guides us to everlasting glory:
Nor is slavery immoral, for as long as masters treat their slaves with benevolence and fairness it has always been witnessed that slaves respond with joyful obedience and holiness.
Ha. You are a liar or a fool. I can witness personally that this is not true. While kindness is appreciated (or at least preferred to cruelty) most of us still resented masters who thought they were being kind.
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Inara Subaka
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.08.04 13:31:00 -
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Originally by: Tobias Creed
Ha. You are a liar or a fool. I can witness personally that this is not true. While kindness is appreciated (or at least preferred to cruelty) most of us still resented masters who thought they were being kind.
Do you honestly believe of the Trillions of slaves still in service that most, meaning more than 50% of the population, resent their masters? While I won't defend the Empire, I will say that I find your narrow view to be (as you put it) a lie or foolish.
Are there hundreds of thousands of cases in which Amarrian holders have committed crimes against the very nature of mankind? Of course, and they have been documented. I will never even speak in favor of those individuals; but what about the other Trillions of slaves that are content with their lives? Should they be forced to change their lifestyle, uproot their families, just because of the (statistically) few cases of abuse?
I am going to assume, considering the fact you are a pilot, and are a member of an Academy, that you are not an ignorant man. I implore you to use your brain and whatever implants you have wired into it to observe this from an objective position.
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Ssakaa
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Posted - 2008.08.05 12:20:00 -
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A wonderfully self-aggrandizing and pompous work of fiction, Mister Rhajka, much like the rest of the back-catalogue of eloquently written but ultimately hollow emptiness that is amarr propaganda. That it reads as if you were attempting to write for yourself -that is - the propaganda to which you subscribe requires a quick injection of prosaic litany -a comforting re-affirmation for your own requirements or needs -rather than for anyone else's, makes it an interesting read, if nothing else.
A couple of items.
You write:
'...The slave, as we have already said, generally loves the master and his family'.
Can you identify the not inconsequential oversight you casually (or willfully) ignore in this sentence? I am sure many do, so I invite them to make commentary upon it, if they so desire.
You write:
'...To conclude with, we must protect our slaves as we protect our very souls'.
Yes, you must. The keyword herein is 'our', says I. Do you also refer to your own, ah, native amarrian 'serfs', and/or 'servants', Mister Rhajka? After all, they have endured slavery far, far longer than any other body of peoples. (One often wonders about, and indeed feels for them -centuries of burden upon their broad shoulders must surely make dead-weight.)
Are all or some of these sturdy fellows in some measure of danger, then?
Please, tell us more.
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Tobias Creed
Minmatar
Rens Ex Slave Acadamy
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Posted - 2008.08.05 20:40:00 -
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Originally by: Inara Subaka
Do you honestly believe of the Trillions of slaves still in service that most, meaning more than 50% of the population, resent their masters?
Yes. I would say at least half of all slaves resent the person with absolute power over their lives, with the legal right to make their life a miserable hell, or to let them simply die of neglect. I do not imagine that "all slaves yearn for freedom" or some such thing, because I've seen it's not completely true. But to at least resent the person who holds such power over you is simply human nature. Quote:
Are there hundreds of thousands of cases in which Amarrian holders have committed crimes against the very nature of mankind? Of course, and they have been documented. I will never even speak in favor of those individuals; but what about the other Trillions of slaves that are content with their lives? Should they be forced to change their lifestyle, uproot their families, just because of the (statistically) few cases of abuse?
I am going to assume, considering the fact you are a pilot, and are a member of an Academy, that you are not an ignorant man. I implore you to use your brain and whatever implants you have wired into it to observe this from an objective position.
I believe I am looking at it objectively. I only have to wonder what perspective brings you to imagine that simply because the number of slaves is large that the dynamics change. You can imagine 10,000 people largely unhappy with their lot in life, but one trillian, or ten trillian, or so on are numbers beyond fathoming. But I just see the same conditions and attitudes I witnessed myself expanded.
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Inara Subaka
Caldari
the united
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Posted - 2008.08.05 21:08:00 -
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Originally by: Tobias Creed
Originally by: Inara Subaka
Do you honestly believe of the Trillions of slaves still in service that most, meaning more than 50% of the population, resent their masters?
Yes. I would say at least half of all slaves resent the person with absolute power over their lives, with the legal right to make their life a miserable hell, or to let them simply die of neglect. I do not imagine that "all slaves yearn for freedom" or some such thing, because I've seen it's not completely true. But to at least resent the person who holds such power over you is simply human nature.
Perhaps my schooling failed me. I have made it a... personal interest to find why or how to subjugate people and why people allow themselves to be subjugated.
The simplest way I can describe the mentality, in a way that most people are familiar with (though this example is still lacking some of the finer points slave mentality has), is the judicial system. How many times have you heard of people living in a correctional facility then when release, they immediately commit a crime to return to that life? How many times have you heard of people intentionally causing a ruckus weeks before their parole date when they are otherwise ideally behaved inmates? A similar (but rather different in the finer points) mentality affects those under slavery.
They grow to depend on, to care for those that have control over their wellbeing. And, unlike a criminal system, many slavers return that expression of care for those they own.
Originally by: Tobias Creed
Originally by: Inara Subaka
Are there hundreds of thousands of cases in which Amarrian holders have committed crimes against the very nature of mankind? Of course, and they have been documented. I will never even speak in favor of those individuals; but what about the other Trillions of slaves that are content with their lives? Should they be forced to change their lifestyle, uproot their families, just because of the (statistically) few cases of abuse?
I am going to assume, considering the fact you are a pilot, and are a member of an Academy, that you are not an ignorant man. I implore you to use your brain and whatever implants you have wired into it to observe this from an objective position.
I believe I am looking at it objectively. I only have to wonder what perspective brings you to imagine that simply because the number of slaves is large that the dynamics change. You can imagine 10,000 people largely unhappy with their lot in life, but one trillian, or ten trillian, or so on are numbers beyond fathoming. But I just see the same conditions and attitudes I witnessed myself expanded.
I will not deny that you experienced a tragedy. Your master must have been foolish and/or weak to treat one as intelligent as yourself poorly. But would you have made a vouch for freedom if you were in the hands of a fair master? I invite you to visit, perhaps spend a day working alongside me in the fields. Then you can sit down and speak with some of the families about their lives in my service. Their responses are very much in line with those I heard from the majority of slaves in Empire territory.
I can easily imagine the numbers you speak of, the training my mind has undergone makes those numbers seem trivial now. I am simply looking at the percentage of occurrences like the one you claim to have experienced, and find that number to be astronomically low.
Strike down the Empire (as well as the other 3 nations), don't strike down her people.
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Ieria
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Posted - 2008.08.07 18:06:00 -
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Welcome back Revan
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Rhanna Khurin
Minmatar
Tribal Liberation Force
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Posted - 2008.08.08 10:00:00 -
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Your lies and poisonous words make my blood boil. You and all you kind are nothing but evil, sadistic tyrants.
Any curse i could conceivably think up would not be adequate for such a monster like you.
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3ll3
Gallente
Tranquillity Nation
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Posted - 2008.08.08 18:52:00 -
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Edited by: 3ll3 on 08/08/2008 18:51:47
YOu know all of that was to long for me to keep my attention but is the good lady talking about S&M or Bondage?
Mayhaps a cross between the two as many seem to enjoy in the Federation?
*Turns his head to one side curously*
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