Who the heck are you people?

[Matrona]

Ladies, gentlemen, and esteemed homies of TAW, it's come to my attention that some of you have changed your names in the past few months. Which is fine, but unfortunately it's kind of difficult to figure out who all of you are and who you all have been, especially if you change avatars and signatures at the same time as your name. So could those of you who have changed your names in the last several months or so please tell me what your former aliases are? ;)

[Philothei]

Last time I checked I was Philothei.... I am the same person I first registered as.... a year ago.

[SeekingTheLight]

Obviously, I'm still the same...ha!

[Akathist]

Great thread. I wish I had thought of it!

I started here as thornygrace.

then, people complained about how when they shortened it it was "thorny" and they didn't like that. I was staff at the time, so I changed it briefly to ~xenia~ but Erwin the owner at the time said he didn't like it.
Also, our "xenia" here at TAW was getting my pm's.

So, I changed it to Xenia Rose.

But, the space between the names caused problem in some staff things I do, and prevented me from doing any staff email.

Then we had a flood of trolls in CF (but not thankfully TAW) who were causing mischief with staff and we were told to not use our real names any more as screen names.

Rose is my real last name and Xenia is my Christian name.

After much thought, I changed it to Akathist.

[Breaking Babylon]

Well I started off as BlakeMichael a few years ago here on CF. Later down the line during my inquiry I changed it to Isaac the Syrian, the name of my Patron, and now I changed it to Sacrum Silentium which is Latin for "Sacred Silence", just out of respect for hesychasm and the holy silence which speaks louder than words.

[Macarius]

I'm Macarius
Yes I'm the real Macarius
All you other Macarius' are just imitating

So won't the real Macarius please stand up?
Please stand up.
Please stand up.

:clap:

[SeraphimSarov]

Started here with my amateur radio callsign as my username. I realized that people can easily find my real name and address that way, so I changed it to Kjell Bjarne, a name from a Norwegian film that apparently almost no one knows.

I'd like to change it to something with Seraphim in it, but I obviously lack sufficient blessings. :P

[SeraphimSarov]

but I obviously lack sufficient blessings. :P

Whoa, I got flooded with blessings from five people... thanks to all! :D :liturgy:

[SeraphimSarov]

but I obviously lack sufficient blessings. :P

Whoa, I got flooded with blessings from five people... thanks to all! :D :liturgy:

[Michael the Iconographer]

Last time I checked I was Philothei.... I am the same person I first registered as.... a year ago.
I, the heck, am Michael, the Iconographer. My name has changed little from what I registered as 3 years ago. I started out as Iconographer, then changed it to Brushstroke to go incognito for a few months while my x-wife was spying on me on line, and for the past 2 years have been Michael the Iconographer, except for a brief stint as the "Mad Repper." :D

[-Kyriaki-]

I'm Kyrie - started as Kyrie, and haven't changed it in five years.

[ClementofRome]

Clem I was and Clem I shall be! ;)

[Kristos]

Never changed

[Matrona]

Okay, smartypantses who haven't changed... :P Well, if you haven't changed your name, or even if you have, explain to me the meanings of these crazy, cryptic names of y'alls. ;)

FTR, I've never changed, and my name derives from a Latin word that basically means "lady".

[-Kyriaki-]

Mine - it's my name! Most people call me Kyrie pronounced Kirri, and it seemed as good a name as any.

Kyrie is not something that really needs explaining to most of you :P Kyrie eleison is probably one of the more common Orthodox prayers - Lord have mercy.

I have been known to go by kyrieflutter (add butterfly reference to my name, which I've done since I was 13) and katzchenfisch other places though. Katzchenfisch is a made up german word - katzchen is kitten and fisch is...fish, and together it makes 'kittenfish'
For a long time I was part of a church called the fish gate and we referred to each other as 'fish', and I have a medical condition that has 'ichth' in the name so... and kitten is my nickname from a few people.

So yes that's me.

[fuerein]

I guess since mine is relatively obscure I'll explain. Fuer ein literally means "for one" in german, though I am not sure if I have the correct form of the words for that combination. There is really no reason for that particular that combination of words other than I was signing up for something online once and was having trouble finding a free username. So, I threw two german words together (I took german in HS and spent a month in germany the summer after my junior year) since I figured on sites visited primarily by english speakers I wouldn't have much trouble with a combination of german words. Haven't had much trouble with using it on different sites since then.

[hungrytiger]

Okay, smartypantses who haven't changed... :P Well, if you haven't changed your name, or even if you have, explain to me the meanings of these crazy, cryptic names of y'alls. ;)

FTR, I've never changed, and my name derives from a Latin word that basically means "lady".

Did you pick it after a saint Matrona? If so which one?

[hungrytiger]

Mine - it's my name! Most people call me Kyrie pronounced Kirri, and it seemed as good a name as any.

