Atlas Shrugged Battle cry of Freedom

Posted by khalling 11 years, 8 months ago to Philosophy
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This seriously misguided author has 8.5k FB likes. He is taking on the novel one chapter at a time. Please consider commenting. My husband is in the fray :)

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  • Posted by susan042462 11 years, 7 months ago
    I put up a lovley little post on facebook page about this...moron. Sounds to me like he really loves that Obama flavored koolaid.
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  • Posted by richkinley 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I believe Dr. Simon Pritchett would disagree with you...lol.
    It was a bit over 37 years ago that my philosophy professor unlocked the mystery of philosophy. I was one of 14 students in the senior-level class, 12 were philosophy/theology majors. I never worked so hard for a B in my life!

    As he put it, "With philosophy, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. Never forget that philosophy's nothing but a bunch of BS."

    Every week, we had a two-page (typed) book report, which we then read and discussed in class. At first, I felt like a fish out of water, but learned how to hold my own as the semester progressed.
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  • Posted by Danno 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Scott Walker has not learned the Broken Window Fallacy: a company hq'd in another state can move to Wisc to get two years tax credit on corporate income tax.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    there is a lot of theory on closed universes or "limited" universes. that is not the present thinking in Physics(asked the husband).
    The present thinking in Physics is about the "observable" universe. and there is no reason to believe that there is NOT something beyond the observable.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 8 months ago
    Sounds like a wannabe Leninist trying desparately to make a name for itself... by denegrating the truth.

    Add to this, coming from a site called "Daily Athiesm"... Yeah, my money is on a socialist "Born-Again Athiest" - they who believe that only their beliefs are right, and everyone should believe (or wouuld it be non-believe??) just like they do.

    Bleah. Sheeple socialists following Sheeple Marxists down the primrose path of doom by espousing blatant nonsense as truth. Why is it I'm not surprised?
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  • Posted by Rex_Little 11 years, 8 months ago
    Not surprisingly, this was on an atheist blog. Those are a rich source of attacks on Rand and on libertarians. That might seem strange at first, but if you dig into most of them you'll find that their primary focus is left-wing collectivism.

    The linked article mentioned PZ Myers. His Pharyngula blog is a prime example of what I'm talking about.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    ::ponder::

    Actually, by definition, the universe *is* a closed system. But it's a really really BIG closed system.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    they didn't post ours either. here's what we said:

    "Yep, and the scary thing is that Rand doesn't seem to believe there's anything implausible or inherently fictional about her world at all. From what I can gather, she really does think that capitalism could triumph over the laws of physics, if only the government and its regulations would get out of the way."
    the scary thing is you don't understand the laws of physics. there is nothing incompatible with physics and capitalism. what you really want to push are your tender environmentalist feelings which completely ignore the 2nd law of thermodynamics-namely the universe therefore the earth is not a closed system.
    100 years ago, oil fouled farm fields. 50 years ago natural gas was a noxious byproduct of refining. Now it's one of our major energy sources. No need for whale oil! Man's ultimate resource is his mind. Capitalism is the ONLY system that values the products of the mind.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 11 years, 8 months ago
    That had to be the biggest bit of claptrap I've been exposed to in a long time. What more needs to be said.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    now I'm going to go see if some of our comments made it through the mod
    Post when you take these on fugue. I find them fun
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  • Posted by fuguewriter 11 years, 8 months ago
    You can see my efforts on behalf of Rand and science. What a merry chase of fallacies they run. : )

    I've bowed out now that the cowardly mods there are refusing to put up any of my answers. Nice way to make it look as if the cat got my tongue. Anyway, it all got repetitive. Pedantic negativity is not a formula for accuracy.
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Of course. That's how philosophical debate works. If you claim to be a philosopher, you can't expect people to just accept the theories you propose without question. An attempt to disprove the theories must be made first before they can be accepted.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    you are not writing for the author, you are putting out info for the one whose mind is not fixed. as many scientific minds have said-you are not trying to win this generation-but the next
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