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The expression which debunks saying that something is "fortunate" or "unfortunate", because they do not specify who benefits or looses as a consequence of an event or outcome.
"Fortunate" and "unfortunate" are now debunked and archaic words. They are being replaced by "good for but bad for".

Because saying that a thing is " fortunate " or " unfortunate " does not specify who benefits and who looses. Thus, it's best to, for example, say, " It's good for A but bad for B that ____________________ ( a specific thing happenend ) " .
by but for October 9, 2018
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One who advocates practicing concision when articulating feelings, thinking, analyzing, speaking, or writing.
"Concisionist" implies that there are concisionists—individuals who practice and advocate concision when feeling, thinking, analyzing, speaking, or writing, and non-concisionist, those who do not practice concision, and anti-concisionists, those who advocate communicating unconcisely, usually to prevent audiences from learning to communicate concisely and in the process getting smarter. Concisionism is the name for the ideology which advocates concise thought, analysis, speech, and/or writing.
by but for September 9, 2018
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A funny way to call a teacher, instructor, or professor.
Charles Riddlesolver realized that a teacher is an ignorance reducer.
by but for December 24, 2017
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Extricating certain words, thoughts, beliefs, and expectations from one's brain and replacing them with other words, thoughts, beliefs, and/or expectations by writing them, reading them, recording them, playing them back, thinking about them and practicing them.
Reading numerous self-help books I realized that my beliefs and expectations were injected into me in various ways by different people since I was a child. Gradually, I realized that I could replace the negative words, thoughts, beliefs, and expectations with correct and better ones. I call that process self-brainwashing.
by but for February 20, 2018
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A marketing method that shifts the consumer's identity from the consumer to a product to get the consumer to buy it and love it.
Identity transference is a way that marketers distort reality by getting potential car buyers to come to feel that they can become the car they want to buy. After they buy it, they feel they are one with it, and happily spend money to maintain it in the best condition (sometimes better than themselves).
by but for January 18, 2021
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Miss McCallen receives mail and packages, and welcomes visitors to the company's headquarters, but as an experience "rejectionist" is also very good at preventing unwelcomed visitors from seeing the company's executives.
by but for December 6, 2017
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The way a human feels when his or her body is receptive to food.
Individuals are not always in the eating mode, they are not always receptive to food. For example, if something or someone frightens a person, they enter the flight or fight mode and their stomach, brain, and body will not want to eat any food. Interesting, it is that in the flight or fight mode, which most people call the "fight or flight" mode, I think I would be open to drinking, at least water, to be able to fight or run away better. Humans are not airplanes, it may be best to call it the "fight or run away (or flee mode)."
by but for February 5, 2018
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