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Numion I think that was entirely uncalled for. Ridiculing people who pushes them self very hard to overcome the difficulties they face is not cool in my book. I work with mentally and physically challenged people daily, and I must say that I am at times astonished at their capacity for joy, happines and pushing themselves. It can be a very fulfilling experince to work with them. I realize it was meant as a lighthearted joke, but I politely ask you to refrain from such ridicule in the future.
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Umm, wow, Numion- I normally would let unfunny jokes go by, but that is really harsh. Rather than try to explain why that is really inappropriate and risk sounding morally superior let me instead make this suggestion: get involved in the Special Olympics- attend an event, or even try volunteering. I think you might be really surprised what it means to the athletes, and how much they have to offer you, too.
Andrew D. Gable
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The motto of my Welsh family (the little Latin line beneath the coat of arms) always struck me as good for a rather more barbaric order of paladins.
"Life is short, glory is forever."
"Life is short, glory is forever."
This isn't a real-world motto, nor exactly from a homebrew. It was the result of a PC (Sir Jean du Tarn) in my 1122 campaign trying to found an order of paladin Hospitallers. He had a complicated situtation, including a Jewish mistress and an orcish enemy called Dobeslav of Pécs (a fellow Hospitaller). Things came to a head when the Bishop of Avignon sent Sir Dobeslav to break up Sir Jean's band of paladins and his scandalous love affair.
Selected Precepts of
the Reverend Fra’ Dobeslaw of Pécs
Knight Preceptor of the Order the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem
Taken down in the last days of his life by Fra’ Jean du Tarn, at Bourg de St. Andeol, during Easter Week in the year of Our Lord one thousand one hundred and twenty-two.
"Some would say that the knights of God are instituted the better to prosecute Holy War. But we who have walked in blood through the slaughter of Jerusalem know that war can never be holy. It can be necessary. It can at best be just. But to maim and kill can never be holy. The knights of God are instituted as knights to serve where selflessness and discipline and large numbers are needed to discharge what is the holy duty of any knight: to protect the weak, to aid the needy, to succour those who suffer, and to overthrow the wicked.
"A Knight Hospitaller lives in the service of the children of God. He fights for them, prays for them, heals them when they suffer, and aids them when they want.
"Knights of God provide the protection of their arms and fortresses as other charitable orders provide alms and hospices. But the profession of arms tempts the knight to pride and vainglory. Therefore serve the sick and the poor in all humility.
"The calling of an Hospitaller is to provide those who lack with that which they need. In our hospices we give food to those who hunger, drink to those who thirst. We give shelter to those who are cold, clothes to those who are naked. We heal the sick and the wounded, and bring the Sacraments to those who thirst for God. And we give refuge within our walls to the weak and the persecuted. This is not enough. Poverty, hunger, sickness, persecution, suffering, and injustice flourish beyond our walls. We must fight them there.
"Any charitable order must carry food and drink, clothing and fuel where-ever God’s children are hungry, thirsty, or cold; heal them where they are injured or sick; perform the Sacraments where they are born, work, suffer, and die. So the Knights Hospitallers must protect the defenceless where-ever they are persecuted, and discomfit the powerful where-ever they are unjust.
"Despite simplicity and poverty, the Order cannot allow wicked men to seize the land and goods that it is given to support its works in charity. For to rob from the Order is to rob from the poor, the sick, and the weak. But war for property is a great danger to the souls of the Order. Therefore it must never be enterprised unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly, like wicked knights moved by avarice and pride, but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, and in the fear of God. After fighting for its own rights, the Order or a commandery ought to do penance, and perhaps do extraordinary works for the poor and suffering.
"The work of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem is to fight for the weak, to heal the sick, to aid the poor, and to say the Divine Office. Only the Knight Hospitaller– warrior, monk, healer, and almoner together– does all the duty of the Order, and only he can be a full member. Those who lead the order must understand its work in every part.
"To fight for the weak a knight needs disinterest and discipline. The knight of God must be free from hope of gain, and free from family entanglements, and must obey his leaders even at the price of his life.
"Battles are won by discipline, and discipline is founded on the habit of obedience. Knights of the Order must cultivate discipline by instant, absolute, and unquestioning obedience to their commanders, commanders to their priors, and priors to the Master and his delegates, at all times.
"Vain knights may take vain oaths, that they will never retreat from the infidel. Thus they win death or glory, and often lose battles. The knight of the Hospital fights for God and justice, not his own glory or even entry into heaven. He fights bravely, but not imprudently, and obeys his commander, even if retreat should sound.
