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Name Meanings.

Abiathar
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Posted 04/28/08 - 06:27 PM: Subject: Name Meanings.	#1
Okay, this will likely be my last post in the Off Topic for quite some time, as I will not be sitting at work with nothing to do any more, so let me ask one more question of curiosity... What does your screen name mean? Abiathar: High Priest of King David.

Floyd
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Posted 04/28/08 - 10:05 PM:	#2
My screen name means that I am cool. Actually, in 1904 I named myself Floyd, which of course in German means "a whale's vagina."
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Tobias
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Posted 04/29/08 - 04:29 AM:	#3
I am Tobias because that is my name. I could have also name myself Leopold here or something like that, but I didn't, because that isn't my name.
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Legion
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Posted 04/29/08 - 04:56 AM:	#4
I chose the name Legion because I try to seize every opportunity to say we rather than I. If I had been Descartes then I might have said, â€œCogitamus ergo sumus.â€
We sense. We reason. We predict. We don't always get those right.

Benkei
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Posted 04/29/08 - 05:20 AM:	#5
From Saito MusashibÅ Benkei (è¥¿å¡”æ¦è”µåŠå¼æ…¶, Saito MusashibÅ Benkei? 1155 - 1189), popularly called Benkei, was a Sohei (warrior monk) who served Minamoto no Yoshitsune. He is commonly depicted as a man of great strength and loyalty, and is one of the favourite subjects of Japanese folklore. His life has been embellished and distorted by Kabuki and Noh drama, so that truth cannot be distinguished from legend. Also, it's an abbreviation of "I'm a rock" in Dutch, which also means "I'm cool". Seriously, I AM cool. Look at my picture. Really says it all, doesn't it? DOESN'T IT?! Floyd, I love Anchorman too. I also love lamps and carpet.
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Floyd
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Posted 05/01/08 - 11:41 AM:	#6
Do you really love the lamp, or are you just saying it because you saw it?
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Absolutely Relative
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Posted 05/01/08 - 11:44 AM:	#7
I believe in an absolute set of moral rules. It's out there... somewhere... I think... As I don't know what the absolute rules are, I accept that my morals are based on my relative understanding of morality. It's also an obvious play on words, part of my morality is the belief that I should challenge those who would impose their morality on others, all morality is absolutely relative. I do struggle with my own foibles.
It is what it is.

Zhuangzi
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Posted 05/01/08 - 05:05 PM:	#8
Because I am dreaming that I am a human...
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. -Friedrich Nietzsche "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams

Benkei
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Posted 05/04/08 - 09:50 AM:	#9
Floyd wrote: Do you really love the lamp, or are you just saying it because you saw it? I love lamp. I love lamp! (Talledega Nights - the legend of Ricky Bobby is another great Will Ferrell movie!)
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pumkin
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Posted 05/04/08 - 09:55 AM:	#10
Abiathar wrote: Okay, this will likely be my last post in the Off Topic for quite some time, as I will not be sitting at work with nothing to do any more, so let me ask one more question of curiosity... What does your screen name mean? Abiathar: High Priest of King David. Abiathar was a traitor.

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