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Hi-tech scan of Descartes' skull reveals secret
Fox News ^
| October 10, 2014
Posted on 10/10/2014 12:35:59 PM PDT by Sparklite
Charlier, for his part, has made a name for himself as a forensic scientist who has debunked several myths. Among them: that bone fragments in the Vatican's possession were those of Joan of Arc.
He determined they were actually from a cat and Egyptian mummy.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; faithandphilosophy; godsgravesglyphs; joanofarc; osteoma; philippecharlier; renedescartes; romancatholicism
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Heh.
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posted on
10/10/2014 12:35:59 PM PDT
by
Sparklite
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/10/2014 12:37:57 PM PDT
by
dware
(3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
To: Sparklite
I think, therefore I drink...............
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posted on
10/10/2014 12:41:48 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: Sparklite
So the secret is that he had a tumor in his nose (just saving y’all some time), but it probably wasn’t what killed him.
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posted on
10/10/2014 12:42:56 PM PDT
by
chud
To: Red Badger
Cogito ergo bibo.
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posted on
10/10/2014 12:43:15 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: Sparklite
They are putting Descartes before the horse.
To: Red Badger
Descarte walks into a bar, orders a beer and drinks it down.
Bartender says, “Well professor, would you like another?”
Descarte says “I think not” and poof! He vanishes!
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posted on
10/10/2014 12:46:52 PM PDT
by
Zuse
(I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
To: Red Badger
I think, therefore I drink.
Exactly! Good one. I hear this every once in a while, and it's kind of a "spice of life' comment to me. Makes me smile...
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posted on
10/10/2014 12:48:06 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
To: Sparklite
Interesting what you chose to excerpt from what is a story about Descartes’ skull.
You skipped right past the story and went straight to the end, which described the forensic expert’s qualifications.
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posted on
10/10/2014 12:48:12 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: Sparklite
I think, therefore I wish you would not keep messing with my skull.
To: Sparklite
I’ve always contended that Descartes got it backwards.
In his formulation, thought precedes being. That is incorrect. Being precedes thought.
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posted on
10/10/2014 1:06:18 PM PDT
by
dmz
To: Zuse
To: dmz
"Being precedes thought"
I disagree, I believe consciousness (thought) preceeds being.
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posted on
10/10/2014 1:17:12 PM PDT
by
Pietro
To: Zuse
I think not and poof! He vanishes!”
That was pretty good.
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posted on
10/10/2014 1:27:18 PM PDT
by
Slambat
To: Red Badger
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posted on
10/10/2014 1:32:27 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
To: ansel12
“You skipped right past the story and went straight to the end, which described the forensic experts qualifications.”
“Vatican’s possession were those of Joan of Arc.
He determined they were actually from a cat and Egyptian mummy.”
Oooo good catch, burn on the church. Never would have
noticed if you hadn’t pointed it out.
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posted on
10/10/2014 1:33:05 PM PDT
by
Slambat
To: dmz
It’s not about which comes first, it’s about provability. He was really taking The Cave as far down the slippery slope as possible, if you assume every single sense input could be a lie a lie, what’s the one truly core undeniable provable thing about you? Well the fact that you’re even contemplating this means you think. And if you’re thinking then clearly there is something out there that is you. You think, therefore you are.
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posted on
10/10/2014 1:38:47 PM PDT
by
discostu
(We don't leave the ladies crying cause the story's sad.)
To: dmz
“That is incorrect. Being precedes thought.”
Is sexual arousal considered thought? That’s what it takes
to create a being as in human but none of that matters
because you are all part of my self conscious and only
exist in my head. Nothing is real except me.
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posted on
10/10/2014 1:40:03 PM PDT
by
Slambat
To: Red Badger
I drink, therefore, I am...
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posted on
10/10/2014 1:49:22 PM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
To: Sparklite
Hi-tech scan of Descartes' skull reveals secret His skull was nearly cubical, with well-defined perpendicular edges ...
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posted on
10/10/2014 1:55:44 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Bizarro)
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