Meaning of Black Pill | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A suburb in Mumbles community, City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS6190).
2. An opium pill.
   slang
3. A poison pill; a pill intended to kill the person who ingests it.
4. 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.
5. A traditional Tibetan remedy.
6. A notional pill taken by those who have adopted a nihilistic, usually (but not necessarily) far-right philosophy, especially incels who believe unattractive men will never be sexually or romantically successful, or those who are pessimistic about social or political issues.
   attributive, often
7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, pill.

Examples

“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.”

“I knew a girl-a black pill freak, strung out on the black pills, . . .”

“Each person requested one of the following - black pill, calomel and soda, puick, jallop and antimony wine. Those were the names the people knew for drugs in those days.”

“Desperately injured, sick, or miserable workers used the "black pill," an overdose of opium, to commit suicide.”

““My countrymen,” the oriental doctor said, “take the 'black pill' themselves when life loses its appeal or solicitously give it to a friend when hope no longer exists and nothing but suffering remains.””

“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."”

“The day I got into med school my mother told me that if she were ever to find herself without her mental faculties that I should give her the "black pill."”

“"Take the black pill," I said. "You once told me I'd never do it. Neither will you. You've got a hollow tooth, I found it when I gagged you. Bite it, take the black pill. It's easier than drowning."”

“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.”

“But to me both characters in the black pill example were immoral in Kant's sense: the person who made the offer and the person who accepted it (to accept the offer of deliberately running a risk of death for dollars gain is treating humanity in yourself as a means only, whether or not you agree, or perhaps especially if you agree)”

“Howard [1984] bases his analysis on a "black pill” and a "white pill."”

“As a useful thought experiment, we imagine an individual faced with what we call the black pill question. He is offered the chance to take a pill that will kill him instantly and painlessly with a probability he assigns as p. If he takes the pill, he will receive x dollars. Should he accept?”

“In contrast, the curve for the black pill takes off asymptotically to infinity once the risk reaches about 1/10.”

“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).”

“This great precious Cold Compound Black Pill contains more than one hundred ingredients, including the metals, gold, silver, copper, and iron, the precious stones sapphire, emerald, turquiose, ruby, and all in detoxified from and a great number of herbal ingredient, including Crocus sativus L. Silkious concretion of bamboo.”

“It is said that taking a black pill will spare one the suffering of the lower realms. The black pills are made of special substances that come from previous incarnations of the Karmapas, as well as other precious, sometimes legendary substances, such as water that has turned into snow lion milk in the skull cup of the protectress Tseringma.”

“His father went to the village leaders for some medicine but returned with only some black pills, a traditional remedy.”

“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).”

“They see a dangerous trend in the incel movement: “The spreading of the blackpill would no doubt increase shooting (and suicides) because some young men lose control”.”

“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.”

“The problem isn’t just health care or young men: All swaths of Americans increasingly appear to find themselves in a nihilistic mood. More of us, in other words, seem to have taken the black pill. Though the idea comes from the proudly misogynistic manosphere, “black pill” is now used more commonly to illustrate the general disillusionment and nihilism that many Americans share.”

“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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