Turning The Tide: Reviewing Language & Semantics

[Hermoor]

Hello everybody.

By way of a first post here I'd like to get in to the subject of language and semantics.

In a way it was effectively the straw that broke the camel's back in compelling me to join you all here. Whilst listening to the radio recently I almost threw it out of the window due to the language being broadcast. The general tide needs to be turned.

I don't ever want to hear the term 'elites' again in the current climate. I suggest we dismiss it from our language(s) and replace it with 'criminals'. 'Parasites' would also suffice, as would perhaps certain other suggestions. So let's have at it and all other appropriate suggestions welcomed!

Another potential radio out of the window moment for me was the regular use of the term 'powerful people'. They aren't powerful unless you believe them to be. Which I for one absolutely don't. Influential, yes, unfortunately they are. But 'powerful'? Pffft. I humbly suggest substituting 'influential' (or something more hive mind appropriate) for 'powerful' with immediate effect.

I hope you all get the gist of where I intend for this thread to go. And we should start straightening out our language accordingly.

[Ernie Nemeth]

My current word for these parasites is '****', but I disparage a wholesome lifestyle doing it and that is not my intent. But if ever there was a ****...they are it!

I see the word is a swear word, sanctioned by AI.

The word is S...L...U...T

[shaberon]

I don't ever want to hear the term 'elites' again in the current climate. I suggest we dismiss it from our language(s) and replace it with 'criminals'. 'Parasites' would also suffice, as would perhaps certain other suggestions. So let's have at it and all other appropriate suggestions welcomed!


Agreed, I think "elites" is horrible. We would use it legitimately in performance-based recognition, for instance in athletics, if I say that Shaolin monks are elite, it is not because of privilege or control, it is due to hard work. Whereas the political or social elites do not have this ability, in fact, the opposite. Sub-par performance, inability to deal with anything realistically, can't really do anything besides tell you what to do.

These linguistic twists are why nobody understands the American Revolution or how the majority of our irritations are brought about within law. If you understand this, you will find that no other country in Europe or elsewhere has ever had this kind of revolution, because their new constitutions and laws do not use this older American language, but are copies of the replacement. Same is true in religious scripture, and it can be traced how this is now a replacement or look-alike.

It was a major CIA mission to bring things to the point where "nothing the American public believes is real", and I would guess that elsewhere, MI5 and others are similar. Steady diet of propaganda, not in touch with reality.

I am pretty sure that if these delusions were not rammed down your throat from birth, no one would think up this stuff on their own; and so if it was not repeated, it would fade away rather quickly. It takes a lot of energy to set up this thought control, but it is actually rather weak, easily dismissed and forgotten.

[Hermoor]

Not wanting to tar them all with the same brush, but 'presstitutes' is solid gold for the vast majority of our 'journalists'.

'Propaganda pawn' is my knee jerk reaction to hearing the word 'celebrity' nowadays.

COVID-19? It's difficult to do any better than 'COVID-1984', as fitting as a hand inside a velvet glove. Whilst coronavirus itself opens up all manner of fun. 'Controllaliarus'? Perhaps not the finished article yet, it's been a long day.

[earthdreamer]

Power Mongers is an apt name for them
Power mongers are greedy manipulators who must engage in illusions of ‘power’ to fill a void within their damaged hearts. It is understandably annoying that the term “Elites” is overused and implies a ruling authority by privilege inaccessible to us “plebes”.

[raregem]

Welcome to Avalon Bullseye. Great topic you started here. Thanks.:-)
What term disturbed me was "CIS-MALE, CIS-FEMALE". I had never heard this in my 60 years on planet earth. So, I looked it up and it actually exists. Well, at least in this dictionary: Gender & Sexuality dictionary. cis. [sis] ... or someone who identifies with the gender of their birth sex (e.g., someone born with a penis identifying as a man).
If, I understand correctly now I am a "cis-woman" but a male who becomes a women is a "women". I see most transgender men to women as exaggerated versions, caricatures of being female. I do find this offensive. Where is the balance? I feel hijacked. They have their rights but not the right to change who I am to suit them. Ok. I'm done ranting. Will laugh now at the absurdities.

