dharma .. why are you treasure hunting through old threads? you are going to confuse me again. :tongue: at least this time i read the date on this one.
No, I'm not, I just like this place.... I have occasionally been called a hippy by friends and others... lol... possibly because I have very long hair (a result of never having bothered to get it cut after growing out the mohican many years ago....) and possibly because I'm a little too nice to people sometimes, whether they deserve it or not.... But... I'm with Paul on this one, labels are unnecessary, and cause more trouble than they're worth. It really doesn't matter what you look like, what's inside you will always be the same, and what's important to you will never really change (as I'm typing this Clyde, one of my cats, is walking all over the laptop, so I apologise for any bad spelling.... lol... oh and btw, he's what's important to me... as well as Moo, my other half - now she IS a fucking hippy...!!!! lol....) I don't normally post at this sort of time btw, I just got back from the pub and found the laptop by the sofa, Moo in bed, and myself not sleepy yet (and half a bottle of red in the kitchen... hahaha...) Hope that all makes sense, if not, hey ho, what the fuck, etc, etc....
i lean hippie-ish. basically if it makes sense to me, i go with the hippie crowd. if it doesn't, i don't. i'm not a real joiner, i like to maintain my ability to arbitrarily disagree if i damned well feel like it...and the fashion isn't my thing, really.
Apparantly I look like a coppa. Nice isn't. So you can imagine no Kaftans, patched up flares, bassie boots and beads with me, or even the long hair; more like Kraftwork, which is more of a problem in itself. I'd like to think my out look on life is done with compassion and thought for others. I do hold a romatic view of a utopian community and communal living. But over the years this has been poisoned by reality. 'Bar humbug'
i have no idea what i am. id say im my own person. im not going to sit around and think about wether or not im a hippy. i get called one alot and im just used to it. its no big deal people, peace
Hippies try to set themselves apart from society by creating one of their own, this "I am not part of the system" is a cry for individualism. Thus I would say I am not a hippy, I dropped the category system about 2 months back. I would say I am an uncatogorisable individual, and a musician. but thats beside the point. Peace and ove (Not in a hypocrytical way of course).
My new girlfriend isn't a hippy as she tells me. But I think her Union jack trousers and green sweater look kind of groovy though. Maybe she is a hippy but isn't aware of it. I asked Rita her views on hippydom. She said, she will think about it. Next day, she asks me what a hippy is.
other people call me a hippy cause i look like one and love living on the land and the music and well everything but there is no way anyone is going to convince me that a stone has a concience! there is no way i worship trees although i do love them they dont deserve my praise. and im not going to go banging on about earth energy and how its all about energy man. oh and climate change is all build on theroy and nothing is actually proven. i dont know who is feeding us that one but i bet its the drippy hippies. the earths climate change is a natural earth process we contribute somethink like 0.001 percent of it
I don't have a scanner so cannot upload a picture of her. She is quite nice though. Slim and agile and very firey sometimes.
Interesting how this is becoming an acceptable 'counter-culture' position now that the science is so unequivocal and the case so well proven that even "the establishment" that we have been trying to convince for a decade are now in agreement over it. Unfortunately as soon as "the establishment" is perceived to be saying something it becomes commonplace in certain circles to distrust it and assume they must be selling us a load of fibs. But this is just short memory. Not sure what calculations led you to the figure of 0.001%:tongue: In fact it's exceptionally well demonstrated that atmospheric CO2 is up ~34% on pre-industrial values, that this is due to human activity, and that this adds an additional radiative forcing component (due to the well-understand greenhouse effect) which is driving global mean temperature well above what can be accounted for by natural variability. Some of the key findings of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment report are as follows: # Warming of the climate system is unequivocal. # Most of (>50% of) the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely (confidence level >90%) due to the observed increase in anthropogenic (human) greenhouse gas concentrations. # Hotter temperatures and rises in sea level "would continue for centuries" even if greenhouse gas levels are stabilized, although the likely amount of temperature and sea level rise varies greatly depending on the fossil intensity of human activity during the next century (pages 13 and 18). # The probability that this is caused by natural climatic processes alone is less than 5%. Read the whole thing here to learn about the research which enables us to make these kinds of assessments with such a high degree of confidence:http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html
