I could be wrong here but does anybody else sense a lot of anger, hostility, or negativity from a lot of the people that post here? Like in the ways people are contradicted or the way somebody replies when they disagree......maybe its my negative outlook on life................ but isn't the attitude associated with hippies supposed to be compassion and love yet carefree and easy going?
First of all, not everyone who posts here are hippies. Secondly, don't expect positive atitudes from hippies who talk about Bush. I'm still working on the carefree/love everyone ideals, as I'm sure a lot of people are. It's a pretty lofty goal, so everyone screws up at it every once in a while.
I've noticed it too. I'm assuming everyone that comes here for the right reasons wants to at least imitate the carefree/love everyone attitude. And I bet more than a few want the 'lofty' ideals to rub off on them. Er... :raises hand: I'll admit, I don't like to censor a post or an expression because I want it to seem more hippyish. I'd rather have the flamers, and would rather flame away myself. If you've honestly grown enough that your posts are full of light and love and inspire the same, please post often. Yeah, post all the time. Please? Heh.
I guess part of being a hippie is being tolerant of others' points of view but that doesn't always happen for whatever reason. This is supposed to be a "free speech" forum. In other words a peaceful democracy. If someone's posts get another person's back up, they should say "I don't agree" instead of shooting the other person down in flames. You have exercised your right to disagree but in a peaceful manner. Hippies are supposed to be this big happy family, living together in harmony? Well people aren't brought closer together by reacting overly harshly with other people's opinions. But by the same token they won't be brought closer together by ignoring others' opinions or posts either (I see this happens sometimes too and I'm just as guilty as the next person), or else we will just be as self-centred and self-absorbed as the rest of today's society. I guess this is the internet and we can walk away from our computers without any obligation so this is probably a flawed way of interacting on a "hippie" level, but it's probably the only way we've got. The whole hippie thing should all start on a grassroots level. Forget peace and love and fighting wars and causes if we can't interact with people one-on-one generously and graciously. (by the way this is not directed at any one person)
Dude, I whant to agree with much of the people, witch are posting in here (too late to say it by myself) - it's many people in here. When ya talking 'bout "angry hippies" = ya talkin 'bout "non-hippies". Yeah, I don't like Bush. Hell him. But, it's not an anger. It's a pity. What a pity dude that Bush is! He is so stupid and so little. When he've got his place in the Wight House, Mother Nature gave him a chance to prove himself, that he is huge and strong. He did it... But where is the proof, that he is smart?.. Sorry, gotta get goin'. Peace, brothers 'n sisters.
it pains me that in amongst the words in the wallpaper for this forum, among love, peace, janis joplin etc. we also have the word protest. it hurts.
so your saying that all hippies are supposed to do is lie around smoking weed, not doing shit to try and make the earth a better place to live?
Why even try to make this earth a better place live in, when you know for a fact that you can never change how the world is now. Its a waste of time. There isnt a thing that you hippies can do to make it better. Protesting wont solve anything either so I dont know why people do it.
I just left another forum that seemed to be that way.It was a rock forum. I think I'll take my chances with the hippies. Nice to meet you.
I don't think a lot of the people here are hippies, yeah. I'm not a hippie, but I live much like one. I always post with a sensitive disposition, mainly because there's no reason not to. This is going to sound negative, but if you have to be mean to people to maintain yourself, you're stupid. And I don't mean stupid in the figurative sense, you're literally dumb. Someone who can't think beyond negativity apparently can't reason at any level above an I.Q. below room temperature. Another thing is that a lot of those people are young ones. If you look at the negative posts you'll see a lot of 14,15 and 16 year olds. A lot of young kids, really most of them, don't have much self-esteem or education and it's hard to love others unless you love yourself and it's hard to argue a point in a civil manner when you don't have a point yourself. You notice the guys who never have a point are always the ones insulting the guy who's actually making sense. This follows the "angry man defeats himself" idea. He has not the capacity to come up with an argument so he gets angry, thereby defeating himself in that argument. Another thing might also be like you said, your outlook on life. Some really great people, like me, will not be mean to you, but stern. In one of these posts I was stern with a young man who was basically blaming Marijuana for his problems in life and his laziness. I pretty much told him "you can't blame marijuana, you must blame your responsibility or the lack thereof". Now, was I being mean? No. I was just being stern.
Quote: Originally Posted by soulrebel51 so your saying that all hippies are supposed to do is lie around smoking weed, not doing shit to try and make the earth a better place to live? no i'm not saying that at all, but protests, they're just like little civil wars. they are conflict. conflict shouldn't be up there with janis joplin, peace and love. i do believe we can change the world in slight ways but protests never did anything good. all they ever did is said to people "HEY! WE're different to you and we want different things and we're here to fight for it, but in a different way"
i can't even list the many people that have changed the world through protesting, fighting for their rights and everyone's rights, did martin luther king jr. do nothing? did john lennon do nothing? what about our presidents, people in the underground railroad, people fighting for animal rights and against abortions and murder, can you honestly say that they made no difference?
When we're - hippies - talking 'bout Peace, we don't care 'bout wars. Hell 'em! We aren't fighting for the agreement of Big guys there, in parlaments. "We can stop the war, but we can't prevent the next one". When we're talking 'bout Peace, we meen the Peace in the souls of all people 'round the world. Hope, you've got it. Peace and love!
thats really sad that you think this world cant be changed. ghandi peacefully protested the british colonial rule of india, and look what happened, india is now free from british rule, mostly because of ghandi's actions. and unoriginal_whatever, janis protested the vietnam war, and so did jimi. instead of whining about the word 'protest' in the background, being as uneducated as you are you should whine about the word 'nixon'.
Actually, hippies did stop Vietnam through protest. In '68 there were 50,000 troops in south Vietnam. In 1971 most of the troops were pulled out leaving a very small force in the country. Now, a lot of veterans believe that hippies are "piss ants" who "got in the way of a good thing", but the hippies believed that the war was not ours to fight. If America wasn't so gung-ho about stopping Communism at the time they wouldn't have been there, sacrificing the lives of our young. The troops were pulled out because of weakening support at home (I.E. hippie protest). Protest does make a difference. In a democracy protest is the best way to be heard by the backward men and women of congress. Lobbying is even less effective than mass protest.
i really dont know what yer talkin about right now, my brains a-wanderin, but dude thats a cool shirt in your pic.
