Curious about some PB "handles".....

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Panic Bird is what Sylvia Plath called her neurosis. I chose it back in the mid-90s when I was reading a lot about her.
 
I was really hyped on Augustine when I joined the board so I picked a feminine version of his name. I found out what it means and was thinking of changing it. It means venerable as in worshipable. Far too lofty I think. :think:
 
I was a Baptist struggling with being a Baptist. I'm a Baptist who no longer struggles with being a Baptist. So actually my screen name should be, "BaptistwhowasonceincrisisbutnowisnolongerinCrisis"
 
"Oh what a tangled web we weave...." You got me brother. Hoist with my own petard.

I chose Bob Vigneault because my real name, Charles Finney, was causing too much confusion on the board. :confused:

But I thought your real name was Turd Ferguson....

Originally Posted by BobVigneault
As for me, my real name is Turd Ferguson but I go by Bob Vigneault because my real name is kind of embarrassing - what could be worse than someone saying, "Hey Fergie!" Ewwww.

:think:
 
Contra Mundum:

Ha, on that link you provided there is a post by me where I advocate only using real names because the internet already breeds too much anonymity and we need to be accountable...

Boy am I eating crow now!
 
Wow! You can almost cut the irony with a knife. Still your point was correct just not universal.
Contra Mundum:

Ha, on that link you provided there is a post by me where I advocate only using real names because the internet already breeds too much anonymity and we need to be accountable...

Boy am I eating crow now!
 
When I was in school my friends all called me "Barn", short for Barnhart. So, years ago when I needed a yahoo email account I added preacher onto my nickname and it has stuck ever since.
 
Mine's probably pretty self explanatory. I'll always be a wannabee because the goal is not to be attained in this life. The more I grow the more I realize the truth of this. I guess if I look to our future glory I could be "gonnabee." But by time my goal is realized I'll be a... "be," "is," "am"? Maybe I should have went with "ahdunno."
 
Mine's probably pretty self explanatory. I'll always be a wannabee because the goal is not to be attained in this life. The more I grow the more I realize the truth of this. I guess if I look to our future glory I could be "gonnabee." But by time my goal is realized I'll be a... "be," "is," "am"? Maybe I should have went with "ahdunno."
I rather like yours...this side of Heaven...we are all pilgrims....we all still strive to live as our Lord wishes us to live.:pilgrim:
 
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JBaldwin

Mine is name I took on for the internet several years ago. J is for Joy(my middle name) and Baldwin, a good English name and my father's surname at birth. He was adopted at age 2, and his adopted surname was a German name. Over the years, I got tired of being asked if I was German, so I decided to set the record straight.
 
"Oh what a tangled web we weave...." You got me brother. Hoist with my own petard.

I chose Bob Vigneault because my real name, Charles Finney, was causing too much confusion on the board. :confused:

But I thought your real name was Turd Ferguson....

Originally Posted by BobVigneault
As for me, my real name is Turd Ferguson but I go by Bob Vigneault because my real name is kind of embarrassing - what could be worse than someone saying, "Hey Fergie!" Ewwww.

:think:

I was just checking. I thought for a moment that you might have multiple personality disorder. ;)

Which reminds me of a joke: What did the guy say when his Doctor told him he was schizophrenic?


"I am not!"

"Me either!"

:lol:
 
I have been reading the Puritans since I was saved. And I was taught and brought under a Covenanter Ministry in Indianapolis for a few years. In which I got some of the best instruction and care theologically I had ever received outside of my Reformed Baptist Pastor Joe Gwynn. So PuritanCovenanter is my name.

Would that be Pastor Joe Gwynn of Kempsville Chapel/ Reformed Baptist Church of Va Beach? (ARBCA)
 
Years back I played bass in a heavy rock band. At a show one night an audience member shouted, "Man! You're a wizard on the bass!" The rest of the band started calling me Merlin so I've been MrMerlin ever since I added the 777 because there are apearently alot of MrMerlins out there in Cyberspace.

(My twin brother played the guitar and had a very chaotic style to his lead solos so we started calling him chaos which he eventually began spelling Kaoz. I've been calling him that ever since.)
 
When I first got into message boards, I signed up for a certain Baptist board which will remain nameless. I basically did it because I saw a lot of misrepresentation of Calvinism on the board and I hoped to correct it. I chose the name Calvibaptist (Calvinist Baptist) so that it was obvious what position I was coming from. People affectionately (or disaffectionately) called me Calvi. When I got tired of banging my head against a wall, I decided to come over her and kept the name to protect the guilty.

Besides, GrandMaster Mixay probably wouldn't have been allowed.
 
Theoretical has been my major web handle since 2003. I dislike name+number systems, and this name fits my interest in things theoretical (politics, theology, the sciences, etc...) quite well.

Since becoming a lot more Reformed, my focus has been refined to appreciate and strongly desire to figure out how best to implement theory practically. The more I've studied and learned, the more the idea that good doctrine should lead to good practice has really hammered itself into my mind.

Thus, my original screen name still applies.
 
Theogenes = Theo (God) genes (Origin of, born of) = Born of God
It's Greek for you Hebrew scholars. :lol:
 
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