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The names don't have obvious meaning in English but they did in their original languages. Simon is a Hebrew name from the torah and means "he who hears". Peter comes from Petros, the Greek translation of Cephas, the original Aramaic name Jesus gave him and means "rock". So Jesus gave a Jewish guy with a Hebrew name an Aramaic (nick)name because Jesus saw him as the rock (foundation) of his church.
i was once taught by a guy named Pete Rock and he was the first to tell you that his name means Rock Rock lol
Similarly Platos name means broad, which was because he was a wrestler and kept up his physique. It also spawned a joke I'm fond of.
Diogenes wanders into Platos academy and says "Broadly speaking-" To which Plato responds "Yes I was now shut up"
Is this the time Plato threw Diogenes off the top of Hell In A Cell and through the announcer’s table?
also couldn't the term mean "jacked" basically? like Plato= Daddy Swole essentially
Now everything make sense. In spanish, "Peter" is "Pedro", that sounds like "Piedra", that means "Rock"
See also 'petrify' (make into rock) and 'petroleum' (rock fat)
The female for "Pedro" is "Petra", what make it more obvious, and also "Petronila" is a woman name, that comes from "Petroleum"
I’d be fucking mad if my parents named me after petroleum
"The name's Diesel now"
Late XX century in Mexico, were pretty common name your child based in their born date. So, there are so much woman called "Petronila" because were born in March 18th
omg, in french Peter is translated to Pierre which also means "rock"! i always assumed that was a coincidence
Yeah, his name was Simeon bar Jonah, Simon, son of Jonah, or by modern style, Simon Johnson. Then Jesus pops up and starts calling him the Rock... Simon the Rock Johnson. (also fun gravy, Dwayne means fishhook)
I am amazed that the name "Pierre" (also french for stone) litterally comes from the greek for "rock"
Rome and it's consequences
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Matthew 16:18
BTW I know this one because of Angels & Demons.
You can see them too?
Very common cult tactic to this day
Also a friend tactic. It's just a nickname
We have a Posh Mike at work.
I don't even think he's called Mike.
I have friends of which I could not tell you their legal name at Gunpoint
Learn from the best.
Cult 101
Pretty much this. Cults isolate you as their first step. Anything that can be used to make you feel beholden to them, or "fresh/new". They make you think your parents are the enemy, and convince you that your real "family" is inside the cult.
A: "Good job Tex."
B: "My name is Sam sir, I'm from Wisconsin."
A: "Nah, you're Tex now."
(This is my vague memory of a gag in an Atomic Robo comic)
I actually sometimes do that to people too :P
Paul's is the funniest because he only got one letter changed from "Saul," even though he had used to be the biggest menace. He was a Christian hunter. Not like a professional one, more like McCarthyism but against Christians.
Saul was a perfect example of sin, and Jesus said, "Let's switch that 'S with a P, and he's all good. '"
(Please don't hurt me, I'm joking)
Edit: Wait, my bad. Jesus changed his Roman name, "Paul" to "Saul," (which was Paul's, Jewish name), and after Jesus died, when Paul moved to Rome, he went by "Paul" again. That's also right before he was imprisoned and executed and where he'd write parts of the N.T.
I had to double-check everything, lol. That felt like the mendala effect. It turned out he also spent some time in the Bahamas dreaming about some guy named Yosef.
“From now, Willard, your name is Clark.”
Also every Hollywood agent with Jewish clients from 1900 until present day.