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But the socialist party wants to disband medicare and abolish, not privatize, social security. Are we John Galts?

...by the news that British Guantanamo Bay detainees are to be paid millions. Worth every penny...even if we are in a recession http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1330048/Guantanamo-Bay-hush-money-payouts-silence-British-terror-suspects.html

I can understand that you find the events in We the Living, like Schindler's List, painful to encounter. But they are real events, they occurred in the world you live in, the world you need to know about and understand. What these books do is to give such events a iiving reality not found in newspaper headlines or history textbooks. You need to know what these books show you: not only that such horrors occurred, but what they did to the lives of people one comes to care about, to people like oneself. If we have any hope of banishing such atrocities from our future, it will be only by allowing them full reality in our minds and emotions. Barbara http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/etheory/1905-1985/20Kautsky-Lenin.htm As we wrote in July 1920 and even earlier exposing this regime for what it was...

http://worldsbiggestwriting.com/ Well you have to admire his dedication…will it work or it is just a cheap gimmick? He certainly has or had a lot of time on his hands. But at least he only ‘wasted’ his own money in doing this.

It's a rare day I agree with Jeremy Clarkson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Clarkson But reading this I'm inclined to agree when he described America as a vast prison, with fast food.

A veritable galaxy of stars. But whom, form the cast and production team will be there?

De mortuis nil nisi bonum. RIP

Yes, he was brilliant in There will be blood, a film based on a book (Oil) by Upton Sinclair. As for Spielberg...with the exception of Schindlers Listhe makes mindless hokum. To be honest I'm not a fan of his, though I admire him for keeping his films free of bad language and nudity. His films are often little more than fairground rides (think Jaws of Indiana Jones).

Do Olympians wear sock suspenders? Or at the very least do you think they could invent some sock elastic which actually works and holds your socks up? We can put a man on the Moon yet cannot produce sock elastic fit for purpose. It may seem trivial to you but if you can't keep your socks up how on earth do you expect anyone to take you seriously?

Do questions cause offence? I thought it was only statements like "you have taken them...that is why you think like that" that would cause offence here. Surely not asking if he has, as that is just Adam's shtick, his humour. Be wise to it, laugh at it or just ignore it but never ever take jokes seriously.

I can't do right for doing wrong it seems. Though I did try to read Terry Goodkind. But struggled to get past the 1st 20 pages of his books. Yet doesn't he claim that his books aren't fantasy...yet...well they are. Aren't they?

I felt the same way when I wear my cravat and sock suspenders and walk amongst the great un-washed. With their jeans, hoodies, trainers, piercings, tats and weird hair styles. You're not going to tell me I'm not above them are you?

Who or What is the "painted man"? Are you referring to the "boogey men" that emerge from the Core to nibble on our toes? Ba'al Chatzaf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Painted_Man I think he is referring to this one. Fantasy eh? Now I'd have thought that objectivists would have steered clear of this genre of literature. Due to prevelance of magicians in these books who use magic to problem solve. Plus, as a genre it's all about living in harmony with nature and respecting the environment and lets not forget about how tribal the 'worlds' are.

His Girl Friday, Gilda, and African Queen are the holy trinity of flawless movies. Not a bad list...but my own holy trinity of flawless movies are Citizen Kane, The Lost Horizon (1937) & The Bride of Frankenstein

I disagree but why, for you, is it a must read?

Now I'm glad you said that...though I'm sure most here would agree with you re: Peikoff & Harriman.

As a member of the great unwashed I don't look down on anyone. When I was growing up my hero was Reg Varney in On the Buses...his character was a ne'er do well busman, but he was happy, trying to catch a fly smoke and getting his bus out late. Check it out on IMDB, they even tried to do an American version of the show...but I don't think it was popular.

