The Logical Fallacy's definitions

Baraminology

The study of baramins, or a lineage of earthly life which is believed in Young Earth Creationism to be created by God during the creation week, and corresponds in some functional aspects to the secular concept of "species".

Those that study and believe in Baraminology believe that Noah did not store 2 of every species on the planet , but instead he stored each and every "Kind" of animal. "Kind" being whatever the hell creationists want to mean at the moment.

by The Logical Fallacy May 18, 2017

feeding the alligators

When one exposes themselves to fiction that stimulates our negative qualities (like horror fiction) so that they can work through them in a healthy and harmless environment as catharsis.

Serial killers and other murderers appeal to the impulse Stephen King calls "feeding the alligators," and Carl Jung called "integration of the shadow self," but it all means the same thing: that entertaining our own dark side can be therapeutic.
-- 8-Bit Philosophy

by The Logical Fallacy May 27, 2017

Regressive Left

Originally coined by conservatives hoping to delegitimize leftist opinions, the regressive left is composed of the more negative aspects of far left political opinions, specifically in such a manner that frowns upon critical thinking in favor of dogmatic thinking. Train of thought most often associated with Social Justice Warriors. Opposite on the political spectrum from the Regressive Right.

Such examples include sexism against men by virtue of their gender, racism against white people by virtue of their skin color, granting power to minority candidates by virtue of their minority status, placing minority citizenship above majority citizenship as opposed to wanted them to be equal, Islamic apologetics, using privilege as a detriment of worth regardless of context, etc.

Some on the Regressive Left believe that black people are entitled to reparations from white people, regardless of personal history for either, because one person's ancestors wronged another person's ancestors.

by The Logical Fallacy September 19, 2016

The Three Gordon Rules

Rules used to create an immersive first-person video game.

1) make the protagonist silent
2) keep the cutscenes in first person

3) make sure the levels and maps flow seamlessly with one another.

"Valve's games pulled their players into their stories and worlds in amazing ways using a wide range of techniques, most of which we've boiled down into what we call The Three Gordon Rules!"
-- Hunt Down The Freeman - Just Bad Games

by The Logical Fallacy February 18, 2023

Anti-Stratfordians

People who believe, to one capacity or another, the theory that William Shakespeare of Stratford did not write the plays that he had become famous for.

"There are certain people who believe that Shakespeare's plays are so sophisticated, so erudite, so brain-crapingly good that a middle-class kid from the Boondocks without a University degree couldn't possibly have written them. Why no one suspects the same from degree-less writers Maya Angelou, Truman Capote, Ray Bradbury, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens is anyone's guess. Still, the belief goes that only some one with a vast education and a noble soul could have designed such masterpieces. Shakespeare's too perfect not to be made by a perfect human. It is literary creationism."
-- Kyle Kallgren on Anti-Stratfordians

by The Logical Fallacy June 26, 2017

Black Dynamite Deduction

Where one deduces a solution to a problem or mystery by taking one clue and bringing it to another in a long chain of paranoid connections until it leads to the conclusion. Named after the famous ''Anaconda Malt Liquor Conclusion Scene'' in Black Dynamite, where the titular character somehow realizes that Anaconda Malt liquor was the government's secret weapon after Bullhorn said "melt in your mouth", making several arbitrary connections until it led to the answer.

*Gasp* "Human being"? That word kind of sounds like "bean." Beans are legumes, "legumes" has the word "leg" in it. Ian's mom has really nice legs, and Ian's mom is so old she's practically dead, which can only mean one thing! Oh my Bieber! YOU'RE BECOMING A ZOMBIE!
--Anthony Padilla from Smosh using Black Dynamite Deduction to deduce that Ian Hecox is becoming a zombie

by The Logical Fallacy July 16, 2016

The Deadbeat, the Bastard and the Assholy Ghost

The kind of God that is in support of slavery, misogyny, genocide and various other things that turn people off religion.

"Go ye therefore, and pillage all nations, bastardizing them in the

name of the Deadbeat, the Bastard and the Assholy Ghost"
--Matthew 28:19 (abridged by a very vocal atheist)

by The Logical Fallacy January 3, 2019