What does your name do to you? @_@

[evenwolf]

http://www.kabalarians.com//Male/jesse.htm

I don't really think this one did me much justice. Materialistic and unartistic, really? Tactless, patient, and positive? Hmm.

I think astrology matches me better,  because I am a pretty dead-on Sagittarius.  http://www.astrology-online.com/sagittar.htm
Haha, my sign calls me tactless as well.

PS- I thought this was funny: http://www.kabalarians.com//Male/jessdogg.htm

[remixor]

Chris was really surprisingly accurate (with one exception), but Christopher was just about the polar opposite, so I'm not sure what the fuck that means.  Maybe I'm schizophrenic or something.

[OneThinkingGal and ._.]

I know one theory is that the sound of your name shapes you, so maybe whatever you're called usually would be the most accurate. That's what I used for mine...

Oh yeah, here's what it says on the site:
Which has more influence, my legal name or a nickname?

Both will have an influence, but the original name is the underlying blueprint. Sometimes, one name is used at home, and the other at work. In these cases, the person will behave and think differently in each environment according to the names used.  

yada yada marketing etc here

[Privateer Puddin']

As Tom, you have a natural interest in the welfare of your fellow man, and a desire to help and serve others in a humanitarian way. You are responsible and generous, although somewhat scattering and disorganized at times. Any jobs requiring systematic and conscientious effort, or involving any form of drudgery, dismay you. In your work, you would seek a position offering self-expression through contact with people, such as sales or teaching, or a position giving scope to your creative, artistic talents. You are good-natured and likeable, and people tend to confide in you and seek your advice in personal problems. Others sense your sincere interest and desire to help, and you can always be counted on to see the bright side of any problem.

[Babar]

Well... my exact name in english was not there, but the name is not of english origin. The two variations of my name seem completely different.

Your name of Baber gives you self-assurance, independence, and confidence. You have depth of mind and the ability to concentrate and to follow a line of thought to a logical conclusion. Your love of challenging the concepts of others invariably leads you to create your own ideas and to pioneer new lines of thought. Your strong characteristic of individuality qualifies you as a leader. You must be independent and you do not brook interference in any way. Although you do not tolerate interference in your own affairs, this characteristic does not prevent you from interfering in the affairs of others.

The name of Baabar has given you an appreciation for many beautiful and refined aspects of life--music and art, literature, drama--and the outdoors, where you find much peace and relaxation, but it creates a far too sensitive nature. You sense and feel much that you do not understand, and sometimes you are alarmed at your thoughts and wonder about their origin. You rarely experience the tranquility that comes with stability of thinking or emotional control.

I think I am more like the second description though...

[Inkoddi]

The first name of Arvid creates an intense personal nature. Your feelings and emotional desires are strong and consequently you are an individual, determined, strong-willed person. Your creative nature and ambition drive you to pursue success to the extent that you jeopardize your personal well-being. There is a tendency for you to dominate others. You are too certain of yourself, and you are not open to the views of others or responsive to their desires or needs. Also, this name does not incorporate qualities that enable you to be diplomatic and to compromise.

Me, ambitious?

[Shattered Sponge]

Evidently, Annie has the coolest name in the world:

http://www.kabalarians.com//Female/shadow.htm

But I digress; I tried both long and short versions of my name, and found:

(long)

you have a great love of nature and the out-of-doors, and could have a desire to be in an occupation which takes you outdoors and involves you with the products of the earth. All the finer things of life and beauties of nature are an inspiration to you and you are attracted to the mysteries of nature. Difficulty in expression results in your being too positive, blunt, and candid in speech. Although you are easily offended by others, you do not show it. You crave affection and understanding, but rarely find it as others do not understand you and accuse you of being cool and aloof.

