I used to denounce peace signs, but I realize now that it wasn't the symbol but the inherent hypocrisy I observed through those that wore them. I'd see two girls on my high school campus screaming petty insults at each other, while peace sign earrings dangled off their ears. I like peace signs, but I'll be relieved when this plastic fantastic fad is over.
I dont follow the crowd and am not into whats fashionable. I do my own thing, my own way, in my own time..And beat to my own damn drum...I got a peace sign pendant I wear 24/7 along with my Chinese zodiak symbol...Do what has meaning to you, think for yourself if you belive in it state it man......
Im looking for a patch to put on my jean jacket. peacesign with wings. Long enough to go all the way across. Anybody ever seen one like that?
Make one, man! If you vision it, make it so. If you envision a mere sign but can't make it a reality, what does that say about envisioning Peace?
Not to get offtopic or anything, but I've noticed a new fad with the Aum (or Om, whichever) symbol. Most people don't know the slightest bit about it. I choose not to wear peace signs just because I see them more in the big companies like Walmart, than I do on actual advocates of peace. However, if you like them, then more power to you.
It is not a new fad. I had a silver AUM pendant in the '70s that I wore on a chain - but gave it away I suppose. So now I wear it and can't easily give it away. It is a Hindu symbol representing the first vibration of the universe and is beyond time but encompasses creation, preservation and destruction. It is seen all over India.
Yeah peace signs are very overused, almost everyone I know owns something with a peace sign on it. But if it still means something to you then fuck em
It is a fad. Tons of people have been wearing them around for the past 6 months or so. I know exactly what it is and means, I've studied Hinduism for the past 2 years. I've seen them once in a while all my life and didn't think twice about it until I began learning about eastern religions..
I never take off a peace sign necklace, because it was a gift and i believe in the idea of peace. It's a fad that everyone follows, most of them are the ones walking around calling people bitches and all that. I understand that it's a fad and the people with out individuality will follow it, But I don't understand how it's something people wear if they don't believe in it.
Symbols are arbitrary; they have no inherent meaning. When you say that a symbol means "X", that is not an attribute of the symbol, but a statement about your own personal interpretation. If that's what it means to you, then you shouldn't use it. That is not what it means to those who use it. For most people, it stands for the victory of peace over war.
Actually here is the origin of the peace sign: The internationally recognized symbol for peace was originally designed for the British nuclear disarmament movement by Gerald Holtom in 1958.[18] Holtom, an artist and designer, made it for a march from Trafalgar Square, London to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in England, organised by the Direct Action Committee to take place in April and supported by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).[18][19][20][21] Eric Austen (1922–1999) adapted Holtom's designs to ceramic lapel badges.[22][23] The symbol is a combination of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D," standing for "nuclear disarmament".[18] In semaphore the letter "N" is formed by a person holding two flags in an upside-down "V," and the letter "D" is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down. Superimposing these two signs forms the shape of the centre of the peace symbol.[18][24][25] The original drawing by Gerald Holtom of the CND symbol is housed in the Peace Museum in Bradford, England. Holtom later wrote to Hugh Brock, editor of Peace News, explaining the genesis of his idea in greater depth: "I was in despair. Deep despair. I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya's peasant before the firing squad. I formalised the drawing into a line and put a circle round it."[25] Ken Kolsbum, a correspondent of Holtom's, says that the designer came to regret the symbolism of despair, as he felt that peace was something to be celebrated and wanted the symbol to be inverted.[26] Eric Austen is said to have "discovered that the 'gesture of despair' motif had long been associated with 'the death of man', and the circle with 'the unborn child'."[22][27] The symbol became the badge of CND and wearing it became a sign of support for the campaign for unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain. An account of CND's early history described it as "a visual adhesive to bind the [Aldermaston] March and later the whole Campaign together ... probably the most powerful, memorable and adaptable image ever designed for a secular cause."[22] As for the V for victory peace sign. It was a simple case of changing the meaning of a gesture. Think about it like this 30 years ago rednecks got pissed if you called them rednecks and now they get pissed if you call them anything but rednecks. Hippie itself was also a derogatory term or In 1953, "hippie" was coined as a disparaging form of the word "hipster". This entered San Francisco Haight-Ashbury slang by the mid-sixties, being used with it's present meaning. So there you have it. Stay Brown, Rev J
TO GOODVIBES83-I noticed on your profile you went to the temple where the Bah Hi practice? what was it like? My dad turned me on to the book years ago very interesting. *LOVE*
