Sure.. but not since puberty :}

Prter Popoff

Love the one your with... dont't be lookin' around, we are all soul mates 

Always

The term Hippie was a Life magazine catch phrase to lump a bunch of counter culture movements into one glamorized sex crazed,drug usin', anti war protestin', communal livin', bunch of societal drop outs. truth is, it was never that organized. Lots of people with lots of agendas tried to co-op the unrest of the times for their particular cause. The communists were just one of the hogs at the feeding trough. I remember being recruted in 67 to pass out propaganda literature for the so called "Peace and Freedom Party" in Cambridge Mass., Like who's not for peace and freedom man, right? Turns out it was a front for the communist party. Who knew? There was a lot of that kind of stuff going on during the war. In 68 the Yippies had tables set up in Harvard square, in Greenwich Village, in Berkley and in Haight Ashburry to get pepole on busses to go to Chicago for the Democratic national convention. Turned out to be a horror show. People got caught up in the "Happenings" without realy being into the cause. I dropped out of college and conventional society in general in 67 and traveled around the country as a vagabond for a few years. I had long hair, a full beard and a Volks Wagon Buss.  I guess I wanted to be different, like eveybody else, Hmm... Any way I was never poitical. Politics to me was a faild system man; why waste your time? I got drafted and served in the Army. After a rough couple of years(never served in Nam, just during the Nam era) I was honorably discharged and I went back to the Haight in Frisco. But it had all changed from what I had remembered it to be. Where there was once free love there was now rampant prostitution. All the young runnaway hippie chics were scooped up by color coordinated suit wearn' pimps. What used to be an atmosphere of love and peace was now all uptight and paranoid. Hard drugs had replaced the psycedelics and junkies had replaced the flower children. A real bummer. For me by 73 the dream was over. Friends dead from over dose, from drug deal gone bad, Narks infiltrating the bike clubs, shootings, suicides. I gues for some it never ended. Good for them. I spent a couple weeks in Israel a few years ago and I found the youg people to be a lot like we were in the 60s. Free spirits, lots of arts and counter culture music and dress. Sounds like it's going on in Canada too. It's great to search for youself and let youself go when your young and idealistic and all, but be ready for a reality check when the party's over. We wanted to change our world. I think we did, sorry bout that.

bypasses the brain

lazy,happy, patient, peaceful - I hate when that happens!

It's hard to choose amoung all these answers, all very good. For me luck is what you do with the hand you are dealt.

Higher language is what distinguishes man from all other created life. Conciousness is shared even by plant life, as has been demonstrated in controled experements. Many animals communicate through sounds and gestures, some are even complex. But only man can express and comprhend abstract ideas. Certainly babies experiance thoughts before gaining language skills, we all can think in pictures. Languge is a manifestation of inate logic in man, Letters and words are symbols, as are numbers, that represent the world we experiance through the senses. Once learned it's hard to imagine thinking without the use of language. It is such a usefull tool. Man was created as a relational being, meant to be in community. Language makes that most meaningfull. As for fully realized; I assume you mean reaching full potential? Language is key to learning from others. Who amoung us has oportunity or time in this world to experiance everything first hand? Languge is key for realization.

I AM