Who makes a swastika building? i mean really...

[Pontiuth Pilate]

Just to clarify, I have no problem with the building (it's a little ridiculous to argue about it, don't you think?). What I DO have a problem with is what Cierdan posted, and remarks similar to that.

 

[blackheart]

That is very, very different from this issue. We are talking about the biggest single orchestrated massacre in world history, as far as I know. Not blowing up a few hundred people.

But there are those who are NOT Buddhists or Hindus but DO want to use it and use "political correctness" as a defense when people attack their neonazism.

Well, I don't go around spitting on the Japanese flag, even though they burned all the rice in WW2 and starved millions of Vietnamese. Nor do I go around burning Communist Vietnam's flag, or France's flag for their occupation period. Hate, contempt, and fear do not help with healing and moving on. To say that you hate a symbol such as the swastika would mean that the there is still a lingering of the past.

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. " - Buddha

There will be people who will use the swastikas as a symbol of hatred, but it is like with terrorisms. Should we play their "game?" Or should we go about life as normal? If we were to embrace the symbols that these groups use to represent themselves, the symbols would lose power.

 

[Colonel]

My moneys on the Clan did it, or maybe NAZI ALIENS

 

[aneeshm]

Anyone who wears a swastika t-shirt in public in the United States and tries to explain it as admiration for a "beautiful geometric shape" deserves a good beating. Maybe next time I go to the mall I'll wear a white cape and hood. It's a perfectly normal means of expression and we shouldn't let the KKK ruin the elegance of pointy white hoods, now should we? Boy oh boy will the Black people like THAT explanation.

Advice to racists and extremists: please, at least have the balls to admit what you are. Don't try and fool us with stupid petty excuses.

Oh, and I don't think it's "politcally correct" to have a feeling of revulsion when looking at a symbol that was stolen as the logo for millions of genocidal murders.

Then , according to you , I deserve a beating , because in my religion , it is considered a good luck symbol . Your blanket accusations of racism aimed towards every almost every Hindu makes me sick . At least think before you speak - political correctness has nothing to do with this , you'll see the Swastika everywhere in India .

 

[aneeshm]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong

Religions rip off of each other all the time, look at:
Judaism > Christianity > Islam > Bahai

Hinduism + Islam = Sikhism

and to an extent, Hinduism > Buddhism

Sikhism evolved to combat Islam in India - that "Hinduism + Islam = Sikhism" thing is a myth , and most Sikh religious scholars would be horrified if you said that to them . Why would it adopt the practices of the very religion it was determined to drive out ? Though the legend could have come out of the fact that both have beards and wear turbans .

 

[zorven]

I think you are being too Politcally Correct. You are being just like the Christians who are against anything that has the geometric form of the pentagram (a five sided star which btw before it attained pagan or satanic connotations actually symbolized truth and was even used by Christians). YOU SHOULD NOT BE AGAINST A GEOMETRICAL SHAPE!!! Being against it or the pentagram shape would be just as silly as being against a circle or against a rectangle or against an octagon or against a mobius strip!!! Do NOT let the extremists (Nazis with their swastika, pagans or satanists with their use of the pentagram, or radical homosexuals with their rainbows or whatever) stop you from enjoying and using these features of the world, real or abstract. I mean come on! Do we stop using and even admiring pyramid shaped objects just because there were some pyramid shaped objects built a long time ago on the backs of poor slaves that were treated harshly and brutally? No of course not! ESPECIALLY when it comes to GEOMETRIC SHAPES, we should not let other people control us. You are talking about MATHEMATICS here, mathematical BEAUTY (read about golden ratio and stuff like that ... also music is based on math too) .... for all I know there are some people in the world today who are against CIRCLES because the circle is part of the imperial Japanese flag when Japan did Nazi-like stuff.

Just what I was thinking too.

 

[Ramius75]

im now more interested on knowing what is that thing in the picture

 

[nonconformist]

I'm gonna make a few points:

a) A swastika on it's own evokes Nazi thoughts. Yes, true, and I'd b quite annoyed to see anyone wearing it.
But you have to remember, the "Hakenskreuz" was adopted as part of a larger flag-the swastika on white circle on red backdrop.
That-the flag-is the Nazi symbolism. The cross signifying soemthing, the white, racial purity, and the red the blood of spilt comrades.
b)We have double standards here. We still quite freely throw around the hammer and sickle (and yes, I'm as guilty, if not more, than most).

