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scientific living

Living by applying the scientific method to make the most important decisions, all along doing all one can to never make a decision based solely on an emotion.
Individuals who live scientifically make the most important decisions only after taking the scientific method's six steps: 1) asking a question, 2) doing background research, 3) constructing a hypothesis, 4) testing the hypothesis by doing an experiment, 5) analyzing the data and drawing a conclusion, and 6) writing down the results.

Scientific living also entails doing a great deal of observation, writing down as much as possible what one perceives, along with prioritizing, planning, and calculating likely outcomes.

The opposite of scientific living is living 'spur of the moment.'
by but for January 8, 2018
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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
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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
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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
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Identity-giving

Treating someone in certain ways to give them an identity that is better or worse than the one they have.
An example of identity-giving is when one day, someone treats someone else as if they were a genius, then on another day that person treats the person in ways that say that person is fool.
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Identity Giving

IDENTITY GIVING
Telling a person who or what they are or also treating them in certain ways to improve or deteriorate their identity and get them to do or not do something.
Some religions tell their followers they are "sinners"; other religions tell their followers they are "the chosen." Compliments such as "you are the best," or insults such as "you are a fucking idiot" are also examples of "identity giving".
by but for June 30, 2020
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thought writing

Writing one's thoughts as one thinks them.
A thought writer sends his thoughts from his brain via his nerves to his hand which writes them and lets him see his thoughts transformed into words.

Thought writing' and 'thought typing' are not the same as writing. Writing asks the brain to articulate a thought or an emotion for the writer to write down.
by but for December 16, 2017
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