1. Mental Masturbation
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Intellectual activity that serves no practical purpose.
We debated and created a perfect system of government, but it was all just mental masturbation, really.
2. Mental Masturbation
The act of engaging in useless yet intellectually stimulating conversation, usually as an excuse to avoid taking constructive action in your life.
Guy 1: "If only I had taken Cindy to my high school prom, I could have fucked her instead of that loser Jeff and then now she would be my girlfriend."
Guy 2: "Dude, stop that mental masturbation right now and go out and meet a new girl!"
3. Mental masturbation
the act of engaging in intelligent and interesting conversation purely for the enjoyment of your own greatness and individuality.
Subjects range from obscure lp's to cultural movements in preindustrial societies.
Either delivered through grand monlogues or subtle conversation orientation, it links large words and random references resulting in nothing acually being communicated.
Though the influence of Ric Okasisk was quite evident within Weezer's blue album, rivers coumo domination of the lyrical form seem quite evident in Pinkerton
4. Mental Masturbation
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Intellectual activity that serves no practical purpose.
Excessively theoretical, and therefore a distraction from more practicable matters.
Dr. Richard Dawkins, noted biological theorist, in response to a student's philosophical question about skeptical attitudes towards science and reality, cited the following anecdote:
James Boswell asked, "... nothing really exists unless there's somebody there to see it.
How do you refute that?"
Samuel Johnson replied, "I refute it thus!", and kicked a stone out of his way.
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Dr. Dawkins, commenting on Boswell's question, and critiquing the attitude:
"If you want to mess about with that sort of mental masturbation, thats fine, but, ... but the science of reality is what gets you through the day, ... and makes things work!"
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by The Practical Atheist Dec 12, 2009 share this
5. mental masturbation
In academics it is the practice of using faulty premises to draw a conclusion.
2. The pretense of superior knowledge or intelligence by claiming conjecture, theory, feeling or opinion as fact.
The facts used to describe the cause of Global warming is an exercise in mental masturbation.
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Overly intensive self gratifying procrastination, thought and contemplation for a subject not necessarily warranting such effort.
"Let's quit the mental masturbation here, its a waste of time..."
thought contemplation self gratification intellectual waste time
by Diamond Tee Apr 9, 2009 share this
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To perform some activity, typically IT related, where performing the activity gives the performer almost sexual pleasure while doing it, yet nothing of any value or lasting value is produced. Mental masturbation is reasonably acceptable in the privacy of the performer's home, but not on their employer's time.
Mental masturbation may be the reason for overly complicated and hard to understand solutions being implemented in one company, despite simpler and more commonly understood solutions being used at a number of other companies in the same industry.
To work mate, on Monday morning, "Guess what I did over the weekend! I rewrote Linux in FORTAN! Cool huh!"
Workmate, unimpressed, "That sounds like mental masturbation to me."
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