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#23400009 - 07/01/16 05:35 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Do you think the hippy movement of the late 1960s was really about changing society or just a bunch of idiot kids? Curious to know what others think. I love the culture, love the heads of the movement like Kesey and Leary. Just not sure if everyone in the movement was really "on the bus" or if it was a bunch of dumb kids showing up in San Francisco.
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: blazejesus] 3
#23400014 - 07/01/16 05:40 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Millions of people, millions of means and motives
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: Repertoire89] 2
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I think it's pretentious for them to believe they were changing the world or any of that bullshit. They were having fun doing drugs and seeing live music. Either way they still created a counter culture which I respect and is pretty cool, but they weren't making the world a better place. They were just having fun, which I can respect. I just think it's fake to act like they changed society. They got high
I feel like right now I/we are part of a counter-culture and I think that's pretty cool. We see life differently and it gives us a place to go be with other people like us. At festivals you meet the coolest people (usually haha)
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: blazejesus] 3
#23400069 - 07/01/16 06:16 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I've talked to a lot of old heads and it's my understanding that generally the type that aligned themselves with hippies were jobless thieves and drug addicts. I wouldn't go so far as to say all hippies are shit, but with facts in mind I dislike the culture. I think people get all wrapped up thinking about LSD and the way it makes you feel, instead of focusing on the reality of the subculture. If you think about it, if old school hippies had their way with the government, America would be so much worse off. Maybe even the whole world if I'm being honest. Old school hippies were less hippie than new school hippies. There is a huge difference. If any hippie subculture has the power and presence of mind to change the world, it's new age hippies. I don't think new age hippies would have left Woodstock looking like a landfill. I realize the aftermath of festivals and concerts turn out pretty shitty looking still, but I think on average the new generation of hippies has idealized enough of these concepts to have a greater understanding and appreciation for the concepts many old school hippies fell short of.
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Woodstock had 500,000 people. How do you expect that place to not be trashed after it? Serious question
I heard the end of that counterculture was real sketchy and on the streets of SF a ton of speedfreaks were catching cats and eating them. But that's towards the end. Not everything can last forever
Maybe people like to focus on the negative but I think there was plenty of positive in that scene that you're ignoring
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: UncleCid] 1
#23400091 - 07/01/16 06:29 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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If every individual cleaned up after him/herself there would never ever be a mess left over no matter how many people were present
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: UncleCid] 1
#23400096 - 07/01/16 06:32 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm not ignoring anything, that's just one post. If I didn't understand the postive concepts I wouldn't have wrote of them at all. Some hippies had big ideas, I just don't think it caught on in the way people think it did back then. Some areas, maybe, but it's a big fucking world and a lot of people suck. I've met enough to know psychedelics and drug use don't make you a good person.
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Man I agree a little on the new age/old age hippie thing. I think there needs to be another big movement involving psychedelics again soon. Done right.
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: blazejesus]
#23400124 - 07/01/16 06:52 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I think it's because old hippies got beaten as children more often. They grew up in a very racist, homophobic, mysogynistic, and judgemental time that was post WWII. Old school hippies probably got props for hugging a black guy. Today, who gives a fuck? Our standards are so much different which is why I think the new generation of hippies has evolved past those dusty concepts in to more important ones.
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what even is a hippie
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: OhMrJohnson]
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OhMrJohnson said: If every individual cleaned up after him/herself there would never ever be a mess left over no matter how many people were present
Its just not realistic to act like 500,000 people on lsd can pick up after themselves, espeically when it's all muddy
It's funny how people bitch about trash at festivals. They literally hire clean up crews to clean up after everyone. So who gives a shit? When you buy a ticket you help pay for those clean up crews
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: thelanzii]
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: UncleCid]
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OhMrJohnson said: If every individual cleaned up after him/herself there would never ever be a mess left over no matter how many people were present
Its just not realistic to act like 500,000 people on lsd can pick up after themselves, espeically when it's all muddy
It's funny how people bitch about trash at festivals. They literally hire clean up crews to clean up after everyone. So who gives a shit? When you buy a ticket you help pay for those clean up crews
You're right, it's not realistic because most people are fucking slobs.. Wishful thinking is all it is
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: OhMrJohnson] 1
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I can't imagine it's terribly different than today. There is a small amount of very far out and high people and there is a large amount of lowest common denominator masses.
