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Old 10-12-2002, 12:08 AM  
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Originally posted by Exxxotica


Yeah dude.... Im drinking Old E tonight. Just got back fromt the store with my second 40 for the night.

I prefer a better tasting beer... but when your in a down mood... aint nothing like drinking from a 40oz bottle.

I was sitting outside in the cold, letting my dogs run around on the lawn. It was a nice feeling. Just sippin my 40 coverd in a brown paper bag.
Yeah you got to have the brown bag... in Brooklyn they give you a brown bag no matter what you order. Even if it's orange juice or milk -- you gotta have the bag hehe...

damn i'm out of beer -- i'm getting offline.

Anyway here's today's vocab word... something to think about while you drink your cheap beer.

ni·hil·ism Pronunciation Key (n-lzm, n-)
n.

Philosophy.

An extreme form of skepticism that denies all existence.
A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Rejection of all distinctions in moral or religious value and a willingness to repudiate all previous theories of morality or religious belief.
The belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions is necessary for future improvement.
also Nihilism A diffuse, revolutionary movement of mid 19th-century Russia that scorned authority and tradition and believed in reason, materialism, and radical change in society and government through terrorism and assassination.
Psychiatry. A delusion, experienced in some mental disorders, that the world or one's mind, body, or self does not exist.





[Latin nihil, nothing; see ne in Indo-European Roots + -ism.]



nihil·ist n.

nihil·istic adj.
nihil·isti·cal·ly adv.


Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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nihilism

\Ni"hil*ism\, n. [L. nihil nothing: cf. F. nihilisme. See Annihilate.] 1. Nothingness; nihility.

2. The doctrine that nothing can be known; scepticism as to all knowledge and all reality.

3. (Politics) The theories and practices of the Nihilists.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.








nihilism

n 1: a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake 2: complete denial of all established authority and institutions
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
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