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I watched "What Women Want" on TBS the other night, and Helen Hunt did a good job of portraying a beautiful business woman, in my opinion. I remember her looking so good in all of her suits, but acting so natural on a scene when she was in her office late at night working, listening to Frank Sinatra with her legs propped up on the end of her desk with a pen in her mouth. She played a woman who was smart, good at her job, and beautiful.

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'Sex is good' and 'hungry is bad' are not "innate ideas". It is the result of conceptualization and the emotional response to the pleasure-pain mechanism of your body. Sex feels good and is pleasurable, therefore you connect it with the idea that it is good. Being hungry is painful and does not work towards the progression of your life so you identify it as bad. You cannot evaluate something as good or bad without a standard of value, you would be realizing a fact of reality and then responding to it somehow. Or maybe I do not understand the concept of "innate idea". It does not seem possible to have an innate idea about anything with that idea having any kind of meaning.

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All gravity acts on all objects the same, regardless of their mass. An object would have to be incredibly massive to exert a gravitational force on another object. The equation is F = Gm1m2/r^2 G being the universal gravitational constant, m1 and m2 beings the masses of the two objects and r^2 being the distance between the center of mass of the two objects.

Animals do not have rights. Rights are derived from man's rational faculty, his ability to use reason. Animals have no such faculty. They have no rights. Men are not duty-bound to animals in any way. We may torture them if we wish, but one would have to ask what value you could gain from it. If you gain a value (like scientific knowledge or whatever) it would not be immoral. Each case is contextual. Objectivism is neither open-ended or inconsistent. Neither statements you quoted from ex-banana-eater and y_feldblum contradicted each other. If you define duty as 'moral obligation' then the only duty you have is to yourself. You have a moral obligation to sustain your own life by your own effort. If you define duty as 'an action required of you for no reason' (as most of us understand the term used today) you have no duties whatsoever. The problem I think you are having here is differentiating between have and should. You have to sustain your life by some means. You should sustain your life through your own work and effort, but that is a choice you have to make. You can be a producer or a leech. Objectivism holds that the only moral way to live is by your own effort.

Once again Kevin your post has made my day. I'm sooo happy there is a MAN out there who knows all of this, and will actually write it down! I am waiting with bated breathe for your book; it will be the greatest pleasure to read.

I'm an INTJ as well.

I will venture to say that Cole meant something akin to, --To the extent to which you have a choice about your actions, you are entirely responsible for what you do.-- In other words, if you can choose between right and wrong then you are solely responsible for that choice. So what you posited, Melissa, was just peer pressure. Like when your friends are all dropping acid and telling you, "Do it man, do it!" People in those situations were entirely responsible for their actions, and to give them any leeway because "everyone else was doing it" is completely wrong. If I am in a room looking at a green screen and everyone else calls it blue, then I will call it GREEN, because that is what I see. The point is that you use your own mind to reason about a situation and derive your own conclusions about what to do. But you have to remain context bound, if in experiments people were not presented with all the facts or were misled in some way, then that would influence their decisions, but pure peer pressure should not be a factor in the decision making process.

Ooook... I am replying to your examples of when to use humor. If a man in a park asked me for a cigarette, I would give him one if I had one, or not if I didnt. It's not that complicated. As for seeing a bunch of people I thought might impose a threat on my person, I would DEFINATELY not call attention to myself, and would probably leave. There is no reason to instigate a bad situation. You never want to give someone a reason to harm you, and patronizing them is definately going to piss them off. They might not even be thinking about you! Just ignore them. Humor in a relationship is critical. If you can't find someone who can make you laugh, I can almost guarantee you will not be happy in that relationship. You want a relationship that promotes happiness. On my list of things to find in someone, "sense of humor" is definately at the top.

I just learned a few things about make-up myself, due to my wonderful best friend who transformed me into a girl. Or at least made me see the light at the end of the tunnel of my hard-core tomboy phase. I'm black, but very light skinned, so I have a sort of golden tone. (Quite pale right now actually, due to the lack of sun, but hopefully that will change!) Try to find a color make-up that highlights your undertones instead of covers them up. (Comes from using a blush that's been too pale for so long.. made me look ghostly) So in the day I usually just wear a little powder to cover blemishes and some eyeliner and mascara. One thing I have noticed with eyeliner, if you put it on your top and bottom lid it makes your eyes look smaller and more intense. To keep the intensity, do the top and half of the bottom, i.e. start at mid pupil and continue the line outward, but don't underline the entire eye. I think it looks fabulous. I usually only use black mascara and eye-liner at night, and brown in the day. Burt's Bee's chapstick is MARVELOUS! It's the best I've found. Revlon makes a cream blush that you can smear onto your cheekbones, gives yourself a light pinkish tint that I love. If you scrub your face with salt water, (this sounds weird, but they sell salt scrub by the ton) literally just pour some salt in a bowl and add enough water to make a goopy sort of solution, scrub your face with it, it will take off dead skin cells without being too abrasive. And since salt dissolves in water it wont clog your pores. Baby soft! But be sure to wash with soap after and moisturize. Wow, never thought I would see the day when I would give make-up advice. Hope it helped!

