The only hippie in school.

Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful could be understood to mean that he wasn't talking about being stoned, he was talking about being high, as in psychedelic OR he could be understood as saying it's about being beautiful, not necessarily stoned BUT to realize the words would require some kind of sacramental effort for most people. And that would be one way to define hippie. Like I said earlier, I felt grateful (even blessed) to realize what a hippie was (and is) and to realize I was one.

I know what people are saying about labels or definitions or whatever, but I'm not too troubled by some of them - especially those that aren't confining. Decent person, competent, merciful, hip - not bad, I think.

What's a hippie? Answer by looking at shared values or attributes - especially the most important or life-changing.

 

There is only ONE Hippie allowed in each school. They are called Token Hippies. Each school has to have at least 1 Hippie per 1500 straight students. The reason for only allowing 1 Hippie is to control the amount of Enlightenment that the students are exposed to. There-by keeping them under the Man's Thumb. If there were more then 1 Hippie per school then there would be a possible threat that they will overthrow the school and take hostages and dose them with LSD and Heroin.

 

I'd like to stay that one groovy person, the other ones are all ruining my hippie reputation. I've been chasing other hippies in my neighbourhood away for years. I wanna stay that one accepted special dirty longhair alone!

Sorry, just saying that a Robert Plant mug with green tea doesn't say anything useful in this thread. That's perfectly alright of course, but it seemed like you were serious.

 

it's all good (note: green tea and a mug doesn't make you a hippie; that i totally understand)

 

Not even if it has Robert Plant on the mug

 

I had no idea who I was in highschool. My life consisted of strategy computer games and watching Star Trek with no real friends. Then I got into the punk scene for a while, but grew tired of that because punk is really dead and Hot Topic is just reanimating its corpse to make a profit. My punk friends pretty much disowned me because I liked to smoke pot. So with a lack of anything better to do I happened to make friends with the Dungeons & Dragons people and they were just a group of outcasts like myself - but I really couldn't fit in with any subculture of the highschool field. I still am to this day a drifter, a GDI (God Damned Independent) and because the university is just high school 2.0, I'm just repeating the social aspects of highschool alone but with less money. My wardrobe is based off of principles of minimilization - I wear jeans for years until they are torn to shreds and then they become shorts. Most of my t-shirts are from my highschool days and I still have a few from middle school and one from the 5th grade.

 

it is said, the way to true hippie enlightenment is to completely immerse one's self in liquid lsd while playing jimi hendrix on full blast in a room that's entirely tie die (carpet, walls, ceiling even).

 

It has to feature the entire band for those kind of labeling rights :biggrinjester:!

 

Sometimes I feel so tired after your posts, Lunarflower..

 

But you love them, don't you ?

 

Indeed, there are far too few lately :toetap05:

 

You know,
All of you are right.

It doesnt take this and that to be a Hippie ...
There really arent " Rules " to being one ..
In my opinion, I think the world has just become so fucked up with all of these labels and everything .. I mean in middle school you got your preps, goths, punks, then you have the people that apparently dont know how to wear their pants right .. Then you hit high school, people actually start becoming human for once, and different people hang out with other different peeople, which i like ...

But its still the same thing with the stereotyping in a way, where ever you go ..
You have these chicks in Hollister and Aeropostale with Coach purses etc and think that they cant live without this stuff ... You have people that worship the devil and drink blood (Yep, i know a few people that do that oddly), then you have these people that wanna fight if you look at them wrong ... I think the world is way to materialistic and so many people have become so fake .. And no, i am not saying that all girls who wear Hollister are fake, and stuff like that .. NOT whut im saying lol

Just that i think everyone shud be themselves, get along with other people ...
Like the other day, a mixed kid (black and white) got into a huge arguement and a fist fight with a white kid (that dresses in the baggy stuff etc) ... and guess whut it was over? It was over the white kid saying the mixed kid wasn't really black, or something like that it was just dumb.. i mean really? your gonna fight over skin color? who cares whut color you are, how you dress, whut your beliefs are, at least your being who you are and most people will like you for that

 

A while back I wrote a blog that you may be interested in reading. It mostly deals with my views on pop-culture, I suppose. Here's a small excerpt.

 

Awesome, stereotype the ones that stereotype you. If that doesn't make things better! :biggrin:

 

my mom raised me how i am, the other day we had to find pictures for my grandpa's 80th birthday (some slideshow of his kids and grandkids) and i was looking at pictures of me and it's so funny because in some i was throwing up the peace sign, if not that i had tye dye shirts on (cliche yet i was like 4,5,6,7,8,9), i had 'lennon' sun glasses on, i mom used to get me some psychedelic ass lookin shirts, it was crazy but i wouldn't want it any other way!

 

I wouldn't call it stereotyping, but rather calling it as I see it or a factual analysis - two different concepts. If what I see and describe fits into a stereotype, so be it, but I never once grouped, packaged and placed them in a single category - apparently they did it themselves.

 

Wouldn't they say that about patchoulli-smelling peace-rambling beatlesfans neither?

 

Probably, but I, for one, wouldn't take offense from it. If someone want's to stereotype me as a hippie, or what be it, more power to them, because I'd most definitely agree.

 

Well, that's really great but it doesn't really matter if you take offense from it. What matters is that you frown at their engineered smiles, nylon blended shirts and bleached hair etc. and the other way around they look down at the typical hippies. So you are doing the same as them. Just as you're personality doesn't stop at your hippie stereotype, their personality doesn't stop at their bleached hair and stuff.
And I don't think they are much offended if you confront them with their 'flaws' neither.

 

I don't know - I've seen some people get pretty offended over the most mundane things.

Their doings may not be my preference, but I still think they have the right to do as they please (as long as it isn't harmful, of course), and I know a lot of people feel the same way, I just happened to publicly write about it. Yeah, some things I see today actually disgust me in a lot of ways, but I've never gone up to the person and told them. It's not my place to. I instead try to avoid those people and places.

I believe you've got it a little backwards on what matters. I don't think it really matters what I frown upon because I don't force what I believe or my views onto other people. They can take it or leave it, but I do believe what offends me matters, at least to myself, and it's pretty hard to offend me.