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Help! My personality got stuck in this signature machine and I cant get it out!
Written by: Josh
Im wondering how everyone/anyone maintains a positive outlook and fluffy happy feelings when the world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket?
Equality, Liberty, Democracy, Enlightenment, Honesty, Autonomy, Trust etc - all these things are being exposed as fading values / illusions in our 'modern' society. In the media, in politics, in military action, in education, in social relationships and more we are pounded with constant reminders of how these things just arent getting any closer.
How does a hippy stay fluffy once the hard reality of the changes we are seeing right now in our world strike to the heart?
Is it possible for Hippies to even exist anymore? surely to maintain a peace and love outlook requires a high level of ignorance, and a hippy cannot be ignorant, therefore a hippy cannot exist in this day and age.
Damn thats a grim thought: The only way to stay happy is either abandon your ideals, or bury your head in the sand.
Please someone tell me how it aint so?
Josh
Geologists do it in the dirt................
Written by: shen shui
if people are offended by something that you do, then thats their karma. thats their choice, to be offended.. they could have been pleased to have it, if their state-of-mind was in a different space..
do what feels right to you, and let others think what they will. dont be held back by what you think you should or should not do. do what feels right to you.
eRic.
I'm not normally a religious man, but if you're up there, save me, Superman!
Geologists do it in the dirt................
eRic.
I'm not normally a religious man, but if you're up there, save me, Superman!
eRic.
I'm not normally a religious man, but if you're up there, save me, Superman!
It is our fantasies that make us real. Without our fantasies we're just a blank monkey' - Terry Pratchett
Written by: Amanita
As for not having children, there's probably alot more to that choice than simply finances
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Help! My personality got stuck in this signature machine and I cant get it out!
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
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Help! My personality got stuck in this signature machine and I cant get it out!
Written by: Josh
I accept your points NYC, but I reject the argument that we are living in the best world that weve ever had, cuz I think by a bunch of different measures we are sliding back.
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Rather, you would prefer to have all the bits working together efficiently, if the good of the machine and its parts is your goal.
Josh
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
To do: More Firedrums 08 video?
Wildfire/US East coast fire footage
LA/EDC glow/fire footage
Fresno fire
Written by: Parliament Of PeaceWritten by: shen shui
if people are offended by something that you do, then thats their karma. thats their choice, to be offended.. they could have been pleased to have it, if their state-of-mind was in a different space..
do what feels right to you, and let others think what they will. dont be held back by what you think you should or should not do. do what feels right to you.
ohhh, that is such b*llsh*t!!! don't give me that karma crap... because with your speach you are also telling people it's ok to abuse others, and if they are or feel abused: it's just their karma, not the one from the abuser??? justify that.
Written by: ParliamentOfPeace
so basically if I got 20 dogs, it's ok to let them do their toilet thing on the that grassy bit where you want to have your drum circle?
Written by: ParliamentOfPeace
I really don't get annoyed too easily, but it's exactly that "new hippie" attitude that's been discussed here before: you only look as far as your own nose. if people don't see things your way, they are stupid. if others don't think the same, look the same or act the same they are not worthy of your love... so you just stick your head in the sand and live in your own little world.
but respect has to do with understanding other people's feelings, you know.
those that know, dont say. those that say, dont know.
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ohhh, that is such b*llsh*t!!! don't give me that karma crap... because with your speach you are also telling people it's ok to abuse others, and if they are or feel abused: it's just their karma, not the one from the abuser??? justify that.
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empathise with the worlds problems but dont take them as your own, see the glass as half full and make a difference where you can. thats what i try to do but then again im not a hippy
To learn - read. To know - write. To master - teach . . .
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Josh, imo it is the best time to be a hippy - dont be saddened by the worlds problems, get inspired and try to help to solve them.
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everyone who challenges their own ideas has my respect.
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Each person is able to make the world a bit better for him/herself, and for the ppl who surround him. And if every one of us does that - just a tiny little bit, and the other one does, the world gets better - just a tiny little bit.
It is our fantasies that make us real. Without our fantasies we're just a blank monkey' - Terry Pratchett
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you are right AND i am right. AND we are both wrong. doesnt that make you feel so good inside?
eRic.
I'm not normally a religious man, but if you're up there, save me, Superman!
those that know, dont say. those that say, dont know.
Kangaroo Island eh? I hear that place is really hopping!
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i know that there are many things wrong with the world we live in and i know that there is so much corruption and hate and i know that i, most likely wont make a difference, but you know what?
this is the only life i've got
To learn - read. To know - write. To master - teach . . .
Written by: PoiBoxII
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i know that there are many things wrong with the world we live in and i know that there is so much corruption and hate and i know that i, most likely wont make a difference, but you know what?
this is the only life i've got
Westerners . . . .
nice one Fathom
Kangaroo Island eh? I hear that place is really hopping!
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
those that know, dont say. those that say, dont know.
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
"I want brown bread... no, that is diesel oil..."
"So I was raised in Europe, where History comes from ..."
"NON !!! La Plume de mon oncle n est pas Bingibangibungi !!!"
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
those that know, dont say. those that say, dont know.