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(biblical-Genesis 11:4-9) a scene of noise and confusion named after a tower meant to reach heaven that collapsed when God caused its builders to speak in different tongues
"When Babel's walls came crashing down," - Skyscraper
- Brett Gurewitz
A law officer who makes sure that the decisions of a court are obeyed.
"Grim bailiffs wait like minarets" - Faces of Grief
- Brett Gurewitz
Undisguised; blunt
"Just the bald and overt truth of the evil and deception." - Inner Logic
- Greg Graffin
"And in their stares is bald dismay" - The Streets Of America
- Greg Graffin, Brian Baker
1. not producing offspring
2. unproductive or unfruitful
3. dull or boring
4. lacking or devoid
2. unproductive or unfruitful
3. dull or boring
4. lacking or devoid
"He's the farmer's barren fields, (In God)" - American Jesus
- Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz
"Rotting bones in your barren fields. " - Eat Your Dog
- Greg Graffin
"Like a barren winter day" - Struck A Nerve
- Greg Graffin
Supreme blessedness; exalted happiness
"Inchoate beatitude, the Lord of the Flies." - 1000 More Fools
- Brett Gurewitz
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command
"Did you listen to the arbiter's beck and call?" - Murder
- Brett Gurewitz
To discuss repeatedly or at length; harp on
"She came from Heaven, well, there's no point belaboring that," - Evangeline
- Brett Gurewitz
The act or quality of being belligerent or warlike; aggressiveness.
"Because passion unabated can be readily conflated as belligerence." - The Resist Stance
- Greg Graffin
1. Of a kind and gentle disposition.
2. Having little or no detrimental effect; harmless
2. Having little or no detrimental effect; harmless
"All that's benign corrupts in time," - Epiphany
- Greg Graffin
to hand down
"Bequeathed to everyone:" - Strange Denial
- Greg Graffin
Obsessed with, passionate about
"Or a vision of utopia that only the besotten can see?" - Old Regime
- Greg Graffin
Gift; something acquired without compensation
"Bestowments from the past," - New America
- Greg Graffin
The Song of the Bhagavan, often referred to as simply the Gita, is a 700-verse scripture that is part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. This scripture contains a conversation between Pandava prince Arjuna and his guide Lord Krishna on a variety of theological and philosophical issues.
"That girl's got the atom and the Bhagavad Gita" - Dharma and the Bomb
- Brett Gurewitz
To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain
"And bide until the word is good and ripe and get plucked clean out of sight" - New Dark Ages
- Brett Gurewitz
The head of a totalitarian regime
"With opiates of silicon, Big Brother schemes to rule the nation." - Part II (The Numbers Game)
- Brett Gurewitz
"I prefer my big brother, he's so gentle and understanding," - Television
- Brett Gurewitz, Johnette Napolitano
Intolerance, prejudice
"There is restrained passion, mistrust, and bigotry" - The Handshake
- Greg Graffin
To surge or roll in large swells, surges or undulating masses
"The billowing cyclone of time has blown away our reasons" - I Want Something More
- Brett Gurewitz
"St. Anne's skirts are billowing," - Los Angeles Is Burning
- Brett Gurewitz
An ugly urban district
"Flack, rounds and roiling blight" - Heroes & Martyrs
- Brett Gurewitz
A Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th/6th century CE. These sources, given in various translations, vary on their account of Bodhidharma being either:
- A monk of the Western Region named Bodhidharma, a Persian Central Asian
- A South Indian of the Western Region. He was the third son of a great Indian king
- Who came from South India in the Western Regions, the third son of a great Brahman king
- Of South Indian Brahman stock c.q. a Brahman monk from South India
- A monk of the Western Region named Bodhidharma, a Persian Central Asian
- A South Indian of the Western Region. He was the third son of a great Indian king
- Who came from South India in the Western Regions, the third son of a great Brahman king
- Of South Indian Brahman stock c.q. a Brahman monk from South India
"Bodhidharma has gone fission" - Dharma and the Bomb
- Brett Gurewitz
1. noisily jolly or rowdy
2. rough and stormy
2. rough and stormy
"Are the boisterous hollow masses" - Leaders And Followers
- Greg Graffin
1. To support with or as if with a bolster (a long pillow or cushion
2. To buoy up or hearten
2. To buoy up or hearten
"Bolstering national faith," - American Jesus
- Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz
"Licking all the right holes, bolstering the payroll," - Quality Or Quantity
- Greg Graffin
"Any wretched ploy that bolsters our economy." - Too Much To Ask
- Greg Graffin
Boltzmann, Ludwig (1844-1906) an Austrian physicist
DID YOU KNOW: Boltzmann derived a formula (the Boltzmann Distribution) which gives the number of atoms or molecules with a given energy at a specific temperature. This can theoretically be used to measure the entropy of the universe.
DID YOU KNOW: Boltzmann derived a formula (the Boltzmann Distribution) which gives the number of atoms or molecules with a given energy at a specific temperature. This can theoretically be used to measure the entropy of the universe.
"Man, we're in a play of slow decay orchestrated by Boltzmann." - Entropy
- Greg Graffin
Marked by abundance; plentiful.
"Toward a land that's better, much more bountiful and wide." - How Much Is Enough?
- Brett Gurewitz
French word which means Middle Class. Mostly used during the French Revolution. Was a legal category in society
"...And so returns the bourgeoise, the bastard child of democracy" - The Profane Rights of Man
- Greg Graffin
The quality or state of being brief in duration
" Meaningfully. (brevity, dependency)" - Supersonic
- Brett Gurewitz
To hold back or keep in check; control
"There's no reason for bridled fear." - It's A Long Way To The Promise Land
- Greg Graffin
Moody; meditative; introspective
"But the broody skies above" - Cyanide
- Brett Gurewitz
Rural, rustic
"Phantasmal myriads of sane bucolic birth." - 1000 More Fools
- Brett Gurewitz
An unfair judgement on someone or something.
"We've all got bum raps that torment us day to day" - Nobody Listens
- Greg Graffin, Brian Baker
