Comments on: Why is the Pentagon pentagonal?

By: Moe Sizlak

Moe Sizlak — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:24:20 +0000

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By: readyjack

readyjack — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:43:19 +0000

Everyone knows that the pentagon was designed to magickly contain the demon Yog-Sothoth after it was captured from the Nazis in the early stages of WWII. Unfortunately said demon escaped when the walls were breached by a cruise missile on Sep. 11th 2001 and much of the current unrest in the world stems from that occasion.

By: Catherine Omega

Catherine Omega — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:34:47 +0000

Well, okay… let’s say the OFFICIAL reason the Pentagon is pentagonal then.

I don’t know, I buy it, but it doesn’t seem like the architects were constrained geographically so much as they found a way a way to do something interesting with the design of a horrible monolithic government building in the middle of the biggest war in the history of the world. It’s not like they had the freedom to go all Frank Gehry on it. :)

(Plus, it leads to the much catchier name “The Pentagon” instead of “The War Department Administration Building”!)

By: irakli

irakli — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:52:52 +0000

Also — according to people who believe in the conspiracy theories, the shape was chosen because pentagram has sacral meaning for Freemasons. Some believe US is run by Freemasons :)

Not sure how I feel about the conspiracy theory but I could buy the argument that the architect of Pentagon put certain symbolic meaning in using pentagram shape.

You have to agree that Wikipedia version — the shape was motivated purely by Geographical constraints, does not make sense, either.