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In Memory, : :: : : |_ _; Karl Marx
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,~~ : :::'istorted : `|| says:
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--)( : :::. :::: : || "Aufheben!"
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()= : :: :igital ::. rection : []
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HOOKAH! : :::' :::: :
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19 March 1994 : Text File #19 Mongoloid Telecom
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This is a text file that appeared awhile ago from a user named Iron
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Eagle. A lot of the newer users didn't have a chance to meet Iron
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Eagle ... but I'm re-releasing this old text file of his. Actually,
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this runs contrary to most of his conservative views, but that's
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the way it goes er sumthin. Without further ado...
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'In Response to Anti-AD&D Arguments'
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by Iron Eagle
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A text file has appeared on the BBS. A text file describing the dangers of
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Dungeons and Dragons (R) and Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (R). I feel that
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it is my duty that you , if you wish, receive both sides of the arguement.
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You have may have already read the anti AD&D arguement. If you haven't
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please do so, because you SHOULD hear both sides of the arguement, and this
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essay is specifically designed to answer the anti-text file found on Amiga
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Asylum. I'm not going to preach to you, and bring in thousands of religious
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passages. Instead, I'm going to use simple, plain logic and fact. The same
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logic that I believe that God uses.
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-Iron Eagle
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April 12, 1992
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First of all, let me get this out of the way. I, personally, have been
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playing AD&D and D&D for eight years now. I have never killed anyone before.
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I have never made an attempt on my own life. I have never had the urge to
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kill anyone before (even in great anger). I have met hundreds, maybe
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thousands of other players of (A)D&D. All of them had been playing (A)D&D
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just about as long, or longer than me, and they haven't tried to kill
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anyone.
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Let me now talk about Mr. Molitor's catagorisation of the occult. Some of
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what he says is occult, I agree with. HOWEVER, ESP and telepathy are natural
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talents that EVERYBODY has. True, some people are born with more talent in
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it than others (identical twins for example). Some people develop it through
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years of careful practice (like a weight lifter may lift weights to increase
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strength).
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I believe that Mr. Molitor ment hypnosis when he said that the occult
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included the remote influence of the sub-conscious mind. If you do some
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reading, while people even in the deepest of hypnotic trances may be more
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willing to do certain actions, they absolutly cannot be made to do anything
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that they don't want to do (their conscious mind becomes present when someone
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tries to do it). The exception though, is the use of mind influencing drugs
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(sodium penthanol is frequentaly used, because in amounts that do not cause
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sleep, it lessens the will of people; hence the nickname, truth serium).
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Let's resolve this right now, brainwashing is NOT hypnosis. Brainwashing
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is flooding a person with both conscious ans sub-conscious messages while
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placing the person in some uncomfortable situation, position, etc. The brain
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eventually assumes that such uncomfortability (pain, humility, etc) can be
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avoided if it preforms the action that the messages tell it to preform. The
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only similarity between hypnosis and brainwashing is that they both affect
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the mind.
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Also, many chants that are used by the Catholic Church (and other
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churches that use ceremony) have a droning, hypnotic quality to them.
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Finally, Mr. Molitor said that self-hypnosis was occult. I have news for
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you; whenever you read a book, listen to the radio, as you fall asleep, or
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concentrate on any one task, you enter a state of self hypnosis. When you
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enter that state, your mind blocks out everything else and it focuses
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absolutly everything on that one task. Plainly stated, hypnosis and
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self-hypnosis are naturally occuring events in the mind.
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Now, let's get back on track, back to AD&D. Mr. Molitar stated that
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AD&D subjects the mind to a large amount of violence. Personally, I take in
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more violence in an average night of watching TV (news, older TV show and
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newer TV shows) than in an equal amount of AD&D. Considering I watch about 3
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hours of TV a night (starting at 7 pm and ending at 10 pm), that means that
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I'm taking in around 15-21 hours a week of violence by watching TV alone.
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That can hardly compare to a simple 4 or 5 hours session of AD&D a week.
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Advanced Dungeons and Dragons is not based on the supernatural, it
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contains it. AD&D is based on the interaction of the alter-egos of the
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players in a fantasy setting. Being a fantasy setting, it is natural to have
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magic. You may say that fantasy is based on the supernatural. Fine, but don't
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single out AD&D because there are thousands of ancient and modern fantasy
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books (Lord of the Rings, Riftwar, The Illiad, The Oddessy, Song of Roland,
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The Arthurian Legend, The Malloreon, The Elenium, First and Second
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Chronicles of Thomas Covenant and thousands more) that may or may not
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(depending on your belief of AD&D) contain the risk and occult.
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Mr. Molitar's essay states that there an AD&D book called "Deities and
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Demigods" (it is now called "Legends and Lore") And that you, as a player
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charactor, must pick a god, worship him, sacrifice to him, even die for him.
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First of all, you do NOT do those things, your charactor does, IF he chooses
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to worship a god. And the what the charactor must do for the god depends
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solely on which god it is.
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If you may or may not see this as a sin. If you do, consider this: An
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actor is in a play (let's say it Julius Ceasar) and s/he plays even a common
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Roman. 999999999 times out of 1000000000, that Roman worshiped the Roman
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pantheon of Gods. Is that actor committing the same sin? If you still say
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yes, then classify these plays as sinful: Any Greek, Roman, Egyption,
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Chinese and Japanese plays; any parts in a play containing someone of a
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different religion and any church play containing a bad guy (since the bad
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guy most likely was Satan or one of his minions).
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Mr. Molitar states that AD&D contains extreme violence. That such
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violence (as he says: "..murder, rape, theivary, pillaging and terrorism")
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is natural and a charactor is expected to do such things. Well, first of
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all, it depends on the DM, the player and his charactor. Most campaigns only
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contain a moderate amout of violence (equal to an average news broadcast).
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Mr. Molitar also says that a charactor must murder and rob in order to
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survive. Well, it depends of the charactor and his alignment. My charactors
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have never murdered or robbed. They have killed before, but those who they
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killed were of evil alignment. Considering that most PCs (Player
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Charactors) are of good alignment it is natural for them to kill, but only
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the evil charactors (it's no different in any police show that you may watch
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on TV). It's the same thing in real life. If someone is coming at you with a
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gun, ready to kill you and your family, it is natural for you to try to kill
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him/her first.
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Mr. Molitar goes on to talk about how the sub-concious mind becomes
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accusted to violence, and he's right. What he is wrong about is that MOST
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people would need to be exposed to incredible amounts of violence (90 times
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what you may find in an AD&D game). And those people who don't need to much
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violence, and have a hard time separating fantasy from reality, ANYTHING is
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dangerous to them (AD&D, TV, radio, magazines, books, etc.) However not to
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many people are like that. As far AD&D goes, According to the National
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Coalition on Television Violence, About 3 to 4 million people play AD&D, and
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less than one percent of players are adversely affected by it.
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Even IF Mr. Molitar is right and anybody can be subdued by this game, why
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is he singling out AD&D?? There are many more Role Playing Games out there.
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Most of which contain A LOT more violence than AD&D (BattleTech, for
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example, is set in a time of perpetual war).
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Finally, Mr. Molitar states that AD&D is a lure of Satan to take us away
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from God. IF it is, then it's a damn bad one.
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I would like to recognize the efforts of Kelli Tyson. A girl who goes to
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Wooster High School who wrote a newspaper article which contained some
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information that I used.
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Distorted Digital Erection March 1994 Text File #19
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