# Actual Freedom – Definitions

# Definitions ## Facile; Fact; Fallacy; Fashionable; Fecundation; Fecundative; Fecundity ## Fecundous; Feeling Good; Feet of Clay; Feyly; Firmament; Flagitious ## Flogged; Folkways; Fondly; Foreboding; Foregone Conclusion ## Fractious; Friendly; Führerprinzip; Furphy; Futurition; Futurity Facile: facile: arrived at without due care, effort, or examination; superficial: [as in] ‘proposed a facile solution to a complex problem’; readily manifested, together with an aura of insincerity and lack of depth: [as in] ‘a facile slogan devised by politicians. (The American Heritage® Dictionary). Fact: • ‘fact: something which is known to have happened or to exist, especially something for which proof exists, or about which there is information’. ~ (Cambridge Dictionary). • ‘fact: a thing done; the quality of being actual; something that has actual existence; an actual occurrence; a piece of information presented as having objective reality’. ~ (Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary). • ‘fact [originally meaning ‘an act’, from Latin factum, from facere ‘do’]: a thing that is indisputably the case; (facts) information used as evidence or as part of a report’. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). • ‘fact [Latin factum, ‘deed’, from neuter past participle of facere, ‘to do’]: knowledge or information based on real occurrences; something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed; a real occurrence; an event; a thing that has been done’. ~ (American Heritage® Dictionary). • ‘fact: an event known to have happened or something known to have existed; a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened; a concept whose truth can be proved’. ~ (WordNet 2.0). • ‘fact: something known to be true; something that can be shown to be true, to exist, or to have happened; truth or reality of something; the truth or actual existence of something, as opposed to the supposition of something or a belief about something’. ~ (Encarta Dictionary). RICHARD: Welcome to The Actual Freedom Mailing List ... your phrasing ‘the confidence of a fact’ is well put: facts are liberating, not only of opinions, but of choice and decision: the marvellous thing about a fact is that one can not argue with it. One can argue about a belief, an opinion, a theory, an ideal and so on ... but a fact: never. One can deny a fact – pretend that it is not there – but once seen, a fact brings freedom from choice and decision. Most people feel, and thus think, that choice implies freedom – having the freedom to choose – but this is not the case. Freedom lies in seeing the obvious, and in seeing the obvious there is no choice, no deliberation, no agonising over the ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’ judgement. In the freedom of seeing the fact there is only action. (Richard, Actual Freedom List, No. 42, 16 February 2003). RICHARD: ‘... the very fact that one is alive means consuming nutrients ... and staying alive means that something, somewhere, must die in order to supply these nutrients. This is a fact of life ... and the marvellous thing about a fact is that one can not argue with it. One can argue about a belief, an opinion, a theory, an ideal and so on ... but a fact: never. One can deny a fact – pretend that it is not there – but once seen, a fact brings freedom from choice and decision. Most people think and feel that choice implies freedom – having the freedom to choose – but this is not the case. Freedom lies in seeing the obvious, and in seeing the obvious there is no choice, no deliberation, no agonising over the ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’ judgment. In the freedom of seeing the fact there is only action’. (Richard, List A, No. 16, #No. 02). RICHARD: For a start, any belief is nonsensical. By its very nature a belief is not factually true ... otherwise it would not need to be believed to be true. A fact is obvious; it is out in the open, freely available for all to see as being correct. To believe something to be true is to accept on trust that it is so. .A fact does not have to be accepted on trust … a fact is candidly so A fact is patently true, manifestly clear. A fact has actual verity, whereas a belief requires synthetic credence. It is a fact that I, as this body, am mortal. I will die in due course ... this heart will stop beating, these lungs will cease breathing, this brain will quit thinking. The flesh will decompose, if buried, or will be dispersed, if burnt, as smoke and ash. There could be nothing more final, more conclusive, more complete, of an ending to me than this. So the belief in Immortality goes against all the factual, evidential actuality. It must, therefore, have its roots buried deep in the psyche, to be held so passionately by