Kyrie is not something that really needs explaining to most of you :P Kyrie eleison is probably one of the more common Orthodox prayers - Lord have mercy.

I have been known to go by kyrieflutter (add butterfly reference to my name, which I've done since I was 13) and katzchenfisch other places though. Katzchenfisch is a made up german word - katzchen is kitten and fisch is...fish, and together it makes 'kittenfish'
For a long time I was part of a church called the fish gate and we referred to each other as 'fish', and I have a medical condition that has 'ichth' in the name so... and kitten is my nickname from a few people.

So yes that's me.

Those are all such lovely names!

[hungrytiger]

hungrytiger is the only username I've had on here.

I'm hungry! And I'm a tiger! ROAR!!!
:D

Actually I picked the name after a character in L. Frank Baum's Oz books called the Hungry Tiger. He's introduced in Ozma of Oz (http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/L_Frank_Baum/Ozma_of_Oz/). I have some of this quote in my signature, but here's some more:


First came a magnificent golden chariot, drawn by a great Lion and an immense Tiger, who stood shoulder to shoulder and trotted along as gracefully as a well-matched team of thoroughbred horses.

. . .

The Cowardly Lion had a big bow of blue ribbon fastened to the long hair between his ears, and the Tiger wore a bow of red ribbon on his tail, just in front of the bushy end.

In an instant Dorothy was hugging the huge Lion joyfully.

"I'm SO glad to see you again!" she cried.

"I am also glad to see you, Dorothy," said the Lion. "We've had some fine adventures together, haven't we?"

"Yes, indeed," she replied. "How are you?"

"As cowardly as ever," the beast answered in a meek voice. "Every little thing scares me and makes my heart beat fast. But let me introduce to you a new friend of mine, the Hungry Tiger."

"Oh! Are you hungry?" she asked, turning to the other beast, who was just then yawning so widely that he displayed two rows of terrible teeth and a mouth big enough to startle anyone.

"Dreadfully hungry," answered the Tiger, snapping his jaws together with a fierce click.

"Then why don't you eat something?" she asked.

"It's no use," said the Tiger sadly. "I've tried that, but I always get hungry again."

"Why, it is the same with me," said Dorothy. "Yet I keep on eating."

"But you eat harmless things, so it doesn't matter," replied the Tiger. "For my part, I'm a savage beast, and have an appetite for all sorts of poor little living creatures, from a chipmunk to fat babies."

"How dreadful!" said Dorothy.

"Isn't it, though?" returned the Hungry Tiger, licking his lips with his long red tongue. "Fat babies! Don't they sound delicious? But I've never eaten any, because my conscience tells me it is wrong. If I had no conscience I would probably eat the babies and then get hungry again, which would mean that I had sacrificed the poor babies for nothing. No; hungry I was born, and hungry I shall die. But I'll not have any cruel deeds on my conscience to be sorry for."

"I think you are a very good tiger," said Dorothy, patting the huge head of the beast.

"In that you are mistaken," was the reply. "I am a good beast, perhaps, but a disgracefully bad tiger. For it is the nature of tigers to be cruel and ferocious, and in refusing to eat harmless living creatures I am acting as no good tiger has ever before acted. That is why I left the forest and joined my friend the Cowardly Lion."

"But the Lion is not really cowardly," said Dorothy. "I have seen him act as bravely as can be."

"All a mistake, my dear," protested the Lion gravely. "To others I may have seemed brave, at times, but I have never been in any danger that I was not afraid."

"Nor I," said Dorothy, truthfully.


Anyway, I thought it was a fun, interesting story and found the Hungry Tiger as someone I could relate to. I'm a sinner with passions I should refuse. If only I could be as strong as the Hungry Tiger (or as brave as the Lion for that matter). :blush:

And then also, I think there's another passage in one of the books, though I haven't been able to find it again, where the current adventure is all over and they're having a great feast. The Hungry Tiger is there and he's astonished that he could be full eating something other than fat babies. ^_^ And you know, the only thing that could really fufill me too is wholesome food. God, His church, His will. Like the passage with Photini the Samaritian women at the well
Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
That's how one is never hungry again.

That was probably more than you wanted to know, but oh well. :P

[Hoankan]

Hoankan is Japanese and means sheriff. About ten years ago I volunteered as a sheriff's deputy in my county. After coming to Japan the first time, I was helping with a kids English play. We had a welcoming party for two actors from America to help us with it. One of the main sponsors of the play and I talked for a while and I told him about my past. The next day at play practice he had forgotten my name and started calling me Mr. Hoankan and it stuck.

[Thekla]

ah, hungrytiger -- what a lovely description, turned so nicely :)

(The Oz series are well liked here, too)

[Philothei]

Philothei is the saint patron of Athens. I was raised there and I love this saint. I adopted her name as it means Philos: friend Thei, theos: God she was a great friend of God as she donated all her property to built several monasteries during the Turkish yoke in the 1400s and she took care of the poor, the orphans and establishing schols for young girls... She martyred (beaten by the Turks to death)... Memory eternal...

