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testimoney

Refers to one or more cash-bribes paid to someone who is willing to lie in court on behalf of his/her "benefactor", either to get said cash-flasher off the hook for a crime that he did indeed commit, or to wrongfully convict someone else who either is completely innocent or could not have been expected to behave differently from how he acted (i.e, he has a physical/mental disability, he'd had no idea whatsoever that he was doing other than what was acceptable, there were extenuating circumstances and/or there was "more to the story" than the plaintiffs were letting on, etc.).
If you are sufficiently attractive and/or possess a sufficiently-convincing manner, you may not need to seek "regular" employment --- you may be able to subsist very comfortably on the testimoney of others who need a "vindicating/corroborating witness".
by QuacksO December 26, 2018
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testimonium terra curvatura

testimonium terra curvatura is the concept of being able to see the curvature of the earth from a certain height. the words translate from latin to english to “witness curvature earth”
what’s it called when you can see the curvature of the earth?”
“testimonium terra curvatura”
by lj2rizzy January 5, 2025
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Testimony Film

A cinematic genre in which truth — not entertainment, not narrative fiction, not observational documentary — is the sole architecture of the work.

In a Testimony Film, the delivery vehicle may shift: musical score, spoken word, voice-over, silence, or any combination. What never shifts is the commitment to bearing witness over performing it. Every frame is evidence. Every sound choice is intentional. The audience is not a consumer — they are a witness called to the same record the filmmaker stands before.

Testimony Film occupies the space where conventional cinema cannot go — too intimate for documentary, too urgent for fiction, too honest for entertainment alone.

ntroduced under the HUMANCENTRIC™ framework — a consciousness-centered philosophy of human-centered creativity coined by multidisciplinary artist and consciousness researcher a'Ali DeSousa, whose term HUMANCENTRIC was accepted into the Urban Dictionary in 2012 — Testimony Film recognizes that some truths are too large to be packaged and too necessary to be ignored. The form may be musical. The voice may be spoken. The screen may hold silence. The truth will always be the reason.
"I watched it three times. It wasn't a music video. It wasn't a documentary. It was a Testimony Film — I felt like I'd been called to witness something I had no right to look away from."

"They said it was experimental. I said no — it's a Testimony Film. HUMANCENTRIC™ cinema. Look it up."

"The courtroom had its transcript. The street had its footage. But it was the Testimony Film that made the world finally feel it."
by anonymous March 27, 2026
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