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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: NUKE on March 15, 2008, 01:45:51 AM
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I am curious.
In my mind, a hippie is a person who is basically a bum.
Am I wrong?
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You my friend, are SOOOOOO OFF
i for one, am a hippie, i am NOT a bum, i am NOT a highschool dropout, i believe in peaceful protest, i listen to the greatful dead, i don't believe in any one religion but consider them all to be different manifestations of the same idea, i DONT smoke weed or do LSD but i do have many friends that are also hippies and do smoke a WHOLE lot, and i DO take showers.
hopefully i am proving most conceptions about hippies wrong
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You my friend, are SOOOOOO OFF
i for one, am a hippie, i am NOT a bum, i am NOT a highschool dropout, i believe in peaceful protest, i listen to the greatful dead, i don't believe in any one religion but consider them all to be different manifestations of the same idea, i DONT smoke weed or do LSD but i do have many friends that are also hippies and do smoke a WHOLE lot, and i DO take showers.
hopefully i am proving most conceptions about hippies wrong
Okay, but what makes you a "hippie"
Can you define that?
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"whoopee hippies."
(http://images.southparkstudios.com/media/images/310/310_urked_cartman.gif)
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I just want to know what a hippie is.
What makes them a "hippie" ?
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Because they are "hip".
I guess.
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Well, Gowan just said he is a hippie, so I now want to know why he considers himself to be one.
Just curious. I have nothing against hippies but I do confess that my bias seems to lean towards them being bums.
What makes someone a hippie?
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Oh, ok then.
1. Tie dye t-shirts (no other shirts allowed)
2. Total pacifist
3. MUST be a grateful dead fan
4. Had to be at Berkley or had a relative that went to Berkley
5. "Meathead" is actually a hero to be admired
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Gosh, the only hippie that responded will not even define what a hippie is.
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You have to remember, he has ADHD...or something.
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Oh, ok then.
1. Tie dye t-shirts (no other shirts allowed)
2. Total pacifist
3. MUST be a grateful dead fan
4. Had to be at Berkley or had a relative that went to Berkley
5. "Meathead" is actually a hero to be admired
they were geeks to :rock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCECQ19mSho
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Maybe people who consider themselves to be "hippies" are just trying to make themselves feel good about themselves in some way, which is okay by me.
I just want to know what a hippie is. Gowan is a hippie, so I want to know what makes him consider himself a hippie.
I mean, what defines a "hippie"
Seams like an easy question to answer...if you are a hippie.
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I am curious.
In my mind, a hippie is a person who is basically a bum.
Am I wrong?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie
Gowan says he's a hippie, but he doesn't do drugs. In your link, drugs almost define a hippie.
Gowan says he's a hippie. Just wondering what HE thinks a hippie is. And he wont answer.
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Reminiscing about late 1940s Harlem in his 1964 autobiography, Malcolm X referred to the word "hippy" as a term that African Americans used to describe a specific type of white man who "acted more Negro than Negroes."
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Reminiscing about late 1940s Harlem in his 1964 autobiography, Malcolm X referred to the word "hippy" as a term that African Americans used to describe a specific type of white man who "acted more Negro than Negroes."
Is that anything like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXpbrGBIGxw)?
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Hippies are probably the ultimate libertarians :t
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Gosh, the only hippie that responded will not even define what a hippie is.
Maybe hippies can be better described by what they're not. I reckon they're people that aren't as uptight as most. They certainly wouldn't think of starting a thread to define "hippies" then get all bent if it doesn't give them the response they wanted from the responders they wanted to hear it from or the "accurate definition" they desired within 24 hours or sumpin'. :D
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No, the hippie in question has professed to have ADHD. I bet he's already forgotten this thread and what the question is.
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No, the hippie in question has professed to have ADHD. I bet he's already forgotten this thread and what the question is.
And ain't that about as laid back as you can get? :D
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Yeah, man...groovy. :cool:
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In clothing chioce, Hippies tend to wear the uniform of the non-conformist.
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That is to say, they conform to the non-conformist fashion. Right?
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Hippies were invented back in the 60's, so most of the authentic ones are rather old now:
(http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2766/hippie20photos20vieux3bo.gif)
A lot of children of Baby Boomers have adopted the lifestyle too, but are often not as real as the originals:
(http://www.getreligion.org/wp-content/photos/hippies.jpg)
They are most commonly spotted in very liberal cities, especially University towns like Berkeley and Santa Cruz in California, and Eugene in Oregon.
I believe that they may also be more common here on the West Coast, than they are back east.
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If ya ain't dirty and/or stinky, then ya ain't a hippie.
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...and i DO take showers.
This statement proves you're just a hippie want-a-be. <BigGrin>
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There are hippies....and then...there are HIPPIES. It is hardly a homogenous group.
There is the garden-variety hippy, who advocates peace, wears tie-dye and beads and raggedy jeans and headbands, and smokes weed ("Hey man! Pass that over!")
Then, there is the "I'm from BERKELEY", raving socialist anti-capitalist anti-American anti-military, narcissistic, self-righteous, arrogant west-coast hippy. You know the type. The kind that even normally peace-going, pacifistic Americans want to beat the hell out of.