 

[stormbind]

im now more interested on knowing what is that thing in the picture

A clown. I have not seen this swastika building...

Maybe if we dig up it's history it will date to pre-WW2 or a notorious architect?

 

[silver 2039]

It's time to learn the diffrent swastika's you ignorant lot.

This is the famaliar NAZI swastika and no doubt all of you consider it bad

This is the HINDU swastika it symbolizes good luck notice carefully the diffrences between them

This is the BUDDHIST swastika it proabaly means the same as the Hindu swastika

Now the next time you see a swastika you don't hav to ignorantly shout Nazi! anymore. Now you know the diffrences in apperance as well as meaning.

 

[Renata]

Back on topic, is Padma the only person who has pointed out that this is actually four buildings, and not a single building in the shape of a swastika at all ?

I think everyone's too busy getting worked up to look at the picture. It's four buildings, as you say -- the only reason it looks like a swastika at all is because the courtyard is apparently paved with something the same color as the tops of the buildings. It looks quite accidental to me, same as that flower arrangement someone photographed a while back where the negative spaces were swastikas. It's a very, very simple geometrical shape -- it's going to show up unintentionally from time to time. (I doodle all the time in meetings at work, usually just random scribbles and geometrical shapes, and wind up with accidental swastikas all the time. I keep having to scribble over them so no one thinks I've up and become a white supremacist.)

Renata

 

[stormbind]

Well, you see... I was looking for one building in that shape, and I could not find it.

Now I know it's not my fault. It is the rest of you who are blind

 

[Mise]

Well, I don't go around spitting on the Japanese flag, even though they burned all the rice in WW2 and starved millions of Vietnamese. Nor do I go around burning Communist Vietnam's flag, or France's flag for their occupation period. Hate, contempt, and fear do not help with healing and moving on. To say that you hate a symbol such as the swastika would mean that the there is still a lingering of the past.

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. " - Buddha

There will be people who will use the swastikas as a symbol of hatred, but it is like with terrorisms. Should we play their "game?" Or should we go about life as normal? If we were to embrace the symbols that these groups use to represent themselves, the symbols would lose power.

Wouldn't it be great if everyone thought as you did...

I don't understand why people are arguing FOR the swastika - it seems much easier that we just don't use the damn shape instead of upsetting millions of people across the globe.

 

[Lambert Simnel]

@silver2039 Next time you decide to rush in with your broad sweep condemnation of many or all of the posters here as "ignorant", try to make at least a slight attempt to get your spelling and punctuation correct. Otherwise it tends to give the impression you're at least as ignorant, as well as being rude.

 

[Hundegesicht]

Silver: If you look at the picture, it is indeed set in the pattern of a Nazi swastika (Diagonal, open faces on the top right, bottem left), not Hindu or Buddhist.

 

[blackheart]

Silver: If you look at the picture, it is indeed set in the pattern of a Nazi swastika (Diagonal, open faces on the top right, bottem left), not Hindu or Buddhist.

Refer to the wikipedia link I provided a few posts earlier about the Buddhist swastikas. They face either shape, but most face the opposite of the Nazi swastikas now due to the stigma of it.

 

[Hundegesicht]

Refer to the wikipedia link I provided a few posts earlier about the Buddhist swastikas. They face either shape, but most face the opposite of the Nazi swastikas now due to the stigma of it.

But neither facing is set on a diagonal... I'm referring to the OP picture, btw, not the pictures that silver posted. (If there was any confusion)

 

[LLXerxes]

It looks like a neat design for a building, just imagine.
I'd imagine the building was built by german engineers. After all, the swastika is the symbol for good luck in German.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

I just think its kinda funny that some idiot would do that.

 

[Colonel]

Just a thought but was there a real point for people to be argueing here. I mean the purpose of the thread was to discuss if the pic was purposefully done, or not, and if so why. I dont see how this could degenerate into an arguement.