Hey Rhonda,
I had to smile as I was reading your meditation from Des Cartes.  I
remember reading this in my introduction to philosophy when I was in
college.  It turned me off to the subject forever!!  In God's sence of
humor, however, he had me marry a philosophy major.  Oh well, I guess
there's just no escaping it.
Kathy


At 05:12 PM 3/23/2005, you wrote:
>See what I am reading...
>seems that our fellow Descartes wants to take apart everything he has
>thought he believed, and see if it makes a good foundation.
>He then wants to  see which beliefs will support his foundation.  He has for
>his foundation a belief in God, and that God is not a deceiver, so there we
>can agree.
>It's reading the other five meditations that is so  time consuming!
>
>Who will deliver me from words and phrases,
>from  arguments  that are hard to understand,
>and harder still to express,
>Give me this simple truth,
>That there is a God,
>And in spite of all I am,
>All I do,All I think and say,
>He has demonstrated that He Loves me.
>
>Rhonda Partain