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 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
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
Thanks. Now if I could just find the average air speed of a sparrow.
African or European?
He's from Notlob
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...
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.
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.
In retrospect, I think we made the right choices.
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.
“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...
“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...
Hiccup!!!
It does have the immediate gratification factor.
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.
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.
Ripped off from the Pontiac Trans Am.
See above.
Look where they ripped it off from.
See above.
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.
I learned a pretty decent imitation of an elephant trumpet from one of those guys.
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