--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "mrfishey2001" > <mrfishey2001@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], bbrigante <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > "Just because some idiot used it for twelve years in his "thousand > > year reich" doesn't mean that the cultures of Asia and America who > > have used it for years have to discard this symbol. The Klan uses a > > type of cross in its symbol, but this does not mean that Christians > > have to abandon the symbol." > > > > This doesnÕt excuse anyone from ignoring its recent defacement nor > > symbolic power. Many in the civilized world find any reference to > > the swastika simply objectionable. > > Mostly in the West, and mostly out of ignorance of > its significance as a positive spiritual symbol in > many Eastern (as well as Native American) cultures. > > I'm in favor of reclaiming it from Hitler and restore > it to its original significance. I don't think he > should be accorded the power to have appropriated it > to his evil purposes permanently.
...and do you really think that it should be the TMO that takes the lead on this? Really? The TMO should take on the responsibility to bring the swaztika to its original significance? > > > > > > Pageantry, as second rate as this may > > be, is a conscious social construct. Chief among its symbolic > > functions is the inculcation of power. The Christian cross, burning > or > > otherwise, only underscores the self-evident; power in all forms > > should be questioned. The posters jingoist myopia comes as no > > surprise. > > > > The recently crowned however should know better. > > > > -------- > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
