{"id":763,"date":"2010-01-05T21:46:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T04:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deathgleaner.wordpress.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2015-12-20T19:41:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T02:41:57","slug":"coexist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/coexist\/","title":{"rendered":"COEXIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/55\/165212878_7f8aa6cb2a_b.jpg\" alt=\"Coexist bumper sticker\" width=\"587\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you\u2019ve seen this bumper sticker on someone\u2019s car. Maybe you\u2019re wondering: why is \u201cCoexist\u201d written in a menagerie of symbols? There are many different interpretations of these symbols. We will take apart this symbol to its fundamental letters today:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>C \u2013 This is the star of Islam, symbolizing Muhammad\u2019s teachings;<\/li>\n<li>O \u2013 A peace symbol, symbolizing peace;<\/li>\n<li>E \u2013 A somewhat of a merger between male and female, symbolizing respect and love between sexes;<\/li>\n<li>X \u2013 More like a star, but it is the six-pointed Star of David, symbolizing Jesus\u2019 love and sacrifice for mankind;<\/li>\n<li>I \u2013 The dot on top of the lowercase \u201ci\u201d is a pentagram, mostly affiliated with Wiccans and the occult, symbolizing all things dark and evil;<\/li>\n<li>S \u2013 The Chinese Yin-and-yang, symbolizing balance; and<\/li>\n<li>T \u2013 What appears to be the cross, this is a symbol of Christianity and Jesus\u2019 sacrifice for mankind<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If we translate the above ideas directly into a sentence, then we get something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIslamic, peaceful male and female Jews should tolerate evil, with a balance like Christians\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sentence may seem like random junk, but some meaning is expressed from the bumper sticker. First of all, all the symbols are in one word. Secondly, the symbols fall into three categories: religions, sexes, or ideas. This should mean that all races, whether Islamic, Jewish, or Christian; male or female, should <strong>exist<\/strong> in <strong>peace<\/strong> (O) and <strong>harmony<\/strong> (S). In other words, peoples of all kinds should <strong>coexist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This bumper sticker has caused much controversy though. For example, a new bumper sticker came out as a parody. It closely resembles the Coexist sticker seen above, however, the \u201cE\u201d is substituted as a hammer and sickle (communism) and the X is a swastika (Nazism.) The message of that bumper sticker is that true coexistence is coexistence with not just good people but radicals as well.<\/p>\n<p>The first bumper sticker is optimistic, the second is pessimistic and advises caution.<\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-763\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">47.558739<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">-122.409668<\/span><\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you\u2019ve seen this bumper sticker on someone\u2019s car. Maybe you\u2019re wondering: why is \u201cCoexist\u201d written in a menagerie of symbols? There are many different interpretations of these symbols. 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