In a few weeks there will be a poetry marathon for peace on my city. Me and three friends will initiate this event with a small performance. We have totally free hands. Any suggestions on what we will do? What would have the largest impact on people? What would make them think? And...what would make them laugh? ...these kind of events are often very stiff and dull. We have access to some instruments, like drums, a didgeridoo and my beautiful singing voice. ;)
Any ideas? The crazier the better!

Originally posted by Bebelina
What would have the largest impact on people?
You could get naked... :p That would have a big impact. You'll instantly have a new legion of Bebelites (Bebelina worshippers). Could be interesting. Just make sure you take photographs...

I whole heartedly agree. Who needs violence when you got chicks? :D

For real, sounds like a good idea (both of you)!

Offer free food. People will always come if you offer free food.

Hell, people will prostitute their grandmothers if you offer them donut holes and coffee.

Hey Adam, I know you have a didgeridoo there somewhere, so why don't you take it and stick it up your bazooka. :D
That would have a too large impact, I would have to run for my life, for the rest of my life.

Maybe we could throw food on them..? What kind of food would work best, in a peace instigating way and in a non sticky way?

Food fight!

Ummm, donut holes are non-sticky if you get the plain ones. Or pumpkin flavoured ones, like I had over Halloween.

Damnit, now I'm hungry.

You should set up a "butcher your own rabbit" booth...people would have a safe outlet for their knify tendencies AND get free food.

Hey Xev, how can I get in on that deal?

Hey, you keep your hands off my didgeridoo! :p

Nebula:

Keep your filthy hands off her! She's mine!

Adam:

You know you like it, you kinky bastard.

Xev, could you specify which "her" you are referring to? Beb/Prostituted Grandmothers?

Lucrezia Borgia!

That's it, I need to stop drinking the bong water.

Well, we have this idea that we would like to point out the hypocrazy of the audience. That they come there and talk about the importance of peace, but are not willing to make any changes or sacrifices in their own lives to make peace a reality. Like how much love can you give when everything has been taken away from you? Exactly as much as peace requires. How much can you forgive. Because peace is only going to be a reality when people stop retaliating what others have done to them, and very few, maybe nobody, would be able to do that. To forgive. So what is the essence here? Will humanity never have peace? Is it not in our nature? Is the striving for peace futile? Maybe it is. Maybe we don't believe in peace after all.

That kind of thing...provocating.

Maybe it was the white rabbit? She wants it all for herself. To chop it up. :D

Maybe act out something about Buddha? I'm sure there are some christian saints with stories about forgiving people who were nasty to them.

Like how much love can you give when everything has been taken away from you?

Or if you've destroyed everything that matters to you, how much can you love?

Sorry for an attempt at hijack...I like this question. I hate living this question.

The vast majority of people have too many immediate "problems" in their daily life to ever truly care about what's going on elsewhere in the world. Like me; me getting some nachos right now is BY FAR more important that Israeli children...unless those children somehow improve/impair my chances of getting nachos.

Why is this turning into a food thread (donuts, nachos, Lucrezia Borgia).....?

Also, Xev...I'd like to, uh, "see" that granny on the far right...I love it when my grandma spoils me.....ew. Kill me now.

I would just like to add that chicks in paintings are hot.

Nebula:

I think that's human nature, to care more about the people immediate to you.

I'd say more and give you a price on the granny, but my cat is standing on my computer.

Well, what's the price for that pussy....cat?

That's the path many are walking. Somebody steals their bike, kills their mother and cheats on their brother. They get furious and destroys everything around them. They stop caring, they stop loving, they get filled with hatred. What they have lost will never come back, no matter how much they fight, but they are refusing to see that, because anger is a more pleasant feeling than sorrow.

I agree. And how are we going to overcome this?

I don't know, is it humanly possible? Or will we have to evolve into something more than human to reach beyond our emotional reactions?

Or will we have to evolve into something more than human to reach beyond our emotional reactions?

I think this is impossible. Humans are nothing but emotional reactions.

Well it said MORE than human...