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@redenchilada How was that city in usa called that had another with the same name across the state frontier or a river or whatever?
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@nerthos Texarkana? It's on the Texas/Arkansas border. I've been there multiple times.
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@redenchilada That's a batcavein' STUPID name
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@redenchilada MATTHEW is a name from the BIBLE, you ANTI-SEMITE!!!!!
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@mrmattimation Yeah well my name comes from the Bible too and I think it's dumb as well
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@redenchilada No, that wasn't it... I'll tell you if I remember.
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@redenchilada My name (Tyler) etymologically comes from Old English for occupation of tiler (as in someone who makes and applies tiles). At most some have derived its meaning to be "innkeeper" but even that is kinda lame.
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@nerthos Kansas City? One in Missouri, one in Kansas.
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@northernnarwhal Yeah but Tyler sounds cooler than Tim
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@redenchilada Isn't that thing kind of subjective though? Admittedly I've always thought my name was pretty pedestrian and boring, though the one thing I do like about it is that it means I share a name with one of my favourite literary anti-heroes: Tyler Durden.
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@redenchilada Oh yeah I think that's it
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@northernnarwhal Mine's really funny because according to most sources it means "god is my judge" and I've never accepted the idea of any being telling me what to do, even deities.
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@northernnarwhal But my mother could've come up with something way cooler. She was gonna name my little brother Phoenix until dad protested.
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@nerthos I've always found the phrase "only god can judge me" to be incredibly interesting, if only due to its paradoxical nature once you read into it. When you think about it, due to our flawed nature as human beings, only a being as professedly perfect in form as a god could judge an individual's worth. But it is only because of our imperfect nature that we may exact judgement upon others. In a sense, the notion of judgement as a concept and the relationship of it to a god as juxtaposed with that of a human can be distinguished by principle and practice.
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@redenchilada Funny enough, my mom was originally going to name me Matt before my father decided it was too common a name.
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@northernnarwhal I never really cared about the status as an entity when it comes to the validity of it's judgement. Just the entity's morality.
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@nerthos Yeah, I'm just sort of speaking on the nature of judgement here. Because a god is, at least in theory, intended to be perfect in nature, it cannot exact judgement since it would have to exempt from morality to maintained itself as defined as a theoretical god. Following this, it is the very morality all humans possess that causes us to act upon judgement.
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@northernnarwhal *have to be
