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Post #1Its how you apear to most of the people on the forum. The image your most associated with does it have any particular meaning?
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Zarathustra
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Post #2
Not really, I just make a new one whenever the feeling moves me. Though it does show how much I love the "Perspective" tool in the G.I.M.P. Other than that? Nothing.
"Live that you might find the answers you can't know before you live.
Love and Life will give you chances, from your flaws learn to forgive." - Daniel Gildenlow
Love and Life will give you chances, from your flaws learn to forgive." - Daniel Gildenlow
Post #3
My avatar comes from one of my favourite artists, is pretty, and is vaguely related to religion, what with the apple, and the title of "The Son of Man". One can interpret it in numerous subtle ways; for example, that the man's faith is blinding him, or that the man can't see beyond his conscience or his knowledge of good and evil, or that we think we know what's behind the apple and yet, we can't be sure.
The apple as the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil also has some significance to me in a novel I am writing, where it's used as symbolism for the fabrication of morality and moral foundation.
About the painting, the artist, Rene Magritte, said: Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.
The apple as the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil also has some significance to me in a novel I am writing, where it's used as symbolism for the fabrication of morality and moral foundation.
About the painting, the artist, Rene Magritte, said: Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.
<i>'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'</i>
-John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'</i>
-John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Post #4
Great question, squall. My avatar comes from the postmodernist painter Piet Mondrian, whose work I interpret to mean the various patterns we can ascribe to the things we see. In terms of painting, the lines and colors are representational, but the actual representations can't be decoded until we know the original referent. It's a lens through which we view the world -- one whose actual shapes, meanings, and implications are hidden and so the interpretation, the viewer, becomes the most important object of the experience.
Plus, like Corvus, I think it's pretty.
Plus, like Corvus, I think it's pretty.
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Post #5I use a modification of the "Happy Human" icon used by Humanists around the world. This version is from the Humanist Association of Canada.
From Humanists of Utah
Origins of the Happy Human Symbol
February 1996
I found this article while surfing on the world wide web one night. It is from a home page maintained by the Victorian Humanist Association in Melbourne, Australia.
Members have often asked: "Where did the Humanist icon--The Happy Human--come from?"
The story began thirty years ago in the London office of the British Humanist Association, (BHA). In 1965 Tom Vernon, then the Press and Public Relations officer of the BHA, proposed that a competition be held to find a symbol, logo or icon for the Humanist Movement.
During the following months entries flowed in and opinions were canvassed. "What do you think of that?" The uniform reply was, "Not much." More than 150 drawings were submitted from around the world including Australia, Mexico and one from a Canadian firm of undertakers! They varied in size from one square inch to one 20 by 15 inches. The file of rejects continued to grow. Until one morning arrived what became to be known as the Happy Human symbol.
The effect was electric, the common reaction of most who saw it for the first time. The artist was Dennis Barington of North London. News of the competition results was reported in the June 1965 issue of Humanist News.
Today, wherever humanism is to be found in the world, the Happy Human is to be found. It has become the link that identifies the Internationalism of the Humanist Movement and highlights the humanist teaching: "There is but one life that we know of and we should influence that life by being happy, and the best way to do that is by making others so!"
--Wayne Wilson
Humanism promotes Joyful Living through Rational Thinking and Responsible Behavior
Humanists of Utah
The original:
From Humanists of Utah
Origins of the Happy Human Symbol
February 1996
I found this article while surfing on the world wide web one night. It is from a home page maintained by the Victorian Humanist Association in Melbourne, Australia.
Members have often asked: "Where did the Humanist icon--The Happy Human--come from?"
The story began thirty years ago in the London office of the British Humanist Association, (BHA). In 1965 Tom Vernon, then the Press and Public Relations officer of the BHA, proposed that a competition be held to find a symbol, logo or icon for the Humanist Movement.
During the following months entries flowed in and opinions were canvassed. "What do you think of that?" The uniform reply was, "Not much." More than 150 drawings were submitted from around the world including Australia, Mexico and one from a Canadian firm of undertakers! They varied in size from one square inch to one 20 by 15 inches. The file of rejects continued to grow. Until one morning arrived what became to be known as the Happy Human symbol.
The effect was electric, the common reaction of most who saw it for the first time. The artist was Dennis Barington of North London. News of the competition results was reported in the June 1965 issue of Humanist News.
Today, wherever humanism is to be found in the world, the Happy Human is to be found. It has become the link that identifies the Internationalism of the Humanist Movement and highlights the humanist teaching: "There is but one life that we know of and we should influence that life by being happy, and the best way to do that is by making others so!"
--Wayne Wilson
Humanism promotes Joyful Living through Rational Thinking and Responsible Behavior
Humanists of Utah
The original:
Post #7
Mine is from the old Fallout games from the now defunct interplay. It was originally the avatar I used on an online RPG (Specifically, a MUD). It was as close as I could get to the spirit of my character (Incidently, named Nyril, which I use for all of my online forum names), and I took a fancy to it.
"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air...we need believing people."
[Adolf Hitler, April 26, 1933]
[Adolf Hitler, April 26, 1933]
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Post #8
Mine is the round arch, an architectural innovation owed to the Romans, and which was widely used in the Romanesque art of the Dark Ages. I live in an area where there is an abundance of Romanesque architecture (if you don't know what I'm talking about go see the Cloisters in New York City: the buildings there came from Southern France and Northern Spain).
The round arch was put to good use in Roman aqueducts also (there is an intact one in a Northern Spanish city called Segovia, and it was still in use until the beginning of the 20th century) and suggests stability and grace. I just liked it because it's simple and it's defintely a classic.
The round arch was put to good use in Roman aqueducts also (there is an intact one in a Northern Spanish city called Segovia, and it was still in use until the beginning of the 20th century) and suggests stability and grace. I just liked it because it's simple and it's defintely a classic.
Post #10
Mine btw is a character from a video game called Finall Fantasy VIII named Squall who I have always been fond of and always related to. I have noticed two other members here with FFVIII avatars, keep on gaming!
