Would you call yourself a hippie?

just wondering how many of you would identify primarily as being a hippie?

I feel I have certain hippie leanings, such as promoting peace, being anti-war in general, and a feeling that we have a common humanity which we should nurture, as well as being interested in spirituality. I'm not so much into the free love / drugs side of it though.

So I wouldn't call myself a hippie with all its' connotations but I try to maintain something of the hippie spirit within me.

 

Hippies are a myth.

 

Yes, like Chris Tarrant

I wouldn't call myself a hippie Razy Tree. Like you it was a general philosophy of kindness, peace and open-mindedness which brought me here, aswell as an interest in environmental matters and such. But the label doesn't mean much to me

 

nope.

 

Nah. I'd agree with what you say mr razy, but I really, really don't like that label and would never dream of thinking of myself as that. A somewhat irrelevant and meaningless badge of fashion. But I am anti war and I care about things. So uh

 

hippies wear too many beads and talk about their glass too much.

i mean, it's just like the stoner/dealer i know, except he wears bling and talks about his glass too much. he wouldn't go to war either and like, really cares about the planet. he recycles.

 

i would definetly consider myself a hippie!!! far out man

 

Well let me see, I threw rocks at pigs (cops) spit on em when I could, protested everything, and I still never get my hair cut, I might even smell bad, so eh, yeah I still call myself a Hippy, not a peacenik though, get to close and I bite..

Peace

 

I might be half a Hippie.

I'd add I'm a vegeterian and I recycle.

 

Glass or Grass?

 

You make me smile

even in the mornings

:coffee:

 

He sounds more like a cheap thug than a hippy.

 

Dunno, I don't dress hippy- more goth/trendy lol

But I do a couple of 'hippie' things (charity,vegetarianism, recycling, have protested), but never done them to be hippie

and other than obviously eating meat and recycling, the other two are rather more sporadic and not simply my typical lifestyle.

 

If I had to classify myself as anything, it'd probably be Neo-Pagan Taoist Cyberpunk. I don't really follow/classify myself as any particular group or belief system. My most dearly held belief is that people should be free to do whatever they want to, as long as that doesn't impinge on someone else's right to do the same. So, as far as I'm concerned, you can have whatever kind of (consensual) sex you like, do whatever kind of drugs you like...basically do whatever you like. As long as doing so doesn't limit anyone elses freedom to do what they want.
One of the things that really pisses me off about our society is the drug laws - why should the government have any say over what I do to my body? Especially when they actively endorse the consumption of alcohol, which is the nastiest drug I've ever tried. Any society that approves the use of alcohol, and will lock someone up for four years for posession of heroin is pretty fucked up and twisted.

 

Hmmm, I'm not cheap ha.

Peace

 

...Just thug, then.

 

K, I'll settle for that

Peace

 

I used to call myself hippy all the time. Now everyone else calls me hippy all the time. But it's not my name....

 

I like it. I think I'd class myself as a stoat

 

Not sure anymore. At one point I would have embraced the label of 'hippy' with open arms. However, over the past couple of years I've seen some people who call themselves 'hippy' that have been some of the nastiest, meanest people I've encountered. Also the amount of gossip/talking behind people's backs is just astonishing.

To me, being a 'hippy' is supposed to represent a general open-minded state of being, where love for one another is encouraged and promoted. Along with this, a belief in peace first, as how can one love and then have war?
Amongst those that hold to these beliefs, then you'd have your smaller groups which would then have the vegans, vegetarians, etc. People who are only into holistic practices and only eat organic foods. Those that only wear tie-dye or have dreads, etc. Those that do drugs or don't.

At this point, I prefer to not have a label. I'm just me. I know I don't fit into 'normal' society, and I quite like that. But I'm not 100% positive I'd want to fit into being a 'hippy' anymore. But I do still hold true to the ideals I always felt being a 'hippy' meant you ought to have.