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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Why are the Founding Fathers on such a high pedestal for some? They stole/borrowed their ideas from the European philosphers of the generation before. It's not like they're the font of original thought, although I guess they're the font of implimented thought. And it's not like they weren't wrong about stuff {*cough*threefifthsofaperson*cough}.
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I think Thomas Paine is an exception. He had some pretty damn good counterarguments to the British philosophical heavyweight Edmund Burke.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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