Polish your skin and other advertizing language

by Lady Lee 10 Replies latest jw friends

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  Lady Lee

  It used to be OK to wash your skin. Then they got into all the younger, more glowing, cleansing words. Now we have to "polish" our skin. I understand car polish and show polish even nail polish and floor polish. But skin polish?

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  Then there is the insurance company that says how unfair it is to have your insurance rates go up when you have an accident. Interesting though how they slip in that this policy will never raise your rates after your first accident. They conveniently and quickly slide that nuggest in hoping people will miss how high your rates will go on the second accident.

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  And let's not forget luminous hair -- Luminous? what the heck is that supposed to be?

  Definitions of luminous on the Web:

  • aglow(p): softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars"
    wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

• Luminous is a collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan.
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_(story_collection)
• self illuminating paint used on hands and markers.
  www.orolus.com/watchglossary.shtml
• This bhumi is called 'luminous', because it is said to be like a radiating light that fully burns that which opposes enlightenment. The emphasized virtue is vigor (virya).
  www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Bodhisattva
• giving off light
  www.kentuckyawake.org/templates/glossary/
• 1. In general, pertaining to the emission of visible radiation. 2. In photometry, a modifier used to denote that a given physical quantity, such as luminous emittance, is weighted according to the manner in which the response of the human eye varies with the wavelength of the light.
  amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/browse
• objects that give off or reflect glowing or suffused light
  www.valemount.com/joel/lightoptics/glossary.htm
• " Luminous Hands and/or Hour Markers"- is a standard feature on most watches. The hour markers and/or hands have a coating of "Glow in the dark" which will illuminates in the dark so you can tell the time where there is insufficient light.
  www.watchboutique.com/watch_terms.htm

Are we supposed to wind up with a halo over our heads?

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