Set your rules, Internet Engagement

Set your rules. It is extreme­ly impor­tant that you as a per­son set your rules. What does it mean to set your rules when par­tic­i­pat­ing on the inter­net, on boards, on alter­na­tive sites? What does it mean to set your rules, as a Gorean? The era that we live in today…

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Beauty — A Cornerstone of Gorean Philosophy

In my trav­els with­in the com­mu­ni­ties sub­scrib­ing to real­i­ty based expec­ta­tion, liv­ing and under­stand­ing cor­ner­stone ethos of Gor I was asked; “How does it trans­late for those liv­ing the phi­los­o­phy?  “Do you place a high val­ue on beau­ty?” Below is the answer to one of the most endur­ing cor­ner­stones to…

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The Natural Order

The Natural Order is the orig­i­nal way of under­stand­ing the world and every­thing in it, to derive the prin­ci­ples that it nor­mal­ly oper­ates with­in, by observ­ing for con­sis­tent behav­iors, move­ments, and habits. The wider the net is cast, the more cer­tain the resul­tant prin­ci­ples are. This empira­cal obser­va­tion takes place not…

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Basic Instinct: Violence in the Soul

(Reprinted from orig­i­nal pub­li­ca­tion in the Gorean Voice mag­a­zine) Ah, vio­lence, how our mod­ern soci­ety claims to abhor it! It is blamed for a mul­ti­tude of ills in the world, every­thing from teen mass mur­ders to the qui­eter, more intense nature of the psy­cho­path­ic ser­i­al killer on the loose. Road…

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Winnowing the Wheat from the Chaff I

(Reprinted from orig­i­nal pub­li­ca­tion in the Gorean Voice mag­a­zine) One of the things which seems to be more preva­lent recent­ly is a con­fu­sion about exact­ly what con­sti­tutes being of Gor, as an ethos, a phi­los­o­phy, in real life. Bearing in mind that many of those who have fall­en prey to this…

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On Contract Slavery I

(Reprinted from orig­i­nal pub­li­ca­tion in the Gorean Voice mag­a­zine) There are many on-line-isms which lit­ter the on-line venues of Gor, some are nat­ur­al out­growths of the tech­ni­cal aspect of the medi­um itself, while oth­ers are con­se­quences of the Net’s abil­i­ty to spread ideas, both good and bad, with astound­ing rapidity…

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