Getting drunk is not immoral and drinking is not immoral as long as you know what you are doing and what it is doing to you. It is only immoral if you are aware of the effects and know that it will harm you in some way and do it to excess regardless. Have any of you actually been drunk? The only thing drinking really causes (in terms of consciousness) is make you slur when you talk and not have really great motor skills. It doesnt inhibit your rational faculty to the point of sheer stupidity. It doesnt MAKE you do anything you wouldnt normally do, and if anyone tells you it does then they just want an excuse for acting stupid. It is fun to get a little tipsy sometimes, like on New Year's with your friends and you have nothing to do the next day and no obligations, you just want to live it up with your friends, dance like crazy and enjoy the night with champagne or what have you. It's just fun, just like bungee jumping is fun, just like rock climbing is fun, just like parasailing is fun. It's just fun. Now if you get drunk to escape reality, instead of to celebrate, then yes, it is immoral, but please do not make blanket statements like "Drinking is immoral, period." Because most situations are contextual. If you do not do something because you see the effects and decide the pros do not outweigh the cons, fine. But do not try to impose that same idea onto someone else, they may be different from you, they may have a higher tolerance level, they may know how to handle their liquor, whatever. It pains me to see responses like "Drinking alcohol is immoral." because it is not.

I never asked you to do my homework, I asked for any help that you want to provide. So it's loops within loops.. wow, it's sad that I just understood that right now. I could never be a programmer. So if you have a variable that you declare at the beginning of the program, you could use it within nested-loops, right?

Anything anyone wants to send me to help me out would be very welcome. This isnt our first project, but our forth. I've been doing sort of alright.. in the sense that when I finish a project I feel incredibly confident about it but only getting a lot of points taken off for things that I dont understand, so I thought I might enlist the help of people who actually know what they are doing. My main problem is understand what loop would actually create the calendar itself. If someone could suggest a particular loop to use and then explain what exactly it does with the input to create the calendar.. oh wow, that would be fantastic. Thanks for help so far!

You're right.. sorry!

Ok, I understand do-while loops.. sorta.. I have this so far do { printf("Please enter a year equal to or greater than 1582:"); scanf("%d", &year); if (year < 1582) printf("Invalid year, please try again:"); scanf("%d", &year); } while what goes in the while.. you said while there is still bad data.. so.. while (year < 1582); ?

What you said makes so much sense. I know how to get a value from the user and then to show what was typed. I don't really see how to keep checking for bad data. I got points taken off that from my last program. I used an if-else statement, but it just seems like if I use that then I will have an infinity of if-else statements as long as the user keeps giving me bad data. (The teacher DID show us a flow chart.. which made sense, but helped me in no way whatsoever..) How do I make it read from a file.. and do I need to create the file that the program is going to be reading from? And if so, where is that file stored, and why isnt it just in the code itself?

Wow, thanks for all the replies. Basically I'm sketchy on everything, but specifically I'm confused about style. I dont understand how everything gets spaced together correctly... I really don't know what to ask cause I don't know where to start. I'm supposed to create this calender program that's supposed to pull up a calender for any year between the max and min years. It prompts the user for a year and then provides it. I have NO CLUE how to do this.. She gave us sample code to get us started.. I think.. I'm looking at it but I dont know what it does. Apparently "program input is to be read from a text file.." I understand loops and all that stuff, I just dont know how to create a program. I really hate this.

I'm an Objectivist and I draw comics... but I dont think that's what you were looking for, huh?

I am taking Computer Programming this semester and I am so totally baffled by it. I go to the lectures and the recitations, I have a friend of mine who is a Computer Engineering major help me and I go to some office hours but I am just not grasping this code. There are so many things to keep up with, and AGH, I need some help! Does anyone here think they might be able to explain some of the concepts and how they work? If so, please email me at [email protected] I would sooo appreciate anything. Thanks

I find it amusing how all the people who claim Objectivism is a tiny cult and not taken seriously in academic circles find so much glee from viciously attacking it. And it's always so sad.. because they attack it so poorly.

I agree with Jennifer, I wrote on Objectivism for my college essays and I got into 4 out of 5 schools that I applied for. Don't compromise your values.

That web link to the Department of Altruism is almost SCARY. I'm speechless...

I read your post and wanted to reply. You think about God pretty much the exact same way I thought about God when I still believed in him. I went through that some process of loving it, rejected organized religion and turning my faith into an individualistic spirituality, and then a friend slapped me in the face (he said, "just because you dont know what it is doesnt mean you can just give it a name..") and I became an athiest. What you feel when you pray, that great reverent feeling, is the admiration you have for a being that created someone as great as yourself, correct? That's how I felt, I identified it properly. Since you've believed in God your whole life, it's like you have subconsciously mixed concepts. You place the reverence and happiness of superb self-esteem upon the being you have been told from jump street created you. Logically, that makes sense, if there was a God, but sense the concept of a God is logically impossible you should be reserving that emotion for yourself, period. I was afraid that that happiness would go away once I became an athiest, but it only increased a million fold, once you realize that the only cause for the greatness in your life, the efficacy of your own mind, the organization of your thoughts, is your own self, the idea of a God that you can't see, hear, touch or understand becomes.. silly. And you drop it. I read more of your posts.. you're doing well! You should be proud of yourself for facing reality despite your fear. Good job buddy.

I agree with deedlebee. It comes down to sincerity and confidence. Dont do things unless you mean to do them, and know that everything you are doing is for a reason that begins with yourself. (i.e. don't pay for dinner to impress her; pay for dinner because you want to pay for dinner!) Don't second-guess yourself, trust your judgement. Be the person you are when we aren't around. Yes, we read your body language, the one part of yourself that tells us about your subconscious (well, that among other things) so trying to act a certain way isnt going to work anyhow. Just be yourself, you like yourself right? That's all that matters, that and a really great sense of humor.