The Declaration of Independance - Ex-Hippy Style

[Zurtok Khan]

I am no longer a hippy.  I proclaim Eldora the board hippy.  Being a hippy is 1) too expensive (I'd have to revamp my clothing to do it correctly, and weed costs alot), and 2) too much fucking work.

Here is what I am:

Someone who likes to look on the bright side every once in awhile, or maybe most of the time.  You may not like it, but it's not all dungeons.  There are forces on both sides of the spectrum.  Get over it.

A disgrunted Wal-Mart employee.  Well, this isn't what I am so much as what I do.

Someone who's very often confused.  No, not because I'm some kind of uBeR l334 Discordian or whatever.  I'm simply confused.  I write it out.  Then, I'm just as confused, but...well here's a line from a musical artist (who most of you will probably hate, but get off it, you're not the authority on music):

2 AM and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper, its no longer
inside of me, threatening the life they belong to
And i feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to

Call it emo, or whatever the fuck you want to.  Get over it.  Some people have EMOTIONS.  I'm not a depressed fuck thinking that the world has done me such great injustice by allowing me to be born.  I LIKE LIFE dammit.

I like to write poetry.  Many of you don't like poetry, or my style.  Good for you.  I don't care any more.  I used to.  For some godforsaken reason I used to.  Now, I don't.  You're not that important to me (alright, I'll admit that I admire and respect a couple of you very much).

I write some really amazingly bad rants, and from what I can tell some damn good rants.  Ohh well.  On both accounts.

I go through my existencial (a word which I can't spell, and don't care atm about wether or not I can) crisis's sometimes.  Maybe these are a bit emo.  But, it's not so much depressed and cutting myself as it is dazed and confused that there's something out there so big and wonderful that I'm apart of, a peice of.

I know that I will one day change something.  Big.  I know it.  I know there are many steps from here to there, and there are times when I fall down and need a little help up.  Those are some of the times I come here, cause I know that in the end, if I shift through the bullshit and negativity (not that you should all become bright happy fairies, never said that!), I'll find that little piece of whatever-the-fuck I need, and I'll be able to move on.

Thank you.

Or, if you like, forget you.

But, what do I know?  I'm just...something.

[gnimbley]

I love that song. And no poet worth anything gave a rats ass about what
other people thought about poetry.

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

Zurtok,
Uh, I am not sure if I want to be the board hippy, but if you feel I am worthy, that's fine.  

I think you are a fine young man.  You see things that most people never see.  You are very fortunate to have people here who understand what you're going through.  I have experienced some of the same experiences you have.  It can be frustrating.  Especially since many of these are so difficult to explain.  I know I start to feel a little crazy when I hear myself try to explain these things and I try to be careful who I tell them to.  RL people will think you're nuts.  Some people here probably will too, but there are enough mystics here to support you, and me, and all the rest of the people who march to the beat of a different drummer.

I am pretty sure I have liked alol your rants and all your poetry

[LMNO]

Optimism is a good thing.  Keep it up.

The simple fact of being here moves you up a fe motches in my book.  You do know the whole Emo this is just one long running joke, right?  ANd is a really good way of letting the air out when one of us starts getting melodramatic and pretentious.

Poetry is tough.  Most people are more picky about poetry than they are about music.

Anyway, you don't have to be a hippie in order to focus on the positve (Cf: Bad Brains), so I heartily endorse your abandonment of the term.


But you are still my arch nemesis, dammit!

[East Coast Hustle]

FYI, I LIKED YOU EVEN WHEN YOU WERE A HIPPIE.

[agent compassion]

I think there's room for more than one hippie on this board.

No need to give up your title, Zurtok.

[East Coast Hustle]

WRONG.

ONE HIPPIE IS ONE TOO MANY.

[Horab Fibslager]

who said he was a hippy and why are yall making fun of him for it?

in turht, hippies were all jsut a bunch of dumbass kids who got high. soem of these kids said it was expanding their mind, soem of these kids said they were fighting for peace adn justice.


all of these kids were just getting high.

hippyism is and was a lie. all the hippies went bald an dbecame yuppies, felatiating their bosses 24/7 jsut to keep their lame ass office jobs tryign to get the xerox to work.


being granola is oen thing, enclothing thyself in the myth of hippydom is another.


aside from that, like any other pop culture phenomena, it's jus tanother way of saying "i pretend not to be working hard to buy the products i manufacture"

or as zach de la rocha might put it - fuck you i won't do what you tell me to.... uh right this minute, give me a sec. ok i'll do it now... sorry.

[agent compassion]

Well, if I remember right, LMNO said you were all me. So you are all hippies by osmosis or something.

[The Open Bar]

Zurtok: Great dancer
           Good with scrids
           

 

[agent compassion]

Zurtok: Great dancer
Good with scrids

How about we call him "Dances with Scrids" then?

[Ben]

What is a hippie anyways?  Someone who's hip to the way things really are and the counterculture of the way things really are, or someone with a wide waist.  The term usually only pertains to the kids of the 60's in an attempt to prevent the hippie meme from being respawned.  We came up with a new term for the modern generation: X, the unknown factor, but it is currently unknown whether Xies are like the hippies.  I like hippies.  Emo has it's usefulness too, i.e. emotional brainwashing for the heartless masses.

Happy Xmas!

[gnimbley]

You are all a bunch of punks!

Just sayin'

[East Coast Hustle]

You are all a bunch of punks!

Just sayin'

NOT EVERYONE HERE IS WORTHY OF THE TERM, BUT THANKS FOR THE KIND WORDS ANYWAY.

[Zurtok Khan]

I feel better now, I needed a nice board suicide to let all my pejnt up frustration out.

And, thanks all =)