From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 1:31:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from osiris.ipform.ru (osiris.ipform.ru [212.158.165.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5082B37B718 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 01:31:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matrix@ipform.ru) Received: from wp2 (localhost.ipform.ru [127.0.0.1]) by osiris.ipform.ru (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f1S9Umt11355; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:30:53 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from matrix@ipform.ru) Message-ID: <005001c0a169$2b506160$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> From: "Artem Koutchine" To: "Neil Blakey-Milner" , "Power JeSsIe!" Cc: References: <00ca01c0a20d$862637a0$6100000a@vladsempire.net> <20010228110202.A84177@rapier.smartspace.co.za> Subject: Re: bsd logo Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:30:46 +0300 Organization: IP Form MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Who gives a f**k about this? Some weird brain screwed religion maniac who is perversed enough to be classied as fanatic and will become a member os some sect w/o doub. A well know official relegion representative in Russian (Russian Ortodox) said on behave on the number 666 that it is only a number. Nothing more. It can be used, written, manupulated, said and so forth w/o being in danger of calling upon evil. This is just a number. If you put some extra meaning in it - it is you up to you, but it is closer to pagan culture. So, FreeBSD logo is just a FreeBSD logo. Nobody knows how daemon (demon, imp, etc) look like. Or in my case, if it even exists. So, relax people! Read some good books (Freud, Stanislav Lem) to clear up your view on such things. The creature which is represented on FreeBSD logo is definitelly a freindly one and it is (using human anotomy) still a child or a teenager. I doubt that such creature with a smile can represent any kind of danger. Psychologically for a modern human (whose culture is relied upon religion not as much as in 19th centure) this picture should be associated with position emotion and humor. If it is not for you - visit your psychoanalist. Best regards, Artem ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Blakey-Milner" To: "Power JeSsIe!" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 12:02 PM Subject: Re: bsd logo > On Wed 2001-02-28 (15:09), Power JeSsIe! wrote: > > but if daemon doesn't mean a demon, > > why is it that the logo is like that? > > a little red fellow with horns,tail and a fork... > > There was a process of "demonisation" occuring when (possibly before, > but definitely during) other cultures were introduced to Christianity. > Their previous gods, angel-analogues, and so forth were deemed to be > evil forces pretending to be good, or whatever. > > Webster's definition: > > Demon \De"mon\, n. [F. d['e]mon, L. daemon a spirit, an evil > spirit, fr. Gr. ? a divinity; of uncertain origin.] > 1. (Gr. Antiq.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a > middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. > > The imagery can be linked at least to stylised Eastern art from pre-"BC" > (CE, now, isn't it?), and to pre-Christianity Europe (satyrs, and so > forth). > > Neil > -- > Neil Blakey-Milner > nbm@mithrandr.moria.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message