Naked Science Forum
On the Lighter Side => New Theories => Topic started by: Eddie Mars on 10/08/2025 08:58:10
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Hi,
So,
we have
the unit,
/in which one measures work in a society
the permit
and
the resource/commodity.
resource (n.)
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=resorce
/the 2nd paragraph, the 3rd line
Resources as "(a country's) wealth, means of raising money and supplies"
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commodity (n.)
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=comodity
/the 2nd paragraph
From early 15c. as "article of merchandise, anything movable of value that can be bought or sold." General sense "property, possession" is from c. 1500.
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And one wanders that "money" is so confusing.
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City of God (2002)
wikipedia
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imdb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/
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The Story of Information Theory: from Morse to Shannon to ENTROPY
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What Movie Did The Groundhog Day Plot Best?
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Book burning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_burning
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But what is in the book?
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People_vs._Larry_Flynt
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Herostratus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herostratus
A philosopher once doubted.
He said something like
"We cannot judge Herostratus before we have seen the temple."
/"democracy", corruption, money laundering,
propaganda...
/ancient Greeks were creative
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Enlightenment in Buddhism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_in_Buddhism
Legend has it
that,
in a zen monastery, once, they burned the books.
Why?
The monks became more/too intellectual
but
enlightenment, known as satori,
is
physical.
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Burn Notice (2007 - 2013)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_Notice
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Sherlock Holmes NEVER 'Deduced' Anything
the end
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Resources will mainly be material resources.
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/a reminiscence
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/a mental impression retained and recalled from the past
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lira (n.)
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=lira
Italian monetary unit, 1610s,
from Italian lira, literally "pound",
from Latin libra "pound (unit of weight);"
see Libra, and compare livre.
There is also a Turkish lira.
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Libra (n.)
https://www.etymonline.com/word/Libra
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from Latin libra "a balance, pair of scales,"
also "pound (unit of weight),"
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livre (n.)
https://www.etymonline.com/word/livre
former French money, 1550s, from French livre "pound,"
in Old French in both the weight and money senses (10c.),
from Latin libra "pound (unit of weight);" see Libra.
The monetary sense in Latin was in the derived word libella "small silver coin."
Superseded by the franc.
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I Want A Divorce
The War Of The Roses (1989)
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Falling Down (1993) - I'm the bad guy?
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Reductio ad absurdum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
In logic, reductio ad absurdum ... is the form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that following the logic of a proposition or argument would lead to absurdity or contradiction.
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absurdity (n.)
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=absurdity
late 15c., absurdite, "that which is absurd,"
from Late Latin absurditatem (nominative absurditas) "dissonance, incongruity,"
noun of state from Latin absurdus "out of tune;"
figuratively "incongruous, silly, senseless" (see absurd).
absurd (adj.)
https://www.etymonline.com/word/absurd
"plainly illogical," 1550s, from French absurde (16c.),
from Latin absurdus "out of tune, discordant;" figuratively "incongruous,
foolish, silly, senseless,"
from
ab- "off, away from,"
/here perhaps an intensive prefix,
plus
surdus "dull, deaf, mute,"
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boycott
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=boycot
1880, noun and verb,
"to combine in refusing to have dealings with,
and
preventing or discouraging others from doing so,
as punishment for political or other differences."
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Not voting is boycotting.
Smart ones not entering administration
are
boycotting.
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Give one enough rope and that one will hang oneself.
/boycotting