"A knight of the Hospital should provide, and may own, his arms and armour, a charger or perhaps two, and a palfrey. All other property he must surrender to the Order for use in the service of the weak and poor.
"A knight of God brings strength and service, prowess and arms as gifts to the poor. The Order must not divert them to the use of its members, or to vain aggrandisement of its might or glory.
"The Order itself shall provide members with the necessities of a frugal but healthy life. It may repair the losses suffered by members in the pursuit of their duties. But otherwise, property of the Order, including arms and horses, shall not be given to members, even in guise of a loan.
"Good food and enough keep a knight fit to serve the poor in battle. Therefore eat sufficiently and well. Eat meat at least three times a week, except during Lent. Fast only on days of fasting prescribed by the Church.
"Other monks mortify their flesh by fasting and scourging. Knights of God do so by exposing their bodies to the dangers of battle.
"Scourging, long fasting, and other severe penances and motifications render a knight unfit for service in battle, and are therefore a breach of duty. A knight of God seeks as his mortification righteous battle.
"Hunting, hard riding, and the exercise of arms keep a knight fit for duty, and therefore knights of the Hospital should hunt, ride, drill, and spar. Since these pursuits exhilarate the flesh, they should be followed by purification, prayer, and penitential meditation.
"Knights of God should avoid prideful and ostentatious hunts and tourneys where worldly knights vie for prizes, ransoms, and the amorous attentions of damosels.
"Constant exercise of arms keeps a knight fit for duty. A knight should train at handling arms from horseback and on foot three times every week except Easter Week, and should exercise his own destriers.
"Armour may be worn in the cloister and outside the commandery to accustom the knight to its weight, and for laying a burden the body. But to avoid pride of display it should be covered with the mantle. Armour should not be worn in the chapel, except when purifying and dedicating oneself immediately before battle; and in immediate prayers of thanks to God for deliverance and for victory, and by a new knight during his ordination.
"Penances should not be imposed nor undertaken, nor punishments inflicted, that make a knight unfit for duty. Rather, a delinquent, disobedient, or sinful knight should be set at laborious and disagreeable tasks and exercises, or at an extreme excluded from saying the Divine Office with his brethren. If a knight must be beaten with rods, he should be degraded to the sarjentry or expelled from the Order.
"Cleanliness is the foundation of health, and a foul stink an offence to the Lord. Knights should not emulate vain or slothful monks who go in filth as a pretended sign of holiness.
"By canon law, no person may be ordained a priest before he reaches the age of twenty-four years. The ideal recruit is an experienced knight of more than twenty-three years, who has seen the work of the Order performed, and feels a vocation from God. He may be inducted as soon as he learns to read the Divine Office.
"When battle is imminent, knights may wish to join the Order without delay, so as to fight and face death as brethren. The Commander ought to admit and ordain them subject to a vow to learn to read, attend the sick, and say the offices of the Church as soon as may be.
"Ambitious and vainglorious burghers and peasants might be tempted to obtain arms and horses by unruly means, and become knights by joining the Order. Not to encourage violence and crime, the Order ought to admit as knights none who have not obtained their equipage of their own estate.
"Boys too young for ordination may be admitted as novices on temporary vows. They should be instructed as healers and priests, taught to read Latin, and trained in arms under a Preceptor.
"The goods of the Order of the Hospital are given to aid the poor, the weak, and the sick, and so too are the efforts and the skills of its members. Therefore, do not admit the very young, or those who will require much training, but only those whose joining is a gift to the poor, weak, and sick.
"Novices of the Order may serve as esquires and escutiers of the Knights on campaign. Thus they discharge a necessary function and learn from what they see. But they must not wait on the knights in the Commandery, nor care for, nor exercise their horses. This would teach the novices nothing, and would allow the knights to fall into pride, sloth, and luxury.
"The commanderies of the Hospital should be strong and spacious without being proud or luxurious. The chapels should be gracious, but not rich. They should remind the knight of the majesty of God, not the wealth of his Order.
"Poverty, celibacy, and obedience are required by our vows. But the most important virtues of a Knight Hospitaller remain, as for any Christian, Temperance, Justice, Prudence, Fortitude, Faith, Hope, and Charity.
"In all matters tread warily between self-indulgence– which is avarice, gluttony, luxury, and lust– and excessive self-denial– which is pride. Seek in all your conduct the Golden Mean, which is virtue.
"It is not proper that knights should sing the Divine Office in battle. Take communion before battle when you can, and when you are in the fray sing appropriate psalms.
"The Templars eat in pairs to see that none weakens himself by fasting: but Hospitallers need no supervisors. They obey their superiors and eat what they are told to eat.
