I would like to know what some of this terminolgy means?

Question

Over the past few days, I've noticed more and more people using the words, "troll" "heathen" and there's some others used in this section, but I can't remember them.

Do they mean "trolls" like in the fairy tale sense?

Also, I'm not sure on the *drink* thing, either...

Answer 1

Nobody's yet explained the drinking game.

Every time someone asks a question which has been asked and effectively answered a thousand times, we drink to that question, because it's amusing to see just how drunk one would get answering those questions all over again.

Answer 2

There are two senses to the meaning of the term "troll". One is the fairy tale sense of a troll hiding under a bridge waiting to get someone who comes by. The other sense is in the "fishing" sense where a fisherman drags or trolls the bait or lure through the water hoping to get a fish to "bite".

An Internet "troll" posts something inflammatory or outrageous pretending to be serious in the hope of eliciting a reaction from readers. The cast out the "lure" and hope to get some "bites".

Your Catholic "friend" is under one of the false theologies of that church which denies what the Bible teaches about who is really a Christian and what the true church of God is.

Romans 8:9  But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

Ephesians 2:18  For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.  19  Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,  20  having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,  21  in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,  22  in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

Answer 3

Fundie is a derogatory term for the word Fundamentalist.  It's often used against Christians as if standing up for what you believe in is somehow wrong or misguided.

Heathen; the word means, strange or uncivilized.  In a religious sense it also means an unbeliever.  

Troll; like SPAM this word is more associated with the internet than with faery tales.  A troll is someone who:  Asks stupid or intentionally offensive questions.  Answers questions in opinion forums like this one with spam, unrelated answers, nonsense answers such as. "What did you think Obama's speech last night?"  A troll will answer with something like. "Lolz"  or "I wuz getting drunk."  Anything a troll does is supposed to annoy and irritate others.  It's simply a need for attention.  

Answer 4

Troll:  Someone posting for no real purpose other than to antagonize or irritate people here for a purpose.  Also can be false reporters.

Heathen:  Pagan, other gods believer

Drink:  Answer to question about why atheists are in R&S.  I've also seen this in reference to Pascal's wager.  Pascal's wager is what they call it when we ask, "What if Christians are right?" or something similar.

Answer 5

troll is when someone says stuff to get others angry heathen is the fundie word for people who don't believe in jesus and the *drink* thing is for stupid questions  

Answer 6

Troll: Someone who deliberately posts someone inflammatory to get a response. They're just looking for attention, and fail in most ways.

Heathen: Someone who doesn't believe in god, or more specifically, your god.

*drink* is a drinking game thing.

Answer 7

hea·then  (hn)

n. pl. hea·thens or heathen

1.

a. One who adheres to the religion of a people or nation that does not acknowledge the God of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.

b. Such persons considered as a group; the unconverted.

2.

a. One who is regarded as irreligious, uncivilized, or unenlightened.

b. Such persons considered as a group.

Heathenry

"Heathen" (Old English hæðen) is a translation of paganus. The Germanic tribes were distributed over Eastern and Central Europe by the 5th century, and their dialects ceased to be mutually intelligible from around that time. Christianization of the Germanic peoples took place from the 4th (Goths) to the 6th (Anglo-Saxons, Alamanni) or 8th (Saxons) centuries on the continent, and from the 9th to 12th centuries in Iceland and Scandinavia.

I use "heathen" in the sense of the non-christian/pre-christian native culture/beliefs of Northern Europe.  I'm a reconstructionist who works to reintegrate the pre-christian Germanic values and culture as is applicable and appropriate to today's world.

Answer 8

Insult.

Answer 9

A) Heathen: technically anyone NOT a member of some Christian denomination. Also used to describe anyone not of YOUR belief system.

B) Troll: taken from the fairy tales but used here to describe anyone writing on these boards using profanity, insult, scorn or vulgarity against others.

C) Drink: ? sorry haven't seen this one.

Hope this helped.

Answer 10

People can be considered troll if they are hateful and try to rise up fight. Many times some can be called troll even if that is not a proper thing to say. No, it is not in a fairy tale sense

Heathen, atheist

Atheists have " drink " thing, they say that when a question is often coming like Pascal Wagner. I think it is actually quite silly from 'intellctuals'

Answer 11

Heathen is one who is of a spirituality outside of normally accepted ones (Godless heathens etc) some call them "lost children"...I call them interesting and easy to freak out whilst drinking their absinthe and uttering mantra into the wee hours, hearing them become confounded and without bearings when dawn spreads her fingertips of rose.