Lastly, there is the ultra-radical, frightening, violent, murderous, Manson style hippy. Thankfully, they seem to be rarer than hen's teeth.
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Gowen seeing your profile says your a 16 yr old, im gonna say you do the real hippies disrespect by calling your self one.
Its the wanna be little kid Hippies that give the real hippies a bad name.
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I was there... I was around em every day.. I lived in their communes from time to time and sold em drugs.
Hippies were most definitely not libertarians.. they were socialists. pretty much non violent socialists but socialists just the same. They were not clean when left to themselves.. weekend hippies were clean.. weekend hippie women were worth bedding..
At the same time as hippies you had weekend hippies and you had bikers but.. most could tell the difference. Some real hippies showed a certain amount of courage at times. they were wrong but.. in a few.. the courage was admirable. most were lazy and cowardly and dirty and druggies.
They had a hard time picking their friends and their enemies... they admired the biker types as outlaw hero's or some such.. never did get that clear.. They f3eared guns and they embraced socialism and soooo.. a lot of their wrong headed ideas have survived to today.
Imagine the conundrum of the hippie.. what do you do with someone who doesn't work on the commune? mostly they made life hell for the guy or girl till he left..
What do you do with the drunken biker you brought and wouldn't leave who was eating all your food and.. against all the rules... shooting guns and making Harley noises and generally being.. a biker? you can't throw him out cause he will get violent and you have no plan for that.
So now.. they control government police.. they don't mind if the government they used to hate beating or imprisoning or even killing someone who doesn't tow the socialist line (for his own good)
As an example I would point you to the flower children.. bill and hillary.
lazs
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Hippies were people who played at being communists. Most found that communism simply doesn't work and joined mainstream society. Hippies today are idealists without any workable ideals.
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we didn't have hippies here so I never really interacted with any back in the day. we didn't have any bikers per se either there was a white trash trailer denizen biker club here that had a brief hey day they were called the outlaws but by the late 1970's the cocaine cowboys which were cubans and colombians for the most part pretty much whipped them and sent them up to northern florida to be tough.
I have no clue what a hippie is but I accuse people of being hippies from time to time and use the term as a slurr.
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When I see hippies today, I think the same thing about them as when I see someone dressed up like a cowboy- Why are you dressed like a fool? The original hippies rebelled against being drafted into the military, against working a boring 9-5 job, and against not being allowed to do drugs.
So I would say that modern-day hippies just dress and act that way for style purposes. They probably don't have much motivation, and are seeking some type of identity. Much in the same way as Goths and Grungers.
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I lived in San Francisco during the Summer of Love and was a "weekend hippie" but I was only in it for the sex and drugs- the actual philosophy never made much sense to me.
The paradox of the hippie movement was they wanted the freedom to do what they wanted yet depended on society for their welfare. I felt like if you had to depend upon anyone, Gov't or not, for your survival then you weren't free at all- you were a subject of that provider.
We have that "hippie spirit" where I live because marijuana cultivation is legal, and every harvest season we're flooded with migrant hippie-types coming up here to work as trimmers for the pot growers. As a result our social programs are overwhelmed, which illustrates the flaw in that philosophy- we have givers and takers, and that group were takers who, in hindsight, left a small footprint with no real value on America's history.
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Hippies are the scum who invented political correctness and ruined this country.
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What makes someone a hippie?
A 2/3 affirmative vote from those present, but not accused.
Hippies are probably the ultimate libertarians
Hippies are small scale communists. They believe in communism in a community size, but not larger.
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I thought hippies were extinct?? i heard they were wiped out by sexually transmitted diseases and LSD in the 60's i could be wrong though :lol
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Gowen seeing your profile says your a 16 yr old, im gonna say you do the real hippies disrespect by calling your self one.
Its the wanna be little kid Hippies that give the real hippies a bad name.
im sorry, but i am a hippie, hell, WAVY GRAVY is one of my good friends, im also friends with the daughter of mickey hart (drummer of the greatful dead)
guess what folks? it is sad to say there aren't many "True hippies" in the world anymore, im not saying i am a true hippie, but more like a neo-hippie, sort of like there aren't nazi's anymore, but what people call neo-nazi's. being a hippie isn't a race, it's a culture, just like hip-hop is a culture (a loud obnoxious ho' slappin' culture)
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im sorry, but i am a hippie, hell, WAVY GRAVY is one of my good friends,
Your good friends with a clown? :)
Wavy Gravy's clown persona grew out of his political activism. Constantly being arrested at demonstrations, he decided he would be less likely to be busted if he dressed as a clown. "Clowns are safe," as he put it.
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If you dont smoke weed you cant be a Hippie. While dropping acid isnt necessary smoking weed is. If you dont then your a wannabe Hippie. You really have to go to the west coast to spot real hippies. In the afternoon they can be spotted grazing at vegan restaurants. Actually I'd say Oregon has the most hippies per capita then anywheres else.
In my opinion one of the great counter-culture heros in American history is "The Dude" of "The Big Labowski" fame. Now thats a real hippie. We'd all be better off if we were more like The Dude and practiced dudeism.http://www.dudeism.com/
And just plain chilled out man. Ive always admired Hippies actually.