M-m-m-m ...something to think about, yes, it may not hurt, but will it help?

And if it doesn't help ...does it perhaps hurt a little??

A total aside here, let's look at something that has no societal ramifications. How well has pen names helped??

Charles Dickens went by the pen name of ---Boz.  Who ever heard of Boz??

Benjamin Franklin went by several pen names ...more than one of them being a woman's name.  Alice was one of them, though it was not in Wonderland.  Be it clear, I would not want to begin to imagine what land or dream world he was in at the time. Though I am very fond of the name, Alice, as my sweet Grandma's name was Alice Arnold.

Speaking of A.A.---don't know how many people know of Erle Stanley Gardener, but my guess is that even less know of the pen name, A.A.Fair.

C.S.Lewis used the pen names, Clive Hamilton ...and N.W.Clerk.

More current would be Dean Koontz ...who used the pen names: Richard Paige, K.R.Dwyer, Aaron Wolfe, Anthony North, and David Axton.

Yet, in fairness, there are pen names that gained much popularity.  In the comic book world, Stan Lee is well known, more so than his real name, Stanley Lieber.  And who hasn't read the Dr. Seuss books, by actual author Theodore Geisel. And my guess is that Mark Twain is more known than his real name, Samuel Langehorne Clemens.

And now, we come to another personal name: Shepherd Heath. 

How about I call myself ...merely, Steve (or not Merely Steve, but just Steve ...but, not with 'just' being used as an adjective). No, I'm no more just than anyone else.  

And I don't believe we should take justice or the law into our own hands ...whether we are serious, or consider it sport.

Justice is often disputed, even when referring to God.  Yet, when looking to the Bible, to Stephen, we read of his spectators gnashing their teeth & crying in a loud voice, while stopping their ears ...and rushing him.

What was the stopping of the ears??  They didn't want to hear the truth.

We've moved beyond that ...but, in which direction??  Now, we even get angry at opinions.  Yet, there are some opinions that involve the truth.

So, considering that my blogs are my opinions ...then I feel quite well with using the name of Steve, since I believe that many of my opinions are also filled with what I believe is fact.  And I will possibly have many of you shut up your ears.  

I would hope that you not shut up your ears and I'd never ask you to shut up your mouths, nor will I charge you ...physically or financially. I also will not grind my teeth (at least while I'm awake) ...and hopefully you won't either.