Why are you here?

[sponge]

So yeah y are you on this thing we call the hip forums?

[lilbear]

It makes for good reading material...

[verseau_miracle]

Because I dont have much of a life
I also miss communicating with receptive people about meaningful things for days on end when I dont chat with online friends, or even just getting to talk to someone pleasant. The sad reality is it can be hard to do these things on a daily basis unless you look in very specific places. Either that or Im a sad nutjob. Not to be mistaken with a victim, it may result in the loss of limbs

[nynysuts]

Originally because I was interested in Hippy stuff, then because I wanted to meet people and now because I'm bored to death half the time...

[WeezieLouise]

I guess I found the place out of boredom... I stayed because I like it

[PsyGrunge]

to be fairly honest i can't remember why i joined over 3 years ago.
probably because i've alays been hippy-inclined and the place was interesting.
then again, the hipforums were a very different place when i joined.
for starters, where the hell is 2csarewild these days?

[Quoth the Raven]

I'm here?

[lithium]

Because I sort of almost like you lot:tongue: And when I registered I didn't realise it was a hippy forum... true story!

[Raskalization]

I didn't even realise there was a forum attached to the hipgalleries......I found it by accident while looking through photo galleries, I typed hippie into google and there it was.

[Peace-Phoenix]

I typed in hippy.com when I was a 16 year old hippy. Now I'm a 23 year old ex-hippy, but still enjoy posting here....

[nynysuts]

I typed in hippy.com when I was a 16 year old hippy.
Same here!

Already I feel less of a hippy though, it's weird, more like a part time social-anarchistical activist and a summer-time wook than anything :confused:

[Gumball]

It beats tv these days,Im sick of all the politics.:)

[verseau_miracle]

I was about 14 when I first joined! I think I typed "hippy" into google too. Then I got disconnected whilst in France, and rejoined again in 05. Then got disconnected for another year or so but thankfully remembered my name that time and Ive managed to stay put more or less constantly since:)

[Harpo]

I like posting on forums with people who share some of my interests. This is one of about six I currently use

[verseau_miracle]

Im curious about these result thingies and have to stay up anyway to monitor some newly introduced pet mice to check they dont nip eachothers bums. Ah, life

[Bonsai Ent]

I came here to find and destroy my Arch Nemesis.

The satellites registered his energy psi-wave signature in this vicinity, I just need to find out who it is.

Soon....soon

[pushit]

I was searching "hippie" on Google and Hippy.com popped up, I clicked the link and here I am.

[silverhippy]

I'm here cause it's better than being in jail. Keeps me off the streets.

Peace

[pushit]

I'm here cause it's better than being in jail. Keeps me off the streets.

Peace
Great answer.

[phoenix_indigo]

i voted everything but 'other'

i wanted to meet other 'hippy' types in the UK and somehow landed here.
was bored, looking for people who were hippies or open to the counter culture.


and wow, pushit your sig really makes the eyes go funny.

[Peace-Phoenix]

Same here!

Already I feel less of a hippy though, it's weird, more like a part time social-anarchistical activist and a summer-time wook than anything :confused:

That's what happened to me too, though more socialist than anarchist....

[opel diamond]

i found this site years ago and then came back last month to find it was still here, so signed up due to bordem among many other things.

[Bonsai Ent]

That's what happened to me too, though more socialist than anarchist....

I've always seen myself more as a "fellow-traveller" than an actual hippy, there was a lot I always felt was superficial about the hippy movement, hence a similar thing, I feel a greater attraction to alternative lifestyles, politics, but not so much "hippy" per se.

[Quoth the Raven]

That's what happened to me too, though more socialist than anarchist....

I sorta have opinions on both sides of the camp.. I'm a member of the Socialist Party and quite active within it with Cambridge Student Socialists, but.. no government is ideal, so the ideal is no government :p

However I'm a realist, and there needs to be a transition period if chaos (as opposed to anarchy) is going to be avoided.

[Bonsai Ent]

I sorta have opinions on both sides of the camp.. I'm a member of the Socialist Party and quite active within it with Cambridge Student Socialists, but.. no government is ideal, so the ideal is no government :p

However I'm a realist, and there needs to be a transition period if chaos (as opposed to anarchy) is going to be avoided.

lol at the risk of getting dragged into an age-old debate...

I think the trouble is political entities can't be trusted to oversee a transition period. An entity is inherently self-interested, it is not in a political entity's self-interest to oversee its own destruction, thus they never will.

This combined with the fact that I don't think you can force social change by the passing of laws, it is an internal process. I pretty much reject the economic determinism espoused by various UK socialist parties outright

And it of course relies on entrusting your freedom to somebody else, which is folly in my eyes.

For me, Anarchy isn't a cry to a distant utopia, but the recognition of a fact. I am free by right and by my own power. I am not subject to any authority but my own, whether they tell me they act for my own good or not.

If humans are so fallible that we need vanguard parties, how can we trust the vanguard parties that are composed of the same fallible humans?

Who are they to decide when I can have my freedom? By what right or power are they vested with legitimacy?

</rant>


Basically, I'm highly cynical of such parties, especially after personal experience of highly machiavellian members of the cambridge SWP and their involvement in the anti-war movement.

[Quoth the Raven]

Well it's the Socialist Party not the Socialist Worker's Party.
Big difference, we're just as ticked off with those buggers cos everyone confuses us..

[Bonsai Ent]

lol I have little personal experience with Socialist Party, so I can't vouch for or against them either way on that level.

I'm not so rabidly anti socialist as I may sometimes come across, I've just been left deeply skeptical about such organisations over the years

[swimbim]

im came across this forum looking up lab chemistry on drug synthesis liked what i read and read some more...

i had no idea that 'Hipforums' was referring to hippies if anything i would have thought it meant hip as in trendy lol but i soon got the idea.

am i a hippy? no, but im not anything but me i dont like or wish to label myself i have beliefs and morals that ive formed through experience and learning from others and they do not fit into any 1 criteria i.e. hippy etc etc and i wont change my beliefs to conform, not that there is anything wrong in conforming to something or saying you belong somewhere i just dont feel the need.

that said alot of my beliefs and thoughts, actions, do concur with what quite a few people seem to think/believe on here thats why i really like these forums.

i have a couple of friends who consider themselves to be hippes, i'd say that 1 is a true hippy and he is one fucking cool dude the most laid back person i know... slightly eccentric but very interesting.

hippies are cool.

[silverhippy]

I like it cause by the time I post anything you guys are in bed already and you can't yell at me till later.

Peace

[nynysuts]

I'm an anarchist idealist and a socialist realist, which makes so much sense :rolleyes:

[Bonsai Ent]

I'm an anarchist idealist and a socialist realist, which makes so much sense :rolleyes:

Consistency is an addictive substance, far worse than opium. People that do it once always do it again. I try to never believe two compatible things, it's the only way of being safe.