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

hmmmmmmmm

 

One of the genuinely nicest people I've ever met I met through these forums and we even went to the Michigan rainbow gathering together in 02. Back then I was posting as simil. I hope all of you have the same good fortune meeting in person.

 

i dont understand why people think if they smoke the green they are hippies! whats with that? surely its a state of mind, a way of living, a way of treating others, a religion! (thought not in the traditional sense)

 

ah, auh Religion, yes, yoh iz gettin warm.

 

lol i dont smoke weed and everyone calls me a hippie. hmm.. i always wondered why that was.. and then i started thinkin bout stuff i talk about lol. my friends get tyred of hearing about peace and love and equality and all that . And they say i dress like a "hippie freak"... hmm lol

 

I smoke weed AND I consider myself a hippie, but smoking weed doesn't make you a hippie... I know lots of people that smoke but are gothic or gangster or something else.

 

I think the human nature causes us to expect too much and judge the book by it's cover. I too admit I expected more of the "hippie" attitude but then again it's my fault for expecting everyone on this site to be like me or to conform to a certain stereotype! I guess whatI'm trying to say is we have to learn to stop relying on and expecting certain things from others and learn to rely on and expect things from ourselves. If you expect people to be a certain way you will always be let down. People are going to be how they want and who they are regardless of what anyone else thinks (for the most part). I don't know if what I'm writing makes sense to anyone but me, but I hope it does! Maybe I'm just a stoner talking in circles!

 

LittleGirlBlues67,

Sounds good to me; from the heart, makes sense. Expectations are best placed with manifest wisdom and can go unfulfilled or be 'broken.' It appears that it is good to learn to be open to the lessons that come to us through our own expectations.

P/L,

David


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This is what society is, for sure. they want us all to conform and be interested in material things; new houses, new cars, education. What drew people to the hippie culture was that they wanted to escape from all that. Thhey just wanted to be who they were.

 

Again, I think that the one thing that unites most of the people here is the counter culture. Most are people who in one way or another are not going to play out the roles that society has assigned to them. That is what we have in common even if the roles we choose to play are very different one from another.

 

And right you are. I'm pretty new here and am still trying to find my way around. I don't even quite know how I got here. But I like it because there are so many like minded ppl. I feel like I can express my true feelings and be accepted, not put down and ridiculed for my thoughts as I would be in real life.

 

>>I wrote this in like 5 minutes and it was exactly how I was feeling... its not very good tho but yeah Ive already posted it as another thread but thought id put it here too.

Hatred is fed by ignorance.

The world can not ever be made into a better place until we learn to accept each other. Race, religion, gender, sexuality, the labels we've been given... none of that is important. We are all people. Everyone deserves to be equal. We can not truly be happy until we learn to better ourselves, and in turn, we will better the world.

As a whole, becoming and doing less than our highest capablity disgraces the generations before ours. The generations who fought for everything we have now. It is our job to take what we have been given and make it into so much more. Our world has a much higher potential. We, as individuals, have a much higher potential. Are you ready... to give the next generation something they can make better... so that years from now... and many generations after them, we can finally reach our highest potential, so that we can be a happier people?

The only thing we can do to achieve our goals is unite... put the historical boundaries of race, religion, gender, and sexuality behind us. Liberate your minds. Free yourself from society's death grip before the pureness of your souls is crushed.

 

Have you ever considered the Way through martial arts? The self-betterment you speak of there reminds me much of my own training right now. Bringing students up to the masters level so that they may in turn become better than the master and bring others to their level so that the students of the student can become even better still.
I suggest reading the "Book of Five Rings" by Myamoto Musashi. I think you may gain better understanding of yourself and the Way through reading it (and re-reading and re-reading and finding still deeper meaning in the words you once thought to have understood in the first place. hehehe but thats me.)

 

1. if students continually become better then their masters then how come martial arts have not advanced as a whole? aldo naldi was probably the last of the truly invincible fencers and none of his students could even touch him

2. funny thing, the guy who wrote 5 rings was big on choosing terrain and weapons to suit your foe, he killed a guy with an oar on a sandbar...

this amuses me.....

 

1.) The martial arts as a whole has improved. take a look at decades ago, Gung Fu did not exsist.... Also, there will very possibly never be another Musashi. 60 duels (not including the other trials through out his life) w/o a single loss! but then again he was a giant among men where he was at his time too.
2.) His 'style' is very comprehensive, His book goes beyond just the School of Two Swords as well. I do remember the encounter between Musashi and Kojiro, and yes, he did win with an oar the carved on while on the way to the island on the boat. When Musashi arived Kojiro was there, waiting and angry because Musashi was late (he did that on purpose to interupt his opponents 'rythm') the boat reached the shore and Musashi flew out, Running up the beach directly at Kojiro, the wooden oar boken trailing behind him.
Kojiro attacked with a upward stroke that he had won many battles with befor, and Musashi being the Giant of a man he was (and having a REALLY good verticle) jumped up barely avoiding the sword and came down with the oar right on Kojiro's head, killing him. Musashi then promptly left.
have you read the book of five rings?

 

1. naldi was around in the 40's he taught danny kaye how to fence for some films, he fenced his whole life from when he was 4 till his 60's and only ever lost one battle to his brother and there is HUGE evidence that he threw that onw

2. I skimmed it

 

1. nifty I was unaware of him till now. did he ever write a book?

skimmed it!? youre missing out. if your a martialist of any kind I Highly recomend reading through it and considering what he says. there is a little pocket version out there that translates pretty well. Remember Preemption.

 

he did write a book, but it was when he was way older and it's a really self serving autobiography (he still doesn't admit to throwing the fight to his brother, but he hints to it)

and I've been trying to get around to it I just have been getting caught with other books and everything else, I haven't been able to make time for it since 2002.....

 

I too, came here seeking like minded people to share ideas and inspire one another, did I come to the right place?

 

if you're willing to wade through the crap, maybe.....