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  1. Hurricane Katrina

    in Hurricane Katrina

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    I'm in Baton Rouge. We got hit hard, but not that hard. My power was out for about 24 hours. Much of the city is still with out power and trees down across roads etc.

    It's tough seeing familiar places on national TV underwater like that. Ever since I was a child the adults would always talk about ,"If one ever hits New Orleans directly....", Well it has. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this entire phenomena. An entire city evacuated for crying out loud!

    Someone mentioned Neal Boortz in a post above. He had just signed by fair tax book in New Orleans last Friday. The last time I got a glimps of the city before the storm.

  2. Is Objectivism a dogma?

    in The Critics of Objectivism

    Posted

    Just FYI guys!

    mperkel came on over to www.infidelguy.com forum and started his crap about Objectvist. Here is his pittyfull attempt to paint Objectvist as hypocrites..

    http://www.infidelguy.com/ftopic-11832-0.html

    If you wanna read the last three or four pages and watch his downfall at (not to toot my own horn) my hands it's pretty funny.

    In a nut shell he was saying that Objectivist are a cult because they do not accept the current definition of selfish. I tried to explain to him that Rand was simply defaulting back to an earlier definition of selfish as she explains in AVoS. But he persisted. