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MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
Ayn Rand paid more in Taxes than all of The Posters here combined-for all of their lives up to now. So I would say Ayn Rand contributed Mightily to "The" "Commons", and for that, YES, SHE WAS NUTS. So deride her all you want. Her name and "Contributions" will Live On for a Long, Long, Long time. Even your descendents "contributing" their little bit to "The" "Commons" will never add up to her Contribution. iWorm 'em. |
Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
It seems cash makes up for a myriad of shortcomings in your world. The wealthy can be flawed to the point of being mentally disturbed, but their cash makes it all good again. I do not fight fascists because I think I can win. I fight them because they are fascists. Chris Hedges A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr. |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
Since Most Charitable Organisations want Cash as The Donation of Choice for Them to do Their Good Works for The Comman Man in The Commens of The World, I suspect They Believe Donating Cash is a Mental Disturbance they wish to foster and wish for such a Defect to continue for All Times. So, unless you would like All Charities To Cease to do Their Good Works for The Comman People of The Commens of The World, I think support for The Good of Cash be something you are fervently for. I think Your Sanity will be Preserved. And if Donating Cash makes people Nuts/Mentally Disturbed, well, Crazy it will be, for Crazy we will stay. iWorm 'em. |
KWSN - MajorKong Send message Joined: 5 Jan 00 Posts: 2892 Credit: 1,499,890 RAC: 0 |
You sure do 'Godwin' a number of threads, VW Bobier. Any reason you tend to compare anything/anyone you don't like with Nazis? Care to explain? |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
No I don't have to explain anything, Nor can You make Me. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
I would think her all or nothing attitude would put her in that class. In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Rush Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 3131 Credit: 302,569 RAC: 0 |
People who have never developed past that stage of infancy, where everything is about themselves, are the only followers of this woman. Why, 'cuz you sez so? How do you know that? You haven't read anything she has written. Her writings put the meat on the bones of a lifestyle that is shallow, self concerned and ignorant of the commons. Anyone attempting to live this way at any time in human history, other than the present, would have been banished from the community. Contribute to the society you are a part of or be gone. There is no room for the frivolous. Heh. I think she did contribute, enormously. Millions of people have enjoyed her works, she paid ungodly amounts of taxes. Those are two huge contributions to society. The foolishness of thinking one can survive as an island shows an absolute break with reality. I'm sure that over the course of time, there have been many who went off to attempt to fulfill this desire but they seem to have not passed on their genes. That means they died alone in the wilderness. How would you know? Besides, she didn't believe, nor does even a cursory reading of her works suggest, that anyone should live as an island. One of her main protagonists runs a railroad--and Dagny completely understands that she needs steel to do that. As did Rand. Rand wasn't a prophet or a philosopher. She was a selfish, shallow and foolish woman with poor judgment when it came to the realities of life. She was just a woman with a philosophy that follows simply economics and human nature--and if you didn't like it, she couldn't have cared less. Her works survive because they mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people--your opinion about their personal development is meaningless because you have no way of knowing anything about their personal development. Cordially, Rush elrushbo2@theobviousgmail.com Remove the obvious... |
Rush Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 3131 Credit: 302,569 RAC: 0 |
Well, sort of, if the following: What she also said is "[My hero is] very far from him, of course. The outside of Hickman, but not the inside. Much deeper and much more. A Hickman with a purpose. And without the degeneracy. It is more exact to say that the model is not Hickman, but what Hickman suggested to me." As you noted, she was working on a character for a book. I have no idea what Thomas Harris did to create his character--but you can almost certainly guarantee that Lecter is an amalgam of serial killers. Harris just made him smarter and worse than all the rest put together. Made him charismatic and acceptable. That suggest similar feelings in Harris, though I don't know, his private journals haven't been made public. But once again, we are discussing the person, and not the ideas. Her number one maxim was that one does NOT have the right to initiate force against others. That, by definition, would include serial killers. Cordially, Rush elrushbo2@theobviousgmail.com Remove the obvious... |
Blurf Send message Joined: 2 Sep 06 Posts: 8962 Credit: 12,678,685 RAC: 0 |
Ayn Rand paid more in Taxes than all of The Posters here combined-for all of their lives up to now. I'm sorry but where's your factual backup for this? Please post exact tax numbers paid. Thx |
Rush Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 3131 Credit: 302,569 RAC: 0 |
Good Lord above - RUSH !!! Where the devil have you been young man? Hey Chris! "Well, it's not the speed so much, I just wish I hadn't drank all that cough syrup this morning..." --John Winger Cordially, Rush elrushbo2@theobviousgmail.com Remove the obvious... |
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