A fork of Rural Dictionary
The process by which people find out what is the truth. The opposite of faith.
Einstein discovered how relativity worked by using reason and thinking about it.
\`rea'son`ing\ n.
1. Logical thinking
2. A word not many devout religious followers are comfortable with (no offense).
(3. Sign of the "anti-christ"?)
1. With simple reasoning and logic, Michael figured out the lateral thinking problem.
2. The atheist/disbeliever pissed off the priest (or rabbi, cleric, etc) by using logic and reasoning to question the Bible (torah, quran, etc).
A song that was good until it got overplayed.
"All right, The Reason is on, I love this song!"
2 days later: "Oh shit, not The Reason again!"
What you say when you don't want to give the real reason.
Who's that?
Oh, just a friend; why do you ask?
No reason. (secretly insecure, jealous, sizing the other person up)
Originally found in an engrish advertisement for Japanese sake, "for reasons" has come into common usage to ironically or sarcastically point out either obvious reasons for a thing, or a complete lack of explanation. It is also used to point out a nonsensical or untrue explanation, or to avoid giving an actual explanation.
You can buy water inside, but they won't let you bring in your own water, for reasons.
Yeah, they won't let you use your cell phone on an airplane, for reasons.
Urban Dictionary editors keep deciding to not publish my word, for reasons.