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Remembering the Real Ayn Rand
Wall Street Journal ^
| 4/14/11
| DONALD L. LUSKIN
Posted on 04/14/2011 5:46:14 AM PDT by BCrago66
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
And if you've ever seen a picture of her, you'll understand why. I have and that is a road I did not want to travel.
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posted on
04/14/2011 7:06:13 AM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Islam is a violent and tyrannical political ideology and has nothing to do with "religion".)
To: nmh
So she was an atheist. We have freedom of religion in this country and she was free to be an atheist. So she was less than perfect in her personal like...we all are.
While her moral don't match your own simply calling her immoral is wrong. Calling enlightened self interest selfishness misses the entire point and demonstrates your overly simplistic understanding of Rand.
Calling anyone a "liberaltarian" is the same thing as calling tea party people "teabaggers". Apparently your morals don't require you treat anyone that disagrees with you any common decency or simple respect. Say what you want about Ayn Rand but she would have at least debated a point with you using reason and logic rather than name calling and attacks on your character.
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posted on
04/14/2011 7:39:32 AM PDT
by
Durus
(You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
To: Durus; nmh
Calling anyone a "liberaltarian" is the same thing as calling tea party people "teabaggers". Now, granted, I don't know much about their intra-community behaviour, but I didn't know that homosexuals engaged in a practice called "liberaltarianing"...
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
BTW, I’m just kidding about Missouri - I’m a Missourian expat, born and raised around Kansas City.I've been there. Was glad to go home.
To: Ditter
Just google
To: Ditter
Ewww...cougar????
To: nmh
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posted on
04/14/2011 8:07:52 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: MadelineZapeezda
She’s very masculine, imho.
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posted on
04/14/2011 8:12:14 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: BCrago66
Rand was in no way an intellectual. She was the product of a commie diploma mill and was not even conversant enough in the language of philosophy to correctly name her plagiarized version of Nietzsche. A philosophy, such as hers, which claims that truth, especially moral truth, is particular to each individual according to their own wants or needs is necessarily subjective. Rand denounced any belief in an overarching, universal (that is, truly 'objective') truth as "superstition".
To: MadelineZapeezda
I forget I can do that until after I ask! LOL!
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posted on
04/14/2011 8:21:43 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: MadelineZapeezda
I guess the standards were different back then.
51
posted on
04/14/2011 8:23:07 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: BCrago66
So many people love to cast stones, as though their personal life is perfect. I have never met such a person as a perfect person. They think they have solid values but then they have all these “exceptions”.
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posted on
04/14/2011 8:23:47 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
It’s intended as a deragatory comment regardless of the inferred sexual component.
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posted on
04/14/2011 10:34:04 AM PDT
by
Durus
(You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
To: tacticalogic
I’ve been to Nixa. I was glad to go home, too.
To: Durus
Oh c’mon now, you’re just being touchy.
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Nope, not I, just pointing out a name calling screed rather than a principled and logical arguement.
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posted on
04/14/2011 10:45:36 AM PDT
by
Durus
(You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
It’s a nice place to live, but I wouldn’t want to visit there.
To: Durus
Remember that when you point one finger away from you, you have three pointing back at you.
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
If I posit an agument made up of ad hominem attacks and name calling feel free to point it out. I would appreciate it.
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posted on
04/14/2011 10:57:55 AM PDT
by
Durus
(You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
To: Durus
Relax Durus, I’m just pulling your chain!
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