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[Mo1]

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[Mo1]

LOL .. trouble maker

[sweetliberty]

[ValerieUSA]

I'm back --- my dad called. It's too cold on the Washington coast. When he called from Nevada last month, it was too hot.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Thanks sweety, I wont be upset until they depict him with a ponytail!

[operation clinton cleanup]

We had a hippie that was very active in our church in the 70's and looked exactly like that picture. We had him over for dinner several times and I could not help but thinking (I was 8 or 9 at the time) how much he looked like jesus. He was very nice with us kids and was always teaching and explaining things.... usually on subjects not related to religion.

[ValerieUSA]

Most of the college age group in our church in the 70s dressed like hippies. They were a close group and really good people for the most part. They were kinda sad though, in the overly serious way of the young who aren't airheads, and I wonder how they "turned out." Liberal political and social influences were strong, and I think they were sucked in.... but I liked them all. That was before I knew I was a conservative, though, and I wanted to be a hippy like them, but I was too much into high school stuff. Too busy all the time to be seriously sad....
Also, I didn't find that being poor made a person morally and spiritually superior. Looking respectable and getting a job did not mean one had "sold out."

[operation clinton cleanup]

What I remember most about this guy was he was always happy and wanting to help everybody, all the time... but not in an annoying way!

[ValerieUSA]

He was far out, man. *grin*
I'll be back later -- the grocery store misses me, I have to go make it happy.

[Jaidyn]

Too busy all the time to be seriously sad....
I like your perspective! Maybe if they were busy they wouldn't have been so sad, either! I was actually poor and couldn't abide wearing clothes that my poor parents would have thrown out though I did wear the wild colors and mesh hose. Hippies came into existence at the behest of another. It was easy to brainwash another person back then and make them think they were individuals when they didn't have an independent thought. The first hippy I knew had a following until he died a few years ago. I went to school with him, a chubby fun-loving guy engaged to another classmate. He went off to Viet Nam and I suspect he went through hell there and came back skinny, grew his hair and bacame what he was the rest of his life. He wasn't a bad guy and I liked him a lot. He visited me everytime he came to town, even after I was married with children. This guy had a wonderful family and homelife but it mattered little to him. As big as his cult-like following was, all of them were enablers. Most of them became the eighties yuppies. He had so much to offer but gave so little, refusing to accept responsibility to anyone, even his child (or children). He wasn't anti-social, even my father liked him, and wasn't a protestor, either. As a matter of fact, he never mentioned Viet Nam once since his return. Since his death, there is a rumor that he was actually a hero. Only his mother knows, and though I'm sure she would like the world to know, she will carry on his silence until her own death. I don't mean to put a damper on this thread but I have been thinking about this person a lot lately, and to me, he was a genuine hippy, not a passing thing among the youths of the sixties and early seventies. Even Manson wasn't a genuine hippy, but a crazy meglomaniac who should have been put to death.

[.38sw]

Just reading through the thread, and to be fair, I didn't immediately identify the image that SL posted as Jesus. And yes, I went to Sunday school and church as a child and had all the Sunday school materials and illustrations. It didn't ring a bell with me. I just assumed, a few minutes later, that it was meant to represent Jesus, based on the comments made later.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Thanks for your comments. All conservatives are not religious zelots or racist and not all hippies were dough-head liberals.... (probably not the best analogy).

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The dad inlaw called about a computer problem and the hubby had to go over there

Could that computer problem be related to the NASCAR race on tv?

[Mo1]

LOL .. No, this man should not be allow on a computer .. he has more problems with that thing .. LOL

I think he got a virus that screwed up his machine

[Mo1]

No biggy .. it's water under the bridge

[LisaAnne]

Looks like the Isreali's hit pay dirt.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=186552&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0

It's cool that you don't have to use HTML anymore.

[sweetliberty]

Kinda like you shouldn't be allowed to use a grill?

[Mo1]

That was not my fault ... LOL

[sweetliberty]

It's nice to have the option. It is great to be able to cut and paste without having to format, but I kinda prefer the html for links.

[sweetliberty]

Hehehe...

[LisaAnne]

Yeah, but I'm HTML lazy.