ipseity
(en)
selfhood; individual identity (from Latin "ipse" for self)
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The presupposed Adamic ipseity is priceless.
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The presupposed Adamic ipseity is priceless.
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lubricious
(en)
(adjective) marked by wantonness; lecherous / (adjective) salacious / (adjective) having a smooth or slippery quality
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I slipped into this tricky business like a cat into a sack, and all the lubricious vipers began to writhe.
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I slipped into this tricky business like a cat into a sack, and all the lubricious vipers began to writhe.
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hermeneutic
(en)
the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts
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Might you perhaps hurl yourself into the void through this therapeutic window? How about a hermeneutic window from which to hurl yourself beyond meaning? Or an existential window from which to hurl yourself out of existence and the perpetual reason for existing?
I'm just spitballing here but I think he's undergoing some medical treatment
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Might you perhaps hurl yourself into the void through this therapeutic window? How about a hermeneutic window from which to hurl yourself beyond meaning? Or an existential window from which to hurl yourself out of existence and the perpetual reason for existing?
I'm just spitballing here but I think he's undergoing some medical treatment
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fuliginous
(en)
(adjective) sooty / (adjective) obscure murky / (adjective) having a dark or dusky color
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More and more democratic, liberal, pluralistic, exchangist, 'cultural', fuliginous
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More and more democratic, liberal, pluralistic, exchangist, 'cultural', fuliginous
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veridical
(en)
(adjective) truthful veracious / (adjective) not illusory; genuine
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When you take away verisimiltude, you do not automatically find the veridical but, perhaps, the implausible.
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When you take away verisimiltude, you do not automatically find the veridical but, perhaps, the implausible.
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Manichaeism
(en)
an ancient religious movement that has to do with duality? "an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness"
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we must defend a Manichaean, antagonistic form of Evil, a form of genius, a form of the reversibility of each
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we must defend a Manichaean, antagonistic form of Evil, a form of genius, a form of the reversibility of each
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sfumato
(en)
(noun) the definition of form in painting without abrupt outline by the blending of one tone into another
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Porno sfumato is, in the end, much more erotic than the message 'in clear'. More generally, every clear signification is anti-erotic.
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Porno sfumato is, in the end, much more erotic than the message 'in clear'. More generally, every clear signification is anti-erotic.
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nomenklatura
(en)
a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in the bureaucracy running all spheres of those countries' activity
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visceral distaste for the elites, for castes, culture and the nomenklatura. Do we have to choose between the moronic masses and the arrogant privileged classes
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visceral distaste for the elites, for castes, culture and the nomenklatura. Do we have to choose between the moronic masses and the arrogant privileged classes
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karstic
(en)
(noun) an irregular limestone region with sinkholes, underground streams, and caverns
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