Dissappointed!

I strayed from talking about this because I know most of you wont give a shit and will do what you always do which is make stupid remarks and tell me to fuck off but I don't care! You young hippies disappoint the hell out of me! I'm 22 years old and have been calling myself a hippy now for over 10 years I love all kinds of people and try not be judgemental or push my belifes or views on others but I read this forum everyday and most of the time I wont respond but the time has come I suppose.... All I read on this forum is pointless conversations,mean spirited comments and,verbale wars that have absolutely no point to them and while there is a whole world out here and wonderful people to meet and learn from you people are content to waste your brains on "The Hippy Look" "The Best Drugs" and recently and the worst to date "Women and Imagrents shouldn't be allowed to work!" which people spent time and energy on arguing with a mere boy who had no business being on here in the first place! There is not one ounce of depth or (at times) brains on this forum and for those of you who are guilty GROW UP!!!!!

 

I'm innocent until proven guilty. (Though the law sees it the opposite)

 

You've truly shown me the light.

You should be a Jdub.

 

you already posted this in the old hippies forum this is the kind of stuff that tends to get annoying

 

I had a point to make and I did! You'll survive!

 

hey there are assholes in any culture right? there are assholes in any genre... there are obviously assholes who call themselves "hippies" ... But i do agree, some people who come here dont have any delightful discussions to share with the others.

 

Yeah, this is a place for positive discussion. I can listen to you and agree with you because you didn't be arrogant and obnoxious like a lot of people on here. I actually do agree with you, and I don't post a lot in this forum. But in other forums I'm sure there's better discussion going on...

 

As i did in the Hold hippie treat i want to respont here as well

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

 

sorry if i don't fit your image,but then,like you said,i don't give a shit.Besides that i'm the hippie.Smoke pot.

 

...but...

 

Gee! I thought the whole point of this forum WAS verbal wars, snide comments, put-downs and pointless comments.


You mean I've been having fun here for the last 4 years and I shouldn't have?

Well, I stand humbled and chastened!

 

put out your knuckles...WHACK!!!

 

Thank You as I'm a very humble person (or try to be at least!) I don't wan to put down anything a person feels is important to them but with some of this stuff GIVE ME A BREAK!

 

If I've ever said anything, I apologise. I can't speak for the rest of the forum though, but I guess no one means offence, there's arguments and insulting but it all seems to be in good humour.

 

Don't put expectations on others and you won't get so disappointed. I'd bet that most of the folks here are just trying to connect with like-minded people. I've been searching for my discussion niche here sinc I joined. I've found that most of the more active posters aren't particularly interested in entertaining alternative viewpoints for active discussion- i.e. those in the marijuana forum tend to only give a damn about someone who still smokes pot. I've made a couple posts there from the viewpoint of an ex-smoker and I may just as well have talked to a wall. Likewise with talking with most in the YH forum... methinks the deadly 4-2 in the profile may have evoked some latent ageism as younger folk are very selective at the older people they will include in their discussion... call it a clique- I do... but it's ok; I just found that that wasn't where I was going to be heard. Despite not finding much inclusion in either forum I have seen plenty of intelligence weilded by reading through the "fluff" threads. Sometimes the mind can expose its agility in how one handles oneself in a flame war.

The thing is- you can't force people into posting more meaningful stuff if they would rather just chit chat. You might want to find a related forum and start something and see who joins the discussion. Ranting at people because they aren't posting in the manner you feel they should isn't likely to change their habits- it's likely to cast you in a light that you might not like. Perhaps you'd like King George the Dumbya to sign a military draft into law... that way the American "young hippies" might passionately invoilve themselves in the political process and the "fluff factor" would be supplanted by an activism not seen in these parts since the late 60's & early 70's.

 

it is erroneous to assume that everyone on these forums claim to be hippies, or extol hippie values, or follow the "hippie path"

 

uhoh, i sort of agree with you curious jane. i guess i realized that most on the site mean well and that alot of us are searching for something deeper. i know i am. for all i know this might be a dead end but at least i am attracted more to this site than i am to those around me where i live. sometimes i think i am a loser idealist but i hope to make friends in the world who don't go away because i am not cool enough, hip enough whatever. hippies vary in their individual belief concepts. i grew up in the 60s and have come to realize that for alot of people being hip was just a fad or style of the times and they faded away and joined the mainstream later. thanks for being honest. personally lately i am sort of discouraged because all i see are those caught up in delusion which our culture applys to all its members.... anyway i don't know how to end so i will stop here. bobbeefree

 

Everyone just needs to lighten up, including the OP.


And also, to the OP, "hippies" are supposed to be open minded...any open minded person will realize it takes all kinds to make the world go around.

 

(bobbeefree and dancerannie) these are both valid points and I agree..... Like I said before I would never push my belifes on others as that would futher add to the hypocrit boat that I try to shoot as many holes into as I can on a daily basis! I have just read for months now the "fluff" threads as they say without comment and it just got to me. I'm human and everyone has a breaking point when it comes to stupidity. I do have to say though I can be serious way to much and that is as bad if not worse than being to laid back. As I'm tring to learn how to laugh at myself and the world more I have to say (at times!) some of the threads can be humoris in a slap-stick kind of a................