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Is the word freedom countable or uncountable?
« on: 12/08/2025 09:00:22 »
Is freedom countable or uncountable?

The answer is simple - just look it up in a dictionary.

/does that make a dictionary a law?
/if yes,
/then who writes, publishes and promotes that law?



The question is political.



Freedom is always uncountable.

If there is a need to use it in an countable way,

then

replace it with right.



So,

the four "freedoms"

are

the four rights.


Four Freedoms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms


-

freedom (n.)
/from Old English
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=freedom


liberty (n.)
/from Old French, one becomes suspicious
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=liberty

/liberties even has negative nuances

privilege (n.)
/recorded earlier in Old English, but as a Latin word
/Latin word - one becomes suspicious
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=privilege


-


Well, well, well,

it seems that

the wars are not only fought on the battleground.

Go figure.


-

Accepting "freedoms", former slaves become slaves again.


The Big Bang Theory, The Cricket Scene


= = =

Independence begins with the "language" and the ideas it names.

Then are:

the state;
/physical force

the markets;
/banking force

the education.
/knowledge/propaganda force,
/done in a plain people's language



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Re: Is the word freedom countable or uncountable?
« Reply #1 on: 17/08/2025 09:29:07 »

...

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Marcus Aurelius

-

Be careful who you choose as your enemy
because
that?s who you become most like.
Nietzsche

-

Even Eric Berne says

that

enemies, people who fight each other,

become alike.

= = =

When one of opposing sides
begin to express itself in the terms of its opponent,

then

that side has already lost.
 

= = =


The World?s Worst Liar (?The Usual Suspects? Parody) - Key & Peele


-

20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Usual Suspects



It may be that Keaton is Keyser S?ze

and

Verbal kills him

and then

he becomes (the new) Keyser S?ze.
/the smile of Keaton
/when
/shot by Verbal

//emancipation in the criminal world
//and not only


That changes nothing.


= = =


Good Karma: A My Name is Earl Retrospective



= = =


A Retrospective Look at The Mentalist


= = =

...


All that is data and entertainment.

That makes it DATA (the feelings are incorporated).

One listens to very smart people.


= = =   = = =   = = =


The big Lebowski (1998)

/one hundred years of propaganda hacked

/and

/no-one noticed




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Re: Is the word freedom countable or uncountable?
« Reply #2 on: 19/08/2025 09:39:25 »
I am sorry.




An Italian story, maybe, goes like this


The God and the Devil watch

how the peasant

collects/picks up/...  scattered around pieces of the Truth

one by one/piece by piece.

The God asks the Devil

"Doesn't it bother you that the peasant will finally find out the Truth?"

To which the Devil replies

"Don't worry, I'll help him put the pieces together."



=

"Angel Heart" Explained. The Devil Is In The Detail.
...

What is it to be baptised?
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=87319.msg746969#new



=

20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Usual Suspects


4:01 min.
Kint "quotes"/paraphrases Baudelaire

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."


-

"The Devil's deepest wile

is

to persuade us

that

he does not exist."

Charles Baudelaire

- - -

One way to think about it is

that

the "Devil" has 2 meanings/sides:

 - person/"person";

 - error, mistake, mislead, ...



So, the Devil, as a "person",

convinces you

that

you make no mistakes, no errors, ...

that

everything

is

true and genuine.


//but so does the God
//two meanings
/ - person/"person"
/ - (you are/do) right, good deeds, ...



/in another words

/Socrates/Plato

/all over again

 
=

Space and time

are

part of the mind. (Kant)



Kant simply rocks.


= = =   = = =   = = =


Christopher McQuarrie? Charles Baudelaire?
Kevin Spacey? Verbal Kint? Keyser S?ze?
John Wilkinson? William Ramsey? John Fletcher Hurst?
Anonymous?

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/03/20/devil/

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