i found this site years ago and then came back last month to find it was still here, so signed up due to bordem among many other things.
I've always seen myself more as a "fellow-traveller" than an actual hippy, there was a lot I always felt was superficial about the hippy movement, hence a similar thing, I feel a greater attraction to alternative lifestyles, politics, but not so much "hippy" per se.
I sorta have opinions on both sides of the camp.. I'm a member of the Socialist Party and quite active within it with Cambridge Student Socialists, but.. no government is ideal, so the ideal is no government However I'm a realist, and there needs to be a transition period if chaos (as opposed to anarchy) is going to be avoided.
lol at the risk of getting dragged into an age-old debate... I think the trouble is political entities can't be trusted to oversee a transition period. An entity is inherently self-interested, it is not in a political entity's self-interest to oversee its own destruction, thus they never will. This combined with the fact that I don't think you can force social change by the passing of laws, it is an internal process. I pretty much reject the economic determinism espoused by various UK socialist parties outright And it of course relies on entrusting your freedom to somebody else, which is folly in my eyes. For me, Anarchy isn't a cry to a distant utopia, but the recognition of a fact. I am free by right and by my own power. I am not subject to any authority but my own, whether they tell me they act for my own good or not. If humans are so fallible that we need vanguard parties, how can we trust the vanguard parties that are composed of the same fallible humans? Who are they to decide when I can have my freedom? By what right or power are they vested with legitimacy? </rant> Basically, I'm highly cynical of such parties, especially after personal experience of highly machiavellian members of the cambridge SWP and their involvement in the anti-war movement.
Well it's the Socialist Party not the Socialist Worker's Party. Big difference, we're just as ticked off with those buggers cos everyone confuses us..
lol I have little personal experience with Socialist Party, so I can't vouch for or against them either way on that level. I'm not so rabidly anti socialist as I may sometimes come across, I've just been left deeply skeptical about such organisations over the years
im came across this forum looking up lab chemistry on drug synthesis liked what i read and read some more... i had no idea that 'Hipforums' was referring to hippies if anything i would have thought it meant hip as in trendy lol but i soon got the idea. am i a hippy? no, but im not anything but me i dont like or wish to label myself i have beliefs and morals that ive formed through experience and learning from others and they do not fit into any 1 criteria i.e. hippy etc etc and i wont change my beliefs to conform, not that there is anything wrong in conforming to something or saying you belong somewhere i just dont feel the need. that said alot of my beliefs and thoughts, actions, do concur with what quite a few people seem to think/believe on here thats why i really like these forums. i have a couple of friends who consider themselves to be hippes, i'd say that 1 is a true hippy and he is one fucking cool dude the most laid back person i know... slightly eccentric but very interesting. hippies are cool.
I like it cause by the time I post anything you guys are in bed already and you can't yell at me till later. Peace
Consistency is an addictive substance, far worse than opium. People that do it once always do it again. I try to never believe two compatible things, it's the only way of being safe.
hello people ^_^ I'm a bit of a hippy but also just a free thinking mama.I typed in dreadlock forums to google as I wanna learn as much as I can about themI've had mine for a month so I have a lot to learn!Also,checked out the other forums and it looks like a lot of fun.once I get my head around it!
A month? you're probably approaching your first full moon with them. Did anyone tell you to buy silver bullets? Cos this ... thing ... happens
