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Atlas Shrugged and Jesus Wept

Posted by khalling 10 years, 8 months ago to Philosophy
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ok, fish fry


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  • Posted by Zenphamy 10 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not only that, but this life is all we have for sure and we make of it what we will. I don't buy the unknown dimensions thing.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 10 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    As to comparisons of Galt to Jesus, I don't know that Galt was anything like the celebrated bastard son of the believers' excused rape of a sleeping virgin. Think of it-- a land and a time in which other pregnant virgins were stoned to death in the public square. I think that's a pretty strong argument against Christianity, combined with the awful, senseless brutishness of Jesus' story, and the later real-world atrocities committed in his name. I've yet to hear of a Galt fan killing anyone in Galt's name. They are both fictional metaphors of -- well, there's life and then there's fantasia.

    But your last sentence tells me that you're getting there j. Congratulations.
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  • Posted by woodlema 10 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    So, just to be clear, is it your contention that in all the universe seen and unseen, dimensions known and unknown, that Humans are the supreme of all?
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 10 years, 8 months ago
    Rubbish. Just one more misrepresentation particularly regarding selfishness... Sometimes I think the detractors defeat their own purpose. More people hear of AS. And certainly more will read it than read his book this year.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Interesting comment jb. But Robbie's point was any fallacy to argue against Objectivism. If one didn't work, then come up with another, then another and never admit that he was mistaken or wrong. The diverse economy may have been one, though he never presented that one to me. The one that sticks in my mind was that man was too evil and there was just too many of the evil ones. Genghis, Hitler, Mao, etc,etc.
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  • Posted by 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I reject the term "diatribe." Man is the highest authority. He is the only rational being. There is none above him. He chooses to act and own himself. Man created stories about gods and God. God is man's creation
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  • Posted by 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    LOL. did you know we had a fishing company. and a fishing show. our signature product was an ice fishing device-EZ jigger
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    So 2 old men go ice fishing, fancy fold up chairs, power auger, buckets of all the baits, wind breaker. They fish for a couple of hours--no bites. Little kid comes out, just a bucket to sit on, hand crank auger, in the wind--starts catching fish. The old boys decide for one to go ask what' his secret. Ask the kid, he turns and looks and only answers MmmmUmmmWmmmm. Several times--the old man gets mad and stomps back to his partner and tells him. The partner goes over and tells the kid he ought to have better manners--kid looks up--leans his head down and spits into his palm--looks back up and says 'Keep your worms warm'.
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  • Posted by Maritimus 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My understanding is that Galt was contemplating primarily this country, and, at the most, planet Earth. At least until Galileo, Christianity denied the heliocentric nature of our planetary system among many other things about the universe. As far as we know, life on any other celestial body might produce something quite different than homo sapience.
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