Any time you're witnessing a conversation spiral downwards and are able to identify the rhetorical techniques participants are fueling the descent with little hope of being able to recover from. Techniques include cherry-picking, generalizing, the moral high ground, appealing to fear or popularity, aggressive (including passive) behavior, explicit bias and persistent rambling with an intent to win over the other side. You're confident any contribution or attempt to help move the conversation forward will be ignored or met with immediate resistance and rejection.
That post on Facebook about gun control became a Philosopher's Nightmare with most of the participants attacking and distracting each other.
by Dread Pirate Skeptic November 27, 2022
Get the Philosopher's Nightmaremug. by .0.7.9.7.1.5.3.7.4.6.5.9.7.3.4 May 8, 2025
Get the <.0.5.4.3.4.0.>Village Idiots On Tints For Edward Elric So Stop Philosophizing<.0.5.4.3.4.0.>mug. When 2 or more people are arguing about a topic when neither person are making a point to sway the other’s position; however are enjoying the fact they are hearing their own position of the topic.
“I was in a philosophical Dutch rudder in class you won’t believe where he came from!”
“You want in on this philosophical Dutch rudder or are you good?”
“So mid philosophical Dutch rudder this guy drops the n bomb and people came at him from every direction after that”
“You want in on this philosophical Dutch rudder or are you good?”
“So mid philosophical Dutch rudder this guy drops the n bomb and people came at him from every direction after that”
by Mdarkside July 26, 2024
Get the Philosophical Dutch ruddermug. by Awooooga woof woof October 18, 2023
Get the Philosophizationmug. kim namjoon is a philosopher, if you ask him how his day was, he'll answer your question but then he will start speaking about how we should love ourselves. (cutie <3)
by jiminsbitch December 5, 2018
Get the philosophermug. -a stupid nigga where they only read existentialist books like kafka, camus and dostoyevsky and neglecting other philosophical movement and schools because of tiny their stupid fucking brain to comprehend a book not long than the 19th century.
stupid nigga: i read camus and kafka bro yes i understand life
me (an intellectual): you dont understand shit, nigga. i hope you get raped by a gorilla.
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me (an intellectual): you dont understand shit, nigga. i hope you get raped by a gorilla.
tiktok philosopher
by trolley or trolling? April 25, 2024
Get the Tiktok Philosophermug. Philosophful (adj.)
A person who is deeply and naturally full of philosophical thought not just trained in philosophy, but saturated with it in how they see the world. ;Full of philosophical depth, quiet thought, or reflective meaning.
person; someone full of philosophy.
A person who is deeply and naturally full of philosophical thought not just trained in philosophy, but saturated with it in how they see the world. ;Full of philosophical depth, quiet thought, or reflective meaning.
person; someone full of philosophy.
by gloomxsq May 13, 2025
Get the Philosophfulmug.