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Hey, all you folks with basically the same Saint John of Damascus icon as an avatar. Isa had it first. It is really confusing when scrolling and I bump into Saint John of Damascus and I start reading a post and wonder where in the heck Isa is coming from, or wonder where the acerbic wit is, or the entire catalog of Rand McNally from the Garden of Eden to present in 33,346 x 24,764 pixels per map is. Please at least change your avatar to another icon of Saint John of Damascus, if you just have to have him as your avatar. Or start being simultaneously incisive, decisive, derisive, divisive, and concisive (poetic license). Plus add a lot of maps I possibly cannot understand or have to scroll five minutes to see in their entirety. Thanks. //:=) In honor of Isa here was his avatar (before a technical glitch took it from him), just the way he wishes he could have it displayed:  |
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« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2011, 12:20:45 PM » |
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Hey, all you folks with basically the same Saint John of Damascus icon as an avatar. Isa had it first.
It is really confusing when scrolling and I bump into Saint John of Damascus and I start reading a post and wonder where in the heck Isa is coming from, or wonder where the acerbic wit is, or the entire catalog of Rand McNally from the Garden of Eden to present in 33,346 x 24,764 pixels per map is.
Please at least change your avatar to another icon of Saint John of Damascus, if you just have to have him as your avatar. Or start being simultaneously incisive, decisive, derisive, divisive, and concisive (poetic license). Plus add a lot of maps I possibly cannot understand or have to scroll five minutes to see in their entirety.
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« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2011, 12:24:27 PM » |
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In honor of Isa here was his avatar (before a technical glitch took it from him), just the way he wishes he could have it displayed: Ah, as it should be. Were that all displayed the image of the Defender of Images in such prominence! |
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« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2011, 12:28:00 PM » |
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There is no escaping St. John of Damascus.
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« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2011, 12:36:34 PM » |
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Another two very popular avatars are the one with Seraphim and the Byzantine flag.
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« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2011, 01:19:18 PM » |
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I liked the variety on this site: icons, photos, and some logos. Variety is good! I agree with the intent of the OP.
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« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2011, 01:22:11 PM » |
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No matter how wrong it is, I tend to think that people look like their avatars. I will be very, very disappointed if Isa is not Saint John of Damascus. I vote that whoever gets to pick orthonorm's avatar (from that contest) picks Saint John.  |
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« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2011, 01:24:06 PM » |
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No matter how wrong it is, I tend to think that people look like their avatars. I will be very, very disappointed if Isa is not Saint John of Damascus. I vote that whoever gets to pick orthonorm's avatar (from that contest) picks Saint John. Which one? |
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« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2011, 01:27:25 PM » |
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No matter how wrong it is, I tend to think that people look like their avatars
If this is true, I pity those who have St. Athanasius as theirs. He is one Saint who iconographers did a radical touch up on, or our bodies will be radically glorified beyond what we can imagine upon receiving them. |
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« Reply #9 on: August 03, 2011, 01:30:39 PM » |
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No matter how wrong it is, I tend to think that people look like their avatars.
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« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2011, 01:32:40 PM » |
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No matter how wrong it is, I tend to think that people look like their avatars. I will be very, very disappointed if Isa is not Saint John of Damascus. I vote that whoever gets to pick orthonorm's avatar (from that contest) picks Saint John. Which one?  And Asteriktos! LOL! I think my husband is hawt, but that kind of picture would make me laugh more than anything else. That description reminds me of Fabio, not Brad Pitt.  |
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« Reply #11 on: August 03, 2011, 01:34:31 PM » |
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Also many posters have an icon of St John Maximovitch as their avs.
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« Reply #12 on: August 03, 2011, 01:39:08 PM » |
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I often wonder if posters (like Poppy did at first) think I'm a woman because I use a Theotokos icon.
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« Reply #13 on: August 03, 2011, 01:41:30 PM » |
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I often wonder if posters (like Poppy did at first) think I'm a woman because I use a Theotokos icon.
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« Reply #14 on: August 03, 2011, 01:44:08 PM » |
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I confuse sexes of posters very often.
