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two-adjectives

A way to label individuals to tell others one's evaluation or opinion of who they are.

Strong and fast, are an example of two-adjectives. Smart but smelly, ugly but funny, fat and ugly, fat and friendly, short but cute, tall and arrogant, intelligent but snotty, snobbish but elegant. The other similar method is two-nouns, as in skinny and tall. These two-adjectives or two-nouns help describe characters in plays, for example.

by but for May 15, 2018

Reality War

The war fought in a series of ongoing battles between society's most powerful entities as they endeavor to convince as many people as possible to accept their version of reality and think, feel, and act accordingly.

Reality is essentially what is accepted as existing, in other words, "what is." To convince others to believe that reality is what they say it is, religious organizations, governments, corporations, mass media outlets, universities, writers, intellectuals, artists, musicians, singers and other performers, scientists, and the masses all engage in the Reality War in as best their money and other resources permit.

There are personal, past, present, proposed, debunked, fraudulent, altruistic, positive, negative, imagined, factual, fictitious, and many other types of realities.

Some realities are more extensive and complex, and it is generally impossible to conclusively prove whether a reality is true or false.

The first reality to exist was and is the Original Reality and those who believe God created everything accept it as the one true reality, undistorted by the now almost ubiquitous overt, covert, or subliminal messages to the contrary.

by but for February 15, 2018

invisibleize

To make someone or something invisible.

The extraterrestrial had the power to invisibleize by at will sending a person, place, or thing into a different dimension.

by but for November 1, 2017

truth and reality war

The inherently unresolvable conflict between the things individuals believe.

Because each individual comes to believe the things he or she believes as a result of his or her experiences, different individuals will always have certain beliefs which are different or even opposite the beliefs others have, and at different times will in some way need to fight in what is the "truth and reality war."

Beliefs are thoughts linked to an emotion.

"Live and let live."

by but for February 15, 2018

optoimprove

The essence of the term "problem-challenge and opportunity", which encourages individuals to interpret problems as challenges and opportunities.

In 2009, my Ph.D. professors made me aware of the term "problem, challenge and opportunity". It encouraged me to not see problems as situations which might be impossible to correct but as situations which have solutions. Nine-years later, to simplify and capture the essence of that novel three-word term, I invented the term OPTOIMPROVE. If problems did not come our way we would stop growing. Fredrick Douglas said, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress." And my Mother taught me that, "In life there is always a solution".

by but for November 17, 2018

unsimplifiable

Cannot be simplified (any further).

This new machine is unsimplifiable. It needs every one of its parts. That phrase is unsimplifiable, it is as simple as anyone can make it. That sentence is unsimplifiable, it needs every word in it. That paragraph is unsimplifiable, it needs every one of the sentences it has. He has made his life as simple as possible, it is now unsimplifiable.

by but for November 24, 2021

attempt it and succeed

The new, corrected, optimistic, and success inducing version of the idiom "trial and error."

Some of the few individuals who stop to analyze language and think about what humans are really doing, really not doing, and perhaps should be doing, realized that the idiom trial and error induces failure, and they have corrected it to "attempt it and succeed."

by but for December 24, 2017