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It is a tradition in our family to discourage alcohol use at the Gathering.
We, especially our children, need a safe and sane environment to celebrate in. We respect the alcoholic’s right to drink, but the alcoholic must respect the rights of others to gather in an alcohol-free environment.
The gathering is a prayer and peace sanctuary, not a booze party. Your brothers and sisters can help you through it if you wish to stop. Be whole, be healthy, be your true self at Rainbow.
Rap 515
If you are hyper-sensitive to drinkers, don’t become a nuisance to them or to Shanti Sena.
If a drinker is bothering you, bring others along with you and try to use reason; do not grow angry or reactionary.
Many now respected brothers and sisters were once where this drinker is. Love them and they will come to the center.
If you are panhandled or otherwise insulted by a drunken individual, say no or leave. If someone has a legitimate problem, help them if you want. If you don’t, tell them to look for someone else.
I think it's disrespectful and disingenuous to those who like to have a few beers or drinks as "alcoholics". Not all drinkers are alcoholics and not all cannabis users are "stoners" or "potheads". Please change the language in this post in order to show a little more respect. Kindly, jcom
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"I think it's disrespectful and disingenuous to those who like to have a few beers or drinks as "alcoholics". Not all drinkers are alcoholics and not all cannabis users are "stoners" or "potheads". Please change the language in this post in order to show a little more respect. Kindly, jcom"
ReplyDeletedear jcom; "it's part of the Rainbow Raps that have been used for years" and we ae asking not tell and asking nicely, where is the disrespect, and it is not just the booze in the woods it is also hard drugs etc,. Please keep in mind some folks/family feel that once out of parking lot and you hit the first trail to Welcome Home etc. it is holy grounds, secret, church, as the old Rainbow Family Of Living Light goes; 'No Guns in the Church"... So would you bring booze or hard drugs to church, or got to church drunk? Just thinking out loud.. Luvin U~1
Yaaargh, mateys! I have set up an alcohol-free parking area right before the Front Gate, it is about 3/4 of an acre, and includes a large corral (iffn ye bringin yer hourse), and already a great crew of poi-ritz (pirates x hoi polloi = poi-ritz "poor folks as steal useful stuff from the garbage") campin there. Some of us want to make this the buffer between the alcohol areas (outer parkin) and the Church. Hey, Rev!
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In full support of the poi ritz! This is a GREAT IDEA!! This will provide a better welcome home if it succeeds and with as much support as possible thrown behind them it WILL SUCCEED! Let's please lend them our support.
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