My vile, horrible mouth.

[Vitus von Atzinger]

In an attempt to clean up my language, I have been pledging ten cents to the Midrealm Royal Travel Fund every time I say something unbelievably vile, crass or nasty.
I currently owe $3.00

[Gerhard von Liebau]

And this pledge started... Yesterday?



-Gregory-

[Nissan Maxima]

So we will be serving charity if we drive you to vile language?
I also have a question about your pricing scheme. Is that 10 cents per vile word? or do you price by the horrible sentence, or if the muse takes you, the paragraph?

[Baron Alejandro]

Vitus, you may have just hung a big ole sign around your neck. Good luck, sir.

[Maeryk]

Vitus, you may have just hung a big ole sign around your neck. Good luck, sir. Shocked

Hair shirts are so passe these days, you know?

Maeryk

[Vitus von Atzinger]

I already wear a chain around my ankle in regards to a vow. I can't take it off until late May. It's not a tiny whispy chain, either. I get carried away.

[Owynn Greenwood]

In the spirit of charity, I found somthing interesting that I just had to share....

Blankenshield is now making combat archery equipment.

Just kidding, good luck on remaining pure and virtuous. I cuss like a sailor when I'm working on computers, so for the year, if I took this pledge, I'd owe upwards of $100.

[Jakob Hilditonn]

A noble endeavor sir knight, good luck.

Have you thought of setting up a monthly allotment to the Midrealm Royal Travel Fund? It would simplify things.

Chain around your ankle? Inquiring Gallo-Romans want know more! Think of it as an education for those of us who don’t make many public vows on how better to do so.

[Vitus von Atzinger]

I am prone to making vows and having certain impediments accompany them.
I wore an eyepatch as penance for being rude to Sir Balin.
I refused to wear my white belt once until I had done a deed on a certain bridge.
I wore another eyepatch during CANDLEMAS. Still got to the final ten...this is not an easy task. Ohboy.
I am currently wearing a nasty brass chain on my ankle until I arrive on the field at Athelmearc War Practice in the end of May.
I have done other things like this but i can't remember them all.

[Aaron]

So we will be serving charity if we drive you to vile language?

We get to be annoying for a GOOD CAUSE?

Please forgive me. That was very funny in a Catch-22 sort of way.

-Aaron

[Ringlancer]

I once made a promise that if a payment wasn't mailed on a particular day, I'd cut my hair in a tonsure.

I almost failed.

[Alcyoneus]

I am prone to making vows and having certain impediments accompany them.
I wore an eyepatch as penance for being rude to Sir Balin.

I wore another eyepatch during CANDLEMAS. Still got to the final ten...this is not an easy task. Ohboy.

Now, if you'd gotten to the final 10 while wearing BOTH eyepatches, it must be one helluva flatsnap!

[Broadway]

I swore to my Baron, that on a future date I would wear a Baldric bearing the Baronial Badge and 12 sleigh bells, for a full year (one month for each bell), every time I fought at tourney.

It is pennance for a slight to him, at Gulf Wars last year.

[Patton Lives]

I have to wonder, from a philosophical point of view, does prescribing pennance for your percieved sins instill some kind of skewed logic in your subconcious that says its OK to be bad as long as you make up for it, making it more likely you will do bad things in the future?

[Broadway]

I have to wonder, from a philosophical point of view, does prescribing pennance for your percieved sins instill some kind of skewed logic in your subconcious that says its OK to be bad as long as you make up for it, making it more likely you will do bad things in the future?

In my particular case, no. I was unaware of the slight when it occured, it was quite accidental, yet, after being made aware of it, I thought it warrented an apology. The pennance, as I'm probably mislabling it, is a way for me to do more, than simply saying "I'm sorry."

[Vitus von Atzinger]

Nope.
We try to be passionate about what we do, and sometimes feelings get bent, or honor gets compromised.
We could act like it wasn't happening, or try to make amends. Every time you make amends you learn a lesson about courtesy.
"Do X, and people will get pissed off. Say you are sorry, and make it in a way that you will not forget X again."

[Aidan Cambel]

pen·ance -
An act of self-mortification or devotion performed voluntarily to show sorrow for a sin or other wrongdoing.


If you wish to look at it from a religious aspect - just remember that everyone sins. No one is without sin. So does the act of penance mean you feel that you can commit sin as long as you pay penance afterwords? No, it means you recognized that you did, and for that you are sorrowful.

Take the religious part out - (which is really hard since from what I can tell comes from the latin word penitentia and is often associated with the Catholic sacraments of repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution ) - you still have an act you voluntarily perform as sentiment of sorrowfulness for a wrongdoing inadvertantly committed.

It has nothing to do with doing something because you can get away with it and then pay penance later.

And back on the religious vein, penance is something you do to ask forgiveness for a wrong doing to a person - it does nothing to ask for forgiveness for the sin itself. That would be confession.

stir some other pot.

[Patton Lives]

Wanna buy some indulgences, Vitus?

[Tarquin Bjornsson]

wow vitus, i think you piss off more people than i do, how much you up to now?

[Aidan Cambel]

My comments weren't for Vitus, I applaud his dedication. I have seen or heard of him doing a number of things that most people wouldn't. I would like to think i would be that humble and be able to do something like wear an eye patch for half of a frackin' year just to make amends - but there are not many people that have that devotion, myself included i am afraid.