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Obnosis is a neologism derived from Greek roots, referenced in common cultural use; historical Internet civil disobedience, Internet computer security, Internet neutrality history, open source and technical critical thought; now invoked in reference to open source systems support, systems theory, technical education and cultural Internet sociology.

Etymology

Obnosis is a slang word with several etymologies. One explanation is that the word is derived from the Greek word for knowledge, gnosis γνώσις and used with the prefix ob meaning to see, or observe for usage of knowledge by observation. A second etymology is that it derives from the Greek word for disease nosis νοσός, and used in common English with the prefix ob meaning to see, or observe to infer observation of issues, illness or disease.^[1]

Common Usage

Obnosis refers to deciphering "unknowns" by "going to look, learning by experience, learning by doing", and skilled abilities developed from flexing critical thinking muscles while employing standard process as opposed to theoretical learning disseminated in classrooms or via formal education.

Obnosis, slang means mature understanding or knowledge that comes from experience rather than from formal education, rote memorization or theoretical learning.

Technical Usage

The word obnosis refers to "knowledge" in terms of technical solutions to issues found via troubleshooting errors in logs or deploying debug tools in real time using exquisitely honed critical thought in conjunction with both non-linear and linear-path process analysis or Universal Troubleshooting Process ^[2].

Microsoft's NZ Software Design ImagineCup Team Obnosis

Team Obnosis ^[3] is a four member team from Victoria University Wellington competing in the Microsoft ImagineCup 2008. Obnosis' project Leviathin is a 3D model sharing framework to facilitate evaluation of data structures for any criteria set - thermal analysis/light etc. ^[4].

Contemporary Cultural Useage

The word Obnosis has been adopted in popular use for technical music and gaming characters; an indication of social evolution from formal to individually driven education, intelligence, and opinion, that expose a progressive and pervasive cultural shift.

Musical Obnosis

Obnosis is the name of a song by Metropolis ^[5]. Obnosis is also the name of an electronia band ^[6]. No current musical work carrying the name obnosis includes lyrics.

World Of Warcraft Obnosis

World of Warcraft Armory has an online level 70 Final Cut Undead Warlock character named Obnosis ^[7].

Obnosis in Technophilia .vs Philosophy of Primatism

• "Walter Alter self-sanctified high priest of progress, rages against obnosis, his ill-formed neologism for "ignoring the obvious". Bob Black writes in A Postscript to Sahlins ^[8], "According to Walter Alter, science privileges neither direction. There is no passive, preexisting, "organized, patterned, predicted and graspable" universe out there awaiting our Promethean touch. Insofar as the Universe is orderly -- which, for all we know, may not be all that far -- we make it so. Not only in the obvious sense that we form families and build cities, ordering our own life-ways, but merely by the patterning power of perception, by which we resolve a welter of sense-data into a "table" where there are "really" only a multitude of tiny particles and mostly empty space." ^[9]

L. Ron Hubbard's Obnosis

The term Obnosis was used publicly on just one occasion by Scientology cult founder L. Ron Hubbard defining the term "observation of the obvious" in a taped lecture called "The Tone Scale" dated January 9, 1957. ^[10]. L. Ron Hubbard regularly stated that non-scientologists were inherently emotionally, mentally and spiritually ill, and therefore could not see what is clearly available (and obvious to Scientologists or "up tone" people). In his 1957 taped lecture, L. Ron Hubbard contended that psychology and psychiatry were abusive mind control therefore obnosis could only be elevated through application of LRH's "techniques", which apply strict regulation of personal opinion and emotions during all communication. Adopted and packaged as dogma of the Church of Scientology, ^[11] the word obnosis is frequently used to imply that exclusive counseling and training courses will increase the intelligence of the "church worshipper" ^[12].

Modern Marketing of Ob-Gnosis

Modern Scientologists marketing commercial services through online literature campaigns, intermingle the word and subject of Gnosis with obnosis as context to embrace age-old meditation states, experiential detachment, Emotional intelligence, Jungian self-awareness and higher consciousness as original Scientology precepts ^[13] which the Church of Scientology declares exclusively as the "Path to Total Freedom" only available and acknowledged as a stable state of grace or spiritual attainment after purchase and completion of Scientology courses or Dianetics auditing "counseling". Autism, traumatic brain changes, physical and psychological illnesses are claimed by the Church of Scientology to be healed or resolved ^[14] (at cost) through obnosis. Psychological projection or counter projection are still commonly used, even today, in conjunction with usage of the word obnosis by Scientologists especially when referring to formal education, psychology or medicine ^[15].

See also

Look up obnosis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Gnosis a (Greek word for knowledge, γνώσις) is used in English to specify the spiritual knowledge of a saint or enlightened human being. It is described as the direct experiential knowledge of the supernatural or divine. This is not enlightenment understood in its general sense of insight or learning (which in Greek is διαφωτισις)^[16]but enlightenment that validates the existence of the supernatural.

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See also: gnosiology

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