Titles under our names

[richardcranium]

Can anybody tell me what the titles under our names mean? From reading an earlier post I found out that neophyte is someone with less than 30 posts. Is there a list?

[richardcranium]

I also found out while editing my profile that I can make up my own title. Is that OK or should the "site god" determine that for me? <lol>

[eaglewolf]

I am not sure if you are able to change it yourself or not... but if it will let you, go right ahead.

~ew

Here are the grades:

Neophyte (Minimum Posts: 0)
Zelator (Minimum Posts: 30)
Theoricus (Minimum Posts: 75)
Practicus (Minimum Posts: 100)
Philosophus (Minimum Posts: 150)
Adeptus Minor (Minimum Posts: 175)
Adeptus Major (Minimum Posts: 225)
Adeptus Exemptus (Minimum Posts: 275)
Magister Templi (Minimum Posts: 350)
Magus (Minimum Posts: 450)
Ipsissimus (Minimum Posts: 750)

[richardcranium]

Hey look! I am not a neophyte anymore! I have another question. What is a zelator?

[eaglewolf]

LOL! It is the next stage of initiation of the Golden Dawn just after Neophyte... it is the same thing as a zealot I think...

Being a zealot means you are committed...

I know it doesn't help, but that is all I know.

~ew

[richardcranium]

What is golden dawn? Is it anything like the Everquest?

[eaglewolf]

Not hardly :p... but some may think so ;).

Try this link...

http://golden-dawn.org/tradition.html

~ew

[richardcranium]

Well what about mol w/ site god and others who are not graded this way?

[eaglewolf]

Any of the Mystic Wicks staff members carry different titles. The grading system is also not applied to board moderators, and site administrators...

...the grades give you a reason to keep posting :D.

~ew

[richardcranium]

Well it is working on me. Thank you the info.

[eaglewolf]

Anytime RC...

~ew

[richardcranium]

Just call me Rich

[Yvonne Belisle]

I think I changed mine but I'm not sure. I figure at the moment what I have hopefully changed it to fits me but I am going to try to grow out of it.

[Yvonne Belisle]

It worked :) :)

[richardcranium]

Originally posted by eaglewolf
I am not sure if you are able to change it yourself or not... but if it will let you, go right ahead.

~ew

Here are the grades:

Neophyte (Minimum Posts: 0)
Zelator (Minimum Posts: 30)
Theoricus (Minimum Posts: 75)
Practicus (Minimum Posts: 100)
Philosophus (Minimum Posts: 150)
Adeptus Minor (Minimum Posts: 175)
Adeptus Major (Minimum Posts: 225)
Adeptus Exemptus (Minimum Posts: 275)
Magister Templi (Minimum Posts: 350)
Magus (Minimum Posts: 450)
Ipsissimus (Minimum Posts: 750)

So what happens after 750?

[Yvonne Belisle]

That is a really good question. I never thought to ask it myself I'm glad someone thought of it.

[Twig]

We start bowing

[Polaris]

Well i suppose maybe then you get to chose your own title. i was very lucky to have mol give me one. thanx mol!
Polaris

[Skye_McCarthy]

how do you change the title under you name (for those of you that have)??????

:O

[eaglewolf]

Originally posted by Skye_McCarthy
how do you change the title under you name

I think the staff are the only ones able to change their title...

...I don't make the rules, I just enforce them ;).

~ew

[Skye_McCarthy]

are yvonne and twig part of the staff then?

[eaglewolf]

Twig is the 'Druid' forum moderator, and Yvonne is/was on the Newsletter staff (I think).

~ew

From time to time, mol will issue titles for members who request it, but I don't think there is any rhyme or reason to it...

[Mairwen]

:D Me either. I just know I showed up one day and was "Site Priestess". LOL!

Help us ObiMol KenobiWan!

[eaglewolf]

Originally posted by Mairwen
Help us ObiMol KenobiWan!

I though I did :p...

...if that was not a good enough explanation, use the Force young Jedi ;).

