Chazzy

I'm new here not that it matters. I am NOT new to online discussion forums. My experience has been that once your posts become unsavory for whoever may feel that way...the next step is that you are banned from the community. Ironically the deletion of previous posts and one's natural resentment and their subsequent posts about that treatment is the impetus for mods to ban you. Complaining within the community is like attempting to be a voice of democracy in N. Korea. It simply tightens the noose a little more each time. <- this might be my last post. lol. The only defense is to establish a read-only policy and non-registered user persona and behavior. Posting is suicide - potentially. Fodder for banishment. Think it over.

Thx for the word of welcome., brief BUT appreciated. Wish I had discovered this online community a couple years ago.

Hello everyone here I'm Charlie Johnston age 62, and for the past 15 months have resided in Las Vegas, Nevada..but not by choice as much as happenstance and a broken down Ford Aerostar minivan 15 months ago in Beatty,NV. (Near Death Valley) That's another story. I quit my electrical engineering profession in 2002 to hit the road and play Blues guitar in Mississippi. My undeniable Heroic Passion & Adventure; I did do that for over 6 years. Fantastic time and a real eye-opener 'down south' in the so-called 'Bible-belt' There I also attended Bible college and became a gospel preacher. Interestingly to me, after much required curriculum there my studies actually led me to atheism and eventually to "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology." That was 2 years ago as I traveled the western USA in that Ford. I am so very pleased so far, with the caliber of discussion here at Objectivists Online. Have read Miss Rand's major non-fiction titles and re-read them as well numerous times. I have gifted strangers along the way with some as well.Currently doing an audiobook on 'Virtues of Selfishness' and also audiobook on 'For the New Intellectual' hope to get both in hard cover as well one day am positive I'll check these forums daily and will learn and grow as well as contribute according to my understanding and ability. Thank you and greetings from 'Sin City, Nevada - USA' +76F today March 22,2013. I am a Microsoft Flight Simulator X NUT case. Sometimes better than meditation!