Earthdance

Cloud · 06-17-2008, 06:58 PM

Daughter No. 2 wants me to go to this festival with her in September:

Earthdance--The Global Festival for Peace

"and I can drive the bus down, mom [yep, that's a converted hippie bus] so you don't even have to camp out. It'll be fun!"

Think I should?

wolf · 06-17-2008, 07:35 PM

Looks like a bunch o' damn hippies.

The gathering of elders looks pretty cool, as do many of the events.

Good opportunity to be the coolest mom on the block.

DanaC · 06-18-2008, 06:15 AM

Oh hell, go for it. Indulge in a little harmless hippiedom with people who are essentially pretty cool and well-meaning.

I also think it's really cool that your lass would want to go to it. It's a worthy ideal to push towards.

Radar · 06-18-2008, 12:00 PM

I've been to about 3 previous earth dances. They've got drum circles, indians, good music, etc.

It's pretty fun.

Flint · 06-18-2008, 12:04 PM

I imagine this is something like a Rainbow Gathering?

Cloud · 06-18-2008, 12:21 PM

yeah, something like. She may try to go to that one, too--she's been several times before-- but I told her that's a little too much roughing it (not to mention out in the middle of nowhere).

She really wants me to go, badly--she misses me. It's sweet. She picked something far enough in advance so I could make travel arrangements.

Not sure that hippie bus will make it from Portland to there, though.

and it looks like people dress up (i.e., bizarre costumes)--always a plus for me!

lookout123 · 06-18-2008, 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Radar

I've been to about 3 previous earth dances. They've got drum circles, indians, good music, etc.

It's pretty fun.

Wrong place to look for employees with "not weird" names, dude.

Sundae · 06-18-2008, 03:13 PM

Go for it Cloud.
Your daughter loves you and wants you to be there. It's a testament to how you raised her.

Buy a solar powered shower and get your bones down there. Then relax and enjoy it.

Radar · 06-18-2008, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by lookout123

Wrong place to look for employees with "not weird" names, dude.

True, but it's the right place to look for smiles....and weed.

Seriously though, it's a sober crowd, but it is a lot of hippies.

lookout123 · 06-18-2008, 04:57 PM

so you'll smoke with a Sunshine and tap a Moonbeam, you just wouldn't hire them afterwards?

Radar · 06-18-2008, 06:36 PM

Of course I wont' hire them. They're stoners.

Cloud · 06-19-2008, 08:41 AM

but is peace an achievable ideal? or just a pipe dream?

DanaC · 06-19-2008, 09:14 AM

Does it have to be one or the other? Is 'peace' an achievable dream? Possibly not. Is it possible though to make the world more peaceful than it currently is? That's a different question entirely.

Elspode · 06-21-2008, 09:54 AM

What the hell? Go be a hipster, Cloud. Looks like a big Pagan festival to me.

DanaC · 06-21-2008, 10:02 AM

It looks immense fun to me. God knows I am fairly cynical about the whole Age of Aquarius, lentil-eating, gaia-protecting, hippie scene....but that cynicism melts away if you put me in a festival field with windphones and people juggling. People being positive and trying to achieve change in a fun way: what's not to like?

06-17-2008, 06:58 PM	#1
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	Earthdance Daughter No. 2 wants me to go to this festival with her in September: Earthdance--The Global Festival for Peace "and I can drive the bus down, mom [yep, that's a converted hippie bus] so you don't even have to camp out. It'll be fun!" Think I should? __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

06-17-2008, 07:35 PM	#2
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Looks like a bunch o' damn hippies. The gathering of elders looks pretty cool, as do many of the events. Good opportunity to be the coolest mom on the block. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

06-18-2008, 12:00 PM	#4
Radar Constitutional Scholar Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Ocala, FL Posts: 4,006	I've been to about 3 previous earth dances. They've got drum circles, indians, good music, etc. It's pretty fun. __________________ "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." - George Carlin

06-18-2008, 12:04 PM	#5
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	I imagine this is something like a Rainbow Gathering? __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

06-18-2008, 12:21 PM	#6
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	yeah, something like. She may try to go to that one, too--she's been several times before-- but I told her that's a little too much roughing it (not to mention out in the middle of nowhere). She really wants me to go, badly--she misses me. It's sweet. She picked something far enough in advance so I could make travel arrangements. Not sure that hippie bus will make it from Portland to there, though. and it looks like people dress up (i.e., bizarre costumes)--always a plus for me! __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

06-18-2008, 06:15 AM	#3
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Oh hell, go for it. Indulge in a little harmless hippiedom with people who are essentially pretty cool and well-meaning. I also think it's really cool that your lass would want to go to it. It's a worthy ideal to push towards.

06-18-2008, 03:13 PM	#8
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Go for it Cloud. Your daughter loves you and wants you to be there. It's a testament to how you raised her. Buy a solar powered shower and get your bones down there. Then relax and enjoy it. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

06-18-2008, 04:57 PM	#10
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	so you'll smoke with a Sunshine and tap a Moonbeam, you just wouldn't hire them afterwards? __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

06-18-2008, 06:36 PM	#11
Radar Constitutional Scholar Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Ocala, FL Posts: 4,006	Of course I wont' hire them. They're stoners. __________________ "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." - George Carlin

06-19-2008, 08:41 AM	#12
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	but is peace an achievable ideal? or just a pipe dream? __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!" Last edited by Cloud; 06-19-2008 at 08:46 AM.

06-19-2008, 09:14 AM	#13
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Does it have to be one or the other? Is 'peace' an achievable dream? Possibly not. Is it possible though to make the world more peaceful than it currently is? That's a different question entirely.

06-21-2008, 09:54 AM	#14
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	What the hell? Go be a hipster, Cloud. Looks like a big Pagan festival to me. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

06-21-2008, 10:02 AM	#15
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	It looks immense fun to me. God knows I am fairly cynical about the whole Age of Aquarius, lentil-eating, gaia-protecting, hippie scene....but that cynicism melts away if you put me in a festival field with windphones and people juggling. People being positive and trying to achieve change in a fun way: what's not to like?

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