PLUR

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PLUR is an acronym that stands for "Peace, Love, Unity, Respect", a credo of the raveculture. Many in the rave scene have heard this term at sometime or another, although its common usage is relatively recent. Early 1990sand mid-1980s'ravers' often followed similar principles, but did not use this coinage to describe their beliefs. It may be interpreted as the way that a raverbelieves he or she should live his or her life, and how people are expected to behave at a rave. PLUR can also seen as a more mainstream variant of its predecessor LPE (Love Peace Ecstasy), because it removes the drug reference. LPE was mainly used in Europe in the 1990s, when the Ravescene became a youth subculture.

• Peace- Hostility typically serves no purpose other than to defend the an egothat is lacking inner peace.

• Love- Acts and feelings of goodwill towards all others are a moral imperative with their own rewards.

• Unity- This can mean either that:

We are all united in the human condition.

As social beings the feeling of connectedness with others are the ultimate end to our efforts.

• Respect- A person must show regard for the feelings of others in their every action and inaction.

Many ravers will also add the words "Responsibility", "Kindness" and/or "Honor" at the end, feeling those virtues are sufficiently important to be explicitly, rather than implicitly, stated.

According to legend, the term P.L.U.R. was coined by the DJ Frankie Bonesin response to a fight that broke out while he was mixing and he stopped the show to say, "If you don't start showing some peace, love, and unity, I'll break your fucking faces." However it wasn't until later on in discussions of the speech on the usenetnewsgroup alt.rave, Respect was then added to the Peace, Love and Unity from which the acronym P.L.U.R. was then created.

Variations of P.L.U.R exist within the rave scene; one of these being P.L.U.R.R, the extra R 'Responsibility' was added due to bad publicity and some negative situations which occured, it was to remind some ravers that when representing the rave culture they must be responsible in their actions.

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