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Offline Eddie Mars (OP)

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What are resources?
« on: 10/08/2025 08:58:10 »
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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Re: What are resources?
« Reply #1 on: 10/08/2025 09:56:19 »
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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


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Re: What are resources?
« Reply #2 on: 10/08/2025 13:12:39 »
Resources will mainly be material resources.
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Re: What are resources?
« Reply #3 on: 24/08/2025 07:09:41 »
/a reminiscence
/...
/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

...
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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Re: What are resources?
« Reply #4 on: 24/08/2025 10:37:10 »

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
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