Jesus was a Hippy

I don't think so, hippie is very western culture thing in my opinion. He's from a different culture, from a different time and perhaps did some hippielike things but because of different reasons!

You can't put it like that since his lifestyle even is mostly unknown to us. Yeah, he might have been part of a minority starting a momement but that doesn't make him a hippie neither.

 

If HE does not meet the discription of a hippy - who does. Not interested in money, peace freak, free thinker etc., etc. He as much of a hippy as any 60's freak. Maybe he didn't do weed or acid - but what a trip he was on.

 

You can have a lot in common with something without being 'it'.

 

many good points from many sides...agree about little hairless apes knowing little of God. I usually picture us as fancy dressed up ants.
But then I do picture Jesus as a cool hippie and I like the thought of him
with his dog looking at the stars or hanging out with the lowly like eek Women!
peace
Delfynasa

 

Also, do you rly need to take drugs to be an hippy ? I don't think so, kinda a cheap stereotype imo. More a lifestyle, and you can be that way without any drug involved in your life

 

Just love it when old threads are bumped into my view. Some valid points over the last couple of years. Can't really add much except to say that "Hippie" was a mainstream cultural term applied to us hip folks, which we sort of ran with. Hey, might as well self-identify with a construct tribe.

Anyhow, many of us did identify with the Jesus characteristics as posted here. Thinking in terms of peace and love instead of silly conflicts, living simply and renouncing our materialistic upbringing and sharing communally.

Even the dope of choice, cannabis was around in Jesus' time and LSD was the manufactured essence of other natural psychedelics available around the world for all that time and used in spiritual practice. Hey, he coulda done it.

So, yeah, Jesus was an easy icon to identify with as a Hippie. He even looked like us in the common portrayals.

 

A name can be added to something many years after it began.

 

The common portrayals are almost certainly not his real appearance. And what if his look was just the common look in his area around his time? Does it still add to his hippieness then?
Also, just because certain substances have been around for the beginning of time and were in rotation in his society is a ludicrous assumption that he would have indulged in them (not that you saying he did but still like to point that out ). It's a possibility of course but only a speculation mostly done by fellow substance consumers who like to portray him as something of which nobody knows anything about.

 

I've never really thought of Jesus in that way before...but I totally agree.

Should give some of the modern-day churchgoers who look down their noses at me something to think about...

 

So, it would also be a ludicrous assumption that he would not have indulged in them. After all he was criticised for hanging out with drunkards and perhaps drinking too much himself.

All of this speculation is about a concept and image. There is very little atributable info about Jesus.

He is barely mentioned in official Roman records of the day and they did keep such information. Coulda been lost (how convenient). So, maybe Jesus himself was a construct of his followers who did the traditional stories from memory for a couple hundred years before they were written down by the Apostles as Gospel.

However, over the last couple thousand years Jesus has become part of our cultural mythos, even for non-Christians. Just as Buddha and Ram and Krishna are part of our cultural mythos.

Many of us long-haired hippie types did identify with that mythos, both in style and in substance. I know I did as I read the 4 Gospels by oil lamp light at night in a secluded cabin in the woods of Mississippi. I think that is the best way to connect to the story of Jesus.

I remember coming to the revelation that the Christian churches had it all wrong, just as Jesus did with the synagogues of his day. I knew from being raised in that "Christian" culture that they lost the essence of the word, just as the Essene did in his day. Then we would meet in the big city Jerusal ..., uh, New Orleans and be wary of the Romans Centurions who were out to get us because we did not follow the Law as proscribed by the Christian authority.

Well, I can see that as being incomprehensible. Maybe it makes more sense if you're stoned.

 

I agree with your post and had a similar experience like this (being raised as a christian in a christian culture):

So does make sense to me now already hehe.

 

Well all i can say because i don't know much about this oak is
Jesus was a fine human being like the most of us. Jesus somehow was born with a star over his head which could mean things more spiritual but im not going to talk about that here. Jesus to me was a normal man but because of that, he was made as an important man by others.

 

Jesus was hip, but I think he frowned on any description other than innocent.

 

Jesus was a normal man, just like you and me. He laughed, he cried, he bled and he grieved. To say he was normal is an incredible understatement. There have been billions of "normal" good people born in the last 2000 years but few, if any have had the impact of Jesus. Amazingly, his impact was by his words alone, not by the sword. I think Jesus was born with a special calling - to be the spokesman for goodness and mercy and forgiveness and reconciliation.

I really don't think you have to be stoned to see it. Have people in todays religion warped and twisted his teachings and his words? Absolutely. Fortunately we can read them for ourselves. I think Thomas Jefferson had the right idea by putting together a bible with nothing but the words of Jesus - not filtered by Paul or Timothy or John or anyone else.

 

I don't know if Jesus was exactly a hippie, but I do know that if were alive today or during the 60's movement, he would of most certainly been a hippie. He knew, as well as hippies know, it's always best to spread love, and try to make a difference in people's lives.

 

And Bob Dylan would have certainly introduced him to acid

 

ahahaha

 

You are so right, I was just arguing religion with my uncle and really am regretting the fact that I didnt think of this to sling back at him

 

Well, it's just an opinion, if he wouldn't agree with you the argument remains the same.

 

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