Any Chance of enabling the avatars on the forum, so we can have our little .sig pictures under our names?

 

 

 

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Simon

whats an Avatar when its at home???

An avatar is just a logo or graphic - like my 'WillyEd' logo. But most forum software like InfoPop allow the administrator to turn them on so users upload their own image which automatically appears under their username in the left column.

 

i.e:

 

Si.

An Avatar is a signatre picture that would feature under your name on the left

 

 

I have one on a footballforum and it's a rotating Birmingham City badge, looks cool!

 

You can create your own or customise the given Avatars, there are thousands to choose from, ranging from Bagpuss to Batman to Japanese football clubs!

 

But there is a real 'Avatar' and it means;

 

(The real but somewhat interesting)

 

AVATAR is a word that is commonly heard but rarely understood. In English, the word has come to mean "an embodiment, a bodily manifestation of the Divine." However, the Sanskrit word Avatara means "the descent of God" or simply "incarnation." Here is the definition based on India's ancient Vedas, the oldest and most comprehensive spiritual literature known to man:

 

The Avatara, or incarnation of Godhead, descends from the kingdom of God for [creating and maintaining the] material manifestation. And the particular form of the Personality of Godhead who so descends is called an incarnation, or Avatara. Such incarnations are situated in the spiritual world, the kingdom of God. When They descend to the material creation, They assume the name Avatara.( Chaitanya-caritamrita 2.20.263 -264)

 

An Avatara is a personal form of the Supreme Being and innumerable such divine forms reside in an eternal spiritual realm. When a personal form of God descends from that higher dimensional realm to the material world, He (or She) is known as an incarnation, or Avatara.

 

By referring to the form of God as an "incarnation," one invokes a Western conception describing a physical symbol which represents or embodies an abstraction. In fact, the Latin root carnis means "flesh." However, in this context, this may be somewhat misleading, since the divine forms of God do not "become flesh" or "take on a material body." An ordinary soul may take on a gross material body, but in the case of God, His 'soul' and His 'body' refer to the same spiritual essence.

 

In fact, the Avataras exhibit God's essential features: They are eternally existent and free from the laws of the matter, time and space. Although They have no obligation to come into contact with the material energy, the Avataras descend into this world for our own protection, instruction and redemption. Although They may potray human weaknesses such as grief and anger, They are never to be considered ordinary people. Human beings act out of earthly desire, fear and anger. The Avatar, however, acts out of His own blissfully divine nature performing exhuberant pastimes for the pleasure of His pure devotees.

 

God is one, yet He manifests Himself in innumerable forms within this world. There is the Darling Krishna Avatar whose beauty enchants the hearts of all; and the awesome Narasimha (the Man- Lion Avatar) who outwitted an ingenious demonic tyrant; and the regal form of Lord Rama Avatar whose example of truth and virtue is emulated even today. Each and every one of those forms has a particular mission; each Avatar being a unique revelation of the Absolute Truth.

 

Although the Avatars appear in different forms at different times, places and circumstances, They are the Selfsame Supreme Lord and Their purpose is one: to reveal the Absolute Truth in this world and remind its inhabitants of their eternal lives of blissful service to God in their original homeland, the spiritual world. This divine purpose is eloquently expressed by Lord Krsna in the world-famous Bhagavad-gita (4.7-8):

 

Whenever there is a decline in religious practice and a predominant rise of irreligion--at that time I descend Myself. To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as we establish the principles of religion, I Myself appear, millennium after millennium.

 

The ultimate mission of incarnations is to arouse love of God everywhere.

 

In fact, a very systematic analysis of the Avatars based on thse Vedic texts was expounded in the early sixteenth century by the devotional saint Shri Chaitanya, Himself an Avatara. In 1528, He went to Benares, a renowned academic center in India, and met His disciple Sanatana Goswami. During the meeting, He gave an elaborate description of the Avatars. How exactly does God descend? Who is a genuine incarnation? Can anyone become an Avatara? How can one experience the Avataras? What is the Absolute Truth beyond all Avataras? And from Lord Chaitanya's answers emerges an in-depth look into the most fascinating phenomena of all--the descent of the Avatar.

