Why your (user)name?

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i chose mine cuz its ma name :happy:
nofin special.
i like it alot dats at i know :rollseyes
i dunno but i might v replied already. but hu cares *shrugs*
 
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umm..was gonna put the_crazed_one...but it sounded odd..:uuh:
and well..hijabi coz i wear hijab..and 19..is my age :D
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Well Well ...........i Have This One Muslim Friend That Has This User Name"imam786' As His Screenname ....yes I Know What It Means....i Just Thought Of Doin Something Awkward.....and Opposite....with My Name....lol
 
:sl: interestin thread, i think i've told u mine but i need one more post to go from limited member to...i dunno, what ever comes next. :w: :sister:
 
yeah thts dead on...third time...make it four coz the first time you gave your actuall name before zAk kindly told you it asked about your user name!!!!!
 
I am the sad product of my times. This age is sometimes called the "Faustian" age. Johannes Faust made a pact with the Evil One and surerendered his immortal soul for eternal youth. He would live forever young and powerful, never dying, until he said he was content and happy...and in that instant the Devil would take him. But he has been undying now since he was first known...and Faust goes back 2300 years. Faust first appears in Histoy in the 1200's. He is recorded historically in Europe for nearly 500 years and then he came to America about 1740. He is still young.
He is still not happy nor content.


At its core, this new Faustian age and civilization believes in the self and the self's right and ability to control the conditions of its own existence. It exalts reason, but it is practical or "instrumental" reason, which is seen as a tool that humanity can use to manipulate the world.

Faustian society includes at least four elements that define the individual's changing relationship to the world of limitation:

* It uses science and technology to overcome the limits of the physical world.

* It brings together high technology and art to create simulations that can be used as substitutes for what can't be extracted from the physical world. The most important of these simulations are imitation realities, which provide people with experiences not available in the rest of life. Media and the Information age are Faustian.

* It adheres to an aesthetic philosophy, which sees the acting out of fantasies that express our fears and desires, as a form of art, entertainment and liberation.

* It views matter, life, culture and mind as deceptive appearances, which makes them simulations or something similar to simulations.

In addition, Faustian societies are characterized by the pervasive use of deceptive simulations to manipulate large numbers of people.

Faustian society is using the powers of rationality and the ego - of logic, science and technology -- to build a perfect world that answers to our desires. The goal is to create a new kind of person: a sovereign self, in control of its environment, including its own biology and mind.

In order to achieve this goal, it is trying to make the world as transparent as possible, so everything can be seen and understood. It wants to hold all existence up to an x-ray, because what is known can be controlled. This effort to bring about transparency and control, or knowledge and power, in the service of real human needs and boundless human desires, summarizes much of what Faustian society is about.

We can see intimations of the world as Faustian society would re-create it in today's simulated and automated environments and in some of the images of life conveyed by television and movies. These are early efforts to build and portray perfect worlds and perfect selves in which nothing is left to chance.

But we can also see in some of these same simulations, portrayals of the dangers that Faustian society poses to our relation to the world of limitation, including the danger that we might lose interest in "reality"; devalue it; undermine it, or lose the ability to distinguish reality from illusion.

Faustian society is already the dominant force in the contemporary world. Its power centers are the high-technology urban areas of America, particularly in the Northeast and West Coast, and the urban centers of Western Europe and Japan. The world's business, scientific and cultural "elites," many of whom live in these regions, are its creators, administrators and exemplars. They have enormous power to shape its culture, in the near-term. When seen from a broader perspective, they begin to look like the vehicles of humanity's desire to bring about a perfect world, as they produce forms of technology and representation that answer to their audience's needs and desires
 
Tilmeez is Arabic word for Student!
Learning... willing to learn every thing that can add something to my knowledge base!!

how is it by the way.. . do u think its ok or i shud have ur?!?!?!?! hehehehehe
 
Salaam alaikom!

Muslima bcuz el hemdo li Allah i am! And proud to be and in chae Allah a right muslima, and 7186 is 7 januari 1986, my birthday.

Tilmeez ur nickname is great too! Smart, i like it!

wa Salaam
 
my name is Usman, the saab bit cam from my cousin aamirsaab and so i copied it to annoy him a bit lol :P jokes
 
huge SELAM............well...my user name...uhm.....uhm......i chose it becuase it is MY NAME.........lol.......brothers and sisters....sorry i had to reply to this...

Peace to you all and all those in the world....may they all wake up and smell the roses not the guns....
 
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i chose it originally for IF, imaan my middle name someone already had it, an 49 happened to b my favorite channel on tv so i put that combination together an BAM........
 

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