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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know the song where the last line is "lad I don't know where ya bean, but I see you won firrst prrrrrrize!"
He's talking about low flow toilets, but I still think he's a bit wonky, and I love it.
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...
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).
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