Labor omnia vincit

So I'm the only Israeli huh..

My Amstaff was named Bismarck, after Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen. Wish I could say that I chose the name because I admired the man for uniting germany or fighting the church. In fact I just loved the helmet

Yeah Im a smoker

I'll start with the PS. Truely sorry about that. I have an Israeli mentality and it doesnt cross well when I speak english. Over here you can call pretty much anyone by their first name. I guess that when I'm saying perfect I mean "titan". A bad name for it, but thats the best i could come up with.

Hi, new here. In Ayn's novels, who would you say, is the charachter you connected with most? I dunno it feels like although I should empathize with Howard Roark and Dominique Francon they just seem unnatural. Very much like everyone in the gulch. I don't think that this level of egoist perfection is attainable for any real person. Because of this I seem to connect best with Gail Wynand. Angry and vindictive, but atleast he is a whole person... if this is so, and Wynand was put there for contrast, why did his type of charachter disappear in her later novel? We learn more about this side charachter's life (we get a nice lenghy description when he consideres shooting himself) than we do in the whole introduction regarding Roark's. Or is it just me? Is the lack of history for roark just an aid to present him as the forever clean slate? Do you think that we get crumbs about his history every now and then just to emphasize how pointless the past is, and that only the objectivity of the present matters? But in this case wouldn't Ayn try and change Keating? I mean that charachter is walking on the line and seems to grasp the idea of ayn's egotism, but chooses not to. Wouldn't this mean that there's no way to "understand"? that you either are perfect or youre not, and by this, reduce the amout of...we'll call them titans as they were reffered to in atlas, to none, because in reality nobody is born as perfect? Your thoughts on this.

Sorry to barge in with no proper presentation of myself, but this was an interesting topic... In my eyes the question is what matters to you more. Everyone knows I'm an atheist, but so is pretty much everyone I know and matters to me, so it's not really a problem. I do go to the synagogue when someone in my family celebrates an event there, like a groom shabbas or a bar mitzva, because my relatives are happy when I come, and making them happy makes me more happy than staying at home and not going. Your ex. Now I've had issues with relationships myself. I never lie, but I date girls that are less than the "manifestation of all values combined blah-blah-blah-blah-blah.." because frankly? I can't seem to find too many that are. But they all know who I am and usually want to stay with me because of it. I found that honesty and above that, openess really is the best policy, if what you're looking for is a serious relationship. I'm sure that you answered this question to yourself many times afterwards, every time she brought religion up. Think about it this way, if you had to lie to her for her to keep you around, she probably doesnt love the real you. This kind of cancels out any good experience she had with you, because it wasn't you she was having it with. It was with a catholic, which obviously in her mind stands for a whole array of values, that you definately do not hold.