Secular Psychosis

A rare, extreme break from reality precipitated by the total collapse of a religious worldview without an alternative structure to contain existential anxiety. It can manifest as a nihilistic delusion that nothing is real, a solipsistic conviction that the individual is the only conscious being in a dead universe, or a desperate, personal mythology constructed from scientific or political concepts elevated to delirious, salvific proportions (e.g., believing one must literally "merge with the Singularity" to escape the horror of mortality). It is the mind's catastrophic failure to cope with the sheer scale and indifference of a genuinely godless cosmos.

Example: After a lifelong crisis of faith, a person becomes convinced that consciousness is a curse and that the material universe is a "cancer of nothingness." They believe they have a mission to "un-think" reality into oblivion, and stop speaking because they think language perpetuates the illusion. This is secular psychosis: the metaphysical terror of a purely physical, purposeless universe, unmet by any cultural or psychological container, causing a complete psychotic decompensation where the mind fabricates a terrifying, personal cosmology to explain the abyss it perceives.

by Dumu The Void January 27, 2026

Second Singularity/High Transapient (S2) Technologies

Technologies emerging from intelligences that have undergone a second, even more profound leap in cognitive capacity, making S1 entities look simple. This tier involves mastery of spacetime geometry, creating stable wormholes for transport, manipulating gravity, and engineering consciousness at a fundamental level. S2 tech begins to look like magic, allowing for interstellar travel via traversable gates, the construction of ringworlds, and the ability to edit physical constants on a local scale.

Second Singularity/High Transapient (S2) Technologies Example: A S2 Technology is a Stable Wormhole used as a subway between stars, a Matrioshka Brain (a Dyson Sphere computing substrate around a star), or a Jupiter Braincore that converts an entire gas giant into a computational matrix. These are projects of such scale and subtlety that their operating principles are opaque to baseline humans and even S1 minds.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 3, 2026

Secularothinking

The dogmatic groupthink that can emerge within militant secularist or anti-religious communities, where any expression of religious belief, spirituality, or tradition is automatically dismissed as primitive, irrational, or dangerous. This mindset enforces a rigid orthodoxy of materialism and scientific reductionism, treating all religion as a monolithic evil. It prevents nuanced understanding of religion's cultural, psychological, and social roles, and often mirrors the absolutism it condemns, creating an echo chamber of intellectual superiority that is hostile to phenomenological or anthropological perspectives.

Example: In an online atheist forum, a member shares research on the positive role of religious rituals in community cohesion during crises. The response is pure Secularothinking: immediate accusations of "apologetics," a barrage of links to crimes committed in religion's name, and mocking of the user's intelligence. The group's identity is so tied to opposition that it cannot engage with any data that complicates its worldview.

by Dumuabzu February 5, 2026

secondary infertility

When a person or couple has previously conceived (and may have one or more children) but later struggles to conceive again. Unlike primary infertility, this term highlights the frustration of wanting another child after already having had one — brings its own mix of grief, confusion, and social awkwardness (people assume you’ll have more kids easily). Can be medical, age-related, or unexplained; conversations around it often include guilt, pressure, and privacy boundaries.

They were surprised when month after month produced nothing — after their first baby, dealing with secondary infertility felt even harder because everyone expected round two to be easy.

by Emotional Cruiser February 25, 2026

Secret Variables

Factors influencing outcomes that are deliberately concealed, either by research subjects, by investigators, or by the systems being studied. Unlike hidden variables (simply unmeasured) or spectral variables (unmeasurable), secret variables are actively obscured. Research subjects may hide behaviors they're ashamed of; corporations may conceal data that would damage profits; governments may classify information that would change conclusions; scientists may suppress variables that would undermine their theories. Secret variables represent the intentional production of ignorance—the active hiding of what would otherwise be knowable. They're the reason replication is essential, the reason independent verification matters, the reason transparency is a scientific virtue. Where secrets exist, knowledge is always provisional.

Secret Variables Example: "The pharmaceutical trial showed amazing results, but the secret variable—that patients with negative outcomes had been removed from the analysis—only emerged years later during litigation."

by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026

second strongest military in the world

a joke

who would’ve thought that the second strongest military in the world couldn’t even win a war against the poorest country in europe!

by ZΣPH Ψ February 20, 2025

section 8 at me

It’s a famous line from the 90s song I don’t want no scrubs. In this 90s banger we hear : I don’t want no scrub a scrub is a guy that sells and smoked drugs hanging on the passenger side of his best friend’s car tryna to section 8 at me. Basically the hood gentleman with the durag is tryna take her to his ghetto section 8 apartment. This remix version of the song had not been published but when it does people will shit bricks.

I’m a 5-2 pretty Latina. I was a hottie from 18-22 but then I got preggers by a ghetto institutionalized homie straight out of GTA named manny escuela who section 8 at me.

by Medicine Man 2 February 22, 2025