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From: Mike Duffy <Use_guestbook_page@website.in.sig>
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Subject: Re: ASCII swastika, ascii swastikas
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:38:58 +0000 (UTC)
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Arlo James Barnes <arlo.barnes@gmail.com> wrote in
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> This thread is rather amusing. It is almost a Godwin troll, only
> instead of using the heinous acts committed during the circa WWII
> Holocaust to falsely bolster an argument, the people involved are
> arguing over the origin of logos within the government administrating
> such atrocities. I fail to see how it matters. 

In a way, I agree with you. I take the stand that we should endevour to 
use the swastika (and its reflection, the swawistaka) in their original 
(pre-Nazi) contexts. In a way, it will "take away" this ancient symbol 
from those who would use it to promote racial extremism.

Thus, a swastika should never appear in its Nazi form (black, vertices at 
the "cardinal" points, in a white circle inside a red square) unless it 
is in a historical context. To do so is an affront to those in living 
memory who lost loved ones to the Nazis.

The swawistaka appears in the ancient (~5000 BC) Vinca writing system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%C4%8Da_symbols

We do not know exactly what these symbols mean, but there are several 
symbols in that set that survive via

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

to the Phonecian

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

the the Greek and then to the Latin) as well as early Sanskrit and East 
Asian ideograms.

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


Here are some summaries:

http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/15/151.html

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


Hmm. and I just found this. It sums up what I feel and seems to be better 
organized than I am:

http://reclaimtheswastika.com/

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