Posted on 08/19/2007 6:54:27 PM PDT by TFFKAMM
Inside the Alamo Square apartment of Larry Harvey, the co-founder and impresario of Burning Man, there is a wooden statuette of Ganesh, the Hindu deity known for his patronage of arts and science.
The expensive artifact was part of a splurge Harvey allowed himself three years ago, when he finally was able to redecorate his rental apartment and turn it from the paper-infested swamp he'd lived in for the past 22 years to the elegant bachelor pad it is today, adorned with Far Eastern decor and inhabited by a man who, by his own definition, has done well for himself.
Harvey, 59, politely declined to share how much he paid for the item. "If I tell you," Harvey said, "they'll think me rich."
Appearing rich has become a problem for Harvey and his 21-year-old counterculture arts festival. This Labor Day weekend, Burning Man is expected to generate $10 million in revenue from 45,000 ticket-buying customers, each of whom will pay $195 to $280 for entrance to a patch of Nevada desert called Black Rock City. And Harvey's ex-partner is suing him for either a cut of the festival's worth or an agreement to turn over the Burning Man trademark "to the public domain." In art circles and around the blogosphere, Burners are asking: Is this famously anti-monetary event getting ruined by too much cash?
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Well the poster I was responding to was quite proud he didn’t believe Eastern religions and I don’t see you offering him your back-handed applause. You ought to give him some sarcastic congratulation as long as you’re handing them out, don’t you think?
Oh how’s that?
The ‘Burning Man’ episode of ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ was one of the funniest TV sitcom epsiodes I ever saw. The family borrows the Dad’s boss’s RV and goes to the Burning Man festival. The whole thing can be watched (in parts) on YouTube.
If you make a faith statement while claiming faith is "bunk" you have a belief system that contradicts itself.
Did I tell you that all truth can be revealed empirically? When did I say that, maybe you can find that quote for me.
I just told you that there is no ganesh and there is no yahweh in the same way that there are no fairies and leprechauns. Would you argue that you have good evidence for fairies or genesh, empirical or otherwise? It isn’t a faith statement to disbelieve magic at all.
And he'll collect his reward posthumously.
So will you, when you are reincarnated as a slug.
Smug religiosity works for every religion and it’s just as unbecoming in all of them.
Although I thought Jaysun’s statement was a bit broad (see Post #5), at least he was commenting on something in the article I posted. All you’ve done is ignore the subject, dismiss all human spirituality as “bunk,” and then post snarky retorts to challenges.
Got anything to say about the topic at hand?
Have you visited DarwinCentral? You might like that site.
You don't believe all truth can be revealed empirically???? So how can all truth be revealed?
No but neither did Jaysun, despite how you might pretend otherwise. If eastern religions being bunk is relevant to the article at hand, all religions being bunk is relevant to the article at hand. The former is not separate from the latter.
Regarding the article, a young company that is unfamiliar with a wealth of money is trying to find ways to reinvest in their “market”. I’m sure they will soon enough find ways to put their money into performance art that involves a man putting a brush in his butt or something equally ludicrous.
I don’t think any truth can be revealed definitively any which way. But I think facts, evidence and consequences can be tested and collected empirically and from those facts we can make reasonable assumptions about the truth of the universe and existence.
This doesn’t have much to do with Burning Man at all!
Perhaps he needs to convert and then give it to a charity in the United States. Or am I mistaken here?
See what happens when you hijack a thread? :-)
And using this methodology what reasonable assumption can we make about the purpose of the universe and our existence?
The universe exists and so do we.
You won already. (Remember?) Goody for you! You’re a *winner*.
Bother someone who has time for you...
Why aren’t you harassing Jaysun so? Are you so friendly towards him because his only attacking a particular sort of religion but not your sort of religions?
Pretty much the same crowd as Democratic Underground.
And what is the purpose of it?
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