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I wake up to an alarm at 6am, go back to sleep until 8:30. Afterwards, I might take a shower of I get up before 9, but I always get to work around 10. I am a system administrator, the only one, I do what I want. Around 5 or 6 I head home and look for things to do. Sometimes dinner is ready for me...

I am a keen follower of Descartes' Rules For Direction of the Mind, more so than dear old Rene managed to be, but then, I suppose it's hard to be ... major hobby is the study of military history , though, in keeping with Descartes ' view of one all encompassing Science, all knowledge interests me.

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A) A couple of different books currently reading Rene Descartes . ... party, or my face in a philosophy book like Aristotle , Socrates , Plato , Descartes , Confucius , Lao Tzu , Machiavelli , Karl Marx , etc (you get

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The history of philosophy Test

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Well, why not a test on the history of Philosophy. How much do you really know about the philosophers from ancient times till the 20th century? ...

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Go on, pretend you've never been asked it before. But have you ever had a good solid answer ready when someone asks, "What kind of geek are you?" Ho... ...

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The My Eccentric Compatibility Test

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"Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom" and "Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the wor... ...

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Three Stooges (NOT talking about politics)

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Rene Descartes walks into a bar, really thirsty and hankering for a cool beer. ... " So he says to Descartes, "Mr. Descartes, would you like a nice snifter of cognac or perhaps some whisky from Scotland? On the house?"Descartes replies, "Oh, I think not".

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Descartes

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other words, you are pissed off at Descartes because you feel you inherited a ... in any case, which is what Descartes did. Whether or not we are better is subjective, you can't say that we are "not better" unless you define what you mean by better. Descartes believed better meant ability to reason,

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Are you human

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Glad you edited for Descartes............. Descartes was in a bar at the last call. The bartender asked, "Another drink, Rene?" Descartes replied, "I think not", and disappeared.

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BEP: René Descartes once said "I think, therefore I am." (Actually, he probably said it in French or Latin…) So, when he said "I think not", he, no longer thinking, ceased to exist.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DescartesOr, as the Pythons put it, in The Philosopher's Song:René Descartes was a

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Jewish Elitists' Involvement in the Slave Trade

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rationalists, especially Descartes. ... Quite the contrary, Descartes appears to have thought that language was arbitrary; he thought that we arbitrarily attach words to our ideas. Concepts for Descartes are innate, whereas language is arbitrary and acquired. Furthermore Descartes does not allow

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Bad jokes!

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Descartes walks into a bar and asks for a glass of beer. The bartender obliges. When he finished his glass, the bartender walks up and asks Descartes whether he wants another to which he replied "I think not." Descartes then disappeared into a puff of smoke.

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Why does anything exist?

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The Descartes statement of "Cogito, ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am,") doesn't apply as much as the Anthropic Principle, which is basically to say that the only reason why everything is the way it is, is because if it were much different, we wouldn't be here to even ask this question.Descartes

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Religion and Dating

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(See readings from Renee Descartes, william Uttal, etc.) Though Descartes argued for the existence of dualism, it simply is not possible if scrutinized with a logical mind.

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What is God to you?

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Descartes, Sir Issac Newton, Adam Smith, and others have no effect on modern thought?Oh, so the actions and thoughts of the few outweigh those of the many? Just because there are some people who are 'enlightened' doesn't mean that the world as a whole is enlightened. And hell, Newton and Descartes

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