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Chuck
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 Posted - 08/06/2006 : 11:07:46 AM
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Hello all: After Katrina and Rita, finally gitting my life back to some sort of new normal...Like I said earlier in a post, it is good to be back reading and interacting with the members here, and what I consider the best posting board on the net. No one hurt in my family, but property damage was another thing. I was hit harder by Rita than Katrina, but the fallout of Katrina is still being felt throughout the state.
On another note, I was wondering if anyone here as had any experience with "Burning Man Project". I just recently heard of it and was wondering what it was/is all about. Thanks,
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Nuderthanthou
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Posted - 08/06/2006 : 1:55:03 PM
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Chuck, glad that you're back to a "new normal". In response to your inquiry about Burning Man, try http://www.burningman.com/.
A Google query on either burningman or Black Rock City will lead to you even more information.
Red-heads burn brighter!
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ggwydion
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Posted - 08/06/2006 : 10:31:25 PM
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I know Burning Man as a mostly pagan, clothing optional festavel in the southwest of the United States. I hope to attend soon as I am moving to New Mexico later this year.
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SingingSabre
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Posted - 08/28/2006 : 7:33:19 PM
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Originally posted by ggwydion
I know Burning Man as a mostly pagan, clothing optional festavel in the southwest of the United States. I hope to attend soon as I am moving to New Mexico later this year.
It's not really Pagan, per se. It's more of an anything-and-everything kind of deal.
I was thinking of going, but ticket prices got far too prohibitive. I'm going to stick to local events like Toast and whatnot.
I'm glad you made it through Katrina and Rita. Blessings of any deity/energy upon you.
"Son, crying in your milk is bad enough. Crying in your hot fudge sundae is just disgusting." R.A. Heinlein.
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Peter Pan
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Posted - 09/23/2006 : 9:25:39 PM
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Burning Man is unlike anything you can imagine. What started asa gathering of 20 or 30 people on the beach near San Francisco as a way of celebrating the human spirit, it has grown to be a week long festival of freedom. Imagine, if you can, a deserted wasteland..A scorching, dry, vast, flat expanse of naught but dust as far as you could walk in a day, with outlines of mountains beyond. For one week, upwards or 40,000 people descend, bringing every single thing they would need to survive, and packing every single thing out, so that the only thing remaining of this city on the move is tire tracks. Imagine, if you can, the most amazing examples of interactive art, displays, features, mutated vehicles, off the wall costumes, music, happiness, drugs, sex, anything goes, everything is appreaciated, everyone is celebrated. Imagine, if you can, the most fire you could think if, in the most unimagineable displays; a 150 foot long coiled metal snake skeleton with syncronised spurts of fire all down its back; a man making billowing smoke rings 25 feet across, that roil in on itself, getting more perfect as it rises hundreds of feet; multiple structure fires that singes your face hundreds of yards away; hundreds of people spinning fire..Imagine what a parade with the title of "critical Tits" would encompass..Imagine anything you could thing of and cube it..that is my Black Rock City Experience of 2006..and yes, nudism is completely acceptable attire
~Petey Pan~
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calmnude
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Posted - 09/24/2006 : 3:55:22 PM
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PeterPan,
I have a friend who has gone to Burning Man a number of times, and she loves it.
What is next year's theme? Something about "Celebrating Green"?
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Peter Pan
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Posted - 09/24/2006 : 9:31:11 PM
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Yeah the theme next year is about the Green Man and humanities relationship to mother nature..I'll definitely be there =)
~Petey Pan~
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allnaturalwife
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Posted - 09/25/2006 : 2:13:44 PM
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My husband and I have been to Burning man several times. We dont take our younger daughters as we dont think its really appropriate for children. Our older daughter,19 went for the first time last year. We didnt go..but her and her friends said it was fun. We only live about 3 hours from where they have it so its not to bad of a drive. We have been many,many times..but as we get older we tend to move twoards other nudist type activities. Out main issue with Burning man last time we went was that there were too many drugs around. We do not do drugs so the environment was a little unpleasent for us.
Jenn
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calmnude
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Posted - 09/25/2006 : 5:17:18 PM
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Peter,
well, I have an open invitation, so I may see you there.
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Peter Pan
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Posted - 09/26/2006 : 12:14:43 AM
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an open invitation for next year calm? i'll look for ya then =)
thats interesting jenn that that was your experience..i found it just the opposite..while there were plenty of drugs and intoxicants of probably every variety, i didnt find it imposing in the least, and they were never imposed on anyone..you had to be looking for them..and as for child friendly, i felt it was safer there that pretty much anywhere i've been..people really respected life there..i would even feel safe letting my children go nude there, if i had children..i guess everyone has their own perspective..=)
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allnaturalwife
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Posted - 09/26/2006 : 3:58:58 PM
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Fair enough. My younger sister alomost died of a cocaine overdose,so MY family, is extremely opposed to drugs. So anywhere where drugs are being taken openly is not the environment for us or our children. Dont get me wrong we enjoy social drinking and are not too bothered by the occasional person smoking weed. However- when we went to Burning man it was wall to wall people wacked out on Meth,Coke, and the like. Maybe some dont mind, but we do. To each their own I always say.
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calmnude
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Posted - 09/27/2006 : 12:42:54 AM
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well, I will go for the event, not to get wasted.
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allnaturalwife
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Posted - 09/27/2006 : 4:35:00 PM
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Again I am not judging ALL who attend..We met some very nice nudist and free spirited folks there. I was just turned off by the free flowing of narcotics.
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Warmskin
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Posted - 10/27/2008 : 5:31:13 PM
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I was very close by to Burning Man, but didn't know the location of it, and I was near it just before it began. That was not on purpose; I was enjoying the Secret Cove nude beach at Lake Tahoe, and someone told me about it and where it was located. It would have been interesting as a novel experience. The price can be prohibitive depending on one's circumstances.
AllNaturalWife, I am saddened to hear of your sister's encounter with drugs. It is quite scary to imagine a close relative on that sort of thing. I'm glad for you that she pulled through. As for me, I don't even smoke, drink, let alone do drugs, and I really wouldn't know where to get the illicit stuff if my next paycheck depended on it.
I hope your sister is doing better.
That government governs best, which governs least - Thomas Jefferson
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old hippie
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Posted - 11/11/2008 : 7:32:56 PM
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An acquaintance of mine will frequently leave the Philadelphia Folk Festival (at which we have volunteered for many years) to head out to the Burning Man. By all accounts it is a week-long participatory artistic experience; kind of Woodstock meets Key West, and in the desert. The last time I was in that part of the country, I was much younger and tougher.
One of our other buddies has suggested we fly out for the week - - but the temporary runway is not that inviting, and the precautions for leaving the aircraft out in the sun & dust for days even less so. We may have to make other travel arrangements. It does very much seem the sort of thing I'd like to experience while I can, though. [cf. the motto below]
Dum vivimus, vivamus!
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