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PLUR - Peace, Love, Unity, Respect. A credo of the rave culture. Everyone in the rave scene has heard of this at sometime or another, or will eventually. It's basically the way that a raver lives one's life, and is expected behavior at a rave.
Peace - Violence is never the answer to the problems of society.
Love - Acts and feelings of goodwill towards all others.
Unity - Ravers are all united by the music. Race, gender, sexual orientation or background doesn't apply.
Respect - Like unity, we are are united, but we must also show respect to all others inside and outside of the rave community.
The term was coined by Frankie Bones at a show his crew, the Storm Ravers, were holding. According to legend, a fight broke out while he was mixing and he stopped the show to say, "You all better be showing some peace, love and unity." Later on, in discussions of the speech on the usenet newsgroup alt.rave, Respect was added.