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Killing Intent

The Act of firing a crossbow while invisible using slowness arrows against a person in full armor.
I just found a Killing Intent in this barrel!
by GhoKni June 7, 2025
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Intent-based cold calling

Triggering automatic call tasks on Apollo.io and parallel dialing those prospects on Salesfinity.co to get instant call connects while leads are red hot.
I am making intent-based cold calling to get higher conversion.
by Cold calling master August 14, 2023
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Intenting

Being unmotivated to grind for something in a game, thus you buy it.
Dude.. did you just see the new style that came out? No..? Well, Donyell just pulled an intent and bought it. It looks cool as fuck! Intenting is so cool.
by alisop March 11, 2024
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Intentional Ignorance Theory

A theory, inspired by Peter Burke's "Ignorance: A Global History," proposing that ignorance is not merely the absence of knowledge but can be deliberately created, maintained, and deployed for strategic purposes—goals of power, identity, social control, mass psychology, and hegemony. Intentional Ignorance Theory argues that ignorance is often an active achievement, produced through specific practices and institutions. Modern manifestations include dismissal tactics like Sokalism, Kampfism, and Boghossianism-Lindsayism-Pluckroseism; biases like Objectivity Bias, Unbiased Bias, and the Fallacy Fallacy; and rhetorical strategies like Neo-Sophism and Scientistic Sophism. Historically, it appears in colonial suppression of indigenous knowledge, institutional cover-ups, and elite cultivation of public ignorance. The theory reveals that ignorance is often not something to be overcome but something actively produced—and that understanding how ignorance is made is as important as understanding how knowledge is made.
Example: "The tobacco industry spent decades cultivating Intentional Ignorance about smoking's health effects—funding contradictory research, attacking legitimate science, creating doubt where none existed. They weren't ignorant; they were making ignorance. Intentional Ignorance Theory explains how knowledge is suppressed, how doubt is manufactured, how entire populations can be kept in the dark by those who benefit from their darkness. The theory doesn't just describe ignorance; it reveals its politics."
by Dumu The Void March 8, 2026
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