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Post by Selladan on Aug 13, 2004 16:32:26 GMT -5
This is just a little something about my background before I joined.
A week ago I was a member of a region that was aligned with the Allied Liberation League known as the ALL. The ALL is allied with the ADN and so on many occasions I found myself fighting along with ADN operatives. I worked hard to bring down the corrupt, tyrant NPO, and one day, I realized that I had been trained to hate the NPO, but I knew nothing of them. So I decided to skim through the NPO Forums. Reading thread after thread, I spent hours reading of the NPO, and after each post I read, I could not help but feel as though I was on the wrong side. It was that day that I stepped down from my position in that ALL region and joined the NPO and I don't regret any of it. I encourage all of the NPO haters I see to visit these Forums, for something about the people here just makes you feel as though they are your Comrades, not the common enemy.
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Post by LadyRebels on Aug 13, 2004 16:41:28 GMT -5
Glad to note that someone eles decided to seek their own truth on the matter.
I had a hard choice to make myself and shocked quite a few people with signing up on these boards.
But you need to understand that other's will only come here when they are ready, and then it is hard for some to face the truth of the lies that they understand to be the truth.
I am not a member of TNPO, understand that, I am just a person that had to seek her own understanding of the "enemy" in her own way, and does not wish harm on anyone on these boards.
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Post by Black Adder on Aug 13, 2004 16:56:23 GMT -5
Many of us are here because we saw what we were doing was inherently wrong Comrade. Its takes character and conviction to not only seek the answers but to stand up and reveal what you were. It is the best course, there are no secrets and whatever one tries to hide invariably raises its head up to confront you at some point.
I'm glad you've come to an understanding that you feel good about. Many of us have.
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Post by Warrior Thorin on Aug 13, 2004 16:59:42 GMT -5
Indeed. Look at my response regarding my days as a "n00b". I had much the same experience.
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Post by Chosen Men on Aug 13, 2004 17:44:47 GMT -5
I have not posted in the n00b thread but I began my NS career similarly to Warrior Thorin. And like Black Nahn and Lady Rebels, I registered on this forum and got to know the residents of the region better.
The conversational exchanges found in the forum threads inspired me to write my PSAs. One PSA in particular stands out since it was inspired by my own truth-finding and the outlandish shouts of the critical mobs of outsiders. If I may be permitted to repeat a part of it here ---
And I still find this to be true.
Chosen Men has endured the taunts and ridicules of ignorant nations in the RR because of my sense of duty and respect to our comrade the Great Pacifican. Would that they could spend a few hours perusing these threads as so many of us have done. Would that they could have shared the TG exchanges I did with Francos Spain. That they could have felt my pride and relief at being welcomed and accepted and encouraged by Franco. Perhaps they too would have come to honor and respect the gentleman for who he was.
I have seen other regions forae. I have waded through their inane ramblings. I am happy here.
I may not have the comedic bent of Sir Paul or the articulation of Black Adder or the unashamed openness of you, Lady Rebels. But I have honor and a sense of duty and respect for the man who offered me his friendship instead of a trip to the RR and a soured game experience.
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Post by LadyRebels on Aug 13, 2004 18:03:33 GMT -5
Honestly, one thing that I would like to say.... you have in your sig. No endorsements= No power. I honestly think that is wrong Chosen Men, only because is the power of your ideas, your voice, and your mind that gives you power. It is not the endorsments that do that. I thank you most kindly for the compliment that you have bestowed upon me. Most see it as naughtness, not openess.....
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Post by Chosen Men on Aug 15, 2004 16:32:48 GMT -5
I appreciate your encouragement, LR. Thank you.
No Endorsements = No Power was from my early days. It arose from a TG conversation with Francos Spain about why I did not belong to the UN. I had been observing how nations with more than a certain number of endorsements "disappeared". He suggested I join the UN, I suggested the now ever-present phrase as the reason for not joining the UN. I was not a threat if I posed no threat.
Now I keep the phrase to remember better days.
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Post by Black Adder on Aug 15, 2004 16:41:36 GMT -5
Sharpe, those are our talents and they are what they are. Yours is a sense of duty and honour. There are those who scoff at that term but it only shows a lack of understanding on their part. You do display honour standing watch over El Caudillo, I wish I was still there with you.
Of all the talents you named your is the ones we all have to strive for. If we can't stand together bound by duty to one another and a sense of holding ourselves to an Honour code that we have all agreed to we will fall. What you embody is what we all need to strive for in the NPO. Never, ever feel less than any of us because you resonate the very credo that keeps the NPO together.
I am glad you have those memories to draw on about Franco. Now its up to you to inspire that same sense into the new blood that wanders through these forums. The NPO is strong because we are strong for one another.
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Post by LadyRebels on Aug 15, 2004 17:23:04 GMT -5
Cherish the memories, Dream the dreams and always keep your eyes focused on the ulimate goal.
It is only with the strong ones such as the ones on these boards that TNPO will make it.
I wish more and more people would understand that Honor is the one thing that shines through even on something like NS.
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Post by Tharain on Aug 17, 2004 16:35:26 GMT -5
Like Black Nahn, I too had an anti-NPO past. I'm an ADN oldie. Even now my main nation of Thesh is still in a pro-ADN region, but I don't do anything anymore for them. I stopped doing anything really cuz the ADN was obviously looking for someone to hold offense too, and since a lot of the ADN hierarchy are now "displaced" Pacificans after being ejected by Francos for breeching the code, it's natural for them to turn on the NPO. I was fashioned to hate the NPO, and participated in a few of their raids on the region early on. However I came to see what it's like living under the NPO, and when it comes down to it you folks here are the same as the folks in Nasicournia, Invaders (though a little older than these guys), or even USSR. Just friendly folks with a common interest, NS. So thanks for the good chats guys, and here's to many more.
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