Everything gets eternal September'd.
There is little I've found more disenchanting than the modern hippie scene. However, much like the internet or life in general there are beautiful and ineffable things to be found if you're willing to wade through the muddy water.
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: UncleCid]
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UncleCid said: Woodstock had 500,000 people. How do you expect that place to not be trashed after it? Serious question
I heard the end of that counterculture was real sketchy and on the streets of SF a ton of speedfreaks were catching cats and eating them. But that's towards the end. Not everything can last forever
Maybe people like to focus on the negative but I think there was plenty of positive in that scene that you're ignoring
That wasn't hippies, that was the die hard "alf" fan club. But honestly who hasn't caught and ate a cat on a speed binge?
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: larry.fisherman] 1
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XLCaps said: I've talked to a lot of old heads and it's my understanding that generally the type that aligned themselves with hippies were jobless thieves and drug addicts. I wouldn't go so far as to say all hippies are shit, but with facts in mind I dislike the culture. I think people get all wrapped up thinking about LSD and the way it makes you feel, instead of focusing on the reality of the subculture. If you think about it, if old school hippies had their way with the government, America would be so much worse off. Maybe even the whole world if I'm being honest. Old school hippies were less hippie than new school hippies. There is a huge difference. If any hippie subculture has the power and presence of mind to change the world, it's new age hippies. I don't think new age hippies would have left Woodstock looking like a landfill. I realize the aftermath of festivals and concerts turn out pretty shitty looking still, but I think on average the new generation of hippies has idealized enough of these concepts to have a greater understanding and appreciation for the concepts many old school hippies fell short of.
My word web defines hippie as :
Someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle.
So.. it makes sense right... welfare..cough.. ..cough...
The hippy movement was a dire want and conversion to socialism, is that fair to say?
I once heard a story of some hippies. There was a big group of people sitting in a circle. One person had a apple. That person took 1 byte, passed it to the next, it went all the way around back to the first again. Gross.
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: larry.fisherman] 2
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XLCaps said: I think it's because old hippies got beaten as children more often. They grew up in a very racist, homophobic, mysogynistic, and judgemental time that was post WWII. Old school hippies probably got props for hugging a black guy. Today, who gives a fuck? Our standards are so much different which is why I think the new generation of hippies has evolved past those dusty concepts in to more important ones.
Yeah, they "evolved" into being judgmental PC hypocrites, the very same type of people they used to despise.
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: qman] 1
#23400386 - 07/01/16 08:46 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I think a lot of new age hippies suck. I cant say anything about the original hippies, wasn't around back then. new hippies like to argue about everything. "that's a lot of fruit you got there." "you mean produce." "yeah... whatever..." *go snort some ketamine you retard*
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: pskept]
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pskept said: I can't imagine it's terribly different than today. There is a small amount of very far out and high people and there is a large amount of lowest common denominator masses.
Everything gets eternal September'd.
There is little I've found more disenchanting than the modern hippie scene. However, much like the internet or life in general there are beautiful and ineffable things to be found if you're willing to wade through the muddy water.
Far out high people, good way to describe what it is lol
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: Bigfeely123]
#23400403 - 07/01/16 08:54 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Socially engineered by the CIA.
The acid test parties began after Kesey’s experience with mind-altering drugs as a volunteer test subject for Army experiments in 1960 (later revealed to be part of the CIA’s mind control experiment, Project MKUltra). Kesey stole LSD and invited friends to try it with him. In 1965, after Hunter S. Thompson introduced Kesey to the Hell’s Angels, he expanded his test parties to real happenings at larger venues, beginning at his home in La Honda, California. Always present was the music of The Grateful Dead, who debuted under that name at one of Kesey’s parties after losing their original name, The Warlocks. The cast of characters also included Jack Kerouac’s traveling buddy Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and Dr. Timothy Leary. Out of what Hunter Thompson called “the world capital of madness,” the psychedelic counter-culture of Haight-Ashbury was born.
