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Hekate

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15. From what I've read, it is far from soulless: very artistic & creative, definitely sexual...

Reply to amcgrath (Reply #2)

Sat Aug 29, 2020, 09:47 PM

Aug 2020

...fair amount of drugs. The amount of creativity alone tells me there’s soul at work.

I will never be there in person, for many reasons. Just one: thanks to my Irish heritage I fry in the desert sun like a slice of bacon. Also, I’m too old.

But from what I’ve read of it, it is quite the event.

By the way, “twat” just isn’t an acceptable word at DU last time I checked. Please do not bother to tell me how the Brits love to sling the word around and that it doesn’t mean what we think it means yadda yadda. We aren’t in the UK. Thank you.

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VOTE Like There Will Never Be Another Burning Man -- Because There Won't! [View all] ancianita Aug 2020 OP

no burning man no big loss IMO nt msongs Aug 2020 #1

Congratulations on your lack of empathy... Bobstandard Aug 2020 #3

You show that you know nothing about the huge impact Burning Man has or the projects that ancianita Aug 2020 #5

Another opinion idahoblue Aug 2020 #7

Heading for 200k dead amcgrath Aug 2020 #2

And you know it's soulless because...? ancianita Aug 2020 #12

From what I've read, it is far from soulless: very artistic & creative, definitely sexual... Hekate Aug 2020 #15

Going to Burning Man is like going to Canada Bobstandard Aug 2020 #4

Not if youth vote for the continued existence of Burning Man. Don't be so defeatist. This is ancianita Aug 2020 #6

According to my Lonely Planet guidebook, A.M. Kittenplan Aug 2020 #8

The average age of Burning Man participants is 35. Average population is 70,000. ancianita Aug 2020 #10

Isn't the whole point that it was spontaneous and ephemeral? LisaM Aug 2020 #9

Yes, and participants range from bougie tourists to the old timers. The spirit of BM remains. ancianita Aug 2020 #11

Are they still having a lottery for tickets? SergeStorms Aug 2020 #13

I think they do. My son is an "essential worker" and can get in, but I've lost the lottery twice in ancianita Aug 2020 #16

I always wanted to go to Burning Man , but spike jones Aug 2020 #14

Me, too. If I were twenty years younger I'd go, but now I'm too old to take the heat. ancianita Aug 2020 #17