how come rainbows don't like drainbows?

I tend to agree with earthmother. A drainbow by definition is a drain on the community. They suck the life energy and resources of others. Each of us have different things to give to the community. Some give physical labor, digging shitters, cooking, gathering firewood, etc. Some give wisdom, spiritual energy, music, blessings less tangible of all kinds. Some are focalizers, peacemakers, speaders of the love via hugs and blessings. they man info booths, C.A.L.M. and many other jobs. They give into the well of the community. All draw out of the well. But some never help to maintain and fill the well with the life giving water of our money, time, energy, effort, and love. They just take and take and take. These people deserve to be called drainbows. But we love them too. The Rainbow family is just that a family. We must all contribute to its well being and to its needs. Or it will cease to be. I have known many who have been labeled "drainbows". Some were just silly people, some were just to into themselves, some were out and out users. I love them for they are my brothers and sisters too. I just refuse to allow them to drain my energy and resources. I give them food and I give them what I can and I try to point them toward a path of community. It is nice to just party and have fun at gatherings. But there is much work that must be done if it is to get done. I have probably been labeled that a time or two. As sometimes I wasn't in a place to be able to give much in the way of physical labor or financial or whatever. But I did what I could. I contributed what I did have to give. Which is all anyone can expect or ask.

Peace and love to all, Cricket

 

soooo..... how hi-holy can this thread go?

I just love seeing how Rainbow are so judgmental of one another.

I guess without drainbows, all the "kind" brothers and sisters would not have anyone to look down upon or talk negative about!

God only knows... a TRUE Rainbow's shit don't stink and they fart roses!

And... Rainbow just would not be the same... if there were not a bunch of people constantly running their mouths about how much better they are than other people!

GOT TO SHOW THE TRUE RAINBOW SPIRIT!

I love the way, that people truly show how pathetic they are, when they are tying to describe how much better they are than other people.

Glad that all these folks sleep so well at night knowing that they are the "cream of the crop"... Got to get a good night's sleep to be able to hold them noses up in the air all day! Must be pretty tiring work indeed! How they find all the time to dedicate to deciding who is a drainbow or not.... I will never know!

SO.... who sets the unofficial regulations on what is or who is a rainbow or not... besides a few of you all?

Is there some sort of I AM BETTER THAN YOU Rap that I failed to read?

How do I learn how to stink of ego and fart roses?

Please point me in the right direction!!!

 

can't you see that this is what drainbows do... they give wisdom... they show how superficial you are in not delighting in your own gifts and drawing joy from the work you do but instead you have to focus on maybe someone isn't doing their part... their part is to show you your superficiality and in this way the drainbows are the wise peacemakers and spreaders of love, hugs and blessings

 

If someone is giving into the circle with wisdom, music ect, then they are not a drainbow...but you don't seem to want to understand that Molly

Come on Poorphucker, give me a break...I don't spend a lot of time judging people & everyone gets treated the same in our kitchen, high holie to drainbow (and with some people those definitions could be close ;-) ) but I don't have to invite some to my home who's just going to take from my family...that's not being judgemental, it's being a realist. I'm not going to invite someone to my home who has proven that they may harm my family either....they could be the hardest worker at the Gathering but if me or the hubby feels like there's a vibe hanging over the person that we don't like, then that person isn't going to get an invite to the hippiestead.

Cinnamon

 

I would rather be intelligent enough to make a distinction between someone I can feel good about and someone I can't, than to be spewing hate and negativity just to get a good drama stirred up. Negativity and anger are some of the more unlikable drainbow characteristics, because they not only use, they bring other people down....

 

your so right i have a love for all and i will go out of my way for anyone ​

but some just have an aura about themselves that is just sending off negative energy and when your sitting around having nothing but fun while all the work that goes into a gathering goes on then you want to reap all the benifits of the hard work of others im sorry it just doesnt sit well with me and just as hippiestead has said you dont want that energy infecting others let them come sit and learn have a great time but we are truely there for a reason and thats for the bettering of the earth and the children of the future ​

i dont dislike anyone but effort is a must if there is ever going to be a change​

all my love and blessing ​

TO ALL​

Measa​

 

The only thing that really gets to me is when I light a smoke and suddenly there are five people hovering, wanting a cigarette. I don't mind people sittin around whil i'm chopping veggies but when those same poeple are jonesin for my tobacco and I don't know when I can go back and get more, it kinda irks me. Being addicted and all. At onegathering i was in a country where smokes were cherap so I decided to buy lots and hand them out around the circle after meals. Eventually people came to me giving me cartons to hand out. I tired of the evil contraversial cigarette faery job pretty quickly and handed off the remaining nicotine to a brother to share.

