Are you a Hippie?

Speak of the pompetous of love or it didn't happen :toetap05:

 

No.
When I went to the Desert ten years ago as a 42-year old private ( I could outrun everyone in the battalion), the young soldiers saw me as some far out old man (their words). I work on a naval installation on the East Coast with university engineers and if you are not degreed they tend to see you as underdeveloped. This being an industrial environment, the reactions are conservative in dress and manner. The stoners we have think they are hippies, but they are not, just wastoids.
As I pointed out on my introductory post, I get a kick out of listening to the wannabe hippies on this forum. The real hippies are gone for the most part. I like the genuine article. Still a few around (to include a very small number of young ones), though.

- JKHolman

 

Any so called "real" hippies would be fairly old nowadaze.....;-)

 

no. not a hippie at all

 

Well----that's what all the 18 year old girls I try to pick up tell me ;-)

Where I went to High School, in my class, there were still a lot of us that called ourselves freaks and wore their hair long. We associated ourselves with the hippies. My sister was a year behind me in school, and they had far fewer freaks wearing long hair. The class after that had even fewer, and some of them even thought we were weird for wearing our hair long.

But you know----I don't have much grey hair----mostly in my beard which I grow out from time to time. Though each year I get a few more. Most of my friends who are around my age or a bit younger look a lot older than me, and have far more grey hair.

I'm actually never ever going to get old!!

...And, never trust anyone over 70!

 

Sounds just like my youthful days. But we never used to call ourselves hippies, we always used the word freaks. Mainly we were into rock music and weed when we could get it. Hendrix, Led Zep etc.
I changed my style quite a bit in the post punk period of the 80's.
I sometimes think of myself as an ex-hippy these days.

I'm a redhead, and I have only a few white hairs at 56. More white in the beard. Probably I'd look younger if I shaved it off, but I've grown attached to it.

 

I am to a degree... and I do get it. I work in the corporate world so it's not like I can wear the clothes I wear and walk around barefoot in the office lol! Plus I can't be relaxed and just zoned rather I have to be this bulldog character which is so not like me.

However in my mind I think the hippie mentality.

 

Yeah some people calls me hippie some calls me dopey but if you add all these perspectives up they point to no one in particular.

 

Pompetous is not a word other than it's happening.

 

i almost cut my hair
it happened just the other day

 

If not pompetous, then what did he say?

 

They made up their own word for the song---it has been pointed out over and over to the Steve Miller Band that there is no such word----to which they have often responded that they made it up because it sounded good.

But it wasn't too many years before that that the CCR was making up words---that no one cared if they were made up or not----they became part of language-----such as chooglin'.

Some can make up words and others can't I guess----but I like the word pompetous...

 

Some obviously speak lovingly of pompetous

 

from the time I was a teenager I liked the juxtaposition between a suit and tie and long hair----because that was very rare in the 60's and 70's. (And I am talking about genuine long hair, not the sort of long hair that everyone wore in the 70's). I have spent most of my career in the stock market----my hair has gone from 70's sort of long (which is short for me) to long hair even as I wore tailored suits and worked in the office. Sometimes I have had both long hair and a full beard. No matter how corporate I became, I was always a hippy, and treated people around me with that same hippy perspective of respect and love for everyone and a gentle urging to bring out everyone's creativity. I always pushed the envelope too, and stood up for the underdog-----which tended to be customers and coworkers----I stood strong for all of their rights.

I was lucky in that I have never had to compromise my own values while working in an industry that way too often takes advantage of others. The last firm I worked for, Schwab, grew out of the progressive culture of the 70's so it was all about customers and employees. So I was respected in upper management for how I stood up for customers. Over the last decade, as the company began stepping on employees and their rights, I was vocal, and my opinion respected in upper management. As the company became worse in their efforts to take advantage of employees, I was still very vocal. But upper management began changing, and conditions got worse. I could not give in and so I no longer work.

 

no, Im just Nuts..
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i've been called most things. i'd rather live in a world everyone can find gratification in doing so, then having uncountable numbers of people of dubious sincerity pretending to be my friends. and while i have no particular objection to wealth beyond my wildest dreams of avarice, i see no particular value in obtaining it by destroying everything i would ever remotely want it for.