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I find it amusing that anyone would choose to argue a point about free will. Every time you choose to make this argument disproves determinism immediately.

Make a giant litter box?

This is without a doubt the best arguement *for* selfishness I have found outside of Ayn Rands books. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZFIy2mfyE I hear multiculturalism (cultural tolerance as a moral improvement) capitalism pushes moral awareness non-zero sum = socialism (actually said social organ...

Ginuad Amarasen wrote:Gosh, #3 wouldn't happen to actually refer to anyone, would it?

I'm sure that it was an indivisible reference. It's likely not to be the first or the last.

Petyr - I really fail to see why you disagree with me. Especially if you're in the army. Next, being in the Army does not mean that you are for or opposed to anything. Assuming the reason that someone joins the military is something that no man is qualified to do without speaking to the serviceman ...

The right to bear arms is the 2nd amendment of the constitution, as a means for citizens to rebel if they're oppressed by their government. Please try not to shoot anyone who simply disagrees with you. I have to say, there is nothing I despise more than having this quote taken out of context. I loa...

So we run into a great question about real property vs. intellectual property. Good observation. We can surmise that Rand believes creative intellectual property is worth more than the physical aspect of that property. Petyr stated that (any?) life is worth more than an inanimate object. Let me als...

Seems like we're veering off towards metaphysics. Let me get back on track. What was done against Roark was wrong, but him blowing up the building was disturbing - it felt wrong. Part of that wrongness is due to his reason to rather destroy it than see it in the possession of looters - this reason ...

Oleksandr wrote:

whisperii wrote:... that although she is a feminist,...

Err, excuse me?

Ayn Rand have explicitly said she was not a feminist, and she absolutely despised all feminists and the movement itself.

Where are you taking this from?

I thought I read that. Clearly I am mistaken.

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance was a best seller, though I should point out that Atlas Shrugged is much more popular (at least according to amazon.com best seller ratings) - so please no snarky comments about best sellers and socialism. Anyway, I found his second book Lila much more inte...

Sylvia Laffayette wrote:my opinion at the moment on the Ayn Rand institute is that it exist and sells Ayn Rand books. other than that I haven't paid it much attention and been busy with other stuff. sorry if this post is disappointing.

You should be sorry. Experience the full might of your unearned guilt!

I find a suspicious lack of conversation regarding peoples thoughts on the Ayn Rand Institute. Is there a reason for that?

If you had used a different example, I would allow your digression, unfortunately you chose one so blatant that I find myself unable to ignore it. It couldn't have been anyone but Roark. The whole point of it was that HE did it to symbolize that he would rather destroy his work then allow the rotte...

If you had used a different example, I would allow your digression, unfortunately you chose one so blatant that I find myself unable to ignore it. It couldn't have been anyone but Roark. The whole point of it was that HE did it to symbolize that he would rather destroy his work then allow the rotter...

Where Rand focuses almost entirely on the individual, I find Pirsig more applicable in real life. However, despite Pirsig's intelligence, he suffered a mental breakdown and was hospitalized (he talks about it in zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance) because he couldn't reconcile his beliefs wi...

Hello everyone. Here's what I'd submitted, which made it past preliminary screening. I've also recently submitted the longer questionnaire - it's been a while since I've experienced this kind of anticipation. 1) What are your unique characteristics that set you apart from most people? (your views, ...

Interesting. I wasn't thinking about it like that. Thanks!

BTW: I may have some NPC POS fuel for sale coming up soon.

Hello my name is Matthew Smith and I am a physics student at Riverside Community College in Norco, California. 1) What are your unique characteristics that set you apart from most people? (your views, achievements, etc): I love physics/mathematics and programming. I also ride horses. 2) Why are you...

I have recently considered a method know to me that will provide me with some materials I need at little financial expense to myself. The method however, involves me destroying NPC ships, which are not pirate-affiliated in order to obtain these materials. I have broken this down in my head into an a...

Velocima Geminosa wrote:But Petyr, without religion...we wouldn't have...well, damnit, we wouldn't have Inquisition jokes.

Feel the might of my argument

ROFLMFAO!

There is an old debate running around libertarian-like circles about the role of government in society. While not planning to rehash it from the beginning, I had some things I was wondering about on the objectivist position. Namely, what does an objectivist understand by government? Government serv...

I'm sorry if they seem or are specious. I'm still trying to figure a lot of things out because there is so much to learn. My intentions are good, I like the truth even if it's ugly. I don't know if I should be having a debate on science since you brought up the idea that it might be wrong to be par...

I thought it might be flawed. There is always new things to learn, redefine and create. What will change if the grand unified theory is "complete" or "true" because of the proof of existence of the Higgs Boson? Pardon me Precog, but there are a few things that I'm not understand...

Someone threw a rock threw my window with VOS painted on it. Unfortunately it was all red AND all green.

Must have been a bug.

Time is relative to mass and gravity, for human beings on earth it "exists" because we see matter change. But if there were no mass or matter or gravitational force affecting the relative "area" then time becomes an illusion and you understand something that's "outside the ...