DefinitionsSalvation/Salvational; Scare-Quotes; Scientism; Scientolism Scrivener; Sedulous; Sempiternal; Senectitude Sequitur; Shakedown; Shame; Sicko/ Asshole/ Prick Simulacre/ Simulacrum; Single-handed(ly); Situate
salvation (n.): 1. in religions such as Hinduism
and Buddhism, deliverance from the cycle of rebirth and suffering; 2. the agent or means which brings about such
deliverance; (adj.): *salvational*.
[Middle English savacioun, from Old French sauvacion,
from Late Latin salvātiō, salvātiōn-,
from salvātus, past participle of salvāre, ‘to save’, from Latin
salvus, ‘safe’]. [emphasis added]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). [Dictionary Definitions]: • ‘scare-quotes: quotation marks placed round a word or phrase to draw attention to an unusual or
arguably inaccurate use’. (Oxford Dictionary). • scare quotes (shudder quotes, or sneer quotes) are quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to signal that a term is being used in a non-standard, ironic, or otherwise special sense; scare quotes may express that the author is using someone else’s term, similar to preceding a phrase with the expression “so-called”; they may imply scepticism or disagreement, belief that the words are misused, or that the writer intends a meaning opposite to the words enclosed in quotes; (...); beginning in the 1990s, the use of scare quotes suddenly became very widespread; postmodernist authors in particular have theorised about bracketing punctuation, including scare quotes, and have found reasons for their frequent use in their writings; writers use scare quotes for a variety of reasons; they can imply doubt or ambiguity in words or ideas within the marks, or even outright contempt. They can indicate that a writer is purposely misusing a word or phrase or that the writer is unpersuaded by the text in quotes, and they can help the writer deny responsibility for the quote; in general, they express distance between writer and quote (...); the term scare quotes may be confusing because of the word scare; an author may use scare quotes not to convey alarm, but to signal a semantic quibble; scare quotes may suggest or create a problematisation⁽*⁾ with the words set in quotes; some experts encourage writers to avoid scare quotes because they can distance the writer and confuse the reader (...); political commentator Jonathan Chait wrote in The New Republic that, “The scare quote is the perfect device for making an insinuation without proving it, or even necessarily making clear what you’re insinuating”. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diple_(textual_symbol)]. ⁽*⁾problematisation (n.): making into or regarding as a problem requiring a solution;
[e.g.]: “Personally, I would have preferred to wrap ‘protect’ and ‘confidence’ in the punctuation of problematisation”.
~ (Oxford English Dictionary). [Dictionary Definition]: scientism: excessive belief in the power of scientific knowledge and techniques, or in the applicability
of the methods of physical science to other fields, esp. human behaviour and the social sciences; freq. depreciative. (Oxford Dictionary). [Dictionary Definition]: scientism (n.): 1. the collection of attitudes and practices considered typical of scientists; 2. the
belief that the investigative methods of the physical sciences are applicable or justifiable in all fields of inquiry; (adj.): scientistic. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). [Dictionary Definitions]: • ‘scientolism (n.): false science; superficial or inaccurate knowledge. (Rev. Samuel Fallows, Bp). [from scient + diminutive -ol + -ism; after sciolism].’ ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • scientolism (n.): excessive or immoderate regard for superficial or false science; [e.g.]: “They overlook the constant
facts of our poultry-yards, our orchards, and our stables, and shut themselves up in the narrow confines of a withering scientolism”. (page 222, “The
Catholic World”; Vol. 31, May, 1880). [formed after the type of sciolism]. ~ (page 413, Progressive Supplemental
English Dictionary, 1886, Bishop Samuel Fallows). • scrivener (n.): someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts; copyist, scribe. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • scrivener (n.): a professional copyist; a scribe. [Middle English scriveiner, from scrivein, from Old French escrivein, from Vulgar Latin *scrība, scrībān-, from Latin scrība, ‘scribe’, from Latin, ‘keeper of accounts’, ‘secretary’, from scrībere, ‘to write’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • scrivener (n.): a person who writes out deeds, letters, etc; copyist; a notary. [C14: from scrivein, ‘clerk’, from Old French escrivain, ultimately from Latin scrība, ‘scribe’]. ~ (Collins EnglishDiction ary). • a
scrivener (or scribe) was a person who could read and write or who wrote letters to court and legal documents.
