It signifies the state of robust tranquility that derives from eschewing faith in an afterlife, not fearing the gods because they are distant and unconcerned with us, avoiding politics and vexatious people, surrounding oneself with trustworthy and affectionate friends and, most importantly, being an affectionate, virtuous person, worthy of trust.
someone who has been mostly very kind to people and hasnt been given the fairest chances.
The term was quickly applied to any effort with limited chances of success.
Fictitious forces can be considered to do work, provided that they move an object on a trajectory that changes its energy from potential to kinetic.
In intellectual property there are rights which are known as being sui generis to owners of a small class of works, such as intellectual property rights in mask works, ship hull designs, databases, or plant varieties.
By the late 1990s, the term had fallen out of general usage, and returned to being a specialized term for demographers.
7. a natural person with income exceeding $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with a spouse exceeding $300,000 for those years and a reasonable expectation of the same income level in the current year;
a Latin phrase that loosely translates to "love of fate" or "love of one's fate". It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good. That is, one feels that everything that ha
The boundary, wherever it may be set, remains as arbitrary and so its precision is misleading.
Veblen goods are commodities for which peoples' preference for buying them increases as a direct function of their price.
A screw cap is a common type closure for bottles, jars, and tubes. Traditionally associated in the US with extremely inexpensive jug wines or even "skid row" wines.
The name oenology is derived from the Greek term, oenos (οίνος), which means wine, and the suffix -logy (from the Greek λόγος, meaning speech or study).
any two related things, either alike or opposite.
a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
The metaphor of identifying a person as a douche is intended to associate a variety of negative qualities, specifically arrogance and malice
Called the "Giver of Pleasure", when later poets assigned roles to each of the Muses, she was the muse of music
a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the
Referring to events as kayfabe means that they are worked events, and/or part of a wrestling storyline.
A person employed to associate with suspected individuals or groups with the purpose of inciting them to commit acts that will make them liable to punishment.
Types of itinerants: * Perpetual travelers * Gutter punks * Nomads * Technomads * Roma people * Circuit riders * Hobos * Tramps * Schnorrers * Vagabonds * Irish Travellers * Gyrovagues Examples of itinerants include: * Paul Erdős * John the Baptist * MMO
a person who alternates between working and wandering.
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness" (From Suicide). This is a form of anomie.
The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.