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From a utilitarian point of view, the swastika shape is a good one. It optimizes the use of the land and leaves areas of green as well.
In my high school library, there were dozens of study carrels that were swastika-shaped. Each section had a desk, and was shielded from the others by the vertical walls. Worked very well.
I doubt there's any symbolism going on here. From the ground, you'd be hard pressed to tell that the building looks like a swastika.
Pretty silly to worry about the shape of a building - its one thing to build a statue or symbol glorifying Nazi's and quite another to build a building in a practical layout. I doubt anyone was thinking glorify the Nazi's when they built that. What should we do? Tear down the building because someone with too much time on their hands is offended? - what if a turd curls around like that? - should we monitor toilets and punish anyone who laid it?
These "activists" need to get a life - join the skinheads, camp out in a park, make a pilgrimage to Mecca - get the hell out our lives... Maybe the SA's will give them 500 lashes and solve the problem.
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Pretty silly to worry about the shape of a building - its one thing to build a statue or symbol glorifying Nazi's and quite another to build a building in a practical layout. I doubt anyone was thinking glorify the Nazi's when they built that. What should we do? Tear down the building because someone with too much time on their hands is offended? - what if a turd curls around like that? - should we monitor toilets and punish anyone who laid it?
These "activists" need to get a life - join the skinheads, camp out in a park, make a pilgrimage to Mecca - get the hell out our lives... Maybe the SA's will give them 500 lashes and solve the problem.
After reading those stories, I have to be with you on this!
Like the US military is going to intentionally build a structure with that in mind! Sheesh, it is reminiscent of so many of these nuts we have to put up with these days! Like the occupy idiots! Let's restart the draft for anyone between the age of 18 and 32 that is unemployed for more than 6 months or living on the public dole!;)
The swastika is actually an ancient symbol, it has many meanings - good luck is one. They can be right handed or left handed - the Nazi sometimes used both, but normally the right handed one. On the right handed one the ends point clockwise. The left handed one is supposed to be good luck. I have heard they were used in ancient India - over a thousand years ago, though the context there is unclear to me.
My Grandmother once told me that a spiritiual teacher she knew saw the German symbol in the mid 1930's and commented they had it backwards - which meant bad luck... I suppose he was right. Still it seems to me sort of like making the color red illegal when we outlaw a symbol. Didn't Soviet "red" communisium kill lots of innocent people too? Racism and genoicde are not going to stop because we take a way a symbol.
On Plaoshnik (Ohrid) has been discovered the baptistery of the five aisle basilica with hooked crosses (swastikas) on the mosaic floors which date from the period between 4th and 6th century. It is assumed that this early Christian basilica at Plaoshnik upon which the Clement’s monastery was built in the 9th century, was dedicated to St. Paul, the apostle. In Lichnid (present day Ohrid), the apostle Paul preached Christianity in the 1st century A.D.
City of Ohrid is under UNESCO protection as world cultural heritage.
That church was fully rebulit with money from the Macedonian budget between 2000 and 2002, Noone ever bothered to raise the question if we worship Nazis, as we don't nor ever did.
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