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Metrodome: Neo-Nazi icon?
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The guy with the swastikadome website seems a little "out of touch", imo.
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Yose.
Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
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Uhm, hold on a sec there. A website like stormfront.org is protected by the first amendment whereas an accidental depiction (doesn't look intentional to me personally, that is) of a swastika on the roof of a ballpark is an outrage? This dude needs to have his head examined. Thoroughly.
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i have always thought those vendors trying to sell you a $4 bottle of pop or $6 glass of beer were kind of like nazis 
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Oh no, the creators of Unicode are Nazis because they included characters like U+534D (卍)!
People seriously need to get off this whole swastika thing. The character existed for centuries before even Germany itself.
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swastika means "turtle shell" in swahili
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Originally Posted by wataru
... The character existed for centuries before even Germany itself.
More like millenia, methinks
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I might be wrong but I think the swastika dates back the ancient Egypt. Ironically back then it had good connotations. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong...
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Not that I would vouch for every single detail to be 100% correct but the wikipedia entry for "swastika" does provide some background info.
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The floor-tiles in the local supermarket here have a swastika-pattern. So does this Microsoft advertisement:
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i took a crap that resembled a swastika too
let me know if you want pics. (i also have one that looks like abraham lincoln!)
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Originally Posted by Apple Pro Underwear
i took a crap that resembled a swastika too
let me know if you want pics. (i also have one that looks like abraham lincoln!)
[chant]ebay them, ebay them![/chant]
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doesn't the character actually mean Temple? Maybe the Metrodome is the Temple of baseball and football.
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Whatever the case, I have my aluminum foil cap right here, just in case!
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Glenn -----
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Originally Posted by wataru
Oh no, the creators of Unicode are Nazis because they included characters like U+534D (卍)!
But that's the good swastika. The bad one faces the other way.
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The Lord said 'Peter, I can see your house from here.'
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According to Unihan:
kDefinition swastika, one of the auspicious signs recognized (e.g. in Chinese Tathagata Buddhism) as being on the chest of Buddha (and variously seen in statuary on the chest, soles of the feet, or palms of the hands)
In Japan it's often used to mark the locations of temples on maps, and has some other uses within Buddhism as well.
According to 広辞苑, the big-name Japanese-Japanese dictionary, the word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit word "svastika," which originally indicated the swirly hairs on Buddha's chest. The main mearning is "filled with charity/virtue." And in Japanese they don't really distinguish between 卍 and its reverse.
(Last edited by wataru; May 19, 2005 at 12:06 PM.
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Originally Posted by wataru
According to Unihan:
Well that sounds about right. I know even in Japan the swastika is part of religion there too. Some maps I've seen of Japan list the shrines with an icon of a swastika. The Nazi's in WW2 just took it as their own. I think they also flipped it backwards if I remember right...
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