the calmness you find with those around you, and also inside of yourself. It's tough, we often have to work at it but when you're at peace with others, with ourselves and with our planet only good can come of it.

The caring you feel for friends, for strangers, for those in need and also for caring you show for yourself. It's symbiotic, It's about sharing whatever energy you put into something will be returned to you!

This means we all share alot of common things, regardless of our age, gender, race, orientation, Whatevah ! we are all human beings, we all need other people, & we're all in this for the happiness experienced being around others. Though we may have differences, we all arise from the same source.

This may mean respect for others, their ideas, their music, & their lives. It's also respect for one's self: one's body and the needs that it has (food, sleep). educating yourself on the substances you ingest shows love and respect for your body; passing on the knowledge to others shows respect and love for your fellow person.

spikE

That is how Spike chose to practice it. How you choose to practice it or whether or not u choose to practice it is up to u.

For me I chose to practice it, when I started PLRM (Peace Love Rave Magazine) a year ago.

PLUR,
Stevie T
All of these explanations the authors definition of plur you can make your own definition.

Heres another definition of PLUR sent to me by a friend of mine Raverlove J

All of these explanations the authors definition of plur you can make your own definition.
 

PLUR: P(eace), L(ove), U(nity), R(espect)

The "four pillars" of the "house" or "rave" community are PEACE, LOVE, UNITY, and RESPECT. But I think Respect is always forgotten. And then suddenly it all came clear to me. You can't have peace, love, and unity without respect. And even more importantly, each individual is responsible for finding and maintaining and giving peace, love, unity, and respect. It isn't just handed to you. It doesn't just magically appear because you've arrived at a rave or taken some acid or ecstacy. You have to find it and generate it for yourself, and then GIVE IT AWAY to anyone and everyone to sort of "jump start" them into generating it. The "giving away" of it is what makes up, in my mind, the "vibe." The scene used to be nothing but about this, but for some reason it has changed.

Peace is what you use to chill out when the sound system blows and the music stops for ten minutes. It's what you use when some idiot keeps bumping in to you while dancing. It is when you have to stand on line for hours for a party you really want to go to. It's sort of like serenity and being calm. shit happens, and you deal with it.

Love is an unconditional appreciation of something or someone. It is when you are standing around and can hug someone you don't know, just because we are all in the same scene. It combines with peace to allow you to think things like "Frankie Bones isn't a bad guy, in spite of his flapping mouth." It is giving mad love to the DJ's just starting out. It is just having mad love for all in the scene. The peace gives you the chill factor so you can get to the unconditional love.

Once you have peace and love, unity follows in that you can appreciate other people and other things, and this appreciation allows you to work together with them, or spend time together with them, and otherwise support them, even if you don't always agree with them. A sense of something "bigger" than just yourself and your own pleasure is part of unity -- in the case of us on the list the "bigger" thing is an interest in the odd social phenomena known as "raving." Unity helps me to do things like throw good parties for the new-raves list, even though there *are* people who are on the list and who might come to these parties who I'd rather not have anything to do with . . . it is in the spirit of greater unity that I chill with these feelings (peace again) and welcome everyone into my home so they can be together and have fun. It is all about sticking together. Backing each other up.

This, to me, is the key that is often missing in our scene. People get too much into flamage (and I admit, I've been guilty of this). People are more worried about being DISrespected by others, rather than concentrating on generating and giving respect. Respect includes things like NOT graffiting on walls at raves, picking up your trash, and giving whatever you can as a donation when the hat is passed at a free event. Respect also includes not dissing a party because YOU don't think it is phat and doesn't have known DJ's. It is about not saying which coast has better parties. It also includes seperating yourself from that what you don't like, while allowing it to continue uninterrupted because people other than yourself are getting enjoyment from it (for example, take my feelings toward the majority of breakbeat: I really don't like it, so when it is played I go chill with some friends and wait until the set is over . . . I used to whine and complain, but then it sunk in to me that OTHER people were getting something from it, and by trying to supress their enjoyment I was showing extreme disrespect for them.) And I learned that if I am going to be in the scene, then I need to respect all music and DJ's and all peeps. It is about going to a party where you don't know any of the DJ's and give them mad support.

So that is what our PLUR means in our Rave world. And I think that we all need to realize that the scene is not how it used to be and that we the "ravers" need to bring it back. We are all nothing but love and we need to take the negative energy out and bring the positive back in. It is all about the US. And the way we are.

Mad love and respect to all your crazy KATS!!!!

PLUR--Keep it alive
Cece
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Enforced PLur

Enforced PLUR gives me the creeps
the PLUR police - always on time and snappy, ready to serve,
prepared to give all and nothing for that moment of squeaky clean
brain detergent that'll wash all your grey away
relinquish your mind, your soul
to the sunshine terrorists
give in. hell, read a book about it
there really must be something to this shit ...
do more people find inner peace at supermarkets or at raves?
if there were 5000 people who thought the produce section was truly a mind blowing cosmic fucking place to be would Safeway not have the same cultish draw and underground mystique?

swan dives,
call it belly flop if you will,
pull the feathers off one by one and
make me a real pretty new hat.

Hmmm, enforced PLUR. Don't belive I've been beat about the head and shoulders with enough kindess and love to believe that the PLUR stormtroopers are in full force yet.

Not that being skeptical isn't a good thing.
It's a very necessary tool that should be used when trying to figure out the world of human interactions.
But care should be taken not to be blinded by skepticisem anymore than by cults, bosses, corporations, or the next "new age of love".
Remember, think for yourself, but try to use more than one track.

The Newt King
 

A fun story the little red raver girl

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