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Hi, my name is Ilya, and I am new to the forum. I am expressing my Objectivism-inspired ideas in more detail on my blog. I was hoping you would help me generate some engaged discussion there. My blog is:

Beyond Ayn Rand's Objectivism: http://beyondaynrand.wordpress.com/

Just so you know, I wrote it in a linear fashion -- the top posts proceed from the bottom ones.

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Where do you hail from?

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Oh, sorry. Notifications are set to none by default on this forum. I hail from Objectivist Online Forum, and there it was different.

I was born in the Soviet Union.1 In the chaos of the 90s my parents moved to the US and I joined them in the summer of 2001. I currently reside in Streamwood, IL. Honestly, the US is better in many respects than Russia. But I still feel that I belong to Russia, since I find it easier to communicate with and understand Russians. I think it has to do with how I associate myself more with Russian (Eastern/mystical) culture than with Western/objective civilization. Sadly, I prefer to live in the U.S. with no social life.

1 I originally wrote the Russian Federation, realizing now that I hail before that time.

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Oh, sorry. Notifications are set to none by default on this forum. I hail from Objectivist Online Forum, and there it was different.

I was born in the Soviet Union.1 In the chaos of the 90s my parents moved to the US and I joined them in the summer of 2001. I currently reside in Streamwood, IL. Honestly, the US is better in many respects than Russia. But I still feel that I belong to Russia, since I find it easier to communicate with and understand Russians. I think it has to do with how I associate myself more with Russian (Eastern/mystical) culture than with Western/objective civilization. Sadly, I prefer to live in the U.S. with no social life.

1 I originally wrote the Russian Federation, realizing now that I hail before that time.

How old were you when you emigrated to the U.S..

I am descended on my father's side from Russian emigrants to the U.S. (they came here about the turn of the 20 th century).

I have met up with quite a few Russian Jews who made out of the now gone and unlamented Soviet Union. It was like meeting up with my cousins. I have known people with the same faces all my life.

Ba'al Chatzaf

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I was 15 when I first moved to the U.S. And it totally changed my life. Before I came here, I was more social and less intellectual. Once here, I only concentrated on academic work, and now I can't even go a day without reading something :)

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