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Reality War

The war fought in a series of ongoing battles between society's most powerful entities as they endeavor to convince as many people as possible to accept their version of reality and think, feel, and act accordingly.

Reality is essentially what is accepted as existing, in other words, "what is." To convince others to believe that reality is what they say it is, religious organizations, governments, corporations, mass media outlets, universities, writers, intellectuals, artists, musicians, singers and other performers, scientists, and the masses all engage in the Reality War in as best their money and other resources permit.

There are personal, past, present, proposed, debunked, fraudulent, altruistic, positive, negative, imagined, factual, fictitious, and many other types of realities.

Some realities are more extensive and complex, and it is generally impossible to conclusively prove whether a reality is true or false.

The first reality to exist was and is the Original Reality and those who believe God created everything accept it as the one true reality, undistorted by the now almost ubiquitous overt, covert, or subliminal messages to the contrary.

by but for February 15, 2018

confrontation point

The time when and the place where an individual or a group confronts someone.

Buster had had it with Mary's daily whining and he asked her to stop it. The time and place someone confronts someone else is called the confrontation point.

by but for September 29, 2021

Treadmilling

The act of running on a treadmill.

Seeing the guinea pigs treadmilling in the pet store, Gilbert Banger realized that the one night stands he was already getting tired of, amounted to treadmilling, so he stopped whoremongering and began to search for a woman who he would like to marry.

by but for September 24, 2017

optoimprove

The essence of the term "problem-challenge and opportunity", which encourages individuals to interpret problems as challenges and opportunities.

In 2009, my Ph.D. professors made me aware of the term "problem, challenge and opportunity". It encouraged me to not see problems as situations which might be impossible to correct but as situations which have solutions. Nine-years later, to simplify and capture the essence of that novel three-word term, I invented the term OPTOIMPROVE. If problems did not come our way we would stop growing. Fredrick Douglas said, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress." And my Mother taught me that, "In life there is always a solution".

by but for November 17, 2018

Mutual Repulsion

The way two or more people feel when they see or meet one another for the first time and feel repulsed by the way the other person looks, thinks (based on what they say and how they say it), acts, smells, sits, stands, walks, or runs.

From the day they met, Karen and Jose felt a mutual repulsion.

by but for October 21, 2017

youth transmission

The way interacting with younger people—more so children—automatically and almost always unknowingly transmit their youth to older people.

Though I taught high school and college, I love teaching second graders so much because they are tender and interacting with them makes me feel so hopeful. I call interacting with younger people—specially children—youth transmission.

by but for December 24, 2017

two-adjectives

A way to label individuals to tell others one's evaluation or opinion of who they are.

Strong and fast, are an example of two-adjectives. Smart but smelly, ugly but funny, fat and ugly, fat and friendly, short but cute, tall and arrogant, intelligent but snotty, snobbish but elegant. The other similar method is two-nouns, as in skinny and tall. These two-adjectives or two-nouns help describe characters in plays, for example.

by but for May 15, 2018