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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
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Woody

An adjective meant to describe a word pleasant to the sound or pronunciation. Opposite of Tinny.
"Yes, you can't beat wood. Gorn."
"What's gone, dear?"
"Nothing, nothing -- just like the word, it gives me confidence. Gorn. Gorn -- it's got a sort of 'woody' quality about it. Gorn. Go-o-orn. Much better than 'newspaper' or 'litter bin'."
-- Graham Chapman, "The Woody Sketch" from Monty Python's Flying Circus
by The Logical Fallacy October 12, 2016
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Socratic

The adjective meaning "like Socrates" or "Socrates-like". Usually applied to nouns that are involved in critical thinking.
The Socratic Method involves asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presumptions.
by The Logical Fallacy September 23, 2016
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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
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passive goth

A person who has a passive fascination with gothic subjects (the night, despair, the night, wearing black, Hot Topic, Tim Burton, the night, etc.), but compared to an active goth, could not be identified as goth immediately on sight. They tend to not take the more dramatic lifestyle commonly associated with other goths, and are considered "moderate" in comparison. Can usually be identified by wearing all black and/or having a dark sense of humor. Not to be confused with emos or beatniks.
"You see that guy over there?"
"Who?"
"The art student in a black sweater and sunglasses."
"Oh, you mean the passive goth."
"Passive goth?"
"Yeah, you know, a goth that you wouldn't think was a goth till you ask them about how their day went. Shit gets creepy really quick."
by The Logical Fallacy July 8, 2016
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Psychovores

An animal or person that eats emotions, psychic energy and mental nutrients.
The terror of their sudden appearance seemed to galvanize the hellish creatures, sharpening their appetites as the air chilled further and the day seemed to turn overcast in moments. Harry didn't even want to contemplate the amount of power needed to do that as more than a hundred starving psychovores bore down on a crowd of schoolchildren.
-- Chapter 39 of "Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past"
by The Logical Fallacy July 9, 2017
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Chambara

A genre of film (often exploitation) that focuses on revisionist depictions of the samurai. Usually involves moral grayness, revenge-driven antihero protagonists, nudity, sex scenes, swordplay, and blood.
Whereas westerns focuses on cowboys and indians and swashbucklers are about pirates, chambara films focus on samurai.
by The Logical Fallacy June 3, 2017
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