[Hermoor]

greedy manipulators who must engage in illusions of ‘power’ to fill a void within their damaged hearts

You nailed it. Respect.


Welcome to Avalon Bullseye. Great topic you started here. Thanks.:-)
What term disturbed me was "CIS-MALE, CIS-FEMALE". I had never heard this in my 60 years on planet earth. So, I looked it up and it actually exists. Well, at least in this dictionary: Gender & Sexuality dictionary. cis. [sis] ... or someone who identifies with the gender of their birth sex (e.g., someone born with a penis identifying as a man).
If, I understand correctly now I am a "cis-woman" but a male who becomes a women is a "women". I see most transgender men to women as exaggerated versions, caricatures of being female. I do find this offensive. Where is the balance? I feel hijacked. They have their rights but not the right to change who I am to suit them. Ok. I'm done ranting. Will laugh now at the absurdities.

Thank you raregem. I feel hijacked too.

A year or so ago when this kind of talk was hitting fever pitch in my community I turned to an elder and wiser work colleague in a rare moment of desolate frustration and said "What is all this LGBTQ+ bombardment about? What on Earth is a cis-transgender neutral male anyway?" His reply was as telling as any. "The world's gone mad. It's Friar Tucked."

Sigh. Divide and conquer with the turbochargers on. Social friction and infighting on steroids. Spiritually redundant quasi-intellectual labelling en masse. Insanity. I want no part of it.

Let's hang tough together and live to welcome in better days.

[Floating]

What about the term I am hearing lately.... "Herd Immunity". I am part of a herd? Hmmmm

[Hermoor]

What about the term I am hearing lately.... "Herd Immunity". I am part of a herd? Hmmmm

This actually sent me down a bit of a curveball and wild card type of rabbit hole. I'd never thought too much about it before. But you're right, we are hearing it a lot lately and that often means more than just the superficial and coincidental.

Off the top of my head I thought that 'herd immunity' was a totally natural process of getting ill and recovering, thereby resistance to illness builds up gradually within a population. That kind of thing. Once you've had it then you're over it and it ends up with no place to go and dies out.

So I was a bit surprised when I started officially sourcing it because it is very heavily vaccine orientated territory.

The Collins dictionary definition:
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/herd-immunity

Oxford University:
http://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/herd-immunity

And Gavi. The self-proclaimed vaccine alliance:
http://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/what-herd-immunity

So it doesn't really have anything to do with getting sick naturally and letting your immune system naturally deal with it.

It's officially all based around the intervention of science and vaccines.

Hmmmm.

With, of course, the added kicker that the bandits get to brand us (!) all as cattle.

Cunning, eh?

[Hermoor]

I don't know if I want to source 'social distancing' now in case it ends up being as similarly stinky and devious as the above! :ROFL: I think I just freaked myself out a bit. Gee thanks, Floating. :ROFL:

[Hermoor]

On the radio today I started noticing for the first time that the news readers are now referring to this COVID-1984 thing as a 'disease.' Before they'd always called it a 'virus'.

These things don't change all by themselves for no reason. I wonder what the reason behind it might be?

It reminds me somewhat of how they gradually morphed 'global warming' in to 'climate change'.

[raregem]

What about the term I am hearing lately.... "Herd Immunity". I am part of a herd? Hmmmm

I think that means you are immune to the herd.
:no: :cow::cow::cow::cow::cow::cow::cow::cow:

[Hermoor]

Today I was reminded of two glorious words from the beautiful vocabulary of John Anthony West.

'Quackademic' and 'Dumbf*ckistan'.

Here's the UK's current quackademic in chief sounding once more like he thinks we all live in Dumbf*ckistan.

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Thankfully the comments alone hint that all is not lost in Dumf*ckistan as more and more Dumbf*ckistanis are obviously trying on pairs of 'They Live' sunglasses.

[Hermoor]

Kudos to Max Igan for this.

The parasites are now trying to earworm us with 'a new normal'.

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Another slogan best consigned to the dungheaps of Dumbf*ckistan.

[Ernie Nemeth]

I've always disliked the term 'new normal'. Often I wonder why I wasn't consulted first because it seems it is never a new normal for me, just another aberration.