I.  Think.   Not.

and

(short, the one I use most often)

Your name has given you an idealistic nature with a desire to help others. Your initiative often causes you to be the first to act when you see a need. Since you are impressionable and receptive, you feel the misfortunes of others very keenly. However, this name makes it awkward for you to express your deeper thoughts and feelings with finesse and diplomacy to the extent that your candid, sometimes blunt, manner of speaking creates misunderstandings with others. Being somewhat self-centred, you learn through your own experiences, as you rarely take advice from others. Yet, you are sensitive and very easily hurt and offended. You long for praise and appreciation for your efforts, but others find it difficult to understand you.

Well at first I was entirely satisfied with the conception that I'm sensitive to other's problems, and that I had the excuse of phrasing things badly and thus creating misunderstandings with others to explain how hateful I can often be; then, I slapped myself across the face and realised that, no, I'm actually just a complete and utter cunt.

Quite clever how they say things that they know people would like to believe about themselves (even if they may seem, on first glance, negative), yet (in my case, at least) may not be even remotely true.  They almost had me.

[TheYak]

Yes.  As always, flattering words are your personal guarantee of a speaker's honesty.   :

[Eggie]

Your name of Alex gives you a clever mind, good business judgment, a sense of responsibility, and an appreciation of the finer things of life. You are serious-minded and not inclined to make light of things even in little ways, and in your younger years you had more mature interests than others your age. Home and family mean a great deal to you and it is natural that you should desire the security of a peaceful, settled home environment where you can enjoy the companionship of family and friends. Whatever you set out to accomplish you do your very best to complete in accordance with what you consider to be right.

[Damien]

Brief summary of your name

Your first name of Domagoj has given you a pleasant, easy-going, friendly nature 8). Personal contacts are important to you. In situations where you are serving others, demonstrating or instructing, you have the patience to go into details that someone else may not think to be important. In your association with others, you are often limited to the more mundane happenings and little personal problems that can be so frustrating to those of an active, dynamic nature . You desire to create system and order in your environment but are inclined to become side-tracked and socialize when you should be working . Your ambitions are not large, as you lack confidence in your own abilities and would sooner not take a chance.  

That's a goddamn lie! LIE I TELL YOU!

Nickname:

Your name of Damien gives you self-assurance, independence, and confidence. You have depth of mind and the ability to concentrate and to follow a line of thought to a logical conclusion. Your love of challenging the concepts of others invariably leads you to create your own ideas and to pioneer new lines of thought. Your strong characteristic of individuality qualifies you as a leader. You must be independent and you do not brook interference in any way. Although you do not tolerate interference in your own affairs, this characteristic does not prevent you from interfering in the affairs of others.

That's more like it!

[Ciro Durán]

Mine:

As Ciro, you are entitled to rule the world, and you will find any means to make it.

Ha, only a joke, this is the real one:

Brief summary of your name

Your name of Ciro has created a most expressive nature, idealistic and inspirational, driven with a strong inner urge to be of service in some way that would uplift humanity as a whole. However, there is a tendency to assume too heavy a burden of responsibility for others, which leads to worry and undue concern. People with problems are drawn to you as they recognize you as one who has understanding and gives not only sympathy and comfort but provides also some constructive advice or assistance. You have a generous quality to your nature, but you must guard carefully against giving more than you receive or you will find yourself doing without because you have helped someone else.

Mmmm. That's quite true, to say the least

[OneThinkingGal and ._.]

Quite clever how they say things that they know people would like to believe about themselves (even if they may seem, on first glance, negative), yet (in my case, at least) may not be even remotely true.  They almost had me.

Unhhh....so I'd LIKE to hear that I have a lack of confidence....how does that work :p It didn't tell AGA that, and he has no shortage of confidence.

Although most of the things they say are positive, at least they are specific enough to not apply to everyone.

* OneThinkingGal and ._. smacks pudding a bit for only posting his result

[Ghormak]

Your first name of Andreas has created a deep, sensitive, refined nature with an intelligent mind and a keen appreciation of material values. You enjoy all the finer things in life that a good standard of living allows. You have good business judgment and would do well in a managerial position, as you have executive ability. You work best in an independent capacity, where you are able to think problems out carefully before you act. Your sensitivity and reserve prevent people from coming close in friendship. There is always an aloofness and reserve that acts as a barrier and prevents any close ties.

