the Meta define what hippie/hippy means to you/ labels thread

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an earlier post was correct. 'hippie' was a word stuck onto a certain counter-culture type--I couldn't define it if I tried. I grew up in the 60's -early 70's, lived in Berkeley and never met a hippie. Lotta freaks though.

 

well im in school and i understand that people label you as something its just what high school is about and that is very stupid but thats how it is now and i dont think that its going to change but you just dont listen to them do your own thing and for get about them and they are not the real "hippies" if they cant except you for who you are just be happy

 

im also in school, but i do disagree with the lable. i find the best way is just to act yourself and say what you want to say but dont pronounce yourself as anything and dress how you want to dress!
i just think of hippies as someone who loves:

"Some real hippies hate people and that's just human" - its ok to hate as long as you love them more

Lables can be really damaging, when i was a kid i was always called tree hugger and because of this i revoled against them and hippies and any sort beliefs (probably just 2 conform) and it was only last year that i realised that that was what i was underneath, no one fits exactly into lables

peace always

p.s. truth does not become false if nobody believes it! - gandi

 

Don't worry about a label. Just love and be love and if you are happy then that is how you should define yourself.

 

i think im a hippie because i like being outside and i go by the statement live and let live. i wish i had more social skills, particularly with women, but i guess you cant be blessed with everything. ill be 19 in sep. looking for a straight woman. ive got a facebook. send me a msg sometime.http://www.************/profile.php?id=536387225

 

My coworker asked me the other day if I was a hippie chick, I told him well...I know I do have hippie tendencies. I think it is hard to define yourself with one word... Ever since high school I have noticed I was out of place...I would go to the thrift store and buy bell bottoms and clothes that we worn before my time, listen to my groovy records on my moms old record player as I got ready for school, feel like I wanted to make a time machine and go back to such a great time in history (still do)...but that doesn't make you a hippy, right? Is it the way you look at life and treat people? I am starting to really come into myself at the ripe old age of 28. And it is not exactly fitting in with my lifestyle at the moment, suburban housewife to a REALLY straight laced man. But enough about me, I am glad to have found this website. Greeting to all!

 

Loving everybody ain't easy, man there's so much hate, i know it and you know, i can feel it. And a lot of the time people just say the word love and don't mean it or even know what it means, all you can do is be true to yourself, "you can't be something your not". So just be yourself. I guess a big part is just letting go of the anger. Oh and people don't change, you can say people do, but they don't.

 

if you know your a hippie then you are, on the other hand, why does it matter so much if squares think your real?

 

hippie is awareness to me. it's avoiding to take things for sure and think for yourself, and question authority as tim said. it's learning to understand reality by your standards. to happily burn all social conventions including family, monogamy, economics, religion if you come to think that they are not good for you or the society. it's love, unless it's an unreasonable love (i dont think that one should love her/his enemies, i'm proud of not being a christian) but by default i believe that your neighbors deserve your love unless they show they're assholes. i think that hippie means more courage than love. plus some pot of course lol. but a gun may be more hip than a flower under some circumstances. hippie is revolutionary. ok i feel more yippie than hippie, if you dont like this post it's just your problem.

 

quoted for truth.

 

my way is that:
hippie is a way of living.
how you dont live for someone
u r not gonna be a hippie for some
i dont call myself a hippie, im just chillin, keeping the peace and giving the love
but i got a hippie hart that fires peace and freedom into me =]

 

Anyone who realizes that if this world has any chance of making it, then more people have to have the one and only eternal goal. The pursuit of peace and love for happiness always follows both.......and I'm totally shiting on turtles as I write this. PEACE LOVE AND RAINBOWS I love you all!

 

And here's me thinking the majority of hippies were just like everyone else, incredibly judgmental people. Then they thought about karma, being that the immediate thought is closest to a reaction, being overt with their judgment of others left their karmic balance intaked.

This is a rather transient state of hippydom that not all pass through.

Reading that wording, love for happiness...explains their hedonism. Neither right nor wrong, but certainly doesn't achieve alot outside the individual. Then theirs that adoption into the eternal consciousness which has the oddest vibe of a grown adult having the responsibility of a child.

Oh the wish for evidence that the individual exists.

 

anyone can scatter attention, bring up something more important than themselves...yet they all still move on to their desires.

It just seems so fanciful, such a tool of justification that there is no limit to what hippy logic can be right in doing.

Minimalist instincts are awesome, hasn't stopped even the short evolution of the hippy dogma from rebuilding the exact same path, relatively speaking...hippies took a break.

 

I posted a thread earlier today about what I think a hippie is, but the site closed it, thanks a lot .

So, here is what I said, hopefully it can be some help to you.

I suddenly think that I realise what a hippie is.
It's got nothing to do with long hair, peace signs, bright colors, all of that physical stuff. (Don't get me wrong, I'm all for those things)
But I feel that a hippie is "hip", meaning aware.
Aware of the world and whats happening in it.
Hip to the world, man.
Hip to the fact that killing animals for food is cruel and needless because we don't need to eat them to survive/use their furs anymore(unless you live somewhere that has no jackets), hip to the fact that war is just fucking stupid and killing for peace makes no sense, hip to the fact that the earth is dying, and that we need to do something about it, hip to the idea that marijuana, lsd, and certain other drugs can expand your mind, give you many different points of view on subjects, and free you of inhibition(though sometimes we need a little voice telling us what to avoid), etc.

 

i don't necessarily agree with everything else you said, but i think you got this part right. i remember people in my father's generation using the word 'hep' when i was a kid, then i started hearing the word 'hip' alot, then in the 60's i met my first hippie and never looked back. but i and my friends actually considered ourselves to be freaks for the most part. the hippies were really older than us. we used to travel in caravans and camp in the woods, we built cabins and outhouses and saunas heated with woodstoves next to lakes we could jump into. we experimented with communal living. we were nomadic workers preferring not to be anchored to one job for long, we went fishing and raised gardens and kept goats, started natural food co-ops and restaurants, became artists, craftspeople and musicians, made wine and grew weed. we legalized pot and no one had any legal worries. we kept each other warm. alaska was a mellow place to be in those days. the whole state was like one big love fest. i miss it.

 

It means nothing. Just like everything else.

 

i think it's all about peace and love...

 

that sounds amazing. i wish it were still like that now, its teh lifestyle i would very much enjoy, with it been so rare these days, hearing bout it it almost dreaming and magical. id love to hear more stories like this, i think its beautiful.

the comment on the earth is dying, well worded, i havnet thought of it in those words before but sums it up well.

hippie is wat u do, not wat u wear, girlie it seems u r already there.

love