⟐ as the symbol of the philosophy of Epicurus

Quote from Julia

Somehow I can't see it (on your wall)? Can you please also post it to this thread?

I couldn't post images to my wall, so I edited the post above.

Quote from Don

My major misgiving about the moon I'm using is that it can be interpreted as a moon with a surprised look on its face. (Once you see it, you can't unsee it.)

I still don't see it. I mean, I can cognitively suppose that the two atoms left/right could be eyes, and the atom at the bottom could be a mouth, like with this smiley "" but then what's the one at the top? The 3rd eye? And how come the right eye is bigger than the mouth? I really don't see it! Is Don the only one who sees it, or am I the only one who doesn't?

I guess my pareidolia is overactive.

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I do not see it, probably because of the larger atom at the top and the different sizes of the "eyes" as mentioned by Julia.

Quote from Martin

the larger atom at the top

I couldn't not see that as a hair curl in the middle of his forehead, like Superman.

Don: Is there an astonished / surprised superman in here, too?

Of what we have so far, I still like this symbol best.

Quote from Don

Thinking out loud (fully realizing I just said no letters )

Φ or Φ - Greek phi

= Philosophy
Two stylized Ps back to back = Pleasure and Pain

If the Epicurean philosophy is about choice of Pleasure or Pain, then

Pleasure/Pain = Φ/Φ

Quote from Kalosyni

But I like this concept that Eikadistes made some time ago... I've made it as a plain symbol without words:

In the even that anyone else wants to play with the gibbous moon design, I'm happy to share with you high resolution versions of the wordless transparencies I created for the Hedonicon and elsewhere.

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Quote from Kalosyni

But I like this concept that Eikadistes made some time ago... I've made it as a plain symbol without words:

In the even that anyone else wants to play with the gibbous moon design, I'm happy to share with you high resolution versions of the wordless transparencies I created for the Hedonicon and elsewhere.

I would appreciate that, Eikadistes!

Don, do you have a vector file of your Four Atoms version of it? If not, that's okay, too: The picture you uploaded is quite high resolution, and looks like it should be easy enough to trace

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Quote from Julia

Don, do you have a vector file of your Four Atoms version of it

I just threw that together on Paint.net. The image I posted is all I have.