What has happened to the people here at hipforums???

I quoted this coz it is very true, not knocking those who wish for something they can't have, but...it tells a lot. (lol, I didn't even get to go to woodstock being pre pubescent at the time, but i don't dwell on it, I just go see other music now )

I have found a few really nice friends here, over the last 2 years, and mostly it was because we "met" on various forums where we related on some topic and had something in common. and there have been a few people, as someone mentioned, that replied to PM's, (or didn't even), then just dropped off, which is understandable kinda coz a lot of people just have busy lives, or don't feel comfortable with anything too personal, or we just didn't click, or something.
I guess that's all I have, just didn't want you to feel alone, there are some great people on these boards, but it IS the internet, which is a strange place.

 

everybody here (in the forums) is exchanging spiritually and intellectually enlightened perspectives on deep meaningful subjects at all times.

We're just speaking in code to throw off the evil empire (if you were cool you would already know this).

 

Haha, NayKid.


What ever happened to TrippyFish, did you eat her you crazy monkey ?





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Jiffy,


I think you're AOK and I think that your original observation makes sense. I believe that you are possibly sensing a subtle change in people that relates to something 'deeper'; maybe something like "'the pulse' of society," I believe that we all see these things but that they are difficult to describe.


Peace,

David


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smoke shiva!

 

I must disagree. Society wants us to be like everyone else. The 60s is only a small part of this. The 60s is what started it all and we are the ones who have to keep it going. Not necessarily with the whole "hippie" label but with the way we live. Hmm, I kno there are a lot of people who do not accept me becuz im into peace and love and being an individual. I mean we could discuss it forever but I would seriously have to disagree that society has no problem with people wishing to live a life of peace and love. Society is about getting the highest education, getting the best jobs, having the biggest houses... and other things like that. Stuff that some people my age arent interested in. Hmm.. i had a lot to say about it but my mynd has drawn a blank. Yeah i guess i kinda got out what i was trying to say. lol

 

I was wonderring about her myself the other day. I can usually tell which of the newcomers are going to stick around and who's just passing through.

Maybe she got a life or something (kids'll do that)

 

When did growing up mean loosing your sense of wonder and your ability to think beyond yourself? I know I am young still, I'll only be 20 in three weeks, but I can't imagine just forgetting everything I hold dear to me. A lot of my view points may change in life on certain things, but I am rooted in peace and love.
No I didn't grow up in the 60's, not my fault. But my parents did and they raised me off of the energy. YES a lot of hippies were ignorant and drug-obsessed...but those arn't the hippies who people met back then and loved. Those druggies were the people we like to forget. Why are hippies bathed in insult and glamour, cause there were a lot of shitty ones, and a few good ones who stood way out and actually were different.
I don't label myself as a hippie, other people do, but I don't. I think that hippies truly died out, because they were born out of social movement and a certain political atmosphere. The new "hippies", this new generation of left-winged bohemian people need to start a new movement. We actually have to do something and make ourselves something else than just pot-smokers.....But like the 60's there are a lot of posers, there are a lot of people who don't understand.
Peace, Love, Harmony....if you believe in them fight for 'em
Enviorment, Art, Politics...if you believe in them fight for 'em.

Just don't forget who you are, don't buy into the 60's were the best and are gone. We are new people, we have to do new things.

 

awesome way of puttin it

 

Its sad if thats the response you got.... I have no idea what the member count here is but just 3 people are hardly representative... and we all have 'nice' days and 'off 'days....

 

Jiffy Baby... I recall registering on hipforums a couple years ago when i lived in a different state, and the atmosphere and people seemed much nicer and a whole lot more helpful and similare to what i believe your expectations were. when i came back under this handle I noticed a lot of the same things you did. a LOT of sarcasm, bitterness and resentfulness to complete strangers. I'm sure most everyone is just dissapointed that they were born a decade or two too late for the first movement and simply have little to no idea how, or inclination to start their own movement. We live in similare times with quagmire wars and prejudice abound. We continue to seek out those of like mind and often find ourselves dissapointed. Heres to your quest to find the kind and the compassionate.

 

well its been a while since ive posted this and i guess things have gotten better. people who read this thread have messaged me and a lot of people here agree with everything ive said. thanx for all ur comments. it was jus discouraging to have most people here act exactly the way other kids at school act. i put up with a LOT of crap from a lot of ppl about being who i am and i jus wanted this to be a place where i could be myself without getting crap for it. thanx to all u free spirited people. stay free... no matter how society tries to bind you.

 

I'm just glad someone else brought this up!!! Because I have in the past and felt like I was the only one..... I have tried to discuse everything concerning the hip culture from gouverment,war,peace,enviorment and,spirituality... all I get is negative comments or "just get high thats makes everything better!" I come here to comment on postes but they are so superficial and pointless that I don't see any reason... Things like "what makes you a hippy?" "should I cut my hair for court?" "your favorite drug?" I don't get it??? I thought this was a place to keep hip culture alive and a place for fellow peaceful people (Not just "hippies") to come and discuse things that mattered... Not to say all conversation is bad though! I have had a few conversations with some very cool and educated people but the pointless seems to be ahead right now...

 

That's the internet for ya. every poor bastard addicted to information, and the freaks dancing around in the freak parade. amen

 

I've found that generally hippies are like a lot of other "types" of people you meet. Some are genuinely loving, caring, and selfless for most of their short times here on earth...But I've found that within most other "types" of people there are people like that also. And on the same token... Hippies can be rude and selfish just like within other "types" of people. Of course when we're all amped up on L and kind, everything's love and peace.

- Damian

 

learned hip sttuff, like how many hip types typin to spell the HippySPELL?

 

wait...
Onlyone, do you even try?

 

huh? lol

 

I think you should look into the idea of the counter culture. That common thread is what I see that unites someone who is 15 to someone my age when we meet on this forum. The majority of the folks that I have talked to here have been nice. Did not agree with all their opinions but I try to keep my ego and my opinions in two different places.