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Buddhism

navarth

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4. I believe you, but

Reply to AmyDeLune (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 11, 2012, 09:48 AM

Oct 2012

we've got a library here in Detroit (the downtown branch) which has an architectural flourish encircling it with a band of swastikas and, as I remember it, they are also flipped. When I first saw it, it was a complete WTF moment for me just like in Bali. I'll have to go and see if I remember it correctly.

Nothing like a swastika-orientation discussion in the morning to get your day going!

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Tibetan Buddhist statue carved from iron meteorite [View all] ellisonz Oct 2012 OP

and a backwards swastika at that!! how strange navarth Oct 2012 #1

The Nazi Swastika is backwards AmyDeLune Oct 2012 #2

I believe you, but navarth Oct 2012 #4

I met a real NAZI, the real thing, on a train out of Vienna some years ago. JDPriestly Oct 2012 #3

All part of their Aryan race nonsense... ellisonz Oct 2012 #6

I was literally shaking. And this guy was on a commission or council in the town in which JDPriestly Oct 2012 #8

"If the anti-Israel DUers had heard this man, they would agree with me about Israel." greiner3 Oct 2012 #9

I stand by my statement. JDPriestly Oct 2012 #13

Another tidbit from history - the Kaaba stone in Mecca is a fragment left from the meteorite Hestia Oct 2012 #5

I had no idea .. proud patriot Oct 2012 #7

Little info on the Swastika Saviolo Oct 2012 #10

American Pueblo Indians occasionally used the reverse swastika as a decorative byeya Oct 2012 #11

This is interesting. Explains something I've wondered about since childhood. classof56 Oct 2012 #12

Buddha statue: Possibly fake, still from space ellisonz Oct 2012 #14

very interesting - thanks for posting geckosfeet Oct 2012 #15