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“Meanstream” Christianity
This has to be the best accidental neologism I’ve seen so far this year: meanstream Christianity. I think it was actually written as a typo by a mainstream Christian in the comments here, but it encapsulates so many things so succintly, I say we run with it.
Meanstream Christians, watch out! We’ve got your number!
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January 8th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
That’s pretty funny if that was really an actual slip up from a Christian, who just wasn’t thinking. Funny how something so small and accidental as that can speak so candidly for the volumes of truth of what christianity has pretty much always been. Main stream, err uhh, I mean “Mean stream” christianity! Thanks Anna for making that so clear for us.
January 8th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
Also, I’ve got a question that hopefully someone in here can answer. Perhaps one of the smarter psuedo intellects. I’m trying to think of a word or perhaps an adjective for something being a huge scam. I can’t remember if it was like a synonym for scam or like a big fancy adjective before the word scam. It’s like when a scam is so big and so monumental and far reaching, that the word “Scam” no longer really works, it’s become way too trivial. Something like monumental scam or something, I can’t remember, but it’s when the word scam no longer does it any justice. It’s become too big and too much of a plain in sight joke. It’s not conspiracy, totally different. Like a scam, but when the scam has been blown out so large and so big for such a long amount of time, that you really can no longer call it that. Anyway that’s been bugging me, I saw it some religious book somewhere, but I forgot. Thanks and I’d appreciate the help.
Actually, I think it was like a big descriptive adjective before scam. That seemed to really make a lot of sense… A “……” Scam. Damn, I hate forgetting crap like this.
January 8th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
pyramid scheme?
January 8th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
No.. That’s a little bit too technical. I remember reading it on some editorial review on a book on amazon. I think it was about christianity or what christianity has been for the past two thousand years. Oh well… It may have even been some reviewer commentary an end times prophecy movie I was checking out. I should probably write these things down when I read them so I don’t forget, but sometimes they don’t really start clicking in until later, which sucks.
January 8th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Yeah I think a lot of things aren’t clicking.
Maybe “Operation Infinite Scam”? “Big Up Yer Scam”?
I think I remember once reading about something
on an internet site about people with beyond small penises?
It meant like “extremely small” but that wasn’t it.
“Blank.. small” is the adjective. Help me out here if u can.
January 8th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
haha
January 9th, 2006 at 12:59 am
J.R…
I know this isn’t the word you’re thinking of , but “conspiracy” comes to mind. That word has all kinds of connotations though. You’ve got me stumped…
January 9th, 2006 at 1:19 am
micropenis
January 9th, 2006 at 1:35 am
Ahh, no… I knew it was kind of a stretch thinking someone in here would be intelligent enough to figure it out. Oh well. Instantly denigrated to the penis remarks when they knew they were stumped. I guess there are several different types of morons in this world, some stupid, and some extremely stupid. But anyway thanks John, I’ll be eternally stumped on this one.
January 9th, 2006 at 3:51 am
Why’ncha google it up there super dude.
Junior - yer not even funny for any length…
January 9th, 2006 at 4:10 am
And all little juniorz bullshit aside - like the term meanstream wit or wit’out the krustianity connected.
January 9th, 2006 at 11:43 am
People frequently misuse “Ponzi Scam” to mean a “big scam.”
January 9th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
i dont play ludo and im not clever but do you mean “origin myth”
January 9th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
anyway, mainstream+meanstream,penis+stumped? i told you to keep coming j.r. and wed get to understand were all that animosity comes from, a bit like meanstream christianity its all about streams of thought and shadow,love you man
January 9th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
Thus spake J.R.
January 9th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
No, the adjective I believe had over three syllables, that’s probably why it’s giving people like “Substance” a lot of trouble. Substance who is apparently predisposed to turn any potentially constructive discussion into a degenerate fight because of some kind of low self esteem issues. Perhaps brought on by his substance/drug abuse, I’m not certain. I’m not a psychologist or anything but that’s what seems to be reeking through from his side of the computer. But anyway thanks for those who had the genuine interest in trying. I’m pretty sure the word was more in connotation with myth or scam, not conspiracy. Myth is a little too tame, I think this was more of a loud obnoxious description. But definitely over three syllables. Sorry substance. lol
“Ponzi scam” hmm, that’s interesting I didn’t even know what that meant. I guess we can just end this discussion say it was a “Ponzi Scam.” I don’t want to turn this little blog into a battleground of childish egos. That gets so old.
January 9th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
Neither do i, Sorry if i misread things.
January 9th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
J.R. or Mark S. should be careful:) It is now illegal to be annyoying Cheers! http://news.com.com/Create+an+e-annoya...,+go+to+jail/2010-1028_3-6022491.html
January 10th, 2006 at 2:09 am
Exactly J.R - you are a loser. U got it exactly right.
I hope some day u do get around to that constructive discussion.
January 10th, 2006 at 11:15 am
J. R.,
A Ponzi Scheme is a financial arrangement, a sort of company, that people invest in. They are payed back (or not) with money from later investors. The theory is the same as a chain letter, but the mechanics are different, it looks like a company.
January 11th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
granfalloon - a meaningless association of individuals, a neologism by Kurt Vonnegut
“Scam” is slang, so there aren’t any old compound terms using it. I always look for the other words that are blocking when words don’t come to mind easily. (I found a word for that, during my search for words on this subject: parapraxis - doing something besides normal practice, such as having a slip of the tongue or misplacing something, thought by psychoanalysts to be caused by unconscious conflicts with conscious intention.)
pious fraud - usually obvious to the knowledgeable or an inner circle at the time, becoming murkier with time as to what was actually believed
nominal religion - such as nominal Catholicism, or when a person claims to belong to a religion because a government registers everyone according to religion and collects taxes for various religious organizations (as in Germany) or provides ceremonies in various religions. When I was about to join the US Navy, I chose Pentacostal, because that’s what my family was, and if I’d gone through with it and needed a funeral, the ceremony would have been for them. If everyone claiming a certain religion in a country is only nominally of that religion, then that religion is a granfalloon there.
endemic delusion - a description I came up with that seems to apply to what religion often is rather than nominal
collective hallucination
samsara - (could have been interfering with your verbal recall, because it sounds similar to “scam”) properly means “together-flowing,” the course of life, which is, in Hindu belief, the cycle of birth, suffering, death, and rebirth, but like other Sanskrit religious terms in English, it has a pop meaning that is derived by taking a statement of belief as a definition: Samsara is illusion. Karma (the total of one’s actions) determines one’s fate. Dharma (the law) is right action.
March 12th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
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