how can I be a hippy?

Never cared to own an SUV.

To me they are like tanks in the streets. Mechanical symbols of class supremacy and are probably as heavy and burn as much fuel as tanks. Their just missing the treads and the big guns.

I think, being a hippy is avoiding highly rigid, robotic social, religious, etc... structures that threaten to rob me of my humanity.

 

I have owned a 1963 Land Rover IIA since 1990 before four wheel drives (4WD's) became trendy. It has superficial dents on every panel except the bonnet.Because most of the body shell is made from an aluminum alloy at least this part will not rust.I will clean the windscreen (windshield) but will never wash the outside .I occasionally hose out the interior.The paintwork is all faded.If I do paint it, I will do so with house paint applied with a brush.I guess it is my way of thumbing my nose at consumerism.

When I am driving my Land Rover and I encounter someone else driving an old Land Rover I usually flash my headlights and wave to them and they do the same.Driving an old Land Rover gives you free membership to an unofficial club.If I wave to somone driving a late model Land Rover I get ignored. Funny that.Apparently it is much the same story for owners of VW Kombis.

Kombis are the traditional archetypal hippy vehicle and to some extent they still are.These days many hippies are driving old Toyota Hi-Aces.I have seen some real art work on the outside of many a Hi-Ace.

 

You need to paint that thing up hippy style. If I am avalible I'll be glad to help.

 

vuk an zuck my duck, bluddy hippyz shorthairz whannnhah B

 

Short hair? no.

 

know u know duh wah high.

 

Here's another idea. Maybe you could post a photo of the finished work?

 

Ok when are you coming downunder? I sometimes have had short hair.No4 comb job.Real low maintenance.

 

I wonder how air brush would look on a Land Rover?

 

We we decide o invade you, I'll join the army. When I get there, I'll desert.

 

hippies are people who love everyone no matter what, dont judge/think they are superior, dont sweat the small things bc they see the big picture, they arent easily brainwashed by whats "cool and normal" they think for themselves and stick to what they believe in. they were the original counterculture, they started the whole punk thing and jesikahaviolet is right, they didnt call themselves hippys they were orinally known as the Freaks which was started by carl Franzoni "Captain Fuck" or they called themselves counterculture because they were revolting against the restrictions of 50's lifestyle and the close minded ignorance of it, also the sexism in main part. If it werent for the hippies, America wouldnt be what is it today and women may still be cooking and cleaning for their husbands and wearing "appropriate clothes" hippies enlightened the rest of the world because they werent afraid to challenge "the man." if you want to learn more about it you should read some of the books written by the beatniks who made the transition to "hippie" (the term the government came up with to classify them) check tom wolfe, tim leary, jack kerouac, alan ginsberg, etc.
PEACE & LOVE, ANA

 

To be or not to be, that is the question.
Being an Old Timer in the hippie kingdom. I can tell you this.
You are what you are. There is no trying to be, there just is.
Being a hippster in the 60's was quite different from what's up in todays world. The hippie is a dinosour. A relic. Today things are different, everyone is more hip then they were three or four decades ago. The hippies brought hope for new beginings n hope to the future that things would be different, and they are.
Being who you are is more important then being steriotyped into a collum. We have thing minds and the freedom to use them.
To be a hippie you would have to go out and live on the streets and panhandle for money, you have to spend you time in the park getting high and drunk with all the bands and smoke pot on the courthouse stairs, you have to eat fish and chips from the Haight st fish n chip store, you have to sleep in the park in new york or the subway. You must give up your computers and your fine clothes and go to the Diggers and get hippie clothes and a free meal. To be a hippie you have to trip on acid for at least 3 months before coming down. To be a hippie you will have to sit in the street and be beaten by the pigs in the name of freedom. To be a hippie you must demonstraight how unhappy and unfair the laws are. To be a hippie you must walk barefoot on the street and dodge the dog poop. To be a hippie you must have faith in Creator, whoever he or she may be. To be a hippie you must have an excape route to allude the pigs and FBI. To be a hippie you must surrender all material posessions and give to the ALL. To be a hippie you must love your country enough to change her, and take the consiquences as they fall. To be a Hippie you must love your brothers and sisters and put their needs before your own.
I could go on, but you get the idea. These things I have mentioned here are the things we as the first hippies had to endure and much more. If this fits you, then you my friend are a hippie if not, well you are who you are. Only YOU know who you are inside and you must fulfill your destiny as such. LOVE LOVE LOVE.

