THE LOVE THREAD

Non-Phish General
#1

OK…it’s pow wow time y’all… and if we’re all one big dysfunctional family,consider this a family meeting. That’s right… momma calls a family meeting.

::pulls all the chairs around in a circular pattern…makes everyone sit down::

I have noticed that there has been a general loss of interest in this board lately, and the Vern thread only brought that fact into sharper focus. We all have things we wish would change about the board…but only we can change those things. We all love phish, we all like hanging out here on the web, and we’re all adults who SHOULD be able to get along. I have met some amazing people on here, and I don’t intend on leaving this place anytime soon. However, when I first got here it was a MUCH breezier place. People used their manners. They employed the old adage " If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all…", or if you did disagree, you did it in a civil manner… I think we need to get back to that instead of undercutting each other. Let’s act like the mature adults we all SHOULD be by now.

I Love Phish, and I love all of you. There is an awful lot of negitivity rolling around here and I think we need to open a window up and air this place out… A LOT. Where are all the interesting threads? Where is the comraderie that I knew when I first came here? I always felt like if I had a problem in my life, you people are who I would bring it to, and even if there was no solution given, it still felt better to share it with you all b/c I knew I’d get an encouraging response. Now I’m lucky if I post anything and it gets a response at all. Why is it that when someone posts their opinion on something and people don’t agree, everyone is out for blood? When I came here you all exemplified everything that was good about the Phish community - now we’re all turning into what was BAD about it… and we don’t really want that now, do we?

Basically I think it’s time for us to all start liking and respecting one another again. Be kind to each other…don’t be quick to judge someone or make a joke at their expense (unless you know them and they can take it as such…) We are a COMMUNITY… a tightly woven group of people who share common bonds - let’s try and take care of that title, ok? Let’s go back to being the one Phish board that didn’thave all of this drama going on. That’s what sets us apart and right now… we’re not living up to that at all.

Take this thread as an opportunity to tell everyone what you LOVE about the Oh Kee Pa. Look to your left and tell the person sitting there that you love them :slight_smile: Let’s bury the hatchet and see if we can’t equal out this unbreeziness we’ve been feeling lately.

#2

;D YAY MOMMA!!! Alright, this is the thread I’ve been waiting for, but have had too little testes to start. I’ll admit I’ve said my fair share of nasty things on this place, particularly when Trey got busted. I was going through some shit back then, and kind of exploded on here for a few days. For that, I am sorry. Let’s make this place great again.

#3

why were you chewing the paper?

#4

Mods are not to be held accountable for what everyone says and does… the people saying and doing those things are. Nobody is powerless to change their own actions and everyone is accountable for themselves. If everyone takes responsibility and does their best to be respectful and generally good-natured then that will make this place better for everyone.

As Ghandi once said " You must be the change you wish to see in the world"… same goes for the board. :wink: DO YOUR PART!!!

#5

i don’t know how to put this…
i want to be on you.
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#6

You got it wrong. You want me IN you. Not on you. The real question is whether or not you got it wrong because of confusion or denial. Hmm…

#7

nope.
i thought about it for quite some time, and i definitely dont want you in me.
as for this thread, i want to be on it.
a

#8

Mommas the man! I mean… you know, like… in a much prettier way… So I will try to be cool and refreshing and never meant to be hot and stuffy.

Unless asked ;D

I think for peace sake we should be able to marry our cousins.

thus started the “married cousins” board

I don’t think thats what she meant Jeff… … oh right… who said that?

#9

There is no time for denial anymore. Let’s just orgy it up.

Looks around awkwardly

Vern would have taken one for the team! :stuck_out_tongue:

#10

I’m gonna keep this short 'cause I’m at work and have a lot to do, but I just wanted to say that although there has been an increase of negativity around here, it’s important to know that the vast majority of the people here agree on the breeze. As long as this remains the status quo, the haters, name-callers, etc… will come and go and the good will still remain. Although I have only met one of you in person (ghost), I can tell that this is a great group of people who may have differing opinions about things. It’s great to have differing opinions, that’s what makes discussions possible. As long as the name-calling and hate-spouting stays out, even a heated discussion is a good one.
I gotta go work, but I just wanted to say that this place is still the best place on the net to come and see what’s going on. Keep it up and the OKP will be just fine.
<--------As the great man once said, “You stay classy OKP.”

