Powell Principle

An over exaggeration of numbers/amounts

There's a million enemies there
There's 4, stop using the Powell Principle

by On't Bonce November 2, 2023

First principle

What is that? I don't know what that is... Like a prime directive?...... I'm not a cyborg.

Hym "First Principle: I am better than everyone! Without exception! Second Principle: Children are abominations! Murder them all! Third Principle: Don't talk about fight club... Don't... Uh... Don't do it... Ever... Fourth Principle: I don't know... I don't have one. There's only 3... THE 3 PRINCIPLES OF QUASI-PANDEIST GNOSTICISM! (Don't ask about the fourth one)."

by Hym Iam April 6, 2024

Uncertainty Principle of Science and Epistemology

An adaptation of Heisenberg's insight that observation affects the observed, extended to science and knowledge itself: the act of studying a phenomenon inevitably changes it, and there are fundamental limits to what can be known simultaneously. The Uncertainty Principle of Science and Epistemology suggests that in studying complex systems (societies, minds, ecosystems), the very act of measurement alters the system. Moreover, there are trade-offs: the more precisely you know one aspect, the less precisely you can know another. You cannot simultaneously know the position and momentum of a particle; you cannot simultaneously know the structure and dynamics of a society; you cannot simultaneously know the content and context of a belief. Knowledge has fundamental limits—not due to poor instruments, but due to the nature of reality and the knower's inescapable role in it.

Uncertainty Principle of Science and Epistemology "Study a society, and it changes because it's being studied. Measure a mind, and it's altered by the measurement. Uncertainty Principle for Science says: there are limits to knowing, not because we're bad at it, but because knowing changes things. The more precisely you track a variable, the more others blur. Science isn't broken; it's just uncertain—and uncertainty isn't failure, it's physics."

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 6, 2026

Perkinstein Principle

When an authority figure gives clear instructions to a group of people, multiple times in some cases, but most or all of the group fails to follow the instructions given in any way, potentially causing the authority figure to dwell into madness.

Teacher 1: Man, I told my students to draw 4 lines, but most of them drew 5, and some didn’t even draw lines!
Teacher 2: Ah the Perkinstein Principle, don't you go mad now.

by HutusGurus August 13, 2025

Babysitter Principle

When criminally corrupt fascists are in charge of America

Donald Trump aka Casino Mobster hired numerous corrupt associates like Whiskey Pete Hegseth and "Not You" Tulsi Gabbard and Pam Bondi (currently stinking up government and committing felonies by the hour) who are acting like ornery toddlers whose babysitter is passed out drunk in the laundry room while kids in her charge are setting fire to the house. in other words, the Babysitter Principle means criminals are running the show and have absolutely no supervision over their malfeasance.

by Uncle Joosie September 20, 2025

DRIFT PRINCIPLE

The idea that when a system optimizes too fast (for efficiency, engagement, or simplicity), the fidelity of meaning drops and reality starts to feel thinner, flatter, or slightly fake. It’s what happens when everything becomes streamlined but nothing feels grounded anymore.

“Instagram used to feel real, but now it’s all the same recycled vibe. Total Drift Principle. Compression outran fidelity.”

by GuyWhoWritesDefinitions November 5, 2025

the unicorn light principle

States that light bends around unicorns, and that light was created form them. the colors that you see right now were created by a unicorn. colors are one of the many things that unicorns have created such as bacon, Nutella, double rainbows, and nun-chuck wielding cats wearing bandannas.

Example:

Person 1: dude, have you ever wondered what made the colors?
Person 2: Go...
Person 3: no because I am well versed in unicornal philosophy, you should know this I was a unicornal philosophy major in college. unicorns created light. isn`t obvious. the unicorn light principle explains it very well.
Person 2: what the actual fuck are you talking about?!?!
Person 3: STFU! im a unicornal philosophy major! what the fuck are you!
Person 2: a christa...
Person 3: that`s what I thought; FUCKING atheist!

by Unicorn_Philosopher1202 October 21, 2013