fotocat

It's been three yrs... I wanted to thank everyone who replied to my question. I wanted to update you. I contacted ARI last week and asked to talk to them about what happened to me (raped by Ridpath) 30+ yrs ago. They have agreed and Valerie will be getting back to me to set up a conference call. I am happy that more women are able to speak publicly, and be listened to, about past sexual assaults. An fyi I did try to speak to Edith Packard privately about what was happening to me regarding Ridpath but she declined to talk to me. Ridpath went on to explain what happened as "passionate love making" and when he was not believed then publicly declared that I was deranged, immoral and dishonest. Without talking to me about his claims, or asking my side of the story, I was banned from Objectivist Conference and black listed. Anyways, glad ARI is at least giving me the opportunity to tell my story. I have let them know that I have no restrictions on the conference call - it can be recorded, anyone can ask me questions and challenge me on my story.

Additionally, I found many errors about my situation on this website and would like to reach the author of this site (who posted the document) to speak about correcting some information and adding context, e.g. the day Ridpath claims the sex that happened was "passionate love making" I had no seen or spoken to him in six months and he was dating a blonde from Santa Barbara, in fact she was at his house the morning I arrived. 

http://dupin.byethost18.com/OTIPOJ/.         (document/website On The Independent Pursuit of Justice)

Cat Farrar

I was pointed to this site if I felt it was valuable to discuss the moral implications of rape with an objectivist/obectivist leader. Is this a place to speak about this? If not, where? Thanks.

I have the notion that she got her inductively-gained concepts excatly right so much of the time, that she grew over-confident with such assertions.

From the specific to the general; from what works for me, to what should work for everyone.

Resulting, now and again, in her rationalizations.

Check your premises, Ayn - one would like to say to her.

A frequent thinking error by Rand was to believe that her personal preferences constituted an objective standard of value.

The same applied to the things she personally rejected.

The impact of her subjective value judgements on her followers was considerable.

Just two examples listed in past threads:

(I'd heard years ago that Peikoff once incurred Ayn Rand's disapproval because he liked the music of Johannes Brahms. I didn't know, till I read Heller, that he actually gave away all of his Brahms recordings after Rand made a pronouncement ex cathedra. Heller gives the year and the recipient.)

Robert Campbell

A friend of mine attended a conference in the late ‘80’s, pre-Kelley split, and reports that John Ridpath said he once was a Beethoven fan, and on AR’s advice that this pointed to a problem (psychological, sense of life, whatever), he worked on it and got over liking Beethoven.

Even a brilliant intellect is but a child when it comes to human sexuality and gender.

(Strangely, perhaps, in some areas, I sense she was extremely naive and inexperienced.)

Interesting points.

Ridpath told me he could not date Peikoff's ex wife because she chewed her food like a cow.

Ridpath married into some money. He earned a salary as a professor, period.

Ridpath was not an intellectual. He wrote to please Peikoff and others. He had a library full of books he never read. He always waited to get Peikoff's approval before submitting anything. Sad but true. (ex romantic partner of RIPDATH)