There are no stupid questions, right?
WHEN the shit hits the fan, do you go by your blogger alias, or attempt to fumble through as the name you were forced to wear upon birth?
I haven't any doubt that we will see great trouble within our borders here shortly. Two years tops in my opinion. I do see a massive failure of our current system though the system itself will not die off, only morph into something even more malignant. At that time, most of us will either be encamped, entrenched or on the move. For those of us on the move(and I fully think I will be one of those, only time will tell) How do we go about establishing "known Identity" among the like minded? I think going by your birth name would be a serious breach to operational security. Then again, There may be times where the opposite is true.
I guess I answered my own question, didn't I?
I do know this though, "Shut your yap!" if cornered. Applies now as well as in the future. Make like a turtle if you can and if you can't, develop a serious case of "Idunno-itus".
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opsec I think is often overlooked here on the blogosphere. Good idea though. I am glad someone is thinking.
Going by our handles is probably good, because that's how we know each other now.
I'll always be "spud" putting out tendrils and growing. Storing energy to be used at a later date.
Unless I wind up in some sort of Star Wars Clone Trooper future (which my first grader would love), I would probably leave of the number. LOL.
I realized I was only guessing as to the correct pronunciation of your handle so I looked it up: I was close.
die - ah - j eh n - ee z
http://www.pronouncenames.com/pronounce/diogenes
I was thinking that sticking with blogger ID's was the way to go, since we all know each other as those. If nothing else, if on the move and end up near someones turf, that is someway of getting a better idea of who you really have.
Russell1200: most people just stick with Dio for me. Kind of funny since I actually did a couple of gigs with Ronny James. But that wasn't the inspiration for that name. The fact that the original Diogenes was a (the original I believe) Cynic, lived very simply, prefered dogs to human companions, pretty much lead me to take the name for myself. I fit all of the above.
Maybe I should do a post about WHY I chose the name and the directions I have in the last 5 years. Hmmm, I smell a blog post coming on.
Holy Diver, you been out too long on the midnight sea...
Heh, I grew up on Dio, amongst others. That post will be interesting!
Good question, Dio- my Honey has been calling me by the handle for a long time now, and I've come to think of myself with this name- actually fits me better than my 'given'.
Too, I've wondered how I'm gonna know who's who when it goes up and I need to refugee out some where (gawd! NO!).
Oh, I got the handle from my Honey- told me it fits my personality so well. Who'd a' thunk it, right?
Shy III
Diogenes was one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy.
The Cynics were around at the time of Christ. They were generally an urban phenomena. There was a Greek City Sepphoris (intended as a colonizing outpost)only a few miles away from the very tiny Nazareth. It has been postulated that Jesus and his father would have been in a position to work in its construction.
With a Greek City so close by, and Cynics common in Greek Cities, it is very possible that Jesus would have has some familiarity with them. Thus a few different scholars, noting some similarities in Cynic and the early Disciples practices have thought there may have been an influence. John Dominic Crossan went so far as to call Jesus a rural Cynic.
The Cynics are not a monolithic group so you can easily pick and choose your comparisons to make the similarity more or less exact. There is a lot of "religious politics" involved. The early Christians, where the movement became urbanized, would have clearly been influenced by the Cynics: if only to clarify the distinctions between the outwardly similar groups.
In any case, I find the Cynics and Diogenes (now pronounced correctly) interesting.
Shy: I can think of worse names. Nothing wrong with being shy if you are a wolf. The shy ones are the dangerous ones to watch for.
Russell1200: I think I have just been schooled. LOL. I knew some about the Cynics but that took me further into it. Can you disclose your source?
Wikipedia will tell you a little about Cynics. But I read Crossan, and a lot of other stuff on early Christianity. If you just take for granted that Crossan has an end point he is trying to get to (Christ as social activist), he is an extremely good source for what the time period was like. The time period has a lot of parallels to our today with the commercialized "global" economics of the Greeks, and then Roman economies throwing the locals at the periphery into a lurch.
The best way to find (free) papers on a scholarly subject is do the usual google search but add filetype:pdf at the end of it. You will often pull up a number of acedemic papers on the subject and weed out the fluff. Google book searches will also five you limited access to a subject within a book. I use it a lot when I am trying to get a quote, but cannot afford to by the whole book.
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