Well, I don't know about the refined and intelligent mind, and the good business judgment bit is probably not true (can't say I've ever been in a managerial position, so who knows?), but the rest looks pretty good.


And now for the closest name to my nickname I could find:

The name of Ghorghor creates a happy, versatile, and expressive nature, with good business judgment and a fine sense of responsibility, which should enable you to establish congenial relationships in positions of trust where you are dealing with the public. You have a clever, quick mind, with the ability to accomplish a great deal in a short period of time, although it is not easy for you to systematize your efforts. This name could allow expression along musical and artistic lines and gives you the desire to entertain and to meet and mix with people of refinement and culture.

It's funny, because I use my nickname for anything musical and "artistic" I create.

[Flippy_D]

This is good for acting as a name generator.

Hee hee, 'Phalec' (phallic).

Here's my definition.

"Your name of Phillip has given you an idealistic nature with a desire to help others. Your initiative often causes you to be the first to act when you see a need. Since you are impressionable and receptive, you feel the misfortunes of others very keenly. However, this name makes it awkward for you to express your deeper thoughts and feelings with finesse and diplomacy to the extent that your candid, sometimes blunt, manner of speaking creates misunderstandings with others. Being somewhat self-centred, you learn through your own experiences, as you rarely take advice from others. Yet, you are sensitive and very easily hurt and offended. You long for praise and appreciation for your efforts, but others find it difficult to understand you."

Very scary. It's actually the other way around on the bit I highlighted, speaking rather too eloquently and being excessively lyrically inventive, to the point that some people just shrug, but the rest is pretty much spot on.

[Pessi]

Heh, I find lots of good matches from other people's names but only half of my name's description was kind of like me.

I don't know, I can't prove or disprove this. I'll just say that I personally think the described qualities are quite generic human traits. I can find something spot on from practically all descriptions here. I just basically read all of the descriptions as if they were for my name and most of them were a lot more accurate than mine - some even completely correct. You could get this kind of results with guessing. Making the guesses generic makes the odds a lot better, almost as if they weren't just guesses. Or something like that.

Anyway, it seems pretty commercial to me. Name reports, baby naming, name changes, courses, books, audio tapes and cycle charts. Prices from $10 to $375.

OK, here's what it said:

"The name incorporates a potential aptitude for concentration and patient, logical thought along mechanical or scientific lines. You tend to prefer to follow normal routine rather than cope with the disruption and uncertainty entailed in trying something new. You gravitate to situations where you have stability and the opportunity to make slow step-by-step progress, preferably in a technical field. Procrastination and lack of self-confidence may restrict your success."

About "logical thought along mechanical or scientific lines." It is true, I tend to think logically, perhaps more often than my peers - but the text only refers to potential. Doesn't everyone hold the potential for logical thought? However, I'm not really interested in figuring out scientific facts or matters related to mechanics (if that's even what the text means). I'm actually more interested in figuring out why people do certain things etc. The way I see it, the text was 50 percent correct. The first guess was right, the second wasn't.

If the text referred to mechanical as logic that isn't flexible or creative or something like that... Well, then I have no idea what they meant. I mean, the way I see it, logic is pretty definite.

"You tend to prefer to follow normal routine rather than cope with the disruption and uncertainty entailed in trying something new." Actually, lately I've started to question the normal routines. The way people want to live a "normal life", getting a house, settling down and so on. I don't want to elaborate on that, but as I'm trying to find an alternative way to live my life, probably move to another country or something like that, I don't think it qualifies for following a normal routine. So I think this is a very long shot. If it wasn't, I don't think they would put 'logic' and "normal routine" in the same paragraph.

Finally, about the "Procrastination and lack of self-confidence may restrict your success." In general: wouldn't those matters restrict anyone's success? Note the word: "may". On procrastination: In fact, I asked my friend yesterday why her parents wait until they get retired before they move to France. Why not do it right now when they're still umm... somewhat young? I apply the same logic on my own actions. On self-confidence: If I didn't believe in myself, would I know how to draw, even the little I can? Probably not. Would I know how to play drums the way I do - probably not. On the other hand, if this means lack of self-confidence when encountering other people, or a frightening situation - no luck there. But that's just my word. I don't know how I could exemplify that.

