Beating a Dead Horse wrote:
The abortion debate is over. It's like beating a dead horse. Let it go. Women have their rights and you can't interfere.
Are you illiterate, or just stupid? I am FOR abortion rights. I've been donating to Planned Parenthood for over a decade.
Next time, try reading the post you're responding to. It's like beating a dead horse, trying to talk to idiots like you.
Let it go. In America people have freedom. We don't obey stupid gay Popes and quere Kings like they do in the smelly continent of Europe. If you don't like my country, you can go live in Facist Russia, Communiist China, Apartheid Israel, or Go To Texas and get Shot in the Back.
The hippies were counter-culture, they were not involved in politics, they were involved in getting high, music and having sex. I am the next generation and I never liked them because I had family in that generation and I saw exactly what they were really like.
You can't lump the Hippies in with other movements that took place during the same time period (and are responsible for the things that you are erroneously trying to give the hippies credit for).
They were a bunch of lazy bums and they don't deserve credit for anything!
Hey hippies: "You didn't build that."
All you need is Love!
And the greatest of these is Love
Jesus, the best hippie of all
bamam wrote:
Yes, my viewpoint will most likely change when it becomes legalized.
You'd make a great Nazi or slave.
Yeah, the hippies were kids during the civil rights marches, the people truly responsible for civil rights legislation were the same people that fought in WWII.
towhee wrote:
I don't know how many letsrunners are old enough to remember the hippies, but it actually was a fairly short-lived phenomenon. It really took off around 1968. My recollection was it really came into full bloom around the time of the release of the Beatles 'Abbey Road' which I looked up and was dated Sept, 1969.
1) Drugs. No real explanation required. I'm all for drug legalization, but no reasonable person still thinks that drug use is something to be promoted like the hippies did.
7) Exercise and fitness (had to cover this one on lets run). Very few hippies worked out.
Your research is shoddy, pal. I will give you a D+.
The hippie movement went national during The Summer of Love (1967). Abbey Road had nothing to do with it. Try Surrealistic Pillow, Disraeli Gears, Are You Experienced?, or Magical Mystery Tour.
Fact: in the late 60s very few few people worked out. Nike didn't exist. Jim Fixx and Kenneth Cooper had not published their fitness books and Frank Shorter had not won gold. Aside from YMCAs there were no fitness clubs.
Your assertion that all hippies were druggies is false. I am old enough to know. Your assertion that hippies are responsible for today's sexual promiscuity is absurd. Feminism, birth control, and popular culture changed sexual mores in the US and around the world -- whether your hair was long or short.
Your assertion that ex-hippies then went on to became evangelicals is laughable. How on earth do you think this crap up?
I am guessing you are just a garden-variety forum troll. But if I'm wrong, you are one gifted moron.
This must be the record for a dead thread revival 2 1/2 years between posts! Brojos take note!
Hippie Primer
bamam wrote:
Yes, my viewpoint will most likely change when it becomes legalized.
Why?
Yep, you're right the hippies were wrong!
For those interested in the evolution of corporate culture, the 'Conquest of Cool' is an interesting read...essentially the shifts towards the adaptive management and hip/anti-consumerism consumerism were profit-driven changes. This book is essentially the basis for the Mad Men TV show.
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Conquest_of_Cool.html?id=BE76InJylhIC
Gazed a glazely stare wrote:
towhee wrote:I don't know how many letsrunners are old enough to remember the hippies, but it actually was a fairly short-lived phenomenon. It really took off around 1968. My recollection was it really came into full bloom around the time of the release of the Beatles 'Abbey Road' which I looked up and was dated Sept, 1969.
1) Drugs. No real explanation required. I'm all for drug legalization, but no reasonable person still thinks that drug use is something to be promoted like the hippies did.
7) Exercise and fitness (had to cover this one on lets run). Very few hippies worked out.
Your research is shoddy, pal. I will give you a D+.
The hippie movement went national during The Summer of Love (1967). Abbey Road had nothing to do with it. Try Surrealistic Pillow, Disraeli Gears, Are You Experienced?, or Magical Mystery Tour.
Fact: in the late 60s very few few people worked out. Nike didn't exist. Jim Fixx and Kenneth Cooper had not published their fitness books and Frank Shorter had not won gold. Aside from YMCAs there were no fitness clubs.
Your assertion that all hippies were druggies is false. I am old enough to know. Your assertion that hippies are responsible for today's sexual promiscuity is absurd. Feminism, birth control, and popular culture changed sexual mores in the US and around the world -- whether your hair was long or short.
Your assertion that ex-hippies then went on to became evangelicals is laughable. How on earth do you think this crap up?
I am guessing you are just a garden-variety forum troll. But if I'm wrong, you are one gifted moron.
Hell, I was there. You're going to assert that hippies were not druggies? LOL. And yes the evangelical movement was fueled by hippies. I know, I was there.
It's all about creativity, folks. Look around you--it's all the result of creativity. When what is created becomes to entrenched and traditional, counterculture will always arise. It's a necessity for us to survive as a species. It keeps us sharp and inventive. Some of the people in the 60's created a new lifestyle. There was new music, hairstyles, clothes, kinds of concerts, writing, major political upheaval, MLK and non-violent protest, NASA, and Gilligan's Island. The 60's was a burst of creative energy by a mass of people that was unparalleled in any decade in the history of the U.S. Now look where we are. The internet is ushering a burst of creative energy even bigger than the 60's. Things are changing quickly. Enjoy the ride. Create your butts off (in the medium of your choice).
If you were there then you know the death, build of heavier drugs, massive runaways, communes, stink and filth that was at that time. You were not there or running around..bet you were to young. Lost 2 brothers, one sister, one niece and several cousins. Just lost grandson last week in Montana as 11 die western Montana, in weekend traffic accidents. What was he doing...smoking pot, spiked, and driving..thats all. It was worthless to argue with them then...even as I watched my sister die in hospital from some MASSIVE sexual disease. The free love commune worked well for her. All of my friends died..some just found laying on a highway with their guitar. I could go on for years about that time. The stink and massive bug infestation of every hippie hangout. Whats the use. They stood for nothing...hell they all defended Manson. What ever happened to POLLUTION, POLLUTION, POLLUTION marches? Were all dying from pollution. Now its what Global warming...and its my fault cause I'm a white man. How did I survive it all...I loved, still do, distance running....they beat the shit out of me many times for that.
There are modern hippies that rednecks call yuppies
Hippies are annoying I respect that they choose not to eat meat but why can't they let me and other normal people eat meat in piece
6 thugs beat up 2 hippies in Austin.
bamam wrote:
Oh great, just what we need....another person who thinks it's okay to smoke marijuana. Nice.
10/10
The hippies were right.