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A style of oil painting created by the artist Linda Paterson, principally in her series of ground-breaking landscapes. Joyism features beautiful, colourful interpretations of spectacular scenes particularly flowers, trees, gardens and mountains. Paterson’s artworks are known for their bold, exquisite colour palettes.
Gallery visitor 1: Dude, these paintings are really inspiring – they make me feel joyous just looking at them.
Gallery visitor 2: Surely, Linda Paterson is the pioneer of the ‘Joyism’ school of painting. Her beautiful scenes and vibrant colours put a smile on my face too. Oh joy!
Joyism by balconybar February 16, 2023
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Joyism is a religion whose followers respect most deities (not the Abrahamic god) but do not worship any deity. A Joyist may invoke deities and ask the gods to add their power to the prayer/wish/ spell being performed. While the joyist community worships no deity, they revere kindness. Joyist clergy Haasdii(priest) and Haadiss (priestess) reward acts of kindness when witnessing them. The joyist beliefs regarding life and death are unique. There is no heaven or he'll. No devil, or judge. They believe in reincarnation and that each incarnation is a school year for the soul. You plan the lessons you want to learn then you're born and you have preplanned everything that happens in the next life. Death is looked at more as a graduation for the departed
Joyism is a religion that worships kindness and joy
Joyism by Morgan Haasdii August 18, 2026
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Joyism • Jayism • Jobism • Joeism • Joyish • Joeyism • jokism • jodism • Jonism • joysmita
A religion that originates from a place where kong lives. ALL OF YOU SHALL BOW DOWN TO ME
Yo, y'all are wackasses for not believing in jonism. Jonkong is real you know.
jonism by jonavoo June 11, 2018
Being tucked up or deliberately thrown into the path of oncoming trouble so Jay can deflect attention.
1# Mate that customer had a right go
2# Yep, Colleague threw me under the bus to save their incompetence

1# you got "Jayismed"
Jayism by OldandCrankie December 23, 2022
A religion created by Jay that practices rituals to summon the black cat god. Jayism is one of the best religions and it is created by Jay.
Man 1:"Dude are you a Jayist?"
Man 2:"Yeah man I love Jayism"
Jayism by JayismLeader January 14, 2020
Noun; Jose-is-m.

A religion of where the people of the Josist faith believe that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is their god.

Creation: Joseph created the universe. The water, the trees, and the air we breathe was all crafted from his skill and natural talent.

Trinity: Although Josism primarily consists of the main god Joesph Gordon-Levitt, there are a three sub-gods included within this religion. Robbie Kruse control and Yoann Gourcuff are football gods and Josh Thomas is the god of both cute and humour. Quite like Christianity, Joseph also has an illegitimate son named Chris although he isn't as significant in the Josist faith. Josism believes both in the existence of a single God and that Chris was God, two doctrines which occasionally threaten to contradict each other. This is solved by the idea of the Trinity: Jose is one, but also four persons. Those four persons are Jose the father, Jose the son, Jose the cute and humorous and Jose the footballer.

Redemption: Josism was initially begun in the dreams of people all over the globe in which during the 1980's their god would be born and help reedeem humanity from its sins. Joseph was born on February 17, 1981 which is now globally known as Jomakkah. Joseph also stars in films such as Inception and (500) Days of Summer when he is not busy being the god of the Josists.
Person 1: Are you religious?
Person 2: Yes, are you familiar with JGL? He is my lord and I worship him as I am a dedicated believer of Josism.
Josism by iwuvchris November 28, 2010
The belief that jobs are the only solution to poverty and other social problems
Jobism is the only way we're going to fix this country.
Jobism by American Worker January 20, 2009
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