You see them everywhere in Buddhist Temples in South Korea. Shocked me at first, but we learned about the history of the swastika and how the Third Reich stole it.
Taiwan is like this too, I was baffled when I was handed a tourist map and it had a bunch of swastikas on it to denote the temples and churches. Like a general purpose symbol for religion.
It wasn’t actually stolen from India/Buddhism/whatever. It has always been used in Europe to some degree, but before the rise of fascism, a funny thing happened:
An obsessive nerd found Troy. And the city had apparently gone through a period where they slapped swastikas on literally everything, there were thousands of examples excavated.
The public excitement over the find popularized the symbol throughout Europe again, and then Nazis stole it as a symbol for pretty much their whole schtick, including their (wildly incorrect) beliefs on Aryan race theory.
It’s interesting how archaeological finds can produce weird modern behavior. When Lenin died in 1924 he was mummified because of the contemporaneous worldwide fascination with Howard Carter’s discovery of King Tut’s tomb, not because of any Russian tradition of preserving their dead leaders’ corpses.
the earliest known swastika is from 10,000 BCE – part of “an intricate meander pattern of joined-up swastikas” found on a late paleolithic figurine of a bird, carved from mammoth ivory, found in Mezine, Ukraine
Once had one end with we got to her room, and she straight up had swastikas on the wall.
That ended that, right there and then.
Literally the meme about going home with them only to find NFTs on the wall and then leaving in the rain.
… I can fix her
Smash the fash
That’s a whole new meaning to “don’t stick your dick in crazy”.
Turns out she was Buddhist
Technically, she could be both…
Depends on the direction and angle of the swastika…
If it’s straight and left, the day is blessed. If it’s angled and right, it’s time to fight.
You see them everywhere in Buddhist Temples in South Korea. Shocked me at first, but we learned about the history of the swastika and how the Third Reich stole it.
Taiwan is like this too, I was baffled when I was handed a tourist map and it had a bunch of swastikas on it to denote the temples and churches. Like a general purpose symbol for religion.
It wasn’t actually stolen from India/Buddhism/whatever. It has always been used in Europe to some degree, but before the rise of fascism, a funny thing happened:
An obsessive nerd found Troy. And the city had apparently gone through a period where they slapped swastikas on literally everything, there were thousands of examples excavated.
The public excitement over the find popularized the symbol throughout Europe again, and then Nazis stole it as a symbol for pretty much their whole schtick, including their (wildly incorrect) beliefs on Aryan race theory.
It’s interesting how archaeological finds can produce weird modern behavior. When Lenin died in 1924 he was mummified because of the contemporaneous worldwide fascination with Howard Carter’s discovery of King Tut’s tomb, not because of any Russian tradition of preserving their dead leaders’ corpses.
Turns out we’ve always being using them
Fantastic. He was helping her find enlightenment by letting go of worldly connections. Mostly any connection to him.
Did you tell her that that was the reason?
Oh yeah. I made sure it was once I was near the door(at this point, I was more than a little worried about my safety).
I got told “I hope I find you hangin’!” I will never forget that night.
“I’m hanging this dick and you’re not gonna get it.”
I’m embarrassed to say I would have DMHSed that one.
Of course you would, you’re a lemmy world user. Nazism is hardly a moral hang-up for you.
DMHS?
Doesn’t matter, had sex
Ah, thanks