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Ask Us Anything

Posted by khalling 10 years, 5 months ago to Culture
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Let's Shrug and khalling (and db) will be meeting for the first time since we met on the Gulch (over 2 years ago!). So tomorrow night as we enjoy objectivist discussion I would LOVE it if gulchers asked us anything. we'll answer your questions and chat and wish you were with us. LS is in Phoenix area so MST. I cannot believe how many of my favs I get to touch base with on my trip in the US, and how many of my favs I will not see :(, but you individuals light up my day-everyday and this is our gulch. The sooner you get your questions in, the better our response. (spoiler: we laugh alot and love banter-but also like serious too)

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  • Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    it might be the word "goddess" -- like a mystical
    figure, eliciting negative responses here? -- j
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  • Posted by Ibecame 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I used to work with Nature - the gal that rode the motorcycle around in the desert in the Easy Rider movie. She was a very impressive person and not because of the scene in the movie.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What?
    Are you saying that one cannot appreciate (revel) in the way another person thinks, expresses himself or acts? We do it all the time in our expressions of admiration for A.R. But since I've come to this thread rather late, am I missing something?
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They tried to study Einstein's brain. They should have studied hers. Her mind worked like a scalpel in the hands of a great surgeon.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The scenes used in Easy Rider where the bikers were shotgunned is just down the river from where we moored our ships off the east bank. Another loading point Port Arthur is the home of Joplin. A third Beaumont Texas has given had far more than it 's fair share of country and rock stars

    Hiway 51 tour then add US 1 and Us 199 but it's a stretch.
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  • Posted by $ puzzlelady 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    People tend to conflate the message with the messenger. Credit the thinker, by all means, but celebrate the truth she has spoken as the essential value.

    Humans have an emotional template for venerating individuals perceived as superior, such as parents, tribal chiefs, heroes, kings, bosses, popes, leaders, rulers, wise ones -- role models all. It works in the animal kingdom, too, where queen bees and alpha males rule. They acquire a form of power akin to magnets and gravity.

    Humans, in all their complexity and deviance, can carry the concept of superiority to the highest level imaginable and envision a panoply of deities they see as endowed with powers humans can only aspire to or try to bribe the gods to use in their behalf. Failing that, they institute governments as agents of beneficence.

    Ayn Rand herself did not want a cult of personality. She said the truth belonged to all who had the capacity to grasp it. And her favorite poem, Kipling's "If", includes this line: "If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken / Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools ..."
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  • Posted by Technocracy 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not my projects Kh. I did some poking around to see if I could find something that could be the basis of "the long and the short of it" strange claims. Found two space related projects that might be behind it assuming there was any factual basis to his statements.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    yes! . and Herb is a kind of mentor to me;;; I respect
    his steady rationality -- so I thought that I might pick
    up a side conversation with him here. . bad idea? -- j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    luscious song!!! . how about "south city midnight lady"
    by the doobies? . wonderfully intricate! -- j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    maybe, but the idea of a uber-type innovation is
    so appealing that I thought of your group discussion
    brainstorming it. . we used to do that with ideas in
    our college-age Rand-devotée meetings.

    the voluntary exchange of this for that, including
    shipping, could be worth consideration;;; yes?

    I also have ham gear, vinyl records, a 1967
    Porsche 911 ....... == j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    my imagination reveling in appreciation of another's
    mind is objectification?? . ok, then I was / am out of
    bounds. . but it felt good for a long time!!! -- j
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