Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Explain Your Avatar

Please take a minute and explain why you chose your avatar or favicon.
Of course, your avatar will appear next to your comment.
We here at Calvinistic Cartoons are curious.
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26 comments:

  1. The BlainemonsterSeptember 20, 2011 at 10:12 PM

    Well, it's my parents' fault. You see, I've inherited genetic material from both of them apparently and so I've got no choice in the matter. You could say my folks were sovereign in a sense. At any rate, I've got my face partially covered by my hand because I'm secretly self-conscious and shy. That, and you couldn't bear to see my unguarded visage.

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  2. The BlainemonsterSeptember 20, 2011 at 10:13 PM

    Actually I sneezed at the very moment I took that self-portrait...

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  3. ScottSeptember 20, 2011 at 10:22 PM

    I just want people to think I actually study and read those books.

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  4. Meghan NewSeptember 21, 2011 at 12:15 AM

    My picture is me and it's one of my better pictures.

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  5. IanSeptember 21, 2011 at 12:31 AM

    I created my own in photoshop a couple years ago. I was creating a globe for a VBS poster and when it was done I mapped out a cross on it to cover the earth and toyed with the blending options until I got the image I was looking for. All in all, I really like it and it speaks volumes to the sovereignty of Christ over His creation.

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  6. Joel GarnerSeptember 21, 2011 at 1:06 AM

    I chose it...because it...umm...looks cool. :-D

    It is me holding my beautiful Victorinox SwissTool, metallic iced in IrfanView (awesome program, by the way).

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  7. Fake Coke CanSeptember 21, 2011 at 1:50 AM

    God gave me a verse decades ago and I was playing with the first letters of the key words in it trying to get a name to use on a forum I frequent. I eventually came up with "Fake Coke Can" so my Avatar is a real one.

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  8. stranger.strange.landSeptember 21, 2011 at 3:14 AM

    I use the Star of Bethlehem because I love the Advent of Christ. I just can't get over it, no matter what time of year it is.

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  9. stranger.strange.landSeptember 21, 2011 at 3:22 AM

    So how about yours, Eddie. Does it, as I have long suspected, represent the helmet of salvation, as in Ephesians 6:17?

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  10. mikew116September 21, 2011 at 4:38 AM

    Because it was ordained. Also because It's...well...me.

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  11. Joel GarnerSeptember 21, 2011 at 4:39 AM

    @Michael: Hahahhahaha!!!!!!

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  12. Corey P.September 21, 2011 at 8:34 AM

    Because I love to write. And my alter ego is "the Ink Slinger". Hence the ink splots. :)

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  13. stranger.strange.landSeptember 21, 2011 at 5:26 PM

    So Ian, I like the story behind your avatar, but......um..............

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  14. AnonymousSeptember 21, 2011 at 5:48 PM

    I chose mine because it goes well with my blogs name, Against the Current. If you look very, very closely that's me walking into the waves.

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  15. Eddie EddingsSeptember 21, 2011 at 6:55 PM

    Stranger, I would love to tell you that I am wearing the helmet because it represents the helmet of salvation in Ephesians...but, I would be lying if I did.
    I just liked the way it looked.

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  16. THEOparadoxSeptember 21, 2011 at 9:19 PM

    I didn't choose mine. It chose me.

    In one sense that's true, because I didn't choose my own face - but then again, I did (since I made it my avatar). So I guess my avatar is a paradox.

    I'm actually not sure why I chose this one, it just seemed better than a blank spot - or worse, one of those random shapes you get on WordPress if you don't have a real avatar.

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  17. PersisSeptember 21, 2011 at 11:37 PM

    I chose my avatar because I like gardenias and wanted to maintain some level of anonymity.

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  18. Jim PembertonSeptember 22, 2011 at 11:26 PM

    Because I'm not as cool as Eddy Eddings. :)

    I picked mine because I have a heart for missions, particularly among the poor and disenfranchised. (Truly speaking, all the lost are at least as poor in the riches of God as she is in material things and don't know how deluded they are.) This photo is from my first mission trip. The name of the girl I'm holding is Genesis and she lives in the Maracaibo city dump.

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  19. Constitution GirlSeptember 22, 2011 at 11:29 PM

    I'm a history nut. My avatar is the National Monument To the Forefathers in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It is remarkable to hear the interpretation of the monument--every little detail means something.

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  20. MadisonSeptember 23, 2011 at 5:48 AM

    ..the link didn't work....Blogger strikes again.

    Plymrock.org

    was the link. :)

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  21. MadisonSeptember 23, 2011 at 5:49 AM

    {Constitution Girl's Alter Ego}

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  22. jcftxSeptember 23, 2011 at 2:58 PM

    My six year old granddaughter snapped this one. Need I say more?

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  23. AnonymousSeptember 23, 2011 at 9:28 PM

    I enjoy being near "glacial" and large topographical features. But , I’ve been often accused of being a “frozen chosen” by those of weaker soteriologies also!

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  24. stranger.strange.landSeptember 24, 2011 at 5:31 AM

    @SamWise

    Admitedly, some of us Presbyterian / Reformed types do, at times, exhibit symptoms of frozen-chosenness. But, hanging around our Baptist brethren is good therapy, as it helps thaw us out. ; )

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  25. stranger.strange.landSeptember 24, 2011 at 5:40 AM

    Hmmmm. I seem to have dropped a t from the first word in my last comment. Readers, please insert this t (that I found here on my desk) in place of the missing one.

    hank you.

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  26. EllerySeptember 26, 2011 at 5:09 AM

    The mule is because I do not want to be without understanding. Psalm 32

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