Report on Resistentialism


	Report on Resistentialism

wildcat

11-21-2007 6:59 AM

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resistentialism, fun, philosophy, paul jennings

wildcat says:

Resistentialism, a sombre, post-atomic philosophy of pagan, despairing nobility, advocates complete withdrawal from Things..

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11-21-2007 8:01 AM

Fast T friend

Upss... Wildcat, went to same source following on your prev. clip, and here you are, ahead of me

11-21-2007 9:07 AM

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It is the peculiar genius of the French to express their philosophical thought in aphorisms, sayings hard and tight as diamonds, each one the crystal centre of a whole constellation of ideas. Thus, the entire scheme of seventeenth century intellectual rationalism may be said to branch out from that single, pregnant saying of Descartes, <EM>'Cogito ergo sum'</EM> - 'I think, therefore I am.' Resistentialism, the philosophy which has swept present-day France, runs true to this aphoristic form. Go into any of the little cafés or horlogeries on Paris's Left Bank (make sure the Seine is flowing away from you, otherwise you'll be on the Right Bank, where no one is ever seen) and sooner or later you will hear someone say, <EM>'Les choses sont contre nous.'</EM>
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