"Menaces can compel the outward form of action, but cannot enforce inner conviction or the acceptance of faith. The knight of God does not attempt, assist, or pretend to work the conversion of heretics and infidels by force.
"Use only such force as justice requires, for though killing may be justified, it is always evil in itself.
"The Holy Bible contains many precepts, both necessary and important. And surely the actual words of Christ must be the most necessary and the most important of all. For who shall say that God the Son omitted from His teaching aught that was needful?
"See Christ crucified in the sick, the Virgin in a woman in labour, the Pieta at each graveside, and the Devil in the castle on the hill.
"We are servants of God. Let us treat his children as the children of our master, not as strangers at our master’s gate.
"The enemies of God are not found only in the lands of the infidel.
"Think first, then speak.
"Use much silence. But when you must speak, speak not curtly but courteously.
"Be gentle and meek, for soft speech turneth away wrath.
"If you can say nothing that is not both kind and true, say nothing.
"Swear not great oaths, which are an offence to God, but stand by your word in mercy and justice.
"Some say: love the sinner, but hate his sin. But I say: fill your heart with love and do your duty to the Lord.
"God will have mercy and not sacrifice.
"When you think on the Parable of the Good Samaritan, remember that Our Lord told it as a moral example to Jews, and that Samaritans were the heretics of Israel.
"Meddle not with heresies and the refutation of heresies, nor with the mysteries of philosophy and theology, but love your neighbour with all your heart.
"If by chance you fall into sin, do not fall also into despair. God is merciful, and sin may be forgiven."
Regards,
Agback
Selected Precepts of
the Reverend Fra’ Dobeslaw of Pécs
Knight Preceptor of the Order the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem
Taken down in the last days of his life by Fra’ Jean du Tarn, at Bourg de St. Andeol, during Easter Week in the year of Our Lord one thousand one hundred and twenty-two.
"Some would say that the knights of God are instituted the better to prosecute Holy War. But we who have walked in blood through the slaughter of Jerusalem know that war can never be holy. It can be necessary. It can at best be just. But to maim and kill can never be holy. The knights of God are instituted as knights to serve where selflessness and discipline and large numbers are needed to discharge what is the holy duty of any knight: to protect the weak, to aid the needy, to succour those who suffer, and to overthrow the wicked.
"A Knight Hospitaller lives in the service of the children of God. He fights for them, prays for them, heals them when they suffer, and aids them when they want.
"Knights of God provide the protection of their arms and fortresses as other charitable orders provide alms and hospices. But the profession of arms tempts the knight to pride and vainglory. Therefore serve the sick and the poor in all humility.
"The calling of an Hospitaller is to provide those who lack with that which they need. In our hospices we give food to those who hunger, drink to those who thirst. We give shelter to those who are cold, clothes to those who are naked. We heal the sick and the wounded, and bring the Sacraments to those who thirst for God. And we give refuge within our walls to the weak and the persecuted. This is not enough. Poverty, hunger, sickness, persecution, suffering, and injustice flourish beyond our walls. We must fight them there.
"Any charitable order must carry food and drink, clothing and fuel where-ever God’s children are hungry, thirsty, or cold; heal them where they are injured or sick; perform the Sacraments where they are born, work, suffer, and die. So the Knights Hospitallers must protect the defenceless where-ever they are persecuted, and discomfit the powerful where-ever they are unjust.
"Despite simplicity and poverty, the Order cannot allow wicked men to seize the land and goods that it is given to support its works in charity. For to rob from the Order is to rob from the poor, the sick, and the weak. But war for property is a great danger to the souls of the Order. Therefore it must never be enterprised unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly, like wicked knights moved by avarice and pride, but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, and in the fear of God. After fighting for its own rights, the Order or a commandery ought to do penance, and perhaps do extraordinary works for the poor and suffering.
"The work of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem is to fight for the weak, to heal the sick, to aid the poor, and to say the Divine Office. Only the Knight Hospitaller– warrior, monk, healer, and almoner together– does all the duty of the Order, and only he can be a full member. Those who lead the order must understand its work in every part.
"To fight for the weak a knight needs disinterest and discipline. The knight of God must be free from hope of gain, and free from family entanglements, and must obey his leaders even at the price of his life.
"Battles are won by discipline, and discipline is founded on the habit of obedience. Knights of the Order must cultivate discipline by instant, absolute, and unquestioning obedience to their commanders, commanders to their priors, and priors to the Master and his delegates, at all times.
