Words ending in “ism”

Here‘s an attractively designed webpage listing a few words that end in “ism.”  I’m not sure what the guiding principle is behind his selection of words- there are just a couple of hundred here, out of thousands to choose from.  Even a onelook search limited to “*ism:belief” brongs brings up 280 entries.

by acilius on October 23, 2008  •  Permalink
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Posted by acilius on October 23, 2008

https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/23/words-ending-in-ism/

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  1. CMStewart's avatar

    cymast

     /  October 23, 2008

    Curiously, “Islam” is in the list, with an interesting definition.

  2. acilius's avatar

    acilius

     /  October 23, 2008

    All the definitions seem to reflect a particular viewpoint. I’m not sure what that viewpoint is, but whatever it is the author seems to be pretty mad about the people who don’t share it.

  3. CMStewart's avatar

    cymast

     /  October 23, 2008

    Yep, I just read the definition of the currently featured ism. Oh my.

  4. acilius's avatar

    acilius

     /  October 23, 2008

    The author of it is Peter Saint-Andre of the Monadnock Review. I’ve looked him up now, so I have some idea where he’s coming from.

    He has a blog:
    http://stpeter.im/

    Apparently he’s a sort of hanger-on of the Ayn Rand movement. He’s published a number of items about Rand. He doesn’t seem to be one of her orthodox followers, so the weirdness in his choice of words to put on the list and phrasing of definitions seems to be a combination of her ideas and an attempt to distance himself from the more cultish Randians.

  5. CMStewart's avatar

    cymast

     /  October 26, 2008

    When I think of Rand, I think of NIGHT OF JANUARY 16TH, the play I did at Doc’s years ago. Rand’s novels are interesting, (with the glaring exception of WE THE LIVING) but her beliefs and opinions, without exception, are naive and fly in the face of common sense. She seemed to be more interested in being radical than being rational.

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    acilius

     /  October 27, 2008

    THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 16TH is a fun play. I liked WE THE LIVING. Her theory doesn’t hold up- it all seems to hinge on the idea that the only vice is taking things on faith, a claim which she does not defend rationally and which therefore you would have to take on faith.

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    cymast

     /  October 27, 2008

    Yep, that was a fun play. I especially liked how the acting witnesses were called out of the audience and the jurors were selected from non-acting audience members. I played prosecution witness Magda Svenson. On opening night I had a raging fever and could barely speak from laringitis. I had to use a microphone with a stand. Halfway through my testimony I’m supposed to be interrupted mid-sentence by Nancy Lee Faulkner walking through the courtroom. She was outside smoking a cigarette for 5 minutes. So I just kind of trailed off in my testimony and looked expectantly at the back of the courtroom. Then some nervous improv with the defense. Then Nancy shows up. Good times!

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    acilius

     /  October 28, 2008

    I wish I’d been there. I saw a production of the play at the Marion, Indiana Civic Theater in 1996 or 1997. It was good, but the one you were in sounds like it was better.

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    cymast

     /  October 28, 2008

    Doc’s ran the play about a year before the big fire. After our final public performance, a couple BSU students asked the director if they could film the play for a class project, so we all did it again. Besides myself, several Doc’s regulars (of the time) were in the play. Lysa Franklin played the prosecuting attorney very convincingly.

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    acilius

     /  October 28, 2008

    I wonder if that footage is around anyplace.