Word For The Day, Wednesday, October 15, 2014-- maieutic

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Word For The Day, Wednesday, October 15, 2014-- maieutic

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

maieutic [mey-yoo-tik]

hear it pronounced

adjective

1. of or pertaining to the method used by Socrates of eliciting knowledge in the mind of a person by interrogation and insistence on close and logical reasoning.

Origin: 1645-55; < Greek maieutikós of, pertaining to midwifery, equivalent to maieú(esthai) to serve as a midwife (akin to maîa midwife) + -tikos -tic

Related forms

maieutics, noun

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

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[SoothingDave]

Yes. It is amusing at a distance.

[tioga]

I bet those nurses in Texas wish they had been off the list caring for Duncan. Second person involved in his care confirmed with it. Things will move faster soon. Scary.

I hear that the scariest Halloween costume of the year will be the Ebola hazmat suits. Selling like hotcakes.

[SoothingDave]

You can just recycle your Breaking Bad meth-making suit from last Halloween!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Good morning - we are beginning to feel Fall in Houston! 10:15 and still 65 degrees..... will get into the 80’s later, but our mornings are cooler.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I tried to ignore it but went back and read the blog. First, I noticed she doesn't have a name so she must not be proud of her work. Second, someone damaged her badly. I found it interesting that she wants to kill the worst in society (serial killers, pedophiles, ect) yet probably is against capital punishment in real life.

I caught a couple of comments that were odd: the "myth of fatherhood" - wow, so she made a bad decision to couple with an azzhole so now all men are bad fathers, and even women shouldn't have complete control over her own children so in her utopia children will be collectively raised. Isn't that like saying women are incompetent to raise a child properly too?

[VRWCmember]

Doesn’t this word violate some rule regarding the ratio of vowels to consonants in a word? Sometimes you see a word and think “Wow, somebody needs to buy a vowel” but in this case, I think somebody needs to have a clearance sale on them.

[SoothingDave]

She also buys into the myth that women are naturally non-competitive and will just fall into consensus with each other in small groups.

Of course, if asked, she would say the only reason women are different than that now is because their minds have been colonized by male oppressors.

[VRWCmember]

I am convinced that liberals might as well be from another planet, as far as commonality of thought processes.

Men are from Mars
Women are from Venus
Liberals/Democrats are from Uranus.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Oh yeah I forgot that part! lol They would share everything and do all that hard manual labor with smiles on their faces. There would be no jealousy or mean girls - My guess, in a society like that, lesbianism would rise, meaning the more masculine women would become the men of that society and the whole cycle would begin again, minus the PIV. lol

[xsmommy]

just beyond stupid!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I could see lena dunham’s face while reading that - she is the type to write something like that, while secretely just wanting a man to love her. lol

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Haha - agreed.

[xsmommy]

I loathe her.

[SoothingDave]

Without men around BlackMetal, our workload would be reduced considerably. We would probably only need to do a couple of hours work a week. The rest would be spent on doing what we wanted and this is how hard men’s system is for us to live in because women enjoy studying and researching and learning languages and writing. We don’t consider it work. It’s pure pleasure.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Good morning. My son in Dallas makes fun of NJ winter weather, but I get even in the summer. Fall and spring are nice in both places.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Doesn’t this word violate some rule regarding the ratio of vowels to consonants in a word?

Probably. Adieu!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Written like a women who doesn’t do any work now! How does she think food gets to her organic grocer? Who would make the wine she drinks to numb her brain? Who would drive the big trucks carryng her free (now that men aren’t in charge) feminine products? Oh wait, who would make them to begin with?

[xsmommy]

Here they say:

But it seem wrong – for once – to blame the media for misunderstanding what the Church is doing. The media emphasized the troubling parts of the text, of course, but for the most part understood quite well what the text and the way it was issued had done. It would have been quite easy for Vatican spokesmen – or the text itself – to have made clear that the relatio was only a series of points the bishops had in fact discussed. That was not made clear. And in Tuesday’s indirect recantation, it was hard to determine, despite persistent questions by journalists, how this sorry mess ever saw the light of day.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

True

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Who would make the wine she drinks to numb her brain?

The same people who make all the wine, i thought - hot Italian babes who lift their skirts and go to town on the grapes with their dainty lil feet