Many people who meet us online ask us why we are doing this? Or they wonder: "isn't it just a 'fun' thing," or even: "aren't
you just pretending" ... any number of things. We are often told, rather stiffly, that the US is the best of all possible worlds, that
we are committing treason to think what we do.
Everyday,
rampant conflict reigns in "the best country in the world" --- if you are different: creed, race, gender, "lifestyle" choice,
educational background, political affiliation, etc. you are ignored or attacked. The land, the native animals & peoples, etc. all
suffer because of this.
When laws
are made, "if i can get away with it, i will" attitudes prevail (in fact, people even brag about the times they do).
EVERYDAY, the media shows you that it's okay to make promises you can't keep .... After all, they say,
businesses "do it," the government in charge does it, too, and there is nobody to turn to, because the
majority rules (the ones with the money do anyway). But is that right?
No one teaches
the attitude that things should be done BECAUSE THEY ARE RIGHT. We all seem more concerned with the money we make, not the way we make it, or spend it.
Noble qualities, like courtesy, self-responsibility, honour, respect, craftsmanship, etc. have all gone the way
of the eras that made them: no one says excuse-me i-apologize pardon-me please-or-thank-you any more.
And, if you mention
the Middle Ages & Renaissance period, people usually say they remember the Bubonic Plague and the lack of mechanized convenience, not any of the concepts or ideals that came from it.
Everyone always seems to think you must trade the "one" (chivalry) for the "other" (lack of technology equals low quality of life), as though we MUST destroy the planet in order to "have our cake & eat it, too."
In the meantime,
technology is taking over our lives, in a way that (seems to) allow for no choice; it is no longer the case that advanced technology
is the tool of humanity --- now humans are the tools of technology instead. More and more "stuff" is made, nothing is being recycled back into the closed loop we call the Earth, and
nobody wonders where it's all coming from, or where's it going to go in the end.
We have forgotten
our honour these days, or where it comes from.
This is why TorHavn
exists .... to find a place where "these things" can no longer
happen. Some of us harken to an older "place & time" --- a time of chivalry, knights, of magick & majesty, of lush, green giants
where animals & faeries live, where whatever is taken from the Mother is given back, without thought of "what's in it for me?"
That is why we are here .....
And, to return
to the subject of treason: "WHEN in the Course of human Events,
it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them
with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to
which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of
Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation." We ALL might remember that.
Some people think
we're crazy ... that we've "lost touch" with reality (remember: nobody cares ... everybody tries to 'get away' with something. �
And that's "the way it is") .....
Well, WE don't agree; that is why we exist --- a bastion of calm within, against the chaos without.
We will do what we have to do.
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