front gate/ drinking

all yall are restoring my faith. thanks for the love, i need it. im kinda pissed at the world right now and its great to know people appreciate us

 

Shithead, I can relate to ya, you remind me of folks I hold dear to my heart. I do think ya get a bit edgy if ya think someone might be disagreein' with ya tho. No need. I know alot of them frontgaters work hard! Doin' the stuff that I'd probably rather not deal with myself, mostly 'cause I deal with that shit all summer on almost a daily basis anyhoo, without goin' to a gathering. I've met some GRAND A-campers who worked their butts off and took all the flack for the rest of us who don't want to hang there. I bet you if I thought about it, about 80% of my friends/neighbors are alcoholics. But me, I don't drink. Been in and around too many bad bummers, seen too much bad shit, don't like the buzz, don't like the way it makes me act, and couldn't see doin' something I didn't like the taste of simply so I could spend the rest of the time trying not to act stupid.... I also see alcohol takin' down some of my dearest peeps. Ya know, cirrosis and all. Makes me cry. But bein' in a position where I have to deal with a BUNCH of drinkers most of the summer months, I get EXTREMELY burnt out. Breakin' up fights, havin' drinks spilled on me, bein' wallered on, and fucking expensive sound equipment knocked over by stumbling-nobody-home-in-theres, tryin' to keep folks from pukin' in the wrong places, cleanin' up HUNDREDS of cans and bottles, broken glass, feedin' 'em all, and then havin' the law pissed at us fer allowin' it in the first place... Sorry, but I go to Rainbow to ESCAPE the daily babalonian grind! That's why I stay away from main gate. That's why I at least like to PRETEND that Rainbow ain't no drinkin' party. Where the hell else would ya have me go, to CHURCH fer crissakes??? Fuck that. I ain't no Christian. I'm a damn hippy. Just ask the cops...

 

You know what the hardest part of posting on the net is? No one can see your facial expressions and the words become one dimensional...so much gets misconstrued on the net.

Lost so many over the years to the booze...it's hard...we don't drink & there's no drinking at our place but after five years here we still find beer bottles...see bottles and cans thrown out on the side of the road too...maybe we haven't been to the Gathering in a few years but we still ain't seen/heard no bitchin about beer cans & bottles at Rainbow...least the drinkers at Rainbow remember to recycle...

 

WV gathering, welcome home turned into a beer can and bottle dump. I personally cleaned up a couple bags worth after everybody left. There were empties laying around on the ground down by the bridge too. I picked 'em up as well. Actually, first time I ever saw that... 'twas a bummer. Even a couple A-campers came along and were bitchin' about it...

 

Pretty bad when the A-campers are bitching....they had best clean-up in PA'99

 

my kitchen was the only one to recycle in wv

 

OK im sittin here and you know what fuck that
you cats are all bout downin A-camp man what the fuck
DO you drink Coffee
DO you smoke pot
cause unless your completely straight edge FUCK OFF
Are these not people
DO they not have a belly button
how can you condone anyone for being WHO THEY ARE
thats all rainbow is
BEING WHO YOU ARE **** LOVING IT AND LIVING IT

LOVING EVERY PART OF RAINBOW
AND FOR SURE LOVING THE PIT BULLS OF RAINBOW
IF IT WASNT FOR A-CAMP WHERE WOULD RAINBOW BE
I cant say i kick it down at A-Camp all the time but i do kick it with A-CAMP
AND I LOVE THEM JUST AS MUCH AS I LOVE YOU
BLESSED BE
and ALL my LOVE
Measa

 

Blessed Be to you Brothers
Like i have said before if it wasnt for A-camp
the Leo's
the Locals
and every other mother fucker under the sun will show up
and have any of you HIGH HOLIES ever really sat down with any of the
BROTHERS AND SISTERS of A-camp
What the fuck BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
No other words can explain it
loving you all

 

"and every other mother fucker under the sun will show up"

hummmmmm..... everyones welcome..... Right?


Mike...

 

LOL

 

Shithead_n_dozer]

I tink Ih though Ih saw you sumwere?, hi.

