Are you a flower child?

[otherlander]

[wildhorses]

1. yes

[otherlander]

2. Yay!

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. No...

if I'd been around in the sixties I probably would've been one of those intense and slightly scary guys in all black and a beret who was more interested in Leon Trotsky and Che Guevara than peace, love and understanding...

[otherlander]

5. And if I had been around in the sixties...

I would have said that your song was not like our song, and asked you to come to our Gathering of the Tribes at the Human Be-in. The more different songs, the better!

[otherlander]

8. BTW...

you wish you were scary. Nothing scares Otherlander! :P

[ThatsMyBarack]

4. Yes!

:hippie:

[otherlander]

7. I missed the party.

:(

[Art_from_Ark]

43. I was there but didn't realize it was happening

:(

[struggle4progress]

6. LBJ IRT, USA LSD. LSD LBJ, FBI CIA. FBI CIA, LSD L...B....J.....

[SPKrazy]

10. Lot Of LSD In That Subject Line

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. I'm not sure whether the next line

is "We didn't start the fire" or "FUCK YOU! WE DO WHAT WE WANT!"

:shrug:

[struggle4progress]

44. Or perhaps Berger says: "This, folks, is the psychedelic Stone Age"

Thirty-five years ago, perhaps I would have known

[struggle4progress]

28. It's a dirty little war. Three-five-zero-zero. Take weapons up and begin to kill.

The drugs and the war were related in strange ways: I'll never forget hearing one ex-soldier say "what a trip" it was to machine-gun people while stoned ...

[otherlander]

30. The 1960's alphabet?

:shrug: or just a memory?

[struggle4progress]

42. tune from Hair:

LBJ
took the IRT
down to fourth street USA
When he got there what did he see?
The youth of America on LSD

Like the Kama Sutra song, it didn't make it into the 80s movie version

[SPKrazy]

9. Yes, And Wildhorses Turned Me On

to this video :rofl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWxgx8lp2b8

Phaedra is a flower child too

[DonkeyInChinaShop]

11. No....

And if I had been around in the 60's, I would have been one of the young types that disliked hippies because the majority of them were sons and daughters of the middle class who had the economic resources to go off and do crazy things without worrying about finances.

[SPKrazy]

12. Welcome To DU

but I think you are wrong about hippies

:shrug:

[DonkeyInChinaShop]

13. Please enlighten me

[SPKrazy]

17. Sure...

:popcorn:

grab a chair

and a :beer:

loosen that tie


relax

this is da lounge baby!

:toast:

[DonkeyInChinaShop]

20. Yeah

I like to loosen ties and I like to drink beer. I just don't enjoy going to the mountains while I play the sweet potato, live on a commune, or live in an expensive urban area while holding no job but yet retaining the ability to have an easy access flow to drugs.

[SPKrazy]

22. Hey Friend

:popcorn:


enjoy your stay

[DonkeyInChinaShop]

26. My stay?

Okay, I guess it could be time for me to go to bed or time to eat popcorn... :beer: :popcorn: :headbang:

[SPKrazy]

31. Yeah

prolly it

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. And what type are you now?

:popcorn:

[DonkeyInChinaShop]

15. Dude I'm Emo

We keep it real man! Kidding, emo people are the hippies of today.

[Whoa_Nelly]

19. There are no hippies of today

Just wannabes :P

[ellisonz]

32. No.

[SPKrazy]

16. ...

:rofl:


:popcorn:

[wildhorses]

29. nice to meet you donkeyinchinashop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrYQ8eVOOxc

[DonkeyInChinaShop]

33. Now THAT'S what I'm talking about. Haggard, great liberal

Haggard is my kind of guy.

[SPKrazy]

35. ...

:popcorn:

[Dervill Crow]

36. Me too, except for the time he got drunk and didn't show up for a performance.

My mom was SO pissed, and I had to listen to her and my dad bitch about it for days on end. Them goldurned long-haired pot-smoking hippie types might not get there fast, but they generally eventually show up where they're supposed to be. :hippie:

[otherlander]

45. But all those crazy things

were done out of love. The idea that the world didn't have to be the way it was, and that if we loved each other enough surely it would overflow into every heart and that all the world could dance in the sunlight as we did, no one stopped by war or poverty or oppression. It wasn't about doing crazy things, it was about making it so that everyone in the world could.

But maybe you have a point. While there was organic gardening and thinking and singing like a rising tide and the civil rights movement got close to revolution and rallies and marches and sit-ins and underground newspapers trying to get our soldiers home from a horrible war half a world away, did we do less than we could have to extend a hand and a song to our brothers and sisters impoverished and angry in our own cities?

And why am I saying 'we'? As if that was somehow my real time? Maybe my user name should be Othertimer.

[dEMOK]

18. Flowers are underrated...

In order to become a flower you must have been a seed planted in the earth and be determined to grow.

Also, the flower is only a stage. Pollinated flowers yield fruit.

When the initial superficial beauty dies -- the pollinated flower becomes an ancestor.

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. Locking

"Pollinated."

Sex thread.

[SPKrazy]

23. ROFL!

you said "pollinated"


:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. Yup

And we know what that really means. :eyes:

[otherlander]

34. Wow.

That's deep.

So would my people, then, be the... fruit children? :)

[Swamp Rat]

27. Who knows..., but I know some flower DUDES...

:rofl:

[Esra Star]

38. Jeffy, Jeffy baby......Oh YEAHHH.....don't stop! don't stop!......

[Swamp Rat]

41. It gets lonely in the Oval Office

:D

[stuntcat]

37. Yes

I DO NOT wanna be associated with whatever people think of Hippies, it's almost always a group to dump a lot of hate on.
But I'm all about some peace and nature and hugging some trees and growing some flowers. I'm waiting for dancing in fields and worshiping plants and sheep to come back in style, no kidding :blush:

[Oeditpus Rex]

40. People who hate on hippies

either were born after the '60s or have some Ronald Reagan blood.

[NNadir]

39. I am, in fact, a member of the least generation, if that's what you mean.

[Catfight]

46. Power Flower all the way. nt