Where Did the Peace Sign Come From?

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  • @paulw2567
    @paulw2567 Рік тому +2

    Another thing to mention is that The sign currently used all over the world is the rune of death that has been used from centuries to signify death and ruin, and this has a powerful effect on people so it should be inverted to the tree of life and actually many are already doing this.

    • @RedivaDantes
      @RedivaDantes Місяць тому

      Does it have a name? I can't find that symbol searching for reverse peace sign

  • @M5guitar1
    @M5guitar1 Рік тому +3

    An Irish nun told me in the 60s that it represents a broken cross as an insult to Carholicism.

    • @johnsmith-ht3sy
      @johnsmith-ht3sy Рік тому

      In South Africa it was an upside cross and anti Christ.

  • @izzymhee2430
    @izzymhee2430 2 роки тому +3

    Give us some visual peace by turning the seam on that lampshade to the back so it doesn't show.

  • @snowdog03
    @snowdog03 2 роки тому +8

    It's the upside down Life rune.

  • @seanehle8323
    @seanehle8323 2 роки тому +17

    It's based on semaphore for the letters N and D, which stand for Nuclear Disarmament, right?

    • @tammileroux3329
      @tammileroux3329 2 роки тому +2

      That's what I thought. I believe I learned that out of an encyclopedia book when I was a teenager

    • @pakde8002
      @pakde8002 2 роки тому +1

      Yeah right LoL. The artist didn't serve in the military so how did he learn semaphore on a farm? I call bs.

    • @tammileroux3329
      @tammileroux3329 2 роки тому +3

      @@pakde8002 I learned what the symbol meant or what I thought it meant through an encyclopedia. I grew up dirt poor but I had access to an encyclopedia like most people on farms. My guess they had options for research even back in the '70s.

    • @berryfin4648
      @berryfin4648 2 роки тому

      The wrong peace symbol - the globally widespread “death rune” which has been fabricated from the Celtic Futhark runes or inverted Algiz rune - is the actual embodiment/quintessence of negative influences and evokes destructive swinging-waves regarding unpeace and hatred, revenge, vice, addictions and bondage, because for many human beings the “death rune” means reminiscence (memories) of the Nazi era, of death and ruin as well as ambitions concerning war, terror, destruction of human achievements, livelihoods as well as global evil unpeace.
      Therefore, it is of the utmost necessity that the wrong peace symbol, the “death rune”, disappears from the world and that the ur- ancient and correct peace symbol is spread and made known all-over the world, because its central elements reflect peace, freedom, harmony, strengthening of the life power, protection, growth and wisdom, have a constructive and strongly soothing effect, and help peaceful-positive swinging-waves to break through.
      Therefore, we appeal to all FIGU members, all FIGU-Interessengruppen, Studien- and Landesgruppen as well to all reasonable human beings, who are honestly striving for peace, freedom, harmony, fairness, knowledge and evolution, to do, and give, their best to spread the correct peace symbol worldwide and to bring forth clarification about the dangerous and destructive use of the “death rune”, which in memory of the Nazi crimes collectively furthers deterioration and neglect of character-"ausartung" and terribleness in the reflecting and striving of the human being, as this is still being extremely carried on after the end of the last world war 1939-1945 until the current time.
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    • @owenshebbeare2999
      @owenshebbeare2999 2 роки тому +4

      @@pakde8002 The man who is credited with the symbol, British artist Gerald Holtom, could easiky have learnt it, as he grew up between the world wars before developing the symbol in the 1950's. I knew semaphore pretty well and didn't serve until after I learnt it. It isn't a military secret.

  • @toomanyopinions8353
    @toomanyopinions8353 2 роки тому +4

    No mention of the peace hand sign? I'm surprised, I thought you would mention it and explain its connection to this this peace sign.

  • @cauldronmoon
    @cauldronmoon 2 роки тому +2

    Absolutely brilliant😀 thank you for all your hard work.... Will you please do a video on the Caduceus symbol?

  • @Otokichi786
    @Otokichi786 Рік тому +1

    In the early 1960's I'd seen that symbol associated with "Ban The Bomb." I was informed that it was a riff on the Semaphore "N" and "D." Since then, it has proliferated and become, as stated, the generic Peace symbol.

