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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

    What's the value of astronomy?

    Asker of Questions
    By Asker of Questions,
    What's the value in studying distant stars, planets, galaxies, etc. given that we will never be able to travel to or communicate with whoever may live in those places? To me it's just interesting to sit here and ponder the scale of it all, i.e. the galaxies in this picture look so close you should be able to just hop from one to another, but the distance between them is so vast you couldn't make it from one to the next if you moved at the speed of light and lived for thousands years. Is there va

    Reblogged:Whoever 'Won,' America Lost

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Editor's Note: Posting may be irregular due to impacts from Hurricane Francine, which will affect our area after making landfall this afternoon or evening. Thank you for your patience. *** "Harris 'won' the debate, and is clearly lesser evil than Trump. But still sad these are options before us. Out of 330 million people, we should be able to do better. The thought of it almost makes want to eat a cat..." -- Ilya Somin *** The Washington Examiner laid out what each candidate would need to do ye

    Reblogged:Israel Deserves More Than Just Our Thanks

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Israel also deserves the justice -- including our full support -- that only full context can give regarding its acts of self-defense. *** Over at Sp!ked is what I would call a good start on a massive calling-out the Western intellectual and political establishment more than earned long ago regarding Israel. In what I would likewise call a good start, Israel has killed or incapacitated half a thousand terrorists in Lebanon, including an adult male Islamist known as Ibrahim Aqil, who was behind t

    Objectivism Online moved to new web server

    DavidV
    By DavidV,
    In our third move in 21 years, I moved Objectivism Online to a new web server. It's now running on faster hardware and the latest versions of Ubuntu (24.04), nginx, and PHP. I use WordOps to automate server admin, in case you're wondering.

    Objectivism Online went down this Saturday! What happened, and what did you guys do?

    Mthomas9s
    By Mthomas9s,
    Welcome back  to Objectivism Online , all.

    Reblogged:Trump: Worse for Economy Than Harris?

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Brad Polumbo looks at the only sane reason to consider Trump and finds him lacking. *** At the Washington Examiner, Brad Polumbo warns that voters who think Trump will return us to the relative prosperity of pre-pandemic times are badly mistaken. In fact, Trump may compare unfavorably to Kamala Harris overall:This may sound like an exaggeration, but it isn't. Recall that Trump has already surpassed another Democrat, Joe Biden, similarly, outspending him by trillions on pandemic handouts. That

    Reblogged:Stossel on Class Action Abuse

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    In addition to solving a minor mystery from my childhood, John Stossel's latest column reveals something I did not know about class action lawsuits:Stossel opened with what most readers will find more typical: A couple of small checks he got as settlements for class action lawsuits here and there. I am pretty sure my general impression of this was typical: That the lawyers who won such suits made lots of money, but that members of the aggrieved class at least got something. I had no idea that

    A Song to Reason

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    As Steals the Morn

    My Ethical Theory and Rand's

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    My Ethical Theory and Rand’s Perception of mind-independent existence is fundamental to human consciousness, though not the whole of what is fundamental in human consciousness. “Existence exists, we live.” The act of grasping that statement implies that things exist, including you and I conscious living selves, our consciousness being something alive and being the faculty of perceiving that which exists. No one understanding the statement “Existence exists,” whether uttered, signed, or

    Reblogged:When 'Service Animals' Crash Your Event

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Today, I find myself in the rare position of taking the side of a couple of readers against Judith Martin's reply to someone concerned that a "support animal" is going to ruin an evening of dinner and the opera:Miss Manners offers a couple of white lie type options which would, granted, spare the feelings of the other party, but I agree with the following comments:And:Thanks to a change in regulations, "support animals" are becoming very common, and even if the government protected the property

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