In the interview above, Kesey talks about the acid tests as much more than an excuse to trip for hours and hear The Dead play for a buck. No, he says, “there were people who passed and people who didn’t pass” the test. What it all meant perhaps only Kesey knew for sure. (He is quoted as saying that he and his band of compatriots, the Merry Pranksters, were trying to “stop the coming end of the world”). In any case, it’s a strange story—stranger than any of Ken Kesey’s works of fiction: covert government mind control program turns on one of the generation’s most subversive novelists, who then masterminds the hippy movement. The video below, from the Kesey documentary Magic Trip, takes us back to where it started with animation of a tape recording of Kesey narrating his first government-sponsored acid trip.
also this: http://www.henrymakow.com/000907.html
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Those people who are so "far out" are impossible to understand what they're all about and they just ramble on because they want to make it seem like they know what they're talking about. They desperately try to make it seem that they're more than just drug addicts without a job.
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: Bigfeely123]
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Bigfeely123 said: Those people who are so "far out" are impossible to understand what they're all about and they just ramble on because they want to make it seem like they know what they're talking about. They desperately try to make it seem that they're more than just drug addicts without a job.
Yeah there are those people too. That's not who I'm talking about. The choice of words is of little importance here.
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: blazejesus] 1
#23400475 - 07/01/16 09:22 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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blazejesus said: Far out high people, good way to describe what it is lol
I'm just using ram dass lingo for ease. Call it want you want. Enlightened? It's like using the word God. We need to describe ineffable concepts somehow and our words will always fall short.
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: pskept]
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Shit we got a student of hippieism here.
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It was like every other counterculture out there. At first, it was a bunch of us (and I'm old enough to have been there), that weren't jobless, burnt out drug users as some have suggested. We wanted life to be more about life and less about things. We didn't care so much about what people looked like, what clothes they wore, what cars they drove, what job/education they professed, but much more about what they had to offer to living. Some were poets, some musicians, some artists and so on and on and on. In the beginning we were easy to spot, one to another, and it was like a communal spirit. Most of us were searching for answers, questioning authority, taking stands on social issues. And then it became popular. It became "in" to be a "hippie" and it was the death of it. It stopped being a movement and became a fashion statement. The drugs that were once sacred became recreational. Some of the posts above are accurate in some ways. America would have become different if the movement had had its way. We might have stayed in Viet Nam. We might have become less Wall Street oriented. We might have been less "successful" on the world stage. I guess it all depends on what is meant by a place being "better." More might be more, or it might be less, I don't know. Some of us never stopped being hippies. We still fight for lost causes, like the environment, keeping prisons from being a for profit industry, thinking that people shouldn't be kept alive because of the insurance they can afford. Others who grew their hair out and wore the fashion of the day, still did the same old stuff, popped open a beer, put their feet on the coffee table and watch tv just like they would have done with the crew cut they had before it was out of style. There was something special about the early days, a camaraderie that was lost by dilution, but I see signs of it coming back. There are a lot of folks on this site that are hippies by my way of thinking. I wish you had all been there in the early days.
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Haha it's like the electronic music scene. Everything was better a few years ago and now it sucks
Everyone gets jaded at some point haha
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I homesteaded an old farm that hadn't been lived on since the 60's with my ex. We had a hippie commune(intentional community sorry) across the road from us and were striving for a similar model for our farm. I built the farm completely on an off grid system charging a large battery bank each day. We had all the power we needed for a small farm and community. We had chickens, chinchillas, rabbits, llama, alpaca, dogs, cats, greenhouses, large functional compost piles that stayed at 180degrees, boiler for heating barn, house, greenhouses, and water. It was the shit. But...it was unrealistic. We still had to live in a shit economy that everyone else on this planet wants. You can't force your ideal way of life on anyone. You can live by example and all that. That's what we did, and it became clear that we were just living our own fantasy shared by very few. It's a very lonely place. Hippie parties become shallow events and hearing about love and community becomes hollow after so long and seeing all the drama that continues to play out even in these "enlightened" people.
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damn. well said. being a loner hippie really sucks. I'm done with those days.
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I've been to festivals where there's trash.
But I've also been to festivals that were, "Leave No Trace" events. Pack it in, pack it out. These usually do a good job of leaving the forest clean. There's always one trash can that is overflowing a bit at the end, but that's just the trash from the festie first timers that don't know any better yet.
