barelynangel
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starshine, i am sorry but you seem to have two different realities and i am truly trying to figure out which reality you speak of. You keep stating this is earth, yet your questions here lead me to believe you have some fantasy reality of unowned slavery. Do you truly believe that being unowned and slave is some carefree fun ride of skipping around ladeedaing until you are owned again reveling in some slave feeling? You are correct, there is a reality.. one you seem to want to see with rosecolored glasses. Let's start with this: The biggest difference between an owned woman and an unowned woman is a Man who owns them, they are mastered. Which means there is a Man between them and the rest of the world. The Man deals with the world and the slave's focus is the Man. Its a chain of sorts. Sorry no pun intended. An unowned woman for whatever reasom who use to be owned, who recognizes slave but is one who doesn't have the luxury of being owned anymore knows the difference between being owned and not. I don't think you get that concept and i hope you never have to as you are owned. But believe me starshine, women who are not owned are very aware of what is inside them. 1) What happens to a woman when she is no longer owned? She has no choice but to survive in a world where once upon a time the only thing she focused on and needed to worry about was her Master. She now has to focus on the rest of the world and regain her autonomy and pick up the pieces and survive. The general concept is SHE IS FREE, and its something she needs to remember. She no longer has someone responsible for her, she now has to be responsible for herself. THAT is the reality starshined, i don't know what you expect but its not all fun and games where women flit around uncollared serving reveling in their slave within. There IS a reality we have to live in that is far removed from being owned. Emotions or not, an unowned slave's life is FAR different than an owned slave. An unowned slave gets up in the morning she goes to work, pays the bills, feeds her fish, goes shopping, laughs, cries, eats, sleep, recognizing slave, yet being free, why does she know this? Because the focus she once had is gone. That is the reality. 2. Whether it is in them or not, they have no choice but to live as an unowned woman and survive while they search. My advice being a woman who was owned and is now unowned, remember you are not a slave until you are owned. Slavery is about reacting not acting. Realize the difference. Because it could save you a lot of time dealing with players, wannabe's and preditors much heartache or getting involved with someone who will hurt you.. Again, you want the reality, starshine, then you need to realize the absolute reality and not the fantasy reality of women feeling slave. The feeling is not the reality, waking up each morning without a Master is the reality. 3. Your third question is actually a dangerous one in my opinion to ask on a forum such as this. Why? Well, 1) you have people here who consistently start their statements with "I am not Gor, but; i don't know Gor, but; i don't identify with Gor, but." There is no basis of gor, posts are randomly made whether knowledge is known or not known. There will be women who come to these forums not knowing anything about Gor and see answers to this question and not realize whose advice they should take to heart and whose advice not too. The gullible may fall victim because you believe they should "act" a certain way. To tell someone "how they should act as slave," makes them no better than the Masters who "act." If you are speaking of online, then you may as well tell them to go to the chatrooms because that is how slaves "act." If a woman is going to a Gorean gathering, the Man who is giving it will more than likely give her instructions and probably put her in the hands of an owned girl to guide. In person, she will more than likely react if surrounded by Men who understand what to do with women. If you "act" as a slave, then don't cry victim when you realize the Man you are getting involved with was "acting" too. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Slavery in the reality IS about reacting, not acting. Relax, be yourself, and realize slavery is about reacting to mastery, not acting so every Tom, Dick, or Harry will "see" you as something. In my opinion, its not a popularity contest. 4) its not IF it is enforced, it IS enforced, an unowned woman finds herself without a Master. Whether she likes it or not, she is free. Maybe not a FW of Gor by choice, but she is free. She needs to survive in her world, and there is no focus of an owned slave -- focus on her Master. Unless she has a support community, who takes care of her... she is on her own and no feelings inside of her is going to change that REALITY. 5. How do unown women present themselves? Since slavery is a reaction, then let your instincts guide you with common sense. If you react to a Man as a Master, follow his lead with common sense. As for the emotions, everyone deals with them differently, just as owned slaves do. Support helps with emotions, slaves who are owned who may not understand but can imagine, women who are in the same boat you are, Masters who allow you to cry on their shoulders, etc... There are friends -- whom i personally could not make it without -- and i thank them for being there with me. being an unowned woman who recognizes slave is probably one of the most agonizing concepts of reality. But we do live in reality starshined, and no matter how much we wish we were owned, the reality is we are not. No matter how much the ache is there, we have no choice but to push it aside and take a step into the world and keep putting one foot in front of the other. Imagine if you will, each day you crave it, days when you want to crawl into bed and curl up fetally and cry until you can't breath, there are days when you go crazy, there are times when you can bare the pain, and there are days when you simply are numb... amd days you scream, the craving never goes away, but you take one day at a time.. you have no other choice, because you are free, until one day, you find yourself back in a collar, owned being mastered and you have the single focus again -- Master. Believe me starshine, unowned slaves know the reality. Its not the rosecolored reality you seem to believe it is. The absence of a Master is felt with each breath. To go through people trying to see if he could be Master is draining and exhausting, to have possibilities flare up and then suddenly be extinguished makes you feel like you are being torn in two. I don't know what reality you want starshine, but believe me, an unowned woman is not a slave. She is unowned, without focus, without a Master, in a sea of uncertainty having no choice but to keep walking. This is my reality and many others reality. I know you want everything to be sweet and nice and neatly packaged but its not. This is the reality. Sorry if you want it to be something different. I hope you never have to know it. If this sounds harsh i am sorry, but the reality is harsh. Why because it is reality. All a woman can do is know what she is looking for but more importantly why. Because being slave is hard, even still harder under the hand of a Man of Gor who truly sees you as slave. Read the books and learn a little about yourself. Don't believe every body and don't disbelieve them. Treat everyone with caution, and treat everyone with impulse. Make friends with both owned and unowned women. Most of all, learn from your experience and realize that sometimes you have to take a leap of faith. As i have asked, starshine, what reality do you really want to know about? quote:
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious never live at all. angel
< Message edited by barelynangel -- 3/2/2006 7:40:05 PM >
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