Prismatic Sphere
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But you hate Noam Chomsky, so I can't take your opinion serious on Ayn Rand.
Fine. It's your loss junior.
But you hate Noam Chomsky, so I can't take your opinion serious on Ayn Rand.
The greatest achievement one can have in life is properly raising the next generation. Men and women massively drop the ball on that one.
The next generation can suck my dick for all I care. Kids and marriage are overrated. Theres more to life than going off to college then coming home and raising a family and living happily ever after.
Where do you place preemptive attacks/invasions? Are they defensive or aggressive?
You know what? I've had enough and I'm fucking sick to death of many of you guys' self-"informed" cute little schticks. To put it perfectly bluntly; fuck all of you who hate Ayn Rand.
But what you can't deny or take away is the fact that Ayn Rand was the first person in history to start ripping mysticism out of philosophy.
Now either you get that or get fucked.
If you prefer the tranquility of servitude to the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. But I still wholeheartedly hope you die. Slowly. And in front of my face.
Aggressive. "Pre-emptive" is in nearly all usage just a euphemism for being the instigator, the aggressor. If Iraq had its Army surrounding our borders and preparing to invade, then launching the first strike would be defensive. Outside of pretty clear cut and obvious cases like that though, the nation that invades/bombs/occupies/etc. another nation first is the aggressor and is thus committing a war crime.
I have to say, based on just the few posts of yours I've seen in this thread, you seem to revere Rand the way religious people revere their deities. Infallible, immune from criticism. It strikes me as indistinguishable from worship, which I'm sure she'd appreciate being the egotist she was, but kinda runs counter to your supposed ethos.
Aggressive. "Pre-emptive" is in nearly all usage just a euphemism for being the instigator, the aggressor. If Iraq had its Army surrounding our borders and preparing to invade, then launching the first strike would be defensive. Outside of pretty clear cut and obvious cases like that though, the nation that invades/bombs/occupies/etc. another nation first is the aggressor and is thus committing a war crime.
That may be the case for most people, but there are those whose time is much better spent applying their talent/intelligence to advancing society through science, technology, social work, etc. In the case of those people, artificial insemination clinics should be paying them to donate their sperm so their genes can live on without their time being wasted with child raising.The greatest achievement one can have in life is properly raising the next generation. Men and women massively drop the ball on that one.
zabu of nΩd;9495240 said:That may be the case for most people, but there are those whose time is much better spent applying their talent/intelligence to advancing society through science, technology, social work, etc. In the case of those people, artificial insemination clinics should be paying them to donate their sperm so their genes can live on without their time being wasted with child raising.
Nice try at an out-of-context attack on yours truly. No, I think I mentioned before that Rand's methamphetamine use during her writing of Atlas Shrugged as well as her later rages and depressive breakdowns ran counter to her rational-based thinking and ideas(and if I didn't, I am now).
As a matter of fact, after she stopped writing fiction, Rand despised her followers for precisely that reason- that nobody truly got her concept and didn't have a brain in their fucking head. Now you could argue, that being reliant upon others to validate ones work would be a contradiction to Rand's philosophy. But I don't think that it was in this case.
She wanted to see the best in people; and rarely, if ever got it. Mankind is just too behind the times- bogged down in mystical thinking. There is the highest resurgence of her work(since the 60's) happening right now though.
I hope that Atlas Shrugged film is done competently.
Prismatic Sphere said:You know what? I've had enough and I'm fucking sick to death of many of you guys' self-"informed" cute little schticks. To put it perfectly bluntly; fuck all of you who hate Ayn Rand.
But what you can't deny or take away is the fact that Ayn Rand was the first person in history to start ripping mysticism out of philosophy.
Now either you get that or get fucked.
If you prefer the tranquility of servitude to the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. But I still wholeheartedly hope you die. Slowly. And in front of my face.
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It's precisely because I oppose statism and servitude that Rand is so grating
Finally and most humorously, you reveal yourself to be totally unfamiliar with philosophy and its long and storied history. That's okay, I assume you're a laymen to it. But then don't make yourself look ridiculous with such hyperbolic and plainly inaccurate absolutist assertions like that. You're like the kid who discovers Metallica and goes around claiming they're the first band to use a wah pedal. Great, you love Rand, but you can defend her philosophy without attributing to it absurd distinctions that show your staggering ignorance of the subject.
Notably, you didn't respond to any of those substantive criticisms of the ridiculous comments you made, but tried to play it off like it was a simple name-calling ad hominem and then offered some really meager criticisms of Rand the person, most of which you then immediately justified.
You strike me as an Objectivism fanatic and have displayed so far in this thread all the deleterious symptoms of fanaticism.
You still want to call me a fanatic and a true believer now; when I just explicitly showed that I am only about non-belief?
3) Am I doing something that is honestly good-for-me?
4) Am I being my own maximum value to self and others?
5) Am I producing something of competitive value for others and society?
zabu of nΩd;9497207 said:I wasn't aware that hanging out on a metal forum and writing long-winded posts to try to prove how smart you are met any of these criteria.
I don't think "non-belief" can result in the aggrandizement of the individual will. You are still adhering to some form of belief when you say that only the individual can make a paradise for himself.
1) Am I in any way accepting mysticism in my thoughts or actions?
2) Am I in any way being made to feel unnecessarily guilty by self or others?
3) Am I doing something that is honestly good-for-me?
4) Am I being my own maximum value to self and others?
5) Am I producing something of competitive value for others and society?
Aleister Crowley said:The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Friedrich Nietzsche said:There are no facts, only interpretations.
Mine:
Moral codes are meant to be defied so improved ones can take their place, conventional wisdom was meant to be abused.
Without music, life would be a mistake.