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AkatsukiMemberR 12-10-2008 10:32 PM
Is it just a coincidence?
 
This has been bothering me for a while. Is it just a coincidence that the Manji and the Swastika look so much alike, or was the Manji copied by the Nazis?

Arikado 12-10-2008 10:34 PM
It's originally a Buddhist symbol, so the Swastika was based off that design.

Aniki 12-10-2008 10:37 PM
Don't they teach you that in scool?

SephirothVVC 12-10-2008 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Aniki (Post 642473)
Don't they teach you that in scool?
not here they didnt-.- only the intellectual's know-.- so not many

AkatsukiMemberR 12-10-2008 10:43 PM
Not my school. The manji is buddist and my school isn't allowed to teach religion. We only have extracurricular activities and im not involved with any of those.

Keaton421 12-10-2008 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by AkatsukiMemberR (Post 642475)
Not my school. The manji is buddist and my school isn't allowed to teach religion. We only have extracurricular activities and im not involved with any of those.
What kinda pinko commie liberal school is that? Forcing religion on your students is not the same as teaching them about it. Religion is a big player in present times and in history. I feel sorry for y'all

Anyway yes, the Nazis lifted the Swastika from countless other religions that used it before. Hitler was a genius when it came to propaganda and symbols - and we all know what happened when he was rejected from art school :D The SS lightning bolts were originally a Viking rune. If I'm not mistaken, the SS guys were trying to bring back some kind of pagan religion where they'd all become gods.

Salvanas 12-10-2008 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Aniki (Post 642473)
Don't they teach you that in scool?

American education. What did you expect?

Keaton421 12-10-2008 10:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Salvanas (Post 642481)

American education. What did you expect?
Very funny, guvnah. I've never heard of an American school that wasn't allowed to even teach religion.

AkatsukiMemberR 12-10-2008 10:55 PM
Yea I don't like my school. In fact I dropped out, but I went back because I got bored.

MMM 12-10-2008 10:57 PM
The general sympbol for manji 卍 points the opposite way as the swastika, but the other way is also used.

Aniki 12-10-2008 10:57 PM
Strange, I learned all that in history classes when the teacher was talking the Nazis.

Salvanas 12-10-2008 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Keaton421 (Post 642482)
Very funny, guvnah. I've never heard of an American school that wasn't allowed to even teach religion.
I thought you was English! :P


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Yea I don't like my school. In fact I dropped out, but I went back because I got bored.
Not the best idea to drop out of education.

AkatsukiMemberR 12-10-2008 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Salvanas (Post 642486)


Not the best idea to drop out of education.
I know. Hey besides I only have two years left.

Keaton421 12-10-2008 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Salvanas (Post 642486)


I thought you was English! :P
Some might consider me an English colonist, of sorts :D

wilsontheterrible 12-10-2008 11:28 PM
Its kind of ironic that a near universal symbol of balance and holiness served as a mark of aryan supremacy for the nazi's. But considering my poor american education I'm probably way out of my league making that statement, let alone the audacity of my assuming that I can properly use the word ironic in a sentence.

The swastica and forms similar to it have been used by dozens of different cultures and was even used by the U.S as a good luck symbol until the nazi's began to use it.

Aniki 12-10-2008 11:32 PM
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Originally Posted by wilsontheterrible (Post 642498)
The swastica and forms similar to it have been used by dozens of different cultures and was even used by the U.S as a good luck symbol until the nazi's began to use it.
Please teach us more, oh great one

Arikado 12-10-2008 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by wilsontheterrible (Post 642498)
Its kind of ironic that a near universal symbol of balance and holiness served as a mark of aryan supremacy for the nazi's. But considering my poor american education I'm probably way out of my league making that statement, let alone the audacity of my assuming that I can properly use the word ironic in a sentence.

The swastica and forms similar to it have been used by dozens of different cultures and was even used by the U.S as a good luck symbol until the nazi's began to use it.
Yup, after WWII, it began to symbolize death and hate. It's too bad. I really like the symbol in Buddhism.


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