According to my Sister, when I got out of the military and started to grow out my hair again, I looked like Flagg from the ‘90s TV miniseries, “The Stand.”
My name backwards and my birthday because I am always afraid Altzeimer’s will overtake me and I’ll forget how to get on FR ....
Mine is quite obvious.
I’ve been skiing since 1968. Before I was bit by the Harley Davidson bug, skiing was a passion. Good knees are vital to skiing well, and I’m also a skinny little runt. Therefor: SkiKnee.
Walter Padick, The Man in Black, Randall Flagg, Walter O’Dim, Rudin Filaro, Raymond Fiegler, Richard Fannin, Walter Hodji, Walter Farden, The Walkin’ Dude, The Covenant Man and Marten Broadcloak....
When I registered, I was a bank president. I’ve been a conservative since I learned to read and to do arithmetic. So TheConservativeBanker seemed logical at the time.
I wanted to be blue but when I signed up someone already had it. Then I thought, how Lucky I was to be an American.
The author described two of the Chinese characters that are spoken as "Wu" and "Li" which (as the Chinese characters he was referring to - there is more than one character pronounced "wu" as well as more than one pronounced "li") - in Chinese meant matter, and energy, and the interchange of matter and energy. He said that understanding in Chinese literature was very old. I just thought that was fascinating and when adopting a handle for FreeRepublic I chose Wuli.
From page 5 of Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukov:
The Chinese language does not use an alphabet like western languages. Each word in Chinese is depicted by a character, which is a line drawing. (Sometimes two or more characters are combined to form different meanings). This is why it is difficult to translate Chinese into English. Good translations require a translator who is both a poet and a linguist.
For example, [one Chinese character pronounced as "Wu" can mean either "matter" or "energy." [one pronounced as] "Li" is a richly poetic word. It means "universal order" or "universal law." It also means "organic patterns." The grain in a panel of wood is Li. The organic pattern on the surface of a leaf is also Li, and so is the texture of a rose petal. In short, Wu Li, the Chinese word for physics, means "patterns of organic energy" ("matter/energy" [Wu] + "universal order/organic patterns" [Li]). This is remarkable since it reflects a world view which the founders of western science (Galileo and Newton) simply did not comprehend, but toward which virtually every physical theory of import in the twentieth century is pointing!