LadiesBladewing
Posts: 944
Joined: 8/31/2005
Status: offline
|
If it was a slave who sent the message, he or she needs to attend to his or her owner and the business of service in his or her own back yard. If it was a free, and he or she doesn't approve of the amount of liberty time granted to you, he or she is -welcome- to make different demands on his or her own property (unless he or she was given specific permission by your owner to address your idle time.)
A Gorean slave serves as much or as little, and in as many or few ways, as suit his or her Owner. MANY Gorean slaves do manual labor as little as a couple of hours a day, spending their afternoons in quiet, pleasant pursuits that will leave them fresh and rested to properly serve their owners well into the evening hours. Of course, life is significantly less complicated on Gor, and there are -far- fewer "time saving features" that seem to push American culture, at least, into a frenzy of work.
This is not to say that a Gorean-trained slave should -expect- free time, or that he or she should neglect ANY duty that xhe sees need be done. Only that, if a slave girl's owner -does- give her time to do things that please her, it is NOT inconsistent with her slavery to use that time in acceptable pursuits. If her owner has assigned duties and has authorized activities for when she is not pursuing those duties, then as long as she is pleasing to her owner in her recreation, always available to serve at the smallest command of her owner, and she has done all that she was required to do to the peak of her ability, those of us who are outside of the relationship cannot judge her service. That is up to her Owner.
As a free woman, I most relate to the cultures of the North of Gor, and my life here has plenty to keep me and several others busy. if I saw a servant sitting idle and I was in need of some assistance, if the owner of the servant was available, I would likely ask him or her to borrow said property to assist me. If the servant was idle and the owner was not available, and I -really- needed something, I might very well ask said servant to attend to the need -without- speaking to the owner first, and in either case, I would treat that property as I would hope that another owner would treat -my- property.
Interestingly enough, this caring for another owner's property is not treating that Owner's property as I would treat my own, but, in some ways, -more carefully- than I might treat my own, if only to assure that I would in no way damage the property of another that was borrowed. In the same way, though I may leave my books on my nightstand with the pages dog-eared and the spine cracked open, I would -never- dog-ear the pages of a book I -borrowed- from someone, nor would I leave it in a position that might cause it to become stained, or torn, or in a way that would risk its damage, because it was not MINE to do so with. My own property I can treat as I see fit. Another's property is not mine to make such a call with.
I, personally, do not leave my servants much idle time. I do not live on Gor, nor do they. There are things that need to be done that could fill 48-hour-long days and then some, and our lives here are not uncomplicated. However, there are times when I want my servant on her pillow, at my feet, doing nothing more than looking beautiful as I have taught her to be, because I want her pleasant company. This, too, is service.
Lady Zephyr
|
RE: an explanation... - 
Profile
New Messages
No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages
Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages
Locked w/o New Messages
Post New Thread