Improv Everywhere

[webglider]

These are some videos made over several years by a NYC group of actors who formed a group called Improv Everywhere The whole idea is to change the mood of the people by enacting some unexpected, funny, and very sweet pranks on unsuspecting people in public places which have the effect of making them smile, laugh, and reach out to one another.

I know a lot of people are having some difficult times at SOTT. I hope this brings a smile to your faces.

http://improveverywhere.com/2011/05/31/the-mute-button/

http://improveverywhere.com/2011/08/22/say-something-nice/

http://improveverywhere.com/2011/05/09/gotta-share-the-musical/

http://improveverywhere.com/2011/05/09/gotta-share-the-musical/

http://improveverywhere.com/2011/05/09/gotta-share-the-musical/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo&NR=1

The last two are my favorites

http://improveverywhere.com/2009/06/02/surprise-wedding-reception/

http://improveverywhere.com/2009/12/14/guerrilla-handbell-strikeforce/

 

[theos]

Aww, the improv wedding reception was so sweet. :)

 

[Thomas Alan]

Thanks, Webglider:

Watching some these clips lifted my spirits. Creative, up-lifiting fun.

Mac

 

[webglider]

From an email I just opened advertising a clown workwork

Admission is open to all but some familiarity with clown is encouraged! You don't have to work in nose if you don't want to, but you may and noses will be provided

What a relief!

 

[Danse la vie]

Webglider,

I didn' have time to watch the videos, but I understood what you wrote and I thank you. I hope the people of the Cassiopaea forum and team will keep joy inside their hearts and cells because this is exactly what the PTB is trying to make us lose.
When I saw the thread "Gaddafi" and the sadness that is expressed, I wanted to warn that this sadness is another kind of sickness the vampires are inoculating us if we don't pay attention. The psychopaths always acted the way they act, it just shows more and more now and I am feeling they are presently inspired to show more and more openly the depth of their darkness in order to contaminate us in an indirect way.
Beware all.
This sadness is the most dangerous sickness and it threatens us. We can choose otherwise. Thank you again

Danse la vie

 

[anart]

Webglider,

I didn' have time to watch the videos, but I understood what you wrote and I thank you. I hope the people of the Cassiopaea forum and team will keep joy inside their hearts and cells because this is exactly what the PTB is trying to make us lose.
When I saw the thread "Gaddafi" and the sadness that is expressed, I wanted to warn that this sadness is another kind of sickness the vampires are inoculating us if we don't pay attention. The psychopaths always acted the way they act, it just shows more and more now and I am feeling they are presently inspired to show more and more openly the depth of their darkness in order to contaminate us in an indirect way.
Beware all.
This sadness is the most dangerous sickness and it threatens us. We can choose otherwise. Thank you again

Danse la vie

I think that feeling and expressing sadness is normal and healthy. In fact, I think it is often vital to good mental health. One must see the world as it is - to love the beautiful face of god and the wretched face of god. One can't just focus on the positive, that is shutting out half of creation. This forum serves many purposes and one of those purposes is a venue to vent pain and sorrow at the state of our shared world. It is healthy to do so. Expressing such does not mean one is lost in it - it merely means one is seeing the world as it is and feeling the sorrow that can accompany that. I would be more concerned if no one expressed such sorrow - that would indicate a real danger.

 

[Danse la vie]

One can't just focus on the positive, that is shutting out half of creation.

No one on this forum will have read this in my post, as such a thought is obviously not in my post.
My post is neither about shutting off sadness, it is about not focusing on it, like the psychopaths would like us to.

Danse la vie

 

[Oxajil]

No one on this forum will have read this in my post, as such a thought is obviously not in my post.
My post is neither about shutting off sadness, it is about not focusing on it, like the psychopaths would like us to.

Fwiw, I got the same impression from reading your post. You wrote:

When I saw the thread "Gaddafi" and the sadness that is expressed, I wanted to warn that this sadness is another kind of sickness the vampires are inoculating us if we don't pay attention

You say first "the sadness that is expressed", which is a natural reaction to the dark truth, and then you say "this sadness is another kind of sickness", indicating that it is something that is not good to express.

The psychopaths always acted the way they act, it just shows more and more now and I am feeling they are presently inspired to show more and more openly the depth of their darkness in order to contaminate us in an indirect way.

I think they'd rather want us to not truly feel at all and be joyful to their psychopathic acts.

When you know the true darkness of what is going on, it is only natural to feel sad, it's not a "sickness". Personally when I read about Gaddafi, I really had to take a break and do some deep breathing, I was almost about to cry, it's very difficult to imagine that something like this has happened and so many times. But it has and that's the truth... and to fight these emotions would just be like "shutting it off". I personally try to use this anger and sadness to Work with more effort on myself and work towards sharing this kind of information with others, but I can surely understand if people get depressed by this, which is why sharing how we feel in a network like this could help. I also think that showing our emotions as they naturally come, is a sign that we care. It's kind of like sharing the pain with all the people who have suffered under the acts of psychopaths, including the planet and all else that lives on it. And perhaps, symbolically, on a certain level, shared pain is lessened.

I'm not really understanding what you mean with "not focusing on it"?

 

[Danse la vie]

No one on this forum will have read this in my post, as such a thought is obviously not in my post.
My post is neither about shutting off sadness, it is about not focusing on it, like the psychopaths would like us to.

