Evil Swastica Navy Building...

PointsOfLight • Sep 26, 2007 11:16 pm

http://www.switched.com/2007/09/26/google-earth-uncovers-swastika-shaped-government-building/

oh lolz..

rkzenrage • Sep 26, 2007 11:18 pm

So?
It is Apollo's sign, Buddhist symbol, Hopi sign, Hindu symbol, was Yale's sports team's symbol... people need to get over it.
Freaking-out over symbols and words is what gives them power over you.

Ibby • Sep 26, 2007 11:20 pm

actually there are a LOT of buildings in Taipei with swastikas on them or with a swastika design.

It was a buddhist/hindu luck symbol for thousands of years before one german madman went and ruined it for everyone, you know.

Clodfobble • Sep 26, 2007 11:26 pm

Nonetheless, enough uproar has been going on that the Navy has already said they will be spending $600,000 to alter the building's appearance from the air. Your tax dollars at work, baby.

PointsOfLight • Sep 26, 2007 11:26 pm

Isn't there a difference in the signs? The one for peace is reversed from the one that the Nazis used right? Or maybe I'm wrong.

And I wasn't freaking out...I just found it funny.

rkzenrage • Sep 26, 2007 11:27 pm

Disgusting.
I am disgusted.

PointsOfLight • Sep 26, 2007 11:28 pm

Now that's something to freak out about.

Ibby • Sep 26, 2007 11:31 pm

it certainly seems like a very functional building design to me.
so fuckin' what if it looks vaguely like a simple geometric figure that was once used as a symbol for a country that had leaders that thought things that we dont agree with?

Get over yourselves, america.

PointsOfLight • Sep 26, 2007 11:43 pm

I'd like to point out, for my own sake, that I put the "Evil" in Evil Swastica Navy Building as means of sarcasm and I do not actually believe that the building is evil.

Crimson Ghost • Sep 27, 2007 1:18 am

There are quite a few buildings and other structures that utilize the same pattern. Google's full of them.

PointsOfLight • Sep 27, 2007 1:35 am

i give up trying to post threads...

lumberjim • Sep 27, 2007 1:36 am

points, you should understand that rkzenrage is a complete asshole, and you should disregard his judgmental tone. just FYI. kthxbye

manephelien • Sep 27, 2007 2:06 am

Jeez. A bit overkill, if you ask me.

rkzenrage • Sep 27, 2007 2:09 am

And a compliment coming from him.
I think it is a great thread, we need to know about this kind of lunacy and to discuss these attitudes.
Many people are under the mistaken belief that words and symbols can "harm" them, especially old ones with multiple meanings.
The discussion that one must choose what titles they accept and what images and words harm them is always a good one.

Bullitt • Sep 27, 2007 2:31 am

PointsOfLight;389561 wrote:
i give up trying to post threads...

Don't, that's what makes a forum survive and thrive; new threads. I'm sure I've made an ass of myself on here before but that doesn't stop me from participating. This is quite a unique community, don't give up on it just yet.

rkzenrage • Sep 27, 2007 2:36 am

lumberjim;389562 wrote:
points, you should understand that rkzenrage is a complete asshole, and you should disregard his judgmental tone. just FYI. kthxbye

I'm curious, what is he supposed to take from your "tone"?
All you do is be an asshole to people.
Tone from text, hilarious.

PointsOfLight • Sep 27, 2007 3:07 am

Thanks for the support :)

Urbane Guerrilla • Sep 27, 2007 4:31 am

PointsOfLight;389512 wrote:
Isn't there a difference in the signs? The one for peace is reversed from the one that the Nazis used right? Or maybe I'm wrong.

And I wasn't freaking out...I just found it funny.

Doesn't have anything to do with "peace" AFAIK, for it's a sun symbol. And for many, it's a good deal more auspicious with the feet of the gammadion going the other way, so the symbol is "walking" sunwise. Everybody but the Nazis used it with one foot flat on the floor, while the Nazis made use of it cocked at forty-five degrees.

As a sign of trouble and doom, it'd be hard to beat a sun-symbol, black, going backwards.

DanaC • Sep 27, 2007 5:24 am

As a sign of trouble and doom, it'd be hard to beat a sun-symbol, black, going backwards.

Nicely put, Urbane.

richlevy • Sep 27, 2007 6:56 am

The swastika has been around for thousands of years. I am always a little surprised when I see one, and I have to take a moment to remember that swastika does not automatically mean 'nazi'.

TheMercenary • Sep 27, 2007 7:51 pm

richlevy;389613 wrote:
The swastika has been around for thousands of years. I am always a little surprised when I see one, and I have to take a moment to remember that swastika does not automatically mean 'nazi'.

yea, I think the American Indians have a lock on that design.

xoxoxoBruce • Sep 28, 2007 6:31 pm

During World War II, the provincial government sought to change the town's name to Winston, in honour of Winston Churchill, but the town refused, insisting that the town had held the name long before the Nazis co-opted the symbol. Residents of Swastika used to tell the story of how the Ontario Department of Highways would erect new signs on the roads at the edge of the town. At night the residents would tear these signs down and put up their own signs proclaiming the town to be "Swastika".

HungLikeJesus • Sep 28, 2007 6:38 pm

Back when dictionaries used to be made of paper, the last word in the 'f' section was usually fylfot - meaning 'fill foot' - it was used to 'fill the foot' of a window.

rkzenrage • Sep 28, 2007 6:47 pm

I am so pissed about this waste of our tax dollars to pander to morons, it is disgusting.

lookout123 • Sep 28, 2007 7:40 pm

*wipes brow* good, and i was worried you couldn't find enough things to be angry and bitter about on such a beautiful day as today.

monster • Sep 28, 2007 8:56 pm

I think we should ban the use of the period/full stop in punctuation. It's a round dot like the Japanese flag and we usedto be at war with them.

JuancoRocks • Sep 28, 2007 11:04 pm

Phoenix City Hall 1929..... Main entrance floor logo

American Indian version......Not Evil....

rkzenrage • Sep 29, 2007 2:10 pm

lookout123;390358 wrote:
*wipes brow* good, and i was worried you couldn't find enough things to be angry and bitter about on such a beautiful day as today.

It is hilarious that you contribution to the board is to bitch about what others have to say LJ. You keep up that righteous indignation, it sure warms the cockles when you have nothing worth saying to contribute.
Beautiful days do warm the sand for sticking you head in, true.

Happy Monkey • Oct 1, 2007 2:00 pm

rkzenrage;390497 wrote:
It is hilarious that you contribution to the board is to bitch about what others have to say LJ.

Note: not LJ

rkzenrage • Oct 2, 2007 12:02 pm

Happy Monkey;391022 wrote:
Note: not LJ

LOL, lost on you...

DanaC • Oct 2, 2007 12:19 pm

umm...kind of lost on me too. Not being bitchy, I just don't get it..

wolf • Oct 2, 2007 3:39 pm

Architecturally I think it makes great use of the land. I'm not so sure about the feng shui since it spins in the direction of undoing.

Kitsune • Oct 2, 2007 3:51 pm

No one ever notices the two buildings that look like planes coming to bomb the swastika. I always thought that was the whole point of this design?

(I think the "boxes" around the planes were added at a later date.)

wolf • Oct 2, 2007 3:53 pm

If that isn't cool, I don't know what is!

Until now, I wasn't sure that architects had a sense of humor.They're usually so dry.

Urbane Guerrilla • Oct 3, 2007 2:52 am

Particularly dry, since Fountainhead.

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