DefinitionsFacile; Fact; Fallacy; Fashionable; Fecundation; Fecundative; FecundityFecundous; Feeling Good; Feet of Clay; Feyly; Firmament; FlagitiousFlogged; Folkways; Fondly; Foreboding; Foregone ConclusionFractious; Friendly; Führerprinzip; Furphy; Futurition; Futurity
facile: arrived at without due care, effort, or examination; superficial: [as in] ‘proposed a
facile solution to a complex problem’; readily manifested, together with an aura of insincerity and lack of depth: [as in] ‘a facile slogan
devised by politicians. (The American Heritage® Dictionary). Fact: • ‘fact: something which is known to have happened or to exist, especially something for which proof exists, or about which there is information’. ~ (Cambridge Dictionary). • ‘fact: a thing done; the quality of being actual; something that has actual existence; an actual occurrence; a piece of information presented as having objective reality’. ~ (Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary). • ‘fact [originally meaning ‘an act’, from Latin factum, from facere ‘do’]: a thing that is indisputably the case; (facts) information used as evidence or as part of a report’. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). • ‘fact [Latin factum, ‘deed’, from neuter past participle of facere, ‘to do’]: knowledge or information based on real occurrences; something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed; a real occurrence; an event; a thing that has been done’. ~ (American Heritage® Dictionary). • ‘fact: an event known to have happened or something known to have existed; a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened; a concept whose truth can be proved’. ~ (WordNet 2.0). • ‘fact: something known to be true; something that can be shown to be true, to exist, or to have happened; truth or reality of something; the truth or actual existence of something, as opposed to the supposition of something or a belief about something’. ~ (Encarta Dictionary). RICHARD: Welcome to The Actual Freedom Mailing List ... your phrasing ‘the confidence of a fact’ is well put: facts are liberating, not only of opinions, but of choice and decision: the marvellous thing about a fact is that one can not argue with it. One can argue about a belief, an opinion, a theory, an ideal and so on ... but a fact: never. One can deny a fact – pretend that it is not there – but once seen, a fact brings freedom from choice and decision. Most people feel, and thus think, that choice implies freedom – having the freedom to choose – but this is not the case. Freedom lies in seeing the obvious, and in seeing the obvious there is no choice, no deliberation, no agonising over the ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’ judgement. In the freedom of seeing the fact there is only action. RICHARD: ‘... the very fact that one is alive means consuming nutrients ... and staying alive means
that something, somewhere, must die in order to supply these nutrients. This is a fact of life ... and the marvellous thing about
a fact is that one can not argue with it. One can argue about a belief, an opinion, a theory, an ideal and so on ... but a fact:
never. One can deny a fact – pretend that it is not there – but once seen, a fact brings freedom from choice and decision.
Most people think and feel that choice implies freedom – having the freedom to choose – but this is not the case. Freedom lies
in seeing the obvious, and in seeing the obvious there is no choice, no deliberation, no agonising over the ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’
judgment. In the freedom of seeing the fact there is only action’. Fallacy: a deceptive argument, a sophism; an error, esp. one founded on false reasoning;
unsoundness of opinion, an argument, etc. Synonyms: mistaken belief, misconception, false notion, misapprehension, misjudgement, miscalculation,
error, mistake, untruth, inconsistency, illusion, delusion, deceit, deception, sophistry, casuistry. ©1998
Oxford Dictionary. fashionable (adj.): 1. (a.) conforming to the current styles or trends; stylish; [e.g.]: “a fashionable wardrobe”; (b.)
adopting or setting current styles or trends; [e.g.]: “a fashionable artist”; 2. associated with or frequented by stylish or trend-setting
people; [e.g.]: “a fashionable hotel”; (n.): a stylish person; (adv.): fashionably; (n.): *fashionability*, fashionableness;
(synonyms): fashionable, chic, in, sharp, smart, stylish, swanky, trendy; these adjectives mean in accordance with the current fashion;
[e.g.]: “a fashionable restaurant”; “a chic dress”; “the in place to go”; “a sharp jacket”; “a smart hotel”;
“those stylish clothes”; “a swanky apartment”; “a trendy neighbourhood”. [emphasis added].
~ (American Heritage Dictionary). fecundation (n.): creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and
ovule in a plant; fertilisation, impregnation; conception (the act of becoming pregnant; fertilisation of an ovum by a spermatozoon).
~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• fecundative (adj.): serving to fecundate: making fertile. [origin and etymology of fecundate: Latin
fēcundātus, past participle of fēcundāre, {‘to fertilise’},
from fēcundus, {‘fruitful’}; first known use: circa 1631]. [curly-bracketed insert added]
~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• fecundity (n.): 1. fruitfulness; the quality of propagating abundantly; particularly, the quality in female animals of producing
young in great numbers; [e.g.]: “The pigeon was an emblem of fecundity, and fruitfulness in marriage” (John Donne, 1572-1631, ‘Sermons’, iv.; 1626);
2. the power of germinating: as, ‘the seeds of some plants long retain their fecundity’; 3. productiveness in general; the power of creating or bringing
forth; fertility, as of invention; [e.g.]: “The fœcundity of his [Almighty God’s] Creative Power never growing barren nor being exhauſted”
(Richard Bentley, 1662-1742, “Folly of Atheism”; London 1693); “The pleasures incident to what are regarded as the higher functions are the pleasures
which excel others in respect of fecundity: they are the source of future pleasures” (William R. Sorley, 1855-1935, ‘Ethics of Naturalism’; 1885, p.
