2019.09.05 07:00 - Burning Man

    The Guardian for this meeting was Adams Rubble. The comments are by Adams Rubble.

     

    Riddle Talks about his recent Trip

    Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle. Welcome Back :)
    Riddle Sideways: Howdee Adams,
    Riddle Sideways: thanks, good to be back ㋡
    Adams Rubble: I hope you had a good trip
    Riddle Sideways: Had a great trip
    Riddle Sideways: full of adventures
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Adams Rubble listens
    Riddle Sideways: meet new friends, new places, new sounds
    Riddle Sideways: spend a night at a lovely hot springs on the way up
    Riddle Sideways: went early to Burning to help setup and stayed late to break it all down
    Riddle Sideways: and avoid the traffic jam of all 80K trying to get out the single lane dirt road
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: much much Art pieces
    Riddle Sideways: over 500
    Riddle Sideways: on the Playa. more in camps
    Riddle Sideways: The man is burned after much partying, fire twirling and great fireworks
    Riddle Sideways: loud music(?) and booms
    Adams Rubble: why do theyu burn the man?
    Riddle Sideways: the next night the Temple is burnt
    Riddle Sideways: no show before and about 30K people are silent
    Riddle Sideways: no show biz, no stunts, just silence/reverence
    Adams Rubble: I saw a photo of the temple while it was in Washiongtn
    Riddle Sideways: not sure why the man is burnt. It has to be just "Tradition"
    Adams Rubble: and the Temple?
    Riddle Sideways: the founder built a wooden man and burnt it long ago
    Riddle Sideways: and each year
    Riddle Sideways: the Temple is a Zen thing of writting your loved ones name and a blessing on paper and burning it
    Riddle Sideways: sending your prayer to the heavens?
    Adams Rubble: OK
    Adams Rubble: or like a Buddhist mandala?
    Riddle Sideways: yesz
    Riddle Sideways: yes
    --BELL--
    Adams Rubble: I am so glad it was a good experience. Quite an undertaking and adventure
    Riddle Sideways: a bucket list item
    Riddle Sideways: still wondering if to do it next year
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: was a great camp "Voodoo Soup". old hippies playing music and serving soup
    Riddle Sideways: fresh brewed Root Beer all day
    Riddle Sideways: about 4 soups a night. supposedly between 10-2am
    Riddle Sideways: but it was Whatever time
    Riddle Sideways: was up until 5:30a once talking to people in the line
    Adams Rubble: one needs stamina to be an "old Hippie"
    Riddle Sideways: Yes!!!
    Riddle Sideways: in 100+F desert dust storms
    Adams Rubble: ouch
    Riddle Sideways: powder the sticks to everything
    Riddle Sideways: an electric bike helped a lot
    Riddle Sideways: got about 20k steps everyday
    Riddle Sideways: painful to realize only the 20s and 30s look good naked
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: good to be in a place that used NO money
    Riddle Sideways: walk into a camp and get soup or a grilled cheese sandwich or a homebrewed beer
    Riddle Sideways: the opposite corner at 3:30 and B had a circle tent with nightly performances
    Riddle Sideways: was so childlike to sneak over and peek in the tent flap at the show
    Riddle Sideways: *Circus
    Riddle Sideways: darn
    Riddle Sideways: typering chalenggged
    Adams Rubble: :)
    Riddle Sideways: down the block was a reporduction of the MASJ 4077th camp
    Riddle Sideways: MASH
    Riddle Sideways: Post-op was playing episodes of the TV show all night
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: can't find a good link to the Real art photos yet
    Riddle Sideways: the ones at burningman.org are the proposed art photos
    Adams Rubble: you have given a very vivid description
    Riddle Sideways: some of the art can not be described