 

How do you feel about the gov. only allowing you to view censored items, or Not being able to be naked in public? Do u think it is fair to be censored?

 

I'm only 19 I never existed in the 60's but I have something that describes exactly how I feel about Hippies of a new generation.


THE Divine Human... Does not need to seek a connection with God-Spirit,
is fully aware that one IS Spirit and that all life experiences,

individual and collective, are spiritual expression; Does not feel

separated from any part of Creation, feels intimately connected with the

All.


Does not fear change, individual or collective; Knows that every
experience is a growth experience and a chance to recreate one's own

Divine Presence in human form; Knows the nature of the illusion we live

in, and uses it to enhance personal experience and to serve humanity.

Has no feelings of low self-worth or self-esteem; Knows that no part of

All-That-Is has less value and worth than any other part; Does not

compare self with others in any way, privately or publicly, and does not

feel self-conscious or superior to others. Does not envy or pity any

other person.


Honors the needs and desires of self above those of all others; knows
that one cannot truly serve others from a place of co-dependency or

victimhood, and one cannot love others without first loving self.

Knows fully that The Truth is not held by anyone or anything outside of

self, and that the only Truth is found within; Has no need to know

because one has access to all that is ever needed through the higher

intuition.


Cannot be untrue to self; Does not compromise one's own reality and
viewpoints in favor of that of others; Lives embodied life on the basis

of I choose, rather than I am afraid of..Actions are consistent with

words. Does not say one thing and do another; Has no feelings of

shame.


Cannot be untrue to others; Has no desire to misrepresent self,
manipulate or control people or events, be secretive, hoard, be greedy

or dishonest even in small ways; Lives in the highest integrity at all

times; Has the wisdom to know when to speak and when to keep silent,

when to act and when to do nothing, but will not alter the expression of

inner truth for the sake of others; Knows that what benefits the one

must benefit the All in order for Divine Order to be maintained; Gives

and receives in a balanced flow.


Trusts self, and consequently trusts others; Knows that there are no
mistakes, no failure, only choices; Is in tune with the higher

consciousness which is orchestrating the Divine Flow of our human

experience and evolution; Has no feelings of guilt or blame, self-doubt;

Is unaffected by the criticism of others.


Has no desire to prove self right and another wrong; Knows that all
viewpoints are equally valid and an inherent right of free will; Sets

and enforces personal boundaries based on choice rather than fear. Does

not argue or engage in power struggles.


Does not criticize and judge others directly or indirectly;. Does not
care to listen to criticism and gossip; Does not complain; Does not try

to stir up drama and conflict amongst others; fully knows that the need

to criticize and complain comes from fear; Grants all others the right

to be as they are. Does not confuse another's actions with another's

being; Knows that all beings are Divine and equal.


Operates in Now time; The embodied consciousness is not off in the past
or future, but only in the now moment and the chosen experience of that

moment; Does not worry or have regrets.

Is fully capable of experiencing the entire range of human emotion, but

is able to choose which emotions one wants to feel in any given

experience; Does not experience the random and uncontrolled emotional

response of most humans.


Makes life decisions and choices based on the higher intuition rather
than logic and linear thinking, or the fear-based survival instincts of

the emotional body; Knows that the higher intuition operates in Divine

Flow and is not subject to the inconsistencies of the emotional or

mental body; Does not need reasons other than I choose.


Knows the true meaning of Love, and is incapable of loving any part of
creation more or less than any other part; Does not need any specific

type of relationship with other humans, animals, etc.; Chooses

relationships with others which enhance the life experience and releases

those which do not; Knows that it is not possible to hurt another unless

the other, on some level, has chosen to experience it; Knows that it is

not possible to be hurt unless self has also chosen that experience,

Does not fear any part of creation; Does not experience concern and

apprehension. Does not feel threatened by the thoughts-words-deeds of

any other, individual or collective body, but is alert and aware of

one's immediate environment and the potential choices presented

by same.


