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    Favorite insects

    Not techniqually a insect but a really creepy crawling thing with exoskeleton. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f5gBFMMmGc Back on topic: Bees are my favorite insects.
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    The Skeptic's Annotated Bible

    A fun source of information. http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/
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    Philosophy test

    Here is a philosophy test for the fun of it. http://www.selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY/ I want to know that kind of people hang out here. Here is my result 1. Ayn Rand (100%) 2. Aristotle (99%) 3. John Stuart Mill (93%) 4. Plato (86%) 5. Aquinas (83%) 6. Jeremy Bentham (82%) 7. David Hume (78%)...
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    Ayn Rand

    Then what more should be included? According to Objectivism, emotions are impilcations of a man's values. Meaning that we are in control of our subconsious, it is not our subconsious that control us. So when your emotions and reason are in conflict you should always follow your reason. Ayn...
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    Ayn Rand

    The objective part of Objectivism is simpel: Reality exists as an objective absolute—facts are facts, independent of man's feelings, wishes, hopes or fears. And reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses) is man's only means of perceiving reality...
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    Ayn Rand

    I do not have to proove anything. A claim that cannot been be prooven to be false is not valid as knowledge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper#Philosophy_of_Science
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    Ayn Rand

    Objectivism can be summarised in four points 1. Metaphysics: Objective Reality 2. Epistemology: Reason 3. Ethics: Self-interest 4. Politics: Capitalism For those who care, here in an introductional lecture to Objectivism by Leonard Peikoff and a longer one by Gary Hull...
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    Ayn Rand

    She rejectet scepticism in the form of scepticism that deny the information gained from the human senses. This is; sceptics that deny the existens of an objective reality. The kind of sceptisim Spiral Architect stand for, I suspect, is the form of scepticism used by Jams Randi. That form of...
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    Ayn Rand

    No philosophy "holds" if you take is "to the extreme" exept Objectivism because Ayn Rand developed it from simple axioms using logic. Rand maked sure of this by picking the simple axioms "Existence exists", "consciousness is conscious" and "A is A". Theee axioms are the base of the concept...
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    A Sceptic's Universe - the songwriting process

    Or the flying spagetti monster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_spagetti_monster http://www.venganza.org/
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    How would you like next S.A. album to be done?

    I want a song about John Galt on the next album.
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    Favorite song on A Sceptic's Universe?

    Moving Spirit is my favorite song. First of all the about beginning shallow minds made me realise that this was a special band. When they sang about Atlas Shrugged I orderd the album without even listening to the end. Adn the fading at the end about bleeding the moving spirit dry gives me...