Rite of Passage meets Floating World

[TomServo]

I imagine their will be a couple boat/art cars in 2011. Fuck! I miss La Contessa! Anyhow, was pondering the idea of...said boats... performing a "Crossing the Line" ceremony....
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-cro ... ected=true

Now, where would the line be? 3:00 to 9:00 @ the man?

Soon as I buy that 50,000 dollar scratcher, I'm building a viking ship.

[Ugly Dougly]

Now, where would the line be?

The line's always in your head.

[TomServo]

Now, where would the line be?

The line's always in your head. :)

Well, their are a lot of lines in BRC, so this should be easy!

[ygmir]

Washoe/Pershing county

[TomServo]

I know the Perimeter crew has their own Line Crossing ceremony.

[weirdscience]

my moms ex was in the navy when he was a shellback he said the inititiation for the newbies was that they would grab a BIG garbage container and fill it up with balast/bilge water and then "neptune" would stand on one end and the newbies had to dive in swim under the water to neptune and come out ... with out puking or catching thier breath b4 they got to the other side....

[TomServo]

my moms ex was in the navy when he was a shellback he said the inititiation for the newbies was that they would grab a BIG garbage container and fill it up with balast/bilge water and then "neptune" would stand on one end and the newbies had to dive in swim under the water to neptune and come out ... with out puking or catching thier breath b4 they got to the other side....

Maybe we could get ten hippies in a kiddie pool, to recreate bilge water. Shit! Gagged typing that!

[weirdscience]

my moms ex was in the navy when he was a shellback he said the inititiation for the newbies was that they would grab a BIG garbage container and fill it up with balast/bilge water and then "neptune" would stand on one end and the newbies had to dive in swim under the water to neptune and come out ... with out puking or catching thier breath b4 they got to the other side....

Maybe we could get ten hippies in a kiddie pool, to recreate bilge water. Shit! Gagged typing that!

yea throw moop in there lots of glitter and feathers..

[Fire_Moose]

and semen


(HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA)

[Ugly Dougly]

Many other examples of Rites of Passage.

[TomServo]

Maybe.... Does anyone know if the Seemen still attend Burning Man?

[sputnik]

Now, where would the line be? 3:00 to 9:00 @ the man?

There was "The Abyss" in 02 which was the outer road, so it could be crossing that circle to the deep playa. Or it could be crossing from the inner playa to the outer reaches formed by the Esplanade circle. Hard to know exactly where it is out there, but so is the equator without the right tools.

[Ugly Dougly]

- Birthdays are rites of passage.
- Could have a camp for people who are turning 18 to celebrate their fully legal human-hood.
- Turning 21 Camp?
- The Temple has always represented a Rite of Passage.

In Ancient Greece, Dokimasia (Greek: δοκιμασία) was the name used at Athens to denote the process of ascertaining the capacity of the citizens for the exercise of public rights and duties. Our culture doesn't have this, much to our chagrin!
Etoro tribe and Baruya in Papua New Guinea where young boys must begin ingesting their elders semen, and then stop doing it at a certain age.

But mostly I see this sort of thing happening:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_co ... e_ceremony
Accompanied by painful and frightening rituals, probably involving fire.