Bad juju stuff.

[Firefly]

I won’t have a Punisher logo on anything because it has been co-opted by queerosexuals, especially the blue line ones.

Which is sad because I still have my 80s style Punisher Skull T shirt I got in High School because I just liked the comics.

Swastika stuff doesn’t bother me anymore than a hammer and sickle. I just don’t own anything with it because I don’t care about old obsolete euro guns.

Honestly the older I get, the less superstitious I am. I’ve even read (Dun DunDUUUUN) the Quran. Not a religion for me but interesting ideas.

I have my core beliefs that don’t change but all this extra juju talk is kinda virtue signaling.

I get called a communist and an atheist a lot by people who think they sorta know me yet I go to church and hate paying taxes (but still do) so screw it all

But if you all want your lives to be guided or dictated by graven images; be my guest. Free country.

We can argue numbers all day but people have been murdered in cold blood over the cross, swastika, crescent moon, star of david, hamner and sickle, pretty much any flag, etc

I furthermore don’t think God has any “chosen people”. You believe in Him, He believes in you. That’s where it starts and stops with me. Anything else is man-made pomposity

[AndyLate]

I went with a buddy to look at a truck for sale in Tacoma WA. When John knocked on the door, it was answered by a huge, tatted up white guy with a nazi flag hanging on the wall behind him. John didn't miss a beat and told the guy he knocked because he was interested in the truck but never mind, goodbye. Big aryan nation guy offered to get the keys, etc. and John kept saying no and walking to my car.

I was freaked out, but John said he grew up around guys like that and that he almost pulled him out the door and whooped his ass when he saw the flag. John is a great dude and a pretty big old boy himself.

[ThirdWatcher]

Honestly, I never even heard of Punisher comics. Only comics I ever bought when I was a kid was “Sergeant Rock”. I don’t consider myself particularly superstitious and I couldn’t care less about what logo others wear or put on their weaponry either. I do believe in going with your instincts though. I have seen pure evil a few times and I prefer to avoid it if possible.

[Whiskey_Bravo]

Visited the Dachau concentration camp while in Germany a couple of weeks ago. Cold and rainy day. Talk about bad juju.

[Watrdawg]

The most creeped out I have ever been was 1988 when I was stationed in Germany and our unit went on a tour of Dachau and then to Oktoberfest. Very overcast and dreary day. Almost raining and the clouds/fog was right on top of us. Not much of a ceiling at all. The air felt really heavy. As we were going through Dachau and walking through the museum part and then the grounds where the barracks were and then the gallows and ovens it was like you could feel the weight of the souls of all of the people that had died or were killed there. The longer we were there the more depressing and heavy things became. I've never drank to drown out bad feelings or depression etc. but when we got to Oktoberfest and hit the beer tents I could down the first Mass of beer fast enough. Just for those that don't know a Mass is equal to a liter. I drank 5 Liter's of beer there. We all were drunk as skunks. I'll never go back to anyplace like Dachau again.

[Watrdawg]

Visited the Dachau concentration camp while in Germany a couple of weeks ago. Cold and rainy day. Talk about bad juju.

Pretty wild you mention Dachau as I was writing about it also!

[sundance435]

Years ago someone who claimed to have been in the IDF showed me some photos of old beat up German Panzer IV's the Arabs had been using. Most were destroyed but he claimed they captured some. I don't remember which war it was but I found it ironic that the modern enemies of Israel were still trying to kill them with Nazi equipment.

Not to sidetrack, but - the Syrians received quite a few of them from France and Czechoslovakia. They were used throughout the '67 war.

[Whiskey_Bravo]

The most creeped out I have ever been was 1988 when I was stationed in Germany and our unit went on a tour of Dachau and then to Oktoberfest. Very overcast and dreary day. Almost raining and the clouds/fog was right on top of us. Not much of a ceiling at all. The air felt really heavy. As we were going through Dachau and walking through the museum part and then the grounds where the barracks were and then the gallows and ovens it was like you could feel the weight of the souls of all of the people that had died or were killed there. The longer we were there the more depressing and heavy things became. I've never drank to drown out bad feelings or depression etc. but when we got to Oktoberfest and hit the beer tents I could down the first Mass of beer fast enough. Just for those that don't know a Mass is equal to a liter. I drank 5 Liter's of beer there. We all were drunk as skunks. I'll never go back to anyplace like Dachau again.

Very similar experience. You could just feel the evil that had taken place there. Glad I did it but not something I care to do again. The bus and train ride back to Munich was quite. We went directly to Hofbräuhaus back in Munich and had a couple of liters.

[sundance435]

Visited the Dachau concentration camp while in Germany a couple of weeks ago. Cold and rainy day. Talk about bad juju.

Yeah, that's one of the few places where I've felt a sense of "bad juju". I didn't have any physiological response to anything, hair on the neck, etc. - it was just more of a feeling, knowing what went on there. The gas chamber, packed with other tourists, created an almost palpable sense of dread and terror. There were also some survivors giving a talk to their family in one of the recreated barracks (at least that's what an employee told me) - everyone was weeping and it was truly heartbreaking.

[Averageman]

The most creeped out I have ever been was 1988 when I was stationed in Germany and our unit went on a tour of Dachau and then to Oktoberfest. Very overcast and dreary day. Almost raining and the clouds/fog was right on top of us. Not much of a ceiling at all. The air felt really heavy. As we were going through Dachau and walking through the museum part and then the grounds where the barracks were and then the gallows and ovens it was like you could feel the weight of the souls of all of the people that had died or were killed there. The longer we were there the more depressing and heavy things became. I've never drank to drown out bad feelings or depression etc. but when we got to Oktoberfest and hit the beer tents I could down the first Mass of beer fast enough. Just for those that don't know a Mass is equal to a liter. I drank 5 Liter's of beer there. We all were drunk as skunks. I'll never go back to anyplace like Dachau again.

Three of us went on that tour, one of the guys turned around and walked out. He said "I just felt overwhelmingly sad and depressed" I don't think there was anything spiritual about it. I think the magnitude of what happened there just became too much for him.