PEACE

This week I am going to discuss the Peace Sign. The Original peace sign pictured on the left consists of a circle, a vertical line, and two downward sloping lines. This peace sign was something seen on clothing, necklaces, notebooks, and nail art in my elementary/ middle school years. Now more often we use the two fingers (index and middle) pictured on the right as the "Peace Sign." The finger peace sign became more prevalent when it was seen in the popularly known iPhone keyboard option called the Emoji. We now use the term peace as a form of a greeting. When leaving from your friends, or acquaintances often times people will hold up the peace sign with their fingers as a form of goodbye. Not only has it been seen as a greeting sign, but it is also seen in pictures for some odd reason as a pose. The cool thing to do was hold up a peace sign during a photo with a group of your friends. Many known people have been seen using this symbol like Richard Nixon, Winston Churchill, and Yasser Arafat. The peace sign was founded by a man named Gerald Herbert Holtom. Gerald Herbert Holtom worked with the Direct Action Committee (DAC) against nuclear war in 1958. The BBC quotes Gerald on what the peace sign symbolizes,  "I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya's peasant before the firing squad.” The sign became the logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. An interesting meaning of the symbol is its ties with Satanism. A bigger idea that the sign introduce is some people believe the sign began as a symbol of satanic benediction during rituals.  The V peace sign with your index and middle finger symbolizes the meaning for the Hebrew letter for V, which is ‘Nail.’ Nail is one of the secret titles of Satan within the brotherhood of Satanism.