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Was anybody here a hippie? (Or still are?)

Posted - October 30, 2017

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  • 394
    I'm a hippie at heart. I believe in their message. At the time, the world was on fire, and many hippies stood up for what they believed in- peace( make love not war), and exercised their right to protest and were able to get things changed. ( I know there were hippies that created their own counter cultures, did drugs- tuned out)


      October 30, 2017 8:33 PM MDT
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  • 6098
    I don't know.  I would not characterize it as "activist". We did not want to strive or compete but just enjoy our lives as best we could.  Groove on whatever came our way.  What did we know about love or peace? 
      October 31, 2017 6:28 AM MDT
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  • 394
    If you read the hippie graghic I posted, it defines a hippie " to be part of a peaceful activism, striving for word peace." I understand, that this isn't what every hippie's goal was, that's why at the beginning of my answer, I wrote "many", teenagers were breaking away from their parents and the rules of the 1950s- "don't trust anyone over 30" teenage boys were being drafted and sent to war in Vietnam, young adults were trying to find their way. This post was edited by ally at October 31, 2017 6:12 PM MDT
      October 31, 2017 6:09 PM MDT
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  • 16796
    Kinda. I'm still an environmentalist, it's why I hate cats.
      October 31, 2017 6:07 AM MDT
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  • 44621
    My KiKi wouldn't like you...
      October 31, 2017 12:18 PM MDT
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  • 16796
    So long as KiKi has been spayed and you keep her indoors at night, no problem. It's idiots who let their pets hunt at night and dump unwanted kittens in the bush that makes my blood boil. Feral cats are responsible for multiple species extinctions.
      October 31, 2017 7:03 PM MDT
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  • 44621
    I agree. Both of my sisters are idiots, especially the one in FL. She feeds many of them and is known as the cat lady of Carabelle. My wife got bit by one and spent 8 days in the hospital. She almost lost her arm.
      November 2, 2017 3:03 PM MDT
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  • 3523
    Carabelle!?  My favorite campsite is in Tate's Hell State Forest.  I've always wanted to try fishing offshore from there.  Do you know anything about that?
      November 2, 2017 3:08 PM MDT
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  • 44621
    I'll ask my sister. I visited there once, but we never went there. We did visit the Apalachicola Forest. Kinda cool.
      November 2, 2017 3:31 PM MDT
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  • 6098
    Oh yes. Ran away from home, lived with a band in San Francisco, indulged proudly in drugs and sex in the mid 1970s. The last "class" of the original hippies.  At the time those were the only things I had to feel good about but in time I was able to build upon them and develop skills with which to cope with real life.  
      October 31, 2017 6:15 AM MDT
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  • that was before my time 

    (thank god)
      October 31, 2017 8:02 PM MDT
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  • 394
      November 1, 2017 2:40 PM MDT
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