I wish it didn't but it bothers me that I can never seem to bring enough tobacco to a gathering. I can't say no either. It just wouldn't seem right to say no. In Canada cigarettes cost 12.00 a package and a pouch is about the same.


Poorphucker I seem to recall a post of yours about how people were trying to sell you back Crystals you had liberated from some mine? You don't like drainbows either-admit it- you may love them but you don't like them.

 

"can't you see that this is what drainbows do... they give wisdom"

I think were kicking a dead horse here.....



Mike...

 

maybe you're kicking a dead horse but i'm not

i'm saying there is wisdom within us all

 

Ohhhhh I get it, theres nothing in this room, Weeeee are the art......... ha ha ha...

 

that's it

 

kick ass sig pic gyva,,if it wernt for the high tension power lines in the background,,and the always politically incorrect beer can in yer hand.....

 

Yea, there's a little piece of "god" in everybody, and we can learn a little something from everybody, even if it is how NOT to act. I cannot imagine a worse nightmare than attending a gathering where EVERYBODY was a drainbow... Or maybe not, because then people would be FORCED to take care of business or they would all starve, freeze, have to quit smoking, or drown in their own trash pile... And MAYBE they would learn some valuable lessons from each other.

I suppose that those who protest the most are pissed because they find themselves lacking and can't deal with the truth. The others obviously just have not had enough experience with the drainbow concept to be burnt out yet. But never fear, because if you blindly go thru life being totally nonjudgemental and giving everything away to all who have their hands out, you too will eventually figure it out...

 

Well I do like beers while fishing, and it just so happen the fish bite near these power lines. IF I could tell them to bite a 1/2 mile down the road so my picturs would come out better I would.. ha ha....

 

nobody appreciates a drain on society, especially one as personal as the rainbow society. You dont like when a guest comes over eats and drinks and smokes until you are out, and then still doesnt leave but whines about the lack of they do nothing to fill?

 

i can see why it might be hard to appreciate those who are a drain on the system and certainly something that i have done, not appreciated many, but does not appreciating help the problem?

 

I think alot of rainbow would consider me a drainbow.. for the simple fact that i always wait till no one is around to work/contribute.. few ever see me doing things other than loafing.. Personally that is just how i live.. i want no spotlight or credit for things i do. i would rather someone who cares about that type of thing get all the credit.. Not really on topic here.. but maybe you know some people like me that you consider drainbow to the core.. and they really aren't.. maybe not..

 

i've been wonderin if people would concider a mad doser a drainbow, if all he did at the whole gathering was dose ppl
and if all the ppl he dosed just sat around laughin at the sky all day, wouldnt that make them temporary drainbows? and the doser would be contributing to the overall drain?
ofcourse ya can say the opposite, that it wouldnt be as magical experience without trippin hippies, so then the dosers doin family a sacred service

just sayin..in alotta cases, apperiences might decieve..

 

naturally, this thread was an exploration of the reality of the tension that some folks feel about others and so i appreciated what folks put on the table as their feelings and understandings

my final thought on this as has been mentioned often in these pages, is compassion for the problem, not cursing it

thank you

 

W-a-a-a-a-ll, I would suppose that if someone is a mad doser that they are definately contributing something! The Drainbow concept would more be about those who hang around begging for doses after doing nothing else but begging for tobacco, and kind bud, and THEN laying around staring at the sky the rest of the time. It don't require a bunch of tripped out hippys to make a magical experience, but it sure is fun! If you are adding to the fun, then you aren't being a drain.

But then there are the guys whose thing is SELLING the doses... Not sure where that puts 'em.

The bottom line for me is that I KNOW personally some "drainbow/bliss ninnies" who I consider friends. Know them well. But that doesn't make them any less draining after a period of time, no matter how fun they are to be around. I just get sick and tired of the phoney "oh, I'll help with that, later" thing, especially when you know them well enough to darned well know that they won't. Or the constant "can I get one of those, I'll get ya back later" thing, when later might be in the next lifetime. So, ya just gotta take 'em for what they are. But giving them too much rope, they always hang themselves. So ya gotta draw the line, no matter how much ya like their personality. Actually, that's how alot of folks keep on getting by with their drain. They just be such a "nice" person that they can keep sucking and sucking for a long time before someone catches on. Again, I've seen this many times with people other than hippys. It's part of an ongoing con. And really alot more dishonest than if they were just assholes... arty: