Username and why we use them ?

At every junction of my spiritual journey I have taken a new name, previously I have used Corrigan, Gala and Rapture.

My real name is the name of the person that has accumulated all of that history, but the name I use now allows me to emphasise who I am now. As for why I use Edan, it just felt right.

Dragon Whisper reminds me that my ego is always trying to gain control of my thoughts and actions. The Dragon is always whispering to me, trying to direct me and my path. It's a reminder of what my truth is and what my TRUE path is. I am constantly battling the dragon and it's whispers. I have it in lowercase and all one word; because, as another reminder to myself that it is just one small thing.

The name of Llama Su.

Multiple reason are for the name.... Whats in a name, an identity anyway... lol
To be familiar in the Star Wars universe with a common name... The cool, calm, and collectiveness of an expert cloner...
To be familiar with myself and the association Lama's
Su is a shortening of my last name, somewhat...
Fan of Wu Tang, who in multiple songs say "SUUUUUUUUUUU"
The english translation of Su from Chinese means "to awake"... Is a feminine character, which I believe I came from... My mother birthed me, and I eventually became awake.

It took me about 15 seconds to choose my user name. Kimner is my last name, my nick name, my gamer tag, and my call sign. Its always been what people call me for just about as long as I can remember, so it seemed perfect for this user name. It has meaning to me, and having it be the user name will give it even more meaning down the road, building upon the experiences of my Name.

I have a user name to feel safer online. I made it as a joke in 1999. It was meant to mean crazy cat lady because I used to say that I would become one. Those who know me well online know it's me and in some ways it feels closer to my true self than my given name

I like crystals ,and tales -

(Hernan Cacciatore) :woohoo:

Edan wrote: At every junction of my spiritual journey I have taken a new name, previously I have used Corrigan, Gala and Rapture.

My real name is the name of the person that has accumulated all of that history, but the name I use now allows me to emphasise who I am now. As for why I use Edan, it just felt right.

Doesn't it confuse other Temple members changing it regularly?

CryojenX wrote:

Edan wrote: At every junction of my spiritual journey I have taken a new name, previously I have used Corrigan, Gala and Rapture.

My real name is the name of the person that has accumulated all of that history, but the name I use now allows me to emphasise who I am now. As for why I use Edan, it just felt right.

Doesn't it confuse other Temple members changing it regularly?

Not at the Temple.. I have only been Edan here. I meant for previous 'incarnations' of myself.

I used to have many names. Anonymity was the goal back in the early 2000s.

Then Facebook happened, and I turned 18. I now use my real name.

I have gone through many monikers beginning with my dial-up BBS and early internet days back in 1994 - too many to list. Much of it due to the feeling of having a fractured sense of identity ever since I was young - much of it trauma related - never knowing who I was, yet always knowing who I wanted to be, at least back then. When I confessed to my mother that I was transgender, it was an opportunity to shed the skin of my old name which had never quite fit. My first and middle names had been Christopher James, and I had already decided what my chosen replacements would be: Crystal Jennifer.

I had wanted to avoid the transgender cliche of "Chris to Christine", and also at the time wanting to remove myself as far from the religion causing the most friction in my life, did not want "Christ" in my name. I had always been more of what you would call a new age kind of person, very multifaceted, but also again, feeling fractured in a way. Looking back at the (non-traumatic) aspects of my childhood, I remembered the film "The Dark Crystal" (a wonderful film ripe with myth I might add), and its story of the shattered crystal that had to be repaired in order to bring the two sides - for me, body and gender identity - into harmony as one. I pick Jennifer as a middle name simply because I always found it beautiful.

Well anyway, every since then like I said, I've gone through tons of online screen names. Even though began bringing the two closer to a cohesive one, I still had much difficulty finding my true identity - who was I, really and why did I still feel fragmented? Well, now I understand that early childhood trauma combined with being born transgender had given me a bit of an insight into the true nature of my being, and I just hadn't understood it yet - I am a drop of consciousness, and my identity has always depended on what particular mask I've worn in each given lifetime.

Realizing the benefits of the fluidity of my self identification at the time just happened to coincide with a desire to make a clean break from the drawn out post-breakup period with my ex, that had been literally lingering for several years. I created a new username yet again to help avoid his online stalking (which is thankfully no longer an issue). I had always had the preference of using "CRY" as my initials when inputting high scores in video and pinball games, and had the sudden realization that harvesting the first 3 letters from each name would leave me with cry and jen, and combining the fact that I'm a "Generation X-er", the natural result would be CryojenX, a homonym of cryogenics.

It's somewhat ironic that, given the fluidity of identity, I chose a name so closely identified with ice, especially since my body practically goes into hibernation at low temperatures! :laugh: But then, what is ice, if not simply a garden of crystals?