My username is another spelling of Viviane, an important character in celtic mythology (she's the priestess of Avalon).
Yes, I'm a huge fan of anything related to the Arthurian's legends.
-- English is not my mother-tongue, so I apologize for any spelling/grammar mistake --
Wanted to change from the UN I signed up with and just got 'fantastical' stuck in my head one day. Didn't want to use my standard internet name as it was too widely known. Quite like the meaning of this UN as well.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future
that year by year recedes before us.
It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we
will run faster, stretch out our arms further...
And one fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current,
borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Mine's in reference to the mind/body dichtomy that I had to study in psychology... and to the criticism that if mind and body are separate, then we are just machines being driven by ghosts.
For those doubts that swirl all around us
For those lives that tear at the seams
We know… we’re not what we’ve seen
For this dance we’ll move with each other
There ain’t no other step than one foot
Right in front of the other
^ Was Isaac Asimov the one who coined the expression, or did he borrow it? I remember it from I,Robot.
I love thinking about that stuff. "Je pense, donc je suis." Good ol' Descartes.
Nous avons abrité tous les rêves du monde,
Et c'est dans le soleil que nous avons grandi.
I didn't really choose this username i was beaten to the punch for the username i wanted so got the leftovers.
My old username 'micatbarton' was something my IT teacher came up with 10 years ago when i made my first email, i've been using it for most things since.
Mine's in reference to the mind/body dichtomy that I had to study in psychology... and to the criticism that if mind and body are separate, then we are just machines being driven by ghosts.
Oh and, my name is because my favorite colour is blue, and I liked the idea of havign rain in my name. However, 'blue rain' sounded stupid because water is generally seen as beeing blue, therefore i went with my second favortie colour, purple.
NO IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH A SONG OR A FILM WHICH I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF SEEN
*cough*
yes...
"I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell." -Picasso
"No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war." - Picasso
'I have scars becuase I have a past; but they, like my past, do not define my future'
^ Was Isaac Asimov the one who coined the expression, or did he borrow it? I remember it from I,Robot.
I love thinking about that stuff. "Je pense, donc je suis." Good ol' Descartes.
I think (if I remember correctly) that Gilbert Ryle first came up with the term... it was a criticism of Rene Descartes' idea that the body was separate from the soul/mind.
For those doubts that swirl all around us
For those lives that tear at the seams
We know… we’re not what we’ve seen
For this dance we’ll move with each other
There ain’t no other step than one foot
Right in front of the other