"Vain knights may take vain oaths, that they will never retreat from the infidel. Thus they win death or glory, and often lose battles. The knight of the Hospital fights for God and justice, not his own glory or even entry into heaven. He fights bravely, but not imprudently, and obeys his commander, even if retreat should sound.
"A knight of the Hospital should provide, and may own, his arms and armour, a charger or perhaps two, and a palfrey. All other property he must surrender to the Order for use in the service of the weak and poor.
"A knight of God brings strength and service, prowess and arms as gifts to the poor. The Order must not divert them to the use of its members, or to vain aggrandisement of its might or glory.
"The Order itself shall provide members with the necessities of a frugal but healthy life. It may repair the losses suffered by members in the pursuit of their duties. But otherwise, property of the Order, including arms and horses, shall not be given to members, even in guise of a loan.
"Good food and enough keep a knight fit to serve the poor in battle. Therefore eat sufficiently and well. Eat meat at least three times a week, except during Lent. Fast only on days of fasting prescribed by the Church.
"Other monks mortify their flesh by fasting and scourging. Knights of God do so by exposing their bodies to the dangers of battle.
"Scourging, long fasting, and other severe penances and motifications render a knight unfit for service in battle, and are therefore a breach of duty. A knight of God seeks as his mortification righteous battle.
"Hunting, hard riding, and the exercise of arms keep a knight fit for duty, and therefore knights of the Hospital should hunt, ride, drill, and spar. Since these pursuits exhilarate the flesh, they should be followed by purification, prayer, and penitential meditation.
"Knights of God should avoid prideful and ostentatious hunts and tourneys where worldly knights vie for prizes, ransoms, and the amorous attentions of damosels.
"Constant exercise of arms keeps a knight fit for duty. A knight should train at handling arms from horseback and on foot three times every week except Easter Week, and should exercise his own destriers.
"Armour may be worn in the cloister and outside the commandery to accustom the knight to its weight, and for laying a burden the body. But to avoid pride of display it should be covered with the mantle. Armour should not be worn in the chapel, except when purifying and dedicating oneself immediately before battle; and in immediate prayers of thanks to God for deliverance and for victory, and by a new knight during his ordination.
"Penances should not be imposed nor undertaken, nor punishments inflicted, that make a knight unfit for duty. Rather, a delinquent, disobedient, or sinful knight should be set at laborious and disagreeable tasks and exercises, or at an extreme excluded from saying the Divine Office with his brethren. If a knight must be beaten with rods, he should be degraded to the sarjentry or expelled from the Order.
"Cleanliness is the foundation of health, and a foul stink an offence to the Lord. Knights should not emulate vain or slothful monks who go in filth as a pretended sign of holiness.
"By canon law, no person may be ordained a priest before he reaches the age of twenty-four years. The ideal recruit is an experienced knight of more than twenty-three years, who has seen the work of the Order performed, and feels a vocation from God. He may be inducted as soon as he learns to read the Divine Office.
"When battle is imminent, knights may wish to join the Order without delay, so as to fight and face death as brethren. The Commander ought to admit and ordain them subject to a vow to learn to read, attend the sick, and say the offices of the Church as soon as may be.
"Ambitious and vainglorious burghers and peasants might be tempted to obtain arms and horses by unruly means, and become knights by joining the Order. Not to encourage violence and crime, the Order ought to admit as knights none who have not obtained their equipage of their own estate.
"Boys too young for ordination may be admitted as novices on temporary vows. They should be instructed as healers and priests, taught to read Latin, and trained in arms under a Preceptor.
"The goods of the Order of the Hospital are given to aid the poor, the weak, and the sick, and so too are the efforts and the skills of its members. Therefore, do not admit the very young, or those who will require much training, but only those whose joining is a gift to the poor, weak, and sick.
"Novices of the Order may serve as esquires and escutiers of the Knights on campaign. Thus they discharge a necessary function and learn from what they see. But they must not wait on the knights in the Commandery, nor care for, nor exercise their horses. This would teach the novices nothing, and would allow the knights to fall into pride, sloth, and luxury.
"The commanderies of the Hospital should be strong and spacious without being proud or luxurious. The chapels should be gracious, but not rich. They should remind the knight of the majesty of God, not the wealth of his Order.
"Poverty, celibacy, and obedience are required by our vows. But the most important virtues of a Knight Hospitaller remain, as for any Christian, Temperance, Justice, Prudence, Fortitude, Faith, Hope, and Charity.
"In all matters tread warily between self-indulgence– which is avarice, gluttony, luxury, and lust– and excessive self-denial– which is pride. Seek in all your conduct the Golden Mean, which is virtue.
