An interactive interview with Hippie3. The man behind topia.

[Zen]

Wow, talk about digging up old threads...

Good find dial.

[Hippie3]

i still need to add the next installment of my 'life story'
i've led a pretty unusual life, esp. in my 20's

Aight, I'll bite.
What happened in your 20's? Can you sum it up?...lol

[insight]

I remember reading through this thread a few times early last year. Good to see its been reopened.
I have one.
Hip, what got you turned on to mycology?

[Hippie3]

gee, i already answered that way back on page 1...

[insight]

Doh!

[lucysmiling]

Really like your story hip made me kinda teary eyed, Don't know ya very well but I have always been curious about you. Anyway got a question when in your opinion do you think this play will come to that grand finale? I am gettting really caught up in that mayan date, so am curious to what you think.

thanks, enjoyed all you mycotopians here you have helped me in so many ways. I hope all of you go to that burning man, hopefully I will be able to make it. I'm thinking of buying a mycotopian shirt so my fellows can identify me.

[Hippie3]

good question but i don't really have a firm opinion.
i know my own personal 'end of days' is not all that far off.
i do have deep concern for our species over the next century
but i can't say as i really believe that
god is ready to bring the curtain down on our show just yet.
that to me seems like a wasteful act
and i don't see god as wasteful.

[golly]

kinda curious what u did for a living b4 mycrotopia...and do u spend alot of time making up substrate jars..any little elves helping out....????

[dead_diver]

i'm old, grey headed and toothless.
i can't hear or see very well,
can barely walk.
hemorroids, dry flaky skin, arthritis
are my daily companions.
let's just say
old enough.

Damn, that just killed my fantasy of you being a sexy black biker chick. Why did you have to ruin it for me LOL

[lucysmiling]

lol!!

[lucysmiling]

hip one more question. How come you dont like talking about rcs in this forum? That's really not important the main question is have you tried some of Alexanders shulgins inventions?

[Hippie3]

rc threads inevitably turn to prices and sources
and i prefer to keep 'topia clean of such.

[maynardsdick]

i have a couple of questions. one, how do you envision yourself dying and what kind of ritual would you partake for that final leap.

second, i've seen your love/hate relationship with professor fanaticus over these last few years. what do you think about him?

[waylitjim]

Are there any species of psilocybes you'd love to try, but haven't had the chance?

Would you consider going to Burning Man?

[omnibot]

What's are your current thoughts about Jesus?

[Hippie3]

Originally Posted by maynardsdick

how do you envision yourself dying and what kind of ritual would you partake for that final leap.

i'm hoping to go in my sleep.
2nd choice would be in a shoot-out with authority figures.


if you mean like suicide, say i'm dying from cancer-
i have a stockpile of pills to ease my way out.
i'd proly need to get drunk first, does that count as a ritual ?

[Hippie3]

Originally Posted by maynardsdick

i've seen your love/hate relationship with professor fanaticus over these last few years. what do you think about him?

can't say as i know him very well.
his internet persona often leaves a bad taste
but honestly i think his early experiences here
[not here at 'topia but here online]
kinda soured him, twisting his outlook.
he sees everyone as his adversary,
and often engages in ego-driven pissing contests.
but i think i'd like to
just cut thru the bullshit,
sit down with him and some herb and some drink
and talk.

[Hippie3]

Originally Posted by waylitjim

Are there any species of psilocybes you'd love to try, but haven't had the chance?

yeah,
azures.

[Hippie3]

Originally Posted by waylitjim

Would you consider going to Burning Man?

i'm not sure. i don't much care for crowds and chaos.
i'd like to see what is there though.

[Hippie3]

Originally Posted by omnibot

What's are your current thoughts about Jesus?

i don't give him much thought. just never worked for me.

hippie
I find a lot of us here at topia have a past with the HARD Drugs , and a lot of us while looking for a safer less selfdestructive allternitive to these came across the wonders of mushies and other true hulcnigenic drugs . And in finding the mushies found areself and god . that inturn helped stop the selfdestructive BS that comes with the hard drugs. was this the same for you ? if so was it the trip you described above when you found god ?
oh yeah thanks for starting up the coolest websight on mushrooms that there is on the net .
later VII

[phalanx]

Hippie3 , are there any drugs out there that you would still like to try or have you taken everything? What are your favourites ?

Dunno if that was answered already.