162); (synonym): productiveness; (adj.): fecund, fecundous; (tr.v.): fecundify, fecundified, fecundifying; fecundate, fecundated, fecundating;
(n.): fecundity, fecundation, fecundator. [from Latin fecundita(t-)s, ‘fruitfulness’, ‘fertility’, from fēcundus, ‘fruitful’,
‘fertile (of plants and animals)’; from √*fe -, ‘generate’, ‘produce’ + cundas, formative of adjectives].
~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• fecundous (adj.): fecund; viz.: prolific; readily producing offspring; hence, fruitful or productive in a general
sense; as, ‘the fecund earth’ (recently revived [circa 1889] and extended in application). [from Middle English, fecounde, from Old French fecond, French fécond;
from Latin fēcundus, ‘fruitful’, ‘fertile (of plants and animals)’; from
√*fe-, ‘generate’, ‘produce’ + cundas, a formative of adjectives].
~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). a general feeling of well-being (a.k.a. ‘feeling good’): Viz.:
feet of clay: fundamental weakness in a person who has appeared to be of great merit. (Oxford Dictionary). feyly (adv.): in a fey⁽*⁾ manner.~ (Collins English Dictionary). ⁽*⁾fey (adj.): having, brought about by, or relating to supernatural powers or
magic; (synonyms): magic, magical, talismanic, thaumaturgic, thaumaturgical, theurgic, theurgical, witching, wizardly. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). • firmament (n.): the vault or expanse of the heavens; the sky; (adj.): firmamental. [Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin firmāmentum, from Latin, ‘support’, from firmāre, ‘to strengthen’; see firm²]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • firmament (n.): the expanse of the sky; heavens; (adj.): firmamental. [C13: from Late Latin firmāmentum, ‘sky’, considered as fixed above the earth, from Latin, ‘prop’, ‘support’, from firmāre, ‘to make firm¹’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • firmament (n.): the arch or vault of heaven; sky; (adj.): firmamental. [1250-1300; Middle English from Late Latin firmāmentum, ‘sky’, Latin, ‘prop’, ‘support’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • firmament (n.): means ‘vault of the sky’, as a fixed structure; firmament. ~ (Farlex Trivia Dictionary). • firmament (n.): the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected; (synomyns): celestial sphere, firmament, heavens, vault of heaven, welkin, sphere. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • firmament (n.; literary): 1. sky, skies, heaven, heavens, the blue, the skies, vault, vault of heaven; (archaic): welkin; (poetic): empyrean; [e.g.]: “There are no stars in the firmament tonight”; 2. arena, province, sphere, realm, domain; [e.g.]: “He was a rising star in the political firmament”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). • firmament (n.): the celestial regions as seen from the earth; (synomyns): air, heaven (often used in plural), sky; (archaic): welkin. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus) .
• flagitious (adj.): 1. extremely wicked, deeply criminal; heinous; [e.g.]: “a flagitious crime”; “their heinous accusations”; wicked (diabolic or heinously bad; sinful); [e.g.]: “a flagitious felony”; “their wicked influence”; 2. shockingly brutal or cruel; [e.g.]: “they persisted in their flagitious project”; (synonyms): atrocious, monstrous, grievous; [e.g.]: “murder is an atrocious crime”; “no excess was too monstrous for them to commit”; “a grievous offence against morality”; evil (vile iniquity or peccant depravity); [e.g.]: “those evil purposes”; “their evil deeds”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • flagitious (adj.): utterly reprehensible in nature or behaviour; (synonyms): corrupt, degenerate, depraved, miscreant,
perverse, rotten, unhealthy, villainous.~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). Flog: Flog: Sell, offer for sale (esp. worthless or shoddy goods or those illicitly obtained). (Oxford Quotation). ‘Flog to death colloq. talk about, promote, etc., ad nauseam.’ (Oxford Quotation). [Dictionary Definitions]: • folkways (pl. n.; sociology): traditional and customary ways of living. [Middle English folk, from Old English folc + way, from Old English weg; related to Old Frisian wei, Gothic, ‘wigs’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • folkways (n.): a term coined by William Graham Sumner in his treatise "Folkways" (1906) to denote those group
habits which are common to a society or culture and are usually called ‘customs’. The word folkways provided a useful
contribution to the development of the concept of culture and is still used in its technical sense in sociological literature. Fashions in
clothing or modes of recreation exemplify folkways. The term has failed to maintain the currency it once enjoyed among the other
social sciences but has gained acceptance as a colloquial term. ~ (Columbia Electronic Encyclopaedia). fondly: 1. (obsolete) foolishly, ignorantly; 2. affectionately, tenderly, lovingly; 3. with
self-deceiving, affectionate, or foolish credulity. (Oxford Dictionary).
foregone conclusion (n.): an inevitable ending {=outcome or result}; matter of course.
