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The Hungarians putting the tree on the bike..
It’s 4 in the morning here, I’m laughing so much the neighbours are going to come knocking
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Excuse ? What? Had too much.
What, to drink?
No.
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Your soft spot for him makes sense. He was a philosopher who distrusted philosophy, a writer who used words to undermine words, a man who made a fortune teaching and then spent his later years in Athens writing poems that made fun of everyone. He had a garden and liked to tend it . He called himself Cyclops because he had one eye, and he made jokes about his own defect . There is something in that combination of sharpness and self-deprecation, of serious skepticism and genuine humor, that is rare and appealing.
Descartes you might find more interesting than you expect. He also wanted to clear the ground. His method of doubt was an attempt to strip away everything that could be doubted until he reached something solid . That is not so different from the skeptical impulse. The difference is that Descartes thought he found solid ground in the thinking self, while Pyrrho and Timon thought the wise person learned to rest in not knowing. But the starting gesture, the refusal to accept what everyone else accepts, the determination to think for oneself, that is shared.
If Descartes holds most interest, you could approach him through his Meditations, which are short and written in a personal, exploratory voice. He wrote in French as well as Latin because he wanted to be read by people who were not academics . That alone might appeal to you. He wanted to be understood, not just admired.
Always bring an armchair to a philosophy convention—there is no bar.
The four humours:
Sanguine
Phlematic
Choleric
No sense of
I’m working on corny jokes, want to hear?
Sound of me working on corny jokes..
I took her laterally—literally.