100 Contemporary Definitions – 2008

(The evolution of concepts to fashion a realistic world)

By Naseem Mahnavi

1. Afghan = A member of a brave Asian nation that defeated the military power of Communism, caused the dismemberment of the Soviet Union and helped to stop the Cold War whose heroes were not accepted as the heroes of the free world.

2. Alqaeda = International forum of dissidents originated by veterans of Afghan freedom struggle against USSR to free other countries of the region from covert foreign occupation, involved or implicated by North Atlantic powers in terrorist acts and turned into the most outlawed entity.

3. Angel = Massless and invisible but intelligent creatures that communicate by exchanging images, found in the Bible and the Koran.

4. Anti-Semitism = Western Christian hatred of Jews and Muslims of Arabian origin caused by the supercilious behavior of European Jews and exposure for centuries to paintings of religious wars depicting bearded turbaned men with curved swords slaying European men, women and children and carrying away naked white women commonly displayed in European Art galleries..

5. Atom = Scientific belief in the unseen.

6. Beauty = Ability to cause favorable reaction beyond vocabulary.

7. Buenocracy = Domination by good people. (It doesn't exist anywhere.)

8. Capitalism = Rights based social system that degenerated into the domination by money and riches.

9. Cell Phone = The conquest of distance.

10. Christianity = Worship of the anointed one and belief in morality based on the parables in the pre-Muhammadan Divine Books which originated in the Middle East.

11. Civilization = A society in which ethical restraints prevent people from going as low as they can.

12. Clergy = Religious performers who exploit the sense of guilt of believers.

13. Communism = Domination by the least educated and skilled members of community.

14. Computer = An inorganic appendage to human beings for sharing large amounts of knowledge, information or data and analytical power not possible by sensory or organic means.

15. Corruption = Abuse of law, ethical principles or social norms and exploitation of the less privileged.

16. Crime = Violation or abuse of law, an act whose committer deserves punishment.

17. Democracy = Universal equality of opinion and domination of majority opinion with negation of individual discretion of those in authority and legal preemption.

18. Democratic Attitude = The absence of intransigence.

19. Democratic government = Domination by a group of people who have demonstrated their ability to manipulate public opinion better than others.

20. Democratic Leader = A representative of a community loyal to his or her voters.

21. Democratic Process = Deliberations in which everyone concerned gets an opportunity to express opinion and amend a draft resolution before a decision is taken by majority vote.

22. Democratic Society = A society in which leadership emerges from the common people through the natural processes of social organization, self government and unrestricted intellectual activity.

23. Diplomat = One who can negotiate from a position of weakness.

24. Discipline = Ability to restrain oneself before being restrained by others.

25. Divorce = The failure of a man and a woman to accommodate each other and live together as per their marital commitments.

26. Duties = Basic building blocks of civilization – universal or circumstantial human obligations whose neglect is crime. (The UNO has not prepared a charter of human Duties.)

27. Engineering = Art and science of creating inorganic life.

28. Evil = Ability to harm or destroy.

29. Failure = One who ruins every thing when feeling confident.

30. Fertilization = The combining of a male and a female cell into a single unique cell with a new universal time mark.

31. Freedom = Ability to take one’s own decisions and define one’s own limits.

32. Galaxy = A cell of the gigantic living organism called the universe.

33. General = One authorized to get soldiers killed.

34. God = The Singularity discovered thousands of years ago, but never defined scientifically.

35. Gravity = Inherent interconnection among bodies of matter, measure of the potential energy of a body relative to the rest of the matter in the universe.

36. Guantanamo = Infamous and illicit outfit of US armed forces where people abducted from all over the world are subjected to unconventional psychological experiments without being compensated.

37. Half-life = Collective property of radioactive elements not applicable to each atom.

38. Happiness = Disciplined pursuit of pleasure that does not result in regret.

39. Hindu = Black-skinned pre-Aryan people of ancient India. The Vedas were their religious books.

40. History = Impartial account of past events, often reconstructed from fragments of information.

41. Human being = The most advanced organic biological (animal) species capable of conversing, calculating, planning, communicating, building and developing and enforcing ethics.

42. Infinity = The illusion of division by an extreme fraction. In reality there is no such thing as division by a fraction.

43. Irrational Behavior = Human mind’s attempt to use data as program.

44. Islam = Surrender to reason and worship of a conceptual ideal being called Allah as taught by Muhammad.

45. Israelis = A minority ethnic group of ancient Egypt originating from the mixing of the family of an Arab named Abraham and black Africans. The half breeds recognized as a unique race were treated badly by the natives and fled from Egypt under their leader Moses who was accused of wanton murder.

46. Jew = Believer in the earliest moral and religious traditions of the Middle East.

47. Judaism = Culture based on ancient Middle Eastern traditions, constituted by European money lenders to acquire the status of God’s chosen people referred in the Bible and intimidate Christians.

48. Justice = Process to ensure that offenders get proportionate punishment, grievances are redressed and an innocent person is not punished.

49. Kashmir = Historically independent mountain country and natural component of Pakistan turned into a disputed territory by North Atlantic powers to create military competition among bordering nations and prevent them from attaining their full economic potential threatening North Atlantic domination.

