black pill
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black pill¹
Where it comes from
Nihilism sense influenced by preexisting red pill. See there for further explanation.
noun black pills · black-pill · blackpill
- An opium pill. Those funny pipes were used for opium-smoking — just a puff for each shining black pill, and then oblivion to all earthly cares — dreams and dreams of beautiful worlds.
- A poison pill; a pill intended to kill the person who ingests it. He says conditions got worse as time went along and at different times she threatened to give him a black pill, that he asked her what this meant and she said "that was the way women had of getting rid of husbands when they didn't want them any more."
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A hypothetical pill with a specific probability of causing death, which one is offered a large sum of money in order to take, as a philosophical dilemma.
Now that we have both the black pill and white pill results before us, we are in a position to make a few general observations.
Opposite: white pill
- A traditional Tibetan remedy. However, disquiet has been voiced recently about how "natural" certain forms of traditional Buddhist medicine are - notably the Tibetan "black pill" - some recipes for which specify rhinoceros horn and bear-bile among the ingredients (Leland, 1995).
- A notional pill taken by those who have adopted a nihilistic, usually (but not necessarily) far-right philosophy, or those who are pessimistic about social or political issues. Once an individual had accessed this page they would be directed to a number of stories that described other candidates, in this case Fillon and Macron, as crooked, and also described French democracy as a broken system (the 'black pill' content).
- The belief that genetics and appearance (as defined by LMS (“Looks Money Status”) and PSL theory) determine one's destiny and that effort (especially regarding the sexual marketplace) is futile. The first way forum posters express how they deal with depression is through the term “LDAR” or “lay down and rot”. This phrase follows the logic of the blackpill that life is hopeless for incels due to their inability to reach stereotypical standards of masculinity.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, pill.
verb black pills · black pilling · black pilled · black-pill · blackpill
- To cause another to adopt a nihilistic philosophy. And finally, to be 'black-pilled' is to take pleasure in the end of existence, to philosophise from a perspective of our technological demise, and to embrace the singular bleakness of a meaningless world.
- To accept that genetics and appearance (as defined by LMS and PSL theory) determine one's destiny and that effort (especially regarding the sexual marketplace) is futile. Incels are a danger to western society, because if we manage to blackpill more low value men, it could destroy this rotten civilization in its current form.
Black Pill²
proper noun Blackpill
- A suburb in Mumbles community, City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS6190). Another scheme for electrifying the Swansea & Mumbles also dates from 1898, and was connected with the proposal for the Gower Light Railway from Black Pill to Port Eynon, which came to nothing.
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