A system of government based that writes, enacts and expires laws based on a solid foundation of scientific evidence. Each law created has 6 immutable elements: the law itself, the intention behind the law, the estimated costs of enforcing the law, the studies supporting invocation the law, the risks and crucially, an expiry date. At expiration, each law is reviewed for its efficacy, its cost of enforcement to date, how its implementation stands up to the original intention and the validity of the original studies.
churchhurt is where you experience a degree of distance, pain, or judgement from your church community. Essentially, you are just unable to “find your place”. This is prevalent in the Christian community, but can be extended to other religions.
Now that I am an adult I am beginning to heal from the churchhurt that was inflicted on me as a child.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.