#11

I am way into love. I wonder what people think the purpose of this community is. I know it’s a great place to discuss Phish shows, trade Phish shows,etc… It’s also a good place to discuss other things… other bands, music in general, guitars, politics, masturbation…

In a way I think that a Phish message board may be irrelevant to someone like me, who doesn’t really listen to Phish very much. It’s not that I don’t like Phish. I have listened to lots of Phish and I loved to see them play. It’s just that I don’t really need to trade shows with people (it almost seems like that is obsolete now, with LivePhish releases and internet resources), and since I haven’t listened with scrutiny to the hours of Phish I have sitting around in a couple of years, it’s pretty hard for me to get online and talk about what happens at 16:21 of a YEM from 1995. I understand why that’s great for many people, but it’s just not my thing right now.

So why would I be here? Well, probably because of my love of improvised music, and my connection to the culture surrounding the entire experience of Phish. Sharing stories of everyones experiences with the music of Phish has been a great reminder that there is a subtle transcendent experience that can happen when people share in improvised music on such a large scale.

I think it is this subtle energy that flowed throughout the Phish community, through the musicians and the audience, that expanded into the whole phenomenon. Experienceing this had a very profound efffect on me.

I think that this communtiy has the ability to let that grow again, and become whatever it will. It’s good to take a light hearted approach to discussion on this board, but to me there is a difference between lightness and meaninglessness. I think this is over all a self-moderated community, and it’s not a matter of trying to stop negativity (which ultimately only adds energy to the negativity), but allow positivity to fill up the space, leaving such little room for negatviity that whatever is there (like we keep saying, it will always be there… negative energy is part of existence) will not become overmagnified and seen as more significant than it is.

So I’d like to ask you folks what you feel is the purpose of the OhKeePa community?

#12

Easy. A group of people with similar interests (like you said, improvised music) have a place to gather and talk about whatever they feel like. The internet is a wonderful place.

#13

Jebediah: People, our search is over! On this site we shall build a new town where we can worship freely, govern justly, and grow vast fields of hemp for making rope and blankets.

Shelb.: Yes, and marry our cousins.

Jebediah: I was – what are you talking about, Shelbyville? Why would we want to marry our cousins?

Shelb.: Because they’re so attractive. I, I thought that was the
whole point of this journey.

Jebediah: Absolutely not!

Shelb.: I tell you, I won’t live in a town that robs men of the right
to marry their cousins.

Jebediah: Well, then, we’ll form our own town. Who will come and live a life devoted to chastity, abstinence, and a flavorless mush I call rootmarm?

#14

^MY FAVORITE EPISODE!!!

#15

haha! :smiley:

#16

hey you guys is alright.

sing along…

I’m proud to be an Oh Kee from Muskogee
A place where even Greg can have a ball
We still make our chili anyway we want to
and I’m drunk/stoned’s still the biggest thread of all

#17

masturbates furiously

Is that enough loving for one day guys?

#18

I masturbate while looking into a mirror. I make eye contact with myself at climax.

Dorian Grey syndrome.

#19

I think it’s worthwhile to look at what comes out of this activity.

By doing this, we create a community. So what does the community do? The first thing that comes to mind is th archive. Now anyone who wants to study Phish (I say study, because getting into Phish’s live catalog is can be a lot more like musicological research than just listening to a rock band) can pretty much get high quality recordings of most of their available shows. It’s pretty amazing.

That’s a real change in the community, though. It used to be a huge labrynth of trading tapes. You used to have to put in hours to hear all this stuff, and you’d constantly be upgrading to lower generation recording. New technology for audio and communication has made the whole dynamic change. It opens up a lot of possibilites as to what a community can do.

I guess I’m really interested in what people want to see happen with the community here, if anything.

#20

Does there need to be a purpose? Is it not enough that OhKeeOa just is?

This is the only message board I come to on the net. I have dabbled with a few others but OKP is where my heart is. other boards seemed to erupt in endless circular arguments where everybody disagreed and nobody agreed on it (we’ve had a little of that here) and worse, people would just not listen to each other, far more interested in what they had to say, not what they heard.

I’ve been coming here for maybe a year and a half and it is teh only place in my life where I can connect with other Phans. Phish are my favourite band by far. I love the music and the culture that surrounds it and seeming as nobody I know even owns a single CD, this is the only place I can come and discuss the differences between a '98 and '99 gin, or which show offered the best SOAM of '93. That is why I came here. Why I stayed is that it has proven to be a unique community of individual and generally like-minded people whose opinions and not personalities I only occasionally disagree with.

I have recently felt that one of the problems we’re facing is that without the band moving forward we are just about carrying the show forward on our own. No new shows to discuss, no new songs. Yes, we need to get through this little rough patch but what with masturbation contests, Red’s arrest, the Loose Change debate and the biggest Stash ever - we should have enough stimulus to keep us going. Of course, if the band got it back together, that would help .

//ramble