This is not my real name....

[prodromos]

Prodromos is Greek for Forerunner, AKA John the Baptist, the patron saint of this unworthy sinner.

It's been my name on a number of forums, I've never felt the need to change it.

John

[-Kyriaki-]

Those are all such lovely names!
Thankyou very much :) I like yours too.

[Anhelyna]

Anhelyna

Well it's not my real name - but I was given the name of Anhelyna about 4 years back but some Uke Friends and I like it - and have stuck with it

[Michael the Iconographer]

Okay, smartypantses who haven't changed... :P Well, if you haven't changed your name, or even if you have, explain to me the meanings of these crazy, cryptic names of y'alls. ;)

FTR, I've never changed, and my name derives from a Latin word that basically means "lady".
Maybe you should have asked me about my cryptic name when you helped me formulate it?

[ThePosterFormerlyKnownAs]

I started out as forgivensinner001 then I left and changed my password to some weird alphanumeric so I couldn't log back in. Later I made this sock when I couldn't stay away but a nice mod reset my password for me so I got back on the main account. I changed the name of my first account from forgivensinner001 to Dust and Ashes. I left again with a changed password and when I couldn't stay away, I created Slambo. Someone accused me of trying to deliberately deceive people so I dumped Slambo and came back to this one since the name fit with the title I had in mind so no no one can say I'm trying to hide who I've been.

[tekiahteruah]

I posted on here in a former life as Marjorie (my name in real life). I figured it was a time for a change when I decided to start posting again occasionally. To be honest, I was surprised by how much the board had changed, and didn't feel comfortable posting as myself at first. This name (tekiah teruah) comes from the names of the shofar blasts in the Rosh Hashanah service. Those who knew me before know that I was brought up Jewish and converted to Orthodoxy in high school.

[Matrona]

I posted on here in a former life as Marjorie (my name in real life). I figured it was a time for a change when I decided to start posting again occasionally. To be honest, I was surprised by how much the board had changed, and didn't feel comfortable posting as myself at first. This name (tekiah teruah) comes from the names of the shofar blasts in the Rosh Hashanah service. Those who knew me before know that I was brought up Jewish and converted to Orthodoxy in high school.

Welcome back, Marjorie! It's good to see you again. I should have known it was you.

[Mary of Bethany]

I posted on here in a former life as Marjorie (my name in real life). I figured it was a time for a change when I decided to start posting again occasionally. To be honest, I was surprised by how much the board had changed, and didn't feel comfortable posting as myself at first. This name (tekiah teruah) comes from the names of the shofar blasts in the Rosh Hashanah service. Those who knew me before know that I was brought up Jewish and converted to Orthodoxy in high school.

Holy cow, Marjorie! Welcome back!!!!

I never made the connection. :doh:

Mary

[tekiahteruah]

Thanks for the welcome back, guys-- I should have explained myself earlier. :blush:

Unfortunately I probably won't be around here for much longer-- I'm leaving tomorrow to study abroad in Sri Lanka for the semester, so my internet access will be scarce!

[Mary of Bethany]

Have a wonderful trip! I'll keep you in prayer for safe travel and a safe return.

Mary

[tekiahteruah]

Thank you!!! :D

[fuerein]

Oh wow. Sounds like a great trip. I've always wanted to spend an extended period abroad. The best I've managed so far was a month in Germany. Hope you enjoy the trip. :)

[Matrona]

Thanks for the welcome back, guys-- I should have explained myself earlier. :blush:

Unfortunately I probably won't be around here for much longer-- I'm leaving tomorrow to study abroad in Sri Lanka for the semester, so my internet access will be scarce!

Oh my, where are you studying in Sri Lanka? I had a professor who did extensive work there.

[Matrona]

From the "ruah" I thought your name might be Hebrew, but I didn't figure you out beyond that. :)

[tekiahteruah]

I'll be in Kandy (in the hill country, well sheltered from the violence in the north and Colombo), doing a program associated with the University of Peradeniya. The program's website is here: http://www.bowdoin.edu/isle/

That's so cool about your professor. Do you know where he was or what he was studying?

[Matrona]

I'll be in Kandy (in the hill country, well sheltered from the violence in the north and Colombo), doing a program associated with the University of Peradeniya. The program's website is here: http://www.bowdoin.edu/isle/

That's so cool about your professor. Do you know where he was or what he was studying?

Cool; isn't Kandy where they have the shrine around a tooth of the Buddha?

The professor I had was in Batticaloa(sp?), studying a Hindu temple in the Tamil community. I was taking an anthropology/religion course at my university, and he taught me everything I know about Sri Lanka apart from "it used to be a British colony". I hope you'll be able to check in from down there every now and then. Good luck! It was nice having you back even if I didn't realize it was you! :)