What makes you a hippy?

Oh, come on...everyone loves pie.

you're just in denial.

 

hey now there was a long period in my life when i resembled that remark . . . all purely coincidental. you tryin to say i wsa a hippie back then?

 

i like your pie young lover . . . even if you are a hip one.:H

 

That was her old name on the forums... oddly. Not really. Tis quite.... undescribable. I just remember that from then. hip-pie. How... fantasmic... not nearly orgasmic, but fantasmical... quite.

Pie isn't that bad... but, I don't feel like eating...

Oh, but that will change soon. I suppose...

 

nah, you were probably just faking it. Or maybe an undercover cop....I don't know.

 

I am not in denial... I like no pie.

 

*tsk tsk*

you poor girl.

now I KNOW you're in denial.

 

I wouldnt exactly class myself as a hippy personally.
I just like the way they think sometimes and how they can be pretty nice people. I cant say i hang around any hippies either, but the life-style seems really appealing.

 

not even lemon pie? come now, I refuse to believe this, you just haven't tried the right pie yet. Of course, I don't like cake, so I guess you may acctually not like pie, but pie is far superior to cake.

and by the way, moonshyne is right, those are the rules, it's in the rule book. Don't tell me you all don't have the rule book!? Next thing you know you'll say you didn't go through the initiation either!

 

yes i am a hippy, in my opinion, because i hold the hippy-ish ideals. but hippy is just a label that people give people that do certain things. but then again, what's wrong with labelling things? if we dont label something we can't call it anything. seems fine to me to label it as 'hippy' as long as everyone accepts each person as an individual with their own ideas about things.

 

And what do people make of the accusation that most of the hippy generation were degenerates who were into music, free love, drugs and having no responsibility? I know the hippy movement started CND, eco-friendliness and other stuff but the truth of the matter is most people weren't interested in that stuff and just wanted to party.

 

spacer, that's acctually not true at all. Look at Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and the coutless other hippies from the 60's that cared about things other than drugs and parties.

My mother was a hippie, she was in SDS, she was a draft counselor (meaning guys came to her and she figured out how to get them out of the draft) and later when I was a baby in the 80's she was in Womens Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament.

Many many hippies cared about important politics, and the same is true today.

I call myself a hippie, because what's wrong with that? I'm an open, loving person, who considers everyone family, because we all come from mother earth. I believe in peace and compassion above most everything else, I believe that mother earth is in danger, and work to help remedy that. And it doesn't have a damn thing to do with what kind of music I like, what kind of clothes I wear, or how much weed I smoke. Yes, I'm pretty much a dead head, love jam bands and classic rock, and wear patchwork (that I make myself). But I hardly smoke weed, maybe once a month, and I've never tried anything else. I don't get when it became bad to call ourselves hippies.

At my last job, one day a guy I worked with asked if I was a hippie, and I smiled and was about to answer when another co-worker said "that's not nice! Molly, doesn't that hurt your feelings?" Now, why would it? I think that there are alot worse things to be compared to, than a group of people who worked damn hard to change our societies puritanical standards and fought to stop a war that they knew we shouldn't be fighting, as well as start the environmental and equal rights movements.

when I get called a hippie, I say thank you and give the person a big smile

 

twat . .. i **** hear you.:$

 

hippy or not.....im am who i am......i live life the way i want to...the way i see fit....people may judge me because of my led zeppelin and grateful dead concert t-shirtsor my long hair but im in a tranquil state of mind and im happy with that and i dont see that changing for some time.......man it feels good to be who i am hippy or not.............peace and vision...............

 

I fit into the stereotype in that: im a veggie, i love music, i try playing music like drums, diggerydoo, i dress hippie, i love mother nature and bing with her, i hav long hair, i dnt shave, i go barefoot sumtimes, i hav a peace sign pendant, im love protesting. thts all i cant thing of right now.

 

I never said it was, I'm just being the devils advocate here!

 

At school they call me a hippy,but we have to wear uniforms so,I don't know why they call me hippy

 

I don't think it matters what you wear, I think it's a way of life. But don't ask me what a hippy specifically is, I don't think I've worked that out yet.

 

I copied this from somewhere in hippyland

It seems to me that these definitions miss the point. By focusing on the most visible behavioral traits these limited descriptions fail to reveal what lies in the hippie heart that motivates such behavior. To understand The Way of the Hippy, we must look at those circumstances that preceded the birth of the hippy movement, the important events that changed our lives, our resulting frustration with society, and the philosophy that developed from our spiritual maturation.

Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life.
Timothy Leary (The Politics of Ecstasy) 1967

My view is that being a hippie is a matter of accepting a universal belief system that transcends the social, political, and moral norms of any established structure, be it a class, church, or government. Each of these powerful institutions has it’s own agenda for controlling, even enslaving people. Each has to defend itself when threatened by real or imagined enemies. So we see though history a parade of endless conflicts with country vs. country, religion vs. religion, class vs. class. After millennia of war and strife, in which uncounted millions have suffered, we have yet to rise above our petty differences.

The way of the hippie is antithetical to all repressive hierarchical power structures since these are adverse to the hippie goals of peace, love and freedom. This is why the “Establishment” feared and suppressed the hippie movement of the ’60s, as it was a revolution against the established order. It is also the reason why the hippies were unable to unite and overthrow the system since they refused to build their own power base. Hippies don’t impose their beliefs on others. Instead, hippies seek to change the world through reason and by living what they believe.

Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people sharing all the world.
John Lennon (Imagine)

 

I'm going to shoot myself in the face.

bye.