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There is no one "head God" in the Egyptian pantheon, and this fact has mystified, frustrated, confused, puzzled, amused and outraged monotheists around the world for 2,500 years. Egyptian philosophy has been labeled with the curious oxymoron of "spiritual materialism," and so dismissed as primitive.

An excerpt from Walk Like An Egyptian: A Modern Guide To The Religion And Philosophy Of Ancient Egypt

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TRADITIONS: A sect or division within Paganism, Wicca, Magick. The use of tradition as "sect" is not a new use, nor is "new tradition" an oxymoron.  Systems of training in the Craft: Some traditions are: Gardnerian, Celtic Traditionalist, Welsh Traditionalist, Y Dynion Mwyn, Alexandrian, Continentalist, Stregha, Fairy, Feminist, Dianic, etc.

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Arab anti-Semitism is anti-Semitism (hostility towards or discrimination against Jews) in the Arab world. As the Arab-Israeli conflict has placed Arab states in conflict with the Jewish state of Israel for decades, alleged and actual anti-Semitism has been a recurring issue in Arab countries, and is the source of much controversy. Arabs, in general, refer to the term Arab anti-Semitism as oxymoron since the Arabs are Semitic people. They even argue that Jews came to Palestine in the early twentieth century because of the anti-Semitism ...

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Oxymoron - Deliberate Use of Oxymoron. "O miserable abundance, O beggarly riches!" John Donne, Devotions on Emergent Occasions "I do here make humbly bold to present them with a short account of themselves... " Jonathan Swift "The bookful blockhead, ignoriantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head..." Alexander Pope "He was now sufficiently composed to order a funeral of modest magnificence..." Samuel Johnson "O anything of nothing first create! / O hea ...

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Oxymoron, Oxymoron - Examples, Oxymoron - Deliberate Use of Oxymoron, Oxymoron - Examples of Perceived Oxymoron

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Unintentional humor is the act of making other people laugh without actually trying to. There are several different kinds of unintentional humor that arise out of various situations. Unintentional humor - Unintended contradiction. It is possible for unintentional humor to arise when two different well-meaning people contribute independent pieces of information, but in combination, they contradict each other. The image on the right is an example of this. English ...

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Word play is a literary technique in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work. Puns, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names are common examples of word play. All writers engage in word play to some extent, but certain writers are particularly adept or committed to word play. Shakespeare was a noted punster. James Joyce--whose Ulysses, and even more so, his Finnegans Wake, are filled with brilliant wri ...

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Broadly speaking, a contradiction is an incompatibility between two or more statements, ideas, or actions. One must, it seems, reject at least one of the ideas outright. In logic, contradiction is defined much more specifically, usually as the simultaneous assertion of a statement and its negation ("denial" can be used instead of "negation"). This, of course, assumes that "negation" has a non-problematic definition. This idea is based on Aristotle's law of non-contradiction which states that "One cannot say of something that it is and that ...

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• Contradiction - A paradox involving contradiction
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Perceived Oxymoron There is a class of expressions that are often labeled oxymora but are actually not. Rather, the speaker retrofits the concept of the oxymoron onto the term, often intending humor from the resulting observation. Usually such perceived oxymora depend on substitution of an alternate meaning for the noun in the phrase (e.g. "old news", where the word "news" is interpreted as "new" rather than "information"). Some humorists create jokes around such perceived oxymora. In some non-humorou ...

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Oxymoron, Oxymoron - Examples

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Islam in France - 1960-70s labor immigration. Muslim immigration, especially of men, primarily from Algeria and other North African colonies, was quite high following World War II, because the French workforce was inadequate for reconstruction efforts. The Muslim population is now estimated between 3 and 6 million (compared to a total French population of more than 63 million people). This is only an estimate, since census of religious adherence is prohibited by French law since 1872. One of the best estimate, Michèle Tribalat's one, counts about 3,7 millions "possible Muslims" (me ...

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Islamism (Islamisme in French) is a term that is rather less used than others, perhaps due to its lack of precision. The following terms are often used : Islamiste (when referring to a person of extremist opinions), islamique (for a qualifier, the "hidjab" or foulard islamique, or barbe islamique, the beard; does not have the connotation of extremism), mouvement islamique (to refer to a political movement), mouvement intégriste or mouvement extrémiste (to refer to a fundamentalist group) ...

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Since an 1872 law, the French Republic does not take into account religion in its census. Nor does it take into account ethnic claims of ascendency. An Interior ministry source in l'Islam dans la République (Haut Conseil à l'intégration, Nov. 2000, p.26) published the following figures, estimating the distribution of Muslims according to the area of origin: Algeria 1,550,000 Morocco 1,000,000 Tunisia 350,000 Turkey 315,000 Sub-Saharan Africa 250,000 Asians 100,000 French converts 40,000 Other ...