  • @ljphoenix4341
    @ljphoenix4341 2 роки тому +1

    9:33 an interesting quote, that makes a lot of sense. Always learn New stuff on Highlight History.

  • @PaisleyPatchouli
    @PaisleyPatchouli Рік тому +1

    This was originally known in the mid 60s as the "Ban the Bomb" symbol. Much later as I recall it began to be associated with the peace sign, which was originally made with the fingers of the right hand making a victory-like V shape with the index and middle fingers. extended.

  • @sketchesofpayne
    @sketchesofpayne 2 роки тому +2

    Another example of people using words and symbols without understanding what they actually mean and just making their own assumptions.

  • @TheDunestrider
    @TheDunestrider 2 роки тому +5

    I thought Forrest Forrest Gump invented the peace sign. Or was that the smiley face . I don't remember.

  • @forrestchristy6631
    @forrestchristy6631 Рік тому

    I initially gave this video a downvote because it seemed off topic, but as the contextual depth was gradually presented I retracted it, and subscribed. It'd be helpful to most laymen if there was a quick disclaimer explaining that the intention is to start far earlier than the relevant subject matter. I've literally never seen anyone do this on UA-cam, but when I hung on there was delivery, so I appreciate that.

  • @nicholascorbett1256
    @nicholascorbett1256 2 роки тому +2

    Hey. You Should think about changing that description. Definitely not dropping videos everyday anymore lol BUT. I still love all 1500 of your channels

  • @thomaswilson3437
    @thomaswilson3437 2 роки тому +21

    When I was a kid my dad was in Viet Nam. The kids in my neighborhood all wore peace signs on their jackets and teased my brothers and sister by calling our dad a baby killer and war monger. The peace sign still means hate to me….

    • @WynnterGreen
      @WynnterGreen 2 роки тому

      So, don't keep me in suspense, how many babies did your dad kill?

    • @pakde8002
      @pakde8002 2 роки тому +1

      I think you confused your childhood with something you saw on a TV drama. I was born in the late 50's so was in high school when the war ended. I never knew a kid who got harassed because a family member was sent to Vietnam. As a matter of fact most kids didn't even care that much about Vietnam, it was only some college students on TV or something discussed in civics for most American kids.

    • @thomaswilson3437
      @thomaswilson3437 2 роки тому +5

      @@pakde8002 I'm glad you lived in a nice protected bubble, but I was born in the early 60's and an Army Brat. We paid attention event though you and your peers may not have. Even from 42 years ago to today the so called "Peace" symbol is the equivalent of a Swastika as far as I'm concerned.

    • @WynnterGreen
      @WynnterGreen 2 роки тому +8

      Someone said mean words about my dad, now the peace sign is a swastika to me.
      Meanwhile a village is getting napalmed.
      If at your age you still can't understand or proportion your outrage, you're just an emotinally and ethically stunted brat.

    • @toomanyopinions8353
      @toomanyopinions8353 2 роки тому +4

      What @@WynnterGreen said. The self centered attitude here is astounding. I understand you feeling this way as a kid, but you have no excuse for not changing as an adult. The kids may have been teasing you, but they were describing a true situation. Just because you dont like to think of something like that, doesn't make it not true.

  • @babyruthless9670
    @babyruthless9670 2 роки тому +2

    This channel is so underrated 👁️👁️

  • @joyfrazier8260
    @joyfrazier8260 2 роки тому +4

    Please do a video on the 1974 baseball game aka 10 cent beer night in Cleveland , Ohio . Your humor could only make the debauchery even funnier than it already was!!!

  • @RedFox0333
    @RedFox0333 Рік тому

    Quality information, thank you

  • @michaelwoods8654
    @michaelwoods8654 2 роки тому +8

    It's the Yr rune. It means death, end, war. Kind of a big inversion isn't it.

    • @timbackman5915
      @timbackman5915 2 роки тому +2

      Yeah. As a Norse pagan I’ve always found it rather ironic.

