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Student Shock-Absorber

One who is repetitively kicked in the stomach, with subsequent gut-wrenching anxiety, while remaining upright and wearing a fake smile. AKA: the college years.
My friends were amazed that I was one of those student shock-absorbers and lived to talk about it. I did manage to get my degree. Yay for me!” - said flatly
by Dr Isaac September 16, 2018
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no yeah absolutely

An even stronger version of the Midwestern phrase "no yeah",
No yeah absolutely, I'll be there Saturday even if I have to do the evening chores.
by billybattleaxe August 22, 2019
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redactio ad absurdum

When evidence is censored (colloquially, "redacted") by obscuration thereby reducing the quality and quantity of that evidence.

* First coined by YouTuber Viva Frei on 10/31/21
The FOIA is effectively undermined when government branches are permitted to release purely redactio ad absurdum documents.
by MartinNotBoris October 31, 2020
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reductape add absurdium

The repeated patching up of a flimsy argument for a ridiculous proposition made by someone you’d think would be smarter.

Reductape is Latin for the process of repeatedly patching something until all you see is the patch and you can no longer see the thing being patched.

Absurdium is an isotope of Einsteinium (Es, atomic number 99) which when present in the brain of even the hugest genius renders them stupid.
Did you hear Trump’s latest claims that the election was rigged?
Yes. It was a case of reductape add absurdium.
by Len Bakerloo December 5, 2020
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The Relative/absolute fallacy

Similar to Ken Wilber's "Pre/trans fallacy", which is about conflating pre-rational views with trans-rational views, the Relative/absolute fallacy is about conflating relative perspectives with The Absolute perspective. This is the main source of confusion in the forms of spirituality that deal with the implications of non-duality (Oneness).

There are generally two levels to the fallacy:

1. The first level is the conflation that happens when you don't have knowledge about the distinction between the relative and The Absolute (dual/non-dual). This is common in pre-rational religious people (Wilber). The way that traditional religion interprets various holy texts is itself a good example.

2. The second level happens when you do have knowledge about the distinction between relative and absolute (but it's obviously not complete knowledge). This is common in (aspiring) trans-rational people. A common example is to think that because nothing ultimately really matters, morality doesn't matter, and therefore it's fine to for example hurt other people. This is to conflate "the relative" with "The Absolute". From The Absolute perspective, yes, nothing really matters, but morality can only ever be defined "relative" to a certain value system in the first place. By taking the absolute perspective, you're deliberately stepping outside of all value systems, but "it's fine to hurt other people" would be a moral statement, which means you're actually invoking a relative perspective.
You're conflating relative perspectives with The Absolute perspective ("The Relative/Absolute Fallacy").

Albert thinks he is God and nobody else is. Albert has committed the Relative/Absolute Fallacy.
by Carich99 December 23, 2020
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he was absolutely a fool for them to play with his dizzick

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he was absolutely a fool for them to play with his dizzick
by JUNGKOOKSEXY January 13, 2021
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urban-nerd-absurd

When you go around in Urban Dictionary posting random nimcompoops like when you are attracted to a girl who has bread crumbs in her hair like when a North Pole of a magnet finds a South Pole of a magnet. Especially you don't know whether you're the North or the South pole. Or if you don't even darn know what a magnet is.
Hitler (spies one of his soldiers are playing on a phone near a time-machine): Whatcha doin'?
Soldier (without looking up from his phone): Playing with urbandictionary and posting about you.
Hitler (surprised there is stuff like phones): It's good! Lemme see. (Hitler snatches the phone.)
Soldier: I'd better scram and run...
Hitler (brings up his bazooka): YOU ARE AN urban-nerd-absurd.
Soldier: But you have to capitilize all the letters in your sentence......
Hitler:DIE!
by DrW8ty February 13, 2021
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