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I really don't care what the rules are, I'll leave all my trash in a trashbag and leave it at my campsite. Not putting literal trash in my car
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You're probably one of those assholes that puts their dog shit in a plastic bag and tosses it in the bushes!
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passifloracaerulea said: You're probably one of those assholes that puts their dog shit in a plastic bag and tosses it in the bushes!
One thing I do not care about is the environment. Maybe go hug more tree's or something
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That was very well said. A lot of younger people don't realize that the country was a mess in the mid-late 60's...You had 2 Kennedys being shot, MLK assinated..along with the race riots that followed. A fucked up war going on that was unwinnable by any means and soldiers were dying at an unprecedented rate in a jungle on the other side of the world.
There were organised marches in Washington and other places where the counter culture really did make a difference.Politicized music had some part in that too...like Bob Dylan, CSNY, Neil Young. You had Kent State that pretty much was the hippie rally cry. I believe they made the hard liners take a good look at the politics of the day and they helped make change for the better.
Like any group of people, there were those that were in there for the party or hand outs or whatever...but, by in large, the ideals were in the right place. They proved that a loud voice of reason against wrong can have a positive effect.
It's funny, I was too young...10 yrs. old in 1969 but I knew a lot of hippies that were around....some of them today have raised kids and worked and retired...they are still environmentally conscientious and humanitarian type people. Some go to music festivals, some play in part time bands...but I think many have kept their core values.
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: Supachopped719]
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I laugh at all the people who cry about trash at a festival. Like if it's such a big deal you should grab a trashbag and go clean it up. Instead these people just talk shit about you. It's like well you're basically being a hypocrite right now
I'm real about it, I just don't give a shit. Someone who's being paid to clean up after the festival can do it
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: blazejesus]
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Repertoire89 said: Millions of people, millions of means and motives
that is a good answer
there's a lot I like about the hippie movement, and a lot I don't. The individuals I know who I consider to be hippies are great people, but it might be my definition and yours don't meet up 
like any group its got its failings and it's failures, but few subcultures interest me like the hippies
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Or you could just be responsible for yourself. Too much to ask I suppose. I'd love to see the filth you live in.
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passifloracaerulea said: Or you could just be responsible for yourself. Too much to ask I suppose. I'd love to see the filth you live in.
Go hug more trees
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The hippy movement really came as a "consequence" of WW2. You had people from all over the world getting out of the war exposed to eastern and Island cultures of the world, as well as having the freedom to travel with relative freedom across Australia, Polynesia, India, Middle East and Europe. Veterans of the biggest war in history, and other people just coming of age now getting on to embrace ideas of peace and bohemian lifestyles as opposed to the relative cultural lock down of the WW2 period.
Those people who came out of the period also had the baby boomers who really soaked the hippy culture up, hence why it really boomed during their peak years in life.
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passifloracaerulea said: Or you could just be responsible for yourself. Too much to ask I suppose. I'd love to see the filth you live in.
Go hug more trees
Why do your responses sound so gay and redundant? Who the fuck hugs trees?
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My word web defines hippie as :
Someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle.
So.. it makes sense right... welfare..cough.. ..cough...
The hippy movement was a dire want and conversion to socialism, is that fair to say?
I once heard a story of some hippies. There was a big group of people sitting in a circle. One person had a apple. That person took 1 byte, passed it to the next, it went all the way around back to the first again. Gross.
Yep you got it. I think 'sense of entitlement' is accurate. The apple story is a great example of the type of personality one has to have to become that type of person. When you think you have the answers, people can be forceful with their ideas. That's arrogance in purity.
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XLCaps said: I think it's because old hippies got beaten as children more often. They grew up in a very racist, homophobic, mysogynistic, and judgemental time that was post WWII. Old school hippies probably got props for hugging a black guy. Today, who gives a fuck? Our standards are so much different which is why I think the new generation of hippies has evolved past those dusty concepts in to more important ones.
Yeah, they "evolved" into being judgmental PC hypocrites, the very same type of people they used to despise.
You may be right. Perhaps I'm idealizing my generation's potential like the ones before me.
