Get the Enlightened mug.A diffuse, multifaceted movement intent upon darkening the door of the liberal commercial-democratic order ushered in by the Enlightenment. It is, by necessity and often also by preference, dissident. A common thread running through the disparate weavers of the DE fabric is the realization that the Enlightenment had a dark side and that the modes of thought and society that it steered us toward might lead ultimately to a dark place, an antithesis.
Some pithy things the Dark Enlightenment has to say regarding:
Gays--homophobia is not responsible for your astronomically high rates of suicide and drug abuse.
Feminists--there have historically been fewer female geniuses than men, and there always will be.
Black liberals--want to see a country looks like with no "white privilege"? Check out Liberia.
Neoconservatives--forcing democracy on inbred populations? At the barrel of a gun? Even my dog is smarter than that.
Asian men and black women--"society" isn't the only reason why you are considered less attractive by the opposite sex.
Education reformers--we all know why you never send your own kids to "diverse" urban schools.
Gays--homophobia is not responsible for your astronomically high rates of suicide and drug abuse.
Feminists--there have historically been fewer female geniuses than men, and there always will be.
Black liberals--want to see a country looks like with no "white privilege"? Check out Liberia.
Neoconservatives--forcing democracy on inbred populations? At the barrel of a gun? Even my dog is smarter than that.
Asian men and black women--"society" isn't the only reason why you are considered less attractive by the opposite sex.
Education reformers--we all know why you never send your own kids to "diverse" urban schools.
by AudaciousEpigone May 15, 2014
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Name tag for the state in which the conceptual process separating experience into different bodies is extinguished. Viewpoint in which the usual plural differentiation between such things as here and there and self and other and mind and body and observer and observed has ceased to exist. State called oneness which is such that, for example, the sense organ which hears and that which is heard are no longer experienced as two seperate things.
I do not recommend doing drugs to facilitate this experience as even if you do the state will be temporary alongside the effects of the drugs, but the associated damage done and your confused state might be prolonged. Harmlessness amidst a normal experience is a better motivator than the rush for a superior experience.
I do not recommend doing drugs to facilitate this experience as even if you do the state will be temporary alongside the effects of the drugs, but the associated damage done and your confused state might be prolonged. Harmlessness amidst a normal experience is a better motivator than the rush for a superior experience.
I think therefore I am not one of enlightenment.
I see it therefore I am not yet one of enlightenment.
I experience it therefore I am not yet one of enlightenment.
My mind projects an invisible shell around me which seperates me from my environment therefore I cannot, as much as I would wish it, be yet enlightened.
Your experience is a puppet and you only are always pulling the strings.
I see it therefore I am not yet one of enlightenment.
I experience it therefore I am not yet one of enlightenment.
My mind projects an invisible shell around me which seperates me from my environment therefore I cannot, as much as I would wish it, be yet enlightened.
Your experience is a puppet and you only are always pulling the strings.
by Jonny Random October 1, 2007
Get the enlightenment mug.A person who insists that they are "neither left nor right," but will near-exclusively attack the left and defend the right.
by Kallofox July 27, 2023
Get the Enlightened Centrist mug.Noun: Enlightenedsilence is an internet nomad who appears in random places where he/she/apache is not needed but somehow manages to improve stuff whether it's necessary or not. Nobody knows how to become one and to date there are no tutorials online how to aquire the skill set in a short period of time. Some say it takes at least 15 years online experience to become one.
Version 2, noun: moment of sudden inner enlightenment where you smirk in the glory of realizing something greater and beyond the grasp of other people. So you just sit there in silence, smug and enlightened.
Verb: To shut someone up with superior intellect and far deeper knowledge of trolling
Version 2, noun: moment of sudden inner enlightenment where you smirk in the glory of realizing something greater and beyond the grasp of other people. So you just sit there in silence, smug and enlightened.
Verb: To shut someone up with superior intellect and far deeper knowledge of trolling
Mandy managed to totally enlightenedsilence that trolling twat in that chat room.
Jeff got totally enlightenedsilenced by that random dude on that board there
I had a total moment of enlightenedsilence after watching "interstellar"
Dylan is sitting there in total enlightenedsilence while we have trouble comprehending the explanation to the sky being blue. Man I hate him.
Jeff got totally enlightenedsilenced by that random dude on that board there
I had a total moment of enlightenedsilence after watching "interstellar"
Dylan is sitting there in total enlightenedsilence while we have trouble comprehending the explanation to the sky being blue. Man I hate him.
by Gabriel Maybel December 15, 2016
Get the enlightenedsilence mug.The state of a person after smoking a joint and drinking a warm cup of espresso coffee. One's mind is equal parts relaxed and hyper, allowing for optimal cognitive abilities.
"Tom was exhausted and stressed from studying. I guess you could say he got a little Heightened & Enlightened last night to cope!"
by Reverend Donk Bonkers August 11, 2020
Get the Heightened & Enlightened mug.An Enlightened Centrist/Moderate is a nickname given to mock certain political commentators who call themselves centrists, when their rhetoric suggests otherwise. Unlike typical centrists, who are more balanced with their views and oppose political extremes, Enlightened Centrists use their platform to almost exclusively attack the left while never attacking the right. They go to such lengths to defend any right wing position, that they even do dishonest research and present misinformation that serves a right-wing viewpoint. They don't give the left any charitable interpretation of what they say and often straw man and gaslight the left, especially when the left is calling out alt-right propaganda. These types of centrists have also proven to be Useful idiots for the alt-right, often jumping to the defense of alt-right figures who spin any challenge or opposition to their rhetoric or punishment for their actions as an "attack on free speech". This type of gullibility and manipulation has been proven to be a recruiting method for the alt-right as is presents the alt-righters as misunderstood centrists themselves, who are being silenced by the "evil SJWs", causing the Enlightened Centrist's audience to become sympathetic towards them, and eager to visit their platform, where the radicalization will take place. Enlightened Cenrists are centrists in name only, and should not be trusted.
Person 1: The "OK" hand-sign has been co-opted by white supremacists and has been turned into a racist dog whistle
Person 2: OH, SO NOW THE OK HAND-SIGN IS RACIST?!?! THESE SJWS THINK EVERYTHING IS RACIST!!!!!!
Person 3: No, Person 1 didn't say the okay the "OK" hand-sign is racist, but that racist have turned it into a signal. You Enlightened Centrist types really need to stop being so gullible
Person 2: OH, SO NOW THE OK HAND-SIGN IS RACIST?!?! THESE SJWS THINK EVERYTHING IS RACIST!!!!!!
Person 3: No, Person 1 didn't say the okay the "OK" hand-sign is racist, but that racist have turned it into a signal. You Enlightened Centrist types really need to stop being so gullible
by SkateWRes May 27, 2019
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