When someone does something overly crazy, or in a way that is unbecoming of a normal functioning adult human being.
by SteviePepperoni May 13, 2025
Get the Over the speed limit mug.A small to medium sized social gathering where young adult Mormons get together to do bland, morally unambiguous activities such as Go Fish, crocheting, and (as the namesake suggests) driving the speed limit to the local soda jerk.
Katie invited me to hang out on Friday night, but it turned out to be a boring ass speed limit party. We made dirt cups and drank sparkling juice. I felt like I was in kindergarten again.
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The epistemological crisis that occurs when the rigid, methodological boundaries of science are used to dismiss phenomena or entire domains of inquiry (like paranormality, supernaturality, astral projection, mediumship, or claims of an afterlife) not because they have been conclusively disproven, but because they inherently resist or exist outside the standardized tools of verification. The "limit" is the edge of science's operational domain. This problem highlights the danger of conflating "unexplained by current science" with "false" or "meaningless." When parapsychology investigates psi phenomena, or when narratives of reincarnation present veridical memories, the pseudoscience label is often applied not due to a failure of internal coherence within those claims, but due to their violation of materialist assumptions or their reliance on non-repeatable, subjective experience. This creates a catch-22: the phenomena, by their purported nature, evade the controlled, reproducible experiment—the very benchmark used to declare them pseudoscientific. Thus, the label can become a circular defense of the scientific paradigm's limits, rather than a fair assessment of the claims' substantive truth or falsehood.
Example: "A medium provides specific, verified details about a deceased person unknown to her. The skeptic invokes the Limit Problem of Pseudoscience: he can't explain it, so he labels it 'pseudoscience' and cites a lack of lab replication. But the phenomenon—if real—might be rare, personal, and context-dependent, inherently fleeing the laboratory setting. The 'pseudoscience' accusation here doesn't address the anomaly; it protects science from having to expand its methods to account for messy, singular experiences that haunt its borders."
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