DoctorJ said:

that shit is das uber geigh

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Rhizoid said:

DoctorJ said:

that shit is das uber geigh

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What's wrong with the heart, and what default icon would you prefer? And why do you think the heart icon stands for "uber geigh"?

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DoctorJ said:

Rhizoid said:

DoctorJ said:

that shit is das uber geigh

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What's wrong with the heart, and what default icon would you prefer? And why do you think the heart icon stands for "uber geigh"?

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Hi Rhizoid!I already answered your questions, which were already asked by other shroomerites, in a previous post.

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Rhizoid said:

Edit: I personally think that the heart icon is a good fit since philosophy literally means love of wisdom.

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MarkostheGnostic said:

StillSong said:

To pay respects to a longstanding (but fallen) shroomery member. It was a female as well...

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DoctorJ said:

that shit is das uber geigh

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The cause of change from the open book icon to the heart in my understanding (from one moderator) is that administrator Asante changed it because people were becoming far to unloving on these forums, particularly those forums that deal with ethics, philosophies and spirituality. A good number of Shroomerites have died during my stay here since 1999 and none of those, including at least one moderator, were memorialized by a change in icon.

A heart is a symbol of love, but there are several different forms of love that the ancient Greeks identified. http://unisoultheory.com/index.php/2017/02/02/ancient-greeks-types-of-love/ English has not maintained these distinguishing types, and so the image usually becomes identified with a romantic or eros type of love that characterizes that Hallmark™ holiday, Valentine's Day (formerly Saint Valentine's Day until the USA became so secularized). Eros is not a strictly sexual term either, historically speaking. Plato's use of eros was with regard to a yearning for God and eros-mystical systems of attainment tend to have hierarchical or ladder motifs of ascension, whereas agapé-mystical systems tend towards a centripetal motif of self-realization. At any rate, a heart does not necessarily suggest saccharine emotionality.

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Actually no, the icon was changed from an open book to a heart by Ythan, in memory of Acidic_Sloth, who always marked her posts with a and generally posted from the heart too.

The other admins were fine with it from the start, I myself saw as an extra dimension that the heart instead of the open book would divert some attention away from the mind towards the heart, and so would remind people to keep their feelings engaged in posting too.

Ythan customized every feature under the sun, we might just have the most customized forum of its kind on the web.

Why leave an open book, which is a factory default, when this has so much more meaning.

I don't see any reason to change it away from a heart, but if we were to go that way I myself would vote for a shroom. The open book was a bit meaningless.