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bond point

The time and place when two people both feel intimately connected to one another as friends.
It is usually not easy or even possible to pinpoint the "bond point" because feeling intimately connected to someone is a feeling that surfaces and slowly or quickly grows to a level where both individuals realize they have bonded.

Last night talking on the phone with someone, every five-minutes or so we kept finding ourselves at higher and higher levels of intimacy and trust.
by but for May 9, 2018
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Glorifry

Glorifying something which in reality harms the members of society.
To society's detriment war is glorified by Hollywood and the media, but its glorification and "gorycealment" (concealing the bloody consequences of violence, as in Hollywood violence) also helps ensure that sufficient young taxpayers will enlist in the armed forces to protect the nation from or allow Americans to react adequately to, for example, the asinine invasion of Pearl Harbor in 1941, or other types of attacks individuals tend to find adjectives for. "Was it rational to attack the Japanese for invading Pearl Harbor," the professor asked. A student replied that if the U.S. hadn't attacked Japan, that empire would have grown stronger and as far away as the U.S. is from Japan, like the United Kingdom took back the Malvina Islands, Japan could have successfully invaded and conquered the U.S. So to imposibilize that, President Roosevelt did the correct thing by retaliating and inserting the U.S. into WWII. Some individuals suspect that glorifying war is an act of glorifrycation. So much for glorifry.
by but for October 25, 2017
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U-HI

There are many different types of "human interactions".

Exemplary (E-HI); pleasant, positive, or pleasurable (P-HI); productive (PROD-HI), professional (PRO-HI), unprofessional (UNPRO-HI), unproductive (UNPROD-HI), counterproductive (CP-HI), unpleasant (U-HI); painful (PA-HI); regrettable (R-HI), horrendous (H-HI), ugly (UG-HI), nice (N-HI), not nice (NN-HI), laughable (L-HI), funny (F-HI), ridiculous (RI-HI), retarded (RE-HI), sexual (S-HI), asexual (AS-HI), etc. The list is endless, and a website may sprout listing all the different types of human interactions and their acronyms or (as I believe it is best to call them) "acronames".

By looking back and analyzing not only an interaction, but also what "really" happened and how each participant behaved and or reacted to other's behaviors, it is possible to comprehend interactions and behaviors better, learn from them, remember them, and give them a name or label—such as EHI to help reveal similarities and make it easier to categorize and group them to further increase comprehension and knowledge.
by but for May 15, 2018
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pain prevention

Thoughts, actions, procedures, and mechanisms that study, find and disseminate ways to prevent pain, often by preventing a specific error from recurring. Conflict resolution is one of many pain prevention methods.
The fear of feeling pain, and the need to not feel it, move people to analyze errors to find error-preventing methods, procedures, and mechanisms.
The fear of feeling pain, and the need to not feel it, move people to analyze errors to find error-preventing methods, procedures, and mechanisms.

Pain prevention and error prevention engendered one another.

It is best to immediately find ways to prevent an error from recurring.
by but for January 28, 2021
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Imagined Echo

The echo of a sound which did not produce an echo, but which the brain hears after the sound was made because it replays sounds the individual just heard in order to help that individual comprehend it better. Imagined echoes are the auditory equivalent of the images the eyes continue to see though the still image they saw is no longer visible. That scientifically proven phenomenon is called the "persistence of vision," and makes it possible for the 30 still images motion picture projectors display one after the other to create the optical illusion the brain interprets as continuous movement.
Dick Shakey was creating a song on his computers piano keyboard when he heard a jet airplane fly by. One second later, his brain replayed the sound of the jet engine for Richard to could hear it again and know what had just happened because when he heard the jet engine's sound the first time—immersed listening to the piano notes—he did hear the jet engine's distant roar, but because human listening is sometimes selective, ignored it. However, hearing the imagined echo blew his concentration, so he stood up, took a break, and submitted this new term to a new word website.
by but for October 25, 2017
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easyfication

Though almost everyone mistakenly believes that learning to write is as difficult as learning to play a musical instrument, inspired by Frederick Taylor's Scientific Management principles, Richard Casey and Charles Cox began its easyfication in a social media group and where volunteers teach students the "one best way" to learn to give a writing a title, write an introductory clause, add a comma, add a semicolon, and perform the other 555 writing techniques he has systematized.
by but for March 19, 2020
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New Word War

The non-violent war individuals and organizations which have the power to popularize a new word wage against one another by inserting new words—they craft to achieve strategic goals—into various forms of media to covertly persuade as many people as possible to do or not do specific things.
The New Word War is intensifying.
by but for October 1, 2017
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