I looked for definitions of the word “authentic”, but that only turned up synonyms like “genuine”, and the meaning it has in speaking of the authenticity of an antique (i.e. it is what someone is selling it as).
So I searched for /authentic relationships/, which turned up a whole world of fluff and reversible advice.
About the least fluffy but informative thing in the first page of Google results was this. But I am not sure there is any more to this than in a horoscope. Can those who know what they mean by “authenticity” rate that description of it?
If I pick up a mathematics textbook and leaf through it, I can easily determine where I and it are relative to each other on the map of mathematical knowledge. I will know if I’m already familiar with what it covers, or am slightly acquainted, or would have to do a lot of other study to get to where it starts from. But with the cited link and all the others, I cannot really tell. And it is the same with descriptions of Circling.
BTW, something which puts me off “Circling” is the name. It suggests to me the image of a pack of wolves circling their prey. Or “self-criticism sessions” in the Cultural Revolution. Especially so with “Birthday Circling”, where one member of the group gets circled by all the others.
BTW2, the least fluffy but uninformative things were these:
“Authenticity in business relationships is more than a trend, it is increasingly becoming a requirement for those who want to succeed BIG in today’s business world.”
“I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier.” Oprah Winfrey (unsourced)
The term is also legally protected and I think there would be benefit in generating an open source alternative term. This comes with its own problems of course.
Indeed, I hear that “Circling” may itself become legally protected to refer to a specific style (probably the Circling Institute’s), rather than the umbrella term for related styles, in a way that will further complicate things if that happens.
It seems like there was a trademark application filed last months by the Circling Institute. I think it’s unlikely that the trademark will be granted given that the term gets used by a variety of different people.
Filing a trademark application in this way is a way to get the government to create a binding ruling that a term is not owned by anyone in a relatively cheap way.
That’s a reason to get a government to publish a document that says: “We found that Circling is a general term used by multiple organizations and can’t be trademarked because it’s a general term”.
Afterwards if someone tries to hassle you, you can point them to the official government document that says that it’s fine to use Circling however you want.
I looked for definitions of the word “authentic”, but that only turned up synonyms like “genuine”, and the meaning it has in speaking of the authenticity of an antique (i.e. it is what someone is selling it as).
So I searched for /authentic relationships/, which turned up a whole world of fluff and reversible advice.
About the least fluffy but informative thing in the first page of Google results was this. But I am not sure there is any more to this than in a horoscope. Can those who know what they mean by “authenticity” rate that description of it?
If I pick up a mathematics textbook and leaf through it, I can easily determine where I and it are relative to each other on the map of mathematical knowledge. I will know if I’m already familiar with what it covers, or am slightly acquainted, or would have to do a lot of other study to get to where it starts from. But with the cited link and all the others, I cannot really tell. And it is the same with descriptions of Circling.
BTW, something which puts me off “Circling” is the name. It suggests to me the image of a pack of wolves circling their prey. Or “self-criticism sessions” in the Cultural Revolution. Especially so with “Birthday Circling”, where one member of the group gets circled by all the others.
BTW2, the least fluffy but uninformative things were these:
“Authenticity in business relationships is more than a trend, it is increasingly becoming a requirement for those who want to succeed BIG in today’s business world.”
“I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier.” Oprah Winfrey (unsourced)
The term is also legally protected and I think there would be benefit in generating an open source alternative term. This comes with its own problems of course.
Indeed, I hear that “Circling” may itself become legally protected to refer to a specific style (probably the Circling Institute’s), rather than the umbrella term for related styles, in a way that will further complicate things if that happens.
It seems like there was a trademark application filed last months by the Circling Institute. I think it’s unlikely that the trademark will be granted given that the term gets used by a variety of different people.
Filing a trademark application in this way is a way to get the government to create a binding ruling that a term is not owned by anyone in a relatively cheap way.
I’d also note there’s a difference between legal enforcement and ‘expectation of getting hassled’ especially with scrupulous people.
That’s a reason to get a government to publish a document that says: “We found that Circling is a general term used by multiple organizations and can’t be trademarked because it’s a general term”.
Afterwards if someone tries to hassle you, you can point them to the official government document that says that it’s fine to use Circling however you want.