From Wikipedia (on optical illusions) - Researcher Mark Changizi of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York says optical illusions are due to a neural lag which most humans experience while awake. When light hits the retina, about one-tenth of a second goes by before the brain translates the signal into a visual perception of the world. Scientists have known of the lag, yet they have debated over how humans compensate, with some proposing that our motor system somehow modifies our movements to offset the delay. Changizi asserts that the human visual system has evolved to compensate for neural delays, generating images of what will occur one-tenth of a second into the future. This foresight enables human to react to events in the present. This allows humans to perform reflexive acts like catching a fly ball and to maneuver smoothly through a crowd.[5] Illusions occur when our brains attempt to perceive the future, and those perceptions don't match reality. For example, one illusion called the Hering illusion, looks like bike spokes around a central point, with vertical lines on either side of this central, so-called vanishing point. The illusion tricks us into thinking we are moving forward, and thus, switches on our future-seeing abilities. Since we aren't actually moving and the figure is static, we misperceive the straight lines as curved ones. Changizi said: "Evolution has seen to it that geometric drawings like this elicit in us premonitions of the near future. The converging lines toward a vanishing point (the spokes) are cues that trick our brains into thinking we are moving forward - as we would in the real world, where the door frame (a pair of vertical lines) seems to bow out as we move through it - and we try to perceive what that world will look like in the next instant." [5]

Succinctly put, as ever, Ba’al. Damn those scientists and their scientific methods contradicting objectivism.

Not bad and quite funny too but not a patch on the real thing. Though for a real hoot try this one, Prometheus burped by Michael Prescott. You should be able to find it on his website. But max respect for laughing at yourselves.

Ed: That is the weakest excuse to prevent people from walking out on a seminar I ever heard of! Adam This walk-out scenario on an Objectivism-in-space lecture does have some possibilities: 1) Ed publicizes that the title of the lecture will be "The Atlas Society accepts the papal infallibility of Leonard". 2) Virgin Galactic deposits the ARIan devotees at the space station to worship at this historic event, and returns to earth. 3) Ed, David, and Nathaniel stride onto the space station's lecture hall stage and announce, "Surprise! We were just kidding!", 4) Then, the ARIans walk-out." The only problem is that as it's a Virgin flight it'll be cancelled...just like his wretched trains. Or turn up to a platfrom heaving with bodies with just enough space for 1/3 of them...grrrrrrrrrrr!

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. Karl Marx The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. Karl Marx The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. Karl Marx The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. Karl Marx The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. Karl Marx The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. Karl Marx The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. Karl Marx The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. Karl Marx The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. Karl Marx The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. Karl Marx The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. Karl Marx The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. Karl Marx The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite. Karl Marx The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. Karl Marx The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. Karl Marx There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. Karl Marx We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass. Karl Marx While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. Karl Marx Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. Karl Marx Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. Karl Marx ...and there's more... Jimmy Cricket

http://www.objectivistliving.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9375 Blimey, you don’t make it hard for us do you! I doubt any objectivist would make such a statement and it is disingenuous to state that just because none do they don’t praise the mixed economy businessman. As this link shows…they need to get their facts correct before praising

...are immoral, or so I've learnt here as they are the initiation of force. So, have any of you ever gone down to a picket line and told the men and women there this and that they should go back to work? If so, how did they respond?

Steven: I know you may be analogically challenged, but what the hell are you talking about? Now if you are describing England's war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands, it would make sense, but how it applies to Bob and my exchange is well beyond me. However, since I have a full head of hair, I would just be looking to sell lots of items to the two (2) bald fools. At least coffins for the 890 who died for that frozen stretch with a Sheep on its flag! As an aside, I spent an hour with a young female Indian doctor who was educated in an excellent medical school in England. She was exceptionally competent, but when she asked permission to "touch my tummy," my laughter caused her some consternation, as did my answer, which was "Of course, mommy, you can touch my tummy!" As we laughed together, she explained that you use the word "tummy" for stomach, for patients of all ages in England. At any rate, she spent over an hour with me and I had a great opportunity to talk about medicine and Ayn Rand [i had the Heller book with me]. Even though she missed England, she had no intention of going into your "medical system" because it is a failure. She will be reading Atlas Shrugged based on my persuasive efforts. Well Steven, you lost another citizen to Ayn's ideas. Adam pots and kettles and calling them black... Keep it up Adam...that's two of them now! But achtung! No but seriously, there I go again! This is the internet after all and if you can't be serious here where can you be? If the current population stays stable and if the current number of objectivists increases by 10 000 per week...then the population of the globe will be completely objectivist by the year 10 000. Now that is going to take a lot of Dr's appointments Adam. I read Atlas Shrugged on someone's persuasive efforts and found it the worst book ever written, how do you a) stop that happening and B) am I wilfully wicked? BTW - sounds like you and her had a rare old time, the long Winter evenings must just fly by.