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    Mad Professor Senior Member Hurin_Rules's Avatar
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    Umm... how do you vote? Or don't we get to?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hurin_Rules
    Umm... how do you vote? Or don't we get to?

    You can vote if you wish. Go to the site. It is self-explanatory.

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    Socrates. A 70 year old who gets condemned for corrupting the youth, what a genius.


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    WOW, Except for Epicurus and Wittgenstein, this is the exact same poll I made in the .org. Some people(the smartasses) didn't think it had the one's they liked though. Well, soooooorrrrrryyyy.

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    Well BP-san does that make you more mainstream then you thought?

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    phi·los·o·pher ( P ) Pronunciation Key (f-ls-fr)
    n.
    A student of or specialist in philosophy.
    A person who lives and thinks according to a particular philosophy.
    A person whose mathmatics skills do not rate high enough to do science.
    A person who is calm and rational under any circumstances.
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    I do not worry myself with such things as being "out of the box" as much as most people. I only care about what I think works for me(in terms of philosophy), everything else is meaningless to me.

    A person whose mathematics skills do not rate high enough to do science.
    The person who wrote that doesn't know how to spell mathematics.

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    I don't see any results published yet Pindar so how do you know Marx is doing so well? Anyway he would be a very deserving winner if he did win. I voted for Sartre, clearly the most inspirational and ground breaking there for the 20th century at least.

    I ace'd a philosophy exam on Hume on Friday so maybe I should place a vote for him out of sincere gratitude, but nah, why bother. ;p
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    INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
    GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
    INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Byzantine Prince
    I do not worry myself with such things as being "out of the box" as much as most people. I only care about what I think works for me(in terms of philosophy), everything else is meaningless to me.

    The person who wrote that doesn't know how to spell mathematics.
    "To be normal is to be ill fated."

    Note to self : Must spell check jokes from now on.
    Our genes maybe in the basement but it does not stop us chosing our point of view from the top.
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    Pape for global overlord!!
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    Squid sources report that scientists taste "sort of like chicken"
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    The rest is either as average as advertised or, in the case of the missionary, disappointing.

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