If Jesus was not a hippie, then does that make him a professional carpenter?
How about banker?
It seems to me that Jesus did live a carefree lifestyle without a worry in the world. Sort of like a drifter, a traveling theologian/philosopher---in other words the proto-typical HIPPIE!!
What is wrong in calling Jesus a hippie, KG? He does come across as such when I read the NT? So does John the Baptist and many of the disciples including Saul after his conversion. Let us not forget, Saul was also a merchant and prosecutor of Christians until Jesus turned his life around.
He spent the first 30 years of his llfe working as a carpenter with his father. For the last three years--30 is a little old to become a Hippie don't you think?--it seems to me he spent a lot of time visiting people, going to weddings, had a lot of close friends, knew a lot of people intimately, had access to places to observe traditional Jewish, went to the Temple and Synagogue as a Jew, and spent the rest of his time healing, teaching and training his disciples, and preaching to assembled crowds.
Again doesn't sound like any Hippie I knew and I fully experienced the age of Hippiedom.