Fwiw, I got the same impression from reading your post. You wrote:

When I saw the thread "Gaddafi" and the sadness that is expressed, I wanted to warn that this sadness is another kind of sickness the vampires are inoculating us if we don't pay attention

You say first "the sadness that is expressed", which is a natural reaction to the dark truth, and then you say "this sadness is another kind of sickness", indicating that it is something that is not good to express.

The psychopaths always acted the way they act, it just shows more and more now and I am feeling they are presently inspired to show more and more openly the depth of their darkness in order to contaminate us in an indirect way.

(...), it's very difficult to imagine that something like this has happened and so many times. But it has and that's the truth... and to fight these emotions would just be like "shutting it off".
(...)
I also think that showing our emotions as they naturally come, is a sign that we care. (...)

I'm not really understanding what you mean with "not focusing on it"?

Reading you I think I understood why you didn't understand my post, and that it doesn't seem to be a matter of english here, it is much deeper. I don't have time now to write a proper reply (english is only my 3rd language, to add to te difficulty), but I'll be back as soon as I can. And perhaps in the meantime english speakers who understood will come and write to you easier than I.

In the meantime, I just can tell you that it would of course be another violence "to fight these emotions", and it is obvious that I would never think such an insanity.
I can tell you also that for me it is not at all "very difficult to imagine that something like this has happened and so many times" and in so many ways on this planet, and your vision is the key to your misunderstanding : I have been seeing this happening for almost 60 years, crying and desperating alone many years without any network, with people denying what wa waiting for other people to see too.

Danse la vie

 

[Danse la vie]

sorry, my post hat gone away before I finished to write. It was :

"I have been seeing this happening for almost 60 years, crying and desperating alone many years without any network, with people denying what was happening, and waiting for other people to see too.

I have heard my brother deny as an adult what he knew as a child, and I was so afraid that people of this planet may go backwards instead of forwards. I was relieved to a point that I cannot express to you when I found Laura and the transcripts."

 

[Oxajil]

In the meantime, I just can tell you that it would of course be another violence "to fight these emotions", and it is obvious that I would never think such an insanity.

Okay!

I can tell you also that for me it is not at all "very difficult to imagine that something like this has happened and so many times" and in so many ways on this planet, and your vision is the key to your misunderstanding : I have been seeing this happening for almost 60 years, crying and desperating alone many years without any network, with people denying what wa waiting for other people to see too.

I'm sorry to hear that Danse la vie, maybe at some point you can share what you had to go through in the Swamp, as it might help.

I have heard my brother deny as an adult what he knew as a child, and I was so afraid that people of this planet may go backwards instead of forwards. I was relieved to a point that I cannot express to you when I found Laura and the transcripts.

I think it comes down to what one wants to do in their lives. Either to wake up and see the world as it is, as beautiful it is and as ugly it is, and to work towards helping oneself and others, or to stay asleep and ignore what is going on. And I can understand that the latter can be understood as going backwards. But I guess, we all have our different lessons to learn and therefore walk different paths. And yea, it is relieving to be in this place with like-minded people!

 

[anart]

sorry, my post hat gone away before I finished to write. It was :

"I have been seeing this happening for almost 60 years, crying and desperating alone many years without any network, with people denying what was happening, and waiting for other people to see too.

I have heard my brother deny as an adult what he knew as a child, and I was so afraid that people of this planet may go backwards instead of forwards. I was relieved to a point that I cannot express to you when I found Laura and the transcripts."

Getting caught up in what 'people of this planet' do is insanity because the vast majority of people on this planet are objectively insane. You can only control what you do, what you learn, how you align your life and mind. In that there is power.

Danse la vie, you definitely gave the impression that you think feeling sorrow is what the psychopaths want us to do - that it is bad, that it is wrong, that it is destructive and that is not the case. I understand that you are saying that this is not what you meant, and that is fine, but it is what you said.

It is my understanding that, not being capable of true feelings themselves, they don't really care one way or another what we 'feel' - what they care about is power and destruction. If your statement is that they will use our feelings to destroy us, then, I think that is a valid thought but it's vitally important to realize that in our feelings lie our strength - so we mustn't turn away from them or fear them, we must develop them and learn to harness them to our benefit in all aspects of life. This includes both the positive and the negative.

 

[webglider]

quote from anart

It is my understanding that, not being capable of true feelings themselves, they don't really care one way or another what we 'feel' - what they care about is power and destruction

I have a friend who once worked for the Council of Foreign Relations. The main emotion there, according to my friend, is fear - they're all afraid of each other.

This counters what I had read about psychpaths; I thought that they didn't experience fear, but perhaps ordinary people don't elicit fear in them. Maybe only another psychopath can evoke fear in a psychopath.

quote from anart

One must see the world as it is - to love the beautiful face of god and the wretched face of god. One can't just focus on the positive, that is shutting out half of creation.

As a human being, I feel diminished by what I saw of Gaddafi's death.

quote from anart

Getting caught up in what 'people of this planet' do is insanity because the vast majority of people on this planet are objectively insane. You can only control what you do, what you learn, how you align your life and mind. In that there is power.

quote from anart:

it's vitally important to realize that in our feelings lie our strength - so we mustn't turn away from them or fear them, we must develop them and learn to harness them to our benefit in all aspects of life. This includes both the positive and the negative.

Thank you for those words, anart.

 

[3DStudent]

Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed those. :)