X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,1919cf3390aa611d X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: cdman911@datatamers.com (Dan) Subject: Re: HA-HA!! A CHALLENGE FOR ALL!! Date: 1996/06/22 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 161656157 references: <31CC88D9.40B6@xs4all.nl> organization: DataTamers, Redwood City, CA newsgroups: alt.ascii-art In article <31CC88D9.40B6@xs4all.nl>, joris bellenger wrote: > Dan wrote: > > > > Howdy! > > > > Here's the thing peoples: I need some ascii art for a bbs. The bbs name is > > "1313 Iconoclast way" or "1313 Iconoclast Station". The bbs doesn't have a > > logo or a mascot or anything, so it is up to the artist to decide what > > they want to draw. My only request is to draw something you can relate to > > "iconoclast." For anybody wondering, an iconoclast is like a glorified, > > rebellious idealist. They do what they beleive no matter what the cost. > > I hope this poses a challenge to the bored masses of ascii-artists out > > there. Thanks for anything in advance. > > > > > Howdy howdy! > > According to my encyclopedy; an iconoclast was a member of an heretic sect, > during the Byzantine empire (VIII- century), whose purpose was to forbid and > distroy holly pictures. > Today an iconoclast is someone who doesn't care for traditions. Kinda rude > egotist I'd say. What's glorifying in this I don't know. > > > > `, > <--- ,\, # > |/ ? SEE YA! > | ~ )\ ------- > /_ /\ \____ joris bellenger (b'ger) > ~_/ \ e-mail: svzanten@xs4all.nl hi again, According to the world book dictionary: iconoclast 1. a person who attacks cherised beliefs or institutions which he/she thinks are wrong or foolish. 2 a person opposed to worshipping images or who breaks or destroys them. The encyclopedia part of my world book says: iconoclast, has come to mean a person who attacks long-established beliefs. Though those in the Byzantine sect you wrote of described themselves as iconoclasts, the word has, over time, come to mean an idealist and a rebel. Someone who opposes beliefs he/she thinks are wrong no matter what the personnal cost. Examples: Bronte's Jane Eyre, Joan of Arc, Bill clinton (ok, maybe not bill...) Anyway, this kind of stand-up-in-what-you-beleive-in attitude was what I meant my board to represent. I'm sorry if you disagree. Brad p.s. That byzantine sect wasn't heretic; they completely supported the church. They opposed the worship and veneration of pictures though. This is why they wanted them destroyed: they thought they took away from the purity of the church. Calling them egotisical is not all that truthful. # # \ \_/