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OP a) a religion asserting that the world was created at sunrise today (along with all the geological and cosmological evidence of fifteen billion years of evolution) [authored by wofa] selected by Faldo, etaoin
b) the desire to create words indicating one's leanings, including towards causes, personal beliefs, and certain activities, and ending such words with –ism [twosleepy]
c) a cerebral bruise that causes a person to have a stone-like demeanor [olly]
d) the belief that world history changes at thousand-year intervals [Jackie] musick
e) the belief that staring at a video feedback loop, created by projecting a camera's live feed onto the monitor which that camera is focused on, is the secret to longevity (after Hofstadter) [suggested by musick, redacted by tsuwm] BranShea, olly
f) the belief that studying the lessons of history will prevent their repetition [musick]
g) sectarian the practice of worshiping the dawn [BranShea] wofa
h) the complete and/or perfect realization of a concept [tsuwm] latishya
i) the belief that the narration of the six days of creation in the Book of Genesis represent six eons rather than six, twenty-four hour periods [Owlbow] Jackie, twosleepy
j) transvestism, esp. by a man [OED2 / fr. the name of the Chevalier Charles d'Éon (1728-1810), a French adventurer who wore women's clothes: see -ISM] unselected
k) the belief that things will be better tomorrow [Faldage] Owlbow
the exegetical notes:
1) the word, obviously, is an eponym (and has nothing to do with dawn [eos], time [eons], or religion of any stripe)
2) wofa, Owlbow and musuwm each collected two(2) votes for their bluffs
3) the hogmaster scores a skunk (although this is mitigated by a somewhat reduced participation)
4) musick gave us the choice of two entries; e, we felt, needed some work-shopping and having done that we put his other entry as is (it got nada)
5) as always, remember that the points don't matter
the hogmaster™
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted so, what's eonism then hogmaster 08/09/09 12:24 PM Re: so, what's eonism then tsuwm 08/09/09 12:40 PM Re: so, what's eonism then Buffalo Shrdlu 08/09/09 01:39 PM Re: so, what's eonism then tsuwm 08/09/09 08:19 PM Re: so, what's eonism then BranShea 08/09/09 08:42 PM Re: so, what's eonism then Jackie 08/10/09 01:54 AM Re: so, what's eonism then BranShea 08/10/09 09:02 AM Re: so, what's eonism then Jackie 08/11/09 01:51 AM Psst-- Jackie 08/14/09 02:58 AM Re: Psst-- Owlbow 08/17/09 04:58 PM Re: so, what's eonism then AnnaStrophic 08/25/09 03:37 PM Re: so, what's eonism then Kardor 09/21/09 09:21 AM Re: so, what's eonism then BranShea 09/21/09 06:44 PM Re: so, what's eonism then LukeJavan8 09/21/09 09:02 PM
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