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In <1994Jan13.1...@infodev.cam.ac.uk> tj...@mbfs.bio.cam.ac.uk (Tim Cutts) writes:

>>ne...@ballard.cs.colorado.edu (NEVES RICHARD K) writes:
>>
>>> 
>>> I just grabbed the shareware version of doom and played it for the
>>> first time today.   
>>> 
>>> I was VERY disturbed to see this huge swastika in one of the rooms.
>>> It bothers me 'cause it makes me think the creators of the game have
>>> some sort of agenda.   That's really nasty and dangerous symbolism,
>>> don't you guys think.
>>> 

>No I don't.  The Swastika has been known for thousands of years as a
>symbol of peace.  Just because a bunch of assholes in Germany decided to use
>it for ten years or so earlier this century is no reason to ban its use.  Why
>don't you think of it's traditional symbolism rather than its recent meaning?

>This sort of attitude is what gets bad symbolism entrenched in the first place.

Hear, hear. If you go to a temple in India, you are bound to see quite
a lot of swastikas around (clockwise or counterclockwise, I don't know).
They were there loooong before anybody had even heard of fascists.

And, as someone pointed out, the Finns use the swastika as well. To be
more precise, it is the insignia of the Finnish Air Force. Its use began
in 1918, when Swedish count von Rosen donated the FAF their first plane.
The count's personal lucky sign was the swastika (pointing the other
way as the Nazi swastika), and so it was used in all the subsequent
planes as well. The use of the swastika was forbidden from FAF in the
peace negotiations after WWII.

Anxiously awaiting the registered version, Juhana

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