Howcome the dove gets to be the peace symbol?
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lol. that's funny. the dove is in the bible. noahs ark too
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An eagle -- something you can look to as a symbol of American freedom (and an animal that could sh*t on the heads of America's wussy liberals)
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Since this answer is supposed to not necessarily have anything to do with fact, how about this...\nSince the red cross is a symbol of neutrality and medical treatment in war, the red symbolizes the blood that has been lost by the soldiers that the doctors are trying to or have failed to save, while the white background represents the purity of neutrality. The cross was simply chosen to highlight the goodness of this Christian action, hence the Red Crecent being used in many non-Christian nations.
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it means there is a withe dove close to you. And you are not blind
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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 symbol is from the Freemasons, who don't, as a whole, worship the Devil. Most of the founding fathers were Freemasons, this isn't a conspiracy though. It stands to reason that if you were starting a rebellion you would turn to fellow members of a society that values their privacy.\n\nHow it ended up on the dollar I can't exactly remember.
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You are mixing Saint Francis of Assisi with Saint Thomas Aquinas.\n\nSaint Thomas usually is depicted with the sunburst medallion around his chest.  \n\nThe dove could represent the Holy Spirit.
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seeing a white dove is usually a sense of freedom and peace
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http://www.qotd.org/ go there and search for the word "peace"
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I just learned that yesterday. In Bible Study Im learning about other religions and we were going over Hinduism. The symbol welcomes auspiciousness and drives out evil.\nI didn't know that only because of what the nazis did, although in hitlers mind he prob thought that it would help him drive out the jews.
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Hi! Try St. Peter first! Then St. Julian! St. George's cross is on the flag.
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The main figure on the obverse, (or front), of the Seal is a Bald Eagle with its wings outstretched (or "displayed", in heraldic terms). From the eagle's perspective, it holds a bundle of thirteen arrows in its left talon, (referring to the Thirteen Colonies), and an olive branch, (having thirteen leaves and thirteen olives), in its right talon, symbolic respectively of war and peace, (see: Olive Branch Petition). The eagle has its head turned towards the olive branch, symbolizing a preference for peace. The eagle clutches the motto "E Pluribus Unum", ("Out of Many, One"), in its beak; over its head there appears a "glory" with thirteen stars on a blue field. The thirteen stars above the eagle form a Star of David.\n\nThe shield the eagle bears on its breast, though sometimes drawn incorrectly, has two main differences from the American flag. First, it has no stars on the blue chief, (though other arms based on it do: the Chief of the Arms of the United States Senate shows thirteen, and the shield sometimes used by the September 11 Commission has fifty mullets on the chief). Second, unlike the American flag, the outermost stripes are white, not red; so as not to violate the heraldic rule of "color on color." The shield is usually blazoned Paly of thirteen argent and gules, a chief azure, a technically incorrect blazon under traditional Western heraldic rules, since a shield cannot be paly, (i.e., vertically striped), of an uneven number. A more proper blazon would be argent, six pallets gules... (six red stripes on a white field). Something recognized at the time of its adoption, but the incorrect blazon was chosen since it preserves the reference to the thirteen original colonies.
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Well, peace is always good since it prevents the unecessary death of others.  War would be good if you run a major corporation and can profit off it.
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peace dove, the symbol of  the domestic violence shelter than helped my daugher and I get out of that hellhole ---right ankle\n\nJesus fish, left upper back, no explanation necessary.
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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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Once upon a time, there was a flock of doves that flew in search of food led by their king. One day, they had flown a long distance and were very tired. The dove king encouraged them to fly a little further. The smallest dove picked up speed and found some rice scattered beneath a banyan tree. So all the doves landed and began to eat.  \n\nSuddenly a net fell over them and they were all trapped. They saw a hunter approaching carrying a huge club. The doves desperately fluttered their wings trying to get out, but to no avail.  \n\nThe king had an idea. He advised all the doves to fly up together carrying the net with them. He said that there was strength in unity.  \n\nEach dove picked up a portion of the net and together they flew off carrying the net with them. The hunter looked up in astonishment. He tried to follow them, but they were flying high over hills and valleys. They flew to a hill near a city of temples where there lived a mouse who could help them. He was a faithful friend of the dove king. \n\nWhen the mouse heard the loud noise of their approach, he went into hiding. The dove king gently called out to him and then the mouse was happy to see him. The dove king explained that they had been caught in a trap and needed the mouse’s help to gnaw at the net with his teeth and set them free.  \n\nThe mouse agreed saying that he would set the king free first. The king insisted that he first free his subjects and the king last. The mouse understood the king’s feelings and compled with his wishes. He began to cut the net and one by one all the doves were freed including the dove king.  \n\nThey all thanked the mouse and flew away together, united in their strength.
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Leviticus 5:7.  Why?  Because it gives such insight into the love and compassion of God.  The provision of the Law allowed for the use of either young pigeons or turtledoves for sacrifice.  That was extremely helpful for the Jews:  most turtledoves migrated from the land of Israel during the winter months, but the non-migratory pigeons were available the year round.  This tells us so much about God:  he insists upon compliance with his laws and does not compromise them; yet he always makes a way for us to be obedient.  This does not benefit him, it benefits us.  And it speaks to his love, compassion and reasonableness while at the same time, shows his firmness for justice.  Maybe that is why King David said “Oh how I love your law.  All day long it is my concern.”