Hippies :)

Is there anyone here that considers themselves real hippies? By real, I mean like close to the 60s hippies. Smoke pot, drop acid, practices free love aka open relationships, genuinely believes in peace, and love, and has nothing but love for literally everyone, and doesnt shave (I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting some stuff in that list). Just totally curious, though.

PS. I'm not sure where to post this so I'm posting it here.

Peace. ✌ ❤

 

Yeah... I don't shave.

 

Unfortunately, I've met a couple of hippie dudes who were judgmental about women who dont shave.

 

I'm too old to worry about such things...

 

My wife and I are most of those things. We are monogamous and she shaves though. It's what works for us but we have friends who check all the boxes. The poly stuff seems to be 2 people who "love" and the others are sexual. I think she would kill me if I suggested that I would not want to lol but they can live their own life.

 

Interesting list. I was in college in the mid 60s and went from student to father, husband and wage earner in rapid succession. As I got older more of the items on the list seemed like a better approach. As far as pot and acid goes, I really liked pot but a trip thru rehab took drugs off the list for me. Peace, love and non-violence seem more important than ever, but I don’t feel accepting of cruelty and violence towards others as practiced by some; Trump for example. Perhaps growing towards these things is a good approach as I’m my mid 70s.

 

I smoke (well mostly eat these days) pot and will drop acid if it's available. I recently cut my hair but it was quite long for most of the year. Those other things I would say are contingent or I don't really practice.

 

the real legit as i would define it is caring about the kind of world we all have to live in, then what anyone thinks of you individually as a person.
what you do for recreation is completely optional. today's (or any day's) progressive political activists would qualify completely.
(it was as a pejorative against their higher moral ground, that corporate media adopted herb cain's term.
the whole druggie thing started out as a smear campaign, but kids, and kids having the power of numbers,
decided, hmmm, that actually looks like fun, let's try that. this also evolved out of the previous generation's 'beat niks')

 

thinking about this a little more, i can put this a little more simply how i would distinguish the real deal from the weekend warriors, and i was there, in the timeframe, if not in the cities where the sit ins and love ins and protests were happining, it was about having a higher priority for creative expression then for personal wealth. so if personal welth is more important then creativity, then that's not being the real deal. the whole recreational mind altering this is completely optional and does not directly apply.

 

No, I’m probably the furthest thing from a hippie you can imagine

I don’t smoke pot although it’s legal (you can even grow up to 6 plants in your home)
I only go barefoot on the beach
I consider hygiene very important and shower and shave once a day
I kept my buzz cut from my days in the Air force, although I occasionally go with a fade.
I don’t drive a Volkswagen Beetle or Van although a former girlfriend did drive a Volkswagen Jetta


Shades of hippie;

I’m a Beatles fan
Back in the mid-1980s when I was kid I had an Afro
When I was a kid I used to wear flare bottom pants (not the extreme of bell bottoms) which were long since out of fashion
In a show of solidarity I joined the Hands Across America back in 1986
I supported the anti-nuclear protesters at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant in New Hampshire back in the late 1980s
Most recently, I attended two George Floyd protests in Downtown Boston

 

don't worry, be happy, that was the real thing. and especially don't worry about trying to have a lot of money, but instead be always looking for ways to live and be creatively without it.

 

Had it all back in the day. Left it all behind to be a working class man, and pay my own way. Lunatic ravings of a mad man. is all I have to say.

 

I'll check out those books. I've known of Skip's book since my high school days but never had the opportunity to read it (only access to internet was at school back then).

 

Not so much the lifestyle but the music

I am a big Hawkwind Fan .

 

I don't think I am a hippie.
I do believe in love and peace.

 

Well your halfway there

 

when you look at the world, if you are not blinded by people and money, from everything else that is really there, everything that would still be there,
if you can see the spirit in physical things we create, again without being blinded from doing so by the dominant culture's focus on collective ego, even and also on that of our selves,
and being blinded by the false idea of humans at the center includes conventionality of beliefs about the unknown, its a matter of looking and seeing beyond the box of all the excuses,
that usually come down to economics of possession.
of leaving behind what everyone else tells you, without leaving behind consideration for all of these things we are conventionally blinded by and to,
then to not worry, be happy, no hurry no worry, no drama no trama,
some folks thing they need mind altering substances to get there.
i feel a bit sorry for anyone who needs this to replace the imagination they've lost, thrown away, been conned into thinking its not adult to keep.
it isn't how you get there, its what was called mellowness.
when you see how we can create things that harmonize into the diversity of nature, without dominating or disrupting it,
i know that sounds like a fantasy and a dream, but it is that dream, like the song "imagine".
not to beat ourselves over the head to not have and make our artifacts, but to not blind us and take the place of the universal wonder of diversity and the diversity of universal wonder.
when you see a cat playing with a cardbord box, this is an example of both parts harmoniously together. a camp or cabin in the woods, far enough from the next to have a bit of a garden or a maze of paths to get there, and no bigger then it needs to be, is another.

its about the things and the spirit of the things, without being about things that are unrelated to them, without putting barriers of common belief and assumption, to the good spirit of the diversity of all.