burningman_tourists moonshine I was talking to someone who I used to be pretty good friends with and she mentions that her sister had gone to Burningman for the night of the burn. Jesus Fucking a goat! WHY!? whats the point? Its like showing up to a concert for the last 4 minutes of the show! So you can say you went? Prove to your friends how wild you truly are? What a free spirit! Maybe so you could go leave your mark, and help trash the place in the last few days? Ugh. Maybe I m being a snob, so be it. Being there the whole week, experiencing everything from the sand storms, the wind, and rain. The heat, the utterly foreign environment. Sparing your resources, your water. Thats all apart of the experience... 000910 ... niska yes you are being a snob. and a tourist! Geez! you are so self-righteous. you've missed the entire point of burning man altogether. how can you even pretend to know what you're talking about? only a poser would criticize others for not being authentic enough. what are YOUR reasons for being there? to prove to YOUR friends you could make it all week in the desert? to show everyone how 'cool' you are? how can you even associate this holy festival with your social rules? unfortunately, because we can't all choose the type of society we live in, some people are gainfully employed. this thing called a JOB sometimes makes it difficult to trapse naked through the desert all holier-than-thou for an entire week. In fact, sometimes a job can make you late for a lot of things you wish you had time to do. it's called priorities, child. i'm sure someone who went for the burn, actually went for the burn - i'm willing to be though that YOU would do it just to say you went. otherwise, why would that thought even cross your mind? maybe because it's closed? get a life. you're no better than anyone - only worse for thinking you are. 030412 ... ever dumbening oy vey 030412 ... anonymous do you think it was pms? 030412 ... niska HAHA i didn't mean that to come off as harsh as it might have... i just think it's silly to accuse anyone of being a tourist at burning man. how shallow... why claim to be more 'legit' than anyone else? who even cares why the other people are there? the fact that they are is cause to celebrate. and, on a side note: when a woman speaks her mind, it doesn't mean it has to have anything to do with PMS... come on. that's just ignorant... 030412 ... anonymous i know that - that's why i didn't use my regular blather nic. i figured you'd cut my nuts off. i just couldn't resist. and you spared me :-) 030412 ... blather_cop Ok, demerit points for sexist comment - article 10, paragraph 2. Sign here sir. And what's this about burning some guy in the desert? You gotta permit to do that? 030412 ... minnesota_chris yes, niska will pee in your corn flakes if you don't agree with her. I don't know how somebody without a job could go to burning man either, I mean the tickets are FREAKISHLY expensive for a bunch of hippies sitting around in the desert. I mean, folks, it's the desert. Jim Morrison and his friends wandered around for free. 030412 ... niska none of you have to agree with me. and by that token, i don't have to agree with anyone either. i think i made this point once before, but minnesota likes to think he knows me well enough to predict my reactions. HAHA anonymous: since i know now what you were up to... *THWACK* attack my character freely. it's much easier on you than attacking my argument, i'm sure, so i really don't mind. whatever floats your boat.. 030415 ... minnesota_chris oh, were you arguing something? I'm sorry... I was just dying to say the peeing in cornflakes thing. 030416 ... minnesota_chris as it turns out, I agree completely with your argument, imagine that. 030416 ... niska well, maybe not so much arguing - more disagreeing wholeheartedly with the first blathe on this page... also, i think peeing in the cornflakes is a bit played out. we're also getting way off topic here. to get back on it, i'd like to add that everyone at burning man is a tourist, since none of those people actually reside in that specific loaction. regarding the finance issue - i agree it's expensive... but who spends more money than tourists on vacation? 030416 ... cube Old hippies reliving the Haight Ashbury scene of the late 60's? ³ 030416 ... User24 burning man seems a little odd. 030417 ... god yes, but is it near a mall? 030417 ... User24 I seriously doubt it. 030420 ... silentbob i agree with you niska full on but the fact of the matter is, this blathe was written in the year 2000. Moonshine quite possibly may never read this. 030421 ... This_Laddies_Not_For_Burning watching people break their ankles scrambling for the moral high ground whne it comes to the Proper Way to enjoy BM makes me very glad I've never been seduced the urge to go. If it's your thing, that's great. more power to you. have fun and piss clear. I just find the tragically hip snobery too much to bear. 030421 ... niska yes i know... perhaps moonshine will never return. perhaps moonshine is called something else now. i just couldn't resist... 030421 ... airlynx I've burned a witch once, but it was in a dream Never burned a man before Must be a great tourist attraction Who are we burning today? 040205 what's it to you? who go blather from