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Sharop · 07-15-2006, 06:51 PM

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 · 07-15-2006, 07:06 PM

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

Sharop · 07-15-2006, 07:58 PM

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

rusyd · 07-15-2006, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

Janice · 07-16-2006, 12:31 AM

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 · 07-16-2006, 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by 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.

How true.

Fleet · 07-16-2006, 01:11 AM

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).

Sterling Holobyte · 07-16-2006, 01:33 AM

ABlairican Pie · 07-16-2006, 06:07 AM

HIPPIES RULE. My boss is a Jewish hippie carpenter.

Sharop · 07-16-2006, 06:38 AM

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

Penny Lane · 07-16-2006, 10:31 AM

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!

I was a teen in the 60's but this never appealed to me.

Give me a warm clean bed and good home cooked food!

Sharop · 07-16-2006, 11:52 AM

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

Fleet · 07-16-2006, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Sharop

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?

Sharop · 07-16-2006, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Fleet

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 · 07-16-2006, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Sharop

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

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

07-15-2006, 06:51 PM	#1
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07-15-2006, 07:06 PM	#2
Central Perk ~~~~~ Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 10, 2002 Posts: 4,553	I agree. If you're looking to meet some hippies or former hippies I'd head up to Woodstock, New York.

07-15-2006, 07:58 PM	#3
Sharop Andy Gibb aged 12 Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 03, 2004 Location: Courthouse Square, Hill Valley, beside the clocktower, 10:04 p.m., November 12th 1955 Posts: 3,912	I think it would be nice to visit it sometime, but it would be difficult for me to arrange.

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Janice Retired Admin - Hollywood Swingin' Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 03, 2001 Location: Beantown Posts: 36,388	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.

07-16-2006, 11:52 AM	#12
Sharop Andy Gibb aged 12 Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 03, 2004 Location: Courthouse Square, Hill Valley, beside the clocktower, 10:04 p.m., November 12th 1955 Posts: 3,912	Yeah, I wouldn't like to live like many of them lived. But I think some of their ideals were good.