 

Blah, blah, blah, blah...........so on and so forth....

 

Matty.

 

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Cool

kin hell - top reply Matt! I think most of that went shooting over the top of my head, and hit someone behind me! ;-)

 

Simon.

Matthew my little shamanic druid friend, have you been on the Crack Pipe again?

 

 

 

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->Glen

not available on this version...

 

will need to buy the newer version or a different product, like vbb

 

once i have sorted the funding situation, then no problem...

Glenski,

 

Care to share my brother?

 

(passes Z pipe over)

 

 

Matty.

 

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Jeez....Matty.....top answer, man.

 

One thing I find confusing is that you evidently have more than a passing interest in the spiritual side of things (check out the Shoalin Monks 'Wheel of Life' tour...'kinace mate)....yet you think a rotating BIRMINGHAM CITY logo is cool??

 

Congrats on the promo....being a Baggies man meself we didn't bother with those 'play-off' thingies...shame about the Wolves, eh?? LOL

Give me and Craig a million quid each and we may consider it - otherwise no coz we're horrible mean People....

 

Rite im off to pull the wings of a few flys and shoot the cute fluffy rabbits in my back yard Muahahahahhaahah.

 

Menace and Ill will to you all ...

 

 

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Z ya

 

Nico91TT

 

 

God is coming ...and he dont have stock turbos . . .

Originally posted by kinace:

Congrats on the promo....being a Baggies man meself we didn't bother with those 'play-off' thingies...shame about the Wolves, eh?? LOL

 

Cheers mate!!

 

Will be great to have some Prmiership local derbies next season, can't wait! will have to get together and discuss all what's good and bad about football.....

 

Shame about the Wolves.........isn't it just...LMAO

 

Matty.

 

 

 

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Originally posted by craig:

not available on this version...

 

will need to buy the newer version or a different product, like vbb

 

once i have sorted the funding situation, then no problem...

 

Come on guys, Craig needs wonga to buy us VBB I think or something similar if you want these features! I'm mad for it, I spend alot of time looking at other boards and even the 200 board has upgraded to this sort of quality software recently!

 

MAD FOR IT!

 

 

 

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I can totally recommend VBB. We changed to Ikon3 which was free. I think it lasted about 3 weeks and then ate all the memberships, so I had to remove the memberships file which turned every post in to a 'guest' post (so for a while Timmy you were a guest on our board!! only joking, you can come back any time you want). So we dumped it and went back to Ikon2 while we set up VBB. We had a few problems with the path to the host and trying to import the existing members and stuff, but once we worked that out it imported all the memberships and all the old posts with no problems at all. Its now been running for about 3 weeks and it has had no problems at all, it also has some good features for the moderators so its well worth the upgrade price.

 

Take a look at www.mkivsupra.net/bbs , or www.sxoc.com/vbb if you want to see it in action.

 

JB

Nice one John but my password isn't working! LOL

 

Hey Craig/Nico twas Ikon that I downloaded FREE and configured but couldn't find any decent free webspace to host it. It's great!

 

New board looks good John as does the 200 guys board.

 

 

 

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If its Ikon3 then a fresh install should be okay, but if you starting importing or bringing old data in it gets a little squiffy.

 

I use www.highspeedhostinggroup.co.uk for my web space, but then they have given me unlimited space and bandwidth for free....our BBS is doing about 5gb of data each month, but then we have pictures and avatars all over the place.

 

With VBB only costing about £130 for an unlimited licence its money well invested. www.supraforums.com, lancer register, rx7 us, mkivsupra, 200sx all use VBB. Supraforums has over 6000 members and has had 300 members on their BBS real time so it can take some abuse.

 

Your account is still active Timmy, so either ask it for a new password or let me know what password you want and I will change it.

 

JB