I put it a little more clearly in an email to steve who thought perhaps that the weepiness was sad. I wrote All kinds of things make me weepy and I think there’s connecting threads – for example, at a ball game, when everyone gets up and sings O Canada… and I’m not crazy about nationalism … but there’s a togetherness that I find moving – sure it’s programming – so it deserves some questioning, but I also feel a little weepy when a fire truck is trying to get by and all the traffic pulls over. More programming – but good programming. So the Elizabeth conversation touched on some of that. What I’m talking about is this: I am moved by feelings of oneness with other humans (and creatures and phenomena of all sort). When that feeling of oneness is provoked by whatever art experience or event or conversation or music (which is another kind of conversation) or encounter with magic or science, it is good.Actually, weepiness is AWESOME. It gets in touch with something.
veen does that make sense?
The weepiness you describe, I think I can relate... I have found some videos, usually of festival/concert crowds, that give me a similar feeling. The "togetherness" gives me a specific kind of goosebumps... on my cheeks. There is a subreddit called /r/HappyCrowds that gathers videos of such moments and I think I am addicted. Here are some of my favorites: The first one is of 1000 italian Foo Fighters fans playing one of their famous songs as a way to convince the Foo Fighters to visit Italy :) The way the drummers are playing in synchrony :) The second one is of a Haka flashmob. Haka is an ancient Maori war cry/dance. The third is probably the one that comes closest to what you mentioned. A massive choir of multiple thousand singers performing a traditional latvian folk song. There is more if that interests you :)
I get weepy listening to and watching the Wikipedia edits:
Oh my goodness lil, so sometimes I've gone to the rodeo in the past. I know there are ethical and moral problems with the rodeo and I haven't gone in a long, long time, so, like, whatever your opinions are I do not currently support it, so please don't lambast me here. But at the rodeo they do this thing where a girl rides out on a horse hoisting the flag and she rides around the stadium and everyone sings the National Anthem and by god, I am not a 'Murrica! sort of person in any way, at all, but I love that moment, and it touches me, and the spirit of that moment is one of the things I love about the rodeo. People seem very genuine there. And this song made me cry the first time I saw it. I have gotten emotionally happy weepy over all sorts of things. Insomniasexx's engagement!