THE MEANING OF PLUR

PLUR: P(eace), L(ove),U(nity), and 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 is not 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 "jumpstart" 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 into you while dancing.  It is when you have to stand online 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

Love is an unconidtional 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 factors so you can get to the unconidtional 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 yourself and your own pleasure is part of unity--in the case of us on the list "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 DISREPECTED  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 any known DJ's.  it is about not saying which coast or country has a 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 breakbeats:  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 surpress 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.

RESPONSIBILTY

I heard of this through people in California and I said I must add this because if that ain't the truth.  This is just to be responsible when you go out.  And that means anywhere.  It means, to watch how many pills you take. It mean so keep your stuff in your pockets.  It means to behave your self at a party and not go home with cops, (like what happened at FUNK*E)  So the first thing in our scene is we need responsible people who keep it real!!!!

So that is what our PLUR means in out 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 bout our WORLD.  And the was we are.

Mad love and respect for all you krazy KATZ!!!! 
PLUR---Keep it alive