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BitaTruble -> RE: CastleRealm2: Ancient Houses of Training (12/23/2007 8:13:08 PM)
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This particular essay, in my opinion, was the beginning of the end for CR. It was really, with this FAQ, that people began to question the information which was being provided as 'educational' and 'factual'. When anyone is purporting to provide facts, those facts need to be substantiated with credible sources, whether that be books, scientific data, multiple eye-witness accounts or some other verifiable factor. Some hard questions started to be asked .. questions which were never answered and since jades death was announced shortly after the writing of this essay, questions which will remain unanswered.
From where did this information come? How was the author able to, so emphatically, state the information was factual? Where is the documentation of which she speaks and how was the author able to access what no one else could?
The author made a statement that every "Tom, Dick and Harry" jumped on the 'house' bandwagon and that 'most' of them were charlatons, but as the ancient houses were secret, how was the author able to determine who was a charlaton and who had a legitimate claim? Well, by her own words, those who 'were' of the old families were not about to proclaim them to the world .. and here she is, proclaiming them to the world. I find such very telling.
One of the other things I find telling about such ancient history, is found within the very body of the work which the author presented. Information is passed down from father to son, membership is screened and you just can't 'get in' to this inner sanctum. What though of all the slaves who would have been trained in these houses? How were these slaves found 100, 200, 500, 1500 years ago? Did folks back then not question the disapperance of their sisters, daughters and cousins? Did they not wonder where their loved ones had gone? Were there bills of sale, receipts for services rendered? What about things such as clothing, food, medical expenses? Would there not have been some sort of doctors reports for things like accidents, pregnancies and death? As little as 500 years ago, according to the FAQ, these houses were not illegal or criminal, so why all the secrets? Who was being protected back then?
"According to the Berlin Papyrus No. 154, an ancient report reads as follows:
The patient suffers a great epigastric pain. He feels a heavy, hot and inflamed body. He complains of being unable to tolerate his clothes and feels they do not warm him. He feels thirsty during the night. His saliva has the taste of unripe fruits. His muscles pain him as if he walked for a long distance."
http://www.touregypt.net/historicalessays/doctors.htm
We, clearly, have evidence that doctors kept records as far back as Ancient Egypt. If these ancient houses of BDSM only passed information from father to son, did they call in doctors at all? It seems to me that the great store set to integrity, tradition and keeping your slaves welfare in the front of the mind, such would have, of course, allowed medical personnel to take care of these slaves so why is it that there is zero account of these sorts of activities?
Who provided the fruits, dairy products, meats etc to these houses? Were they self-sustaining so that all food products were grown or raised for the house? What about incomes for these houses? Keeping other humans isn't exactly free. Were there training fees? Dowery's? Dues? Tuition? Who paid the expenses of the slaves? Why is there not one shred of independent verifiable documentation in support?
So many questions, no answers. With Jade's death, Colm distanced himself from any knowledge of these ancient houses claiming it was only via the association with jade that he had any information of them at all.
Perhaps I'm a cynic, but I find that quite convenient. I tell my own Master everything and if I had verifible knowledge of such a huge scope of BDSM history, damn, it would probably make me famous! Who needs the internet when I could probably get my own segment on HBO's Real Sex Live or something?
My .02 cents on this exerpt.
Celeste
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