[Hippie3]

yeah, i pretty much went thru the normal progression,
did tons of drugs of all kinds from age 14 to about 36
then i began calming down a bit.
never cared much for 'downers' of any kind,
but i confess a weakness for speed.
nowadays i pretty much just smoke my smoke
and take the occasional trip but my pills are medicinal
and i haven't done any powders in quite awhile.
i cannot say that 'finding god' had much to do
with tapering off my drug use.
i just sorta out-grew the desire,
and my body was telling me the same thing.
but i like to keep a little bit of everything on hand,
i see drugs as tools and each has its' use.
a little dab of almost anything is harmless
as long as the use is infrequent.
if i need extra energy,
10-15 mg of dextroamphetamine helps.
if i can't sleep then a couple valiums or zanax.
if i'm in pain, a few vicodins and some whiskey and i'm good.
better living thru chemistry.

[chill]

Hip,

In the resist and rebel forums we've gone back and forth a lot. You've come down on the side of supporting what went on at abu ghraib, invading other countries for their oil and other stuff like that.

Do you really believe that or are you just looking for a good intellectual fight?

[Hippie3]

the question is too vague,
and does not accurately describe my actual position
so not much i can say.
for example
i never said that i supported the sexual abuse of prisoners that occurred nearly 3 years ago at abu graib.
neither have i stated that i believe that we invaded iraq for oil.
that's your belief, not mine.

[chill]

I'd have to go through the posts and pull out the quotes which I'm reluctant to do for time reasons.

I guess the real question would be:

Do you stand 100% behind every position you've taken here or do you sometimes make statements in order to stir up controversy?

In Ireland they do this. It's called taking the piss. When they see someone they believe they can get a rise out of they will intentionally say things to egg that person on.

[DJTetsu]

I realize that this is more picking at you more than anything, but I'm hoping your answers will be interesting...

Shouldn't the name Hippie incline more toward an anti-war approach, or do think we are doing what is right in the middle east, and that actions is wise enough to include what we have learned from vietname, etc?

Should our forums Resist and Rebel incline more toward questioning our current administration instead of agreeing with agression with foreign countries and against invasion of privacy? Or are your views simply, "fuck the police?", which... im my opinion goes without sayig?

I already have an idea where you stand on these points and I totally respect them. I am no way trying to stir up debate or create or maintain any judgement. I just thought an interview is boring without stirring up controvesry. It just would be interesting to hear your angles summed up.

Hope that didn't stir up the Irish blood.

With those questions aside, I would like to express my highest regard with creating this community. You and most will never know how much topia has changed my life. It's just the group of people that I've longed to share thoughts with, seriously. For this and many other things, I would like to say sincerly, thank you!

Happy tripping!

[Hippie3]

Do you stand 100% behind every position you've taken here or do you sometimes make statements in order to stir up controversy?

i've made a lot of statements over the last 5 years here,
i'm confident there must be at least some bullshit mixed in.
plus like everyone else
my views evolve and change over time
as new developments occur and new info is assimilated.

i do sometimes push views to the extreme to make folks
challenge their assumptions
and to correct their errors
even when i agree with their general position.
but
if the bottom question you are asking about is my view of the war
then i view it as a regrettable yet inevitable development
in the struggle to unite this planet under the rule of secular law.

[Hippie3]

Shouldn't the name Hippie incline more toward an anti-war approach

that would mean
conforming to a stereotype,
which is the very antithesis of
what being a hippie is really about.

by breaking with the cultural preconceptions
of what they think a 'hippy' should be
i am being true to the hippie credo, to wit-
be your self, do your own thing
no matter what others' think.

[Hippie3]

Should our forums Resist and Rebel incline more toward questioning our current administration

not necessarily nor automatically,
our positions should be based on
knowledge of the facts,
not just a knee-jerk instinctual response
based on who said it.

if bush is right then bush is right,
regardless of my personal feelings.
and if he's wrong then he's wrong.

the matter should be debated and resolved
thru intelligence, insight, discernment and wisdom,
not adjudicated on the basis of political affiliation.

if i took the simplistic view that bush was always wrong
then i too would be wrong on some of the issues.

the ideas should be able to stand on their own merits
under close scrutiny to be considered 'truth'
and the real reason why our Resist & Rebel forum
is not the sole preserve of anti-bush anti-war leftists
is because
they have not proved their points.

[Lefty]

I have noticed you occasionally take the unpopular or less expected side of debates in R & R. It also seems you take a contrary side just because someone was snide in the way they stated their case and whether you side with them or not proceed to chew on them. You have also found drama other places & times in the OMC, and more than usually win. My question is where you did hone your debating skills? Your info is usually excellent, obviously that helps, but your extremely good at debate and seem to enjoy it just for the sake of debate itself. How did that come to be?

[Hippie3]