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Get the The Anti Thinker mug.Getting down on one knee, curling one's wrist to one's chin, and looking up, mimicking the pose of Auguste Rodin's classic sculpture "The Thinker".
(Created by Dave Silverman, reported by Staks Rosch, "Thinkering: The atheist answer to Tebowing", Dec. 30, 2011, examiner.com)
(Created by Dave Silverman, reported by Staks Rosch, "Thinkering: The atheist answer to Tebowing", Dec. 30, 2011, examiner.com)
In response to the fundamentalist craze of Tebowing, American Atheists President Dave Silverman has come up with an atheist version called "Thinkering."
Someone commented that the pose looked too similar to Tebowing, to which Silverman responded: "That's the point. The difference is we don't bow our heads in blind submission, rather we consider and conclude for ourselves."
Someone commented that the pose looked too similar to Tebowing, to which Silverman responded: "That's the point. The difference is we don't bow our heads in blind submission, rather we consider and conclude for ourselves."
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A whimsical, pure and incomprehensible beauty carried with elegance by wings and pixie dust. Along with her she brings tenacity, grace, serenity and sass.
by Smartiipantss December 23, 2014
Get the Tinkerbell mug.The name attached by students to almost any community college the first 8 or 10 years it is in existence. Mainly used as a partial slam at the limited physical buildings, small teaching staffs, and what would appear to be a bunch of people "playing real college" with a set of tinker toys.
Yeh, I went to Washington State Community College in Marietta, Ohio, back when it was named Washington Technical College....but all of us called it Tinker Tech.
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Get the Tinker Tech mug.A portmanteau of "thinking" and "tinkering". Means to think about something by tinkering with objects relating to the problem under consideration. Usually unguided, exploratory and individual, often a very good way to explore aspects of difficult problems or to find solutions where none are obvious. In other words, an active form of thinking.
Akin to solving a puzzle (like a rubiks cube) by trying to solve it rather than just sitting and staring at it.
Akin to solving a puzzle (like a rubiks cube) by trying to solve it rather than just sitting and staring at it.
Bob is thinkering again, wonder if he'll finally figure out how to get that perpetual motion machine back together again?
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