My neologisms

Occurs to me maybe I should make some kind of a "sticky" post, to make question-answering easy. I'll just update it as I add words.

Here are some words or abbreviations I've invented.

emerg*** — a lot of people think Phil invented this. That makes perfect sense: Phil's all over the emerg* movement, has written about it, has given talks on it, has lampooned it in PoMotivator posters. Heck, I'd think he made it up, if I hadn't made it up myself. The truth is, Phil's too smart to have invented it. I fabricated it, because I kept seeing Those Folks faulting people for saying "emergent" when they should have said "emerging," and vice-versa. Since to me the difference is largely historical and academic, I just came up with this convenient shorthand. Hardcore geeks will observe that I strictly should have said either emerg*, or emerg???. They'd be right, of course. Oh well, too late. [UPDATE: Stefan Ewing has made a credible claim to be the originator, and the earliest use I can find is his. Yet I have a really distinct memory of making it up. So either I haven't found my earliest use, or didn't notice his use and made it up independently later, or saw his and forgot seeing it. So... this is suspect as a DJPical neologism.]

HSAT — Having Said All That. I was using the phrase enough that a acronym seemed called for.

nomicophobia — irrational fear of any kind of law; knee-jerk dodge-reaction to anyone to mentions a commandment of God that you don't want to obey. Refusal to do anything unless it's on your terms. See further here.

obama — An empty thing onto which people project their own ideas, thoughts, fears and/or aspirations. See further here.

sarkicophobia — The fear of obeying God or doing anything for the glory of God in the flesh. A sarkicophobe would much rather disobey God outright, or do nothing whatever for His name, than do something "in the flesh." See further here.

Have I missed anything? Remind me, if so, and I'll expand.

Unveiling a new noun!

It could be argued that we already have too many words. Thick unabridged dictionaries would reinforce that impression.

Yet there are many things for which I don't think there is a good enough word. For instance, we know what a "slut" is: a sexually loose woman. But what is a male slut?

And what is a good positive term for the person who believes that God's revelatory work for this age met its completion with the close of the Canon, leaving us with an inerrant, binding, and sufficient written revelation?

So I take this occasion to introduce yet another neologism. My biographers will add this to other creations of mine such as HSAT (Having Said All That) and emerg*** (to cover both emergent and emerging).

And so, without further eloquence, I give you —

o ∙ ba ∙ ma [oh-BAH-mə] (noun) An empty thing onto which people project their own ideas, thoughts, fears and/or aspirations. Example: "Boy, that video Mamma Don't let your babies grow up to be pastors was really quite an obama over in the Pyro meta!" [adjective o ∙ ba ∙ mi ∙ ti ∙ cal]

Remember: you were here when it happened!

UPDATE: feel free to offer examples of using "obama" in a sentence.