TranceTara
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I had to go back to the OP to see what you actually wrote masterforRT. quote:
More and more, I see people who call themselves slaves claiming that they only want women...or men...or couples. I have always believed that slaves are property, just like a house or a car. I don't see my car refusing to start for only one sex-so how can a slave make any decision as to who owns them?
The definition of slave from Answers.com is as follows:
"One bound in servitude as the property of a person or household."
Property....right?
I'm interested in what the rest of you think.
So, when I read, "I have always believed that slaves are property," I got the feeling you were expressing that this was your belief, but that perhaps, just maybe it wasn't set in stone. I don't know, perhaps I am wrong. Just a vibe. Then you wrote, "I'm interested in what the rest of you think." So, then I thought that maybe you were interested in seeing other opinions. Maybe you might change yours, maybe not. Again, just a feeling.
For me, that is not how I feel. I came into the scene with some who had the belief you did. I was a young woman at the time and a novice and they felt since I was a "slave" I could be hit and beaten whenever they wanted. I left the "Old Guard" world of BDSM thinking that all in that world were cruel and sadistic and did not care one bit for the human being that offered herself to them. That was way back in 1985. I eased back into the scene in 1999 via Pro Dommes just to get my feet wet (not to mention other parts  ) and realized there was a calling deep within me. I just let it be without risking a RT relationship for I still did not trust.
I then began to meet a variety of people and found some who understood more of where I was coming from. I have learned there is not right or wrong. I am not Old Guard. I choose to no longer be On Guard. I am more Avant Guard. I say I have a slave or service oriented heart, but do not define myself. Perhaps a quantum slave would best describe me.
And to you DominantDamsel, you said on p. 12 quote:
This OP is seeking something that for him is no role-playing game. He wants a real time slave that is the true meaning of the word, who doesn't belong to some slave labor union with a list a mile long that details what she will or won't do. The man wants a slave who won't mind being simple property, who gets off on that kind of thing, and he's certainly entitled to attempt to find one here amongst the lot of you if he so desires, is he not? So what's with all the jeering and the joking? Do you have any idea how it looks?
This is not roleplay for everyone. Some actually take this serious.
When I see terms such as "real time slave that is the true meaning of the word," and "Some actually take this serious," I feel that my seriousness about this lifestyle is discounted by you. I may not feel the same as you, I may not define myself the same way you or the OP does, but that does not discount how very deeply my soul yearns for Her. In no way am I saying you are wrong. I am just saying we have differing opinions of the reality of "slaveness". Is that a word? Now it is! 
I just got back from dinner at a Tibetan restaurant. There were statues of Buddha as well as Tangkas everywhere. I sat reading The Way of the Bodhisattva and The Dhammapada as well as a book on Time Travel. In the latter, the author was discussing Einstein's Theory of Relativity and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle as well as saying how quantum physics has basically proved that the world is nothing but probabilities and until an experiment is devised to predict an outcome, anything is possible. Until I have a thought, anything is possible. So, for me, any type of slave is possible. Any type of Master or Mistress is possible.
And, I began to laugh as I read in the Dhammapada about The True Master:
Wanting nothing
With all your heart
Stop the stream.
When the world dissolves
Everything becomes clear.
Go beyond
This way or that way,
To the farther shore
Where the world dissolves
And everything becomes clear.
Beyond this shore
And the farther shore,
beyond the beyond,
Where there is no beginning,
No end.
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And further on it goes:
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The master endures
Insults and ill treatment
Without reacting,
For his spirit is an army.
He is never angry.
He keeps his promises.
he never strays, he is determined.
This body is my last, he says!
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And further:
How clear he is.
He is the moon.
he is serene.
He shines.
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And further down:
He is calm.
In him the seed of renewing life
Has been consumed.
He has conquered all the inner worlds.
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As I read that in the restaurant I realized then and there that to be the slave I wish to be, I must first be a Master of my emotions, 
for only then can I truly submit to my One.
I wish to thank all of you for opening my eyes a bit wider and opening my heart a bit more. I have learned that I am a very strong and powerful woman, and yet, I am also a vulnerable woman. There goes that Yin/yang again.
And I would like to end this by sharing a poem I wrote in 1999 when I had a crush on my first Pro Domme:
Thrashed
Thrashed by the morals of a society
that is lost in its fear of pleasure,
i feel beaten.
i hate it.
Thrashed by the lashes of my Mistress's whip,
i am lost to my pleasure in fear,
i am beaten.
i love it.
Shackled by the restraints of what is deemed proper,
of what is normal,
i feel bound, trapped in hell.
Shackled by the restraints deemed proper by my Mistress,
our normal ritual,
i am bound, free to travel to Nirvana.
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May we all find that peace within so we may spread it without (as well as our legs ) and the freedom to continue to express our opinions.
Namaste,
TT
Oh, and then I re-read the "slaves with requirements" part. Yes, I do have requirements. I have the requirement to be loved, cared for and respected. Is that not what each and every one of us wishes? To be loved? So yes, I do have requirements. And I do have some physical limitations, so again, requirements based upon my physical needs. In all honesty, I am a romantic at heart. In my own world I can combine romance with M/s and D/s. I can buy Her flowers and She can buy me flowers. We can give each other massages. I can light candles, put on soft music and we can sit gazing into each others' eyes as she consumes me with Her power. Perhaps that is not a slave in terms of Old Guard but it sure warms my heart, soul and, ahem, I'll leave that to your imagination.
< Message edited by TranceTara -- 1/25/2009 9:27:22 PM >
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