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 Practical Reasons for following GSC cultural rules, no battling, no glowsticking in high school.. why why why? |
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 Mar 20 2007, 12:38 PM
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Glowsticking.com has tried to explain the thoughts in a thorough manner, but it seems like there is just way too much information going around about why 1) you shouldn't glowstick in high school or your high school dance 2) you shouldn't battle 3) you shouldn't form separate crews Here is a simple pragmatic reason: The most experienced and well-known glowstickers will not help you and will ignore you if you ask for help. In addition, it's a quick way to get banned on glowsticking.com Even if you are really young and you don't really understand WHY the rules are such, following these rules tells the older and more experienced glowstickers you are willing to follow the rules. Even if you don't exactly know why, but just trust us for a while, we trust that you will figure out why through personal experience sooner or late. it's inevitable as time goes by and events happen that you find out through real life or on glowsticking.com So this means, I'd rather have people who just repeat the lines and follow the rules than those that think they know a lot better (those people never keep going with their glowsticking, because they are fundamentally apart from the main community and thus have no motivation to keep going. once you have a network of friends, people to learn from and exchange ideas, concepts and ideas, you have more of a chance to keep going and not hitting a plateaeu). no one is an island.
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Mar 20 2007, 12:41 PM
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QUOTE(cynicdave @ Mar 20 2007, 01:38 PM) [snapback]73489[/snapback]
Glowsticking.com has tried to explain the thoughts in a thorough manner, but it seems like there is just way too much information going around about why 1) you shouldn't glowstick in high school or your high school dance 2) you shouldn't battle 3) you shouldn't form separate crews
Here is a simple pragmatic reason:
The most experienced and well-known glowstickers will not help you and will ignore you if you ask for help. In addition, it's a quick way to get banned on glowsticking.com
Even if you are really young and you don't really understand WHY the rules are such, following these rules tells the older and more experienced glowstickers you are willing to follow the rules. Even if you don't exactly know why, but just trust us for a while, we trust that you will figure out why through personal experience sooner or late. it's inevitable as time goes by and events happen that you find out through real life or on glowsticking.com
So this means, I'd rather have people who just repeat the lines and follow the rules than those that think they know a lot better (those people never keep going with their glowsticking, because they are fundamentally apart from the main community and thus have no motivation to keep going. once you have a network of friends, people to learn from and exchange ideas, concepts and ideas, you have more of a chance to keep going and not hitting a plateaeu).
no one is an island.
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Mar 20 2007, 01:30 PM
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Group: Senior Member
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QUOTE(cynicdave @ Mar 20 2007, 12:38 PM) [snapback]73489[/snapback]
Glowsticking.com has tried to explain the thoughts in a thorough manner, but it seems like there is just way too much information going around about why 1) you shouldn't glowstick in high school or your high school dance 2) you shouldn't battle 3) you shouldn't form separate crews
Here is a simple pragmatic reason:
The most experienced and well-known glowstickers will not help you and will ignore you if you ask for help. In addition, it's a quick way to get banned on glowsticking.com
Even if you are really young and you don't really understand WHY the rules are such, following these rules tells the older and more experienced glowstickers you are willing to follow the rules. Even if you don't exactly know why, but just trust us for a while, we trust that you will figure out why through personal experience sooner or late. it's inevitable as time goes by and events happen that you find out through real life or on glowsticking.com
So this means, I'd rather have people who just repeat the lines and follow the rules than those that think they know a lot better (those people never keep going with their glowsticking, because they are fundamentally apart from the main community and thus have no motivation to keep going. once you have a network of friends, people to learn from and exchange ideas, concepts and ideas, you have more of a chance to keep going and not hitting a plateaeu).
no one is an island.
Thanks Dave for posting this up.I feel when someone glowsticks at a school dance or in school,its just ruining part of our community.
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Mar 20 2007, 03:25 PM
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thanks for the post... i had to make mistakes on my own and learn the hard way.
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Mar 20 2007, 03:33 PM
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hopefully alot of people will see this... great post.
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Mar 22 2007, 03:12 PM
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alot of people that i hang out with unfortunatly do not understand that you shouldnt glowstick at a high school dance. every dance... there they are w/ their glow sticks... looking like complete fools. everyone seems obsessed w/ the idea of the "energy ball" that you pass around and fiddle with for a bit. they all end up looking realy stupid. why does noone get this... i dont know.
here's the best reason to not bring glowsticks to a dance. unless youre heavily involved in circles at raves, youre going to just be standing there all lit up and looking like a dumbass with nothing to dance to, because high school DJ's are not techno DJ's and the only thing theyre gona play is sandstorm and maybe satisfaction if youre lucky.
also, youre inevitably going to end up in a battle with some cocksure obnoxious guy who is only trying to impress some chick; then, you both get to look like idiots.
summary: techno at high school dances = sucky: its going to take a miracle for you to find anything decent
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Mar 22 2007, 09:25 PM
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Group: GSC Staff Member
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QUOTE(QUINBLZ @ Mar 22 2007, 03:12 PM) [snapback]73958[/snapback]
alot of people that i hang out with unfortunatly do not understand that you shouldnt glowstick at a high school dance. every dance... there they are w/ their glow sticks... looking like complete fools. everyone seems obsessed w/ the idea of the "energy ball" that you pass around and fiddle with for a bit. they all end up looking realy stupid. why does noone get this... i dont know.
here's the best reason to not bring glowsticks to a dance. unless youre heavily involved in circles at raves, youre going to just be standing there all lit up and looking like a dumbass with nothing to dance to, because high school DJ's are not techno DJ's and the only thing theyre gona play is sandstorm and maybe satisfaction if youre lucky.
also, youre inevitably going to end up in a battle with some cocksure obnoxious guy who is only trying to impress some chick; then, you both get to look like idiots.
summary: techno at high school dances = sucky: its going to take a miracle for you to find anything decent
I don't know if I agree with all the terminology...but it's a good point, anyway.
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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
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Mar 22 2007, 09:35 PM
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Group: GSC Staff Member
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From: Oakley, CA
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I hope all new people take the time to look at this.
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"Glowsticking is a subculture of the rave scene"
In order to truly understand our art, we must first understand the scene it was born in, and the morals it was built upon........
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Mar 23 2007, 03:33 PM
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Group: GSC Staff Member
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Seriously, pin for the Newbie forum.
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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
- Aristotle
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