Where Did the Peace Sign Come From? 

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

More specifically it's the death rune.

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

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

@@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.

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. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PqeZs42RdBo.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4HzGbvGtJaY.html

@@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.

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😎✌️

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

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I think it was the slogan "Shit happens".

Forrest Gump is fictional my man

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.

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.

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

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

@@jamesfry8983 the Algiz rune is the opposite

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

@@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.

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.

@@owenshebbeare2999 get a grip.

@@robertortiz-wilson1588 How mature.

@@camfratus8636 yeah thanks.

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

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.

@@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.

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.

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.

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!!

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Go get your booster shots.

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

WASP propaganda

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

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

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

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

@@owenshebbeare2999 Read the book on the topic.

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

I thought I was the only one that caught that.

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

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

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