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The terminology makes me laugh and I think of schismatic churches. If you investigate the seedy underbelly of Eastern Orthodoxy, you will find many splinter gr
by NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
The terminology makes me laugh and I think of schismatic churches.
If you investigate the seedy underbelly of Eastern Orthodoxy, you will find many splinter groups which claim that the main bodies have committed apostasy and lost the faith. Therefore these small, schismatic groups, sometimes with limited clergy resources, will name themselves "True Orthodox" or "Really Truly Orthodox and We Mean It This Time". Generally these groups will themselves experience schism as they quibble about trivial things, and so devolve into "Truer than True Orthodoxy" and "Old True Believers of the Truth About Cats, Dogs, and Orthodoxy".
It's a bizarre concept that someone should have a "True Name" that's truer than their legally recorded name(s) and truer still than the names which they were given by their legal parents and names which were used for them throughout their lives. A new name that someone takes for himself is commonly known as an "assumed name" or "alias".
As Pontius Pilate was heard to remark, "What is Truth?"
- foogazi 3y ago> It's a bizarre concept that someone should have a "True Name" that's truer than their legally recorded name(s) and truer still than the names which they were given by their legal parents Why use a name someone else gave you if you don’t like it anymore ? What prevents us from changing it ?
- SheinhardtWigCo 3y agoBizarre means "very strange or unusual", but the scenario you described happens often. An assumed name or alias is a part-time name used for a specific purpose; the definition does not extend to a new name used as an individual's full-time name. > As Pontius Pilate was heard to remark, "What is Truth?" And as we know, Jesus replied: "Check the dictionary."