Scriveners were people who made their living by writing or copying written material. This usually indicated secretarial
and administrative duties such as dictation and keeping business, judicial, and historical records for kings, nobles,
temples, and cities. Scriveners later developed into public servants, accountants, lawyers and petition writers, and in
England and Wales, scrivener notaries. (...). Scrivener’s Error The doctrine of a “scrivener’s error” is the legal principle that a map-drafting or typographical error in a written contract
may be corrected by oral evidence if the evidence is clear, convincing, and precise. If such correction (called
scrivener’s amendment) affects property rights then it must be approved by those affected by it. It is a mistake made
while copying or transmitting legal documents, as distinguished from a judgment error, which is an error made in the
exercise of judgment or discretion, or a technical error, which is an error in interpreting a law, regulation, or
principle. There is a considerable body of case law concerning the proper treatment of a scrivener’s error. For
example, where the parties to a contract make an oral agreement that, when reduced to a writing, is mistranscribed, the
aggrieved party is entitled to reformation so that the writing corresponds to the oral agreement. [the
word comes from Middle English scriveiner, an alteration of obsolete scrivein, from Anglo-French escrivein,
ultimately from Vulgar Latin *scriban-, scriba, itself an alteration of Latin scriba, ‘scribe’]. ~ (2023 Wikipedia
Encyclopaedia). sedulous: from the Latin sēdulus, from sēdulō, derivative of the phrase “sē dolō”
(lit. ‘without guile’): ‘assiduously’, ‘diligently’ (Latin dīligere = ‘to esteem’, ‘to value’, ‘to
choose’). [Dictionary Definition]: ‘sequitur: an inference or conclusion which follows logically from the premises (cf. non sequitur). (Oxford Dictionary). [Dictionary Definition]: shakedown (n.): the act of taking something (such as money) from someone by using threats or deception;
[e.g.]: "He was the victim of a shakedown by a street gang". ~ (The Britannica Dictionary). [Dictionary Definition]: ‘shame: the feeling of humiliation or distress arising from the consciousness of something
dishonourable or ridiculous in one’s own or another’s behaviour or circumstances, or from a situation offensive to one’s own or another’s
sense of propriety or decency’. (Oxford Dictionary). [Dictionary Definition]: ‘sicko [= sickie]: N. Amer. slang a mentally ill or perverted person’. (Oxford Dictionary). ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• [Dictionary Definitions]:
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• simulacre (n.): anything (figure, image) made in likeness of some other thing;
[e.g.]: “Betwene Symulacres and Ydoles is a gret difference. For Symulacres ben Ymages made aftre lyknesse of Men or of Women, or of
the Sonne or of the Mone, or of ony Best, or of ony kyndely thing”. (Sir John Mandeville, “Mandeville’s Travels”, 1357-1371, p. 164); “Phidias the
Atheniense, whom all wryters do commende, made of yuory the simulachre or image of Jupiter, honoured by the gentiles, on the hyghe hills of
Olympus”. (Sir Thomas Elyot, “The Governour”, 1531, Book I, Chapter 8, page 29). [also simulachre;
from Middle English symulacre, symylacre, from Old French
simulaere, also simulaire, French simulacre
= Provinçal simulacra = Spanish, Portuguese, Italian simulacro, from Latin
simulacrum, ‘a likeness’, ‘image’, ‘form’, ‘appearance’, ‘phantom’; see simulacrum].
~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • simulacrum (n.): something closely resembling another; (synonyms): carbon copy, copy, duplicate, facsimile, image,
likeness, reduplication, replica, replication, reproduction; (archaic): simulacre (law): counterpart.
~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).
This emotional/ passional/ intuitive self – aka ‘spirit’ as the word spiritual means ‘of, pertaining to, or affecting the spirit or soul’, according to the Oxford Dictionary, it too
is used by those of either a secular or spiritual persuasion to refer to the self-same ‘being’, at root, with differentiation again being a matter
of a partiality/ leaning connotation).
situate (v.; situated, situating; adj.; tr.v.): 1. to put in or on a
particular site or place; locate; establish; (adj.): 2. (archaic; used esp. in legal contexts): located; placed; situated.
[1515-25; from Late Latin situātus, ‘situated’, from Latin situ-,
singular of situs, ‘site’ + -ātus ‘-ate¹’].
~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. Discarding all of the beliefs that have held humankind in thralldom for aeons, the way has now been discovered that cuts through the ‘Tried and True’ and enables anyone to be, for the first time, a fully free and autonomous individual living in utter peace and tranquillity, beholden to no-one.
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