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Names?

  • 06-07-2007 10:56am
    #1
    Tim Robbins
    Registered Users Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭


    We all know that some people are called Christian i.e. it is their actual name.
    My question is would you call your child Atheist, Free Thinker, Agnostic?
    If not, how about a Pet:
    "Here Skeptic, there's a good boy."
    What about even calling your pet dog
    "Dawkins"?

    Would you give someone the name Atheist, Agnostic etc. ? 10 votes

    I would give my child the name Atheist, Agnositc etc...
    0% 0 votes
    I would call my Dog Free Thinker, Skeptic, Atheist
    10% 1 vote
    I would call my Cat Free Thinker, Skeptic, Atheist
    30% 3 votes
    I would call my X Skeptic, Atheist (please fill for X)
    30% 3 votes
    I would only use it for a middle name
    20% 2 votes
    I would never call any animate object such a name
    10% 1 vote


Comments

  • #2
    Zombrex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    I call my two fishes "Jesus" and "Muhammad" ... as of this morning neither fish has eaten the other ... there is a lesson in there


  • #3
    Tim Robbins
    Registered Users Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭Tim Robbins


    Wicknight wrote:
    I call my two fishes "Jesus" and "Muhammad" ... as of this morning neither fish has eaten the other ... there is a lesson in there
    Get a third fish call it Dawkins and I guarentee you won't have to watch TV for entertainment anymore!


  • #4
    rockbeer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭rockbeer


    Used to know a dog called Copernicus.

    Bit of a mouthful though.


  • #5
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    If I had a cat I would call it "Darwin". Cats are assholes, but you can't argue they're pretty well evolved.

    On a side-note I'm actually considering requesting a change in my boards.ie moniker.
    "The Atheist" suggests I'm just a one-trick pony!


  • #6
    Hivemind187
    Registered Users Posts: 5,021 ✭✭✭Hivemind187


    Get a dog, call it Pavlov.

    Get a cat, call it Schroedinger.


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  • #7
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Hivemind187 wrote:
    Get a dog, call it Pavlov.

    Get a cat, call it Schroedinger.
    LOL.
    You'd have to keep the cat in a box. Proper order.


  • #8
    Tim Robbins
    Registered Users Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭Tim Robbins


    The Atheist wrote:
    If I had a cat I would call it "Darwin". Cats are assholes, but you can't argue they're pretty well evolved.

    On a side-note I'm actually considering requesting a change in my boards.ie moniker.
    "The Atheist" suggests I'm just a one-trick pony!
    What - a road to damascus?
    Why don't you call yourself
    St. Atheist?


  • #9
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    I thought the atheist was an angst ridden teen when I saw his name. :D
    I voted for every option.


  • #10
    Sangre
    Registered Users Posts: 12,152 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    Wicknight wrote:
    I call my two fishes "Jesus" and "Muhammad" ... as of this morning neither fish has eaten the other ... there is a lesson in there
    How do we know do these fish actually exist and you're not just making it up to promote your own agenda?


  • #11
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Tar.Aldarion wrote:
    I thought the atheist was an angst ridden teen when I saw his name. :D
    That about sums up my reasons!

    No road to Damascus...
    Maybe when I'm fifty I'll be The Agnostic, and when I'm knocking on deaths door I'll be "Pascal". ;)


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  • #12
    Acid_Violet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭Acid_Violet


    The Atheist wrote:
    On a side-note I'm actually considering requesting a change in my boards.ie moniker.
    "The Atheist" suggests I'm just a one-trick pony!

    Not so much pony as three legged donkey:p


  • #13
    Zombrex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Zombrex


    Sangre wrote:
    How do we know do these fish actually exist and you're not just making it up to promote your own agenda?

    Of course they exist .. I talk to them and they tell me not to have sex ... so I don't ...




    ... so lonely
    :p


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