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To: Palter

I never knew the origin of the swastika. Back in the days of these Arayans, the swastika meant something entirely different and I’m sure much more benign.


5 posted on 10/04/2010 12:22:40 AM PDT by TheThinker (Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
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To: TheThinker

Yeah, when 5,000 “Aryans” rode into India, killed the men and took the women as wives...I’m sure the swastika banner they brought with them was considered extremely benign.

You admit you don’t know the origin of a symbol (until recently), but you’re giving lessons on what that very symbol meant to ancient peoples, friend and foe? Ok, Professor.


15 posted on 10/04/2010 7:05:47 AM PDT by Spike Knotts
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To: TheThinker

>the swastika meant something entirely different and I’m sure much more benign.

It still does, not only in India, but also in Nepal and in the Buddhist societies of SE Asia.

In the West, the Nazi association reigns supreme.


22 posted on 10/04/2010 1:38:47 PM PDT by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes!Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -Ummrika is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: TheThinker

‘Back in the days of these Arayans, the swastika meant something entirely different and I’m sure much more benign.’

Considering that the period discussed is thousands of years before the birth of Moses, they were obviously not anti-Semitic.


53 posted on 02/08/2011 6:38:16 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
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