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Help[Opinions] Re: Timarete
in reply to a message by New_Chloë
Yeah, I know it can be positive, in that I don't react so negatively to pure, sublime, high, beauty, wealth as meanings, and I don't think excellence is a bad thing.
But with "honoring excellence" (or Excellence, which appeared in one of the Missouri name lists Viatrix has been posting)...I am not comforted by thinking of it as personal or aspirational or mystical the way I would be for those other examples. I guess it doesn't seem like a value or innate quality to me; it's more like a manufactured result of good/bad values or other qualities, so seems relatively empty (but again, I realize it doesn't have to be). I'm probably sensitive to it because my name means "victory"...I feel like that's annoyingly competitive but at least can be personal as in overcoming setbacks, yet it's more like an outcome and doesn't feel like a true value/quality/inspiration (whereas sublime seems like something innately inspiring).
But with "honoring excellence" (or Excellence, which appeared in one of the Missouri name lists Viatrix has been posting)...I am not comforted by thinking of it as personal or aspirational or mystical the way I would be for those other examples. I guess it doesn't seem like a value or innate quality to me; it's more like a manufactured result of good/bad values or other qualities, so seems relatively empty (but again, I realize it doesn't have to be). I'm probably sensitive to it because my name means "victory"...I feel like that's annoyingly competitive but at least can be personal as in overcoming setbacks, yet it's more like an outcome and doesn't feel like a true value/quality/inspiration (whereas sublime seems like something innately inspiring).
This message was edited 11/14/2023, 12:23 PM
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