so many people. It is not merely the passing whim of a thoughtless few. It is something that people feel deeply to be true. It is dear to their heart’s desire. Herein lies the clue to ascertain why this fancy has persisted: a feeling is not a fact. Feelings have led humankind astray for millennia, without ever being questioned as to whether they are the correct tools for determining the correctness of a matter. Feelings are held to be sacrosanct; they are given a credibility they do not deserve. They are seen to be the final arbiter in a contentious issue: “It’s a gut-feeling”, or “My intuition is never wrong”, or “It feels right”, and so on. (Richard’s Journal, Article 18). Fallacy: Fallacy: a deceptive argument, a sophism; an error, esp. one founded on false reasoning; unsoundness of opinion, an argument, etc. Synonyms: mistaken belief, misconception, false notion, misapprehension, misjudgement, miscalculation, error, mistake, untruth, inconsistency, illusion, delusion, deceit, deception, sophistry, casuistry. ©1998 Oxford Dictionary. Fashionable: fashionable (adj.): 1. (a.) conforming to the current styles or trends; stylish; [e.g.]: “a fashionable wardrobe”; (b.) adopting or setting current styles or trends; [e.g.]: “a fashionable artist”; 2. associated with or frequented by stylish or trend-setting people; [e.g.]: “a fashionable hotel”; (n.): a stylish person; (adv.): fashionably; (n.): *fashionability*, fashionableness; (synonyms): fashionable, chic, in, sharp, smart, stylish, swanky, trendy; these adjectives mean in accordance with the current fashion; [e.g.]: “a fashionable restaurant”; “a chic dress”; “the in place to go”; “a sharp jacket”; “a smart hotel”; “those stylish clothes”; “a swanky apartment”; “a trendy neighbourhood”. [emphasis added]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). Fecundation: fecundation (n.): creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant; fertilisation, impregnation; conception (the act of becoming pregnant; fertilisation of an ovum by a spermatozoon). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Fecundative: fecundative (adj.): serving to fecundate: making fertile. [origin and etymology of fecundate: Latin fēcundātus, past participle of fēcundāre, {‘to fertilise’}, from fēcundus, {‘fruitful’}; first known use: circa 1631]. [curly-bracketed insert added] ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Fecundity: fecundity (n.): 1. fruitfulness; the quality of propagating abundantly; particularly, the quality in female animals of producing young in great numbers; [e.g.]: “The pigeon was an emblem of fecundity, and fruitfulness in marriage” (John Donne, 1572-1631, ‘Sermons’, iv.; 1626); 2. the power of germinating: as, ‘the seeds of some plants long retain their fecundity’; 3. productiveness in general; the power of creating or bringing forth; fertility, as of invention; [e.g.]: “The fœcundity of his [Almighty God’s] Creative Power never growing barren nor being exhauſted” (Richard Bentley, 1662-1742, “Folly of Atheism”; London 1693); “The pleasures incident to what are regarded as the higher functions are the pleasures which excel others in respect of fecundity: they are the source of future pleasures” (William R. Sorley, 1855-1935, ‘Ethics of Naturalism’; 1885, p. 162); (synonym): productiveness; (adj.): fecund, fecundous; (tr.v.): fecundify, fecundified, fecundifying; fecundate, fecundated, fecundating; (n.): fecundity, fecundation, fecundator. [from Latin fecundita(t-)s, ‘fruitfulness’, ‘fertility’, from fēcundus, ‘fruitful’, ‘fertile (of plants and animals)’; from √*fe -, ‘generate’, ‘produce’ + cundas, formative of adjectives]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Fecundous: fecundous (adj.): fecund; viz.: prolific; readily producing offspring; hence, fruitful or productive in a general sense; as, ‘the fecund earth’ (recently revived [circa 1889] and extended in application). [from Middle English, fecounde, from Old French fecond, French fécond; from Latin fēcundus, ‘fruitful’, ‘fertile (of plants and animals)’; from √*fe-, ‘generate’, ‘produce’ + cundas, a formative of adjectives]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). Feeling Good: a general feeling of well-being (a.k.a. ‘feeling good’): Viz.: • [Richard]: ‘As one knows from the pure consciousness experiences (PCE’s), which are moments of perfection everybody has at some stage in their life, that it is possible to experience this moment in time and this place in space as perfection personified, ‘I’ set the minimum standard of experience for myself: feeling good. If ‘I’ am not feeling good then ‘I’ have something to look at to find out why. What has happened, between the last time ‘I’ felt good and now? When did ‘I’ feel good last? Five minutes ago? Five hours ago? What happened to end those felicitous feelings? Ahh ... yes: ‘He said that and I ...’