# About users who sign their posts "peace." **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 1, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-users-who-sign-their-posts-peace/277418 "2004-12-01T00:41:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-users-who-sign-their-posts-peace/277418/21 "2004-12-05T04:06:11Z")
At another forum, I frequently signed my posts with three words and one of them was “peace.” It was **Aldebaran** who inspired me to use it again occasionally – at times when it seemed particularly important that the other person know that peacefulness is a priority to me. That is especially true if there have ever been cross words between us. I use _Salaam_ to **Aldebaran** as a way of acknowledging to him not only a wish for peace in his life and peace between us, but also as a sign of my respect for his culture. I also use it as a parting word to some of the people who live in my neighborhood. I also use _Shalom_ and _Namaste_. Here, from time to time I use _Pax_ which is Latin for “Peace” or “at peace.” Sometimes I use it when I am troubled and long for peace. The answers for each person will probably be different and even with the same person, the reasons will be different at different times. Thirty-five years ago, saying “Peace” was a common greeting among people who were opposed to violence. **SamClem** , thanks for the memory of Dave Garroway’s sign-off. I saw it from the beginning. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-users-who-sign-their-posts-peace/277418/22 "2004-12-05T14:07:06Z")
> [@alterego](#): > > ;j ;j ;j ;j ;j > > Despite all of the hilarity, I was being quite serious. _Is_ “peace” used as a non-hebrew and more modern signature meant to convey the same message as “shalom” on the board? I don’t believe you will get a good answer. Different people use it for different reasons. I suppose some have given it enough thought to have decided that it is a non-hebrew signature meant to convey the same message as “shalom”. But I suspect that most people use it simply to mean “peace.” I don’t think it is more complex than that. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-users-who-sign-their-posts-peace/277418/23 "2004-12-05T15:52:39Z")
peace - not again. I thought he was banned. ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-users-who-sign-their-posts-peace/277418/24 "2004-12-29T18:55:02Z")
I thought for sure we’d see him in this thread by now 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-users-who-sign-their-posts-peace/277418/25 "2004-12-31T05:19:22Z")
All Hitler wanted was peace. A little piece of Poland, a little piece of France… Works better spoken as opposed to written. Felizidad, y’all ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-users-who-sign-their-posts-peace/277418/26 "2005-01-04T15:29:46Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > I thought for sure we’d see him in this thread by now 🙂 No **Moriah** either. We’ll have to ask 'em personally. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-users-who-sign-their-posts-peace/277418.md?page=1)