Are you a hippy?

Did I miss something, or was "hippy" not a name given to that culture
by popular media? Much like all the other groups of people that have
their own ideas on music and ways off life. So I try not label myself
so that I fit into that nice little package with a bow on top.

Peace to all you fellow stoners :)

i consider myself one

i hate labels. i hate people who use the label "hippie" its just as stupid as any other label. just be yourself. you dont need to "stop bateing" or "grow long hair" to be something.

i hate people who say they hate labels.

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Originally Posted by NightProwler

i hate labels. i hate people who use the label "hippie" its just as stupid as any other label. just be yourself. you dont need to "stop bateing" or "grow long hair" to be something.

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So you hate a lot of people then?

No wonder you're no hippie.

Where's the love you grouch? ~

i love everybody.

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Originally Posted by Inferius

Noun
Inflected forms: pl.hip·pies A person who opposes and rejects many of the conventional standards and customs of society, especially one who advocates extreme liberalism in sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles.

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Under that definition, I think I only qualify for the first part. "Extremely liberal" would be a stretch for me, for although that would appear to be my position at first glance, I don't really believe it can be made into a social "position." Real peace occurs only within the individual--social harmony should be striven for, but human unity is an individual experience that has to be discovered by each person on his or her own. If change is going to happen, it has to be on a more fundamental level of human consciousness, wherein we each realize that all of us are, and always have been, one.

Therefore, I reject the form of liberalism most visibly espoused by "hippies," since I think there has got to be a better way of going about it than the way practiced within the political activism counterculture. However, "counterculture" is still a useful label, and I certainly identify myself with it in other ways:D

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Originally Posted by Its a Plant

My hippie-heart has now errupted with love and now my body is feeling the embrace.

I haven't cut my hair in God knows how long, and the last time I wore shoes was ages ago. "Where are my sandals?!?"

I attended a lot of shows over the summer amongst a very broad, very pungent hippie crowd, and for the most part, fell in love with them and their lifestyle.

Most of the people we met we still full-on heads, but only during the summer did they "come out", and go festival to festival, most of the time without showers or a night's rest on a mattress. The music and the weed and the psychedelics keep them alive and going. It was amazing to be a part of it, to live like they did for even 4-5 days.

The day was so hot that people just traveled tent to tent, tarp to tarp, to find some shade and maybe meet a new friend. I only met a few rotten apples out of a shitload of people that weekend, and it just made me think realize how good-hearted and good-natured the heads really are.

I'll forever "be" a hippie or head, internally, but I'm sure my appearance will alter as the years wear on.

H E A R T.

S T O N E D.

L O V E. ~

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Ahh, you and I could be best friends! :)

screw the hippie system, mannn. its all a system thats up to no good, and im against that system. im an individual. 420 fo lyf:stoned: