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(Noun) The tsundoku, that Ode to the Great Unread, Shrine to the Word, Bibliophile's Inukshuk, Pillar of Light and Savior of Sorts, is the artistic and/or scientific materialization of piling up newly acquired books, in a TRP or TRQ, for utilitarian (lack of reading time/space/bookshelves) and/or psycho-pathologic (abibliophobia, fetish, OCD, hoarding or addiction) reasons.
The term dates back to the japanese Meiji era (1868-1912) and literally means 'reading pile'. Formed from the expression 'tsunde oku' (to let something pile up), in which 'oku' was swapped out for 'doku' (to read); the words then got cleverly mushed together.
The tsundoku scale ranging from just one unread book to a serious hoard, everyone is most likely to be "tsundokursed" one way or the other. Luckily, this isn't the worst problem one can have.
I have no feelings of guilt regarding the piles of books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my tsundokus have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.
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(n.) The piling up of newly acquired books or other reading materials for utilitarian (lack of reading time/space/bookshelves), artistic and/or psycho-pathologic (abibliophobia, fetish, OCD, hoarding or addiction) reasons.
The tsundoku scale ranging from just one unread item to a serious hoard, just about everyone (except for the most illiterate amongst us) has one.
The term dates back to the japanese Meiji era (1868-1912) and literally means 'reading pile'. Formed from the expression 'tsunde oku' (to let something pile up), in which 'oku' was swapped out for 'doku' (to read); the words then got cleverly mushed together.
He had no feelings of guilt regarding the books he had not read and perhaps would never read; his tsundoku, ode to the Great Unread, shrine to the Word and bibliophile's inukshuk, had unlimited patience. It would wait for him until the end of his days.
(Acronym) Too boring to finish
That video was so lame and boring I fell asleep well before its end; it was definitely TBTF.
Jihadi slang for "killed", referring to "martyrs" said to be rewarded with 72 virgins in the muslim paradise.
"7-8 of the guys taken whilst asleep. 2 others 72ed." (personal journal of Zeeshan Siddiqui, a 26-year-old British jihadi lamenting over his situation)
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The ridiculous character of so many religious beliefs.
KING: OK. Tell us about the upcoming documentary on religion. Does it have a title, because you once said religion is stupid. That's not the title, is it?
MAHER: No, no, I was kidding. I think the title is requesting to be "Religulous."
KING: "Religulous."
MAHER: That's ridiculous.
(Larry King Live, August 14th, 2007)
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The ridiculous character of so many religious beliefs.
The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in all humans because a women made from a rib was convinced by a talking snake in a magical garden to eat the fruit from a magical tree, which made an invisible man who lives in the sky very angry, appears to be an extraordinarily religulous superstition.
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