Hari Krishna tent

[bianco]

I can't see the hari Krishna tent on this years map!I'll be gutted if it's gone ,been going there every year since 2003 for some crazy dancing at night and rest bite from sun or rain during the day.

[Wirephil]

Just found this, hope it helps. Reading it made me wonder why i bother taking a tent and food money!

My link

[bianco]

Just found this, hope it helps. Reading it made me wonder why i bother taking a tent and food money!

My link

[dirty_dog]

knocks me sick seeing those kids in that tent being forced to believe in something stupid and singing shit songs instead of having a proper childhood.

[Wirephil]

knocks me sick seeing those kids in that tent being forced to believe in something stupid and singing shit songs instead of having a proper childhood.

[IAmTheWaffle]

knocks me sick seeing those kids in that tent being forced to believe in something stupid and singing shit songs instead of having a proper childhood.

[bianco]

They all get whipped daily too

[ukslim]

I am not a believer by any means, loosely Christian, but can't understand why it's any different to what goes on in most C of E or Catholic schools?

[abu hamster]

They play some banging music

ill get my coat!

[geebus]

but can't understand why it's any different to what goes on in most C of E or Catholic schools?

[festivalsareforthegrey]

Glad its back went last year and had a boss free veggy curry for breakfast, did my hangover the world of good.

[DrWackadoodle]

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.” Steven Weinberg.

[Spindles]

It is one of my favourite places in the festival. I spend a large chunk of Thursday night there every year and love getting carried away with it. There is no risk of them trying to indoctrinate anyone, they are just happy to see you happy and joining in with the chanting and dancing gives them all the satisfaction they require. I've never seen an unhappy hare krishna!

I've taken friends there who totally didn't get it, I've taken family members who totally did. Thursday night at the krishna tent in '99 was one of the most uplifting experiences of my life.

I'm agnostic, by the way, don't care what anyone else choses to believe and wouldn't try to convince anyone that my own beliefs are correct. I like that I can go there and meet people with different beliefs but the same basic viewpoint.

[ukslim]

It is one of my favourite places in the festival. I spend a large chunk of Thursday night there every year and love getting carried away with it. There is no risk of them trying to indoctrinate anyone, they are just happy to see you happy and joining in with the chanting and dancing gives them all the satisfaction they require. I've never seen an unhappy hare krishna!

I've taken friends there who totally didn't get it, I've taken family members who totally did. Thursday night at the krishna tent in '99 was one of the most uplifting experiences of my life.

I'm agnostic, by the way, don't care what anyone else choses to believe and wouldn't try to convince anyone that my own beliefs are correct. I like that I can go there and meet people with different beliefs but the same basic viewpoint.

Edited June 1, 2011 by ukslim

[sisterofmercy]

It is one of my favourite places in the festival. I spend a large chunk of Thursday night there every year and love getting carried away with it. There is no risk of them trying to indoctrinate anyone, they are just happy to see you happy and joining in with the chanting and dancing gives them all the satisfaction they require. I've never seen an unhappy hare krishna!

[MyTwistedWords]

i never came across their tent last year but i shall be making a special effort to find it this time

[Spindles]

Yeah, I know what you mean, however after nearly 20 years of visiting their tents at glastonbury and phoenix I've yet to get any more indoctrinated than feeling good towards them. I lost almost all my money on the Friday at phoenix in '94 and they fed me for every meal from that point on.

They aren't asking you to believe, to be honest, they are enjoying the fact that people are celebrating their god, basically and as I say, having spent almost a full day of my life in combined time in their tents now I've yet to have received more encouragement than a pretty girl encouraging me to have a dance (they are always pretty girls! damn them and their wiles!)

I totally get how alot of people have a natural dislike of organised religion, I have some quite strong views about the actions of the catholic church over the centuries and what some people are doing and saying in the name of both islam and christianity is repulsive to any right thinking person.

I thoroughly recommend spending a chunk of anyone's Thursday evening there though, there is something about the rhythmic repetition that I enjoy for the same reasons as the underworld track currently playing on r6

All together now...you bring light in, you bring light in, hare hare..

[sisterofmercy]

i never came across their tent last year but i shall be making a special effort to find it this time

[MyTwistedWords]

They were up by Leftfield last year on the way to the Green Fields if you know where I mean.

[Spindles]

The jewish tent has been next door the last couple of years also, it is tiny and, on occasion, packed to capacity (about 20) with flashing lights and insane music going on. Spirit of '71 is located there this year, it seems, so I wonder if they will move to another location in holts.

[Festival Liam]

Must we turn this into an age old religion debate?

[Spindles]

I think it quickly moved on from that

[ukslim]

Must we turn this into an age old religion debate?

[jimmyk83]

Gimme that age old religion debate; it's good enough for me!

Edited June 1, 2011 by jimmyk83

[Spindles]

Gimme that age old religion debate; it's good enough for me!