The way people in the technology field express their 'faith' or 'self' was always an interesting subject to me. I long mused on most appropriate statements of faith that I could adopt and stand by. However, I found myself in a position of borrowing my 'faith' from others, at least partially. This, I hope doesn't reflect on my lack of creativity or self-esteem.. or does it? No, i do believe not. I think it's rather a way of sticking up to something that you feel is worthy or at the least with a streak of sharp humor.

I picked my statement of faith from the GNU website. Being a particular follower of Stallman's theological doctrines, I felt this phrase was appropriate for me as well:

"There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels."

Romping around this place, I also see more cryptic, noisy, japh-like or all out fancy signatures (ak'a statements?):

______crazyinsomniac_____________________________
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
perl -e "$q=$_;map({chr unpack qq;H*;,$_}split(q;;,q*H*));print;$q/$q;"

by crazyinsomniac

"Nyahhh (munch, munch) What's up, Doc?" --Bugs Bunny
by talexb 


L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---

by jeffa

This being a monastery, I think anyone participating in the daily chores of running this place (posting, writing, meditating, giving a helping hand to others etc) is contributing to -- pardon for the word -- geek culture in one way or the other.

What is your statement or theme? If you could, I would appreciate and find it very interesting to hear your resoning behind your faith. Or, on the other hand, do you have a story behind your signature?

Note: For spiritual minded (I myself am a Christian), I'd like to make this post of rather non-religious kind.



"There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels." -- Confession of Faith

In reply to What's your (favourite?) statement of faith? by vladb

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