WORDY

VICEROY:

virginmostfaithful — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:29:45 -0500

Definition: A ruler exercising authority in a colony on behalf of a sovereign.

“A viceroy, who, however, exercised the authority and led the life of a king, ruled over the two Sicilies in the name of Phillip II.”

One of my favorite books

virginmostfaithful — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:11:23 -0400

One of my favorite books

CHANCELLOR:

virginmostfaithful — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:58:07 -0400

DEFINITION: A SENIOR STATE OR LEGAL OFFICIAL

INDUCTIVE:

virginmostfaithful — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:56:26 -0400

DEFINITION: CHARACTIZED BY THE INFERENCE OF THE GENERAL LAWS FROM PARTICULAR INSTANCES

SYNONYM: LOGICAL

EMPIRICAL:

virginmostfaithful — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:53:35 -0400

DEFINITION: BASED ON, CONCERNED WITH, OR VERIFIABLE BY OBSERVATION OR EXPERIENCE RATHER THAN THEORY OR PURE LOGIC.

MISCELLANY:

virginmostfaithful — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:50:36 -0400

DEFINITION: A GROUP OR COLLECTION OF DIFFERENT ITEMS

SYNONYMS: A MIXTURE, MEDLEY

MISOGYNY:

virginmostfaithful — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:28:00 -0400

DEFINITION: THE HATRED OF WOMEN BY MEN

“It is supremely ironic that radical feminism in the contemporary world, especially the variety that is repulsed by a woman’s biological nature, has philosophical and historical roots in the one thinker whose misogyny is without peer.” -Architects of the Culture of Death

DEATH:

virginmostfaithful — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:25:00 -0400

DEFINITION: THE END OF LIFE OF A PERSON OR AN ORGANISM

SYNONYM: DEMISE, DECEASE

“Understood in Schopenhauer’s terms, such as “freedom” is not joyful. And, as should be all too clear, such liberation is really synonymous with death.” -Architects of the Culture of Death

EXPIATION:

virginmostfaithful — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:21:49 -0400

DEFINITION: COMPENSATION FOR A WRONG

SYNONYM: ATONEMENT

CULPABILITY:

virginmostfaithful — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:20:00 -0400

DEFINITION: BLAMEWORTHINESS; A STATE OF GUILT

SYNONYMS: AT FAULT

“We should ‘regard every man’, Schopenhauer advises us, ‘first and foremost as being who exists only as a consequence of his culpability and whose life is an expiation of the crime of being born’.” -Architects of the Culture of Death

ATHEISM:

virginmostfaithful — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:17:00 -0400

DEFINITION: THE THEORY OR BELIEF THAT GOD DOES NOT EXIST

“Schopenhauer was one of the first to understand the full implications of atheism and, as if he were springing an evil genie from a bottle, unleashed the notion of Nature as “blind Will” into the modern world, where it continues to play a significant role in philosophy, through in a variety of curious incarnations.” -Architects of the Culture of Death

MANICHEAN:

virginmostfaithful — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:14:00 -0400

DEFINITION: OF OR RELATING TO MANICHAENISM

“It is a legacy, Manichaean in essence, that reacts with horror at the presence of Nature, the irrational tool of a merciless Will.” -Architects of the Culture of Death

PERVASIVE:

virginmostfaithful — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:11:00 -0400

DEFINITION: SPREADING WIDELY THROUGHOUT AN AREA OR A GROUP OF PEOPLE

SYNONYMS: PENETRATING

“This unwieldy and pervasive force, for Schopenhauer, manifests itself as Nature.” -Architects of the Culture of Death

INCESSANT:

virginmostfaithful — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:08:00 -0400

DEFINITION: CONTINUING WITHOUT PAUSE OR INTERRUPTION

SYNONYMS: UNCEASING

“Schopenhauer believed that he had discovered the “thing-in-itself” and described it as “a blind incessant impulse.” -Architects of the Culture of Death

CANDOR:

virginmostfaithful — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:06:00 -0400

DEFINITION: The quality of being open and honest in expression

Synonym: Frankness

“Philosophy also demands candor so that we can report what we see as it is, with neither embellishment nor belittlement.” -Architects of the Culture of Death

"If there is one person more than another is to be pitied, it is the individual who is all heart and..."

virginmostfaithful — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:36:41 -0500

“If there is one person more than another is to be pitied, it is the individual who is all heart and no head.”

- Character Building, Booker T. Washington

PREROGATIVE

virginmostfaithful — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:23:06 -0500

Definition: a right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class.

Synonyms: Privilege, franchise

HAWSER

virginmostfaithful — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:20:40 -0500

Definition: A thick rope or cable for mooring or towing a ship.

Synonyms: cable, rope

"Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any..."

virginmostfaithful — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:16:56 -0500

“Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”

- Principle 3 of “6 ways to Make People Like You” in How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie

PETTY

virginmostfaithful — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:58:24 -0500

Definition: of little importance

Synonyms: small, trifling