Hippies

[Sharop]

I've never met any hippies, but I like the sound of most of them. From what I've read, it sounded like many of them stood for some good things back in the 1960s. I don't agree with the drug-taking, but their beliefs in peace and love, I think, were good.

I know not all of them practiced peace and love...I know there were some quite nasty ones about in the 1960s...but I think quite a few of the hippie ideas were good ones, and I think the majority were generally good people.

[Central Perk]

I agree. If you're looking to meet some hippies or former hippies I'd head up to Woodstock, New York.

[Sharop]

I think it would be nice to visit it sometime, but it would be difficult for me to arrange.

[rusyd]

I've never met any hippies, but I like the sound of most of them. From what I've read, it sounded like many of them stood for some good things back in the 1960s. I don't agree with the drug-taking, but their beliefs in peace and love, I think, were good.

I know not all of them practiced peace and love...I know there were some quite nasty ones about in the 1960s...but I think quite a few of the hippie ideas were good ones, and I think the majority were generally good people.

You have probably met many former hippies but they are now older and wiser.;)

[Janice]

It was before my time, but they seemed like some wild and carefree times. Lots of good music came out of that era too.

As with anything in life, there was good and bad. Charles Manson and his followers were hippies.

[rusyd]

It was before my time, but they seemed like some wild and carefree times. Lots of good music came out of that era too.

As with anything in life, there was good and bad. Charles Manson and his followers were hippies.

How true.:)

[Fleet]

I much prefer the '50s, when boys looked like boys and girls looked like girls (and they washed their hair more often than every three months). :D

[Sterling Holobyte]

http://www.thoseshirts.com/images/model-hippies-C375.jpg

[ABlairican Pie]

peace: peacesign: HIPPIES RULE. My boss is a Jewish hippie carpenter. ;)

[Sharop]

http://www.thoseshirts.com/images/model-hippies-C375.jpg

Everyone smells. We all have noses, we all smell things.

[Penny Lane]

I realize that the hippie lifestyle has been so romanticized but most of them lived in "flop houses" which were dirty and lice infested and they obtained their meals from garbage cans. Real romantic!:lol: I was a teen in the 60's but this never appealed to me.:eek: Give me a warm clean bed and good home cooked food!:wave:

[Sharop]

Yeah, I wouldn't like to live like many of them lived. But I think some of their ideals were good.

[Fleet]

Yeah, I wouldn't like to live like many of them lived. But I think some of their ideals were good.
Like what?
Free/open sex?
Drug use?
Refusing to work?
Breaking laws they don't agree with?
Endless protesting?

:D

[Sharop]

Like what?
Free/open sex?
Drug use?
Refusing to work?
Breaking laws they don't agree with?
Endless protesting?

No, not those. I like the peace and loving everyone ideals.

[Fleet]

No, not those. I like the peace and loving everyone ideals.
This may surprise you, but those ideals were around long before hippies.

[Sharop]

This may surprise you, but those ideals were around long before hippies.

It doesn't surprise me. I know they were around before then, but many hippies adopted them, and I admire that about them.

[Fleet]

It doesn't surprise me. I know they were around before then, but many hippies adopted them, and I admire that about them.
You would also be surprised that many of them didn't actually live by their claimed "ideals."
As Penny Lane said, they are romanticized.

[Courtnee]

this thread reminds me of that episode of South Park where Cartman keeps tells the mayor about the hippies.


I don't think their called hippies anymore. Just liberals.

[MaydayMalonesGirl]

old 60s hippies seem pretty cool. nowadays i see a lot of people who like the call themselves hippies but listen to oar.

i don't know. i do love the incredible string band, though.

[Sharop]

You would also be surprised that many of them didn't actually live by their claimed "ideals."
As Penny Lane said, they are romanticized.

I guess you're right.

Still, I like romanticisation.

And there must have been some who did genuinely live by the good ideals.

[Stuck In The '70's]

I remember riding in a car when I was a kid and seeing some hippies and my Grandma turned to me and said stay away from them. :lol:

[JNSBSB]

I've never met any hippies, but I like the sound of most of them. From what I've read, it sounded like many of them stood for some good things back in the 1960s. I don't agree with the drug-taking, but their beliefs in peace and love, I think, were good.

I know not all of them practiced peace and love...I know there were some quite nasty ones about in the 1960s...but I think quite a few of the hippie ideas were good ones, and I think the majority were generally good people.
I met a bunch of hippies in Mount Shasta, California one year. You know what's funny about the hippie town of Mount Shasta? There's a town 8 miles north of there off of I-5 called Weed. Now how did that get there?

[Hollow]

i strongly agree with general hippy lifestyle, i don't give a damn what anyone thinks.

[Mr. Stefani]

I thought this said herpies

[Courtnee]

I thought this said herpies
:rofl:

[AB]

A group of "hippies" bought a small farm in our county around 1970. They
didn't stay here long, I'm not sure why, but we were told not to go around
them. People were really suspicious of them at the time.

[Yooch]

Yeah, I wouldn't like to live like many of them lived. But I think some of their ideals were good.

I think you expressed it right, Sharop. I agree with you in this and can speak objectively as well since I was a 'non-hippie' in a 'hippie' world. I was a student at UC Berkeley in the early 1970's. Although the '60s movement had already peaked, it was still very much alive in Berkeley in the early 70's and you see remnants of it there still. I was never remotely part of the hippie scene. I was the ultimate 'square' at Berkeley, and admittedly was even somewhat contemptuous of them. As I look back, though, except for the drugs and other unsavory activities, I can't say that everything hippies espoused or stood for was bad. Wanting peace--who wouldn't want that? In terms of negative influences on society, IMO the hippie movement was nothing in comparison to the grossness, incivility, violence and greed we see today, and which is even accepted as mainstream and 'normal' because we've become so desensitized and dehumanized that people don't even blink at things that were considered offensive and horrible a generation ago.

The thing about the hippie movement, is that the vast majority of hippies finally 'grew up' and matured, and that's a good thing. But I think we will always need a bit of romanticism and idealism in life. There's nothing wrong with that. To paraphrase from a movie, "It's what makes life tolerable."

[Max Whittaker]

I think you expressed it right, Sharop. I agree with you in this and can speak objectively as well since I was a 'non-hippie' in a 'hippie'. I was a student at UC Berkeley in the early 1970's. Although the '60s movement had already peaked, it was still very much alive in Berkeley in the early 70's and you see remnants of it there still. I was never remotely part of the hippie scene. I was the ultimate 'square' at Berkeley, and admittedly was even somewhat contemptuous of them. As I look back, though, except for the drugs and other unsavory activities, I can't say that everything hippies espoused or stood for was bad. Wanting peace--who wouldn't want that? In terms of negative influences on society, IMO the hippie movement was nothing in comparison to the grossness, incivility, violence and greed we see today, and which is even accepted as mainstream and 'normal' because we've become so desensitized and dehumanized that people don't even blink at things that were considered offensive and horrible a generation ago.

The thing about the hippie movement, is that the vast majority of hippies finally 'grew up' and matured, and that's a good thing. But I think we will always need a bit of romanticism and idealism in life. There's nothing wrong with that. To paraphrase from a movie, "It's what makes life tolerable."

Agreed.

[Seth]

I thought this said herpies

I thought it said "Nipples".

[Kay Scarpetta]

I have a bit of burnt-out hippie in me of how I dress. I have the long bohemian-like skirts, the headbands, the big sunglasses, belts...