~ew

[Mairwen]

It is a beautimous, wondiddliffic explanation! We just need ObiMol KenobiWan to explain the intricasies of this board, is all. :D You're doing a great job EW! But as far as The Force goes, my big teeth, myself, and I much prefer The Farce. :D

[eaglewolf]

...I guess that's better than The Schwartz...

:rolleyes:

~ew

[Red Dragon]

Gee Dick :p you achieve Nirvana!! Doesn't every body know that? Either that or you become SITE GOD :D Hee, Hee.

[richardcranium]

I could only dream of achieving such a status!

[Red Dragon]

Go on.. do it!!! Dare to dream :) one day maybe... yes even you could become... dare I say it, Site God. :D
Hee,hee.

[mol]

Originally posted by Red Dragon
Go on.. do it!!! Dare to dream :) one day maybe... yes even you could become... dare I say it, Site God. :D
Hee,hee.

"There can be only one!"

A great quote from a great movie.

Well, ew explained everything just fine. And I have made this option only for staff to be able to have a different name than the classes related to posting...but it looks like when I upgraded the system last Friday I left the option for everyone to change their title. :(

But, since everyone is having fun with it...I will just leave it. If you want to change your title...then go for it. I originally did it so you could tell who was staff and who wasnt so if you had questions you could ask. But, hey, we are all family here...and everyone pretty much knows who is staff. So, change if you Will and make sure all new visitors know who the staff members are so they can get help when they need it.


ObiMol...

[Semele]

From time to time, mol will issue titles for members who request it, but I don't think there is any rhyme or reason to it... [/B][/QUOTE]


Ew, haven't you figured out yet that there is no rhyme or eason to anything Mol does??

Semele

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

I could tell who were staffer's by the main page where you select which forum you want to enter. It tells who moderates the "room", forum, whatever you want to call it. So, when I'm in the Green Room, I would direct ?? to EW, and when I'm in the Tarot Room, I would direct ?? to Semele.

:D

Dagda

[eaglewolf]

...but the idea is to be able to grab a staff member on the spot if it is possible... that way you get immediate attention if needed.

Some of the moderators have made a few posts and never returned, so emailing them or asking them for help would be pointless (I think)...

~ew

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

so.....why not give staffer's mythological god names under their names?? Or have Site Sage.....or something like that referring to "wise counsel"?? :D

Dagda

[eaglewolf]

Mine was Site Guru before mol went out of town... but if everyone can pick their title, anyone can be the Site Guru, or Sage etc...

It should not be a problem, after all, how many problems do people really have around here? (aside from me harrassing them!)

~ew

[Mairwen]

Hey, ew, i know my french is horridly rusty, but i don't think your tagline translates to "be happy while bathing", does it? :(

[mol]

Originally posted by eaglewolf
Mine was Site Guru before mol went out of town... but if everyone can pick their title, anyone can be the Site Guru, or Sage etc...

It should not be a problem, after all, how many problems do people really have around here? (aside from me harrassing them!)

~ew

Yah...I dont think it will be a problem...hopefully.

I just dont want to take anything away...and since i left that option in...I would feel bad by taking it away from the handful of people who have taken on new titles.

[mol]

Originally posted by Semele


Ew, haven't you figured out yet that there is no rhyme or eason to anything Mol does??

Semele

HEY! Settledownna...

Hehe...

[eaglewolf]

Originally posted by Mairwen
Hey, ew, i know my french is horridly rusty, but i don't think your tagline translates to "be happy while bathing", does it? :(

LOL! Like English, many languages use slang... literal translation and meaning are sometime not related...

...keeping that in mind, NO... but it was a nice try :).

~ew

Here's a hint... Levant is capitalized ;).

[mol]

Originally posted by eaglewolf


LOL! Like English, many languages use slang... literal translation and meaning are sometime not related...

...keeping that in mind, NO... but it was a nice try :).

~ew

Here's a hint... Levant is capitalized ;).

Ok..so its

"Be happy while bathing someone else!"

:eek:

[eaglewolf]

It has nothing to do with bathing... but that does sound like fun!

:D

~ew

[Naillosotarrain]

Yes it is possible to change the title under your name as you see by mine and my wife's (Yvonne Thomas); but first you have to make it out of the neophyte chair. After you are no longer a neophyte you can go to your profile, click on edit profile, and type in a new title under the new custom user identity field that you will see (but it needs to be 25 characters or less).

