SO ARE YOU THE DEVIL :-I

roll eyes

I'M ABLE

The Annotated "Touch of Grey"

I'M BACK FROM THE DEAD

wanna try again :-(

AND....I'm also a BAKER too..........pie anyone

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That goes for Ideas, institutions as well as individuals :-I

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Ummm.....just like it is a coinsidence that onewhiteduck seems to always JUST HAPPEN be on line, and has such an interest in trying to bury my posts and threads.
One MIGHT just think that he is another one of my fake screen names
Hummmmm

Hey stupid, maybe you should look at the time stamps and see how old the thread is. This was a stupid move like fatty would make, you know, like when she made her case with the only evidence she had . . . a supposed useage of a common word. The thing that hurt her was that the search feature proved her an inept liar . . . she left shortly after that.

Too funny.

Tricked by the Duck.

Guess MFPD didn't read enough around here in her/their obsession (dom1 idol worship) to realize that Duck is known for digging into the past.

haha.

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Yeah, I thought it was funny also. Fatty isn't very good at this.

I am in the minority, but I like Philosopher Warrior. I liked talking about Rand with him, the only other person who seems to discuss Rand when the topic comes up is Nathan. I realize that Rand isn't a topic that some people can discuss without vitriol, and I don't subscribe to the Objectivist POV (see Am I My Brother's Keeper), but I do like Rand's works. I sort of pick and choose. BARK was another who had read Rand and could discuss her, I find that most people who comment on her never read one of her books.

I know a bit about Rand not a whole lot I have a good friend whos a hard core Rand follower.

I somewhat understand the framework....probably why I appreciate your posts.

The one thing that is clear is that it's about in essence being rational.

That I have no problem with.

Rational & reasoning in the most correctly philosophical sense.

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Excellent post W.J

God did make us better , most people just do not reach far enough to achieve it.

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There once was a man who prided himself on having the best of all that might be had in the world - a great mansion, the finest furniture, the costliest carriage, a wife the very envy of beauty, the most fashionable clothes, everything - but, even so, he was not satisfied, and was constantly searching for something better, something else that he could have. How much better he should have been had he taken the same trouble to improve his character.

[quote=Dom1;21429]Philosopher Warrior,

I have pulled "The Virtue of Selfishness" and "The Romantic Manifesto" off of the shelves and dusted them off. In principle the ideas are solid, but I view them as the ideas of an idealistic society (sort of a Utopia), which is often the same as an unrealistic society. Would you say that the ideas presented would be perhaps acceptable for individuals at times, but not for societies as a whole?

One of my favorite works on Utopias is Thomas More's "Utopia" which I think appropriately means 'nowhere'. Although I don't subscribe to the communistic (not Bolshevism communism, but more communal living) ideals of the work, "Utopia" seems to be a society that works. Although if you deal with ideas only without taking into account individuals, virtually any Utopia would work.

It seems to be diametrically opposed to Objectivism. I don't think that More's Utopia is any more realistic than Rand's Objectivism. My main objection to Rand is that I don't see room for compassion, unless it serves you, and then is it really compassion?
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No.

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Rand specifically states that one can have compassion if you want to have it. It isn't a matter of it "serving" you, but rather that you honestly want to have it rather than thinking it is "the right thing to do".