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Article #880Re: nazi reference in doom????
From: dmci... David Michael Mcintyre
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 19:05
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 19:05
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In article <2gpgf1$i...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> kha...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >In article 94Jan8...@ballard.cs.colorado.edu, ne...@ballard.cs.colorado.edu (NEVES RICHARD K) writes: > [junk deleted] >> fictional. It is part of history that is scary. > >Yeah, and if the arms go the other way its a pennsylvania dutch hex symbol. I don't remember which way the arms are supposed to go, though. Actually, the swastika (with the arms going the opposite way from the Nazis'--you're right) is a very, very old symbol of good luck. I don't know if it's exclusively a Pennsylvania Dutch type symbol or what, but it goes back to biblical times, at least. An ironic twist that Hitler took the symbol of good luck and healing and turned it backwards as his icon. --Michael-- << dmci...@muselab.ac.runet.edu >> <<dmci...@vt.edu>>
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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zib-berlin.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!darwin.sura.net!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!ruacad!dmcintyr From: dmci...@ruacad.ac.runet.edu (David Michael Mcintyre) Subject: Re: nazi reference in doom???? Message-ID: <CJDMD0.F0J@ruacad.ac.runet.edu> Organization: Radford University References: <NEVES.94Jan8231740@ballard.cs.colorado.edu> <2gpgf1$ilg@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 19:05:23 GMT Lines: 18 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit