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Mad Love and Respect to all you crazy Peeps in the house
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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
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.
s---happens, and you deal with it.
LOVE
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.
UNITY
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.
RESPECT
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
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