[Fictionary] time to vote PARNEL KNEIPPISM

[E Cohen]

I'm planning to collate tonight or tomorrow morning, so if you want to 
vote today go for it!

We only have six votes, don't let the special-interest groups dominate 
the election.


> We've gotten five votes already. Let's say polls close in a week, 11pm 
> EST, Thursday, 28 January.
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> The usual one- and two-point votes. Enjoy!
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> parnel, v. To discuss a theory which cannot be proved true or false.
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> Kneippism, n. The doctrine that souls flounder in megrims until they 
> arrive at their final place, as propounded by August Kneipp in 1859.
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> At Leiden University, several philosophers and theologians gathered to 
> parnel ideas such as the continuum hypothesis, Kneippism, and the qualia 
> problem.
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> parnel, n. A good work performed specifically to balance a bad work 
> rather than for any other benefit.
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> Kneippism, n. A belief system in which good works and bad works must be 
> balanced for one to live a fulfilling life.
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> Long before restorative justice started to become popular in the US, 
> practitioners of Kneippism had been engaging in similar efforts as a 
> practice of what they term parnel.
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> parnel, n. (Fr.). The carved wooden dividing rail in the bedchamber of 
> the sovereign, at which courtiers would gather for the ceremonies of 
> rising and retiring.
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> Kneippism, n.  The policies and principles of Tobias Kneipp, a 17th 
> century Dutch politician and proponent of republicanism versus 
> monarchical absolutism.
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> Shockingly, the courtiers clustered at the parnel were not focused on 
> either the privilege or responsibility of the grand levée, but were 
> instead exchanging agitated remarks on the wave of Kneippism sweeping 
> the Low Countries.
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> parnel, v. To snarl a climbing rope.
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> kneippism, n. (after Adolf Kneipp, General Secretary of the Luxembourg 
> Communist Party, 1924-1931). 1) Neutrality vis-a-vis 
> Trotskyist-Stalinist intra-party quarrels. 2) Contemptible indecision.
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> Catesby's kneippism when confronted with his parnel doomed him to sudden 
> death on the Matterhorn.
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> parnel, n. A priest's mistress.
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> Kneippism, n. Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as hot or 
> cold baths, walking barefoot in the snow or morning dew, etc.
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> Even after a monastic retreat for Father Avery and a course of Kneippism 
> for his parnel, their mutual attraction remained strong as ever.
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> parnel, n. The practice of subsisting only on repeated administrations 
> of the Eucharist, primarily of Kneippist Christians.
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> Kneippism, n. A heretical Catholic sect of 14th century Bavaria founded 
> by Fritz Ranier Kneipp, notable for the innovation of parnel.
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> The pope ruled Kneippism a heresy for its practice of parnel.
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> parnel, v. To make pliable through immersion, as with leather or wood.
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> Kneippism, n. The doctrine that philosophy is best performed in the bath.
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> I was skeptical of Kneippism until I parnelled both my thesis and my 
> book proposal during a single weekend at the hot springs.
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> parnel, v. To try to undermine the work of someone famous.
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> kneippism, n. The belief that a certain famous person needs to be 
> exposed as a fraud.
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> James Whistler the artist was constantly parnelled by more traditional 
> artists and those advocating kneippism.
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> -- Eric   |   eac at inbox.com
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