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bref
Joined: 16 Dec 2006
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Location: South Dublin
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 Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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Only 5 posts.....dammit!! well 6 now
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blowin
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
Posts: 1290
Location: Tubbercurry , Co Sligo
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| bref wrote: | 'Nominal determinism' ...  Did you have to look that up???  |
Well I did have to google to check that I had remembered it correctly but I first heard about it years ago , at the time when it was an insult to be referred to as " a Wally " . There was a half-serious discussion on the radio , about the extent to which one's name could influence all sorts of things about your character and life ! Playground bullying , adult smirking , p*sstake on the building site , even patricide if Johny Cash is to be believed . Wasn't Big Daddy, the wrestler , actually christened Shirley Crabtree ?? Definitely something like that , which led him to act the bad guy for years until he got over it . On a more positive note , some names just seem to conjour up an image of .. mystery / macho / authority etc .
And how often have you heard someone say " he looks like a ( name ) ... ?
So altho the whole theory at first seems to be completely off the wall it does seem to make some sense . I don't study it but have a passing interest  |
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bref
Joined: 16 Dec 2006
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Location: South Dublin
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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Well, in fairness if you did stop to think about it (unlike me at the beginning) it makes perfect sense.
I wonder though if it (nominal determinism) takes into account the perceived effect the individual may feel their name incurrs!!
Interesting alright..
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wayoutwest
Joined: 28 Dec 2006
Posts: 184
Location: west clare
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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I'm lost. 
...off out to the shed again....
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blowin
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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Location: Tubbercurry , Co Sligo
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:16 am Post subject: |
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| wayoutwest wrote: | | I'm lost. .. |
That was quite predictable .
I don't mean that as an insult ---- it's in your name ......
" way out "
QED
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