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    Objectivism Is The Everyman's Philosophy

    In the universe, what you see is what you get,

    figuring it out for yourself is the way to happiness,

    and each person's independence is respected by all

  • Rand's Philosophy in Her Own Words

    • "Metaphysics: Objective Reality" "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed/Wishing won’t make it so." "The universe exists independent of consciousness"
    • "Epistemology: Reason" "You can’t eat your cake and have it, too." "Thinking is man’s only basic virtue"
    • "Ethics: Self-interest" "Man is an end in himself." "Man must act for his own rational self-interest" "The purpose of morality is to teach you[...] to enjoy yourself and live"
    • "Politics: Capitalism" "Give me liberty or give me death." "If life on earth is [a man's] purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being"

  • Objectivism Online Chat

    Does one have to get a Social Security #

    erik
    By erik,
    Anyone know if you can get by in life without a Social Security # in the USA. Its optional but it seems like you have to have one to do a lot of different stuff. Any thoughts.

    Question Concerning Post War Iraq

    argive99
    By argive99,
    I have been thinking alot about this and I am wondering if it was necessary to "nation build" in Iraq. Wouldn't it have been better to destroy the governmental infrastructure, all military capabilities, all hotbeads of Islmaic activism and then consficate the oil fields and leave? I know this is an intellectual excercise because no President in the modern era would ever be so bold. But I'm trying to formulate in my mind what an Objective foreign policy / military strategy would have looked

    O'reilly Interviews Moore

    Oakes
    By Oakes,
    Most of you probably know that Bill O'Reilly finally got an interview with Michael Moore yesterday. I didn't see it, but I just got done reading the transcript here. First, they start talking about whether Bush lied about the WMD. Moore continually insists that "saying something that isn't true" is a lie. O'Reilly was right to correct him: Bush made an honest error resulting from bad intelligence that was out of his control. But one must wonder, why does it matter? By spending so much time

    The Ineffectual Supreme Court?

    IAMNAPIV
    By IAMNAPIV,
    Hello everyone! I would first like to say how pleased I am to have stumbled on this forum. The erudite explanations on so many matters that have bogged me have been invaluable. And it is also comforting to witness such astuteness when it seems that everyone I meet is an environmentalist, multicultralist, socialist, etc. etc. The question I have to pose (which has been confounding me for some time) is this: Why hasn’t the Supreme Court put a stop to the escalating statism in our county?

    The Passion Of Ayn Rand

    source
    By source,
    Today in the evening, they are showing the movie "The Passion of Ayn Rand" on a croatian RTL. For the first time in Croatia someone will be talking about Ayn Rand... other than myself. However, I noticed that the scenario for this film was written by Barbara, Nathaniel's "girlfriend" (so it says in the description of the movie on RTL's site), so I'm not expecting too much, but I'm looking forward to it. After all, Ayn Rand is only the second egoist that the croats are about to know better.

    Hello To All

    eldiego1984
    By eldiego1984,
    Hi i'm a new member although i 've been browsing the site and the forum for a while. My english teacher introduced me to ayn rand and "the fountainhead" and it's been 3 years since my first reading of "the fountainhead" and therefore i'm quite new to objectivism. I hope you 'll excuse my english though it was good enough to read and comprehend "the fountainhead" and "Atlas shrugged". Anyway i won't bother you with a lot of posting as i enjoy reading this forum a lot and will only bug you when so

    Hobbies Anyone?

    ZiggyKD
    By ZiggyKD,
    I've long wanted to build home audio speakers for a hobby, and have done research on this topic for quite some time. I have recently finished the first of a pair of bookshelf speakers for my computer (a glorified home theater really). When I saw it standing upright for the first time, fully painted with all the drivers screwed into the cabinet, I was beaming with pride. When I heard it for the first time, I was overjoyed. Running through my mind were the hours spent on calculations for

    Randy Johnson

    Dan9999999
    By Dan9999999,
    I was just thinking about the possibility of Randy Johnson going to New York and I started wondering how many other baseball fans there were on this board?

    PUBLIC HEALTH

    buiq
    By buiq,
    Hello: What is or are your opinion/s regarding public health in the perspective of Objectivism philosophy? As you all know, public health has contributed to the improvement of health and lives over a century. Public health has extend life expentancy by 25 years while medical advancement only extended life by 5 years, during the last 100 years. Public health inhenrently concerns for the health of the population not an individual. The government (federal, state, and local) spent a large

    Democratic National Convention

    Charles
    By Charles,
    I have had the DNC on in the background for a couple of hours. I am British, my knowledge of American politics is limited, though I can say with due certainity now; regardless of tactical voting - I could not vote for the Democrats. The Convention started with a sermon by a Priest (who uncannily resembled Ned Flanders, any Matt Groening fans). This was followed by a typically over the top rendition of the US national anthem by a mexican immigrant. A series of democratic mayors then "sp

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