Comments | threw_a_spark: If You Tell Me Yours I'll Tell You Mine.

threw_a_spark

If You Tell Me Yours I'll Tell You Mine.

Jan 24, 2005 09:52

This is a message to all of my friends, compadres, and casual aquaintances on the ol' LiveJournal. As I was drifting off to sleep last night, in my cozy brown flannel sheets, I couldn't help but wonder to myself...

"Where do they all get their user names from?"

So, uhh, what's the deal? What made you pick your wacky monikers? Was ( Read more... )

friends, crooked fingers

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iconoclastes January 25 2005, 04:23:22 UTC

Now see, you just told me yours so now I have no incentive to tell you mine. ;-)

heldtight January 25 2005, 07:08:49 UTC

can i completely not answer your question and say that your icon makes you look like a sexy librarian? too late.

D-R-E-A-M-Y lomake January 25 2005, 18:09:05 UTC

i agree! *sighs* ...

lomake January 25 2005, 14:30:36 UTC

my ex told me that she was "full of a love and strength that you will never understand."

threw_a_spark January 25 2005, 20:21:54 UTC

Some of you are evasive, and some of you are damned dirty flatterers. Some of you are both.

iconoclastes January 26 2005, 03:22:57 UTC

Well there's nothing really exciting, or even slightly interesting about my username. Iconoclast and wanderlust are my two favorite words and I just decided to go with iconoclast.

threw_a_spark January 26 2005, 18:11:12 UTC

Artist types tend to get a little nervous around iconoclasts, particularly foreign ones. They understand wanderlust pretty well, though.

iconoclastes January 26 2005, 22:28:15 UTC

Why do you get nervous around iconoclasts? I'm not sure I'd agree that artits in general get nervous around iconoclasts since most artists I know are themselves iconoclasts.

threw_a_spark January 26 2005, 23:47:54 UTC

The Byzantines worshipped icons - images of Christ, the Virgin Mary and the saints in painting, sculpture or ivory relief. In every Byzantine church a huge and awesome figure of Christ as "Pantocrator" , or Ruler of the Univers, looked down from the centre of the main dome. Many of these glowing mosaics were destroyed during a wave of iconoclasm, or "imagebreaking" in the 8th century.Christian art went through a redoubtable crisis at Byzantium in connection with the ascetic heresy of the image-breakers, called the Iconoclasts, who gained the upper hand for a time. A bitter controversy began in 726 A.D. when Emperor Leo III banned the worship of icons, which most churchmen regarded as idolatrous. For more than a century after this the iconoclasts, or "image-smashers", whitewashed or defaced thousands of church paintings and sculptures.As questionable as its motives and influences may be, I love me some Early Christian Art. Iconoclasts have erred far beyond the range of caution on both sides of the board when it comes to the decimation ( ... )

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