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  1. Just wanted to welcome you Seph. Start a few topics and tell us your thoughts or ask a question sometime.
  2. Disbelief in free will makes the rest of life meaningless. There is no longer any way to make moral judgments, no way to decide (lol) what is right for ourselves, no means of choosing (lol) life over non-life when it comes to our actions. Someone who has internalized this disbelief in free will can only enjoy life to the extent he temporarily forgets about it, and acts like he has free will despite himself.
  3. Just a nickname -- evidently it has various slang meanings in the UK.
  4. I was personally blamed for the slave trade by a Target employee once. During the time of social distancing, masks, and plexiglass, he approached the till to help my cashier and I stepped back to give him space. As I took that one step, he said "Yeah I'm scared of you too, 400 years." I asked what that means. He said you know what it means. I said "I wasn't there and neither were you." He said "Oh yes I was." I said well you age very well. It was a clear episode of hateful racial animus from an employee to a customer, out of nowhere, and I haven't gone back since then.
  5. Thanks! Barely remember what I wrote back then, so don't hold me to it. I'll likely be more active than I was then.
  6. I'm getting back into Objectivism after ten years. Hello to everybody here.
  7. Welcome to OL. I gather you’re the same Chuff I’ve interacted with a bit on OO. On that silly religion thread. Here’s a bit of material on how I came to the attitude I have: http://www.objectivistliving.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9839&view=findpost&p=119008 One of these days I’ll write something more autobiographical about it, that is, about my own “conversion”. You can get the Branden lectures on audio here: http://thecultureofreasoncenter.com/category/downloads-media/ayn-rand-f-objectivism/objectivism-nonfiction-lectures/the-basic-principles-of-objectivism/ I prefer the book, for underlining, margin notes and such. Compared to Peikoff, I think you’ll find that Branden is the better communicator. These things have a way of changing. In my opinion Peikoff (in F&V) rationalized an expulsion that was carried out for an unstated reason: Kelley spoke at a LFB event, and LFB at that time was promoting Barbara Branden’s biography. Peikoff himself appeared at a LFB book signing just a few years earlier (promoting The Ominous Parallels), so the fact they promote Murray Rothbard books (and whomever else Peter Schwartz was soon to denounce) isn’t the reason. There’s a video of him, I have it on VHS, at the Ford Hall Forum in the early 90’s, where a questioner asks how to tell what libertarians are ok to talk to, since Peikoff had just appeared on Brudnoy’s program, a radio host who used the libertarian label for himself. One of these days I’ll hook up the VCR to the computer and upload it to YouTube, it only lasts a couple minutes. “That’s a very unfriendly question” is how his snarling reply starts, and it only goes downhill from there. Yes I'm the selfsame Chuff. Also, I'd love to know: 1. How to hook up my VCR to a computer to upload VHS tapes and 2. How that question is answered objectively. Thanks for the reply!
  8. Hi, Chuff. Welcome to OL. The very nice guy that made the post prior to yours, Chris, died a few months later. We miss him. I took BPO partially by tape transcription and the rest live in NYC in 1968. That was quite the culture back then. Lots of live Rand exposure. Please, tell us more about yourself and what you think about what. --Brant I don't anticipate much excitement on your part to learn that I don't favor Kelley's position on the "open system" issue. My interest in the book comes from an enthusiasm at the prospect of learning more about the growth of the philosophy and the look of its first cohesive formulation.
  9. Wow, this thread is truly incredible. I started reading at page one and got so excited about getting involved with this effort that I sent private messages to two people that posted here, pleading with them to involve me somehow (I do transcription work occasionally)! Only when I read on did I realize that two years ago the work was completed! I have read OPAR and am interested to see what differences there are between that and this. All that's left to do now is get the book.