    • @jamesfry8983
      @jamesfry8983 2 роки тому

      @@timbackman5915 Yes but its up side down meaning you read it as a merkstave its negative meaning

    • @michaelwoods8654
      @michaelwoods8654 2 роки тому

      @@jamesfry8983 the Algiz rune is the opposite

    • @sallyintucson
      @sallyintucson 2 роки тому +2

      I doubt the guy who came up with the peace sign knew anything about Runes. Look how Hitler’s symbol means love in Japan.

    • @DaraelDraconis
      @DaraelDraconis 2 роки тому +1

      @@sallyintucson that one actually has a kind of connection, in that in both cases it's taken from ancient use across the Indian Subcontinent, the Nazis having taken it because of their "Aryan" mythology and it having largely reached Japan by way of Buddhism. The CND logo resembling a Futhark rune, on the other hand, is almost certainly sheer coincidence.

  • @jphilb
    @jphilb 2 роки тому

    Did not expect to learn so much.
    ND. Fascinating.

  • @tonybrown7241
    @tonybrown7241 Рік тому

    The most memorable peace sign I ever saw used the silhouette of a B52 bomber in the center & had the inscription on the circle: PEACE...Through superior firepower!

  • @jb6027
    @jb6027 2 роки тому +6

    When worn by a lady in the 1960s and '70s, it served as fair warning that she likely carried an STD. When viewed in this light, one can argue that the symbol actually had some practical value and contributed to public health.

    • @pakde8002
      @pakde8002 2 роки тому

      That's seriously BS.
      It's highly unlikely a lady of that era or any other would have contracted an STD (unless via a philandering husband). You're referring to one of Charlie Manson's wives and the like. They weren't ladies.

    • @stelladonaconfredobutler9459
      @stelladonaconfredobutler9459 2 роки тому +3

      what? why would she advertise that at all? sounds more like a conservative statement about women rights. for eg: all women who believe in free love and peace are free with themselves and have STDs. typical.

  • @cryptsub
    @cryptsub Рік тому +1

    Time to bring it back.

  • @glennrobinson2014
    @glennrobinson2014 Рік тому

    I heard the inverted version represented a descending/crashing B-52 bomber

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 2 роки тому +20

    As a kid growing up from the mid 60's to late 70's I saw hundreds of peace signs, in artwork, on posters and on articles of clothing.✌️🕊️☮️

    • @ROBYNMARKOW
      @ROBYNMARKOW 2 роки тому +1

      Back in the '70's,my friend's and I would flash peace signs to people while sitting in the hatchback of my dad's car. If they signed us back they were all right in not , we'd give them the middle finger( J/K about that part) We were just grade school kids & had only a vague recollection of Vietnam; we just thought it was a cool thing to do😎✌️

    • @jeffdroog
      @jeffdroog 2 роки тому

      As a kid growing up in the mid 90's,I saw hundreds of peace signs, in artwork, on posters and on articles of clothing.✌️🕊️☮️ ...It literally hasn't gone away lol

    • @thomassroga7888
      @thomassroga7888 2 роки тому

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      @thomassroga7888 2 роки тому

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    • @thomassroga7888
      @thomassroga7888 2 роки тому

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  • @SuperDazzlegirl-kd7qo
    @SuperDazzlegirl-kd7qo Рік тому +1

    Hi, Where can I find Ken Colsmans quote ? I'm doing my uni essay on the peace sign and can't find where the quote is from when he says "you can have a 5 year old draw it..."
    Thank you :)

  • @lucretialee3691
    @lucretialee3691 2 роки тому +1

    Given that most humans can start an argument in an empty room; world peace will always be a nice dream, or the result of the stamping down of everything that makes us human both the good and bad.

    • @haristhebosniaklion8584
      @haristhebosniaklion8584 2 роки тому

      You do know that thousands and thousands of Bosniak women and young girls were very unlucky during that aggression on Bosnia,right? How would they feel if we Bosniaks did this to Serbian women and young girls?? Bosnia. 1992-1995 Yes many girls ,even Bosniak girls called me ugly when it’s not my fault and lied to me and played ,and I also find this very unfair ,while the Serbs got to make babies in the aggression…….I better get justice!!

  • @kieronparr3403
    @kieronparr3403 2 роки тому +2

    It's CND.

