Are you a hippie?

[Timothy]

I went through the questions again and still can't get above a 7% hippie quotient....

As too the hair?  I always had long hair until Sept of 75, boot camp.....since I got out, it's been all over the place, long, short, "Pincus" style...now, it's average length but it grows so fast I gotta get it out my face ever 5 or 6 weeks.  Pony tail would be the norm for me but I work around machinery too much so, no long hair, no jewelry, nothing that can get caught on anything.

Organic food is rediculous, recycling is OK, I make my own news up as I go, smoke the ganja if you want, I would!  

Leave me alone and let me do with mine as I see fit and if someone doesn't like it?  Tough shit...

[Solus]

We pretty much agree. 

All your examples show the elements I would have removed from the "Hippie Philosophy"

You can still have a major Hippie score without being the type of Hippie you dislike (and which is the common view of what a Hippie is)

I believe in the "Hippie Ideal", if you will, but with the reservations I've stated.

Take care.

Solus,

I would say that's not a hippie.

If he his dog is chasing my horses because it needs to be free, that's a hippie.

When he tells my neighbor he can't burn leaves because it creates green house gases, he's a hippie.

When he gets upset because the coyotes eat his free range chickens but thinks we should just "relocate them," he's a hippie.
Same for the woodchuck that eats his organic herb garden.


When he thinks the energy in his hybrid sprang from unicorn farts and not a big TVA coal burning plant, he's a hippie.

When he is asking me to sign a petition to turn our county into sancuary city because they did it where he moved from and it was wonderful. Why did he move here then? It cost to much and the jobs went away. That's a hippie.

Like Charlie Daniels said,  just leave the long haired country boys alone.

[fightingquaker13]

Leave me alone and let me do with mine as I see fit and if someone doesn't like it?  Tough shit...

Gee, you might not be a hippie, but you are (gasp), a libertarian. I know its hard to accept at first, but take a deep calming breath, a hit of single malt, and then walk proudly out of the closet.
FQ13 who is ROFL

[Solus]

Quote from: Timothy on Today at 11:05:40 am
Leave me alone and let me do with mine as I see fit and if someone doesn't like it?  Tough shit... Grin

Gee, you might not be a hippie, but you are (gasp), a libertarian. I know its hard to accept at first, but take a deep calming breath, a hit of single malt, and then walk proudly out of the closet.
FQ13 who is ROFL

That is only half of the equation.  The other half is letting others alone to do with themselves and theirs as they see fit.

[fightingquaker13]

Quote from: Timothy on Today at 11:05:40 am
Leave me alone and let me do with mine as I see fit and if someone doesn't like it?  Tough shit... Grin



That is only half of the equation.  The other half is letting others alone to do with themselves and theirs as they see fit.

It gets back to Confucius' version of the Golden Rule. Its one I like a lot better than the Christian one, though I have no plans to convert. Confucius say " Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you". To my mind extending negative liberties, ie. "Congress shall make no law", is a whole lot better than any positive gurantee of a right that someone else has to provide and which depends on state power to enforce.
FQ13

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[SwoopSJ]

When he thinks the energy in his hybrid sprang from unicorn farts and not a big TVA coal burning plant, he's a hippie.

Well, if that's not how hybrids are powered, we may have stumbled upon a vastly under utilized energy source.   

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[tombogan03884]

Solus,

I would say that's not a hippie.

If he his dog is chasing my horses because it needs to be free, that's a hippie. Nope, that's a dead dog, with the option of a two for one deal on the hole    

When he tells my neighbor he can't burn leaves because it creates green house gases, he's a hippie.  Nope, that's a guy who has been told to go fu*# himself

When he gets upset because the coyotes eat his free range chickens but thinks we should just "relocate them," he's a hippie.
Same for the woodchuck that eats his organic herb garden.
Bet he shoots the deer that eat his pot plants though  

When he thinks the energy in his hybrid sprang from unicorn farts and not a big TVA coal burning plant, he's a hippie. Nope, that's some one all the travel salesmen hit on  

When he is asking me to sign a petition to turn our county into sancuary city because they did it where he moved from and it was wonderful. Why did he move here then? It cost to much and the jobs went away. That's a hippie.
Nope, that's someone who either has recently , or soon will be, beaten as soon as the potential witnesses leave.

Like Charlie Daniels said,  just leave the long haired country boys alone.

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"Yes I've been a hippie for 40 years , no matter what length my hair, and any one who has a problem with that can kiss my  azz."

Hippie

So let me get this right Tom's the hippie and FQ is not?  The world turned upside down.

Tom, I remember an article in the late 70's about some long haired guy being called a hippie. He informed them he was a mountain man and asked if they had a problem with that.

I prefer to think of you in that sense.  I could not vote for a hippie for President.

Enough to make a guys head explode isn't it