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Demonreach question
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on December 05, 2021, 01:00:07 PM ---Do you have faith in your birth certificate?
I think it is the name or names you have accepted or maybe those bestowed on you strongly enough but I think in the end you have to accept the name. Chauncey needed to hear the name from Harry’s own mouth. You do not get far with someone’s birth certificate.
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But that's my point, what is a "true" name? The one written on your birth certificate or the one you answer to? They aren't always the same.. "George" maybe written on your birth certificate, but "Stinky" is the only name you've ever answered to or have been called, so which is the "true" name?
seanham:
It's also important to remember that your True Name can and does change over time. So just because growing up, you were called one thing doesn't mean that 50 years later your True Name is still that old one.
Ed0517:
--- Quote from: Arjan on December 05, 2021, 01:00:07 PM ---Do you have faith in your birth certificate?
I think it is the name or names you have accepted or maybe those bestowed on you strongly enough but I think in the end you have to accept the name. Chauncey needed to hear the name from Harry’s own mouth. You do not get far with someone’s birth certificate.
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Especially what happens if, say, your birth certificate and baptismal certificate do not exactly agree? Like mine? LOL!
Ed0517:
--- Quote from: Mira on December 05, 2021, 06:39:39 PM ---But that's my point, what is a "true" name? The one written on your birth certificate or the one you answer to? They aren't always the same.. "George" maybe written on your birth certificate, but "Stinky" is the only name you've ever answered to or have been called, so which is the "true" name?
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OK, who else thought of the old Odd Couple episode with Oscar talking to the card game boys?
"Homer?"
"You think my mother named me Speed???"
Mira:
Or like thousands who immigrated here, my grandfather, he was told to change his name to a more "American" form of it, and it has been used by the family ever since.
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