Challenge Day

[lumukanda]

i was channel surfing last night (all 4 channels we have here lol) and ended up watching oprah and they had a story about this thing called challenge day (http://www.challengeday.org/).
basically it quite a good idea, they take a group of kids from a school, they all get together, play trust games (think corporate camps and shit like that), they then break up into smaller groups, the emphasis being on people from different social backgrounds, races etc and start talking about themselves, they do this thing called 'if you really knew me', where they start talking about things that really affect them in their lives. they also do these things where the kids cross a line if they've ever been bullied, or called names, or been abused, the whole aim being to show kids that they are not alone, to break down barriers between them, it's actually quite moving at times.
but...
they have a hand symbol that means 'i love you', the symbol looks like this :

http://images.oprah.com/images/tows/200611/20061109/20061109_104_284x218.jpg

so you have these kids telling these heart wrenching stories and all the other kids in support of the one doing the talking, show this symbol, i must be honest, the whole idea was pretty cool, but upon seeing this symbol everywhere i was thinking what's actually going on here?
what do you guys think?

[auron]

I'm not 100% on this, but i have heard that the hand sign you see means "i love you" in sign language. The other way around is the satanic one.

[limelady]

This?
http://www.shout.net/~bigred/BushHorns.jpg

Or this?
http://www.whale.to/b/images/666/mcconaughey.jpg

Or both?
http://www.whale.to/b/hand.html

[lumukanda]

i was wondering about that actually, and you're right, kind of makes my post quite pointless doesn't it?

http://media.pasco.k12.fl.us/Inst_media/pages/Die-Cuts/16.gif

then again maybe there's something to why this symbol was used.

[peter19]

i think thumb out its suppose to mean i love you. but if the thumb is put on the two fingers what are down then its satanic, like bushes one for example. the diffrence with what bush does and what the other people do on that show is the way the thumb is. they are very similar though. i wonder why?. maybe to attatch "i love you" with "i love satan" or what ever. because no matter which one you see, if you know what they both mean, both will come to the front of your mind so you can make a link with both of them subconsciously, i reckon.

[mikeproteau]

it does mean i love you, but love of what? exactly