Greetings. I found your account by sheer chance, and it did not take long for me to subscribe!
This is the first entry I’ve felt confident enough to actually comment upon, because I want to pose a question: Suppose the person is improved by pretending to be an “otherkin”?
“Kahless left us, all of us, a powerful legacy: A way of thinking and acting that makes us Klingon.”
Star Trek gives two examples: Back in the day, Mr Spock’s stoic, logical Vulcan Way was an anchor to teenagers going through the turbulence of puberty and adolescence. You could argue, and some did, that suppressing emotion is not healthy but the mental discipline, or at any rate the idea OF “mental discipline,” proved helpful beyond anything else available. Today, the whole Viking samurai (or vice versa) philosophy of Klingons has developed into a code of ethics - strength, honor, bravery - that verges on a martial Boy Scout Creed. Honorable conduct - “What would Kahless the Unforgettable do?” The stars look down upon you. (“The night has a thousand eyes.”) Do they look upon you with shame, or with pride?
Yes, some people take more from an imaginary setup than you might think sane, but I could certainly see how someone who thought he was “really” a Klingon might, in Don Quixote fashion, be the better for it!
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Greetings. I found your account by sheer chance, and it did not take long for me to subscribe!
This is the first entry I’ve felt confident enough to actually comment upon, because I want to pose a question: Suppose the person is improved by pretending to be an “otherkin”?
“Kahless left us, all of us, a powerful legacy: A way of thinking and acting that makes us Klingon.”
Star Trek gives two examples: Back in the day, Mr Spock’s stoic, logical Vulcan Way was an anchor to teenagers going through the turbulence of puberty and adolescence. You could argue, and some did, that suppressing emotion is not healthy but the mental discipline, or at any rate the idea OF “mental discipline,” proved helpful beyond anything else available. Today, the whole Viking samurai (or vice versa) philosophy of Klingons has developed into a code of ethics - strength, honor, bravery - that verges on a martial Boy Scout Creed. Honorable conduct - “What would Kahless the Unforgettable do?” The stars look down upon you. (“The night has a thousand eyes.”) Do they look upon you with shame, or with pride?
Yes, some people take more from an imaginary setup than you might think sane, but I could certainly see how someone who thought he was “really” a Klingon might, in Don Quixote fashion, be the better for it!
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