5 definitions by Shawlatan
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My friendomers make my work a great pleasure.
My friendomers make my work a great pleasure.
by Shawlatan September 29, 2014
Postcocious:
adjective: late bloomer, developing talents or success later or late in life.
Opposite of precocious: having developed exceptional aptitudes or talents at an earlier age than usual.
adjective: late bloomer, developing talents or success later or late in life.
Opposite of precocious: having developed exceptional aptitudes or talents at an earlier age than usual.
She was postcocious, a late bloomer, having found and developed her talents, abilities, and success late in life.
by Shawlatan November 20, 2021
1) State of mind *after* belief in a god.
2) Secular trend of mental and rational maturation in individuals and/ or societies due to the influence of and knowledge derived from Enlightenment humanism and scientific naturalism.
2) Secular trend of mental and rational maturation in individuals and/ or societies due to the influence of and knowledge derived from Enlightenment humanism and scientific naturalism.
Dude was surprised to find himself in a condition of posttheosity because of the new atheist books he had been reading.
Home girl was disowned by her family and friends because of her conversion to the secular worldview of posttheosity.
Home girl was disowned by her family and friends because of her conversion to the secular worldview of posttheosity.
by Shawlatan September 8, 2023
Potemkin bookshelf: someone's bookshelf filled with books they've never read.
Books put on display only for the sake of display or some sort of vicarious status seeking.
Did you see that fake intellectuals bookshelf? He doesn't even have an idea of what's in those books on his shelf.
Books put on display only for the sake of display or some sort of vicarious status seeking.
Did you see that fake intellectuals bookshelf? He doesn't even have an idea of what's in those books on his shelf.
Did you see that fake intellectuals bookshelf? He doesn't even have an idea of what's in those books on his potemkin bookshelf.
Derived from Potemkin village: a village that is just a facade. Just for show. Enter any door and it turns out to be hollow. Totalitarians and dictator types tend to build these in order to impress their oppressed masses or convince the outside that they are a salubrious nation when they are not.
Derived from Potemkin village: a village that is just a facade. Just for show. Enter any door and it turns out to be hollow. Totalitarians and dictator types tend to build these in order to impress their oppressed masses or convince the outside that they are a salubrious nation when they are not.
by Shawlatan July 7, 2022
An activity or field of study so arcane and detached from, and with no application to, the real world that it is rendered absurd. E.g., theology, analytic/linguistic philosophy.
A waste of one's time.
Refers to the recondite game studied and played in the Herman Hesse novel, The Glass Bead Game.
Synonymous idiom: Ivory Tower
A waste of one's time.
Refers to the recondite game studied and played in the Herman Hesse novel, The Glass Bead Game.
Synonymous idiom: Ivory Tower
The theologians contemplating how many angels can fit on the head of a needle is mere glass bead game.
The study of astrology is a glass bead game.
Postmodernist philosophy is a glass bead game.
Don't waste my time with your Eco-feminist glass bead game.
The study of astrology is a glass bead game.
Postmodernist philosophy is a glass bead game.
Don't waste my time with your Eco-feminist glass bead game.
by Shawlatan September 1, 2014