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I haven't read them all, but enough to want to comment .... too lazy to ping all the ones that my comment would touch .. so ....

The word HIPPIE is a feminization of HIP which, whether intentional or not was the same as HEP of the Beat Generation .... and all it meant was .. "I know"

I'm hip .... I'm hip to that

So the Hippie is just someone that claimed "to know"

I got out of the Army in '67 and couldn't WAIT to grow my hair and get high and laid a lot ...

but I did ... and I did .... AND I did, too !

MY drugs of choice were reefer and acid, sprinkled with psylicybin (sp?) and any other psychotropic

I was (and still am) fascinated with the entire concept of "thought" and the fact that I HAD thoughts

So like, wow, man ... I was HIP !

Can you dig it ?

I was never dirty in the sense that I would be always dirty, but I'm sure three days at Watkins Glen produced an aroma I wasn't aware of ... because we ALL were there

When I got home, certainly I bathed ... and prepared my excuse for why I missed work yesterday ... (They pretty much knew I was a dreamer, but also a good worker and personable and likeable)

I always held a job WHEN I WANTED TO because I always wanted drugs, beer, courtship money and the freedom money offered without the hassle of a car or commitment ... life was a party

Gradual maturation moved me many different directions until in 1981 I met Jesus and became a human being devoid of hair and hip talk

I learned Victorian English via the KJV and developed new and way more exciting thought processes

I wouldn't change a thing ... I survived and at (almost) 68 ... I'm REALLY hip.