[lbo-talk] Barack Obama

[Shane Mage]

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>>R wrote:
>>>
>>>doesn't anyone ever think of Bishop George Berkeley anymore?
>>>
>>>http://www.geocities.com/krinklyman2/berkeley.html
>>
>>Moi, I'd rather think of King Henri of Navarre
>>
>>S
>
>yes, S, but the question remains, who was king of france between 
>1590 and 1593,
>
>1) cardinal charles de bourbon, catholic, the pope's choice and 
>uncle of henri, proclaimed "King Charles X,", or
>
>2) henri, then a protestant, rejected by most of france and declared 
>ineligible by the pope ?
>
>and why did the Comte d'Artois, two centuries later, choose to 
>ignore the short reign of the cardinal de bourbon and call himself 
>Charles X, rather than Charles XI ?
>
>as Berkeley said, "He who can digest a second or third fluxion ... 
>need not, we think, be squeamish about any point of divinity."  -- 
>from The Analyst
>
>can King Henri of Navarre top that with "Paris vaut bien une messe" 
>when he converted back to catholicism on the advice of his mistress 
>after he failed to take paris by force?
>
>i await your response with eagerness and anticipation.  please 
>remember, R comes before S in the alphabet.  ;-)

He obviously thought the Cardinal was a mere pretender since
he himself derived his legitimacy through La Reine Margot.

Whu do I believe this?
Credo Quia Absurdum

S


>
>>>Falwell/Robertson/Swaggert/Graham put descartes before des horse.
>>>
>>>R
>>>
>>>>  "Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,
>>>>  living their deaths, dying their lives"
>>>>
>>>>Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62
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>
>Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
>  is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
>         -- Albert Einstein
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