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Word For The Day, Thursday, Rocktober 13, 2011 - nihilism
dictionaries ad nauseam | 13 October 2011 | Thursday's sub

Posted on 10/13/2011 4:06:31 AM PDT by secret garden


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".

ni·hil·ism [nahy-uh-liz-uhm, nee-] noun

1. total rejection of established laws and institutions.
2. anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.
3. total and absolute destructiveness, especially toward the world at large and including oneself: the power-mad nihilism that marked Hitler's last years.
4. Philosophy
a. an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth.
b. nothingness or nonexistence.
5. ( sometimes initial capital letter ) the principles of a Russian revolutionary group, active in the latter half of the 19th century, holding that existing social and political institutions must be destroyed in order to clear the way for a new state of society and employing extreme measures, including terrorism and assassination.
6. annihilation of the self, or the individual consciousness, especially as an aspect of mystical experience.

Example sentence:
Occupy (your city here) is nothing more than an exercise in nihilism by slacker progressives.

Etymology:
1810–20; Latin nihil nothing (variant of nihilum; see nil) + -ism

The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....


Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

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To: secret garden
Ni! A+ for the Python reference.

Thanks. Now if I could just find the average air speed of a sparrow.

81 posted on 10/13/2011 11:20:13 AM PDT by Cowman (How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
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To: Cowman

African or European?


82 posted on 10/13/2011 11:23:09 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden
African or European?

He's from Notlob

83 posted on 10/13/2011 11:28:00 AM PDT by Cowman (How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
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To: Cowman
Oh no he didn't.
84 posted on 10/13/2011 11:36:12 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

Thank you! Oh, yes-what a bunch of whiners. And as for the ones holding signs trying to get sympathy for their student loans-whose fault is that, anyway? If they had even a part-time job, as I did, and I’m sure you did, that debt would be much, much smaller...

I still say that a whining, demanding brat should be curbed at an early age-say 4 or so-if they do not respond to the word “no” and demands that they cease acting out when they are denied something, a good smack will do the trick. That is not child abuse, it is an investment in that kid’s future as a responsible adult...


85 posted on 10/13/2011 11:45:33 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...")
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To: Texan5

I worked summers my first two years in school and part-time after that and FT in grad school. I was determined to pay my own way and not be dependent.


86 posted on 10/13/2011 12:06:46 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

I worked the whole time, too-anything I could get paid for that was legal-my uncle’s drywall business as a laborer when I was too young to work in a bar, and as cocktail waitress in a restaurant and club after I came of age. I did live at home for awhile until my baby was old enough to entrust to a private sitter other than my mom-I was determined to be a responsible adult.


87 posted on 10/13/2011 1:20:14 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...")
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To: Texan5

In retrospect, I think we made the right choices.


88 posted on 10/13/2011 1:26:53 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

I do regret not having gotten a Masters, but by the time my husband and I were making enough money for me to do that, I realized that I did not want to stay in the social services field, so there was little point in getting an MSW-I was already burned out-I took some courses in voc rehab and such and went to the private sector as a workers comp casemanager instead.


89 posted on 10/13/2011 1:28:08 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...")
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To: secret garden

“right choices”

Definately-but having said that, I’m happier now being a sub contractor, even if it means laying PVC lines in a septic ditch...


90 posted on 10/13/2011 1:34:25 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...")
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To: secret garden

“right choices”

Definately-but having said that, I’m happier now being a sub contractor, even if it means laying PVC lines in a septic ditch...


91 posted on 10/13/2011 1:36:25 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...")
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To: Texan5

Hiccup!!!


92 posted on 10/13/2011 1:37:24 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...")
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To: Texan5

It does have the immediate gratification factor.


93 posted on 10/13/2011 1:40:16 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: Texan5

I did not work, but had no loans. My parents never made more than $20,000 per year, could never have afforded to send my brother and I to college. But my grandmother, who worked cleaning houses for a living, bought savings bonds which paid our way through Pitt. I did have loans for law school as did xshub, but we each paid those off promptly. My friend Paula, the doctor, had no loans bc she did the National Health program, worked off her indebtedness for several years in inner-city Philadelphia.


94 posted on 10/13/2011 1:55:39 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

A bit, just 3 days a week, but I am gone 9-5. Easy day, but no computer. I take my kindle, but it’s not the same. I may have to breakdown and use my phone to post. I text a lot during the day, no one would know the dif.


95 posted on 10/13/2011 2:26:48 PM PDT by tioga
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To: xsmommy
You drive a late 1970's Trans Am?


96 posted on 10/13/2011 3:50:07 PM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America")
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To: xsmommy

Ripped off from the Pontiac Trans Am.

See above.


97 posted on 10/13/2011 3:51:08 PM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America")
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To: SoothingDave

Look where they ripped it off from.
See above.


98 posted on 10/13/2011 3:51:54 PM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America")
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To: xsmommy

See, this is the difference between us and these spoiled ungrateful brats-we had to work, or if we borrowed we paid back promptly, our families weren’t well enough off to send us and our siblings to college entirely, etc, etc. and that was the norm for most of us then. These adult brats lack gratitude because they have never had to work for anything, and they don’t even think they should pay their loans back.


99 posted on 10/13/2011 4:03:38 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...")
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To: SoothingDave

I learned a pretty decent imitation of an elephant trumpet from one of those guys.


100 posted on 10/13/2011 4:50:23 PM PDT by Silentgypsy (If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
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