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What's in a Name?

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I guess I should talk about the White Feather thing… “What’s that all about?” :) A ways back, I got a little uncomfortable about my name. It was the surname itself and strangely I wasn’t exactly sure why. It wasn’t anything to do with my family or not wanting to be linked with them. I love my family. If you have any knowledge of the legal system used for controlling the general population; specifically the ‘NAME game', you might understand my being uncomfortable a bit more, but it wasn’t that really. It was more about a deepening sense of who I am, than a desire to become distinct from governing legal protocols. The distinction between legal and lawful will help if you want to understand more about that, but really I’ve found that an understanding of the scurrilous, is not at all as useful as the discipline of  focusing on what is good. “…whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is ex