ATTN: Zurtok and the rest of us hippies

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

I found our home!!!!!1111!!!!!

And a definition of hippy

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So being a hippie is not a matter of dress, behavior, economic status, or social milieu. It is a philosophical approach to life that emphasizes freedom, peace, love and a respect for others and the earth. The way of the hippie never died. There have always been hippies from the first time society laid down rules, to Jesus, to Henry David Thoreau, to John Lennon, to you and me. I believe there,Äôs a little hippy in all of us. It,Äôs just been repressed by our socialization process. We need to find it and cultivate our hippie within. Only then can we reach our true potential.

Peace and Love, Skip

I think this makes a lot of us hippies, including a lot of those who keep trying to use that word as an insult.

[East Coast Hustle]

i think it's a bullshit definition of the term "hippie" used by someone who's trying to justify not washing their ass for a week.

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

i think it's a bullshit definition of the term "hippie" used by someone who's trying to justify not washing their ass for a week.

You're just mad because you are realising you ARE a hippy and there is nothing you can do about.  Think about

1  Sex
2  Drugs
3  Rock n Roll
4  Freedom
5  Anti establishment

What about you ISN'T a hippy

[East Coast Hustle]

funny, that sounds like the creed of every marginalized subculture I cna think of. To try and ascribe it exclusively to hippies is a bit of a stretch.

I love all of those things, HOWEVER, I bathe regularly, shave when appropriate, and I FUCKING HATE PATCHOULI.

therefore...

ME = MOST DEFINITELY NOT A HIPPIE

please not, however, that regardless of how much that particular subculture disgusts me, I have NEVER seriously looked down on anyone or thought less of anyone here for being a hippie.

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

Skip never claims that his definition only applies to hippies, he is just trying to describe what being a hippy is about, he is trying to break the stereotype of the stinky nonbathing nonworking long haired bum.  Not all of us are like that.  Though a lot of us still have long hair.

[Iron Sulfide]

maybe the derivitive is what causes so much discursion.

Hippy/Hippie= Hipster

i view the whole "hippy" phenomena of the 60's mostly as a pop-culture
excusatory usurption of the preveous Hipster views and practices, and
i don't mean the bathing ones.

more the beat kniks and 50's poets. crazed "marijuana-abusing" jazz
musicians, ecclectic non-traditional painters, the people that were more
interested in the 'hey what's that?" than the "hey, who are you?"

in short, hippies (60's) are looked down on by their predecessors and
their successors mainly because most of them (particularly the ones that
got publicity) were stinky bums that weren't really hippies or Hipsters,
just attention whore conformists looking for a provocative mold to fit.

or not

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

<snip>
in short, hippies (60's) are looked down on by their predecessors and
their successors mainly because most of them (particularly the ones that
got publicity) were stinky bums that weren't really hippies or Hipsters,
just attention whore conformists looking for a provocative mold to fit.

or not

That's why a lot of them are soccer moms now  

[Donkeyotay]

marijuana-abusing

NO SUCH THING!!

[Horab Fibslager]

i'm not a hippy. i'm a fascist uberindustrial absolutist.

we will not rest until every square inch of our lovely mother earth  is covered in factory space motherfuckers!

[Anonymous]

we will not rest until every square inch of our lovely mother earth  is covered in factory space motherfuckers!

Don't forget to leave room for parking.

[Horab Fibslager]

fuck parking. i'm not a motherfuckin consumerist here.

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

Hippies never adopted this term for themselves. They preferred to be called the "beautiful people".

http://www.hipplanet.com/books/atoz/preface.htm

We are kallisti, hehehe,  

[Iron Sulfide]

marijuana-abusing

NO SUCH THING!! :evil:

post edited to ["marijuana-abusing"] (insert of irony indicating quotes)

oh, and the factory space is supposed to be in space//

[Zurtok Khan]

Hippies Unite!  Or was that Untie?

Patchuli is NASTY, it in no way qualifies someone as a hippy because they like the stuff.

And, I believe in bathing everyday, and shaving most days.

HIPPIE HIPPIE HURRAY!

*blows a raspberry*

[East Coast Hustle]

Patchuli is NASTY, it in no way qualifies someone as a hippy because they like the stuff.

And, I believe in bathing everyday, and shaving most days.

THEN GUESS WHAT, FLOWER-BOI?

YOU'RE NOT A DAMN DIRTY HIPPIE.