Why is the peace and love symbol shaped the way it is?
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The socalled peace symbol was developed by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. It was later generalised to become an icon of the 1960s anti-war movement, and was also adopted by the counterculture of the time. It was designed and completed February 21, 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a commercial designer and artist in Britain. He had been commissioned by the CND to design a symbol for use at an Easter march to Canterbury Cathedral in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in England. It is a combination of the semaphore symbols for N and D.
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I don't think it was derived from the astrological sign Libra, but from the Latin word "libra" which means scales or balance.  The British symbol for pound sterling (actually a stylized L) derives from the same word.
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yin and yang is a symbol of the balance in all things-phisical,mental and spiritual-in all good theres a little evil and in all evil theres a little good-what you give is what you get (equally) is karma and we seek karmic balance to achieve harmony.This is Heavy - if you take the symbol and spin it on a top clockwise - representing positive direction-it turns white,if you spin it anticlockwise negative karmic direction against the wind so to speak-it turns black-try it ! - it is truly a mystical thing i have shared with you all this day.x something about casting pearls is  in the background of my mind,what the hell i believe in sharing knowledge.x
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Red because it can represent so many things. Love, passion, anger, chaos etc.
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TO LIVE IN PEACE AND HARMONY
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This is a fun question.\n\nLet's see, first, prudence.  Practical wisdom, ability to judge, discernment, choice.  The hinge virtue, isn't that what it's called?  What do these words call to mind?  Maybe a white cloth isn't the best -- prudence doesn't mean purity.  It means the ability to weigh competing goods, to distinguish in the moment between good and evil.  So some image signifying intelligence, wisdom... maybe an owl?  Or a wise man?\n\nFortitude.  Strength!  Courage!  How about a lion?  Or a sword? Or a tower?\n\nTemperance.  That means not giving in to foolish bravado, being careful, understanding one's limits, not indulging in the passions, moderation.  Any images come to mind?  In the tarot deck, an angel is the image used for the temperance card.  But here's something interesting: a quote on the cardinal virtues by St. Augustine:\n\n"For these four virtues (would that all felt their influence in their minds as they have their names in their mouths!), I should have no hesitation in defining them: that temperance is love giving itself entirely to that which is loved; fortitude is love readily bearing all things for the sake of the loved object; justice is love serving only the loved object, and therefore ruling rightly; prudence is love distinguishing with sagacity between what hinders it and what helps it."\n\nFor Augustine, temperance means full-hearted loving -- that is, it means not being distracted from what we truly love by the passions such as lust or gluttony.  Maybe the heart could be the symbol of temperance.\n\nFinally, justice.  I think you have a good symbol with the scales.  That's certainly the most common image.
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Exactly. It was the predominant symbol BEFORE Islam. The pagan crescent symbol for the Moon God, greatest of the pagan God.\n\nIslam intigrated these pagan rituals (hajj, kabbah) and symbols (crescent) along with monotheistic traditions to make for a religious order more likely to be accepted by both.
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If I understood your question, it could be the symbol of Anarchy / Anarchism.
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It is a symbol ............. like the US Flag.  It is a representation of the "peoples".   And it is sacred.\n\n\nNative Pride!
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For 140 years (1819-1959), the Union Jack flew over Singapore. Then, on 3 December 1959, the National Flag, an important symbol of independence, was unveiled at the installation of the new Head of State, the Yang di-Pertuan Negara. Also unveiled that day were the State Crest and the National Anthem. The flag was conceived and created by a committee headed by the then Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Toh Chin Chye.\n\nThe Flag consists of two horizontal halves, red above white. Red symbolises universal brotherhood and equality of men; white, purity and virtue. In the upper left corner, a white crescent moon and five white stars form a circle. The crescent moon represents a young nation on the rise. The five stars stand for Singapore's ideals of democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality.
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The phoenix because of it's symbology. It's a symbol of rebirth and reincarnation and the cyclical nature of life.
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I think it has something to do with those colors representing peace.
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to creat an good atmosphere of love peace and serenity
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It can mean hope and peace also, which is what the religion it's based on believes in.\n\nIt can be like a good luck charm.
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sounds like it could be a constellation or something else that isn't a 'person'\n\nsince most people don't bring peace ... and even if they did i don't think that they can have it be part of a riddle
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The origin is in the Latin word libra, which could mean both balance scales (hence the symbol for the astrological sign Libra, which was named after a constellation that was thought to resemble scales) and also a pound weight, for which the full expression was libra pondo, the second word being the origin of our pound.
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It is a Freemason symbol representing the all-seeing eye of G-d. Many of the Founding Fathers for the United States were Freemasons, we we have lots of Masonic symbolism in our culture...although most Americans aren't really aware of where it all comes from.