Darrell Cody
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Going Galt today is an indolent person's excuse for not trying harder. It's pathetic. We can still win; it helps if you fight.
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That was a funny read lol.
That was a funny read. It read like a dream - unreal and surreal - and a parody. A satire on a conversation between those 4. Hilarious! Seriously, it read like Salvador Dali paints. Weird stuff!
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Great News About Our Holiday Celebration: We Have a Public Venue!
Because it's the holidays, we didn't expect many to come to our gathering. Were we surprised: Within hours close to 50 people signed up!
We faced a dilemma: Turn people down OR find a big venue at...CHRISTMAS CHANUKAH TIME!
Kudos to Julia H.: She found McGees -- a big venue -- at this last possible minute.
BUT since we now have higher expenses (the restaurant!) we have to charge our usual fees. If you already signed up, you're on the list. You need not pay more.
If you didn't sign up already, just keep this in mind: Our gathering is going to be FUN. Plus we'll enjoy great presentations from:
Pamela Geller - The blogger and activist known for her stance against radical Islam will report on her recent experience running ads calling for the support of the civilized man against the savage.
Yaron Brook - The son of Israeli socialists, the author of Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government, columnist for
Forbes.com, and president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute has much to say about what's ahead in wake of last month's election.DATE: Monday, December 17th
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Light hors d'oeuvres
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Marianne Faithful. Who else loves her? Message me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhPPJ5dolxU&feature=related
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My wife and I spent a long weekend this summer in Boston(great town). We ate at a Max Brenner restaurant, I had not heard of them before then, had an extremely decadent breakfast with what was quite possibly the best chocolate milkshake I ever had.
Yum.
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ok now you are veering, you said donut, dont get my started on sticky bune,coffee rolls (chocolate-iced or non) zeppolis funnel cake..all the way to specific fudges oh ah ice creams brands and flavors and the specific times of year to enjoy said ice creams
I am clarifying this thread to anything in the way of things sold at Krispy Kreme and Dunkin Donuts and other fine donut retailers, including mom and pop stores. Chow time. What's your fave?
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Same here. I don't go to Krispykreme but I like the gooey red filling in the round ones, or the yellow custard in the long ones with the chocolate glaze on them.
Am I the only one who likes the Krispy Kreme bun ones with the chocolate icing and the vanilla cream?
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Ok, Ladies and Gentlemen, here-we-go! Hollywood Stock Exchange, HSX.com, is a website, an online game, where you can invest virtual money in virtual securities of the movies and actors you love, and watch them go up and down and make money for your virtual portfolio. It's free and so much fun, I know there are tons of movie fans here, so, everybody join and let's post tips and how you are doing on this thread.
Make a lot of money, and have fun!
Darrell Cody
www.HSX.com
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Darrell.wrote: All this talk about doughnuts makes me hungry
Me too. I think I will pick up some after I see my peridontist in the morning. I will get them at a bakery in the grocery store becuase I have to go there to get pick up my Advair at their pharmacy. Id go to the DD, but this is more convenient.
Cool. What kind will you get? I love the Dunkin Donuts Vanilla Cream.
Everybody hit me with your favorite donuts.
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All this talk about doughnuts makes me hungry.
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Isnt that a loaded question?
No.
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Give her a raise?
If she were working for me, I would have fired her. For giving away free food. Wasting company time on irrational requests. I would deny her unemployment, too.
I think she should have rejected him, immediately.
This incident has garnered enormous reviews online, a Krispy Kreme video that has gone viral, a happy customer, perhaps thousands of new Krispy Kreme fans, unfathomable amounts of secondary good marketing for Krispy Kreme and several people talking about Krispy Kreme on Objectivism Online who would not be otherwise - which means thousands of dollars in profits it would not have otherwise gotten - and it cost the company about 90 cents in donuts and a box.
So - IntellectualAmmo - as a businessman - the facts are those; based on Objectivism's proper way of thinking, do you care to admit you see the logic of why this woman did the right thing?
There's really nothing else to say. *munches donut*
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God forbid. I'd never do that. Everyone freely chooses their own view and voluntarily takes it with them to their grave. And if it's any consolation, most Christians don't regard me as being a Christian because I fail their test for doctrinal purity due to my admiration of Ayn Rand and sharing her love of American Capitalism.
I just wanted to be up front with you all right from the beginning about myself. You're very likely never to see the use of the "C" word outside of this thread... not out of repression, but because I'm much more of a pragmatic behaviorist than a religious doctrinaire.
While I understand the comments everyone is making here, I do not agree with the general tone of all of them; I would like to take this moment to remind everyone of the particular danger of being "the man in the middle" Ayn Rand refers to in Atlas Shrugged.
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This is Objectivism Online, not "Anything Goes" Online.
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I do more than just passively admire the rationality of Ayn Rand's values. I actively use them in my business.
I see no conflict between religious moral values and the moral values advocated by Ayn Rand. While doctrines can vary wildly... standards of behavior can be strikingly similar. It is not what people believe that makes this world what it is... it is what people actually do.
