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Started by captainspud, May 28, 2008, 05:44:24 PM

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captainspud


Sevenforce

Bounded Rationality

What? It was either that or the wikipedia article on Darwin Awards :rolleyes:

zuludelta

Vibhajjavada

(Oops, just realized I might come off as proselytizing by linking to a somewhat religious-themed article, which is not my intent... Vibhajjavada by itself is a secular concept... it basically promotes the use of rational thought and rational analysis as a guide for living a compassionate existence, as opposed to the use of faith and superstition... I just couldn't find an equivalent to it in Western terminology... maybe call it Compassionate Rational Anarchism?).

ow_tiobe_sb

Simulacrum.

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and Fop o' th' Morning

Uncle Yuan

Perhaps Secular Humanism?

Quote from: zuludelta on May 28, 2008, 06:03:30 PM
Vibhajjavada

(Oops, just realized I might come off as proselytizing by linking to a somewhat religious-themed article, which is not my intent... Vibhajjavada by itself is a secular concept... it basically promotes the use of rational thought and rational analysis as a guide for living a compassionate existence, as opposed to the use of faith and superstition... I just couldn't find an equivalent to it in Western terminology... maybe call it Compassionate Rational Anarchism?).

zuludelta

Quote from: Uncle Yuan on May 28, 2008, 07:41:47 PM
Perhaps Secular Humanism?

Hey, yeah, the basic tenets sound pretty close.

It's just that I'm not down with many secular humanists'/freethinkers' outright rejection of the metaphysical (I'm using the term in the colloquial sense, and not the formal, philosophic sense). For all my reliance on rational thought and analysis, I guess I still "adhere" to The Four Noble Truths in principle (although I also reject their more superstitious/religious sub-tenets).

Spam


Silver Shocker

Spastic (Evolution of term in United States)

Specifically this passage:

QuoteIn American slang, the term "spaz" is inoffensive, most Americans consider it casual slang for clumsiness, sometimes associated from over excitement, excessive energy, or hyperactivity.

Lunarman


BlueBard

Hm, I don't know that any one article will sum it all up, but this probably comes closest:

Nerd

Although this one is probably also very close.


Camma

There wasn't a specific artical for Phlegmatic, but it is part of a larger discussion on the theory of humors and temperaments.

JeyNyce


BlueBard




Protomorph

I really wouldn't know how to do that. My personality and interests are so scattered, a single article wouldn't do it. And the entry for Ecelctic isn't specific enough.

Gremlin


Epimethee

Dilettante

Quote from: Protomorph on June 02, 2008, 03:43:06 AM
I really wouldn't know how to do that. My personality and interests are so scattered, a single article wouldn't do it. And the entry for Ecelctic isn't specific enough.
I believe this would fit the bill.

Protomorph