I hate seeing your avatar Gib. I react to it a bit like I would to suddenly seeing someone with a fork in their Eye.
I wish you wuold change it.
You’re gonna have to grin an bear it. Once it’s up, it stays for at least a couple months.
What, are you run by committee?
At least admit you like it or refuse to change.
We are not talking about typhoon season or something.
Didn’t Nietzsche say we are all a committee of smaller selves?
I like it for it’s humorous aspect. 
EDIT: I notice you finally got an avatar. It’s actually quite nice.
Who?
thank you. Sounds like Guirdieff, the smaller selves thing, though I Think he said 'I’s
I’m thinking of your current avatar, your previous one, and two others. Since you mention it I can see how some people might find them funny, but it never occurred to me that was the effect you were looking for. I can imagine various people using anyone of those four avatars as a direct reflections on their personality, but from the personality you convey in most of your posts, those avatars seem mostly inconsistent. The important thing is that there’s a subtle consistency, which makes it so you avatars aren’t unbecoming. There’s a mystery to why you use the avatars you do and to who you are in general. Just like the best comedian is one who portrays a lot of dignity, the best of the type of personality I have no name for, but relating to the occult, ect. is based on one seemingly very average.
You must mean these:
For this one, yes.
For Oz, see my reply to AD earlier in this thread.
The other two probably represent my demon.
Which is perfectly consistent with my personality.
I attain averageness by stretching myself to all extremes equally.
What’s your avatar suppose to symbolize?
EDIT: I just realized the guy in my avatar has no nipples.
I could give you links to where I talked at length about my previous avatars. The present one has little meaning. I’m not interested in having one at the moment, except that with one I find it easier to find my posts when scrolling through large threads.
I actually would appreciate those links.
I remember than most of my discussions on my avatars were done though PM. Take a look at these and then if you’d like I can find some of my quotes from the PM, leaving the other out.
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=185120&p=2451202&hilit=+avatar#p2451202
HA!
Apparently, I’m not the only one who hates it.
Well, he did but he just ate them. Can’t you see what is in his mouth?
He’s a deviant, he’s a cannibal - hence the look of him! So unnatural, so grotesque.
Psychologically speaking, I wonder what unconscious part of myself he reminds me of…well, they do say…
[size=50]god, how i hope that look doesn’t belong to a real person. 
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That makes three of you. I never expected that posting one of my avatars would offend anyone–I must be really pushing some envelopes–so I apologize for that. Still, it’s gotta stay up just as long as its predecessors. Your tolerance is appreciated.
Of course. He would too.
I was thinking… we should give him a name. I’m thinking Ed. He looks like an Ed.
Not sure if I am counted as one of the Three, but in any case, I am not offended, but rather revulsed.
Well, I wouldn’t exactly say that I hate it. I kind of feel like Moreno - kind of repulsed by it. Nah, I guess hate might be a good word. There is just something all-around unnatural about him, his face, to me. But I suppose that if I were to sit down and talk to this “guy” 
and he was warm and friendly and intelligent, I might feel less repulsed by him.
Now, don’t go getting me wrong again. If his face was completely burned on one side, this actually wouldn’t repulse me. Why, I do not know but your “ed’s” - silly name for him - does kind of repulse me. What would I call him? Will have to get back to you on that. lol
It’s kind of the way in which I am repulsed by men and especially women (for me, it’s even more unnatural in a woman) who lift weights to the point of having these so unnatural muscles. Don’t get me wrong - I love muscles in a man, but the kind which come about from hard work - not the grotesque, unnatural (at least to me) muscles.
How about Gargoyle? That’s his name from me. I’m so mean. 
Offended, revulsed–either way I caused you pain, and I am sorry.
Yeah, he’s wearing make-up.
Ed’s actually quite a sensitive type. He’s in touch with his emotions and he writes poetry. He also takes care of abandoned kittens.
Makes perfect sense. Bigger isn’t always better. Men and women are physically attracted to each other if they look “natural”–too skinny, too fat, too bulked up, just doesn’t look natural.
(although something about make-up seems to disprove this. Do you think there’s a difference between deviating from the “natural” and accentuating it?)
That can be his nickname. 
Apparantly not that sorry. LOL.
gib,
That MAY account for it.
Although I wouldn’t say that I am sooooooooooo in touch with my emotions, yet I am to a large degree, and I am not quite the senstive type as I was at one time (believe it or not Satyr actually pushed me in the right direction insofar as that is concerned) among a few others in life, he kind of sounds like me - the poetry and caring for abandoned kittens. I have one home. Yoda.
True. But perhaps I have to work on that one - not being so repulsed by particular people. After all, it’s their life not mine and I don’t have to look at them.
Yes of course I do. I personally find nothing wrong with makeup though I don’t wear it, except for lipstick. I am just so beautiful without it. 
I think the word to use would be enhancing the natural. Some women have a natural kind of beauty I think that isn’t always seen until it is enhanced by the right kind and amount of makeup (as little as is possible). Going to the extreme though to me doesn’t work. I mean, if a woman wants to work out, lift weights, to build up stamina and endurance (which running does better) that’s fine. Developing a little muscle is okay but to me it is qrotesque for a man and especially a woman to look like a gorilla. Like everything else, it can become an addiction or like a run-away-train out of control. But to each his own.
Well, perhaps I’ll have to change it though at this point in time my reason is kind of following my emotions. But awareness takes some time, doesn’t it?