Is not attached to people or other life forms, places, things Does not
grieve over separation or death, because one knows that we all are

eternally connected in the One and that the separation which appears to

play out on the Earth plane is an illusion.


Does not experience the normal ups and downs of human life, because one
is free of karma and operates at a frequency level above duality; Seldom

experiences illness or injury, because the body is free from the

influence of lower emotional thoughts; Can transmute lower energies of

others without being affected by them.


Does not judge or condemn the events of the world; Knows that they are a
manifestation of the collective consciousness, and that one's most

powerful tool for changing the world is self-transformation; May choose

to actively work for change in the world if so guided by the higher

intuition.


Is able to act in true compassion at all times, serving humanity and
rendering that assistance which is needed from a higher place of

non-judgment; Has no personal agenda or motivations for assisting

others; Chooses to do so or not based on higher intuition.

Has no interest in putting self above others, controlling the beliefs or

actions of others, taking the personal power of others; Does not have

anything to prove to others.


Honors the boundaries set by others, individual and collective; Respects
the free will and personal space of others at all times and the laws of

the land in which one lives; Occasionally chooses to cross a boundary,

but does so taking full responsibility for the possibility

of consequences.


Wakes up each day with a sense of joy and excitement about what may
unfold; Has no expectations about what may be experienced, but takes

full responsibility as a co-creator; Is fully willing to experience all

that one has co-created for self.


Is an extremely powerful catalyst for transmutational change upon Earth;
Emanates the higher frequencies of Love, Light and Joy continuously into

the planetary consciousness; Heals and transmutes fear energies for

Earth and her life forms, simply by being present in

human form. ~Love is.......the absence of fear.

 

I read the posts and wanted to put my 2cents in. I was of this generation as was my sister. I am 53 she is 60. We were and still are " as I have been called" so called 'hippies". You can not decide to become one. It is a state of mind and being. My only daughter is 22 and she is by all accounts a "hippie" its how you think, its your soul as well as dress etc. We drove VW busses not because of their looks but they were good on gas and you could put alot of people in them. You could live in them. We were the counter culture. We were for Peace against a war that NOW even the establishment admits was wrong. We were against everything that our parents had told us was the "right" way to live. I think it was we were questioning why we had to do this or that, where our parents generation just did it. If it did not seem right we asked why.
It is very hard to explain because it was a very unusual time. All the elements were in place for this to happen. I know a lot of people that in the 70"s started to live way back in the redwoods and up in the mountains and live off the land. It was communal living, not all were sex and drugs etc... we were free thinkers and the older generation did not understand us. To this day my dear Mother who is 83 calls me a " damn rebel, such a liberal, gypsy, still a hippie etc... " I consider it a compliment but it is sad since she never in all the years has understood.
I really believe up until the 60"s each young generation never questioned and here we came questioning everything. Getting put down for being different and then just trying to do anything and everything to blow their minds. There is alot more but I am still trying to figure out what it was back then. SEX,DRUGS, there was so much more to it, you are wrong if you think that was what it was all about. It was a social conscience speaking out.
After all this is AMERICA and we can and do speak out minds.
Thank you all Peace and Love to All

p.s by the way I have 5 children and just to let you know , 1 is a Harley guy, 1 is a Republican and very square( I love that guy-he is 27) we have great debates. 3 is middle of the road, 4 my daughter is a free spirit( that is how I think of myself and 5 he is a Biker like his oldest brother.

 

To become a hippy all you need to do is:

Tune in, turn on & drop out.

 

jesikhaviolet is right- again- also, you just feel it if you are a hippy you know? like yu just feel at peace all the time and you stop judging people and you just have this never ending happiness- it has nothing to do with the music or the fashion- bc no two hippies are alike you know? like some hippies may hate crochet and beadwork. like thats the sterotype but it actually has nothing to do with being a hippy. being a hippy is a political thing and its ab doing what you believe in and enjoying life to the fullest

 

are you a hippie yet rebeliouspunk

 

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