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French media points to the high rates of crime and poverty among certain immigrant communities, and to the influence individual Muslims have had on national athletics, the arts, and popular culture. In France, Islam is especially present in popular suburbs. The Muslim population is very concentrated, mostly in parts of Paris, Marseille, Lyon, and Strasbourg. In Paris suburbs, Seine St-Denis department host numerous Muslim people, and is undergoing high rates of unemployment (30% in La Courneuve). Henceforth, it is one of the most violent ...

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Islam in France, Islam in France - Statistics, Islam in France - Muslim population in France, Islam in France - 1960-70s labor immigration, Islam in France - 2002 creation of a French Council of the Muslim Faith, Islam in France - Second generation immigrants an oxymoron by itself, Islam in France - Muslim religious practices, Islam in France - Education issues, Islam in France - Integration issues, Islam in France - The hijab issue, Islam in France - Political Islam, Islam in France - Government efforts toward integration, Islam in France - Islamism in France, Islam in France - History of Islamic Terrorism in France, Islam in France - Airbus in 1994, Islam in France - Terrorist attacks in 1995

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Some critics view it as an oxymoron and a rhetorical device or propaganda. [citation needed] Juan Cole, professor of modern Middle East and South Asian history at the University of Michigan regards the term "Islamofascism" as offensive and tantamount to hate speech, because, he argues, it is a desecration that is profoundly insulting to Muslims, "It is hard to see the difference between the bigotry of anti-Semitism as an evil and the bigotry that [Michael] Medved displays toward Islam. It is more offensive than ...

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Islamofascism term, Islamofascism term - Application, Islamofascism term - Origins, Islamofascism term - Examples of use in public discourse, Islamofascism term - Criticism of the use of the term

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At first blush, executive agency rulemaking appears to be an oxymoron. Executive agencies are usually charged with executing, not making, the rules. Given the scope of modern regulation, however, legislatures frequently find areas where it is impractical for lawmakers to apply the level of detail or expertise required to establish complete standards. These they delgate to agencies for follow-on rulemaking. Common purposes of rulemaking include: Adding scientific expertise. For example, in the U.S., the Federal Food ...

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Business ethics aren't identical to the philosophy of business, the branch of philosophy that deals with the philosophical, political, and ethical underpinnings of business and economics. Business ethics operates on the premise, for example, that the ethical operation of a private business is possible -- those who dispute that premise, such as libertarian socialists, (who contend that "business ethics" is an oxymoron) do so by defi ...

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The very idea of a Discordian organization is something of an oxymoron. Nevertheless, some structure is indicated in Principia Discordia. The most general group, presumably including all Discordians (and potentially others), is The Discordian Society, whose definition is "The Discordian Society has no definition" (Principia Discordia, page 00032). Within the society are sects of Discordianism, each under the direction of an "Episkopos" (Greek, "overseer", source of English bishop and episcopalian), who receives di ...

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Some of the names of the characters are oxymoronic, eg. General Specific. Sheep: Poor old sheep has a hard time with life -- between getting chased by the military and trying to see Swanky, the poodle he loves, without getting bonked in the head by Lady Richington and her stainless steel wig, Sheep's situation is anything but favorable. But yet he still makes time to act in dishwashing commercials, travel through time, and get a job at a hip club. Sheep never talks, he only bleats. Ben Plotz: The show's narrator. He often complains about the quality of the writing on the sh ...

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Communism is a social system that abolishes private property, social classes, and the state itself. As such, a "communist state" would be an oxymoron. No country or government ever called itself a "Communist state"; however, various states gave the Communist Party a special status in their constitution and laws[1], while claiming to be heading in the direction of communism. The term "Communist state" has been coined and used in the West to refer to s ...

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J. R. R. Tolkien - The Tolkien family. As far as is known, most of Tolkien's paternal ancestors were craftsmen. The Tolkien family had its roots in Saxony (Germany), but had been living in England since the 18th century, becoming "quickly and intensely English (not British)" (Letters, 165). The surname Tolkien is anglicised from Tollkiehn (i.e. German tollkühn, "foolhardy", the etymological English translation would be dull-keen, a literal translation of oxymoron). The character of Professor Rashbold in Th ...

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There are various ways in which a pension may be financed. In a funded defined contribution pension, contributions are paid into a fund during an individual's working life. The fund will be invested in assets, such as stocks, bonds and property, and grow in line with the return on these assets. (An unfunded defined contribution pension is an oxymoron.) In an unfunded defined benefit pension, no assets are set aside and the benefits are paid for by the employer or other pension sponsor as and when they are paid. Pe ...

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