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Originally posted by China Fleet Sailor:

...a swastika really is an ancient Buddhist symbol....It's been in use for centuries. Even now if you travel to the far east, the presence of a temple is indicated on a map by a swastika. It carries none of the baggage some westerners may wish to assign to it. Just because the swastika was highjacked by a socialist movement in Germany for a decade and a half is no reason for the rest of the world to abandon it.

This is true, but there is a difference: the Nazi swastika has the direction of the arms reversed (i.e. they go clockwise) from the way they face on a Buddhist one (counterclockwise).

-- Well, I just did some more investigation and found that it's more complicated than that. But the swastikas I saw on a Buddhist temple in Korea did have the arms facing counterclockwise.

Here's the URL for a website on the history of the swastika:

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/swastika/a/swastikahistory.htm

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"you can't even spell [can]"

I CAN spell CAN I just dont type it too good LOL

Yea i looked around on that site the other day, generally speaking, I find it rather unhelpful and if the mod indeed swore or was being out of line, well, I would just not use that site, they can opperate as they see fit, I prefer a professional atmoshpere, even if it is, just the "internet." I do wish I didnt get all there spam emails about some odd thing or the other. To be honest, Im not even on to the sight, I think someone on predatormasters was promotoing it and i signed up blindly, what a mistake that was.

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Posted 30 November 2005 09:55
I spent a couple of hours reading the posts on "Down South Hunting" It seems to be a collection of rednecks who know very little about anything, much less hunting. I cna get more info in 5 minutes on AR than youll ever find on DSH. But if they enjoy it more power to them.

One shot , one kill

BOO

Wow what a mess just over a flag. I am from Texas , I am also glad I am from the south. But that in no way

gives me the right to push that on anyone. Yes the south may have lost but the war against blue and grey

has been over for more than a 100 years. Please lets all of us let it go. As far as the flag , bad chroice

to tell anyone on their home ground. But the flag is part of history and there's no changing that.


But their is one thing I would like to say to ANOTHER AZ WRITER . I think if you will take the time to check

a history book thw war between north and south was not just because of slavery. Even Geroge Whasington had

slaves as did a lot of poeple in the north. Do I think slavery was right , no way . Oh let me say this I am

proud to be a redneck For I love GOD ,MY COUNTRY , AND MY PICKUP TRUCK . Wow I almost forgot my DOG.

"All nations love the Redneck in time of war."

Georgia Review, 1971

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Originally posted by tiggertate:
We are over it, Joey. We're just pissed we have to be in the same country with New Jersey. And so is the rest of the North.

Well said.

Copperhead