Where's the Beef ???

I'm still racking my brain, what the title of this thread means in the context of Old Hippies forum.
Wish you all a fine time and I'm glad, meeting you here.

 

I was curious to the name what is the beef? So I read it all the way through. What a refreshing read. Thank you all for every contribution as I felt every one sincere.
I am French Canadian although I lived traveled through out America and Mexico as a craftspersons doing bead work in a hippie colorful school bus. I raised children in it I had it for 17 years. I was a mechanic and a builder. I mined quartz in Arkansas did the rainbow thing for 25 gatherings.
I found hip forums when I moved to Quebec city and was curious with what was happening out in the WWW as I was learning computers from the bottom up. I wanted to learn how to chat and how to write. I wonder how many here are posting that only type with 2 fingers. It will take me about 20 minutes for a half page post. And my eyes dont always see the mistakes so I will cut and past this in my open source word program (open office) and it will catch the worst ones but not all.

The point I am making is every contribution is valuable. I am not a writer in a journalistic sense of the word but I am an activist and a hippie. To me these 2 terms are inseparable like cause and effect. I come here to connect. To meet people and soak their inspiration and try to create with it. I have goals and ambitions. I have experienced great holy and wholly moments where the human spirit was so uplifted that I knew I was in heaven at that particular time. And this both with music love and psychedelics.
But the most uplifting moments was the when I felt that my life meant something. Some of us here might have been involved in the anti war movements of the past 40 years. I was when I was a teenager back during the later sixties. I was very involved at that time of my life and those who were we still have this feeling that we contributed in stopping that war by shifting public opinion mostly of the young generation. And that feeling of pride is what I am talking about. Looking at the house you built the children you raised and all your friends kids and feeling proud to be part of the positive. When there is trash down near a beautiful stream jump in and get your boots wet and clean it up. It always goes fast and it looks great after and you feel really good because your part of the solution. When you go to a gathering jump in if its your first one look at those who are working they are getting the best of all medicine. Becoming aware of our greatness. It is when you undertake projects and you succeed that you get personal power.
So on that note I will think of that question now what is the beef? And I promise to answer it sincerely as well. I will take the night to think about it.
Paix et amour
Papillon

 

Well Here I am again. I have thought and thought of all the answers I could have with Where's the Beef ? And this poem in video I took last year at the Catemaco Rainbow gathering poped in my head. Exactly on the night of the 18th wich also happens to be my birthday.
http://www.beadsongs.org/catemaco20.htm

If you liked it you can also check this one out.

http://www.beadsongs.org/catemaco11.htm
Papillon

 

Say "Hi" to "Blue Tarp Sally".







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I never thought that generation gap would be a problem for hippies....

 

Huh??

Beef is ok, properly prepared we pass back to the days when a dead animal was eats and too many nights where our stomachs were empty.

Some still there.

Mean huh.

Love Ya.

Roy.

 

I am way too young in yall's opinion to be an old hippie. I also did not grow up in a commune or on tour. In addition, I have short hair and I live in suburban Babylon. I don't even wear what most consider to be "hippy" clothing.
I am way too old to be a young hippy. Just ask any of the kids around here. They will not let you get away with calling me a "young" anything.
So where does that leave me? Well, hopefully right where I have been all along. In BOTH forums, young and old.
Besides, the people that are causing the problems would not be stopped by an age requirement. I'm sure you can think of a way or 2 around that, no?
Also, the idea kinda rubbes me the wrong way. So the sign says long haired young hippies need not apply...

 

to young to be an old hippie and to old to be a young hippie, you are what we call a twilight hippie

 

Hello
There is an interesting video discussion on you tube called the blasphemy chalenge. I created a musical piece with some wild animations for it. Please check it out and rate it. Give me your feedback. Check out my other videos while your at it.
Here is the url
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzAXJ2FFwjo

 

I lurk here from time to time. I'm a moderately old something or other (54 YOA). Part redneck ex-sort of hippie. Still largely a sort of hippie at heart although I've spent years as a traitor to the cause. Those of the strictly non-hippie world would certainly have branded me as hippie in my youth and to my distress, I'm thought of, by many of those who know me, to be a burned out old hippie. Oh well, I didn't pick the label and I don't encourage it. I didn't make the H.A. scene in the 60s or Woodstock. I did make a bit of the Venice(Redondo Bch) scene in early 70s. Also did the Maui scene in very early 70s, and some Cocoa Bch. I lurk here from time to time hoping to relate, but fail for the most part and have yet to find matches to my experiences or for my soul. Part of the reason may be that the thread is mostly dominated by the much younger crowd. I guess that's a bit of a bitch on my part but I don't think I've known this forum to be any other way, so no big deal. I post this, as having read about half of this thread it seemed appropriate. And for our moderator, darrell: I remember with some fondness impatiently sitting through the meditation exercise to get the free veg meal several times some 35+ years ago. It was welcomed and came in very handy to a young starving beach hippie after not having eaten for a couple of days. Do the H.K.s still do that?

 

I looked at popularity of different topic on this forum...Here's the result of my tideous research:
#1 in popularity is "Qoute of the day",
#2 is "What's wrong with young people"
#3 is "Sex in 60S"...
Well, it looks like a composite old hippy in 2010 likes to quote other people, bitch about young punks and remiuniscent of how good the mojo was when it was working...

Another thing - why the heck do we need to register as a member of a group and 'get approved by manegement"? Isn't this s-t totally against the whole hippy idea?

 

Reminiscing is something I really enjoy. I think back on my younger days and remember the good times - the fun had - the people met. That is why I enjoy Old Hippies. I do not, however, have a problem with others who want to put in thier two bits - what I do not like, I ignore. I know I will run into my peers here - even though many are not.
As an old hippie, I have learned the cocoon I wrapped myself in in 1970 is still available to me - I only need to pull it out of the trunk and put it on.

 

That made me think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wWOvU-Mf0"]YouTube - My Survivaball Infomercial for the Yes Men

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

Hey man, I just joined and can only say thanks. The only time the idea of a hippy dies is when we do

 

As do I. Older folks love to reminisce. Hopefully, we have lots of interesting things to reminisce about

That doesn't mean, however, that we consider our lives to be "over", or that our finest days are behind us! While it's true that physically we are not as able as we once were ... no getting around that, damnit ... but mentally we are still sharp and have many years of the hippie mindfulness ahead of us.

The "Hippies" forum is the only one I read and write in, except for very occasional forays into others that might catch my eye. In general, I'm not all that experienced in the ways of online forums, but there seems to be a core of oldsters who contribute thoughtful posts and reasoned opinions, as well as a number of younger folks whose posts I always enjoy reading.

I often take my laptop down to a coffee shop near my home to use the wi-fi. I have to chuckle at some of the young people there ... they seem surprised that I actually know how to use a laptop, and furthermore that I would get online with Hipforums.

Hmmm ... I'm getting off the original topic of this thread. I have no problem at all with young people posting in "Old Hippies" or anywhere else. There are going to be childish shit-stirrers no matter what you do, but most seem to be bright and thoughtful kids wanting to find their way in the world, just as we were, all those years ago.

Somehow, we can find common ground. We just have to try.