. Or: ‘She didn’t do this and I ...’. Or: ‘What I wanted was ...’. Or: ‘I didn’t do ...’. And so on and so on ... one does not have to trace back into one’s childhood ... usually no more than yesterday afternoon at the most (‘feeling good’ is an unambiguous term – it is a general sense of well-being – and if anyone wants to argue about what feeling good means ... then do not even bother trying to do this at all). Once the specific moment of ceasing to feel good is pin-pointed, and the silliness of having such an incident as that (no matter what it is) take away one’s enjoyment and appreciation of this only moment of being alive is seen for what it is – usually some habitual reactive response – one is once more feeling good ... but with a pin-pointed cue to watch out for next time so as to not have that trigger off yet another bout of the same-old same-old’. [emphasis added]. (Richard, Articles, This Moment of Being Alive). Feet of Clay: feet of clay: fundamental weakness in a person who has appeared to be of great merit. (Oxford Dictionary). RICHARD: The paramount ‘realisation’ of Mr. Gotama the Sakyan was that everything material (physical) – which includes the entire universe – being transitory, impermanent, was dukkha: therefore cease craving physical existence (do not even bother looking for peace-on-earth). RESPONDENT: He had peace, he just knew it isn’t too peaceful here in the material world, and that it will be ‘more’ peaceful beyond it. Like going to the country. RICHARD: Is this response not just another way of saying the same as what I wrote? What you are saying, in effect, is that the paramount ‘realisation’ of Mr. Gotama the Sakyan meant do not even bother looking for peace-on-earth ... peace comes at physical death (‘Parinirvana’) and not before? Because when you speak of the ‘peace he had’ (knowing that it will be ‘more peaceful’ beyond life-on-earth) you are discussing the difference between ‘Nirvana’ and ‘Parinirvana’. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica ‘Ultimate Reality’ in Buddhism is called ‘Parinirvana’ (Complete Nirvana) or the freedom of spirit (by whatever name) brought about by release from the body. In the Buddhist analysis of the human condition, delusions of egocentricity and their resultant desires bind humans to a continuous round of rebirths and its consequent ‘dukkha’. It is release from these bonds that constitutes ‘Nirvana’, or the experience of ‘Spiritual Enlightenment’. ‘Nirvana’ is but the initial goal of the mindfulness disciplines and practice in that it signifies the transcendent state of freedom achieved by the extinction (‘nirodha’) of ‘tanha’ (craving for existence; desire) and of ‘atta’ (individual consciousness). That this is only the inaugural objective is very clear to the discerning eye because – while liberation from rebirth does not imply immediate death and thus release into the ‘Deathless’ – the physical death of a ‘Perfect One’ (an Arhat or a Buddha) does. Thus while the immediate aim of the Buddhist path is release from the round of phenomenal existence with its inherent dukkha by attaining ‘Nirvana’ (the enlightened state in which the fires of greed, hatred, and ignorance have been quenched), ‘Nirvana’ is not to be confused with total annihilation because, after attaining ‘Nirvana’, the enlightened individual will continue to live, burning off any remaining karma until the state of ‘Final Nirvana’ (‘Parinirvana’) is attained at the moment of physical death. It may be noted that, during the early centuries of Buddhist history, not only were there the three major pilgrimage centres – the place of Mr. Gotama the Sakyan’s birth at Lumbini, the place of his Enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, the Deer Park in Varanasi where he preached his first sermon – but particularly the village of Kusinara, (or Kushinagara) located in the eastern district of Deoria, which is the place of his ‘Parinirvana’. Quite obviously, this is a very self-seeking approach to life on earth ... something that all metaphysical peoples are guilty of. The quest to secure one’s immortality (by whatever name) in some spurious ‘After-Life’ (by whatever name) is unambiguously selfish ... peace-on-earth is readily sacrificed for the supposed continuation of the imagined spirit (by whatever name) after physical death. So much for their humanitarian ideals of peace, goodness, altruism, philanthropy and humaneness. All religious and spiritual and mystical quests amount to nothing more than a self-centred urge to perpetuate oneself for ever and a day. All metaphysicists fall foul of this existential dilemma. They pay lip-service to the notion of self-sacrifice – weeping crocodile tears at noble martyrdom – whilst