Vocab "Sapients" Flashcards
Card #1 Sapients
Political dynamite
A Buzz Phrase
A very touchy subject like politics or religion. Tread carefully if you go there at all!
Interloper. N.
A person who becomes involved in a place or situation whre they are not wanted or are considered not to belong.
Objective Validity.
Buzz Phrase
No reality to it. Mythical.
“Religion has no objective validity to it. It is kept alive by people who prefer to believe in fantasies rather than the truth.”
Caste. N. [Kast]
A hereditary class of Hindu society. “members of high Caste.”
Usually a person can marry only within his or her caste, and the children inherit that status. Hindu is an Indian religion. (MN: No wonder people want to be Americans!)
Caste determines the food they can eat, where they can live and who they can marry.
Cognitive dissonance. N.
The mental discomfort experienced by a person with two or more contradictory beliefs. Example: Being told that God is imaginary after a life time of religious confirmation bias.
Theology Bubble. N.
Buzz Phrase
“So many of Casey’s friends live in a collective theology bubble. They really, really believe they are going to live forever in heaven in the next few years.”
Xenophobic. Adj. [ZEEN ah phobic]
An intense, irrational dislike of people from other countries.
Cultural Inheritance N.
Buzz Phrase
“Our memes come to us from Cultural Inheritance.” Thinking, politics, religions, laws, etc.
Syncretism N.
Combining different beliefs into a new belief. Example, Jesus being a makeover of the Pagan God, Dionysus.
[MN: “All the Gods and saviors we have in the world today are Synthesized Gods from popular Gods and saviors in the ancient past.”]
Parochial. Adj.
The state of mind when one focuses on small sections of an issue rather than considering its wider context.
Parochial is a good word to discribe religion. [MN: “Forget the big picture, just teach me what you want me to know so you can control my thinking.”]
[MN: Parochial is like showing you a picture of an iceberg and telling you it is the entire continent of Antarctica. It doesn’t show you the entire truth. just the part they want you to know about. In other words, they don’t show you the other side of the coin, or the other side of the story. Just the part they want you to believe in.]
Posit V. [Pah Zit]
To put forward as a fact for basis of an argument.
“Trump would posit that Hillary was a crook.”
Forthwith ADV>
Immediately, withot delay.
“Get this out forthwith!”
Chemical Happiness.
Buzz Phrase
Comfort foods. Sex, Drugs. Total Bliss. People are made happy by one thing only__a pleasant sensation in their body.
“Bio Chemistry is what makes people happy.”
Dopeamine, serotonin. Drugs.
Special card from Skeptic’s guide to the universe.
Money. N.
“Money is a means to get INSTANT cooperation with a complete stranger!”