 

Yeah............. and like i said Every other Mother Fucker under the Sun
did i say i hate them NO
so kick it down a level
and yes everyone is welcome
FOREVER and ALWAYS
loving you Brother and
every other mother fucker under the sun

 

Times change and views change.

Whats wrong with drinking?

SO why all the heat on the rainbow drinking?

Has anything changed?

Ive seen no headline saying "Drunk hippie ruins gathering for all"

Our (the us, and look now) constitution started out simple and easy till people started changing it.

Rainbow revision 1:1-There will be rainbow beer police, they may also be drinking but they are trying.

Whats next?

 

Can someone explain how the misinterpetation keeps happening????

So for, the only person who has said anything negative about drinking has been Earthmother & even she says that many of her closest kin are drinkers; plus she has a right to feel any way she wants to & she has a right to express her opinion just as much as anyone else does

What we've seen here is a lot of respect for A-camp & the difficult job they do

 

AMEN and thank ye. What's happenin' here is that it don't matter how many GOOD things ya say about 'em, all they seem to be focusing on is that somebody might be disagreeing with the QUANTITY, not the QUALITY. My only "bad" habit is smokin' weed, and I UNDERSTAND that not everyone under the sun agrees with THAT and some people actually get offended by it, therefore I am DISCREET about it so that I don't OFFEND anybody. I do respect the A-campers for the good things they do. But these guys here don't seem to be getting that. Too defensive. It's ALL about respecting the other guy. And it IS true that the majority don't want to see a bunch of people drinking openly. Nor do they want to see the cans and bottles laying around. If folks don't say something, it'll just keep gettin' worse. That's all. I ain't tryin' to bash a bunch of hard workin' folks, just tryin' to keep some perspective here. I could be real negative and say, well, the whole world is goin' to hell, so I guess you can expect Rainbow to go to hell too, but I would HOPE that enough folks with RESPECT for others would be in the majority so this doesn't happen. It would be a total bummer to think that Rainbow was just turning into one big fucked up party and nothing more. I'd stop goin'. And then ya wonder, just where do folks like me go then? We'd have to make another gathering. That's just all stupid. Peacefully coexisting is just that. I don't go around to the alcohol camps and tell 'em they can't be drinkin'. I simply try to stay away from those places. I just don't want it shoved in my face or have to be forced into dealing with it if I don't want to. If nobody's doin' that, then there's no problem. NO PROBLEM IS NO PROBLEM!!! OK. So I don't get why everybody's gettin' so uptight.

 

i was trying to find out what people dont like about it first i guess thats why

 

I used to be one of those that didn't like A-camp. Ya wanna know why?
1. I was young, inexperienced, shy, and yall greeting people with "fuck you" & all the fightin scared me.
2. The house hippies that I met, that got me into Rainbow, all thought A-campers were too loud, too obnoxious, too pushy. So all I heard was them putting yall down.
3. The aggressiveness with which some of yall spange at front gate made me uncomfortable.
4. Have I mentioned hearing everyone I knew talk shit about yall every time A-camp was mentioned?

Then I decided to start traveling. Then I met some kids who hung out in A-camp on occasion. We're not talking old-time hard core A-campers, but some-timers. (So nobody you'd probably know or heard stories of.)

Then some stupid shit happened and the shit hit the fan. Guess who had my back? Sure as hell wasn't the kind rainbow brother bears. But the sometimes A-campers were there when I needed it.

Damn, dude, sorry bout your bad luck! Nati Ice is some damn nasty shit. But at least ya got a handle of whiskey to do something other than make ya piss.

 

lovin you baby girl,, aint seen ya in a while..

hope you an yours are well

love n light

 

lovin you too hillbilly. I haven't been much into the rainbow stuff lately, too busy with school. But, of course, it's the end of the semester, I need to start writing a 25 page paper, so I'm on here procrastinating instead!

How's the homestead/family/all that?

 

alls very well..

moneys tight an nuthins free,, but we gotta couple ,3 good pholk here helpin out..

hey baby girl,, ya miss yer dreads???

dilligaf has hers,, an ima 1/6 of the way there..

still with whats his name??

when ya gettin yer PHD??

lovin you!!