Peace? did the hippies have a point?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaAUxqDFXS4&NR=1

Hippe: You cant Own Land!
Professor Farnsworth: Well I can, bit thats becasue i'm not a jobless hippie!

you cant eat money
http://www.manataka.org/page291.html#INTRODUCTION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5eohBIOqkw

anyway property is theft

Sure you can!

Really? From whom did you steal your underwear?

ruveyn

ROFLUFFAGUS

From your Momma.......





......or was that my Momma?

mom jokes? check the beginning of the thread, or you make fools of us all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utBkbJIY ... r_embedded

i know all too well how easy it is to be glib and have a laugh cause it all seem too dark to be taken "lightly". but its still posible to make a difference and be part of the 'new earth'...
the meek shall inherit the earth? damn right, who else would you trust it to? th bankers? the government? the army? Peace

I think the question is summed up in a music video from some 47 years ago.

The man in the video was perhaps the quintessential hippy, and the lyrics proposed that there should be no property.

However, in the video is staged in a location that is clearly at odds with the message.

Here is an excerpt from the song:

The video was filmed in the beautiful white house called Tittenhurst Park. At that time the possession of John Lennon, singer.

How many people were allowed to squat there? Why did he purchase it if he believed in 'no possessions"?

In 1972 he sold the property to Ringo Starr. No possessions John? Really.

Presumably for money, another possession. Why didnt he donate it to the public?

Still later(20 years), unrelated events put lie to another claim of his:



Nothing to kill for John?

in the movie Enemy at the gates, character Danilov says:


John Lennon spoke from a position of privilege and luxury. He had enough in life to be satiated and could afford such wistful comments.

sex drugs rock'n'roll? well i was took off my 15 year old mother in 1966, taken drugs all my life and am half deaf after free parties. But if it wasn't for pioneers like lenon i'd never have heard of eastern philosophy and discovered Taoism which i guess saved me from this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIPk8sK3Af4&NR=1

not that i mind people partying, i just don't want to be there myself now.

my original question was if you could trip without drugs would you.

i guess my answer is drugs pointed the way towards something better but the challenge for all of us is can we put them down and move on? I have found it specially hard lately (early 40s)

I guess I'm asking cause 2012 is coming asnd i think the whole world will experiece somrthing akin to a huge acid trip, awakening experience. What do you think?

im gonna go now start new thread? do you believe the earth is alive?

"Only if the your last cent is spend, your last Euro has be wasted, your last Yen is down the drain, no Krona to find and no Swizz Franc is left, only than and only than you will understand that you can't buy anything for nice words ... "