  • @doclewis8927
    @doclewis8927 2 роки тому +4

    To be clear: the soldiers didn't want to be in Vietnam so there's no irony in them wearing them. They were drafted so that was how they gave the draft and the war the middle finger.

  • @johnsavard7583
    @johnsavard7583 Рік тому

    And since Nicholas Roerich was mentioned in the works of H. P. Lovecraft, he is still fairly well known.

  • @SpamMouse
    @SpamMouse 2 роки тому

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  • @JackRosetta
    @JackRosetta 10 місяців тому +1

    Actually it's Nero's BROKEN CROSS. FROM ROMAN COINS. Think about it. Hippies generally hate Christians.

  • @DavidBrisco
    @DavidBrisco 2 роки тому +2

    The peace sighn is a doves foot, it is what I heard growing up. Cool info in this video!

    • @owenshebbeare2999
      @owenshebbeare2999 2 роки тому +3

      Never heard of that one, sounds like something that might be taught in a particularly fundamentalist Bible Belt Sunday School. Sounds like the cute, if ridiculous stories they used to inflict on me.

    • @robertortiz-wilson1588
      @robertortiz-wilson1588 2 роки тому

      @@owenshebbeare2999 get a grip.

    • @Greatestfratus
      @Greatestfratus Рік тому +2

      @@robertortiz-wilson1588 How mature.

    • @robertortiz-wilson1588
      @robertortiz-wilson1588 Рік тому

      @@Greatestfratus yeah thanks.

  • @AlicesonHarvey
    @AlicesonHarvey 6 місяців тому

    Just discovered a new channel with fact boi
    You must be the hardest working person on UA-cam

  • @actionjackson9554
    @actionjackson9554 Рік тому

    I'm 66 and we turned the tree of life upside down to protest the Nuke war ...the tree up side down is the peace symbol..

  • @fourcatsandagarden
    @fourcatsandagarden 2 роки тому +3

    here's a challenge for you: dig into the history of the curtsey. why is curtsey. it makes no sense, and yet its considered standard polite behavior for women. every time I try to figure out the history I just find a bunch of how to guides, tons of british tabloids shaming literally every woman they can find pictures of for not doing it right, and conservative american blog posts being as gross as you'd expect.
    the only thing I've learned is that if I ever meet british royals I think I'm gonna just squat at them, just to upset the tabloids.

  • @RedivaDantes
    @RedivaDantes Місяць тому

    16:38 Does the reverted sign has a name?

  • @Joy-TheLazyCatLady2
    @Joy-TheLazyCatLady2 2 роки тому +3

    It's N + D in semaphore (nuclear disarmament).

  • @samwill7259
    @samwill7259 2 роки тому +5

    Humanity has never had one year of true peace. Maybe we'll live long enough to see it, or even a month, a week, a day. maybe for just a moment, peace will reign.

  • @paulspaws1521
    @paulspaws1521 2 роки тому

    Anyone else see Tom Hanks doppelganger on "the dove that goes boom" scene @ 6:46?

  • @Eddythebeast666
    @Eddythebeast666 Рік тому

    Viking rune... YR: Underworld..

  • @Fuchswinter
    @Fuchswinter 2 роки тому +6

    The rainbow peace flag does turn up occasionally here in Germany. Usually it's hippies, or their horrible cousins, the conspiracy theorists. Especially the antivaxxer movement has bee using them a lot in their marches, which has a special sort of irony lol

    • @1pcfred
      @1pcfred 2 роки тому +7

      Go get your booster shots.

    • @chiefslinginbeef3641
      @chiefslinginbeef3641 Рік тому

      Are you sure they're antivaxxers or anti this shot which is not a vaccine

  • @1pcfred
    @1pcfred 2 роки тому +1

    Peace through superior firepower!

  • @pmullins1495
    @pmullins1495 Рік тому

    Well, that was clear as mud. 😔

  • @Gawnyno
    @Gawnyno Рік тому

    Funny how the "peace" singn is also a symbol for Algiz rune reversed. . Anti protection 😂

  • @pakde8002
    @pakde8002 2 роки тому +1

    The peace symbol is very similar to the international radiation hazard symbol in use before 2007, also known as the trefoil. I always imagined the artist's inspiration was from the radiation hazard symbol with the admittance banned symbol superimposed on top. All that was left to do was simplify it as stick form, spin each symbol around in the circle so that it's not so obvious and voila. The crap about the painting and the semaphores is just total BS imo.

