Explain Your Avatar

[AV1611VET]

Just for kicks, I'd like to create a thread where we can explain our avatars and maybe lighten things up a bit.

I'll start:

Mine is Alfred Enigma Neuman, mascot and cover boy for Mad Magazine.

I read Mad Magazine a lot while in the service (along with Dell comic books and Creepy) and kinda acquired an affinity for the guy.

Your turn.

 

[JD16]

Mine comes from experience, I meet new people and we got along just fine until the topic of religion came up. All of a sudden I transformed into the Antichrist for reasons unknown to me.

P.s I enjoyed MAD Magazine too,....What Me Worry? lolz

 

[Ada Lovelace]

The background of the picture is of Stanford, and I'm in the foreground, so it's Stanford, Ella. It's not very creative, haha. When I joined CF in high school I used a picture of Rapunzel from Tangled with a frog on her shoulder because I had long hair and loved frogs. My next picture was of me painting. That's still on my profile page, actually.

 

[CodyFaith]

Mine reminds me of the Tree of Life. I also love the nighttime, stars, etc.

 

[JackRT]

Mine was taken about 20 years ago. It was a fund raising project at my high school --- vote for your favourite teacher and s/he wins the "privilege" of kissing a pig. She was quite a little charmer.

 

[AirPo]

Mine is from my days as a LOST fan along with quite a few others here at CF. Back then, there was a feature for creating avatars. So basically, it's me on a South Pacific island.

 

[Left]

I'm a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan, and my personality is closest to Leonardo's of the four turtles.

 

[John Hyperspace]

My avatar is the Doctor and the Impossible Girl confronting hate, fear, doubt and suffering. It's a visual analogue of love vs. hate, faith vs. fear, hope vs. doubt, grace vs. law. But tomorrow I'm changing it to mark the beginning of the new. What will it be tomorrow? You'll have to wait and see.

 

[Rigatoni]

It's my picture along with a rendering of a hotel I designed in the background - one of my favorite projects I've work on thus far.

 

[Far Side Of the Moon]

Mine is just a picture of roses. I used to have anime avatars and even my own drawing as an avatar but I think as you get older a more mature avatar is needed. So I went with this, and I like it, I like flowers. I'm somewhat of a nature nut lol. If bird pass over head I try to get a good look at its color scheme and determine what species of bird it belongs too, same with trees and flowers.

I can tell by the spiky fruit there's nothing but sugar maples where we live.

 

[Tangible]

The Lamb is Pierced

"Born of the water of His mother's womb and shedding the blood of His circumcision. Baptized in the water of the Jordan. Bloodied by the bullies who crucified Him. But finally, there, on the cross, once for all, water and blood. From the side of God's Son. Who has finished it all. There is nothing to add to that water and blood that came from Jesus' side. Not our faith. Not our giving our heart to Jesus. Not our good works. Not our good intentions. Not our desire to be saved. Nothing can be added to His water and blood. His water and blood flows and takes with it our sins. Brothers and sisters in Christ, if you ever even for the smallest moment, doubt that your sins are terrible and great, then ponder the water and the blood that had to flow from the Son of God to take them away. And if you ever, even for the smallest moment, doubt that your sins are gone, then consider again that water and blood of the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

"But the water and blood don't stop on Calvary. They flow from Jesus side down to the ground, down from that hill. The water flows into the font of Christ's churches throughout the world. And His blood spills into the chalice of His churches. And there, at the font, from the cup, water and blood are given to you. Put upon you. What flows out of Christ flows upon you and into you, saving you. Your Baptism gives you Jesus. The Supper gives you Jesus. THAT is how you are saved, dear Christian, by the water and blood of Jesus, not just "back then" but here and now, given to you at the holy font and from the holy altar of Jesus. The soldiers pierced Jesus to make sure He was dead. Water and blood flowed so that you would be sure that you are saved. Your Baptism and His Supper are given to you for that purpose: that you never doubt God's mercy and forgiveness, but cling to them, and live by the water and blood of Jesus."

 

[Speedwell]

The Kerala Cross from India, the oldest archaeologically verifiable use of the cross as a Christian symbol.

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Mine's supposedly a (rather cuddly-looking) image of a bandersnatch, a creature I first encountered in Lewis Carroll's (aka Charles Dodgson) 'Through The Looking-Glass', in the poem 'Jabberwocky' (with a Jabberwock image that terrified me as a child). A bandersnatch also appears in 'The Hunting of the Snark', and seems to have caught the public imagination around that time.

I chose it because Carroll's imagination and love of words inspired my childhood, because it has a delicious portmanteau, and it's nonsense with an evocative emotional appeal, which seemed appropriate here. Also, it contrasts with my approach to life which isn't in the least frumious...

 

[juvenissun]

This symbol illustrates where does everything (includes this symbol) come from.

 

[Skreeper]

Nick Wilde because Zootopia is the best.

P.S. Why is this thread in the science forum?

 

[digitalgoth]

Just for kicks, I'd like to create a thread where we can explain our avatars and maybe lighten things up a bit.

I don't use one as I don't need to glorify myself. I let me genius debating skills do that for me.

 

[Kenny'sID]

As to Miss Ella not being "creative", I have her beat by a mile, mine means nothing. I chose it only to take the place of absolutely nothing, or no avatar at all..

Actually, that was one of it's original purposes, to take place of nothing.

 

[grasping the after wind]

Mine is the after wind which I am perpetually attempting to grasp.

 

[Goonie]

My cat, Buffy the Flyslayer.

 

[KWCrazy]

I wanted something to represent the resurrection. When I saw it, I had to use it.