Names
Names noun - Verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument.
Sects
Both words in one sentence
- Settled by several fundamentalist sects, the names were an attempt to try to ease tensions.
Source: Naming Your Colony World -
One of the offshoot sects, called Zurvanism, names the Lie as Ahriman, the brother of Ahura-Mazda, and holds that the two are always in conflict over the spirits of mankind.
Source: Order Versus Chaos -
Taoism has a variety of sects with sweet names like "The Mighty Commonwealth of Orthodox Oneness" and "The School of Complete Reality." Many Taoist sects are deeply concerned with the individual soul, and are famed for discovering gunpowder in their pursuit of an alchemical elixir of immortality.
Source: Useful Notes / Taoism
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