BobbyMike
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Registered: Dec 1999
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"Inanimate, yes. But that doesn't mean the damn thing isn't conniving. Something this irritating has to be doing it intentionally."
Although I don't consider myself an animist, I totally agree with you. I had a car once that definitely had a personality, and it wasn't a nice one! (It died a lonely death many years ago in the Hill country outside Austin.)
Main Entry: an�i�mism Pronunciation: 'a-n&-"mi-z&m
Function: noun
Etymology: German Animismus, from Latin anima soul
Date: 1832
1 : a doctrine that the vital principle of organic development is immaterial spirit
2 : attribution of conscious life to objects in and phenomena of nature or to inanimate objects
3 : belief in the existence of spirits separable from bodies
- an�i�mist /-mist/ noun
- an�i�mis�tic /"a-n&-'mis-tik/ adjective
from Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
edited to add word definition.
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Last edited by BobbyMike on 07-10-2001 at 08:29 PM
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