(April 25, 2015 at 4:06 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(April 25, 2015 at 3:19 pm)Alex K Wrote: Y'allses have such cool usernames. I need a better one, with deep significanyness.
I'm not cool either. Jenny A is just my name. It's short for Jennifer Armitage although if you really want, you can shorten it to Jenny Atheist. But that is just a small part of who I am. Jenny A will do just fine.
Most of us are trying to be anonymous. It has nothing to do with being "cool."
Mine should be obvious, to anyone who knows how to use a search engine. But, I will explain it anyway. Pyrrho was a skeptic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrho
My skepticism is really more like David Hume's, but if I used "David Hume," some people would probably believe that it was my real name. Also, since Pyrrho wrote nothing, one will not as easily get confused about who wrote something with the sentence, "Pyrrho wrote...", whereas if I had chosen the name "David Hume," there could be confusion about who is meant with, "David Hume wrote...." And "Pyrrho" is a more interesting name anyway.
I used the name originally on another site, some years ago, just to convey the attitude of skepticism, and I rather like the name. But I have used other names on some sites. Sometimes, someone else has already selected "Pyrrho," and so I cannot have it on those sites. (Here is how you should decide if it is me or not. If the person wrote brilliant things, you should believe it is me, and if the person wrote foolish things, you should believe it is someone else. If it is a bit of each, someone hacked my account.)
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.