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Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 22, 2026, 11:36:08 AM

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Recommendation for Membership

Your essay's central thesis is fascinating, not an area I could have spoken to, and sheds light on Diasporic Coping Mechanisms that I had never considered. I can, however, speak to the "absence-guilt", having felt it myself when my grandparents died. My Nana died 4 months before I attained citizenship, and her funeral was the day I left for my gap year, and I was unable to attend. It is heartening to me that this is not just something I feel but indeed is part of cultural and spiritual practice in cultures I am not even familiar with, truly eye and soul soothing to me.
Autoethnography is often a fascinating form of study, and in terms of this society's future work, it offers an accessible yet meaningful alternative to wider academic forms of phenomenology. Our pool of potential participants is relatively small, but it offers greater insight than many quantitative studies can capture.
I do, however, have some Peer Review Feedback.
Although not a failing in writing, I do feel that the ontological or philosophical alignment between the specific drumming tradition and the Bon Odori may not quite be clear. To elevate this past the risk of aesthetic extraction, the paper needs to briefly explain if/how these two traditions share a common understanding of rhythm as a spiritual portal or community anchor. Speaking as a media academic, the drum beat and its representation and use in such applications as horror is often used to represent the heartbeat and the feelings on an automatic level of the characters being portrayed, fast for high tension, slow for despair, etc. There is something primal about this, and I'm sure transcendent across many cultures; I just feel that your essay should attempt to state it outright.

To conclude, I find your paper to be an excellent fit for the society. Your qualitative research methods, somatic studies, and advocacy for a structural shift away from sedentary, silent, and internalised sorrow toward active, expressive, and cross-cultural physical performance is truly inspiring. The Talossan culture as a whole lacks some of our funary traditions, and this could be explored further in future study and an opportunity to look into how we might learn from other cultures, considering the diasporic nature of our nation.

I, therefore, as President of The Royal Society for the Advancement of Knowledge, Commend to the peers of this society and call upon its members to second my nomination for Crement Itravilatx to join our ranks as Senior Fellow, having offered a paper as their form of lecture and having attained at least a 2-year college degree. What say we?

Hi @Tierçéu Rôibeardescù

Is the voting period for Crement's membership open-ended?

With Limited recent precedent, I thought I would allow 2 weeks?
 

Thanks

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 22, 2026, 11:36:08 AM

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on June 14, 2026, 09:29:43 AM

Recommendation for Membership

Your essay's central thesis is fascinating, not an area I could have spoken to, and sheds light on Diasporic Coping Mechanisms that I had never considered. I can, however, speak to the "absence-guilt", having felt it myself when my grandparents died. My Nana died 4 months before I attained citizenship, and her funeral was the day I left for my gap year, and I was unable to attend. It is heartening to me that this is not just something I feel but indeed is part of cultural and spiritual practice in cultures I am not even familiar with, truly eye and soul soothing to me.
Autoethnography is often a fascinating form of study, and in terms of this society's future work, it offers an accessible yet meaningful alternative to wider academic forms of phenomenology. Our pool of potential participants is relatively small, but it offers greater insight than many quantitative studies can capture.
I do, however, have some Peer Review Feedback.
Although not a failing in writing, I do feel that the ontological or philosophical alignment between the specific drumming tradition and the Bon Odori may not quite be clear. To elevate this past the risk of aesthetic extraction, the paper needs to briefly explain if/how these two traditions share a common understanding of rhythm as a spiritual portal or community anchor. Speaking as a media academic, the drum beat and its representation and use in such applications as horror is often used to represent the heartbeat and the feelings on an automatic level of the characters being portrayed, fast for high tension, slow for despair, etc. There is something primal about this, and I'm sure transcendent across many cultures; I just feel that your essay should attempt to state it outright.

To conclude, I find your paper to be an excellent fit for the society. Your qualitative research methods, somatic studies, and advocacy for a structural shift away from sedentary, silent, and internalised sorrow toward active, expressive, and cross-cultural physical performance is truly inspiring. The Talossan culture as a whole lacks some of our funary traditions, and this could be explored further in future study and an opportunity to look into how we might learn from other cultures, considering the diasporic nature of our nation.

I, therefore, as President of The Royal Society for the Advancement of Knowledge, Commend to the peers of this society and call upon its members to second my nomination for Crement Itravilatx to join our ranks as Senior Fellow, having offered a paper as their form of lecture and having attained at least a 2-year college degree. What say we?

Hi @Tierçéu Rôibeardescù

Is the voting period for Crement's membership open-ended?

With Limited recent precedent, I thought I would allow 2 weeks?
 

By my (quick and potentially not very accurate) count we are on track for the following group stage point counts:

(min-max)

Lüc 22-41
Glüc 21-39
Braneu 22-43
AD 19-37
þerxh 24-43
Danihel (late entry) 23-42
Breneir 21-40

There are a lot more points to be earned in the knockout stage, which the group stage obviously has implications for, but I'm gonna wait until after the groupstage to do an update on that.

GENERAL
-I continue to believe, and hope to hear from Green Party members, that our political cycle moves too quickly. The electoral pressures seem to start every three to four months and raise tensions and create incentives for irrational behavior. We need more time for governing with elections every one to two years. Cabinet reshuffling and greater use of the Civil Service should be normalized.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on April 06, 2026, 05:23:44 PMIMMIGRATION:
-Renew the TalossAssistant program

Thankfully, the PA has, after months of delay, restarted this program. Hopefully this will increase successful immigration. And hopefully, the URL will decide to participate.

Quote from: Sir Lüc on Yesterday at 06:06:12 PMPlease don't necropost on threads this old; six months old is bad but tolerable, three years is way too old. I suppose it's not explicitly discouraged by Wittiquette, but it makes historical research much more difficult when threads are suddenly heavily out of order.

--SoS

Thank you for advising on this, Luc. Would it be better for me to request a split beforehand rather than make the post? Or if someone could help me with how to do it? As you mentioned this is not a breach of any etiquette rules but I do not want to make historical research more difficult. I am currently doing exactly that on Old Witt.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on Yesterday at 09:10:57 AM

Quote from: Sir Lüc on June 23, 2026, 10:18:21 AMGot it! Just wanted to make sure.

If someone's interested in being added as a co-sponsor, would that still be possible? I've gotten an inquiry about adding someone: @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP has asked to co-sponsor.

Sure, anytime before the Call closes is fair game.

Please don't necropost on threads this old; six months old is bad but tolerable, three years is way too old. I suppose it's not explicitly discouraged by Wittiquette, but it makes historical research much more difficult when threads are suddenly heavily out of order.

--SoS

Thanks @Sir Lüc !

NOTE: I know this received a cold welcome when there was a discussion in the Immigration threads. I do, however, think the idea (raising the age of citizenship) is worthy of a vote in the next Cosa.

Whereases to be determined

Therefore, be it resolved, that El Lexhatx Section E.1 which currently reads as:

QuoteProspective immigrants who have at least attained the age of fourteen (14) years shall be directed to the Minister of Immigration. The Minister of Immigration shall act on every such request received by that office, without discriminating on the basis of age, political preference, religion, or other personal information.

is amended to read as follows:

QuoteProspective immigrants who have at least attained the age of eighteen (18) years shall be directed to the Minister of Immigration. The Minister of Immigration shall act on every such request received by that office, without discriminating on the basis of age, political preference, religion, or other personal information.

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Breneir Tzaracomprada