Opinion about wearing a skirt with swastikas on it

[Denny]

Just one problem, it shows Slovakia in the buffer zone when it so obviously belongs with Resident Evil.

lucky we could find the continent...

[dwest]

Just one problem, it shows Slovakia in the buffer zone when it so obviously belongs with Resident Evil.

lucky we could find the continent...

I didn't see Ikealand anywheres on that map, I've been to several of their cultural exchange missions.

[mutepointe]

Just one problem, it shows Slovakia in the buffer zone when it so obviously belongs with Resident Evil.

The Slovak people were hoping that was a typo and it was the Buffet Zone. Slovakian food is the best. I don't recall anyone around here ever saying Czech food was even decent.

ps. My Mom & Brother are visiting for the week and Mom made a giant pot of stuffed peppers with red and green peppers from Dad's garden.

[Daniel_Bingamon]

Interesting post.

Like a few previous posts mentioned, it is a symbol that shows up in many civilizations.
I have heard that it is a square representation of a spiral and that it refers to the cosmos (aka galaxies).
The ancient Chinese forbidden city has one (can't remember which way it points though).
Some of the Western native tribes in America have used it, saw them on Ghost Dancers shirt.

Some have determined that the direction it pointed would decide whether it connected with good or evil - until hitler came along and changed that.

I think the eastern religions view them as positive and negative energy symbols but not "negative" in the sense as being evil but simply the opposite of positive.

Wouldn't recommend anyone wear something like it to a Synagogue though. I've met some people who get offended at swastika symbols showing up in bathroom floor tiles and others who don't care unless it's blatently nazi in background.

[talasiga]

I don't know if anyone has linked this yet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
but this is reasonably accurate from my heterogenous Hindu perspective
and especially interesting regarding the ancient Celtic connection and the Hebraic reference among others
as well as the fact the Finnish Air Force flag contains a swastika apparently.

(I think Finland is a member of the UN along with US, Israel, India and most others).

Someone (I dont recall who now) raised something about the "climate" in the US on questions such as this. I do wander about the climate there. I recall a documentary here in Australia about people in a US city being surveyed about the 9/11 terrorist attacks and a lot of those people actually said it was done by Hindus. They obviously meant to say Muslims but I think they just got confused by the fact that the Hindus have suffered the longest history of subjugation under Muslims than any other religio-centric grouping (beginning c 750AD to the period of the British Raj). I like to think that it was the small detail in a complex history that confused them. I don't think it was the rain and that something was left out in it that did this.

[dwest]

...the fact that the Hindus have suffered the longest history of subjugation under Muslims than any other religio-centric grouping (beginning c 750AD to the period of the British Raj)...

I suspect it is possible this could occur again with the birthrate disparity between the two groups in India.

[sbfluter]

talasiga, a large quantity of Americans are idiots.

[Denny]

Diane do be careful,

you're starting to turn into an optimist

[dwest]

talasiga, a large quantity of Americans are idiots.

That's why we need more "come here's." We're smarter for the first generation or so, we can really raise standardized test scores and win spelling beets, not to mention science fairs.

[hans]

win spelling beets .... hmmmm

[Nanohedron]

we can...win spelling beets...

Just not you.

[Denny]

spelling beats, innit

[Nanohedron]

I recall a documentary here in Australia about people in a US city being surveyed about the 9/11 terrorist attacks and a lot of those people actually said it was done by Hindus. They obviously meant to say Muslims but I think they just got confused by the fact that the Hindus have suffered the longest history of subjugation under Muslims than any other religio-centric grouping (beginning c 750AD to the period of the British Raj). I like to think that it was the small detail in a complex history that confused them. I don't think it was the rain and that something was left out in it that did this.

Your guess that those interviewed would be flummoxed by legitimate historical details is kind but does not speak to a starker racist reality that ignores the detail in what it can lump together. In the least ugly terms, in Joe Sixpack parlance anything culturally and ethnically from east of the Bosphorus - except for what might be called "Mongolic" or "Sinitic" or what have you - is for all practical purposes all one, and the details may be conveniently ignored. I know. I've had these discussions. Be it Persian, Turk, Arab, Kurd or Indian, Hindu, Muslim, Jain, Christian or Zoroastrian: it doesn't matter. To differentiate is to obfuscate (imagine that!). Such is an example of down-home Yank obscurantism, and it irritates the high holy crap out of me.

[dwest]

win spelling beets .... hmmmm

My spelt checker kept trying to over-ride me, softwear has no since of humour at all.

[Denny]

To differentiate is to obfuscate

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ya know the second to could have another "o"