Re: Swastika Xmas Bulbs Selling Fast!

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:15:23 GMT, "Heidi Graw" <heidigraw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>"Panzerfaust" <utahraptor88@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Panzeerfaust wrote:
>> If 6 million Jews expect 1 billion Hindus to drop a symbol they have
>> had for thousands of years cause one guy used it while killing Jews a
>> few decades ago, they are whacked in the head.
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>Good point.  I'm aware the dislike for the swastika is based on
emotionalism 
>rather than sound reasoning.  It's been a positive symbol for thousands
of 
>years, yet it only took a few years to degrade that symbol into something

>vile and hateful.
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>I myself feel a shudder go down my spine whenever I see the swastika. 
>However, I'm really trying hard to overcome my emotionalism about this 
>symbol.  I'm trying my best to train my mind to put this symbol back into

>its correct context, but it's not easy.  The sunwheel (swastika) version
I 
>can accept is the one that has a cross inside a circle.  I really don't
know 
>if I can ever really use the crossed hooked version in my lifetime.  This

>one really takes an Herculean effort in order to accomplish mind over 
>emotions.  But, I'm working on it.  ;-)
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>It's only a symbol.  Symbols have meanings.  Remove the false meaning and

>replace it with the original correct one.  It's not a symbol of hate and 
>death, but a life promoting good luck charm!  I have to keep telling
myself 
>this over and over and over again.  ;-)
>
>Heidi 
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Take it in context.  If you see a guy with one in a red circle on a
flag marching in a brown uniform, get upset.  If you see it on a
ornament, chill out.  People today have skin like tissue paper,
getting upset over more than nothing.