What's in a name? - What is the significance of your Gulch pseudonym?
Some of us, like myself, opt to post under a pseudonym.
However, being Objectivists, for the most part, those pseudonyms in all likelihood mean something specific to the wielder.
So, what's your psuedonym's deeper meaning?
I'll start:
Eudaimonia - (from wiktionary's entry on eudemonia - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eudemonia#...) - A person’s state of excellence characterized by objective flourishing across a lifetime, and brought about through the exercise of moral virtue, practical wisdom, and rationality.
Eudaimonia, to me is a state of flourishing as a result of rational self-interest.
I first came across the term in a philosophy class titled "Ethical Individualism".
Eudaimonia, to me, is a goal which can best be summed up with the phrase "the good life".
"The good life", in fact, is my standard drinking toast.
However, being Objectivists, for the most part, those pseudonyms in all likelihood mean something specific to the wielder.
So, what's your psuedonym's deeper meaning?
I'll start:
Eudaimonia - (from wiktionary's entry on eudemonia - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eudemonia#...) - A person’s state of excellence characterized by objective flourishing across a lifetime, and brought about through the exercise of moral virtue, practical wisdom, and rationality.
Eudaimonia, to me is a state of flourishing as a result of rational self-interest.
I first came across the term in a philosophy class titled "Ethical Individualism".
Eudaimonia, to me, is a goal which can best be summed up with the phrase "the good life".
"The good life", in fact, is my standard drinking toast.
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After making and selling 38,000 pieces the IRS insisted I must be lieing on my taxes since nobody who was a "artist" could really be successfully building all this debt free without cheating on my taxes.
A year and half of audit hell and I finally had enough. Told my employees that I was closing, locked the front door, loaded the equipment all up and moved it home into my workshop, and sold the building for $1 less than I had invested in it - just so that I'd not be forced give the IRS one cent from my brain, skill or creative effort.
I went on strike.
Now I make pottery and give it away to friends, family or anyone who can appreciate it. I won't sell a piece of my work anymore. Guess what happened? I enjoy making pottery again. On April 15th each year now, I load up a couple boxes of pottery and donate it to the local Salvation Army.
I never watched Lost. should I?
The square of a number is the square of the previous number plus the previous number plus the number...
No, those are the numbers from "Lost".
Again... hrmmm... ;)
I like it!
Fortunately or unfortunately, depending how you look at it.
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