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Reality Maintaining Words

The set of words which (established and) maintain reality.
"Could we change reality by suppressing, hiding, or extricating the Reality Maintaining Words?", asked Professor Spot Tricks. "How many RMWs are there anyway?" Asked Joe. "How many RMWs do you estimate there are", asked Dick. "How many RMWs do you estimate exist", asked Bernd. The instructor commended Bernd because "exist" is concise, whereas "there are" is prolix, and clarified that listing all the RMWs would exact mountains of time, so it is more likely that only an estimate, not a specific number, could be achieved. Then she asked the students, "And could we change reality by promoting the use of a different set of words?" "Yes", said most students. "What would you call those words?" "Reality Correcting Words", said Sally.
by but for September 13, 2018
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Fictionpedia

An encyclopedia of the authors and most unique characters, places, things, events and other things contained in the most popular works of fiction.
The "Fictionpedia" had an entry for "goof gas," a gas which was dispersed by a special handgun Boris Badenov used in one of the "Rockie and Bullwinkle" cartoons. Cartoons are a big part of the Fictionpedia and may one day be part of a "Cartoonpedia."
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Bias Conflict

Bias Conflict is short for Inextricable Cognitive Bias Conflict. An extremely common and automatic conflict which erupts between individuals because each individual can only perceive and interpret events anchored in their biases which produce their cognitive biases.
Each one of two men rents a room in a house in Lakeland, Florida. Along with the landlady, the three live in a Bias Conflict because until each one comes to comprehend Cognitive Biases, each one will continue perceiving and interpreting everything based on their inherent biases.
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Truth Maintaining

Writing down either the exact words each individual says, or only the most important words they say, and/or audio or video-recording the words them to deter the participants in a discussion, argument, conversation, or negotiation from making false statements or saying they said something other than what they said or saying they did not say something they said.
Because human beings tend to make false statements it is extremely helpful to practice Truth Maintaining by writing down and also audio or video-recording individuals as they express themselves in a discussion, argument, conversation, or negotiation.
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Each sentence is a melody

The fact that “each sentence is a melody” because we say each syllable of each word in a different tone, which translates to a different musical note. We also say each syllable in a different volume.
The fact that each sentence is a melody because each word you said because each syllable of each word is said in a different tone, a different musical note.
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humanly perfect

The maximum level of perfection human beings are able to attain in situations which they must react spontaneously.
Though using science, art, talent, and the countless mechanical and technological marvels human beings have invented allow them to easily produce products which are often up to 100% perfect, human beings sometimes make a wrong decision, commit an error, or make a mistake, and those things limit human perfection to being "humanly perfect," inherently inconsistent, and not 100% reliable . Thus a few notches below mathematical, scientific, mechanical, or technological perfection.

To reduce or prevent the imperfect actions humans inevitably commit—often at unpredictable times, humans use various procedures, mechanisms, and technological devices to impossibilitate, prevent, or minimize errors.

The second most effective way is to stop a human being from committing an error is by passing a law and sanctioning those who break them. And the most effective way is by physically or electronically blocking a human being from executing a specific action at a specific time or in a specific way.
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product-induced isolation and identity

The comical marketing and social control strategy where corporations pay the media to make everyone consider themselves so superior they will feel disgusted of most other people and stop interacting with them and satisfy their innate need to interact with others by overconsuming products, and simultaneously feel so inferior they will buy products to raise their self-esteem and improve their identity. Thus, selling consumers products which satisfy their emotional needs have become as profitable as those which satisfy their physical needs.
He had read every book on his wall-to-wall bookshelf and was exceptionally intelligent, but like perhaps many Americans, Product-Induced Isolation and Identity got him to only interact with his family members, have only one or no friends, rarely interact with other human beings, and satisfy his innate need to interact with others by purchasing products—such as his automobile, from which he came to derived his self-esteem and identity, or his computer and mobile device which essentially replace in-person human interaction. To top it all of, he just got his master's degree online in Mass Humbuggery and Manipulation.
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