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| Slayer of Agapanthus |
My word association test result. Burning Man. MOAB! "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre. | |||
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Shaman |
I bet there's a serial killer there every year. Their "security" is very cult like. The people in charge of them are woke lefty fascists. Hunt videos of what happens when there is a sexual assault. And law enforcement shows up.  He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. | |||
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Maybe they should choose a better location next year. Like Hell. Lover of the US Constitution Wile E. Coyote School of DIY Disaster | |||
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We used to go camping in the Sierra every labor day and say them going south back to LA on 395 and their cars would be filthy and covered in dirt | |||
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I went to Burning Man in 2008 and 2009. It's a 10-day event. I only lasted 5 days each time and I was in an air conditioned trailer. Drinking 24/7 is hard on you. LOL Big place (circle). 4-5 mile diameter. Inner roads are ~25 concentric rings around the center extending outward. Lots of alcohol, nudity, debauchery, and drugs. The drugs were mostly done out of sight from the frequent police drive throughs. There also is(was) a tremendous amount of beautiful art displays. People setting them up months ahead of time. I was fortunate in the fact the Mother Nature didn't flush us, or blows us out of there. I can't speak to how it is now. Looks like a shit show. | |||
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Optimistic Cynic |
The inevitable collapse of any assembly without discipline, either self- or imposed. This is the road certain members of our society want us all to go down. | |||
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| Member |
Rain, mud, windstorms, shit, outdoor living, and wild sex. Sounds pretty much like my Army days, except we didn't have the art. | |||
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OH for sure, these gatherings that pivot-around and are rabidly adamant that a certain ethos or principal is adhered-to, are going to attract individuals who are the complete opposite. Predatory behavior amongst the 'open-society' types is not uncommon since the overwhelming imperative is openness, non-judgmentalism and acceptance but, because the attendees must BELIEVE they collectively put their heads in-the-sand in the hopes that wishing it away would solve it. The annual Rainbow Gatherings which are deep hippie, far-Left get-togethers, attract all manor of misfits and outcasts, where assault, theft and rape are not uncommon, often times resulting in participants forming 'tribes' and 'cliques' to protect each other in their attempt to re-invent the societies wheel. | |||
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A Grateful American |
Gather sheep into a pile and you surely get wolves. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא עוד | |||
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I don't get the whole concept. What's the point? What the hell do you do there? | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
https://burningman.org הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Global cultural movement. Okay, great! What the hell does that mean? Commies I guess. | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
Debauchery. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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Burning Man was started in 1989 in San Francisco. A guy got divorced and threw a party. During the party he took some kind of a symbol of a man (doll?) and he burned it in effigy of his married life. That's how the whole thing started. | |||
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It is burnt out . . . . | |||
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Happily Retired |
Uh...I don't think so. I saw enough of that crap back in the 60's. .....never marry a woman who is mean to your waitress. | |||
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| Conservative Behind Enemy Lines  |
You couldn't pay me to go. I found what you said riveting. | |||
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Ducatista |
This sounds logical to me. When I got divorced, the biggest catharsis I had was from a huge burn. I went in 1995, as a few engineer friends and I were asked to set up lights for a stage. Back then, lasers were not diodes and were a bigger challenge. Until gallium nitride (GaN)-based laser diodes in the 2000's did lasers take off. It had a different vibe back then. I wouldn't go today..... ___________________ "He who is without oil, shall throw the first rod" Compressions 9.5:1 | |||
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Car camp, drink, party to EDM, do drugs, meet different people, have sex with them, try mushrooms, see interesting art/creations Earlier generations it was definitely more post-apocalyptic Mad Max/Blood of Heros type of get-together, where artists, odd-balls and those who looking for some escapism to daily life could get out there and do it...if for a short-time. | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
Same, and I have been offered to tag along, begged to go numerous times and I always said "nope". I knew people who were at the first "burn" in Ocean Beach, basically a huge bonfire party. These same people were into Survival Research Laboratories headed by Mark Pauline, a performance art outfit that put on insane public shows like this one that I actually saw. I knew many people, including clients, that went to Burning Man year after year. To me, there was always a dark, underlying evilness to the affair, and I agree with Nicole Shananhan on her take on the event. I had a friend who went numerous times since the 90s and she eventually stopped because she too saw something a bit unsettling with the gathering. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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