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« Reply #15 on: August 03, 2011, 01:47:08 PM » |
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I vote that whoever gets to pick orthonorm's avatar (from that contest) picks Saint John. I'm missing something. Where is the thread surrounding this contest? |
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« Reply #16 on: August 03, 2011, 01:51:36 PM » |
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I vote that whoever gets to pick orthonorm's avatar (from that contest) picks Saint John. I'm missing something. Where is the thread surrounding this contest? YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING?!?!?!?!?!? |
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« Reply #17 on: August 03, 2011, 01:53:04 PM » |
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I vote that whoever gets to pick orthonorm's avatar (from that contest) picks Saint John. I'm missing something. Where is the thread surrounding this contest? |
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« Reply #18 on: August 03, 2011, 02:13:08 PM » |
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Hey, all you folks with basically the same Saint John of Damascus icon as an avatar. That's because there's nothing St John can't answer. |
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« Reply #19 on: August 03, 2011, 02:17:08 PM » |
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Hey, all you folks with basically the same Saint John of Damascus icon as an avatar. That's because there's nothing St John can't answer. I think that is projection of grandiosity on the part of his most notorious avatar-haver on this board. //:=) |
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« Reply #20 on: August 03, 2011, 02:20:11 PM » |
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Hey, all you folks with basically the same Saint John of Damascus icon as an avatar. That's because there's nothing St John can't collate. Fixed that for you. Oh snap! Did I just go there? I'm kidding. Mostly. |
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« Reply #21 on: August 03, 2011, 02:27:47 PM » |
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O Ye, Fickle Posters!
What once began as a celebration of our beloved Isa has taken a turn of malice!
It is not that we loved Isa less, but that we loved lulz more.
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« Reply #22 on: August 03, 2011, 02:32:58 PM » |
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I just feel personally violated when I'm bombarded with 30 maps of the same country at once. It's not Isa, it's the maps.
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« Reply #24 on: August 03, 2011, 03:17:53 PM » |
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If it makes you feel better, Isa, I think that your current avatar is cooler than your previous one, with the Arabic script and all:  |
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« Reply #25 on: August 03, 2011, 03:46:28 PM » |
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St. John of Damascus is not only everywhere on this site, but he is also everywhere theologcially and philosophically. In the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas relies heavily on the work of St. John.
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« Reply #26 on: August 03, 2011, 04:26:02 PM » |
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St. John of Damascus is not only everywhere on this site, but he is also everywhere theologcially and philosophically. In the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas relies heavily on the work of St. John.
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No matter how wrong it is, I tend to think that people look like their avatars.
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No matter how wrong it is, I tend to think that people look like their avatars.
Does that mean their avatars look like their pets? Pets, saints, blobs, whatever the avatar is! |
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« Reply #29 on: August 03, 2011, 06:27:50 PM » |
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I'm glad nobody uses real pics on this forum. I've seen enough mirror/cell phone shots for one lifetime.
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No matter how wrong it is, I tend to think that people look like their avatars. I will be very, very disappointed if Isa is not Saint John of Damascus. I've been on various forums where people would have cartoon characters and such. I would expect to see someone in an elk mask when I went to the supermarket... |
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St. John of Damascus is not only everywhere on this site, but he is also everywhere theologcially and philosophically. In the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas relies heavily on the work of St. John.
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« Reply #34 on: August 04, 2011, 02:52:29 AM » |
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I'm glad nobody uses real pics on this forum. I've seen enough mirror/cell phone shots for one lifetime.
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No matter how wrong it is, I tend to think that people look like their avatars. I will be very, very disappointed if Isa is not Saint John of Damascus. I vote that whoever gets to pick orthonorm's avatar (from that contest) picks Saint John. For the record, I am not St. Olaf of Norway. But that does not mean that I am not an 11th Century Viking warlord. Well...I wish I was. I kind of wish I got to pick Orthonorm's avatar now. I am still consternating about what he should do for a .sig. But I am kind of leaning towards a certain Samson quote since it is probably the most un-PC thing in the entire Bible, and thus it makes me laugh. |
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No matter how wrong it is, I tend to think that people look like their avatars. I will be very, very disappointed if Isa is not Saint John of Damascus. I vote that whoever gets to pick orthonorm's avatar (from that contest) picks Saint John. For the record, I am not St. Olaf of Norway. But that does not mean that I am not an 11th Century Viking warlord. Well...I wish I was. I kind of wish I got to pick Orthonorm's avatar now. I am still consternating about what he should do for a .sig. But I am kind of leaning towards a certain Samson quote since it is probably the most un-PC thing in the entire Bible, and thus it makes me laugh. The world is your oyster. Doesn't have to be "Christian". |
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