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What's so good about Cincinnati? You like it? You think Cincinnati is cool? I've never heard anyone say, 'I'm going to Cincinnati on vacation.'
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And we gave him the Rolling Stone cover?!
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Why is there a butt on top of the saint's head? Was he a theologian that had brain farts occasionally?
I've never seen something like that before.
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
"We see at once that the words absolute, divine, eternal, and so on do not express what is implied in them.
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« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2013, 07:01:18 PM » |
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Achronos
What's so good about Cincinnati? You like it? You think Cincinnati is cool? I've never heard anyone say, 'I'm going to Cincinnati on vacation.'
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« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2013, 07:02:41 PM » |
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
"We see at once that the words absolute, divine, eternal, and so on do not express what is implied in them.
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« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2013, 07:07:50 PM » |
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Why is there a butt on top of the saint's head? Was he a theologian that had brain farts occasionally?
I've never seen something like that before.
A high-domed forehead in iconography denotes wisdom and knowledge. Wrinkles, brow ridges, and other surface contours are stylized and abstracted. Seems the iconographer who painted this icon was a little heavy-handed, nothing more. |
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« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2013, 07:14:03 PM » |
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BTW, that's Father Kimel's avatar, not Father Aidan's.  Edit: NVM, I didn't realize Fr. Kimel's first name was Aidan as well. |
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« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2013, 07:21:36 PM » |
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Why is there a butt on top of the saint's head? Was he a theologian that had brain farts occasionally?
You're weird, Achronos. |
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Achronos
What's so good about Cincinnati? You like it? You think Cincinnati is cool? I've never heard anyone say, 'I'm going to Cincinnati on vacation.'
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« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2013, 07:23:50 PM » |
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Why is there a butt on top of the saint's head? Was he a theologian that had brain farts occasionally?
I've never seen something like that before.
A high-domed forehead in iconography denotes wisdom and knowledge. Wrinkles, brow ridges, and other surface contours are stylized and abstracted. Seems the iconographer who painted this icon was a little heavy-handed, nothing more. I was really pulling for a St. Aidan the Butthead. sigh. |
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
"We see at once that the words absolute, divine, eternal, and so on do not express what is implied in them.
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« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2013, 07:29:12 PM » |
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My children's godfather gave us that icon (Aidan is my son's middle/Christian name), and my brother-in-law actually asked why there was a butt on the saint's head.
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Blessed Nazarius practiced the ascetic life. His clothes were tattered. He wore his shoes without removing them for six years. Headscarves cover a multitude of sins.
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Asteriktos
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« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2013, 07:29:40 PM » |
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How rude!
EDIT--To aChronos
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« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2013, 07:30:02 PM » |
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I was really pulling for a St. Aidan the Butthead.
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Achronos
What's so good about Cincinnati? You like it? You think Cincinnati is cool? I've never heard anyone say, 'I'm going to Cincinnati on vacation.'
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« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2013, 07:33:10 PM » |
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I was really pulling for a St. Aidan the Butthead.
St Aidan is praying for your salvation ... Aww you changed it. |
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
"We see at once that the words absolute, divine, eternal, and so on do not express what is implied in them.
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« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2013, 07:54:17 PM » |
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Why is there a butt on top of the saint's head? Was he a theologian that had brain farts occasionally?
I've never seen something like that before.
A high-domed forehead in iconography denotes wisdom and knowledge. Wrinkles, brow ridges, and other surface contours are stylized and abstracted. Seems the iconographer who painted this icon was a little heavy-handed, nothing more. I was really pulling for a St. Aidan the Butthead. sigh. |
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formerly known as mikeDespite being a Polish citizen I am not a Pole.  Long live Belarus! "It's my constitutional right!" |
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« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2013, 08:56:11 PM » |
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There are two Fr Aidans now...  |
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« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2013, 09:20:18 PM » |
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There is also Fr. Aidan Wilcoxson, who serves at a parish only 18 miles from mine.
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« Reply #15 on: February 01, 2013, 02:58:06 PM » |
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brain fart Brain farct, short for "brain infarction". |
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