All this in mind, I think this uh, thingabob is fun. But that's all there is for me. And even the fun stops when you start paying for it. If anyone thinks I'm wrong, it's alright. Just give me your reasons and hopefully you'll prove me wrong. And I'd just like to say that as always, I mean no harm to anyone by this post. This was not directed at anyone especially, this is just my opinion which hopefully will be proved wrong. If anyone feels that Kabalarian Philosophy is correct - your opinion is as good as mine.

[Redwall]

Here's mine: Your first name of Grant creates a serious, thoughtful nature, shrewd, efficient, and business-minded. You are one to make your own decisions, and not be influenced by others. You desire independence and freedom from the authority and interference of others. You are not overly ambitious, preferring instead just to seek stable, settled conditions which are adequate to meet your responsibilities. You like to be your own boss and you capable handle responsibilities for others.

Yes, it is accurate to a point, except I'm ambitious.

I'm sure if someone took the time to compare these, they would find a lot of different wording for the same traits repeated over and over. It seems to me just a random assortment of traits probably in groups that go together, so they can take a random couple of groups, take a few traits from them, word them cleverly, and wa-lah, a seemingly specific description that still applies to the majority of people. As pessi said, if you read every one of these as your own, you'd probably find a lot are very accurate.

As for my comment about horoscopes: perhaps I should have said "the zodiac". I meant that people born in March are athletic, etc. Yeah, perhaps most people born in March are athletic, but that's because most people in general are athletic. The same applies here. Most of these traits could apply to anyone.

[OneThinkingGal and ._.]

All this in mind, I think this uh, thingabob is fun. But that's all there is for me. And even the fun stops when you start paying for it. If anyone thinks I'm wrong, it's alright. Just give me your reasons and hopefully you'll prove me wrong. And I'd just like to say that as always, I mean no harm to anyone by this post. This was not directed at anyone especially, this is just my opinion which hopefully will be proved wrong. If anyone feels that Kabalarian Philosophy is correct - your opinion is as good as mine.

I posted it merely as a bit of fun, I don't think its possible to exactly prove it right or wrong, especially since each of us has an opinion of ourselves that may or may not match other people's opinion of us.

Its quite funny that people feel the need to 'disprove' it. I'm not marketing thier services or claiming its the absolute truth. ^_^

In case anyone wants a label, its called Acrophonology and it may very well be a pseudoscience, but its still fun.

[Ghormak]

Heh, it doesn't seem like people are "feeling the need to disprove it" to me. Pessi merely stated that he doesn't think it works. He didn't try to prove anything, and neither has anyone else.

Me? I'm neutral, as always. My name's description is quite accurate, but at the same time I have a hard time thinking every damn Andreas out there is just like that. Neither side has enough proof to convince me.

* Ghormak shrugs

[Pessi]

Yeah, you've got a point, Annie. That's actually the reason I added the disclaimer in the end. I just wanted to let you know that I was just kind of thinking aloud. I was not trying to tell anyone they're wrong or right, just trying to figure it out. And one of the best ways to figure something out is by being proved wrong. I was kind of expecting that but I forgot this wasn't one of those debate threads. Sorry about that.  

The reason I wrote another long post was that lots of people were wondering how much this thing holds true and so on. I just thought I'd add my 2 cents or so, and well... If it wasn't for touch typing I would make shorter posts and keep it sincere as everyone else.

Anyway, mind if I join the demonstration?

[OneThinkingGal and ._.]

I didn't mean you Pessi. I just meant in general, people seem resistant to things that aren't 100% provable. I just like to think we don't know it all, not that we should blindly believe everything but not claim we know everything for fact either. Like you, I was also thinking out loud.

Sorry if it came across as an attack on you or anyone specific.