Why did you choose the Alias that you did? (page 2)

lonelysheep

Lonely was how I felt while studying with them. Sheep-obvious religious term.

I was a little mad at the watchtower, but more hurt-deeply hurt by them.

The icons I've used always represent me in some way.

Mine was easy! My middle name is Cyrus and I am of Jewish-Iranian (Persian) ancestry. I use my middle name as an alias in various chats and myspace, etc.and I'm often asked if I am really Billy Ray Cyrus (a country singer) and I always say,"No, I'm just plain Cyrus and I look like a gas station attendant, Sorry!"

CyrusThePersian

mouthy

After reading all my posts ! do I need to explain? I am a very opinionated, Mouthy,Old Granny! In the Wt I was obedient to the Brothers? hard worker( door knocking)

BUT! when they ousted me!!!! I wanted to die!!! Then I found a TRUE FRIEND!!! And learned HE had Created me with a mind & a MOUTH!!!! so I use it....

monkeyshine

I chose "Moneyshine" because "Monkeyshines" was a movie that I was always intrigued by when I was a kid but never was allowed to watch because it was, you guessed it, "demonistic". Something about the toy monkey banging the cymbals always captured my imagination.

Also, I was always one to play jokes on people and I was always foolin' around growing up so the definition fits well...

Monkeyshine

n. slang

A mischievous or playful trick; a prank. Often used in the plural: laughed at my daughter's monkeyshines.

Little Drummer Boy

LittleDrummerBoy because...

1) I'm a drummer (at least I used to be). I was in a band when I started studying with the dubs. I was very good at drumming, some would have said quite good, and it is sad that I had to stop being in a band and being able to express myself through the music just to please jehoobie.

2) It is an obvious Christmas reference. SInce my wife and I are now out we are gonna celebrate the holidays with a vengeance. My childhood wasn't....good. The holidays, and especially Christmas time, are the only memories I have as a child when we were happy as a family. For me as a young kid that time of year was very soothing. Ofcourse I loved the presents just like any other kid, but it was the atmosphere that really made me happy. I could come down the stairs in the old farm house at night from my room. All the lights would be out and I could turn the corner and look down the length of the house and see the tree shining and winking its lights in the darkness. The beautiful sight always filled me with peace...my young little world was all better again.

3) It is my small dig against Christianity and the borg. I can't really explain why I veiw it as a dig, I just do. I firmly consider myself to be nonchristian now. You know, believe in evolution, no God and all that.

ICBehindtheCurtain

Well, mine is pretty self explanatory....When I began finding out the truth about the WTS I felt like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, when she saw who Oz really was, just a silly old man behind the curtain instilling fear and obedience from the people, I began seeing the GB in that same way. They are really like this silly old man, not annointed or anything, they live in that ivory tower alienated from the real world trying to push their laws and regulations on everyone and demanding obedience, but I see who they are now, I see behind the curtain.

IC

TheHypnoToad

No spiritual or ex-JW reason, since I have been mentally disconnected from the JW's for quite some time. I always enjoyed the show "Futurama" and one of the characters was the "Hypno-Toad" I have used that as an alias on many other sites/IM clients I used it on here as well. My other alias used elsewhere is LukasMcKain.

solo

solo - I think mine in pretty obviousy really

when I left the JWs I was 20 and I had to find my way in life totally alone, I had been working for the family company, living in a property owned by my family and the only people I knew were JWs, so I had to find a home, a job and a life and I literally had no one else for support or help.

Although it was terrifying and the end of the world to me at the time I has turned me into an incredibly strong, resourceful, independent person. I think I have done pretty well because everything I have achieved has been down to my own blood,sweat and tears.

If I lost everything today - friends, job, property, posessions I know I have the ability to go out and get it all back - and this time I would not be terrified, and I love that feeling and for that I am actually quite grateful to my parents in a bizarre way.

So that is why I am called solo

PS I'm not totally alone, I have a wonderful boyfried - but only because I want him not because I need him!!!

AuldSoul

I have been told many times in my life that I am a very old soul. "Auld" is an older version of "old."

For the avatar, I made a composite of a piece named "The Path of the Wise Man" (which has appealed to me for a long time), a wooden oriental mask of Wisdom, and a sketch of Walt Whitman (in his later years) superimposed into the bark of one of the trees, harking back to age old lore that the trees are sources of wisdom and keepers of lore.

Respectfully,
AuldSoul

CyrusThePersian

Welcome to TheHypnoToad!

ALL--HAIL--HYPNOTOAD!!

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