"It is not proper that knights should sing the Divine Office in battle. Take communion before battle when you can, and when you are in the fray sing appropriate psalms.
"The Templars eat in pairs to see that none weakens himself by fasting: but Hospitallers need no supervisors. They obey their superiors and eat what they are told to eat.
"Menaces can compel the outward form of action, but cannot enforce inner conviction or the acceptance of faith. The knight of God does not attempt, assist, or pretend to work the conversion of heretics and infidels by force.
"Use only such force as justice requires, for though killing may be justified, it is always evil in itself.
"The Holy Bible contains many precepts, both necessary and important. And surely the actual words of Christ must be the most necessary and the most important of all. For who shall say that God the Son omitted from His teaching aught that was needful?
"See Christ crucified in the sick, the Virgin in a woman in labour, the Pieta at each graveside, and the Devil in the castle on the hill.
"We are servants of God. Let us treat his children as the children of our master, not as strangers at our master’s gate.
"The enemies of God are not found only in the lands of the infidel.
"Think first, then speak.
"Use much silence. But when you must speak, speak not curtly but courteously.
"Be gentle and meek, for soft speech turneth away wrath.
"If you can say nothing that is not both kind and true, say nothing.
"Swear not great oaths, which are an offence to God, but stand by your word in mercy and justice.
"Some say: love the sinner, but hate his sin. But I say: fill your heart with love and do your duty to the Lord.
"God will have mercy and not sacrifice.
"When you think on the Parable of the Good Samaritan, remember that Our Lord told it as a moral example to Jews, and that Samaritans were the heretics of Israel.
"Meddle not with heresies and the refutation of heresies, nor with the mysteries of philosophy and theology, but love your neighbour with all your heart.
"If by chance you fall into sin, do not fall also into despair. God is merciful, and sin may be forgiven."
Regards,
Agback
BrooklynKnight
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"Today is a good day to die!"
and my own variation on a klingon war yell.
"We are Klingons, and we stick to the walls!"
and my own variation on a klingon war yell.
"We are Klingons, and we stick to the walls!"
Dog Soldier
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This was posted by someone or other on a message board back when I still played UO.
"Give me honor to know right from wrong, Justice to uphold the righteousness, Valor to do what is right, Honesty to know the difference between what is right and wrong, Compassion to help others in their time of need, Sacrifice to give myself to those needs. Humility to know when I am wrong and to correct it, Spirituality to live by all of the virtues above."
"Give me honor to know right from wrong, Justice to uphold the righteousness, Valor to do what is right, Honesty to know the difference between what is right and wrong, Compassion to help others in their time of need, Sacrifice to give myself to those needs. Humility to know when I am wrong and to correct it, Spirituality to live by all of the virtues above."
CrusaderX
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The Ten Commandments of the Code of Chivalry
From Chivalry by Leon Gautier
- Thou shalt believe all that the Church teaches, and shalt observe all its directions.
- Thou shalt defend the Church.
- Thou shalt repect all weaknesses, and shalt constitute thyself the defender of them.
- Thou shalt love the country in the which thou wast born.
- Thou shalt not recoil before thine enemy.
- Thou shalt make war against the Infidel without cessation, and without mercy.
- Thou shalt perform scrupulously thy feudal duties, if they be not contrary to the laws of God.
- Thou shalt never lie, and shall remain faithful to thy pledged word.
- Thou shalt be generous, and give largess to everyone.
- Thou shalt be everywhere and always the champion of the Right and the Good against Injustice and Evil.
From Chivalry by Leon Gautier
- Thou shalt believe all that the Church teaches, and shalt observe all its directions.
- Thou shalt defend the Church.
- Thou shalt repect all weaknesses, and shalt constitute thyself the defender of them.
- Thou shalt love the country in the which thou wast born.
- Thou shalt not recoil before thine enemy.
- Thou shalt make war against the Infidel without cessation, and without mercy.
- Thou shalt perform scrupulously thy feudal duties, if they be not contrary to the laws of God.
- Thou shalt never lie, and shall remain faithful to thy pledged word.
- Thou shalt be generous, and give largess to everyone.
- Thou shalt be everywhere and always the champion of the Right and the Good against Injustice and Evil.
Hypersmurf
Moderatarrrrh...
Blade with whom I have lived;
Blade with whom I now die:
Serve right and justice one last time;
Seek one last heart of evil;
Still one last life of pain.
Cut well old friend, then... farewell!
-Hyp.
Blade with whom I now die:
Serve right and justice one last time;
Seek one last heart of evil;
Still one last life of pain.
Cut well old friend, then... farewell!
-Hyp.
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