[Fictionary] Re: ASTEISM ballot!

[Ziv Stern]

Thank you everyone who sent in your ballots! If you haven't yet, here's a
reminder that they're due by Saturday.

On Sun, May 17, 2020, 10:20 AM Ziv Stern <nzivstern at gmail.com> wrote:

> As usual, please give two points to one definition, and one point to
> another. Also add whatever thoughts, comments, anecdotes, slanders,
> musings, etc. to which you are moved by any definition!
> Please send in your votes by Saturday.
>
>
> asteism, n. the belief that we are made of star stuff.
>
> asteism, n. belief in the wholesome properties of mildew.
>
> asteism, n. reluctance to examine or confront a complex issue.
>
> asteism, n. polite irony; a genteel and ingenious manner of deriding
> another.
>
> asteism, n. belief that humans came from the stars about a million years
> ago.
>
> asteism, n. inability to sequence episodic memory correctly, usually
> following cerebral trauma.
>
> asteism, n. a sect of Transylvanian Unitarianism in which meditation is
> the primary form of worship.
>
> asteism, n. a lenticular flat-topped elevation in karst topography caused
> by an intrusive igneous dike.
>
> asteism, n. a belief popular in the vicinity of Bow Church (London) that
> the world was created in five days.
>
> asteism, n. also called a "sky burial", the practice of allowing a
> deceased person's body to be consumed by vultures.
>
> asteism, n. in ancient Greece, the government of surrounding towns or
> colonies
> as subordinates of a city-state.
>
> asteism, n. a condition of the fingernails, often caused by an iron
> deficiency, which presents as a pattern of longitudinal ridges on the nail.
>
>
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