selfishly pursuing the timeless ‘State of Being’ ... the ‘Deathless State’. The root cause of all the ills of humankind can be sheeted home to this single, basic fact: The overriding importance of the survival of ‘self’ by whatever name (the ‘non-self’). (Richard, List C, No. 3a, 25 March 2000). RICHARD: And if you had read deeper, on other pages you would have found me rightfully saying (because I was one of them myself once), that they are ‘gutless wonders’ for chickening out in the ‘dark night of the soul’ ... grabbing for dissociation instead of extinction. If your heroes (peoples like Mr. Yeshua the Nazarene and Mr. Gotama the Sakyan and Mr. Krishna and so on) had the requisite intestinal fortitude, all those thousands of years ago, human beings living today may have already had global (or near global) peace-on-earth already. They should not have dawdled, tarried ... because there has been untold suffering since then that has been all unnecessary. Wars, rapes, murders, tortures, corruption ... the list is endless. If they had gone all the way through enlightenment and out to this other, side human suffering would possibly (probably) be all over by now. That was two to two and a half thousand years ago, remember. Plenty of time for everyone to become actually free of the human condition. (Richard, List C, No. 3d, 12 April 2000a). RICHARD: ... I will say this much: Buddhism is for the Buddhists ... and Mr. Gotama the Sakyan’s ‘middle path’ has nothing to do with the third alternative whatsoever. And I ‘bag him’ because he clearly did not like being on this fair planet we all live on and proposed an after-death peace instead of enabling the already always existing peace-on-earth into being apparent ... thus all the wars and murders and rapes and tortures and domestic violence and child abuse and sadness and loneliness and grief and depression and suicides have continued on unabated in the 2,500 years since he had the chance to become actually free of the human condition. Same as any other enlightened being ... they all had the opportunity just as I did. (Richard, Actual Freedom List, No. 37, 30 October 2002). Feyly: feyly (adv.): in a fey⁽*⁾ manner.~ (Collins English Dictionary). ⁽*⁾fey (adj.): having, brought about by, or relating to supernatural powers or magic; (synonyms): magic, magical, talismanic, thaumaturgic, thaumaturgical, theurgic, theurgical, witching, wizardly. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). Firmament: • firmament (n.): the vault or expanse of the heavens; the sky; (adj.): firmamental. [Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin firmāmentum, from Latin, ‘support’, from firmāre, ‘to strengthen’; see firm²]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • firmament (n.): the expanse of the sky; heavens; (adj.): firmamental. [C13: from Late Latin firmāmentum, ‘sky’, considered as fixed above the earth, from Latin, ‘prop’, ‘support’, from firmāre, ‘to make firm¹’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • firmament (n.): the arch or vault of heaven; sky; (adj.): firmamental. [1250-1300; Middle English from Late Latin firmāmentum, ‘sky’, Latin, ‘prop’, ‘support’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • firmament (n.): means ‘vault of the sky’, as a fixed structure; firmament. ~ (Farlex Trivia Dictionary). • firmament (n.): the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected; (synomyns): celestial sphere, firmament, heavens, vault of heaven, welkin, sphere. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • firmament (n.; literary): 1. sky, skies, heaven, heavens, the blue, the skies, vault, vault of heaven; (archaic): welkin; (poetic): empyrean; [e.g.]: “There are no stars in the firmament tonight”; 2. arena, province, sphere, realm, domain; [e.g.]: “He was a rising star in the political firmament”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). • firmament (n.): the celestial regions as seen from the earth; (synomyns): air, heaven (often used in plural), sky; (archaic): welkin. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus) . Flagitious: • flagitious (adj.): 1. extremely wicked, deeply criminal; heinous; [e.g.]: “a flagitious crime”; “their heinous accusations”; wicked (diabolic or heinously bad; sinful); [e.g.]: “a flagitious felony”; “their wicked influence”; 2. shockingly brutal or cruel; [e.g.]: “they persisted in their flagitious project”; (synonyms): atrocious, monstrous, grievous; [e.g.]: “murder is an atrocious crime”; “no excess was too monstrous for them to commit”; “a grievous offence against morality”; evil (vile iniquity or peccant depravity); [e.g.]: “those evil purposes”; “their evil deeds”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • flagitious (adj.): utterly reprehensible in nature or behaviour; (synonyms): corrupt, degenerate, depraved, miscreant, perverse, rotten, unhealthy, villainous.