Burning Man Festival

Gerald · 09-04-17, 06:44 PM

The Man is engulfed in flames as approximately 70,000 people from all over the world gathered for the annual Burning Man arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart,

https://www.reuters.com/news/picture...l-idUSRTX3DTWR

Huge fire.

vienna · 09-04-17, 07:07 PM

One guy apparently lost it under the influence and died actually running, deliberately, into the fire:

Man dies after rushing into Burning Man festival flames --

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...904-story.html

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Gerald · 09-04-17, 07:15 PM

Sorry to him.

Aktungbby · 09-04-17, 07:16 PM

I think he was inspired:

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...I have a cousin in this pic somewhere;

70,000 people

Buddahaid · 09-04-17, 08:01 PM

Looks like Nazca lines to me.

Aktungbby · 09-04-17, 10:33 PM

^ I see a great pectoral

: even a Nazca seashell & fiber pectoral

Buddahaid · 09-04-17, 10:35 PM

vienna · 09-05-17, 01:39 AM

You guys must ace all your Rorsharch Tests...

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Aktungbby · 09-05-17, 03:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vienna

You guys must ace all your Rorsharch Tests...

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According to the Society for Personality Assessment, the Rorschach inkblot test is second in popularity only to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory among professionals in the field...Buddahaid is obviously a straightlaced linear sort of guy

whilst I'm a more 'what lies beneath' warm, hopeful sort of guy.

Of course, I'm probably a just a 'blot' on the entire concept of 'Minnesota Nice': a bit short on inventory?!!)!

After all: I am a professional 'watchman' of sorts...

<Rorschach the Watchman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_(comics)

Jimbuna · 09-05-17, 04:51 AM

Shouldn't this sort of thing be renamed to something related to Darwin Rehearsals

vienna · 09-05-17, 05:09 AM

I've taken the MMPI a couple of times in my life; it was interesting when, in order to stop a Scientologist acquaintance of mine to stop bugging me about her 'religion', I agreed to take their "Personality Test" and found an awful lot of it was suspiciously similar to the MMPI. The best part was when the test giver gave me my results; the results sheet was divided into three horizontal bands with the top and bottom thirds signifying aspects of your personality that needed the healing powers of Scientology to keep you from foundering on the reefs of life; if your results graphed within the center band, then all was well with you. Crossing the horizontal bands at regular intervals were vertical lines, with each line signifying some aspect of one's personality; my results scored dead center of the middle or "good" band with one exception: I apparently had a significant problem with indecision. The test giver tried valiantly to convince me Scientology would solve that problem, but I kept telling him I couldn't really make up my mind about the matter...

I once worked for several years in a department staffed by psychologists, all with at least a Masters degree, and several of them PhDs. During a casual conversation about the old "glass half-empty/half-full" question, one of them asked my personal view of life; I said, while some see life as a glass half-empty and others see life as a glass half full, I just wanted to know who the hell had been drinking out of my damn glass...

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09-04-17, 06:44 PM	#1
Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	Burning Man Festival The Man is engulfed in flames as approximately 70,000 people from all over the world gathered for the annual Burning Man arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart, https://www.reuters.com/news/picture...l-idUSRTX3DTWR Huge fire. __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

09-04-17, 07:07 PM	#2
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,711 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	One guy apparently lost it under the influence and died actually running, deliberately, into the fire: Man dies after rushing into Burning Man festival flames -- http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...904-story.html <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __

09-04-17, 07:15 PM	#3
Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	Sorry to him. __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

09-04-17, 07:16 PM	#4
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,006 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	I think he was inspired: =...I have a cousin in this pic somewhere;70,000 people __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

09-04-17, 08:01 PM	#5
Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,319 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	Looks like Nazca lines to me. __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie

09-04-17, 10:33 PM	#6
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,006 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Nuthin' good goes outta style! ^ I see a great pectoral: even a Nazca seashell & fiber pectoral __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

09-04-17, 10:35 PM	#7
Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,319 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	__________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie

09-05-17, 01:39 AM	#8
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,711 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	You guys must ace all your Rorsharch Tests... <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __

09-05-17, 04:51 AM	#10
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,526 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Shouldn't this sort of thing be renamed to something related to Darwin Rehearsals __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

09-05-17, 05:09 AM	#11
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,711 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I've taken the MMPI a couple of times in my life; it was interesting when, in order to stop a Scientologist acquaintance of mine to stop bugging me about her 'religion', I agreed to take their "Personality Test" and found an awful lot of it was suspiciously similar to the MMPI. The best part was when the test giver gave me my results; the results sheet was divided into three horizontal bands with the top and bottom thirds signifying aspects of your personality that needed the healing powers of Scientology to keep you from foundering on the reefs of life; if your results graphed within the center band, then all was well with you. Crossing the horizontal bands at regular intervals were vertical lines, with each line signifying some aspect of one's personality; my results scored dead center of the middle or "good" band with one exception: I apparently had a significant problem with indecision. The test giver tried valiantly to convince me Scientology would solve that problem, but I kept telling him I couldn't really make up my mind about the matter... I once worked for several years in a department staffed by psychologists, all with at least a Masters degree, and several of them PhDs. During a casual conversation about the old "glass half-empty/half-full" question, one of them asked my personal view of life; I said, while some see life as a glass half-empty and others see life as a glass half full, I just wanted to know who the hell had been drinking out of my damn glass... <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __