What was the reason!

An iconic phrase previously used Superstar Cardi B, that is used when someone can not answer your question and is being sus.
The phrase can also be used when u feel that a person is lying to you.
The phrase is usually shouted or exclaimed for emphasis.

You: "Why?"
Friend "..i dunno"
You "What was the reason!"

by ValoraGalaxy December 28, 2022

give something a reason

To give someone/something a cause and/or motivation and justification to kill you.

A gorilla is not something you give something a reason, unless you’re a chimpanzee.

by Hoodnature March 7, 2023

A petty reason to stop watching

Is it?

Hym "Is it petty Chris? Is that a petty reason to stop watching? Should I do it because I think you're cooperating with Jordan Peterson to steal from me so I have to do his incest cult? Is that a better reason? Because that's the reason I'm going to murder a kids. Well, one of them. He's not trying to get me to do do it because it's better. He's doing it because it is EXPLICITLY WORSE than what I want and he knows it. He knows he is shit. And he knows his values are shit. And he wants to make me live out his shit values because he knows I will not be happy. And he's doing it because he wants there to be a punishment for calling his daughter a crippled slut with a pouty, fuckable face and there isn't one. I have a right to say that. But he doesn't like that I think I can say whatever I want about whoever I want. It isn't therapy that he is doing here. And the zionist shill therapists he's recruited to try and coopt the psychological institutions are enabling him and likely need to be punished for their complicity. Them and the politicians who've decided to hop on the bandwagon with him. Your incest cult isn't sanity, Jordan. It's just an incest cult. You've adorned yourself in the blood of a long-dead God and now you think you're him. You lie as easily a you breathe and for all of our sakes I hope both of those things become more difficult for you as we get closer to the climax of our little drama we got going on here."

by Hym Iam August 17, 2024

Blocked me for no reason

When someone blocks you and you don't know why.

Help! Someone blocked me for no reason on Sketchers United!

by PomeranianFluff June 2, 2024

Hard Problem of Reason

Closely tied to rationality, but focused on the faculty itself. How can reason, a product of blind evolutionary processes that selected for survival, not truth, be trusted to uncover objective truths about reality? Our brains were shaped to find patterns, avoid predators, and secure mates—not to solve metaphysics. The hard problem is whether reason is a cracked lens that happensto work in our middle-world, or a genuine pipeline to capital-T Truth.

*Example: "Our reason tells us quantum mechanics is true, even though it's utterly unreasonable. The hard problem of reason is wondering if our minds, built to throw spears and spot lions, have any business trusting their conclusions about non-local hidden variables or 11-dimensional strings."*

by Abzugal January 30, 2026

Moving the Reasonpost

The act of shifting the governing mode of reasoning mid-debate to sidestep a compelling point made within the previous framework. When an opponent effectively uses utilitarian reasoning, for instance, the arguer might suddenly insist that “true reason” must consider long-term existential risks or deontological rules, invalidating the prior calculation.

Moving the Reasonpost Example:
You use data-driven, utilitarian reasoning to support a policy.
They say, “Your short-term numbers are irrelevant. A truly reasonable person would think generationally about cultural precedent. You’re being myopic.”
They’ve moved the reasonpost from quantitative utility to vague, long-term cultural reasoning to avoid your data.

by Dumuabzu February 8, 2026

Hard Problem of Reason

The paradox that human rationality is bounded, emotional, and culturally shaped, yet we must use this imperfect tool to understand itself and the world. "Pure reason" is a fantasy; our reasoning is always motivated, contextual, and built on subconscious foundations. The problem is that we cannot step outside of reason to objectively audit it, creating a foundational circularity.

Example: A "rationalist" community that uses reason to deconstruct all beliefs, arriving at cold utilitarianism. They fail to see that their choice to value logical consistency and utility maximization is itself an unreasoned preference, an emotional allegiance to a particular aesthetic of thinking. They've hit the Hard Problem of Reason: their tool cannot justify its own prime directives.

by Dumuabzu February 8, 2026