[curly-bracketed insert added] ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • fractious (adj.): 1. inclined to make trouble; unruly; 2. having a peevish nature; cranky; (adv.): fractiously; (n.): fractiousnes. [from fraction, discord, obsolete]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • fractious (adj.): 1. irritable; 2. unruly; (adv.): fractiously; (n.): fractiousnes; (usage note): fractious is sometimes wrongly used where factious is meant; [e.g.]: “this factious (not fractious) dispute has split the party still further”. [C18: from (obsolete) fraction discord + -ous]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • fractious (adj.): 1. refractory; unruly; 2. readily angered; quarrelsome; (adv.): fractiously; (n.): fractiousnes. [1715-25]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • fractious (adj.): 1. unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; [e.g.]: “Her fractious disregard for societal mores was especially troubling”; [e.g.]: “The rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas”; “The fractious elements of any society give rise to communal disquietude”; (related words): difficult, hard (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; [e.g.]: “The nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access”; “It is a difficult task by any account”; “Those were particularly hard times”; “Why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?”); 2. stubbornly resistant to authority or control; [e.g.]: “A fractious animal which would not submit to the harness”; (synonyms): recalcitrant, refractory; [e.g.]: “A recalcitrant student”; “A refractory child”; (related words): disobedient (not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; [e.g.]: “Their disobedient children”); 3. easily irritated or annoyed; [e.g.]: “An incorrigibly fractious young man”; (synonyms): peevish, pettish, petulant, irritable, techy, testy, tetchy, nettlesome, peckish, scratchy, cranky; [e.g.]: “Not the least nettlesome of his countrymen”; (related words): ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition; [e.g.]: “By common repute he was a surly and ill-natured loner”). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • fractious (adj.): irritable, cross, awkward, unruly, touchy, recalcitrant, petulant, tetchy, ratty (Brit. & N.Z. informal), testy, chippy (informal), fretful, grouchy (informal), querulous, peevish, refractory, crabby, captious, froward (archaic), pettish; [e.g.]: “The children were predictably fractious”; (antonyms): agreeable, amiable, genial, affable, good-natured, tractable, good-tempered, biddable, complaisant. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). • fractious (adj.): not submitting to discipline or control; (synonyms): disorderly, indocile, intractable, lawless, obstinate, obstreperous, recalcitrant, refractory, uncontrollable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, untoward, wild; (idiom): out of line. ~ (The American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). • fractious (adj.): apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious
horse. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary).
The Führerprinzip (German for ‘leader principle’) prescribed the fundamental basis of political authority in the Government of Nazi Germany. This principle can be most succinctly understood to mean that “the Führer’s word is above all written law” and that governmental policies, decisions, and offices ought to work toward the realisation of this end. (...). The Führerprinzip was not invented by the Nazis. Hermann von Keyserling, a Baltic German philosopher from Estonia, was the first to use the term. One of his central claims was that certain “gifted individuals” were “born to rule” (...). Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has argued that Adolf Hitler saw himself as an incarnation of auctoritas [*], and as the living law or highest law itself, effectively combining in his persona executive power, judicial power, and legislative power. (...). When Hitler finally came to absolute power, after being appointed Chancellor and assuming the powers of the President when Paul von Hindenburg died, he changed his title to “Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor”, and the Führerprinzip became an integral part of German society. (...). During the post-war Nuremberg Trials, Nazi war criminals used the Führerprinzip concept to argue that they were not guilty of war crimes by claiming that they were only following orders. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Führerprinzip].[*]In ancient Rome, auctoritas referred to the general level of prestige a person had in Roman society, and, as a consequence, his standing, influence, and ability to rally support around his will. However auctoritas was not merely political; it had a numinous content and symbolised the mysterious “power of command” of heroic Roman figures. (...). After the fall of the Republic, during the days of the Roman Empire, the Emperor had the title of princeps (“first citizen” of Rome) and held the *auctoritas principis* – the supreme moral authority – in conjunction with the imperium and potestas; the military, judiciary and administrative powers. That is to say, there is a non-committal to a separation of powers, some civil rights, constitutionalism, codified constitutional state and legalist concept of law. The notion of auctoritas was often invoked by the papacy during the Middle Ages, in order to secure the temporal power of the Pope. Innocent III most famously invoked auctoritas in order to depose kings and emperors and to try to establish a papal theocracy. [emphasis added]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auctoritas].
furphy (Austral. Slang): a false report or rumour; an absurd story. (Oxford Dictionary). futurition (n.): the state of being future; futurity.~ (Webster’s 1913
Dictionary). futurity (n.): 1. the time yet to come; 2. the quality of being in or of the future. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).
futurity or futurition (n.; pl. futurities): 1. a less common word for future; 2. the quality of being in the
future; 3. a future event. [1595-1605].~ (Collins English 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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