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.
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.
Veteran Virtual Gulchers.
Fortunately or unfortunately, depending how you look at it.
Again... hrmmm... ;)
LS I never thought your name was collectivist.
I don't have any Captain Morgan pirate rum, but I do have a small glass of Glenmorangie, so I'll just have a sip and pretend.
did I tell you I hate jokes?
have I told you I hate the Coke polar bear?
The polar bear sighs and says, "hmmm..."
He sighs again and says, "aaaahhh".
The bartender says, "What's with the long pause?"
A proctologist needs to write a prescription for one of his patients. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a rectal thermometer. He looks at it and says "oh great, some a$$hole has my pen".
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".
I never watched Lost. should I?
I think mine is self explanatory lol. However, I have often wished I had chosen "Slug" instead (Francisco's nickname for Dagny.) Not to mention "Let's" sounds a bit collectivist. Oh well...what's done is done. :)
I took it to be what any Objectivist would say to any other Objectivist, both of whom were living under this current Marxist clownshow.
I would be glad to shrug along side of you, and would not consider either of us "collectivist" for doing so.
un·com·mon
[uhn-kom-uhn] Show IPA
adjective, un·com·mon·er, un·com·mon·est.
1. not common; unusual; rare: an uncommon word.
2. unusual in amount or degree; above the ordinary: an uncommon amount of mail.
3. exceptional; remarkable.
Sense: [sens] Show IPA noun, verb, sensed, sens·ing.
noun
1. any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body.
2. these faculties collectively.
3. their operation or function; sensation.
4. a feeling or perception produced through the organs of touch, taste, etc., or resulting from a particular condition of some part of the body: to have a sense of cold.
5. a faculty or function of the mind analogous to sensation: the moral sense.
Where did common sense go? I can tell you: that's why I'm here among you people. Somewhere I belong...
In such times, uncommon sense is definitely needed.
I like it!
Damn, why am I posting this?
weird, whacked out, messed up, not working for no definable reason. Usually applied to technology.
Aaaaaand there ya have it!
It's like emoticons ratcheted up a bit. /shrug just means that I'm shrugging because wonky is a pseudonym I chose long ago for no particular reason. I don't regret it. My real name is Michael Nelson McDonald, and I don't have anything to hide (that I know of).
And you have nothing to hide?
How about this camera shot of you getting 'busted'.... ;-)
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know the song where the last line is "lad I don't know where ya bean, but I see you won firrst prrrrrrize!"
(Secretly, I just like to give you points because you don't want them :P)
Aside from the ketamine definition, it looks like you fit right in here!
He's talking about low flow toilets, but I still think he's a bit wonky, and I love it.
Although I guess my critics could argue that it is short for "ex-thinker" as in somebody that no longer thinks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9kpUmacJ...