Richard Roark

Don't be so quick to judgement about Objectivism right away Ann R Kay. You said that you have the Fountainhead. Save judgement until you have read through that and if you plan on reading Atlas Shrugged. It might even be better for you to leave the board until you have finished reading to keep yourself impartial from judgment about Objectivism. If after reading those two books you still think Objectivism is not for you, that is for you to decide. Yet, don't base your judgement off an internet discussion site, but instead on the ideas contained within said books.

You have heard that Faith is horrible!!!!!!!!!!!! Who the hell where you talking too. Faith of the Fallen is the best book in the series and the most powerful book that I have ever read period. As I have stated several times before many people just don't understand the nature of this series and also the direction and shift the series had to take after the events in Soul of the Fire. I consider myself an expert on this series and have word from Terry himself that I have a top notch understanding of the novels so you can take my word on that.

I decided to put this one up as well due in large part that the two poems are connected and consequently were written on the same day, my birthday to be exact. …and The Seeker I am seeking an object which Many others find to be a bitch While the power of my mind is always Through out the rest of my long days Will be searching and striving for it Struggling and suffering for it Thirsting and hungering for it Nothing will ever quench this thirst Hell will have to freeze over first Before I ever give up this quandary Because it is with great sagacity And ever growing tenacity That I give the chase for the quandary This matter that is so elusive That it has become quite obtrusive Just how many pretend to know Treating my object of desire as a foe Listening to the sweet sounds of omission All the while it is with fervor commission They cast my quandary to the red flame Now they only have themselves to blame The means of their salvation is ash Giving up the future in one mad dash To have the illusion of the carefree All based on the whim-ridden plea Crying out that it is all just so unfair The world being so cruel, crass, full of no care So I accord them justice and their due For if they only had the inkling and knew That the very thing they scream against Rally and fight and clash against Is the very means to having it all The very thing leading to their downfall The quandary of my quest and my life It is joined to me as a loving wife For I am like a master sleuth Because I am the Seeker of Truth Keith Engel Saturday, August 28, 2004

Time for another Poem, and on a sidenote I had better begin writing some more. I am running out of Poems to put up. The Servant Oh how I bow down to you master Nothing makes my heart beat the faster Then becoming your humble servant Nothing makes me overcome with fervent Then doing your glorious cause Nothing will ever give me sudden pause In doing my best work for you For no one will ever give me more due Though some may call you hard and cold I will never be part of this fold In your brilliant light do I shine For everything will be just fine For you are always here with me Letting me to remain carefree For there is always a constant strife In the simple world of life Many say you are uncaring Their reason and faith wavering Placing their belief in others Hiding and shaking behind covers From what you can call down on them Hiding behind their mother’s hem Seeking from you always mercy For sins committed cowardly Yet I am not unwavering For I am always favoring To follow the hard steady path Never fearing to face your wrath For I will never stray from you Being one of the very few Never becoming uncouth For I am the Servant of Truth Keith Engel Saturday, August 28th 2004

Have you ever actually written to Terry Goodkind?

That is because they are trying to break you, don't let them do this to you. You remember how Dena broke Richard in Wizard's First Rule? It was through physical torture and mental torture taht she was able to break Ricahard. But What did Richard Do to save himself? You to must view your instance with everybody as them trying to break your spirit for life and for wanting to live your own life. Don't worry about what other's are saying about you and what they think, what matters is what you think and where you want your life to go. Don't let anybody else claim a right to your life. Your Life is yours Alone, Rise up and Live it.

How about "Know your SELF" or something like that.

Don't all writer's have a fear to show their work and let it be opinioned by the public I will await your review of my poetry and with the hopes you'll like it.

Um...RealityCheck are you sure you're not confusing the Greeks with The Romans

I was first introduced to the ideas of Objectivism via the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. Being a writer and wanting a better understanding of writing I asked Terry Goodkind for advice in a letter. He pointed me in the direction of Art of Fiction and the Romantic Manifesto. The rest as they say is history.

The next Poem: The Higher Praise to… There is no better sight in this life Then seeing a man standing tall Free from the shackles of strife Nothing will ever make him fall For he follows his own mind In making the decisions for life Never will he be in a tight bind Following this ultimate rule of life There is no better sight in this life Then seeing a man accomplish a task alone Cutting his way through the world like a knife For he will never allow anyone to own The tool upon which he lives and survives It is his to use and conquer what he sees Not squandering his life or other lives For his life is measured in great deeds There is no better sight in this life Then seeing a man earning what he owns He counts his success not in saving life But in the irony of life’s ups and downs For it is the fighting and struggling for it That makes living all the sweeter The hot sweating and grisly bleeding of it Which allows him to come out the better There is no better sight in this life Then seeing a man on high peering over For he is seeing the future, the future of all life For in the infinite distance of forever It isn’t into the dark abyss of night Nor the hell bound train the world is riding But the hidden and the forbidden hope of light For the future rewards those who do the creating For there is no better sight in this life Then seeing a man of independence Living by his own rule’s in this life Never giving over to the credence Of the morality of self sacrificing Never living for the life of the other But just enjoying the simplicity of living This is why I give no praise higher Then to the Independent Man living Keith Engel Monday, August 30, 2004

Awakening: This was a good short Poem that speaks on two levels, the first level is the one seen in the poem the actual waking up from the night's rest. The other level is the wakening of one's spirit, or so I think. Desire: I will have to respond to this one later I am still Now that I have recovered, I must say that it is an invigorating Poem to say the least and I enjoyed it immensly. The topic of desire is well captured with all the emotions and thoughts's that go with this concept and it is very well done. BTW did you take a look at my poems

Terry Goodkind is my favorite Author and the one who lead me to Objectivsim in the frist place. I am a lover of fantasy as well, oh, and Lord of the Rings is what led me to being a fan of fantasy, so you can say that I am a fan of LOTR.

