Titles, Names, Monikers and other Identifiers

quietthinker · Sep 27, 2021

It has come to my notice that 'identifiers' we give ourselves ie, Names, Monikers or Titles or those given us and accepted from others more often than not betray something in us.....eg, parading or accepting the title 'your holiness' or 'your highness' has got to draw into question the persons core.

Reflecting on the monikers we give ourselves here on this site also reveals a persons M.O. ....and alarmingly, it betrays something fundamental at their core also.

Cooper · Sep 27, 2021

quietthinker said:
It has come to my notice that 'identifiers' we give ourselves ie, Names, Monikers or Titles or those given us and accepted from others more often than not betray something in us.....eg, parading or accepting the title 'your holiness' or 'your highness' has got to draw into question the persons core.

Reflecting on the monikers we give ourselves here on this site also reveals a persons M.O. ....and alarmingly, it betrays something fundamental at their core also.

My screen name identifies me as a loving, kind, gentle, friendly person, the same as my brown dog.

My qualifications when I was working are unimportant. What is important is that throughout our secular and spiritual life, we live and teach according to what is good, right, true and proper.

Stumpmaster · Sep 27, 2021

quietthinker said:
It has come to my notice that 'identifiers' we give ourselves ie, Names, Monikers or Titles or those given us and accepted from others more often than not betray something in us.....eg, parading or accepting the title 'your holiness' or 'your highness' has got to draw into question the persons core.

Reflecting on the monikers we give ourselves here on this site also reveals a persons M.O. ....and alarmingly, it betrays something fundamental at their core also.

@quietthinker I like your username. Very apt given the silent script we communicate with.

MatthewG · Sep 27, 2021

What is monikers?

Cooper · Sep 27, 2021

MatthewG said:
What is monikers?

The name someone is known by is their moniker.
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MatthewG · Sep 27, 2021

Thank you for defining it out for me cooper.

What is they call it on a church radio: their name would be like a moniker.

Had a girlfriend who’s dad used cb radio went by name Bambam.

bbyrd009 · Sep 27, 2021

quietthinker said:
It has come to my notice that 'identifiers' we give ourselves ie, Names, Monikers or Titles or those given us and accepted from others more often than not betray something in us.....eg, parading or accepting the title 'your holiness' or 'your highness' has got to draw into question the persons core.

Reflecting on the monikers we give ourselves here on this site also reveals a persons M.O. ....and alarmingly, it betrays something fundamental at their core also.

imo owl avatars are a pretty dead giveaway too

Wrangler · Sep 27, 2021

quietthinker said:
It has come to my notice that 'identifiers' we give ourselves ... betray .... alarmingly, it betrays something fundamental at their core also.

I have no idea what the negativity is all about. Yes, identity is fundamental but you are imposing a moral judgment on it.

As far as self-aggrandizement; well, lacking in humility in all its forms is troubling. However, as a mature Christian, you should know it is more troubling for the one lacking humility than the one who notices it.

If only the wrong people seek titles of grandeur, what are we left with? Being ruled by our inferior's? How depressing.

amadeus · Sep 27, 2021

bbyrd009 said:
imo owl avatars are a pretty dead giveaway too

And if a "little bird" told me this or that, what might that say about a "bbyrd"?

amadeus · Sep 27, 2021

@quietthinker @bbyrd009 and everyone else...

Mine is simple enough going back to my Catholic background. In the Catholic Church they have the sacrament of Confirmation at which time a person is given new name. I was probably about 10 years old when I took the name Amadeus. I never used it for anything until I got involved in Christian forums like this one. Very simply, it is Latin for "love God".

farouk · Sep 27, 2021

MatthewG said:
What is monikers?

I think it's another term for names and terms and nick-names, etc.

Cooper · Sep 27, 2021

amadeus said:
@quietthinker @bbyrd009 and everyone else...

Mine is simple enough going back to my Catholic background. In the Catholic Church they have the sacrament of Confirmation at which time a person is given new name. I was probably about 10 years old when I took the name Amadeus. I never used it for anything until I got involved in Christian forums like this one. Very simply, it is Latin for "love God".

Perfect.

Stumpmaster · Sep 27, 2021

MatthewG said:
What is monikers?

Link:[moniker | Origin and meaning of moniker by Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com)]
moniker (n.)
"person's name, especially a nickname or alias," 1849, said to be originally a hobo term (but monekeer is attested in London underclass from 1851), of uncertain origin; perhaps from monk (monks and nuns take new names with their vows, and early 19c. British tramps referred to themselves as "in the monkery"). Its origins seem always to have been obscure:

Sir H. Rawlinson can decipher cuneiform, but can he tell us why "moniker"—the word has a certain Coptic or Egyptian twang—means a name painted on a trunk? [The Saturday Review, Dec. 19, 1857]

Watkins speculates from Old Irish ainm "name."

Truman · Sep 27, 2021

My brothers used to call me Ronnolio, I think after Oblio, from the 70s animated movie, "The Point." I've used a picture of Oblio for my avatar on a few sites as I often feel like I'm walking around the pointless forest. Bizarroland!

Reggie Belafonte · Sep 27, 2021

I remember One day someone called a bloke Sir and the bloke said, don't call me Sir, as I work for a living.

I am into nick names as such is very common to be expressed in my home town I grew up in.
So I call on bloke I know Sir before his first name, because he has never worked, because such is beneath him he claims.

My best buddy, I call Mister and then his Sir Name, because he is man that you have to respect. so I put it that way to others, but I call him by his middle name, when it's only with himself and me.
So you will address him as Mr XYZ, but I can call him by his middle name.

Other people just have other nick names for whatever reason, one bloke from grade 3 that I called Pommy and everyone calls him that still and one bloke I called Reggie because he looks just like the cartoon dude with the red hair and all, so I was at a party 20 od years after I had seen him last and he came up to a mates old girl friend and introduced himself that I was standing about with and he said his name to her and she turned around and said no! it's not, your Reggie ! and we all had a good laugh about that directly.

I am called Dono or and some have called me Sama and some like my family it's just only Reggie.

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