Young Hippies disappoint me!!!!

The first time I ever called myself a hippie, Jane, was between 1998 - 2000 after my oldest grandson called me a hippie. I guess we considered ourselves free-spirited people in the 60's. Now it's like you go around saying you're hippie... Well, how so? What makes you "hippie"? Why label yourself? Just be yourself, you know what I'm saying? Sure, this forum was specifically for hippies but how many of them really are?

 

All that sounds good....... but it doesn't change the fact that I will now live fear as the new generation approches puberity! LOL ........

 

This is all very ture! and I call myself hippy because the word hip means (to be cool with or I'm hip to that!) which is the kind of person I am.... Someone who is (this is in my opinon by the way!) cool and hip to what is going on. I'm also a happy person who just wants others to be happy as well and the word hippy (for me) imbodies how I see myself..........

 

Women's Issues, Fashion & Crafts, Vegetarianism are pretty good with a low insult ratio

Science & Technology is good. Politics, Protest, and Environment can be good, but after a page or two of posts, things can get a little rough.

Marijuana is OK. But is at the level of seriousness that you would expect.

It depends on what you want to talk about. Philosophy and Religion seems to be relativly free of jerks, but is not for light exchanges.

You may be putting too much onto the older hippies. You would not have been able to get the '60s hippies to agree on what they stood for. (The Dead had some trouble with their "these microphones are for music, no politics" policy.)
The biggest change I see in the "hippy movement" (silly phrase) is that in the 60's we wanted freedom to be ourselves, now there is a will to convert others to our beliefs. There is more of a will to make other people do the right thing.

(The first thing dug at Rainbow is there to deal with hippies movements.)

 

hmm interestin,,,, not necessarily what i would define it as infact almost an antonym of what i would define it as....

 

How would you define it? It seems a lot of us today aren't sure what hippie really is since no one quite sees it the same.

 

Well thats not really the point and to be honest hippy or not I'm just me and all I was tring to do was to get people talking about something more than meaningless jiber-jaber! but thank you and I hope that I can find what I'm looking for on other forums with hippy forums............

 

man i knew this was a coming,,, to me its a frame of mind ,a lifestyle,,, not to be hip n fit in,,,to be up with things...... the closest thing to a description i can give sitting here at a computer n not sittin next to ya round a fire,,,, fit in with nature as best we can,,, live in ways that use what we have the best that we can and leave a minimal amount of impact on environment etc ,,,, do what i can for self without help from govt etc,,, raise my food,,,, raise my children n school them myself....celebrate life n love and treat others as i want to be treated at all times,,, have character,,,, its long ,,,, but ya get the gist....

 

Dilligaf got the blues. Thudly has had them for years, to one degree or another. Sometimes, those ole blues go; sometimes, they stick around like snowed-in unwanted-but-you-can't-throw -them-out-in-the-storm people . Not, if you are human.

Ah, just deal with it, even if they piss the bed.

 

Don't set your standards so high.

Any other problems you need me to solve for ya?

 

luvvin u thudly..

 

damn thud... ya won her over,,.. magine that..

 

Hi Guys,
I agree, in this forum I don't see the values of the Hippie culture, I am trying to do my college thesis on counterculture, I asked people to tell me their opinion (see the topic I need your help) and only two got back to me, there is not a problem, if people don’t want to do my questionnaire is totally understandable, but what make me crazy is that that many of the people that respond do not have a clue of what does mean being a hippie. There are people that are writing me “get an acid and you will answer those questions yourself”. I am trying hard to have an other reality, to have the proves that the counterculture still alive, that there are people that use the brain to think and does not only get stone, I have been called a boring literate, guys were is the culture? How can you express your opinion if you do not know what is going on?, if you don’t know…..
Those people aren’t hippie guys; they are pots head……

I want to believe that still there are hippies around, but where are you?

Rubencio

 

Maybe my novel "won her over", HHB. At any rate, we Irish tend to have that effect on people. (Still waiting for her final review.)


AND, HERE IT IS ST.PATRICK'S DAY! Think I'll drive over and pick up my paycheck and get drunk! (At home, of course. With my cats.)

And, yes-- I'll be back later, posting-while-drunk-- AOL just gave me another free month!

 

happy st pat's thud.....

the final review is comin,,,,, i gotta be in the right frame of mind ya know....

 

how about a good ol' fashin irish hunger strike.Remember the potato famine when they had to give up vodka and started concentrating on whisky.God bless the irish cause nobody else gives a ...isn't this lent?Shouldn't you be blowing up something?

 

by gosh be gaul i be ganderin at,, what ye be talkin bout "blowing things up" on the hallowed day of saint pat??

 

nope cant say as i remember the great tater famine,,,, werent live yet..... so can just go by what i learned n heard through the years...

 

Don't forget THUD...there is a birthday in the making...
I can't PM on this Mozilla thing...why oh why???

Want to change the world???
Start with yourself.

There are few answers here.

As far as surveys and interviews....sweetie...check out the sticky stuff at the top of old hippies.
we, at a time recent, were going through about 5 youngins a week writing a paper on "hippies" so some got together and rolled up a big doob chock full of rememberings.

Also you can search the archives for more on the subject.

Hi dilly....

 

Actually, I just started my load-- I remembered that Tuesday's episode of "The Shield" (which I missed because of guess what?) is being re-run tonight at 11, so I stayed sober (I can, you know.)


Ah, yes, I recall the Potato Famine when 2 million Irish starved because their rich English landlords shipped what potatos there were to Merry England. All Irish remember-- that's why things go BOOM! in Northern Ireland now and again.

Me, I celebrated some earlier when I chased all the snakes out of McMullen Hollow. Funny, I couldn't find any; I must have done a thorough job last year.