4 definitions by rebelmage
The opposite of sheep -- that is, a person who is not a sheep. The opposite of conformist, fadist, trendist, trendidiot, trendling, or trendbot.
A person who is mindful, rational, and able to analyze and make independent decisions and take independent actions not based on peer pressure, trends, fads, or superficialities. One who does not follow any particular crowd but is an equal-opportunity critic. A person with a high need for cognition (look it up). Unsheeps are the opposite of sheep. Their theme song is "What the world needs now is no more sheep, no sheep! It's the kind of human that there's just too many of . . ."
"Unsheep" derives from World of Warcraft's use of the term "sheep." No mage, including presidential mages can sheep the truly unsheep. They are unsheepable and protected from propaganda by their need to think.
A person who is mindful, rational, and able to analyze and make independent decisions and take independent actions not based on peer pressure, trends, fads, or superficialities. One who does not follow any particular crowd but is an equal-opportunity critic. A person with a high need for cognition (look it up). Unsheeps are the opposite of sheep. Their theme song is "What the world needs now is no more sheep, no sheep! It's the kind of human that there's just too many of . . ."
"Unsheep" derives from World of Warcraft's use of the term "sheep." No mage, including presidential mages can sheep the truly unsheep. They are unsheepable and protected from propaganda by their need to think.
You are such an unsheep -- aren't you ever going to rejoin the Democratic Party ever again?
by rebelmage August 7, 2011
The opposite of sheepable. A person who cannot be sheeped -- that is, a person who is mindful, rational, and able to analyze and make independent decisions and take independent actions not based on peer pressure, trends, fads, or superficialities.
One who does not follow any particular crowd but is an equal-opportunity critic. A person with a high need for cognition (look it up). Unsheeps are the opposite of sheep. The unsheep theme song is "What the world needs now is no more sheep, no sheep! It's the kind of human that there's just too many of . . ."
"Unsheepable" derives from World of Warcraft's use of the term "sheepable."
One who does not follow any particular crowd but is an equal-opportunity critic. A person with a high need for cognition (look it up). Unsheeps are the opposite of sheep. The unsheep theme song is "What the world needs now is no more sheep, no sheep! It's the kind of human that there's just too many of . . ."
"Unsheepable" derives from World of Warcraft's use of the term "sheepable."
by rebelmage August 7, 2011
A person whose behavior and thinking is fad-friendly, who does not evaluate and look for deeper meaning or give much thought to long-term consequences. Impulsively follows the crowd or other trendlings down the path of least emotional resistance.
Synonyms: sheep, lemming, robot, mindless.
Antonyms: mindful, unsheeply, unsheepable, thoughtful, analytical.
Synonyms: sheep, lemming, robot, mindless.
Antonyms: mindful, unsheeply, unsheepable, thoughtful, analytical.
Don't be such a trendbot -- think about the issues, don't just follow friends (society, culture, advertising, false revolutions, propaganda) mindlessly.
by rebelmage August 11, 2011
duckitude: to live life with resilience and optimism, to live in the present, to display duckiness, to feel ducky. Feeling ducky means feeling good, fine, or wonderful. The most significant historical and traditional aspect of "duckitude" is optimsim and resilience as noted in the almost ancient phrase -- "Like water off a duck's back." "The hard times were like water off a duck's back for him/her."
Resilience is not *just* about optimism — irony and an ironic perspective about the absurdness of many aspects of life can help keep a ducky floating upright. You can say the words “just ducky” in a tone that conveys, “things are really fine” or you can say it with a tone that translates “not even close to ducky.”
For those who are much more analytical, please note that the attitude of a ducky *is* different than the attitude of a duck, but similar. So, if that most popular duck-related quote is “he/she handled it just like water off a duck’s back” is true of ducks then it is three times more true of a rubber ducky.
Eckhart Tolle, the author of “A New Earth” and “The Power of Now,” offers us another view of “duckitude.” In both books, Tolle observes that when two ducks get into a tussle, they end it by flapping their wings and swimming off. As far as he can tell, they don’t stay mad – they don’t carry a grudge. They flap their wings and get on with life. The “duck lesson,” according to Tolle is “Flap your wings, which translates as ‘let go of the story.’” The human mind, in other words, often gets attached to THE STORY and relives it over and over again, thus, living mostly in the past and not in the present.
If you have duckitude, then you can be said to be duckified — kind of like dignified, but duckier. Use of the word might include “let’s go out and duckify the world” or “I am living the duckified life."
For those who are much more analytical, please note that the attitude of a ducky *is* different than the attitude of a duck, but similar. So, if that most popular duck-related quote is “he/she handled it just like water off a duck’s back” is true of ducks then it is three times more true of a rubber ducky.
Eckhart Tolle, the author of “A New Earth” and “The Power of Now,” offers us another view of “duckitude.” In both books, Tolle observes that when two ducks get into a tussle, they end it by flapping their wings and swimming off. As far as he can tell, they don’t stay mad – they don’t carry a grudge. They flap their wings and get on with life. The “duck lesson,” according to Tolle is “Flap your wings, which translates as ‘let go of the story.’” The human mind, in other words, often gets attached to THE STORY and relives it over and over again, thus, living mostly in the past and not in the present.
If you have duckitude, then you can be said to be duckified — kind of like dignified, but duckier. Use of the word might include “let’s go out and duckify the world” or “I am living the duckified life."
by rebelmage September 9, 2010