Self Made Soul Posted June 10, 2011 Report Share Posted June 10, 2011 Hey everybody, I've been lurking for a couple of weeks, and its time to make an account. My name is Chris and I'm an objectivist from the metro Atlanta area. From my bio: The first time I read Atlas Shrugged, I was a conservative and I saw it as a guide for economics. The second time I read Atlas Shrugged, I was a libertarian and I saw it as a guide for politics. The third time I read Atlas Shrugged, I was an objectivist, and I saw it as a guide for living. So that's my cute poetic way of saying that I started off as a libertarian, and after wrestling with several things that didn't mesh in my world view (Intellectual Property, for one), after going back to Objectivism I'm finding more and more that this is how I have always seen the world, I just didn't have the word(s) for it. As I go back and study facets of Objectivism I had glossed over or even dismissed earlier, I'm finding that the reason for it was that I didn't really understand it. I never took a philosophy class in college (or at least in the time that I stayed in college before I decided to become a productive individual instead), mainly because I didn't think that it had anything to offer me. I was wrong. THEIR philosophy had nothing to offer me. I stumbled onto this forum through a couple of different avenues: Google search for Objectivist parenting (I have a 1-yr old whom I want to help be a rational individualist) and from Dr. Hsieh's podcast notification. I'm finding that for people such as myself, who never had a traditional philosophical instruction, the newer methods of communicating Objectivist activism are much better for getting me to see past the worldview handed to me by the comprachicos (I was raised in a religious & socialist family). Without any friends or family who are objectivist, there really wasn't anything that helped me put things in context tn years ago, like I have access to now. I hope to be a part of the conversation, and thank you all for providing such an awesome resource as this. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eiuol Posted June 10, 2011 Report Share Posted June 10, 2011 Welcome~! Atlas Shrugged may be great, but the rest of Rand's fiction writing is definitely a worthwhile endeavor. Perhaps you'll read Anthem soon, which I find interesting because of how it sort of gets at Objectivism from a sense of life perspective in a relatively short and direct way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCizzle Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 Hello there, nice to meet you. I'm new here myself and look forward to the interaction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Self Made Soul Posted June 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 Hey all, thanks for the welcome. Eioul, thanks! I've read Anthem, but only a part of We the Living and The Fountainhead is coming up next on my reading list. I have an upcoming vacation, and I'm going to try to knock out TF, Capitalism, and TRM while sitting on the beach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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