50. Language = Unique human ability to communicate resulting from a natural compulsion to give names to objects, events, actions and feelings.

51. Law = Collectively adopted limits of individual freedom to ensure that good people remain good and the bad ones also behave in a tolerable manner.

52. Leader = One who knows the way better than others and stays in front.

53. Life = Ability to change others' perceptions.

54. Love = Urge to protect, nourish and share pleasures with, and willingness to make sacrifices for.

55. Marriage = License to share privacy.

56. Mind = The causation of behavior patterns, the fifth dimension of existence.

57. Moon = Spherical mineral satellite of Earth orbiting and rotating with perfect synchronization to present the same face to earth at all times and having large shallow depressions that focus signals coming from distant astronomical sources on to the surface of the Earth.

58. Mullah = One who knows nothing but religious rumor and is not prepared to learn more.

59. NATO = Enigmatic North Atlantic military outfit that prevents ethnic cleansing where it chooses (e.g. Serbia) and carries out ethnic cleansing where it chooses (e.g. Afghanistan).

60. Nation = A group of people who identify themselves with each other.

61. Nazism = Reaction of German Christians to Judaic claim of being the chosen race, asserting superiority over other people on account of undiluted Aryan descent.

62. Patriot = One willing to make sacrifices to defend the freedom of his or her homeland.

63. Peace = Absence of irritation.

64. Politics = Exploitation of the community's weaknesses.

65. Poverty = Absence of affluence.

66. Power = Ability to cause beneficial action.

67. Prayer = The expression of true desires with passion.

68. Quality = Comparison with an established standard. There can not be quality without an example or reference.

69. Race = A group of people or nations situated within natural geographical boundaries and having similar physical features, pigmentation, temperament, language, script, eating habits, immunities and some carriers of unique diseases or some combination of these. With the development of world-wide travel, trade, communication and vaccines, the racial differences have become insignificant.

70. Racialism = The exploitation of the hazards of interracial mixing.

71. Realist = One who can differentiate between a virtual reality and the actual reality.

72. Red-shift = Aging and dilation of electromagnetic radiation during propagation through space, a measure of the time it has been traveling.

73. Relative Space = Location based on three linear coordinates with reference to an arbitrary point and a fourth age coordinate relative to an arbitrary event (date and time) in a universe where everything is constantly moving.

74. Religion = Duty based social systems that degenerated into fixed belief in the imperceptible and the unknown based on fears of what happens after death.

75. Rights = Rewards of fulfilling duties or obligations whose denial or violation is crime.

76. Science = Study of the nature and working of things and events; and belief in proven and verified facts.

77. Secularism = Absence of religious prejudice and inequality.

78. Self-immolation = Act of public suicide resulting from Dying Values Syndrome.

79. Shia = Descendants of Hussain ibn Ali and his own and step brothers, who did not accompany him to the battle of Karbala and regretted it – and many others who joined the sect for their own reasons.

80. Sin = Violation of divine stipulation.

81. Soldier = One trained to obey orders without questioning and to live constantly in peril.

82. Soul = Genetic software, also called spirit or psyche.

83. Space = Occupied part of the void.

84. Spiritualism = Interaction of central nervous and autonomic systems.

85. Successful Person = One who learns his or her lessons early.

86. Sun = Nucleus of the solar system containing the Earth, wherein primordial matter is still decomposing and generating extreme heat and radiation.

87. Taliban = Extremely bigoted ethnic minority of Afghanistan who fancy the lifestyle of 7th century Arabs and aspire to establish the Kingdom of God.

88. Terror = Exaggerated state of fear in a person lacking moral courage, sometimes resulting in a sadistic response to the apparent or assumed cause of fear.

89. Terrorism = Tendency to achieve by violent intimidation rather than by asking, bargaining, creating, developing or earning.

90. Theory of Relativity = Mathematical expression of the illusory nature of observation.

91. Time = Differential element of age.

92. Total Eclipse = Situation when a portion of the earth is completely shielded from either direct or indirect exposure to radiation from the Sun.

93. Trade Union = Organization of industrial, agricultural, intellectual, governmental or professional workers to standardize their practices, protect their rights and ensure fair remuneration and dignity of its members. It is the basic first step towards democracy. Countries where trade unions have not developed still have tyrannical governments and widespread poverty.

94. Truth = Accurate statement, exact description and effective cause or reason.

95. Traitor = A citizen who acts against the interests of his or her country or sacrifices national interest for personal gain, and a soldier who points a weapon at an innocent, peaceful, unarmed citizen of his or her own country.

96. War = Legitimized crime or violent response to it, often a contest of terror.

97. War on Terror = A sadistic vendetta between Christian and Muslim extremists resulting from the incompetence of intellectuals, politicians and generals.

98. Weapon = A potentially lethal implement used for persuasion by the mentally weak, for protection by the physically weak, and for committing crimes by the ethically or morally weak.

99. World War II = Occasion of choice for Western Europe between German and American domination, Americans coming out on top.

100. Zero = Difference between equals.


©Mohammad Nasim