[Mairwen]

Originally posted by eaglewolf
It has nothing to do with bathing... but that does sound like fun! :D ~ew

It does, doesn't it? :D Well, this time, I got something like, "smooth sailing in the east" ~ but I dont' think that's right, either. ROTFLMAO! :D

[belladonna23]

I had French in H.S. (looong time ago...) so I'm quite rusty, as well. I come up with "to set sail while Raising", but that sounds silly. Please, please, please tell us, the suspense is killing me...

[Mairwen]

This has been fun. LOL! ;O) I studied French for 10 years ~ but that stopped like ... 10 years ago. Still, you'd think I still had a clue ...

Ou sont les restaurants, s'il vous plait?

[Yvonne Belisle]

According to the online translator I just used faire voile en Levant means literaly "do veil while Raising". That doesn't help much. EW please have mercy upon us and translate the slang.

[Mairwen]

hhh mmm ....

*raise the flag?!*

[eaglewolf]

WoW! I didn't know my tag line would create such chaos :D.

You guys are having far too much fun for me to spoil it now!

Did someone mention sailing? Yes, you are on the right track, but do not translate Levant... (hence the capital) as in a proper name :rolleyes:

You guys are still trying to translate is literally, which will not make any sense...

"ranch hand" may translate as such, but does not mean "the terminal part of the human arm located below the forearm, of a ranch" ...

Does that help? No? Want to know the kicker?

Even if you translate it, it actually means something else (as in the above example) and on top of that, without the history behind the saying, even figuring out that meaning will not make any sense.

...if you REALLY want to know...

Perhaps you could research it from a historical standpoint, rather than trying to translate it ;)

...learn now, hate me for it later...

~ew

[BrightStar]

Hi all!
I don't speak any french.But the Levant is a name that used to be used for the Middle East by Europeans..Places like Israel,Lebanon,and Syria.It was considered an exotic place where one could get goods from the Orient.Things like spices and silk.
Peace and Love
Rain BrightStar

[eaglewolf]

Now we are on the right track. The Levant was a name used for the eastern Mediterranean countries...

...it was an exotic place where one could go, not only to purchase goods, but to "escape" their lives. They could hide out, so to speak, temporarily or in some cases permanently (kind of like heading down to Mexico for those of us in America).

In relation to my tag line, Levant is refered to as a place of temporary escape from my life...

"Sail into the Levant"

I mentioned an alternate meaning, but that is for me to know ;) (unless you do the research and figure it out of course). It is deeper and much more personal, so I will leave it at that...

~ew, sailing into the Levant~

[gunner]

"Come my friends,
'tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until i die"

tennyson, "ulysses"

[Mairwen]

"To seek, to strive, but not to yield" ...

One of my favorite pieces of poetry. So I should've had a clue. Well, at least I think I got the sail part. LOL! :D

[mol]

Est ja reduite en diverse montaigne.
Jusques au Ciel galeres sublimees,
En un instant semblent estre abysmees,
Plus du bastard on ne fait voile à mont, /
Ny de la bourde, & moins de l[']artimont.
Le seul trion en carré mesuré,
Est plus au vent constant, & asseuré.
Dangereux est navigage de l[']hoste:
Et que Galere aupres d'elle s'acoste.
Chascun s'escarte à la merci du vent,
Regnant Siroc le prochain du levant:
Lequel ayant la grand force brisee
Des autres ventz, & la Mer maistrisee
Nous conduisoient vacabonds, & errans
Ou sa fureur avoit gagné les rangs.

[Mairwen]

Oh yeah?! :D Well, nyah!

[gunner]

si vous plait mon ami, je parlez francais un petite pue et tres mal, merci. b.b.

[Yvonne Belisle]

I read it far better than i speak it.:eek:

[Mairwen]

Yeah, me too. My copy of Queen of the Damned is in French. :D

[Yvonne Belisle]

She has a new vampire series I read the first one it's called Vittorio the Vampire and is very good.

[Mairwen]

I loved Vittorio. Did you read Pandora? that was actually the first of the series.

