Falling in lust/love with someone for the materialistic part of a relationship such as luxury dining, adventures, or goods.
by Chauter June 16, 2022
Get the materialistic lust mug.A deleteriously diminutive, overcompensating and money-grubbing manlet boy who futilely seeks to overcome his devastatingly desolating manletism by imprudently purchasing expensive goods such as gold-plated high heels and jewel-encrusted step stools. The puny materialistic manlet can often be detected as he effeminately prances around in upscale boutiques, accompanied by his giggling and squabbling clique of preposterously petite, pint-sized materialistic manlet girlfriends. Here the seriously stunted silly sissy manlets put on tiny, little fashion shows by daintily skipping along a catwalk consisting of an empty shoe box as the delusional runway manlets delightedly display their prospective new short shorts, summer dresses and high heels while the surrounding fawning manlet fairies shower them with rose petals and girlishly sip strawberry margaritas out of pink ampoules.
Manmore 1: Lol, look at that garishly dressed materialistic manlet prancing around wearing his new mink coat and gold-plated high heels! Manmore 2: At least it only cost one poor minklet his life to make that microscopic manlet's lilliputian, little coatlet. Manmore 1: Hahahahaha!
by ManletDepreciator August 29, 2024
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Get the Materialistic mug.A stronger, reductionist version that insists these phenomena are nothing but the byproduct of mechanistic brain processes in a meaningless, material universe. Any perceived "meaning" or "connection" is a purely subjective illusion generated by neural chemistry. This view is often explicitly anti-spiritual and anti-theistic, using these theories as a club to debunk religious experience, astrology, and conspiracy theories as mere neurological glitches.
Materialistic Apophenia/Pareidolia Theory Example: A proponent of Materialistic Apophenia Theory explains a spiritual "vision" as: "Random neural noise in the temporal lobe was misinterpreted by the pattern-seeking cortex as a profound message. The feeling of significance is just a dopamine reward for the cognitive 'click' of a false pattern locking in. There is no angel, only anomalous brain activity. All meaning is epiphenomenal."
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 6, 2026
Get the Materialistic Apophenia/Pareidolia Theory mug.The view that the sandbox is made of matter—that physical stuff is the only material we have to build with. Consciousness, meaning, value, and experience are emergent properties of material arrangements, not substances outside the sandbox. Materialistic Sandboxism embraces the physical sciences as the study of the sand itself, while recognizing that from that sand, we build everything: art, love, justice, meaning. The sand is all we have—but look what we've built with it.
Materialistic Sandboxism "You want spiritual experiences outside the material world? Materialistic Sandboxism says: the material world is the sandbox. The spiritual is castles made of that sand. Transcendence is rearranging matter until it means something. There's no outside—just deeper appreciation of the sand."
by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026
Get the Materialistic Sandboxism mug.The established, institutionalized set of beliefs that define mainstream materialism—the view that matter is the fundamental substance of reality and that all phenomena, including consciousness, can be explained in terms of material interactions. Materialistic orthodoxy includes core commitments: that the physical world is all that exists, that mental states are brain states, that explanations should be couched in physical terms, and that any appeal to non-material entities or forces is unscientific. Like all orthodoxies, it serves necessary functions: providing a unified framework for scientific inquiry, ruling out supernatural explanations, and enabling cumulative progress. But like all orthodoxies, it can become dogmatic, resisting challenges and marginalizing views that question its assumptions. Materialistic orthodoxy determines what questions are worth asking, what explanations count as legitimate, and who counts as a "real" scientist versus a mystic or dualist.
Example: "He suggested that consciousness might require explanations beyond current materialist frameworks—and was accused of being a 'woo-woo mystic' by his colleagues. Materialistic orthodoxy doesn't tolerate questions about its own foundations; it just assumes they're settled."
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