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Watching Atlas Shrugged II today.
Then went down the rabbit hole reading about Ayn Rand. The woman was a visionary.
Her work seems prophetic of our world today. But, then again, prophesy of human behavior is easy. Just look to the past and watch it repeat itself.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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I haven't read it either, and have zero desire to. I'm definitely not a Libertarian. I have no use for any of the opinions of Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum ("ayn rand's" real name), or any of her tribe, frankly...
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She was an agnostic I believe; so prophet is out.
Son of a liberal: " What did you do in the War On Terror, Daddy?"
Liberal father: " I fought the Americans, along with all the other liberals."
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I missed that one as well. I do not feel slighted.
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Haven’t and don’t feel cheated in the slightest.
Yup.
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I have not. Don’t plan to either
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Me neither. What bothers me is the people who think it is history, not a novel
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I hate reading
Had to do that in college, now Im a grown ass man.
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“A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”
Yeah- you guys are better of NOT reading her. Especially if you have already done her work the honor of dismissing it before doing so.
She is the greatest champion of Merit based rewards system and defends money as the means of exchange of good by nonviolent means.
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Son of a liberal: " What did you do in the War On Terror, Daddy?"
Liberal father: " I fought the Americans, along with all the other liberals."
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Watching Atlas Shrugged II today.
Then went down the rabbit hole reading about Ayn Rand. The woman was a visionary.
Her work seems prophetic of our world today. But, then again, prophesy of human behavior is easy. Just look to the past and watch it repeat itself. I read many of her political books back in the 1980s. I've also read Atlas Shrugged. I can't remember much on which I disagreed with her.
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She was just a philosopher, and not a very compelling one.
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Watching Atlas Shrugged II today.
Then went down the rabbit hole reading about Ayn Rand. The woman was a visionary.
Her work seems prophetic of our world today. But, then again, prophesy of human behavior is easy. Just look to the past and watch it repeat itself. I read many of her political books back in the 1980s. I've also read Atlas Shrugged. I can't remember much on which I disagreed with her. Well, she hated Reagan and loved abortion...for starters.
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Howard Roark the model of American ingenuity.
I was thinking the other day how much I used to hate Bill Clinton. He was freaking George Washington compared to what they are now.
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I haven't read it either, and have zero desire to. I'm definitely not a Libertarian. I have no use for any of the opinions of Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum ("ayn rand's" real name), or any of her tribe, frankly... And that joo Albert Einstein too and for that matter any Nobel prize winning Joo too
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Watching Atlas Shrugged II today.
Then went down the rabbit hole reading about Ayn Rand. The woman was a visionary.
Her work seems prophetic of our world today. But, then again, prophesy of human behavior is easy. Just look to the past and watch it repeat itself. I read many of her political books back in the 1980s. I've also read Atlas Shrugged. I can't remember much on which I disagreed with her. Well, she hated Reagan and loved abortion...for starters. That's why I said "much" instead of "anything." My choice of words was intentional.
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Read some of her works. Respected her thoughts on may things.
But personally I am more into the works and thoughts of Voltaire.
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Read some of her works. Respected her thoughts on may things.
But personally I am more into the works and thoughts of Voltaire.
Good call.
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Read some of her works. Respected her thoughts on may things.
But personally I am more into the works and thoughts of Voltaire.
Good call. Diderot too! But I cannot separate myself from sturm und drank! Göethe rocks as does Schiller!! Schillers "Aesthetic Education of Man" was dynamite for me
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
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She was a visionary about some things. This creeping guilt complex/do gooder dynamic the liberals use to mask their evil and create guilt in the minds of those who oppose their ideas was one of them.
However, we are long past the point of being able to “go Galt”. These people want to control everything you do and even think. Opting out is not an option, and is also the reason secession won’t work. Her philosophy required a sufficient number of men who thought as she envisioned, and needed more fiber than the average human has.
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