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Rutherford Beresford
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05-28-2009 07:00
What is the symbolism behind the Second Life logo of the eye in the palm of the hand?
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Conifer Dada
Hiya m'dooks!
Join date: 6 Oct 2006
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05-28-2009 07:02
The all-seeing hand?
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Tali Rosca
Plywood Whisperer
Join date: 6 Feb 2007
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05-28-2009 07:13
Now that's actually a good question...
Something about the users both seeing and doing/creating things? It's sort of an ultra-condensed avatar? |
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Imnotgoing Sideways
Can't outlaw cute! =^-^=
Join date: 17 Nov 2007
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05-28-2009 07:17
Someone was playing Myst at the time. (^_^)
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DanielRavenNest Noe
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05-28-2009 07:34
We can see everything you do and say, and if you do something we don't like, we will slap you "upside da head" with no warning
(as Dr. Robert Langdon would say: symbols are what you make of them) |
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Lee Ponzu
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05-28-2009 07:48
The symbol is of course only directed at rl males who are sl females.
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Argent Stonecutter
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05-28-2009 07:51
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Rhaorth Antonelli
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05-28-2009 07:53
http://www.darkfiber.com/eyeinhand/
eye = seeing hand = doing (our world, our imagination, where almost everything is created by the residents (not counting the linden stuff)) _____________________
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Arcady Yue
Sex Kitten
Join date: 19 May 2009
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05-28-2009 08:05
Given that it is a Hamsa, but its use in SL seems to have nothing to do with anything about SL...
- I'm voting that somebody in the advertising firm they hired to do their branding saw it on a t-shirt at Starbucks while taking one of those 3-day coffee breaks graphic designers take when they have a 2-day deadline... and managed to con it off on Linden Labs as something creative, original, and inspiring of a virtual world we can peer into and create within. Said designer, being largely uneducated about politics, religion, philosophy, history, math, language, geography, or science, like most such designers - probably never realized the symbol was anything more than 'street graffiti.' |
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Argent Stonecutter
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05-28-2009 08:05
A ferret in the hand is worth two in the kitchen.
 Here's what Linden Labs says about the logo: "The ancients believed that the protective eye-in-hand symbol brought good luck and good fortune. In Second Life®, the eye observes the vast virtual 3-D world, and the knowing hand shapes it." _____________________
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Marianne McCann
Feted Inner Child
Join date: 23 Feb 2006
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05-28-2009 09:39
"Talk to the hand."
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Amaranthim Talon
Voyager, Seeker, Curious
Join date: 14 Nov 2006
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05-28-2009 13:44
http://www.firstbling.com/
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Desmond Shang
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05-28-2009 13:50
I thought Robin came up with it.
And had a sense that it had to do with 'hand / eye' (as in: coordination, skills &c) * * * * * As logo's go, it's not bad at all. Just imagine what it mighta been in someone else's hands... Second Life (R) <'dollarsign on a prim dong' logo> _____________________
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Ceera Murakami
Texture Artist / Builder
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05-28-2009 13:51
They claim it is a hand. Bah. It's really the Southbound end of a Northbound Ostrich, with its head burried firmly in the sand, so it never has to listen to customers.
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Whimsycallie Pegler
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05-28-2009 13:53
They claim it is a hand. Bah. It's really the Southbound end of a Northbound Ostrich, with its head burried firmly in the sand, so it never has to listen to customers. Too funny. I will forever see the symbol now as an Ostrich prosterior. That might keep me giggling for a good long time. |
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Jojogirl Bailey
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05-28-2009 14:57
ancient masonic symbol indicating that SL is indeed a cult??? giggling
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Brenda Connolly
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05-28-2009 15:06
http://www.firstbling.com/ And i don't care what anyone says- mine has been hanging around my neck for almost four years- obsessed? Who me? Oh yeah, you're the one. _____________________
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Weston Graves
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05-28-2009 15:51
Said designer, being largely uneducated about politics, religion, philosophy, history, math, language, geography, or science, like most such designers - probably never realized the symbol was anything more than 'street graffiti.' I'm pretty sure I'm not following this line of reasoning.  To me it looks a lot like Kokopelli's (the fertility god's) head, but it's made into a hand for reasons I'm not going to ponder. _____________________
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Malia Writer
Unemployed in paradise
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05-28-2009 16:25
It's really the Southbound end of a Northbound Ostrich, with its head burried firmly in the sand, so it never has to listen to customers. _____________________
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Feral Mistwalker
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05-28-2009 17:16
Do you mean this...
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Tiffy Vella
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05-28-2009 17:51
It's a very old and widely used symbol, crossing over into many cultures. Quite interesting. http://www.darkfiber.com/eyeinhand/
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Sharcel Bellic
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05-28-2009 19:23
Search the forums for hamsa or hand symbol to see some existing comments on the eye in hand symbol.
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Amaranthim Talon
Voyager, Seeker, Curious
Join date: 14 Nov 2006
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05-28-2009 19:56
Oh yeah, you're the one. _____________________
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