A phrase used to describe the blind beliefs of any institution or state where someone is told to believe something without evidence or reason and where that ignorance is then passed on to others (because they believe the lies they have been told) and becomes self-perpetuating.
'Nationalism is a form of self-perpetuating ignorance where we are taught to hate the 'other' or outside group.'

'No you cannot convert me to your religion, I have no desire to be a part of your cult's self-perpetuating ignorance.'
by lostinsuburbia May 22, 2013
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A term coined by author Jeff Brown, PPS (Perpetual Positivity Syndrome) is one of the most common obstructions to awakening on the healing path. Defined as ‘the addictive need to default to positivity under any and all circumstances’, it prevents a maturation in the deep within because sufferers refuse to be present for all that is. Symptoms include a constant need to find the light in every situation, a tendency to forget or ‘rise above’ the negative aspects of their partners, an inability to fully support and hold the space for other’s suffering, and a turning away from the growth work demanded by life's challenges. Instead of forging a grounded, discerning positivity in the heart of all that is, they jump to the light, while averting the shadows that inform it. They reactively bliss-trip, when lessons are waiting in the wings to be learned. Those who suffer with PPS are often of the illusory view that they had perfect childhoods or that they have moved beyond the shadow, but they are sadly mistaken. If anything, their obsessive clinging to the ‘positive’ is rooted in their unresolved emotional material: pain and anger that will only come back to haunt them. At the end of the day (when the darkness settles in…), there can be no light without shadow. And no substitute for hard-earned transformation.
I eventually owned that I had Perpetual Positivity Syndrome, and I finally began to heal and grow.
by Yehudah July 01, 2017
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Noun. A group of no less than 3-5 men who are all chain linked together cock to ass in a circle of endless fucking. This number can vary depending on penis length.
"Hey Hawkins, wanna join my Perpetual Fucking Machine?"

Sure Mike, but only if we can get enough fanny bandits together.
by piratesof2 February 10, 2011
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The perpetually stoned children (also known as the psc). Tend to be in small groups of 2-4 and just sit around playing The Sims. They tend to have music that lays in electronic and alternative. Often tend to do weird things that make them look stoned, but aren't. They sit in dimly lit rooms and have monotonous conversation and meander around the neighborhood. They are not too similar with each other except in some particular thought processes and mannerisms.
Person A: Hey look at those weirdos in a circle making all sorts of hand motions and laughing. I bet they are high.
Person B: Oh they aren't high, those are just the perpetually stoned children.
by pueblobaby August 13, 2008
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When a man drinks enough pineapple-flavored Smirnoff to sweeten his jizz and receives a blowjob, and the woman simultaneously becomes drunker from the increasingly sweet and vodka-laced semen, thus making her further inclined to give the man the blowjob. As of right now, the perpetual blowjob machine remains a simple thought experiment and has yet to be put into practice. Several attempts have been made, but universal forces such as friction have caused these attempts to fail. It is also believed that the amount of pineapple Smirnoff required is far greater than what the average man can safely consume. Thus, most physicists believe the perpetual blowjob machine to be an impossible feat, yet withhold it as a theoretical system of stable equilibrium. Were the perpetual blowjob machine to be successfully achieved, it would truly be a groundbreaking scientific discovery, undoubtedly worth the Nobel Prize in physics.
Einstein: "Since it is known that the essence of pineapple can sweeten one's load, and alcohol can drop a young woman willingly to her knees, then certainly a BJ given to a man who has consumed a sufficient amount of a substance such as pineapple Smirnoff shall find himself in an equilibrium of oral pleasure, whilst the young lady enjoys a self-sweetening and inebriating treat. A perpetual blowjob machine shall be the result of such circumstances."
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A loop in which a person has begun due to sitting around on their balls. A person will become more depressed because they are sitting around not doing anything which then further leads to depression.
Friend:"Hey man, you want to go to the bar?"
Me:"Na dude, I dont feel like doing anything."
Friend:"Man, your on a perpetual ball sit."
Me:"I know."
by D3v10uS May 31, 2010
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