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?

Quote from: Sir Lüc on June 22, 2026, 05:13:57 AM4 seats formerly held by Francesco Manzella are now available to the Green Party for reassignment. @Breneir Tzaracomprada

Please reassign these 4 seats to esteemed  S:reu @Muhammed Yasir

Approved.

It is preferred for a bill to include the context of amended text by including the whole provision to be amended.  However, it all looks good in form and function, and I vote to approve.

Change made.  Thank you for your help!

Done - inserted 7.6.8 and also modified 7.6.4 to better outline the Chancery's need to send necessary mailers without explicit consent, rather than just saying "exempt from every requirement of this section", which is unnecessary.

This bill has been moved to the CRL.

4 seats formerly held by Francesco Manzella are now available to the Green Party for reassignment. @Breneir Tzaracomprada

The time allotted for voting on the Clark has expired.

As no bills or resolutions have passed both the Cosă and Senäts, Royal Assent is not required.

The Cosă and Senäts have disagreed on the following bill:

62RZ25 - The Freedom of Conscience Act
Agreed to by the Cosă 91-72 (35 abstained), rejected by the Senäts 4-4.


The Cosă passed a Vote of Confidence in the incumbent Government 106-25 (67 abstained).

Francesco Manzella (MC-Green) and Marcüs Causch (MC-URL/NC) both did not vote for a second Clark in a row and have therefore vacated their seats.



Sir Lüc da Schir, UrB
Secretary of State

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 21, 2026, 09:26:50 PM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 21, 2026, 06:44:03 AMFor me, it's Japan, Canada, Colombia, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, France, Hungary, Greece, Turkiye, Italy, and Switzerland.

Palestine (coming up in October hopefully)

How can it be possible?(I mean in this war)

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on June 21, 2026, 08:58:31 PMMoinol, what a fun question to ask everyone!
I've visited India,

I think you have faced some strange experinces.