Wizards Ninth Rule States: A contradiction cannot exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole. To believe in a contradiction is to abdicate your belief in existence of the world around you and the nature of the things in it, to instead embrace any random impulse that strikes your fancy—to imagine something is real simply because you wish it were. “Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breathe life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded, not of thinking, rational men.

Weclome to the Forum, I take it you read fantasy with your avatar pic being an elf.

First off, how many episodes did you see? Also what do you mean by "the glorification of incompetency?" You must be talking about Vash in the early episodes when he is acting like a goof ball trying to hide the fact that he is Vash the Stampede, though this is part of the charm of Vash I think. This changes by the fourth or fifth episode. Also, as I said I don't watch Anime in English, I enjoy the Japanese subtitled version so I have no comments about the dubbed version. Have you seen Kenshin? Rurouni Kenshin takes place during the Meiji era of Japan, when Japan gets westernized and the Samurai are outlawed. A Rurouni is a swordsman with out a Master and is somtimes called a wandering swordsman. This is a massive series, 94, episodes I believe, that has incredible art, moving and gripping stories, and some wonderful humor.

What do you mean by Emulating Kant instead?

I am with you, I won't listen to dubbed voices because the voice actors for the most part are horrendeous. Are you talking about Ghost in the Shell the Movie or the series? If you like Sci-Fi I suggest Trigun, the story is wild-west tale set on a desert planet about a man called Vash. Even though Vash's views are irrational to say the least, I still like the series and at the end of the series you see Vash reach an understanding.

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Here is what I think on this topic. I can take a Pepsi can stick two ink pens through the can and then put it on a pedastal and call it Art. Why? Well because it is my voice screaming out against the evils of Corporate America.

Here goes one from my Pre Objectivist days; written during the year I turned over to Objectivism. It is a telling piece letting people know where I was during this time. Also can anybody pick up a recurring theme among my poems yet? “A Time in Life” There comes a time, a time in life When a person becomes lost, lost with despair And everything that is done, is done in strife Were you feel that nobody, nobody cares And you can never get a grip, a tight grip On the way things are, how they are to be And there is hardly a soul, a soul with a tip To give you freedom, freedom to see Who you are, whom it is I sought Where does that person fit, fit in the Dance. A Dance that has yet to be taught Through him I have, I have a better chance So I keep my hope, my hope that in the end Things will be turning, turning out for the good And peace of mind and of heart I will have, for I will have tended To the song in my heart, the song that give me The gift of hope, the hope of a Maiden fair And I can hold her in my arms, arms that are open wide For the flame of Love, of a love to see my care The care of a man who, who has nothing to hide Once he is unwrapped, unwrapped from the shell The shell that has been holding, holding me down From being the man, the man I can be so well If only given the chance, the chance to be shown To another of how great, how great a lover I can become A lover who’ll be there, when times disagreeable betide But I will rejoice, rejoice when the sun come ups For she is with me, with me at my bedside As I gaze in her eyes, eyes that I surrender For we are true soul mates, and she is my true lover Keith Engel September 21, 2000

How did I get introduced to Anime? Well I introduced myself to it by having a love of comic books and while reading Wizard Magazine seeing scenes from Anime. I was blown away by the artwork that I saw in these pictures. A friend of mine in high school was into Anime and I asked him about it, but didn't get much of anywhere with him till later. What got me into Anime in serious way was Dragon Ball Z, I was hooked the moment I watched it. This made me want to explore Anime even more and thus began my puruit of Anime. I want to see Grave of the Fireflies and the Lodoss War series. I have seen both Vampire Hunter D movies as well as Ninja Scroll, forgot about those movies. No body has seen Spirited Away I absolutely love this movie and its soundtrack. My favorite track from it is the piano music that is being played while Chiaro is on the train. It is absolutely a beautiful piece of music. Also, the Animatrix has a very good feature about the History of Anime. This is where I got my first glimpse of the Grave of the Fireflies and after seeing the animation for this movie I am like I got to see this movie. Speaking of the Matrix, I don't think many people realize that the Matrix is an Anime done in real life and I think this is the reason many people don't like the the last two movies.

This is almost as bad as what came first the chicken or the egg . Regardless, it has been pointed out that there is no context given and that Rand and Peikoff have talked about this type of situation before. How often do you find people tied to the railroad track and you, you alone, have the ability to change the course of a train? What type of moral question does this answer? None what so ever, the reason for this lies in the fact that there is no practicality to the situation, and morality is a subject that should solely deal in the area of what you will actually encounter in real life and is a subject of practicalities not the impossible.

Hey Burgess can you explain the CPL just a bit better by possibly given an example? I think I could have it though, but I want to be sure. Trying to work matters out in my head and am coming to certain conclusions. I guess what I am trying to figure out is something along the lines of this, is my CPL something I define then in order to acheive my CPL is through my writing? Is this what you have done?

Here is the Anime thread that I said I would begin in my Nobeo Uemetsu thread. I think it would be good to discuss Anime, describing its history, what Anime's you have seen, and give recommadations of good Anime's for other's to see. I will start the following is a list of Anime I have seen and watched: TV Series: Trigun Helsing Lain Dragonball Z Rurouni Kenshin Neon Genesis Evanlion (sp?) Berserker Movies: Akira Spirited Away Princess Mononoke Unfortunately that is all, due to the high price of Anime DVD's it is really hard to watch Anime, and as true fan of Anime I must watch it in Japanese. Also in relation to Objectivism, I would highly recommend to anybody to see Spirited Away, this is truly an amazing story about an young girl who by the end of the story has matured greatly.