gathering NICNOO FREE SPIRITED BEAUTIFUL HUMANS 000706 ... xtc Floating in space ... we are clear out here , no concious mind to complicate our mundane working lives ... out here we are free . 000706 ... MollyGoLightly there's a gathering out in the national park every year. their space is right across from a group of hunters who camp out there every year. the hunters' vacation coincides with the gathering almost every year. pandemonium ensues. its like a sitcom. with guns. and hallucinogenic drugs. 000706 ... ja)y)ce oi! who took my pineapple? I do believe I am in " heaven " or possibly here and now. Damn. That is all. 000706 ... slapper It's not an event it's a prelude to what life should be like. People, lots of people, happy people experiencing the same thing yet its totally unique to each individual. Freedom to be who you really are. 000706 ... Loony My happy, happy home 000709 ... Grendel Babylonicus i'm sorry but i don't really see how a bunch of people in a forest frying on acid and being generally unygienic whilst jabbering on and on about how false the rest of the world is and about "Babylon" is really going to fix anything preaching to the choir is all it amounts to if you want to get your point across, crawl into the belly of the beast and change it from the inside otherwise tune in turn on shut the fuck up 000709 ... whirligirl yeah, you're really sorry. i can tell. 000709 ... moonshine Hmm.. hey a dog pissed in my tent and I may be tired of yelling 6 up every time a forest ranger drives by, but i had fun despite the blood sucking insects and coldless freezing nights. 000710 ... grendel if i could afford it, i'd rather go to burning_man. 000710 ... Crunchie G2000 was all about the importance of car-horn blowing whenever the sun peeked through (oh and gurners elbow) 000710 ... MollyGoLightly have been invited to these shin-digs a few times, but have never gone. hippies make me just about as nervous as i make them, i don't do drugs anymore, and i can't handle so much nature. so there you go. it seems to make a lot of people happy, though. anything that does can't be all bad. 000710 ... birdmad i won't deny that. but i've known enough people who were willing to believe it to be the panacaea for all the ills of the world that i can't help but look at it with a jaundiced eye the same basic reasoning that keeps me away from churches 000710 ... Glory Box I have these instead of parties. I am always the centerpiece. Almost never by choice. I love my gatherings. 020827 what's it to you? who go blather from