My free AOL runs out tomorrow. I seriously doubt if I'll be back on-line, ever ,(and, now, I finally have the money-- I've begun collecting SSI because of physical disability.) And, yes, I can live on it. This, at one time, was a fun forum. But now I post in ten threads and get zero replies. This tells me that others became bored, or died, or just don't plumb give a fuck. This shit happens. I never was a hippy-- I was there but I didn't identify-- I was merely a young spy from the fly-over states. I did accomplish one goal-- I got back in touch, after 37 years, with Tom, my old room-mate at 25 Bleecker St. in NYC. Guess what? He's trapped in the 60's with the leftist outlook on things. HOW FUCKING UTTERLY SAD! Back in the day, he was apolitical and so was I. We lived for pot, pussy and music. He made his fortune smuggling hash, and lives quite well. I've made no fortune, except my children and numerous grandchildren. I'll settle with what I have. Bye, and best wishes! Burl.
THUDLY (Burl) will be sadly missed on the hipforums. He had a unique perspective on things and life, plus many cool 60's/70's experiences to tell. He loved to stir up the hornet's nest alot, but that was to relieve forums "apathy" and help people think for themselves. He helped many to get out of their ruts, or at least form some kind of mental activity. THUDLY stated that he never really was a hippy. When I was growing up, and experiencing, the 60's and 70's decades, I just thought of myself as being a teen, or young adult, experiencing these stages of life. It was society who created the label of "hippy". No one is really 100% hippy. They can be mostly "hippy", but not all. I am mostly hippy, but in the 80's I was definately new wave/punk. In the 90's, I was partially "grunge". Being in Michigan, I'm also part hillbilly/woodsman. Having some intelligence and liking science alot, I'm also part nerd. People are complex and mixed beings, not just labels! THUDLY is from Pennsylvania. My mother loved the states of Pennsylvania and Virginia, so I got to see alot of those states through travel. We had some good friends in Pennsylvania. One of our friends lived in the small bourough of Clymer, PA, which is about 9 miles north of Indiana, PA and about 60 miles NE of Pittsburgh. We would visit them many years, in the summertime and especially during Thanksgiving time. It was quite, restful and fun! The son (now way older and married) looked alot like Elvis! In Eastern Pennsylvania (and Western Ohio), they have a "pennsyl-tuckian" accent, which is unique. I'm used to hearing it. Instead of "You All", they say "Yuans". Indiana, PA is the hometown of Jimmy Stewart and they have a bronze statue of him, in front of the city building! Plus, a small, nearby airport is named after him! It is about 50-60 miles NE of Pittsburgh. My other Pennsylvania journies include: Pennsylvania Dutch country (Lancaster, Intercourse and Bird-In-Hand, PA), the Plain and Fancy Barn (good "shoe-fly pie"), Hersey, PA chocolate factory and rose gardens, Independence Hall in gool ole Philly, our friend's family reunion in Butler, PA, visiting friends in State College, PA, DUTCH WONDERLAND "kiddie" amusement park and KENNYWOOD amusement park (in West Mifflin, PA, just southeast of Pittsburgh). KENNYWOOD is over 100 years old! Plus, KENNYWOOD has the famous STEEL PHANTOM looping roller coaster! A cool 225' drop (at 80 MPH) down a cliff, on the edge of the Monongahela River, then up to three loops! We get old and our physical bodies fall apart! Getting old sucks! THUDLY mentioned that he may have "heart problems". I take 50 mg. of CO-ENZYME Q 10 every day, to help protect my heart. 250 mgs. may be needed for awhile on bad hearts. Some people who have taken it, with scheduled heart surgery, have repaired their damaged hearts , so surgery wasn't needed! But it all depends on the specific heart problem. Other good heart nutrients, include: the amino-acid L-ARGININE, OMEGA-3 oils and herbs that clean your arteries. Do some research on these nutrients. They may help you. Hippies were always well known for being "health nuts". The body is the temple of God. Babybooming-hippies helped to create the health food industry, plus they still hang out there. Don't give up your good health! Restore it! The hipforums are composed mostly of YOUNG HIPPIES (teenagers), just like the ANNUAL ANN ARBOR HASH BASH. As an older "hippy" poster, mathematically, you're just going to get less responses, that's all. Many hipforums posters take a small vacation from posting, then come back. You could do the same. But if you permanently leave these forums, that's your destiny and we won't interefere with it. It's your freewill. Books can be like good friends. Don't forget to have some fun, every once in awhile! Take care of yourself and best luck in the future!!! Peace and Love COSMICDUST
Thudly, What kind of pity party are you throwing now, No one answers my post either, unless they just want to start shit with me. I left for like a month while my PC was down and no one even asked about me or cared. Everyone is leaving and I'm sure they are in a different website and I wasn't invited.. waaaaa.. I too was looking for old friends, I found a lot of them, but some are not as friendly as they once were. I not a matter of being a hippie or not, it's about being a human being. To care about one another and to feel happy or sad with them... we are all human beings and none is any better then the other. We are hear to learn and grow, we are here to help others on their path to enlightenment. We can't blame others for our own idiosincrosies (sp) but we can look into the heart of hearts and feel compassion or humor, we can identify with being human. I spent hours trying to help ones who were in need of healing body, mind or soul. I did it willingly and for free. When I was gone from HP no one called or sent a postcard or anything in the nature of showing the love where love was given. I felt unappericated, but then I was giving it away, so there was really on obligation to befriend me or be obligated to speak to me afterwards. Such is the life of a healer. I got over it, I have no hold on anyone here. They are free to do what