    My Turn

    Riddle Sideways: ok, now back to here
    Riddle Sideways: what has happened?
    Adams Rubble: not much has happened to me in SL
    Riddle Sideways: oh, read one nervious blog email
    Adams Rubble: I bought some land along one of the roads for a museum annex but that will take some time
    Riddle Sideways: near the existing museum?
    Adams Rubble: nope
    Adams Rubble: down south on the mainland
    Riddle Sideways: ah, along that long road
    Adams Rubble: y'aw see it sometime
    Riddle Sideways: ok, waits
    Adams Rubble: in RL still struggling with the definition of anti-Semitism. There is another meeting tonight
    Adams Rubble: It has been a very turbulent time for me
    Riddle Sideways: so the meeting that you might lose your cool at has not happened yet
    Adams Rubble: I have been at four meetings so far. This will be the fifth
    Adams Rubble: I have bought all the children's books on Palestinians that I could find and they are wrenching
    Adams Rubble: Right now I am reading a book by a Jewish writer (translated from Hebrew) about a Palestinian boy who ends up in a Jewish hospital and interacts with Jewish children. They learn what they have in common
    Adams Rubble: I think this would be a great book for children
    Adams Rubble: It has been upsetting learning more about what is happening to Palestinians
    --BELL--
    Adams Rubble: There was an interview with a little girl in book interviwing Jewish and Palestinian childen
    Adams Rubble: she lamented that she was no longer allowed to see here grandparents who lived in a village just a couple of miles away and they could not see her
    Adams Rubble: because a road had been built between the villages and palestinians were not allowed even to cross it
    Adams Rubble: as you can imagine, that one resonated with me on a personal level
    Riddle Sideways: yes
    Adams Rubble: last night I was thinking about the Christians who think there is a war on Christmas
    Adams Rubble: or that intellextuals look down on them
    Adams Rubble: Christian zealots
    Adams Rubble: I was also thinking that hate of a people or group or religion is because people think they are all alike
    Adams Rubble: Think there is a common behavior
    Adams Rubble: not the case in any group
    Adams Rubble: I learned much about the different approaches to Christianity by studying Buddhism
    Adams Rubble: I discovered that within religions people have different approaches that are common to other religions
    Adams Rubble: there are those who like rules and those who don't for one
    Adams Rubble: I hope you don't mind that i am thinking out loud
    Riddle Sideways: no, keep going
    Adams Rubble: I have been struggling to understand
    Adams Rubble: I do have a prejudice in that I hate rules and I hate people who make rules for everyone else
    Adams Rubble: They are bullies
    Adams Rubble: there I said it
    Adams Rubble: I think my rant helped me define what I am reacting too
    Riddle Sideways: think it is ok to publicise here, your blog has it also
    Riddle Sideways: many times a rant lets all that out
    --BELL--
    Adams Rubble: I think I have been a bit cryptic in my blog but maybe I haven't
    Adams Rubble: people are getting hurt in our RL conflict
    Riddle Sideways: are they getting educated in this discussion?
    Adams Rubble: I have been :)
    Adams Rubble: I like your question
    Adams Rubble: I am going to take your question with me through the day
    Riddle Sideways: ㋡
    Adams Rubble: I don't think people want me to educate them :)
    Adams Rubble: they would rather eat worms
    Riddle Sideways: did not mean "(so and so) will Educate you now on all those wrong ideas you have"
    Adams Rubble: yes, I understand-- The problem with all this is it is so easy to go off track
    Adams Rubble: sorry phone interruption
    Riddle Sideways: and RL interruptions here
    Adams Rubble: :)
    --BELL--
    Adams Rubble: Thank you for the report about your trip and the helpful comments about my dilemma
    Riddle Sideways: hope was a little bit helpful/thoughtful
    Adams Rubble: I have been thinking that it is difficult to have such personal discussions as we are having in RL when peo;ple do not know what is in your heart
    Adams Rubble: so much is misinterpreted. Of course it would help if I were more skillful
    Adams Rubble: Thanks again for listening to me
    Riddle Sideways: the so many layers between each other to get inaddicite communications/languages across
    Adams Rubble: I hope you have a great day
    Riddle Sideways: you might look at newatlas.com/lifestyle surreal-sights
    Adams Rubble: OK
    Riddle Sideways: at some artwork links
    Riddle Sideways: hope you have your nicest day
    Adams Rubble: so good to see you again :)
    Riddle Sideways: yes
    Riddle Sideways: thank you
    Adams Rubble: Eden will be happy too next Monday :)
    Riddle Sideways: ㋡
    Adams Rubble: bye for now :)
    Riddle Sideways: bye for now

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    Wonderful report about your trip to RL Burning Man, Riddle, lucky man! And lovely rant by Adams :)
    Posted 22:37, 8 Sep 2019
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