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I hate reading
Had to do that in college, now Im a grown ass man.
I'm gonna send you my copy of Gilgamesh and also some Hermann Hess. Give you somethin' to do while waiting in a deer stand or at the Dr office. I got Gilgamesh. Should have pitched it. But my kid had to read the same gay ass chit, so I saved ourselves a few bucks. Dont need hermann hess either. Send me something on Hermann Göring. i’m interested in henchmen not homos 😃
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Why read a book when you have the ability to see into the future......
"He is far from Stupid"
”person, who happens to have an above-average level of intelligence”
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Most people are not capable of digesting the books she has written, the jerry Springer crew won't get it and they were not written for those folks.
It just kills me how many folks advertise their inability to educate themselves !
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I know enough about her and her trash philosophy. I don't feel compelled to waste my time to read her books. Because I don't want to read trash doesn't mean I'm not "educated".
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Start your Ayn Rand experience with Anthem. It’s much shorter and is an easy read. I believe Rush was influenced by it when they wrote 2112. We the Living is an interesting look at the Russian Revolution. The hardcore commie agitators scream for equality, but in Orwellian fashion become “more equal”than others. Life Antifa types, they hate successful people.
Who is John Galt?
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Read Atlas Shrugged while on my first hunting trip in Zimbabwe in 2000. It was just at the start of Mugube kicking the productive white farmers off the land. Was Ironic that I took that book with me.
That said I think she got paid by the word.
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I know enough about her and her trash philosophy. I don't feel compelled to waste my time to read her books. Because I don't want to read trash doesn't mean I'm not "educated". Her philosophy is pro meritocracy. Every man should earn according to his merits. You have a problem with that? Would you be a died in the wool Marxist then?
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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Her philosophy is "objectivism", for which I hold no affinity.
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Haven't seen the movie, but enjoyed reading her books.
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I hate reading
Had to do that in college, now Im a grown ass man.
I'm gonna send you my copy of Gilgamesh and also some Hermann Hess. Give you somethin' to do while waiting in a deer stand or at the Dr office. I got Gilgamesh. Should have pitched it. But my kid had to read the same gay ass chit, so I saved ourselves a few bucks. Dont need hermann hess either. Send me something on Hermann Göring. i’m interested in henchmen not homos 😃 This is a great thread. I liked her band when they sung Borned to be Wylde, but The Pusher, not so much.
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Howard Roark the model of American ingenuity. Agreed. Fountainhead is a good read. Don't agree with her views on religion. Long winded and preachy at times, but meritocracy based. Atlas Shrugged is eerily prophetic. Read "Anthem" in high school as required reading.
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."
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Welcome to the club. Rand was kind of a crank, but she left a mark. Club needs to be bigger.
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I hate reading
Had to do that in college, now Im a grown ass man.
I'm gonna send you my copy of Gilgamesh and also some Hermann Hess. Give you somethin' to do while waiting in a deer stand or at the Dr office. I got Gilgamesh. Should have pitched it. But my kid had to read the same gay ass chit, so I saved ourselves a few bucks. Dont need hermann hess either. Send me something on Hermann Göring. i’m interested in henchmen not homos 😃 Books is like rifles. Some folks are trading them away all the time. Others get 'em and hold onto them until the sheriff comes to do the inventory for the probate process. I tend toward the second type. Make them probate folks work for a living I say.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Is this Ayn chick related to the McNally Rands?
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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What kind of name is "Ayn", anyhow?
No, haven't read fiction since I had to in high school. Only read history books. I like to feel that I have learned something when I finish reading a book.
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I read medical journals, studies and white papers on many topics.
Just because I don’t read Ayn Rand or Danielle Steele or have every episode of Gunsmoke memorized doesnt mean all I do is watch Jerry Springer and pick my scabs.
lol
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I read medical journals, studies and white papers on many topics.
Just because I don’t read Ayn Rand or Danielle Steele or have every episode of Gunsmoke memorized doesnt mean all I do is watch Jerry Springer and pick my scabs.
lol
 Interesting. Gotta stay ahead of the sawbones, eh? Makes 'em think some when you tell them what's up, that's for sure.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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I have no idea who that is
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What kind of name is "Ayn", anyhow? One intended to mask the stench of International Jewery. Rosenbaum’s philosophy was pretty weak, and her childlike worldview came through in her LOLbertarian fiction as well.
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"Ayn Rand" was a twisted bitch. A psychopath. Virulently anti-Christian. Sexually perverse (and an emotional basketcase). For her, greed was god. Altruism was the closest thing there was to "sin" in her sick worldview. Pure hedonism. Wealth, to her and her Objectivist followers, is a virtue. It is, perhaps, THE greatest virtue. It is all about selfishness (a term she, herself used).
And yet, near the end of her life, she collected Social Security....which her followers today still try to claim it's not hypocritical at all....
It's sad that so many "conservatives" and Christians today claim "Ayn Rand" as being so influential in their lives... but "conservatives" and Christians today have accepted so many other wicked and worldly things as well.
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