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I'm real about it, I just don't give a shit. Someone who's being paid to clean up after the festival can do it
If you go to someone's house for a party you don't dump all your fucking trash all over the place do you? I don't care if you paid to be there. What you're saying is "I'm fucking awesome, clean up after me or you're a hypocrite." OK there bud.
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passifloracaerulea said: Or you could just be responsible for yourself. Too much to ask I suppose. I'd love to see the filth you live in.
Go hug more trees
Why do your responses sound so gay and redundant? Who the fuck hugs trees?
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Re: What do you think of the hippy movement [Re: UncleCid]
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I pick up trash everywhere I go everyday.
I can never pass up trash at a festival or just in the forest in general without picking it up.
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Yeah just at festivals they have clean up crews. Who cares who actually does the cleaning? They hire cleaning crews knowing the spun out crowd isn't going to do all of it
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That's terrible logic to justify something ignorant and selfish. Lots of places have janitors but you're still a dick if you purposefully make a mess for them. I don't come to your job and make your day worse. Maybe I should, since it's cool with you. I can bitch to your supervisor about you or something.
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passifloracaerulea said: Or you could just be responsible for yourself. Too much to ask I suppose. I'd love to see the filth you live in.
Go hug more trees
Why do your responses sound so gay and redundant? Who the fuck hugs trees?
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Your response is to link my shroomery profile? That doesn't even make sense. You'll learn eventually. People will dislike being around you because of your shitty actions and disrespect. People that run camps at some of the best festivals (ocf, brc) and litter lose their permits the next year. Your litter is not there for other people to pick up. Maybe I'll find out where you live and take a dump on your doorstep every night, and piss on your porch swing. I'd get a kick out of it but you'd likely get pissed after the 2nd or 3rd night.
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I think some of the hippie folks really wanted to change the world, I was down with hippies for a very long time. What I experienced from being around those types of people for so long, some really want to use drugs to enhance their view on the world, and to stimulate creativity, and spiritual growth, many just want to get high and turn into wooks, and talk about how hard they raged at the phish show, and how they were super fucked up.
I think the first way of looking at hippies, meaning they used substances and different spiritual practices to be creative, and really wanted to change the world, was what a true hippie is all about. Many older hippies outgrew their drug habits, and instead replaced them with healthy living, and a passion for art/spirituality, and wanting to teach the next generation how to not focus on what the world says we should focus on. It's almost like many of the hippies got swallowed up by the cliche of what a hippie is, you know drugs, sex, rock and roll, that they missed the valuable lessons in front of their eyes because they were to concerned with the little things.
I know people that are clean cut, 9-5 working, white picket fence people that are ten times the "hippie" than those going to shows and raging face every weekend, because those clean cut folks have an outlook on life which promotes positive changes, rather than being concerned about being lord of the wooks. This one guy I knew was like super wook, dreadlocks, massive beard, hemp everything, grew shrooms, grew pot, all the stuff to play the part, but when you talked to him he only cared about himself, and if you had xannie bars or could get some for him, him, him, everything was about him, not very hip if you ask me. I knew so many hippes like that, it got tedious to be around, and depressing to say the least.
I felt like psychedelics had shown me I needed to give back in some way, and the majority of hippies I saw didn't care to be this way. I really believed in that scene, really believed in the grateful dead family outlook on life, but was super distraught when I found out so many didn't care about the be good family way.
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This whole thing stinks to high heaven.
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A lot of people still believe in the force, Luke.
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I hope so.
It's not that you can't have a good time from using psychedelics, you know laugh, cut loose, etc, it's just that many of the hippies I saw cared nothing for the substances they were using, instead they were just substances used to get fucked up and nothing more.
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Go hug more trees
You realize you have to be 18 or older to post in these forums?
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Whenever I've gone to mainstream festivals they're generally shit holes by the end of it, so I've always just burnt my tent and shit on the last night.
I only really go to independent festivals these days and it'd be wrong to litter there so our group always clean up after ourselves, the majority of people at grassroots festivals are generally respectful of the grounds and the owners.
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One thing I do not care about is the environment. Maybe go hug more tree's or something
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They are a threat to decency and society but I think President Nixon will deal a swift and decisive blow to these communist heathens.
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