AMAZON acronym

I still say we find out a little bit at a time.
 
Sorry for repeating myself, but I really like (my?) the idea of giving conflicting and contradicting accounts on the meaning of the name of different occasions.
 
nabaxo said:
Sorry for repeating myself, but I really like (my?) the idea of giving conflicting and contradicting accounts on the meaning of the name of different occasions.
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I concur. Let's make it fluid. That's an advantage of the acronym!
 
remake20 said:
I still think it shouldn't stand for anything. How about we claim that the name is so powerful that it we hear it, we die.
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Or that it is so sacred that we can never say it, like the Jewish Tetragrammaton, the name of the God of Israel, which we never say. Ever ever.

Ancient Jewish tradition said that the name could only be said by the High Cohen, on Yom Kippur, inside the First or Second Temples of Jerusalem (the First being the Temple of Solomon). Which pretty much means it could only be said by the holiest person on Earth, at the holiest time of the year, at the holiest place on Earth. Most people didn't even know what the name was. During prayer, Jews say fillers words, and when not during prayer, we just say Hashem, which literally means "The Name" in Hebrew. So it could be like that.

Or alternatively, we could just do like nabaxo said and tell each team it stands for something different. That would just be hilarious! We'd need to think of five different things.

I like the AMAZON's Mighty Alliance of the Zenobian Omnipotent Nations. Then to make it make sense (for we'd be one civilization, not an alliance of several) we could make our civ divided into city-state type things, like in Ancient Greece, where Athens and Sparta would have two different governments. So then they would be an alliance, like a confederacy.

But that would be our story to just one team, we'd need 4 more of those. And they need to contradict each other as much as possible. Like for instance the next one could include a legend of how the universe was created by an ancient dragon with seven heads (Hydra?) who made the Sun out of his fiery breath, and he ruled over the universe for many thousands of years, and when he was ready to die he curled up into a ball and became the Earth on which we live on today. But he had a bunch of fleas on his body (we won't provide any explanation of how they got there :D). And it gets even weirder.

No, we aren't descendants of those fleas, cause that would just be too simple. No, the fleas were gods, and each one had been sucking the blood of the great dragon from a different head, and each head did different things, so the fleas gained special powers based on the head that they had been living on. And they became the great gods that the AMAZONs worship. One made the sea, one the trees, etc. etc. Then after that the seven god-fleas wove their spirits into one and left their great bodies as a mountain and flew into the sky, exploding and creating a bunch of sparkles in the sky (the stars). Then one of the pieces fell back down on the mountain and where it struck there was a volcano, that erupted a while later.

The only problem was the Earth was still the great body of the seven-headed dragon in his sleep, and when the volcano erupted and matter came out from within the body, some of the dragons' soul came out and that became life. And to this day our civ still worships AMAZON, the Awesome Monster that Attacks Z_____ Of N_______

That was long. :crazyeye:
 
Or alternatively, we could just do like nabaxo said and tell each team it stands for something different. That would just be hilarious! We'd need to think of five different things.
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I like this idea a lot. Instead of each of us saying different things, we should make it uniform to each team, i.e. we tell Sirius one story, tell Merlot another story, tell CDZ another story, ect. That way each team will truly believe the story we tell them, but at some point they'll realize that other teams are saying something else...
 
What happened to Diana :confused:
Okay here we go:

There once was a man just floating around in space. He never did much, because he had almost nothing to do. Diana had put him there for a reason for putting him there, but he didn't know why. His name: Adam Savage. Adam was floating around in space when we saw this huge light. He was is shock because he had never seen anything in space before, not even light. He floated in to the light and he felt like he was becoming powerful. Hr suddenly grew to enormous size, he thought this must be Diana's great power. He then head Diana's audible voice and she sad, "Take this rock that I have given you and take with it and make a home for my might descendant." Because of the power of Diana's voice Adam went def for the full two years it took him to carve this giant rock. When he was done he said, "Diana, your home for your people is done." Somewhere in the universe she replied, "Thanks I'll be right there " He then saw Diana wit the golden rope. Because of the power of the rope he went blind for the rest of his life. Diana then took something so very small and put it on the rock. She said, "Now go, live on on that planet that is called CFC BTS MTDG II. I have given you power, and take it. Since you are more powerful then you were before, you need a new name. From now on your people will be called will be called Arisen Marvels At the Zenobian Overpower-full Nation." Adam went down to the CBM II and lived there for the rest of his life. About 10 years later someone who the called Jaroo came and put 10 other people on the planet, we cursed them in the name of Diana but they would not go away. All of our people started to grow until we founded our first city...

How was that? I know I didn't use name suggestions, but if this is not our real name it doesn't matter.
 
wideyedwanderer said:
I like this idea a lot. Instead of each of us saying different things, we should make it uniform to each team, i.e. we tell Sirius one story, tell Merlot another story, tell CDZ another story, ect. That way each team will truly believe the story we tell them, but at some point they'll realize that other teams are saying something else...
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I think that was the idea from the beginning, we tell each team something completely different that contradicts each other. :)

About the Adam Savage story, that doesn't explain why we're called AMAZONs. Any ideas for the correlation?

Allright, I figured out how to complete my acronym (the Awesome Monster that Attacks Z_____ Of N______) We would change it to the Awesome Monster that Attacks Zenobian Omnipotent Nations. :goodjob:

That way we'd tell one team we're called the "AMAZON's Mighty Alliance of the Zenobian Omnipotent Nations" and the second team that we worship the "Awesome Monster that Attacks Zenobian Omnipotent Nations". Yeah. Exactly.
 
Gingi said:
About the Adam Savage story, that doesn't explain why we're called AMAZONs. Any ideas for the correlation?
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I will edit it, look at it again soon. EDIT: Done. Sommerswerd, was that :lmao: in response to my story or your comment? :confused:
 
I don't really like the name. Sorry if I offended you, but I don't think we should be as (AHHH I can't think of the word!!!) humorous (that's what I have now) as that. Though if it is a name to give someone else, go ahead.
 
remake20 said:
That just sounds ******** IMO. Sorry if I offended you, but I don't think we should be as (AHHH I can't think of the word!!!), uh, humorous (that's what I got now) as that. Though if it is a name to give someone else, go ahead.
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I don't think it's appropriate to call a suggestion ********. Just say you don't like it because you don't think we should have a humorous name. That way you get your opinion across with supporting reasons without attacking someone else's idea.
 
You have a point. Sorry Norton.
 
remake20 said:
That just sounds ******** IMO. Sorry if I offended you, but I don't think we should be as (AHHH I can't think of the word!!!), uh, humorous (that's what I got now) as that. Though if it is a name to give someone else, go ahead.
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I didn't understand any of that past "********".
 
Thanks :) I'm been kind of mean lately, sorry for my behavior.
 
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