A Rose By Any Other Username.......

[Prov910]

10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (Prov 9:10 NIV)

That verse just resonates with me. I'm not even sure why.

 

[Lynx]

I picked Miri, because every name I tried came back with “user name already taken”.

After almost giving up I decided to look up the names of stars, after all there are billions
of them. I found a star named Mira but when I regestered the name, auto
text changed it to Miri...... and the rest is history.


Mira
​proper noun

1. (star) A binary star in the constellation Cetus; Omicron (ο) Boí¶tis. The system contains a variable red giant and a white dwarf. Its brightness varies from a magnitude 2 at its brightest to a magnitude 10 at its dimmest.

Aww, and all this time I thought it was a Star Trek reference...

 

[tanakh]

I tried several user names but every one was taken. I had started to study the Jewish background of the Gospels and Bible as a whole at the time and hit on the name Tanakh which is the name of the Jewish Bible. I guessed rightly that no one else would have chosen it.

 

[Huckleberry]

I am hopelessly in love with a man I met on another site, IMDb. We talked about My Fair Lady. I wanted him to be my Professor Higgins and me his Eliza Dolittle. The play is based on a Greek myth, Pygmalion and Galatea. Pygmalion was a sculptor who made his ideal woman out of marble. He fell in love with the woman he created, and Aphrodite was impressed, so made Galatea come to life to love Pygmalion.

Greek mythology on a Christian site. But William Cowper studied Greek mythology, and I defy anyone to question Cowper’s Christianity. My fairy tale did not end so happily, as my Pygmalion found out I was not the beautiful creature I had professed to be, and now I am rudderless without my Pygmalion to steer me.

Romantic twaddle, I am sure.

Beautiful story, and thanks to you and everybody else who contributed.
I have no doubt that Professor Higgins will come
into your life when you're least expecting him to.

Concerning ancient religion, I think we err in dismissing it all as "myth".
The Greeks, Egyptians, et al, weren't stupid and didn't
fabricate their respective religions out of thin air.
They basically worshipped their ancestors, who were in
some cases, the same people we read about in Genesis.
When we read Homer and Hesiod, I believe
we're reading embellished, if not actual, history.

 

[Galatea]

Beautiful story, and thanks to you and everybody else who contributed.
I have no doubt that Professor Higgins will come
into your life when you're least expecting him to.

Concerning ancient religion, I think we err in dismissing it all as "myth".
The Greeks, Egyptians, et al, weren't stupid and didn't
fabricate their respective religions out of thin air.
They basically worshipped their ancestors, who were in
some cases, the same people we read about in Genesis.
When we read Homer and Hesiod, I believe
we're reading embellished, if not actual, history.

That is very kind if you to write. I am afraid Professor Higgins has thrown his hands up in despair as I am unteachable. He would be better finding another Eliza. Such is life.

I agree somewhat about ancient mythologies, some of it is probably embellished history. If nothing else, a smattering of knowledge about Greek and Roman mythologies is necessary for understanding many pieces in English literature.