What's everyone's first name?

Matt Hartman · February 06, 2006, 19:51:49

err...um...hmm.

My first name is Hebrew for "Gift of God", which could be further from the truth.

My last name is German, it used to have two n's at the end as in Hartmann, but when the German immigrants came to North America the second n was dropped for some reason. It's means strength.

I was born and raised in California, son of an artist, musician and carpenter. I have lived in several of the states in the US and now reside in Texas.

I grew up following the Christian doctrines (bible) but later denounced religion altogether to live a more spiritually fulfilling life.

I have a beautiful woman by my side and four beautiful daughters.
My children's ages are 9, 7, 3 and 1.

Currently I am 32 years old.

My phone number is.....
My S.S # is...

Happy to meeting all of you!

cyperkid · February 06, 2006, 20:23:54

Quote from: "Matt Hartman"
My last name is German...it's means strength.

maybe it was alike. in the past. :wink:
nowadays...well, would you like to know? :lol:

Quote from: "Matt Hartman"
Happy to meeting all of you!

nice to meet you too

Matt Hartman · February 06, 2006, 21:01:55

Quote from: "cyperkid"maybe it was alike. in the past. :wink:
nowadays...well, would you like to know? :lol:

Sure, I'm not versed on my German. If it's vulgar, all the better!

rewbs · February 06, 2006, 21:02:58

Hello everyone, I'm Robin. In Lemurian, Robin means nasal cavity.

Matt Hartman · February 06, 2006, 21:20:10

Quote from: "rewbs"Hello everyone, I'm Robin. In Lemurian, Robin means nasal cavity.

Lemurian? Help the geographically impaired won't you?

speed-goddamn-focus · February 06, 2006, 21:21:39

My last name is Johansson. I won't tell you what it means.

Squirrel Havoc · February 06, 2006, 21:40:11

Damn, babel fish won't translate Swedish

rewbs · February 06, 2006, 21:43:51

Wild guess: Son of Johan?

speed-goddamn-focus · February 06, 2006, 22:08:48

Quote from: "rewbs"Wild guess: Son of Johan?

yeah.

Sam_Zen · February 06, 2006, 23:58:21

Mine's Frans. Meaning 'the free one'. So I have an obligation to live like that.
But since basic school I've been called Sam by everyone, because of my last name Samshuijzen.
(Guess where my nick came from..)

Squirrel Havoc · February 07, 2006, 00:47:56

Quote from: "Sam_Zen"my last name Samshuijzen.

That's a cool last name, what country is that from?

That's one thing I like about the US (and about the only thing I like about it), is all the different kinds of people. And I love messing with racist rednecks who call imigrents (i cant spell it) foreigners, because I remind them that the only true americans are the native americans, then I tell THEM to go back where they came from :lol:

That's also why I like talking on the net, all the different cultures come together as one. And this forum seems to be full of mature, intelligent people

:wink:

Sam_Zen · February 07, 2006, 01:54:25

2 Squirrel Havoc
Well, uhm, I thought the text under my avatar would be enough to guess the country ..

In that language it literally means 'sam's houses'.
And you're very right about this 'native' issue. Here they call the socalled natives 'autochtones', while the (descendents of) immigrants are called 'allochtones'. The last string soon standing for 'foreigners' or 'strangers'.
Even when born there.
So, I'm one of the 'autochtones', but who knows, maybe my ancestors once came from Portugal, Bangla Desh or Pluto.

And you're very right about the, this, net-community ! : "all the different cultures come together as one".
There, indeed, all the different ones can be converted into a single one, our global culture.
You call it "mature, intelligent people", I would call it "people with their own, independent common sense", but I think we both mean the same.
To those, no rules or laws from above are necessary. They choose freely, according to their own conscience.

Matt Hartman · February 07, 2006, 04:26:37

Quote from: "Squirrel Havoc"That's one thing I like about the US (and about the only thing I like about it), is all the different kinds of people. And I love messing with racist rednecks who call imigrents (i cant spell it) foreigners, because I remind them that the only true americans are the native americans, then I tell THEM to go back where they came from :lol

Racism is EVERYWHERE. And if there wasn't racism between races, there would be between the sexes, and so on and so forth.

What most people don't realize, including the racist ones are that we are more genetically linked than meets the eye.

For instance, did you know that a lot of the people in Afghanistan are of Greek decent?

How about Sicilians, they're part Greek, part Arabic, part Moore, part Roman, part Norman, (German tribe) part Spanish and part Egyptian?

Did you know Northern Indians (from India) are part Caucasian? (Aryan)

Did you know a lot of caucasian people in the U.S have a small percentage of African blood?

Did you know that Celts, English, Swedes, Netherlands and Germans are descendants from the Vikings?

Did you know Native Americans are descendants of Mongoloids?

Did you know that Jewish is not an actual genetic race?

Racism is the dumbest thing man has ever wasted time with.
To place someone in a class system simply because they have more or less pigment in their skin, hair and eyes is absurd. To use the differences in culture and belief systems as a tool to hate is ridiculous.

People lost or gained pigment according to their environment's climate. Where there is more sunlight, there is darker skin, hair and eyes to allow protection from the harsh sun.

Where there is less sunlight, there is less need for pigment to protect the skin, hair and eyes.

On a spiritual level, anyone who is, quickly becomes aware that we are all from one energy source. And it doesn't stop there, we are one with every living thing in the universe.

Racism is pure unconsciousness of this energy and a cruel joke one plays on him or herself.

botb · February 07, 2006, 09:33:42

this viking here was named after a river..
Jordy comes from Jordan and means 'down-flowing'
when translated from Hebrew.

cyperkid · February 07, 2006, 13:38:22

Quote from: "Matt Hartman"
Quote from: "cyperkid"maybe it was alike. in the past. :wink:
nowadays...well, would you like to know? :lol:

Sure, I'm not versed on my German. If it's vulgar, all the better!

if a guy or a man(n) is "hart" (like solid, rough, harsh) it of course means that he's able to stand anything, but in colloquial sense it means that he's totally drunk, like not being able to stand'n'walk anymore, pure alcohol flushing through his veins...
maybe he would also be a "hartmann" if he's using viagra...you know what i mean :wink: