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Ogg_Vorbis reacted to a post in a topic: Is there a recording of the Albert Ellis/NB debate?
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But the pipe dude’s are business records , they are subject to federal scrutiny for ten years. How is it Bragg has cause to scrutinize Trump Org documents , aren’t they just as private as the fittings guy’s?
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An owner of a speciality pipe fitting manufacture in Albany entered a grounds maintainance fee invoice as a supply invoice in his private records , should he be concerned ? That statute sounds ripe for elasticity.
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Is there a recording of the Albert Ellis/NB debate?
tadmjones replied to Skylark1's topic in Questions about Objectivism
"In the course of my initial presentation during the debate, I quoted Miss Rand's statement (from "The Objectivist Ethics") that 'happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions'. Could anyone ever be happy when held to this extreme standard? I asked. And scores of voices from the audience screamed back (somewhat to my surprise): Yes!!!" (294). That reminded me of GK Chesterton, in the 2nd chapter of his Orthodoxy , presents his oft quoted aphorism "The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason". And ends it with " But that transcendentalism by which all men live has primarily much the position of the sun in the sky. We are conscious of it as of a kind of splendid confusion; it is something both shining and shapeless, at once a blaze and a blur. But the circle of the moon is as clear and unmistakable, as recurrent and inevitable, as the circle of Euclid on a blackboard. For the moon is utterly reasonable; and the moon is the mother of lunatics and has given to them all her name. " -
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Objective Reality and Objective Living
tadmjones replied to monart's topic in Psychology and Self Improvement
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After a failing to instigate a race war , Covid! But still not a majority , go figure
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tadmjones replied to monart's topic in Psychology and Self Improvement
Their ruminations on consciousness and awareness. I'm extremely attracted to Advaita Vedanta. -
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tadmjones replied to monart's topic in Psychology and Self Improvement
I would venture that the mind that builds Starships for self betterment and added betterment to the universe, was on an implicit level rebelling and being 'finished with fire' as it were, while being subjected to the consequences of being surrounded by poverty, especially an unjust poverty. Having been born in the US, I was blessed to not have been subjected to poverty. While never 'wealthy' or free of mundane monetary concerns , I nonetheless have never experienced existential want. The 'tie in' I'm looking for is a satisfying ontology that reduces the 'cause' or describes a fundamental base to the subjectivity of my awareness. Having become recently introduced to Vedic philosophies, I've been checking a whole lot of premises !! -
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tadmjones replied to monart's topic in Psychology and Self Improvement
Yes I wish Stephen as many good years as he wants! -
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Israelo-Palestinian Conflict: 2023 Edition
tadmjones replied to AlexL's topic in Terrorism and Islamic Fundamentalism
The Iranian mullahs and their regime are undoubtedly state sponsors of terrorism, ie Hezbollah, Hamas ect, but the current US administration has recently lessened sanctions against Iran that some have described as basically' giving Iran billions in cash' , true or truish does that make the US complicit in their sponsorship? The US state department told Iran it would be best to inform Turkey of launching , what Iran calls reprisals for the attack on their embassy in Syria(?) that killed at least one senior Iranian military commander. The previous US admin killed an Iranian military official 'ex country' and admitted that they know the Iranians would retaliate will a strike but that the strike would be relatively 'minimal' and was allowed as an act of 'face saving'. So , basically, the big boys play at a game were strikes and counter strikes , tits for tats, are expected and warranted. With Jordan seemingly siding with Israel in this particular 'tat' , it looks like something closer to an Abrahamic Accord thingy forming against Iran , than a prelude to doomsday, no ? -
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tadmjones replied to monart's topic in Psychology and Self Improvement
Stephen's mind and their products are one of a kind! Though the longer I contemplate objective reality , the more bereft I come to see no satisfying guide to tie in my selfish subjective experience/relation to all of It. -
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So not just an Italian thing , lol.