Don't we want to connect back to people and friends we once knew who were once part of something with us, and don't we also want to connect back to old friends and people we knew, and include them in our lives today, with our new friends and the new people we know now? Don't we want to include anyone who wants to be included, in what we did and what we are still doing, and what we will do in the future? In other words don't we still want to be part of something all together, now, today! I want to be part of something that matters, that makes a difference. There are so many of us today who don't think we matter or who don't think we can make a bit of difference, same as when the whole hippie thing started. It is just one of the cruel ironies of life that sometimes the people who matter the most have the least imaginable status among us, even though they often make the biggest difference in what is going down around them, or what is going on in the rest of the world. To enlighten people to this cruel irony and so that we do not lose our focus or vision of our own importance, I propose the establishment of a new group. In this group those of us who feel like we don't matter would realize that we do; and those of us who feel like we don't or can not make a difference in the world would realize that we can, and that we are making a difference, now! Today I'm considering the coming together of a group I would like to call the "NON ENTITIES." This group would take its name from the fact that the people in it are those who once felt as if they did not exist, and that they were unimportant, and that no one was aware of them, and that they didn't make a difference. As part of the group we will encourage each other to recognize our own existence, and as a group we will make sure that everyone else is aware of us, and that we matter and make a difference to each other, and the rest of the world. I will call myself NoName. Everyone else can choose their own names or if they can't make a choice, the group will choose a name for them. I will call myself NoName to point out what we have become from what we were. I will call myself NoName as a reminder of what we once were, so we don't forget how far we have come. Anyone have any ideas about how to develop the kind of bonds we would need, social, or otherwise, to start a group like this; a group which is not necessarily hippies but a group grounded in hippie thought. A group whose evolutionary outcome is based on the hippies we are, or once were, or might still yet become. Peace, love, and light, to guide us in the dark, when we need it. peter
Freewheelin Franklin, There was always a knot of hippies who referred to themselves as freaks; that was because to be a freak and still be accepted by other elements of society is a very unusual thing. Freaks who accept each other are very unusual, too. Bottom line is, if you can be a freak and accept yourself, and you can accept others whom you consider freaks, you can accept just about anybody. So, I can accept you. You can be included in this group, even though you did try to cut up my thread.
Oh, lighten up. Some people have no sense of humor. And I don't think, somehow, that I would fit in with your group, seeing as how I am quite an entity, and I have always felt that I existed, and I already have a name.