And yet what they do proceeds from what they believe. Take 9/11. Islamic extremists. The Spanish Inquisition, the Salem trials and executions. Christian extremists. This is not something that proceeds from rational ideas. This is what comes from irrational, supernatural based, mysticism ideas. You do know that Ayn Rand was opposed to Christianity, and the logic behind that, right? This is a site for Ayn Rand fans.
The question to be really asking is - if someday people are murdered because of the beliefs I indulge in, without rationality - am I right to believe in them?
There you go.
As for the moral values of Christianity - altruism, self-sacrifice, faith, charity, Jesus, god, religion etc etc - and the moral values of Objectivism and Ayn Rand - egoism, The Virtue of Selfishness, rational self-interest, Reason, productivity, Man, Man Worship, Hero Worship, atheism - Ayn Rand and Christianity are opposites. Have you read Atlas Shrugged? They are not, as you are saying, strikingly similar at all. With respect - have you actually studied Objectivism at all? You seem to be missing all the basic knowledge.
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With respect, you should think over whether still believing in mysticism and the supernatural is sensible while admiring ideas of rationality. What would Ayn Rand say?
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Here's an excerpt from a Webinar I hosted recently, about things that men need to understand about romance & relationships.
In this segment, I talk about how a man can identify women who aren't worth pursuing, and name the most important characteristic that a man must observe in a potential romantic partner:
This man has just eliminated almost every women on the planet from you asking them on a date. He says you can't change people and show them how wonderful life is; apparently, he hasn't read Atlas Shrugged. Of course you can. He just doesn't know how to.
Philosophy is often about changing people. He doesn't get it.
Go for it. Communicate. Never underestimate the power of Reason to change people, and women are people. Just ask Ayn Rand. This guy doesn't know all of his stuff.
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Good Video - Dr. Wafa Sultan:
Darrell
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Now that's one heck of an initiative taking employee!
Be sure and 'Like' the video.Article:
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Hello everyone. I imagine this has been answered but I couldn't find it through search on here, nor the wikipedia and google. According to an interview with Rand and James Day, skip to 1105:
Rand mentions being contracted for another "novel" after having published AS. I have looked around for what this might be and, other than the wiki mentioning a TV series for AS, I have not seen any info of another "novel". Can anyone offer info, especially if its incomplete state is printed in any of her works. Of the few Rand works I do not have, one is her Early Works. But I cannot imagine this "novel" being considered Early.
Thanks
Thanks for posting this video. That's interesting - that she said that. I don't know what it is about.
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In a few threads, and in the chat, I have come across one of the following two arguments:
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Romney was the better candidate.
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Both were just as bad as the other.
The third option (Obama was the better candidate) does not seem to exist in Objectivist circles. If Objectivism is meant to be about freedom, the most basic freedom one can have is the freedom to do what you will with your own body. Romney would deny women abortion. He is a religious nut job:
He specifically says in this video that he has always voted against choice and always will. HOW DARE ANYONE VOTE FOR SUCH A FASCIST! How dare you equivocate between economic and political freedoms, between the ideas of Obama and Romney. One is clearly worse. One would shackle women. In a choice between instigating higher taxes and instigating the shackling of women you choose to shackle women? How DARE you. It makes me sick to the stomach.
There is a reason why you feel able to equivocate: most of you are white males. So culturally you subconsciously see economic freedom as THE freedom, and downplay abuses of freedoms that effect women. This cultural bias probably results from most of you residing in rural areas, but that is just my opinion. I hope you can see why my anger is justified.
Anyone who chooses to shackle women over paying higher taxes is a backward monster. And anyway who abstained from voting is a moral monster. And anyway who says "oh but we shouldn't have to make this choice" is a coward. The Objectivist community had to choose and it will be judged by it's backward choice.
The above is wrong. Romney is wrong about abortion; Obama is wrong about the ENTIRE role of government. Summing up Obama, you get a potential communist dictator. Summing up Romney, you get a mixture of Capitalism and socialism. Obviously, Romney is the lesser evil.
You don't judge a candidate on one issue; you judge them on how they stand on all the issues, and sum them up about how good or bad they are.
Objectivism isn't backwards. The above statement is.
I find it amusing that the writer thinks Obama - who wants to shackle EVERYONE - men and women - the healthcare compulsion mandate is shackling everyone, men and women - is a better person than Romney, who wants to shackle women's abortion rights (which is wrong too - but clearly not as bad as heading in the direction of controlling everything about everyone). The writer is not rational.
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Romney was the better candidate.
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That is such a good movie (and scene).
Freeeeeedooooommmmm!
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Invictus (Unconquered)
William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
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Yaron Brook At December NYC Gotham Tea Party Meeting
in Activism for Reason, Rights, Reality
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PLEASE NOTE: THE EVENT IS SOLD OUT. NO ONE IS BEING ADMITTED AT THE DOOR WHO HAS NOT ALREADY REGISTERED. THANKS!