~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). Flog: Flog: Sell, offer for sale (esp. worthless or shoddy goods or those illicitly obtained). (Oxford Quotation). ‘Flog to death colloq. talk about, promote, etc., ad nauseam.’ (Oxford Quotation). Folkways: [Dictionary Definitions]: • folkways (pl. n.; sociology): traditional and customary ways of living. [Middle English folk, from Old English folc + way, from Old English weg; related to Old Frisian wei, Gothic, ‘wigs’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • folkways (n.): a term coined by William Graham Sumner in his treatise "Folkways" (1906) to denote those group habits which are common to a society or culture and are usually called ‘customs’. The word folkways provided a useful contribution to the development of the concept of culture and is still used in its technical sense in sociological literature. Fashions in clothing or modes of recreation exemplify folkways. The term has failed to maintain the currency it once enjoyed among the other social sciences but has gained acceptance as a colloquial term. ~ (Columbia Electronic Encyclopaedia). Fondly: fondly: 1. (obsolete) foolishly, ignorantly; 2. affectionately, tenderly, lovingly; 3. with self-deceiving, affectionate, or foolish credulity. (Oxford Dictionary). Foreboding: • grim foreboding: a desolatory (forsaken, dismal, wretched) or bleak presage. • dire foreboding: a minatory (ominous, baleful, menacing) or sinister presage. • awful foreboding: a reconciliatory (awing, humbling, reverential) or redemptive presage. Oxford Dictionary Foregone Conclusion: foregone conclusion (n.): an inevitable ending {=outcome or result}; matter of course. [curly-bracketed insert added] ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). Fractious: • fractious (adj.): 1. inclined to make trouble; unruly; 2. having a peevish nature; cranky; (adv.): fractiously; (n.): fractiousnes. [from fraction, discord, obsolete]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • fractious (adj.): 1. irritable; 2. unruly; (adv.): fractiously; (n.): fractiousnes; (usage note): fractious is sometimes wrongly used where factious is meant; [e.g.]: “this factious (not fractious) dispute has split the party still further”. [C18: from (obsolete) fraction discord + -ous]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • fractious (adj.): 1. refractory; unruly; 2. readily angered; quarrelsome; (adv.): fractiously; (n.): fractiousnes. [1715-25]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • fractious (adj.): 1. unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; [e.g.]: “Her fractious disregard for societal mores was especially troubling”; [e.g.]: “The rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas”; “The fractious elements of any society give rise to communal disquietude”; (related words): difficult, hard (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; [e.g.]: “The nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access”; “It is a difficult task by any account”; “Those were particularly hard times”; “Why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?”); 2. stubbornly resistant to authority or control; [e.g.]: “A fractious animal which would not submit to the harness”; (synonyms): recalcitrant, refractory; [e.g.]: “A recalcitrant student”; “A refractory child”; (related words): disobedient (not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; [e.g.]: “Their disobedient children”); 3. easily irritated or annoyed; [e.g.]: “An incorrigibly fractious young man”; (synonyms): peevish, pettish, petulant, irritable, techy, testy, tetchy, nettlesome, peckish, scratchy, cranky; [e.g.]: “Not the least nettlesome of his countrymen”; (related words): ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition; [e.g.]: “By common repute he was a surly and ill-natured loner”). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • fractious (adj.): irritable, cross, awkward, unruly, touchy, recalcitrant, petulant, tetchy, ratty (Brit. & N.Z. informal), testy, chippy (informal), fretful, grouchy (informal), querulous, peevish, refractory, crabby, captious, froward (archaic), pettish; [e.g.]: “The children were predictably fractious”; (antonyms): agreeable, amiable, genial, affable, good-natured, tractable, good-tempered, biddable, complaisant. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus). • fractious (adj.): not submitting to discipline or control; (synonyms): disorderly, indocile, intractable, lawless, obstinate, obstreperous, recalcitrant, refractory, uncontrollable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, untoward, wild; (idiom): out of line. ~ (The American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus). • fractious (adj.): apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary). Friendly: • friendly (adj.): favorable; propitious; salutary; conferring benefit: as, “a friendly breeze or gale”; “rains friendly to ripening fruits”. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • friendly (adj.): favorable; propitious; salutary; promoting the good of; as “a friendly breeze or gale”; “excessive rains are not friendly to the ripening fruits”; “temperance is friendly to longevity”. ~ (Webster’s 1828 Dictionary). • friendly (adj.): promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; [e.g.]: “a friendly breeze or gale”. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary). • friendly (adj.): favorable or serviceable; [e.g.]: “no one noticed her as she slipped out – it was a friendly night”; “the 1970s were friendly to the single woman”; “waiting for the friendly cover of night to fall before moving on”; “to promote environmentally friendly ways”; (syn.): favourable, advantageous, beneficial, benevolent, helpful, well disposed, good. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary). Führerprinzip: The Führerprinzip (German for ‘leader principle’) prescribed the fundamental basis of political authority in the Government of Nazi Germany. This principle can be most succinctly understood to mean that “the Führer’s word is above all written law” and that governmental policies, decisions, and offices ought to work toward the realisation of this end. (...). The Führerprinzip was not invented by the Nazis. Hermann von Keyserling, a Baltic German philosopher from Estonia, was the first to use the term. One of his central claims was that certain “gifted individuals” were “born to rule” (...). Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has argued that Adolf Hitler saw himself as an incarnation of auctoritas [*], and as the living law or highest law itself, effectively combining in his persona executive power, judicial power, and legislative power. (...). When Hitler finally came to absolute power, after being appointed Chancellor and assuming the powers of the President when Paul von Hindenburg died, he changed his title to “Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor”, and the Führerprinzip became an integral part of German society. (...). During the post-war Nuremberg Trials, Nazi war criminals used the Führerprinzip concept to argue that they were not guilty of war crimes by claiming that they were only following orders. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Führerprinzip]. [*]In ancient Rome, auctoritas referred to the general level of prestige a person had in Roman society, and, as a consequence, his standing, influence, and ability to rally support around his will. However auctoritas was not merely political; it had a numinous content and symbolised the mysterious “power of command” of heroic Roman figures. (...). After the fall of the Republic, during the days of the Roman Empire, the Emperor had the title of princeps (“first citizen” of Rome) and held the *auctoritas principis* – the supreme moral authority – in conjunction with the imperium and potestas; the military, judiciary and administrative powers. That is to say, there is a non-committal to a separation of powers, some civil rights, constitutionalism, codified constitutional state and legalist concept of law. The notion of auctoritas was often invoked by the papacy during the Middle Ages, in order to secure the temporal power of the Pope. Innocent III most famously invoked auctoritas in order to depose kings and emperors and to try to establish a papal theocracy. [emphasis added]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auctoritas]. Furphy: furphy (Austral. Slang): a false report or rumour; an absurd story. (Oxford Dictionary). Futurition: futurition (n.): the state of being future; futurity.~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary). Futurity: futurity (n.): 1. the time yet to come; 2. the quality of being in or of the future. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). futurity or futurition (n.; pl. futurities): 1. a less common word for future; 2. the quality of being in the future; 3. a future event. [1595-1605].~ (Collins English Dictionary). RETURN TO DEFINITIONS INDEX RICHARD’S HOME PAGE The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. Discarding all of the beliefs that have held humankind in thralldom for aeons, the way has now been discovered that cuts through the ‘Tried and True’ and enables anyone to be, for the first time, a fully free and autonomous individual living in utter peace and tranquillity, beholden to no-one. Richard's Text ©The Actual Freedom Trust: 1997- . All Rights Reserved. Disclaimer and Use Restrictions and Guarantee of Authenticity