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Thalassic Subtype
Gaian Type world in which water
covers 25 to 50% of the surface. However, unlike the Paludial Subtype, varied
surface relief leads to varied climates. Life is typically quite
prolific.
ThanatologistOne who studies thanatology
ThanatologyThe study of mortalist and historical cultures in which dying and bereavement was still a part of life, as well as associated myths and narratives and metaphysical beliefs.
ThasaiyaUnassuming non-aligned low middle regions world,
settled in the early post-ComEmp period, and for a while home to a flourishing local culture. About 1200 years ago the local ai, for reasons known only to itself, prohibited swearing and imposed serious consequences on beings doing so. As a result, within a decade most of the citizens emigrated, and now Thasaiya is inhabited by a little more than a monastery of Reformed Tolerikerian Church. ThaumaturgyOne who studies or practices thaumaturgy
ThaumaturgyThe scientific, parascientific, or ascientific study of magic and miracles.
True Thaumaturgy is distinguished from Technothaumaturgy, or miracles performed using advanced technology. While Technothaumaturgy is well known (and sometimes goes under the popular term "clarketech") the existence of psychic, occult, and/or supernaturalist thaumaturgy, involving results brought about through magical ritual, mantras, shamanism, and meditation is controversial, and whilst there have been some astonishing instances, these have never been verified under strict laboratory conditions. Nevertheless, on occasion even higher toposophic minds have often shown an interest in thaumaturgy. theismPhilosophical or religious belief in a supreme deity or a Absolute Reality of intimate or personal aspect. A broader term than monotheism
TheocracyGovernment by religious leadership or priesthood. A common phenomenon among medieval/iron age states, less common in the industrial age, almost non-existent in the Information Age (the internet savvy Islamic cultures on mid/late 21st century Earth being a rare exception), Theocracy began to flourish again among the mushrooming of utopian and eccentric factions in the Interplanetary Age. The Interstellar era saw some local theocratic biosphere-states. The Stella Umma is the only Theocratic Empire to really make it big during post-Federation time
theologyReligio-philosophical discourse or speculation on the nature of God or transcendent beings in general.
theologianOne who studies religion and the nature of deity, whether natural or supernatural
TheravadaMajor Old Earth Buddhist sect, now very rarely practiced
Theta Vinculumred giant in the Serpens sector of outer volumes - center of nanotech foghood civilisation known The Clouds.
Third Def8important Communion of Worlds member-system
tholus Thomism / neo-Thomismthe theological system of St. Thomas Aquinas (medieval age Old Earth) - a synthesis of Aristotelianism and Old Catholicism - teaching that sapient philosophy and supernaturalist theology have separate spheres, with one seeking truth through the agency of reason and the other through that of revelation, but reaching conclusions that support each other.
thoughtformIn occultism, a mental or emotional formation in the astral or mental plane; an artificial entity that is generated psychologically through the power of will and imagination and then seeks to actualize or to maintain itself through manifesting in the minds of others.
threatThe part of a meme-complex that encourages adherence and discourages mis-replication. (See: bait, hook, vaccine.)
after Hofstadter, in ©Glenn Grant The Three and the OneCosmogenic metaphor based on Sophic League capitals.
The Three are Ararat, New Taylor, and Sacred Heart, three worlds that take turns as being the capital of the League. The One is Satyaloka, the AI God primary node and dyson shells that is the center of the high toposophic Sophic Minds. Satyaloka is described as "the first manifestation" or "heaven" from which emanate the three qualities of embodied existence (gunas or tattwas) as represented by the three sophic capitals, which represent the mutable and cyclic embodied existence (each world in turn is the capital for a while)
Three Body ProblemThe problem of determining the future positions and velocities of three gravitational bodies. The problem was proved unsolvable in the general case by Old Earth industrial age mathematician Henri Poincaré, which in turn led to the development of chaos theory. Although no analytical solutions are possible in the worst case, a numerical solution is sometimes sufficient for many tasks. A number of hyperturing mathematicians have offered varying resolutions to the Three Body Problem, although no complete solution that is comprehensible to an intelligence of less than S5 has ever been proposed
ThresholdBlack hole. Used for burial ceremonies.
STORY - Falling Stars
Thym OlepVec clade of the Metasoft Perseus border, who took Kja Observance ideas to an unusual extreme by adding genetic information transfer to their communications repertoire They make bonobo chimpanzees look perfectly celibate, especially during the monthly accounting rushes.
thyminepyrimidine base (nitrogenous base) and constituent of nucleotides and as such one member of the base pair A-T (adenine-thymine) in DNA.
Thyresta