Vocabulary

Definition: Prostyle, Forecourt, Tower Tomb, Loculus, Distaff, Closing Stone

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Palmyra and tombs today…

 

Tower tomb

Towers used as kinship grouping tombs in Palmyra, often occupying high ground

 

Loculus (plural loculi)

An architectural compartment or niche that houses a body in a place of entombment, but in botany, each of a number of small separate cavities, especially in an ovary

 

Distaff

A stick or spindle onto which wool or flax is wound for spinning

 

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Definition: Celebrant, Battlement, Merlon, Crenellation, Triple Deity

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Palmyra and some more old architecture today…

 

Celebrant

A person who performs a rite

 

Battlement

A parapet at the top of a wall, especially of a fort or castle, that has regularly spaced squared openings for shooting through

 

Merlon

The solid upright section of a battlement in medieval architecture or fortifications (where you hide behind when not shooting arrows from the battlement)

 

Crenellation

The gap between merlons in a battlement

 

Triple deity

Three deities worshiped as one, like the Greek Fates

 

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Definition: Tanakh, Mishnah or Oral Torah, Gemera, Halakhah, Sukkot, Sukkah

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Not knowing much about Judaism, it’s not surprising I learned so many words on just an introductory article about it.

 

Tanakh

The Hebrew Bible that contains 3 sections: the Torah or Five Books of Moses, the Prophets, and the Writings

 

Mishnah or Oral Torah

A minimalistic set of debates attributed to the great religious scholars, or Rabbis, transcribed and published in the second century C.E.

 

Gemera

Series of writings that expounded on the Mishnah, and combined with it to create the Talmud

 

Halakhah

Jewish law

 

Sukkot

A holiday that commemorates the 40 year period when Israelites were wandering in the desert, living in temporary shelters, and also a harvest festival

 

Sukkah

A temporary dwelling built on the holiday of Sukkot

 

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Definition: Resistance Fashion, Resistance Clothing, Sharecropper

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Fashion today… note, resistance clothing and fashion and two ENTIRELY different things!

 

Resistance clothing

Clothing that resist movement to help build strength when worn

 

Resistance fashion

Fashion used by marginalized groups as a symbol of resistance

 

Sharecropper

A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent

 

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Definition: Meta-procrastination, Compensatory Conviction, Zeigarnik Effect, Getting-into Time, Idea Doubt, Vuja De

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Me in a 15 minute talk, essentially.

 

Meta-procrastination

(superior) procrastination where one creates activities for procrastination, then procrastinate in performing them

 

Compensatory conviction

Development of a passion for something that distracts you from your current serious uncertainty on what to do next

 

Zeigarnik effect

How we have a better memory for incomplete rather than complete tasks because you check off the latter to forget about it

 

Getting-into time

Time it takes you to get back into something from where you left off

 

Idea Doubt

Doubt that is energizing because it causes you to want to test, experiment, and refine, to get it right, knowing the first batch will almost always be crappy

 

Vuja De

Is when you look at something you’ve seen many times before and all of a sudden see it with fresh eyes

 

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