  • @jamesruddy9264
    @jamesruddy9264 2 роки тому +2

    My Sergeant Major said it was the foot print of the American Chicken. I remember how people who wore that symbol treated me when I came back home and I sure didn't like it. We had a joke...You have a rifle with one bullet in it. There's a VC soldier and a Hippy in front of you. What day is it? It's Victor Charlie's lucky day!

    • @jamesruddy9264
      @jamesruddy9264 Рік тому

      @Syd McCreath I know that, I watched the video.

  • @frankhedden
    @frankhedden Рік тому

    everything in sanctuary cities is accurate necessary?

  • @GrievousReborn
    @GrievousReborn 2 роки тому

    I'd love for nuclear disarmament to happen as well but I live in reality where it's never going to happen

  • @Linusgump
    @Linusgump 2 роки тому +1

    The track of the great American chicken

    • @stelladonaconfredobutler9459
      @stelladonaconfredobutler9459 2 роки тому +1

      WASP propaganda

    • @owenshebbeare2999
      @owenshebbeare2999 2 роки тому

      Bollocks, not even developed by an American, but I suppose if you Yanks want to appropriate it then I can't stop you.

    • @Linusgump
      @Linusgump 2 роки тому

      @@owenshebbeare2999 if you are saying bullocks to me then you are showing that you don’t understand what I said.

  • @owenshebbeare2999
    @owenshebbeare2999 2 роки тому

    Typical American companies, trying to copyright it.

  • @Pelztheo
    @Pelztheo 2 роки тому +5

    Das ist interessant

  • @cranegantry868
    @cranegantry868 2 роки тому +2

    George Bernard Shaw created it from two runes, meaning death and total (total death).

    • @owenshebbeare2999
      @owenshebbeare2999 2 роки тому +1

      He didn't create it. That is just an Irist myth.

    • @cranegantry868
      @cranegantry868 2 роки тому

      @@owenshebbeare2999 Read the book on the topic.

  • @derekabbott8704
    @derekabbott8704 2 роки тому +2

    I know it, I do not love it.

  • @Ciborium
    @Ciborium 2 роки тому +2

    The Peace Sign, aka the footprint of the American Chicken.

    • @owenshebbeare2999
      @owenshebbeare2999 2 роки тому

      Only according to Americans. It has no American origin, and any alternative meaning was just an American affectation.

  • @dallasj6357
    @dallasj6357 2 роки тому

    I now dislike the “peace” symbol.

  • @sgcruit4437
    @sgcruit4437 2 роки тому +3

    Finally releasing videos you already talked about in others. Lol

    • @jeremysoares3288
      @jeremysoares3288 2 роки тому

      I thought I was the only one that caught that.

  • @bruced6543
    @bruced6543 2 роки тому +3

    It's a broken cross

    • @owenshebbeare2999
      @owenshebbeare2999 2 роки тому

      According to Bible-Belt Americans. That was not its inspiration, origin or intention. Typical American appropriation, but it has jo American origin.

  • @ahuddleston6512
    @ahuddleston6512 2 роки тому

    One peace flag looks like a bowling 🎳 ball

  • @stevenleek1254
    @stevenleek1254 Рік тому

    must you speak so slowly?

  • @shirleyandrews1152
    @shirleyandrews1152 8 місяців тому

    U talk too fast

  • @Pepsi_Addicted
    @Pepsi_Addicted 2 роки тому

    first

  • @Istandby666
    @Istandby666 2 роки тому +2

    You speak of religion as it's true.
    Thumbs down.

    • @owenshebbeare2999
      @owenshebbeare2999 2 роки тому +1

      Well, it does exist as an actual social system, whether one believes in any deitity or not.

    • @Istandby666
      @Istandby666 2 роки тому

      @@owenshebbeare2999
      And that's a major illness.
      Religion is a mental health issue.