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Submitted by stevenl on Wed, 12/21/2005 - 7:31pm.
 The Library had study desk modules grouped into quarters. If viewed from above, the top of the panel separators formed the shape of a swastika. We found this to be a bit unsettling. Click here for a larger image.
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Steven, is that you hard at w
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Wed, 12/21/2005 - 8:40pm.Maybe sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Anyway, the Nazi's stole the symbol "swastika" from others who'd used it long before they did. I believe it can be traced to India, where the study of human etheric energy fields and chakras have been studied for ages. The symbol is often used to describe the spinning wheel of a human physiological energy center, aka a chakra.
You can't see me in this pict
Submitted by stevenl on Thu, 12/22/2005 - 6:29am.As a long time cigar smoker myself, I agree sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But for those of us who were raised by WWII era parents, many of them combat veterans, we associated the swastika with pure evil. And once we saw it in those study desks, we always saw it.