[sharon_fitzhugh]

Read Aleister Crowley's "Magick in Theory and Practice", or "The Magickal Diaries..."
Full descriptions of the grades are given in both.

[mol]

Originally posted by sharon_fitzhugh
Read Aleister Crowley's "Magick in Theory and Practice", or "The Magickal Diaries..."
Full descriptions of the grades are given in both.

Hehe...thanks Sharon! And welcome to the Community!

Also, any book on the G:D: should give the descriptions as well...

[Yvonne Belisle]

I've read Pandora I had assumed it was part of her other series. Thank-you for pointing that out to me. It will save me from making a mistake when I'm talking to someone else. :sunny:

I changed my avatar for fun I think I will change it from time to time to keep from being bored with it.

[Mairwen]

I thought you chose the guillotine because you're ready to kill someone over your move. Been there! :D

[Yvonne Belisle]

There are days. I got it at a storage site in Utah. I really love the thing I used to keep a basket of pinecones at the base of it. It is also a great conversation piece to have. It's white with a silver painted wooden blade and some well placed red paint. :D

[Mairwen]

ROTFLMAO! :D You rock, Yvonne!

[Yvonne Belisle]

Thank you. If you want funny I wish you could have seen the look on the Morman Missionary's face when he realized what was in the corner. You have to figure there were several daggers on the et center and a beautiful longbow/recurvebow hanging on the wall next to it's quiver. They left very quickly and never came back. :bigredgri

[gunner]

that reminds me of a time, many years ago, just after i got out of the corps, i was a "free lance military advisor" for a while. once while back in the states between jobs i shared quarters with some friends in the same trade. one afternoon while we were pulling maintenence on our gear came a knock on the door. "we're from the watchtower bible and tract society, may we speak to you?"
we were polite, we invited them to sit down and offered them a beer and asked if they didn't mind if we continued our work. about the time i finished assembling a sten gun, pulled the trigger and the bolt went home with a "clank!!" they decided god had urgent business for them elsewhere.

[Ayla]

I've done it too! Yay!

Love & Hugs,
Your local cavewitch

[bluecat]

When I was in grad school I lived in a student housing project called West Campus and JW's used to pester me a lot. And they are not even supposed to "solicit" from door to door without an appointment because it was a gov't housing thing. (This will be sort of important later.)

Anyway, one fine Sunday afternoon I answered the door wearing a small silver pentacle, that's all, just a small silver pentacle. I invited them in, but they just wouldn't come into the apartment. They also never reported me to the housing office.

I was never bothered again while living there. Now I just answer the door with my shirt off and they get an eyeful of the tattoo on my right shoulder. The tattoo can be seen at http://www.bluecatsden.com/tattoo.html and it usually gives them the message. If that fails I have a sign in my living room that says "Taste Religion, Lick A Witch."

Life is good.

BlueCat

[Yvonne Belisle]

I hate to say this but my ex helped add to our bad reputation. This was before we met but he used to look see who it was grab a robe he kept at the door and then open it. It was almost always morman missionaries because he lived in Salt Lake City. He would peer at their name tags and go "mormans right?" "Hey you guys are virgins!" Then he would yell at the back of the house "Hey guys it's time the sacrifices are here!" Funny but he didn't get many missionaries of any faith. It kind of bothers me because of the propaganda about us but in some ways it was funny too. Gunner I like what you guys did that sounds like fun! :D

[Selenia]

um, how does one change the label under the name?
I went to profile edit, but didn't see anything....

[mol]

Originally posted by Selenia
um, how does one change the label under the name?
I went to profile edit, but didn't see anything....

After 10 posts is when you can change it! Welcome to the Community!

Blessings!

[Shatav]

Argh, the French is making my head spin! Never could hack French. :D

[belladonna23]

Not to be petty, but do the titles still change automatically according to the number of posts? Just curious. I was wondering if I would ever graduate from Zelator. Not that it really matters, it's just one of those silly things... you understand. (I hope) :)

[Yvonne Belisle]

They are automatic. :) you are almost there.

[bloodstone20]

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[bloodstone20]

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