There's no particular sin in that, as Sander notes, but Serling's readiness to place his name and image behind consumer products did chaff with his self-chosen role as a gadfly who swatted back at the hand of ad agencies and number crunchers who wanted television programming catered to their needs.
Nevertheless, perhaps without embracing liberation theology in its fullness (which would be politically unlikely), Pope Francis could use the choice of his name to recall the message of St. Francis' teaching on the holiness of self-chosen poverty, not just for individuals but especially for the church which claims to represent the message of Jesus himself.
The sentence, by the Venerable Bede, a seventh-century theologian, contains Pope Francis' self-chosen motto, "miserando atque eligendo," which loosely translates as "lowly but chosen".
All three were pacific visionaries, often working in self-chosen isolation.
One of his self-chosen nicknames is Hova, short for Jay-Hova.
The more he allows his numbers to become dependent on this self-chosen rate, the more he faces ultimate catastrophe.
The volunteers subsequently ran as much as they wished at a self-chosen pace for a full year.
Joy does not mean riotous glee, but it does mean the purposive employment of energy in a self-chosen enterprise.
In one recent study of some 300 self-chosen passwords on a typical time-sharing system, more than 50percentt were found to be short enough to guess by exhaustion, derived from the owner's name, or something closely associated with the owner, such as his telephone number or birth date.
The concept was that well-dressed homeless people, a self-chosen underground sect, secretly lived and loved on the subways.
