What is it? Good question- Image From Google Earth

[kpete]

From Google Earth of the United States Navy SEAL base on Coronado Island in San Diego. Smack dead in the middle of the base is a formation of buildings shaped exactly like a swastika. Does it mean anything?

more at:
http://www.teambio.org/2006/08/caption-this-6/

[cynatnite]

1. No, it doesn't mean anything...

this photo has been floating around for some time.

[EstimatedProphet]

2. This came up a few weeks ago

See the building directly below the swastika. There is another like it just out of frame. They (the story goes) represent 2 attack planes going to destroy the swastika. The thing is supposed to be an aerial representation of the victory of WWII.

[BootinUp]

6. cool.

thanks for the explanation.

[daleo]

12. Maybe, but it seems like a stretch.

Even with that explanation, it is a pretty strange looking building.

[EstimatedProphet]

14. It is. That's just the explanation I heard

[daleo]

15. Thanks, your info was interesting

I didn't mean to imply anything pesonal.

[EstimatedProphet]

16. No problem

:pals:

[Odin2005]

18. Damn, who ever designed that has a good sense of humor!

:rofl:

[hobbit709]

3. It's the base commissary

It started out smaller and the additions make it look like that from the air.

[sweetheart]

4. munitions, biohazard, bioweapons

explosive multiplier effects, incompetence, waste, malfesiance,
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And the earth beneath them is trusting in asia to sort her systems problem..

[Southern By Choice]

5. As I recall,

the swastika is/was used in Zen Buddhism (?) as a symbol of peace and harmony..they're none to pleased with the nazis for hijacking it..

[Felinity]

7. The nazi symbol has arms radiating out clockwise.

I believe they reversed it from the original, counterclockwise symbol.

[paulk]

8. some history here

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/swastika/a/swastikahistory.htm

the word "swastika" comes from the sanskrit and literally means "to be good"

it's an important symbol in both the Hindu and Buddhist religions.

[jsamuel]

9. It was actually also used by Native North Americans during the Mississipp

ian time period as a religious symbol.

[paulk]

10. I knew a guy about 20 years ago

who was trying to get a book published - one of those big coffee table books with lots of pictures - about the history of the swastika. He'd researched it's use all over the world - he problbly had the North Americans in there... Of course, no one would touch it. Too controversial.

He said that the swastika is one of the 7 basic symbols that are found in all cultures - like, circle, square, star, etc. Don't know if that's true, but it seems plausible.

[Cleita]

11. Yes, it is and there are variations of it going back to neolithic

art. More contemporary is the cross of St. Brigid in Ireland, which doesn't contain the forty five degree bend in the arms, but it comes from the same symbolism.

[Old and In the Way]

19. I remember seeing Winchester rifles at the Springfield Armory that

Indians had put swastikas on the shoulder stocks...I think they werre reversed and it was some kind of good luck symbol. Interesting that they'd have used symbiology from India.

[Scout1071]

23. It goes back centuries in China.

Although the "arms" go the opposite way.

I was just in a store that sells artifacts from around the world and I was stunned to see an old Buddha with what looked like a swastika on it, particularly since my good friends - the store owners - are Jewish. But, he explained to me that the symbol is common throughout China and is an anciet religious symbol that far outdates the Nazis. He said that he too was shocked to see it on Buddhist monuments until it was explained to him.

[sweetheart]

13. frame buddhist please

All sentient beings who suffer have an opportunity to awaken, and the
symbol of the swaztika is one of many fortune symbols to express this profundity
that is essentially beyond all symbology, beyond rational understanding and
beyond self.

As much as life just 'is', knowledge could be to use the swaztika in this moment,
and be blessed by luck. What is that? What is it to be lucky, if we surrender to it,
and if luck is not with us, why? What current are we in that is not with the blessing of
immaculate awakening and presence. In so much as these fingers are programmed with a
DNA that writes this from a mind beyond a human mind, beyond a genetic mind, deeper
and more awake than that, less present in apparent phenomenon, and in surrender
to one's humble reality of eventual death in pain.

As awakening has no symbol, really, then the saztika is arguabley nothing to do with
buddhism whatsover, nor any other symbol of the mind of man.

[newyawker99]

22. Hi Southern By Choice!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[TheCentepedeShoes]

17. House in my neighborhood

that I visited during an open house when it was on the market has one on the chimney in a contrasting colored brick. Place built in 1926 - had to shuffle through the fliers to verify that - and you can't see it easily from the street. Maybe Native American influence?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

20. This Garbage Has Been Locked A Dozen Times On DU Already.

C'mon Kpete, you're so much better than this thread. :)

[The Bastard1]

21. HEY THANKS ALL

First I saw of it, like I said I was just browsing Google Earth and came across it. NIce info you all provided and thanks kpete for posting it!!!