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Hello!

My name is Geoff.

Ive got to say something about this forum. Its fantastic!

To understand that, some background is appropriate.

Recently upon BB's death, I I revisited all manner of correspondence from the AR/NB/BB break to the LP/Kelly break and beyond. I can say its not pretty. The necessity for gaining perspective was due to not staying up to speed over all things O. I was not sanguine about where my evaluation of matters stood and while I think one can avoid getting into areas charged with personalities of the main participants to a certain extent, I nevertheless felt that I owed it to myself to find out as much as I could, sorting through layers and discarding values of less importance. One of those being the direct connection between Rand and Peikoff and loyalty.

I spent weeks going through SOLO, OLving, NoodleFood, RoR, Hbl and myriad other connected links. Learning of the schisms and portraits of the players.

A little background. My relationship with my brother came to somewhat of a crossroads after Fact and Value and Truth and Toleration were published. At the time work, marriage and raising a family were most important. I was put off by the idea of choosing sides, feeling inadequately informed to make a decision.

I read Anthem at 14 ('68), the same year I dismissed religion as a dispassionate semi default follower. Up until then I derived minimal benefit from any who believed, other than benevolent sense of life views. My Uncle, a figure bigger in life than my own father, figured prominently as he was a Presbyterian minister. That was the only genuine love or care in my direction.

I have for years held NB's literature in high regard. I attribute to him amongst some other minor/not so minor the reasons why I am living healthily. Word completion exercises helped in way Im unable to put into words completely.

I have rightly restored people and things. The Brandens' are owed a huge debt for making sure that O and I crossed paths, my subscription to OF and IA brought home lessons that werent previously available growing up.

This place provides principles I hold dear; rationality, honesty and benevolence. I will contribute where I can or am able. I know there are long running relationships on the forum. My work background is fixing commercial printers so I am far from being an intellectual, iow, writing on topics as vast as existence arent my forte.

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Geoffrey,

A warm welcome to you.

You sound like good people.

You will find oodles of others around here.

Where on earth does the name turkeyfoot come from?

:smile:

Michael

Hi,

Jim Norton has his own explanation, mine is bit less expressive and as they say a name is just a name. In this case its simply the street where I lived. I once saw an aerial photo in a model home and the basic shape somewhat explained things to me, that and the county was apparently running out of names. Its a handle that Ive used on a motorcycle forum for years so Ive just kept it until I can come up with something more original than my name.

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Welcome!

I love your statement about the sentence completion technique. Unintentionally hilarious.

Please expand on that if you get a chance.

Well...Brandens technique that I used for 17 weeks was helpful in freeing myself of a stubborn mental policy that made it difficult to express myself. I used to hold back fearing the consequences of speaking up. That sentence structure is a remnant. Imagine what I feel towards someone who helped with a significant negative personal trait. I attempted to minimize the compliment knowing full well it was I who sought the help and recognized its potential. Yet it was he who made the tool available. I owe him for that.

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Welcome!

I love your statement about the sentence completion technique. Unintentionally hilarious.

Please expand on that if you get a chance.

Well...Brandens technique that I used for 17 weeks was helpful in freeing myself of a stubborn mental policy that made it difficult to express myself. I used to hold back fearing the consequences of speaking up. That sentence structure is a remnant. Imagine what I feel towards someone who helped with a significant negative personal trait. I attempted to minimize the compliment knowing full well it was I who sought the help and recognized its potential. Yet it was he who made the tool available. I owe him for that.

Sounds like a cool outcome.

I was referring to your not being able to put into words how the sentence completion technique helped you. Just thought that was unintentionally funny. If it was intentional, then kudos to you for the pun!

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