what does being a "hippie" mean to you?

To what degree did that concept play a role in you signing up to the forum?

 

Started Fulltime Barefooting In August 2006.......Researched The Subject More Fully

And Stumbled On A Link To Hip Forums "Barefoot Forum"....Joined In April 2007....I Guess That

Was A Bit "Trippie Hippie"......



Cheers Glen.

 

hippie didn't have a lot of impact but probably on a subconscious level it did
i'm not likely to sign up to gothforums or footballforums or.. you know

i think the diversity of style, opinion and background amongst the members here is amazing. one of the best things about the forums.
there is a common thread which is hard to define, but it is something to do with the word "unconventional" and that is probably where the "hippie" label works to signpost that common thread.

 

Didn't hippies live in the past, like 1970s?

 

Sorry.... I don't recall.

 

I came here to wreck everything. And to ruin your lives.

God sent me.

 

Can't Argue With That Statement Folks......Truer Words Were Never Spoken.....



Cheers Glen.

 

For me, it was always that my concept of myself, like who I am and what I've become - from the things I do in my sleep to my conscious choices about life - were derived from some sense that I was supposed to try to become something different than what was already being done. I think that was heavily rooted in alternative music culture though, and not so much hippie culture. There was a time in my life though when I was portraying a more hippie self-image, like wearing birkenstock sandals and stuff or trying to dread my long-ish hair. But I was in high school then, and I didn't stick with that for very long. I guess when I decided to cut my hair around 1999 (after high school was over) it all went away...

 

I don't identify strongly as one so 'being a hippie' doesn't mean much to me personally. It seems to mean more to other people, who i often happen to have certain things in common with. Namely a love for 60s music, out of the box thinking and/or aspects of the fashion

 

I'm just here for the free muffins.

 

You are my man .

 

You guys should get a room....

 

It means you smoke weed, like flowers and guilt free sex.

 

i think i stumbled across this forum while looking for hippie music, which i enjoyed listening to 16 years ago before i had heard too much of it.

i actually joined because i saw some discussions i wanted to comment on. i don't remember if those initial discussions had anything to do with hippies or not, so it's hard to say if hippiness had anything to do with my decision to join.

 

Shyt.... No pot, don't remember sex... I do have some flowers though.

 

caring more about the kind of world you have to live in then what anyone thinks of you as a person.
obviously this doesn't mean having to be a saint, but it does mean taking very little for granted,
whether belief, ideology, the sciences of the natural environment, the technologies of making and exploring.

i have to admit i've never met anyone who would entirely qualify. not even that strange guy in the mirror.

i don't know what 'being' anything means really. there are only things that interest me and things that don't.

eco-socialist anarcho-pacifist. of which none of the parts taken seperately mean quite what they do under the mutual influence of each other.
i really don't consider the consumption of mind altering substances and automatic qualification though.
nor even an absolutely essential ingredient.

one thing hippies can never be and can never be hippies, are fascists, which is also i think mostly a fancy word of dick head.
and haters aren't hippies either, unless the only things they hate are bigotry, thougtlessness and hatred itself.

there's been a lot of ego and aggressiveness among people who otherwise call themselves hippies,
even historically back in the day, so maybe its just me having my own ideas about everything,
but from my perspective that doesn't really fit either.

if there's one thing, maybe its 'akuna metata'? the idea that nothing has to be that big of a deal.
i think that's the heart of it.
but if that's the case, where does all the obsession with celebracy in performing arts and organized sports come from?
i don't really recall that having been any part of the origeonal mix.

iconoclasm i think might be part of it. i don't believe that started out to be the primary focus.
pacifist activism was.
also recognition that while there are no good ideologies, or should i say none without warts, capitalism is not itself anything else,
and thus the lack of them does not make it a magic wand nor give it a free pass.

of course it also does not mean defining any of these things as having hard edged borders, as i too often have been known to do,
perhaps even as i'm doing now. but it definately does NOT begin and end with any one brand name flavor of belief, ideology or any one thing else.

nor is it more then one among the several things i think of myself as much if not more to also be; furry, sf nerd, model railroader and rail fan, 'tree hugger' and to some extent iconoclast of the overly familiar and cleche'd as well.

 

Uncalled for! Although I don't dislike him at all, his pronounced love on the other hand really is a one way street

Edit: but appreciated nevertheless

 

I signed up for this forum..well, that's a lie, I started lurking on this forum (didnt sign up until later) because I went to Asheville and stumbled upon a huge drum circle and all the Asheville hippies were dancing and they seemed so carefree. I was really high and I just watched them, transfixed, for a couple of hours

So I came home and something compelled me to Google hippies and ..here I am.

Actually no, not Google
Yahoo
Or maybe ask jeeves

 

dont remember but it was very likely something about weed growing...….I consider myself a ''longhair''.....society kind of lumped us into the hippie category

 

Being a hippie is a misnomer for do not hippies simply be?