{"id":1045,"date":"2013-10-23T15:10:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T21:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2013-10-23T15:10:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T21:10:59","slug":"heterodox-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"Heterodox Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"
AMBITION<\/strong>: the overpowering desire to be slandered by enemies while alive & made ludicrous by friends once dead.<\/div>\n
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CONFORMIST:<\/strong> one who lives by imitation & by horror of originality.<\/div>\n
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CONSERVATIVE<\/strong>: one who is fascinated with current perversities, as opposed to the liberal, who wants to replace them with new ones.<\/div>\n
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COMMON SENSE<\/strong>: why everyone can be wrong at the same time.<\/div>\n
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CONVICTION<\/strong>: an obvious sign somebody has failed to examine his beliefs thoroughly.<\/div>\n
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CYNIC<\/strong>: a person who knows too much but doesn’t believe in much.<\/div>\n
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DEMAGOGUERY<\/strong>: a fault in the thinker, an art in the priest, an accomplishment in the politician & second-nature in the journalist.<\/div>\n
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DESPAIR<\/strong>: indecision between the corruption of Epicureanism & the noble poise of Stoicism.<\/div>\n
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DIPLOMAT<\/strong>: someone always\u00a0on the verge of saying either\u00a0the banal or the blunder.<\/div>\n
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ECOLOGY<\/strong>: the opium of today’s liberal elites.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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EDUCATION<\/strong>: the indoctrination of the inscrutable into the incurious by the impotent.<\/div>\n
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ENEMY<\/strong>: someone whose judgment of us is more honest than our own.<\/div>\n
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ENNUI<\/strong>: crucifixion for the rest of us.<\/div>\n
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EXPERT<\/strong>: someone whose prudence in avoiding petty errors gives her a blank check to perpetuate monumental fallacies by the dozens.<\/div>\n
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FACEBOOK<\/strong>: helping emo bitch inflate drama since 2004.<\/div>\n
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FLATTERY<\/strong>: the weapon designed to enslave, demoralize and corrupt others.<\/div>\n
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FOOL<\/strong>: someone independent of anxiety, forlornness, meaninglessness, and other existentialist moods<\/div>\n
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GOD<\/strong>: a man made invention that prevents mass suicides.<\/div>\n
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HIGHBROW<\/strong>: educated beyond one’s intellectual level.<\/div>\n
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HONESTY<\/strong>: the cynicism of prostitutes.<\/div>\n
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HUMANISM<\/strong>: the reason why we would nail Prometheus, the first humanist, to a rock today.<\/div>\n
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IDEA<\/strong>: a simulation that eventually degenerates into a petty belief.<\/div>\n
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IDEALIST<\/strong>: someone who hasn’t stepped in the ring vs reality & gotten punched in the nose.<\/div>\n
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INTELLECTUAL<\/strong>: a guy who found something more interesting than women.<\/div>\n
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JEALOUSY<\/strong>: the respect many women have for one another.<\/div>\n
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LAUGHTER<\/strong>: scrupulous hostility.<\/div>\n
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LIE<\/strong>: a crude stand-in for truth, but the only available alternative.<\/div>\n
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MAN<\/strong>: an inexhaustible source of humor for the gods.<\/div>\n
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METAPHYSICS<\/strong>: the elaboration of shitty reasons for what we already believe in our bones.<\/div>\n
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MINI SKIRT<\/strong>: the logical conclusion to 6000 years of feminine wisdom.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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PARADOX<\/strong>: whenever underdeveloped insight collides with current stupidity.<\/div>\n
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PEACE<\/strong>: the sleep of ambition.<\/div>\n
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PESSIMIST<\/strong>: a person exclusively devoted to untimely truths.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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PHILOSOPHY<\/strong>: the conversion of cognitive vice into epistemic virtue.<\/div>\n
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RELIGION<\/strong>: the antidote to the ironic death of metanarratives.<\/div>\n
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SALVATION<\/strong>: the subtlest & most camouflaged of all torments.<\/div>\n
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SARCASM<\/strong>: mockery masquerading as an endorsement.<\/div>\n
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SELF<\/strong>: the greatest dogma, for nothing insulates as well as self-esteem.<\/div>\n
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TRAITOR<\/strong> (greatest): a Judas with the soul of Buddha.<\/div>\n
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TRUTH<\/strong>: either a premature insight or a symptom of decay.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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TWITTER<\/strong>: the privilege of the narcissistic class.<\/div>\n
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WISDOM<\/strong>:\u00a0 a clever form of inauthenticity.<\/div>\n
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WISDOM (2)<\/strong>: a dead end\u00a0that pretends to be a discipline.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMBITION: the overpowering desire to be slandered by enemies while alive & made ludicrous by friends once dead. CONFORMIST: one who lives by imitation & by horror of originality. CONSERVATIVE: one who is fascinated with current perversities, as opposed to the liberal, who wants to replace them with new ones. COMMON SENSE: why everyone can … Continue reading Heterodox Dictionary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[13,14,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Af2X-gR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperboreans.com\/heterodoxia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}