by Kevin Vost
UN distributes middle term paper
Undistributed middle term
31. Recliner
A man says, “Gee, I don’t know”
Agnosticism
32. Couch
Man, with a thesis there is no God
Atheism
33. Doorway out
Convict with sequins
Consequentialism
34. Baptismal font
Construction worker
Constructivism
35. Front center
Man consumes huge meal
Consumerism
36. Altar
Emotional priest crying
Emotivism
37. Confessional
People with Bibles bow before Fido
Fideism
38. Front pew right
Your favorite history teacher
Historicism
39. Back of church
Cardsharp says, “I deal isms!”
Idealism
40. Start of center aisle
Child: “one nation, individual”
Individualism
41. Study door
Saleslady with material
Materialism
42. Short bookcase
Southerner: “It’s ma turn for Isms.”
Modernism
43. Tall bookcase
Knees, heels, nothing
Nihilism
44. Presents on top of case
Trainer to dog: “No mints, Al!”
Nominalism
45. Picture
Post office: “Ma turn” again
Postmodernism
46. First chair
“P” rag, mat
Pragmatism
47. Tall lamp
Reducing-machine belt
Reductionism
48. Second chair
All your relatives
Relativism
49. Footrest
Scientist hunched over microscope
Scientism
50. Picture window
Skippers say, “Skip this ism!”
Skepticism
51. Globe
Hitler touts Aryanism
Arianism
52. Bookcase
Cath arisen from bed
Catharism
53. Doorway out
Heretic: “G no stick!”
Gnosticism
54. Diplomas
Heretic: “I cannot class them!”
Iconoclasm
55. Picture
Jan’s son
Jansenism
56. Chair before armoire
Manatee with a key
Manicheanism
57. Armoire
Drug on TV for mono and feet
Monophysitism
58. Bookcase
Nest or ism (or Homer’s Nestor)
Nestorianism
59. Portrait
Pelican aging
Pelagianism
60. Closet door
Soloist sings Scripture
sola Scriptura
About the Author
Kevin Vost, Psy.D., obtained his doctor of psychology degree in clinical psychology from Adler University in Chicago with internship and dissertation research at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Alzheimer’s Center, Memory and Aging Clinic. His dissertation was entitled “Executive Functioning in Early Alzheimer’s Disease” and his master’s thesis from Sangamon State University was entitled “Memory Strategy Instruction and the Internalization of Higher Psychological Processes in Adolescence.”
Dr. Vost has taught psychology and gerontology at Aquinas College in Nashville, the University of Illinois at Springfield, MacMurray College, and Lincoln Land Community College. He has also served as a Research Review Committee member for American Mensa and as an advisory-board member for the International Association of Resistance Trainers. In 2017, Kevin and his wife, Kathy, became lay Dominican Associates with the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois.
Dr. Vost is the author of more than a dozen Catholic books, has appeared on hundreds of Catholic radio and television broadcasts, and has traveled across the United States and Ireland, giving talks on the themes of his books. When home, he continues to drink great draughts of coffee while studying timeless, Thomistic tomes in the company of his wife, their two sons, and their two dogs.
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