What’s In A Name?

[Ursuline Chick]

I see you also have a tongue dipped in silver.

As my Daddy used to say "beware of silver tongued devils"
Seriously, Monk is a great guy

 

[azurbanclucker]

As my Daddy used to say "beware of silver tongued devils"
Seriously, Monk is a great guy

Your Daddy was absolutely right. Good story tellers are dangerous.

 

[electrycmonk]

Your Daddy was absolutely right. Good story tellers are dangerous.

Define dangerous?

 

[azurbanclucker]

Define dangerous?

I was being a little tongue-in-cheek rogueish with that comment honestly, but it's an interesting conversation as well.

The ability to connect with people though words is a very powerful tool. By itself, it is a talent like many others. When used for entertaining or for educating, it can be a useful ally. However, when used to manipulate and amplify the darker side of humanity, that same talent can be cruel and vengeful.

Just depends on who's using it and who they're using it for or against.

EX:
"Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise?"

Coming from Palpatine, this is a tale spun to ensare a conflicted headstrong jedi and start him down a darker path. Were this a conversation with Yoda, it would have been a lesson on the dangers of power and to rise above your base instincts. Same story, 2 angles. It's all about how the tale is spun, and by whom.

 

[electrycmonk]

I was being a little tongue-in-cheek rogueish with that comment honestly, but it's an interesting conversation as well.

The ability to connect with people though words is a very powerful tool. By itself, it is a talent like many others. When used for entertaining or for educating, it can be a useful ally. However, when used to manipulate and amplify the darker side of humanity, that same talent can be cruel and vengeful.

Just depends on who's using it and who they're using it for or against.

EX:
"Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise?"

Coming from the Palpatine, this is a tale spun to ensare a conflicted headstrong jedi and start him down a darker path. Were this a conversation with Yoda, it would have been a lesson on the dangers of power and to rise above your base instincts. Same story, 2 angles. It's all about how the tale is spun, and by whom.

As with all things.... When a family shelters their youth.... For reasons *they* see as truth... Time has germinated seeds that take a generation to bear fruit.... Often times the flavor is far from the parents anticipated sweetness or mildness.... Often has been seen by mine own eyes... The sprouts foliage was much more complex and colorful then was expected by the parents.... Some, parents I had seen ....... Couldn't accept and sadly didn't let go of their expectations.... Others threw up their hands is wonder and enjoyed the surprise.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Well, after all that great conversation, my on BYC name is boring.
The Ursuline part comes from the school I attended most of my life and DD is going to graduate from this school year. Chick is due to the fact that like Mare I am a girl, who attended an all girl school, until college.
College was Loyola NOLA, Jesuit taught. So you will see Serviam (I will serve) on my posts.
I take serviam very seriously. It has been taught to all Ursuline girls of all ages by Ursuline nuns who came here almost 300 years ago to insure ALL girls, no matter their background could get an education. This included girls who were from prominent white families, poor white families, Free People of Color, and slaves. It is the oldest continuous all girls school in the United States.
Match that with a Jesuit College education and you get me, Sometimes conservative, sometimes liberal, most always outspoken in the kindest way I know and sometimes I just keep my mouth shut.
In other words an enigma and a hand full.

 

[Mimi13]

my on BYC name is boring

Boring? Hardly. Thank you for sharing, @Ursuline Chick.

 

[Mimi13]

There are many, other details, layers and flavors to take note of from this dual purpose life (online and *off*)...

So, this post was extremely interesting, not just the content, but the style in which it was written. However, it also left me giggling as parts of it (“online/offline”) left me reminiscing on a favorite song that is some 13+ years old. I just couldn’t help myself! I had to post it. Please enjoy!

 

[electrycmonk]

So, this post was extremely interesting, not just the content, but the style in which it was written. However, it also left me giggling as parts of it (“online/offline”) left me reminiscing on a favorite song that is some 13+ years old. I just couldn’t help myself! I had to post it. Please enjoy!

That's a wonderfully cute reminiscing song. And I'd like to share a little more back story... Every one of those online social/blog sites was "born" and friends IRL asked me to join them on those site... Eventually There.... I would occasionally gain *online only* friends. The overwhelming number of friends on all these media sites were folks that know/knew me IRL before hand..... So I was as authentic online as I was in person. A g33k. A trusted ally, a "big brother" of sorts given that I have several years on all those college kids... Some time later I was called a term by a college degree counselor, that became a movie title that same year(?) which starred Danny DeVito. Perhaps you might recall it from way back then?
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0110971/
*That* was a very humourous time for me.... And I have yet, to see that film.
I have always held an ethic to be me here as IRL; with so many of my *online* friends knowing me from on campus first. Later on, joining up with folks from my past: family across the planet and highschool... Eventually, even those from my tour in the Navy. Over the last 25+ years there have been a handfull of *online* friends that I have gotten to "meetup" in person from fun tangential experiences. A few of wierdest ones where when I was driving 18 wheelers nationwide and I'd send user "x" a message in a specific forum: "hey I'll be rollin' thru your neck of the woods."
Those were very fun, if too short, times in that chapter of my life. All the while I still can't handle the idea of being "an actor" .... Lying sure had such a magnitude scale effect with folks when the truth comes out....

/End of line.

 

[azurbanclucker]

To your point @electrycmonk, it's too complicated to be one way in an online persona and then be a completely different kind of animal in live situations. Even moreso now than when you and I were surfing the wild west electrons of the early internets, as I have the feeling we're of a similar vintage. As rapid-spreading and wide-ranging as information is today, it behooves you to be who you are no matter what, unless you can completely and consistently anonymize your identity.