they will as am I and you thud. The ones that were 'There" in that time in history, we know the truth. We know what it was like to be what is called a hippie. It was The Best of Times and The Worst of Times, and times it was. It was good, bad and ugly, but it was also beautiful and it helped form us into what we are today. It depends on what you were searching for in the first place. Some found it and some missed the bus altogether. It's really not what we learned, it's what we are doing with the knowledge. Do we use it to sit cynically and critisize others for their contribution or to we acept them as brother and sister. I even had to 'stop' myself as I became almost hostile with some folks in here. I felt terribaly defencive and some people made me darn right mad. I spewed and foamed at the mouth and wasted all that energy on negitive thinking. The time away from the forums gave me a new prespective. It gave me 'grace'. So what if no one likes me, I'm not here for a popularity contest. I'm here to heal, others and myself. I'm not the watcher, I don't wanna be. I don't need to lose sleep over other people and what they do or think. If they ask I try to communicate the message, but I can't force them to see it in my point of veiw, we are all different and have our own way of looking at what we are here to do. We all have something we are here to do. What I have to do may not be what you or the next one has, but if I'm a part of the whole sceam of things and there is something I can do to help with my part, then lay it on me. I am willing, I am able. The main lesson is to treat others as you would have them treat you. No one does this all the time, myself included, but I'm working on it. Life has delt me some pruddy hard blows, a test I suppose, so they say. Which ever it may be, I have learned over the years to ' Tuck n Roll'. There are some things that I have done in my life that was STUPID and Dangerous, there were several times when, under the circomstances I should be dead by now. I survived the rough spots on the uphill climb to cronehood. I can look back and see where I got off the path, I can see what I failed to learn in my youth. I can't go back and change it but I can go forward and not repeat it over and over again. We are but star dust in the wind trying to find our particals and pull them all together. We are cosmic light beings born upon a rock in the universe, to grow and be purposeful. We each have something to acomplish here, even if it is just to learn how to be human, as we are Spirits having a Human experience. In me the anger is gone. Perhaps I have come to learn my lesson. I have realized that to be angry at ones only gives them your power. You pour it out and lay it right on them as you jump up and down frothing and fuming. You just give it all to them and you are left with nothing but an empty feeling. I came in here looking for a purpose to be here. I found unpleasentness, I acted in kind. I was just as wrong thinking as the ones I scolded.. life is funny like that. It throws it right back atcha. Was it me mirrowing them or was it them mirrowing me. How preplexing. I realize now that we are all confused on 'What's it all about Alfie' and we do the best that we can with what we know. And do we know anything or do we just speculate. Ones will come and ones will go, we will miss the ones that we connected with, but life is a journey and we must learn to flow with the stream. It is a constant changing world, we must learn to adapt to the changes as we grow. We must do it with grace and compassion, without judgements and ego. I don't know all the question, but I do know LOVE LOVE LOVE is the answer. Blesed Be sh
Thudly, I have never really read your posts, tho I have seen your name around on the forums. I hope life treats you well.
Old Hippies never die they just slowly fade away.... Dude, i don't even get responses to things that I say here at home let alone things that I type to strangers...it happens to us old folks, I remember doing to the oldsters when I was young. We were always too busy being yound and beautiful to pay attention to the old farts. Its kind of like payback for having been kids ourselves.
honestly, this thread has made me realize a lot of things. i hope life treats you well, THUDLY. (it does look better capitalized..) peace and love
Very good stuff folks-Shamless-real good-very true-It's like ; after surviving "All That"--everything else is downhill-If I thought I would be better gone-out of this world-then I would have taken that path along time ago-as many of my friends did-by accident or otherwise-So-to make it this far for all us "old folk? is truly amazing-! as in a sense we were pioneers of sort-be it good or bad; we were doing some very new things and it came out in the music and artwork and -well-it worked for awhile-so-I am very happy to never go hungry anymore and have a decent /dependable car and well as a retired trucker;I have a strong faith in God- and know we all made it this far for a reason-to help others-lets face it; we did alot of stupid stuff without giving any concern to danger-so-we can now take all the good and bad and explain what works and what dosen't to younger people-I know at 18 I thought I understood life-but really I didn't-and I really could have used some educating when it came to survival skills-I learned them and now I am happy to give advice when asked-it makes it all worth while-
This is a huge site and people come and go and wander from forum to forum. Ghosts in the machine. Where ever you are, whenever it is, we all exist in each other.
Burl, We are all Connected Sometimes we forget that Sometimes it comes and knocks on our door The Way is full of lessons And the reward is learning from them May you Way be Blessed - May you learn from your lessons Much love my brother One does not lose - one quits But sometimes it is a good time to go home And though it is a good day to die - it must first be a good day to live There is much to Do - everyone is needed and desired and cared for; and it best start in the mirror, or it becomes a fight rather than a blessing Bright Blessing with you Grow On - Enjoy ! !! Nameste (my spirit bows to your spirit)
