Well, I guess the question is, why should we trust the Kabalarians? The group seems to have a professional interest (they make money by selling name analyses) in making sure babies have names and in that people think carefully about the names given their babies.
A “dead scientist”, or even a living one, who didn’t have any bias in the question is preferable just for that reason.
My brother and his wife (their third baby is due in a month) have never named their babies before they leave the hospital. They also choose not to learn the sex until the birth. They have names they like picked out, but until the baby is born, they don’t know the sex and think it is better to wait a few days so the name they pick fits the baby. None of their babies have died.
Oh, I get it now, TerryW, you’re spreading what you take to be a gospel. Once again, welcome to the SDMB. Check the Forum Descriptions. What you’re doing is witnessing, and it more properly belongs in Great Debates.
Your question is akin to asking for a scientific explanation as to why God tested Abraham. That’s why you’re running into so much trouble. People who don’t have the same religious/philosophical beliefs as you aren’t going to be capable of applying any sort of scientific method to your beliefs, and I doubt even you will be.
When you post in the wrong forum, yes. General Questions isn’t a forum for trivia questions, it’s a forum to get answers to questions you don’t know the answer to. I, for example, have a GQ thread because I want to know what my cat’s name means- I do not know the answer. If I did know, and wanted to see if other people could “get the answer” I’d post it in MPSIMS.
If the people here believe that the Kabalarians are made to sell names, you are mistaken. Obviously those who have done “research” on them have only seen the first page of the site.
But you’re right, I’m probably “witnessing”.
I wanted some people to learn about the Kabalarians. Because they really are very intelligent, logical, philosophers.
Sorry for wasting your dear precious time.
I kind of think there are more than a few intelligent and logical philosophers already here.
Can we ban this idiot already? Posting in wrong forum, spamming, posting an ad, pretending to be asking a serious question when he really isn’t, etc.
Mods, help us out here.
Sorry Opus, this was my first thread.
Can you guys forgive me? It won’t happen again.
Let’s keep him. I look forward to reading about his next appearance at the SDMB One Trick Pony Chowder and Marching Society.
I feel relieved and offended…
this is weird.
Any relation to Peekaboo Street? Since this is supposedly what her parents did with her, only they let her pick her own name.
What morons!
Any good parent knows that there is only one proper technique to let children pick their own names.
You pick a book. Then, you flip back and forth in it. Finally, poke a finger down on a page.
Now, hand the book to the child and say “Do.”.
FTR, it’s Picabo Street, not Peekaboo. But it IS pronounced the same.
And how do you know that? Because they’ve got a website? Because they’ve existed for 70 years? What magickal property gives them absolute knowledge and trustworthiness?
They might be refering to the fact that in countries with a high infant mortality rate, babies aren’t normally named until about 2 years of age. (or whatever the current survival rate is for that culture). By not naming it, it does not become a “person” in the eyes of the culture, therefor, when it dies (as often happened) it spares the mother grief. In american society, where most babies survive past the age of two, this is not necessary.
I named my baby and he died. I want a refund!
The OP does have a point. Take, for example, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. I’ll bet if we knew that soldier’s name he wouldn’t be in that grave.
So let that be a lesson to all you mothers sending your unnamed children off to war.
**Since you don’t say “Why is it that *a significant proportion of *infants…” or “Why is it that some infants…” and from the general tone of your assertion, I’m assuming that this statement refers to all unnamed infants.
The statement is certainly false; My sister waited 5 weeks before naming her first daughter (because she was changing her own surname by deed poll and wanted the child to be registered under the new name).
In case you feel like weaseling out saying that the child had actually been named, but the paperwork had simply been postponed (which would be technically correct), let me tell you about some close friends of mine who have just become parents of a little girl which they did not name until the very last moment that the law allows (6 weeks in this country) because they simply couldn’t think of a suitable name.
Neither of these children died shortly after birth.
How can you tell?
TerryW, science does not operate on trusting what anyone says. In fact, it is the opposite. You trust nothing no backed up by proof. The basic strength of science lies in publishing your work to be tested (and confirmed or disproved) by other, independent people or organizations.
Faith, other than a general belief that the scientific method will yield useful, usable information, does not enter into it.