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Lv 6

Would you rather be handcuffed for a year to a piece of road kill or to a disapproving fundamentalist?

I know that "disapproving fundamentalist" is an oxymoron, but you must admit this is an INTERESTING question that deserves some thought and an explanation for your choice. Please.

Update:

NOTE TO Auntie Anne Arkey: You are right, of course, but then there is this:

The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective-noun combination of two words. For example, the following line from Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" contains two oxymora:

"And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true."

Other examples of oxymora of this kind are:

Dark light

Living dead

Open secret

Original copy

Less often seen are noun-verb combinations of two words, such as the line"The silence whistles" from Nathan Alterman's "Summer Night," or in a record album title like "Sounds of Silence."

Oxymora are not always a pair of words; they can also be devised in the meaning of sentences or phrases.

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  • Tom K
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    Either choice would "stink", but at least the road kill would keep its opinions to itself.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    I think you mean that "disapproving fundamentalist" is "redundant", not an "oxymoron". An oxymoron, by your thinking, would be a "permissive fundamentalist".

    And I DON'T think this is a very interesting question nor worthy of much thought at all.

  • Ruth
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Disapproving fundamentalist. We would enjoy each other I am quite sure and come away with a better knowledge of all things spiritual.

    Source(s): Another fundamentalist
  • Ray
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    I am an approving fundamentalist. I approve of your right to choose; so does God. I approve of the wrath to come; he's looking forward to it to (actually, I think he's looking forward to when the universe is restored to his original design). I hope you are, too. Handcuffs? Those don't fit in with his plan. I wish those on no one.

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  • 9 years ago

    I think you mean tautology. The answer would be roadkill because i could cook it and eat it, but it would be wrong to kill and eat a fundamentalist.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    road kill for religious people like atheism evolutionism islamic religions, new age Opera religions Eastern karma religions ETC their lies make zero sense and would drive me crazy o wait if they have a brain and do not think with their emotions they could be taught the truth of our Creator Jesus LORD to All Christ too some

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Only if the road kill is small... I can't drag a deer for a year straight.

  • 9 years ago

    Disapproving fundamentalist isn't an oxymoron, its redundant. I'll take the fundie -- it will be a bigger hell for them to be handcuffed to me than it will be for me (who does not believe in hell).

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    is the disapproving fundamentalist a hot chick?

  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    The roadkill would disintegrate to nothing. Id rather be handcuffed......to the roadkill.

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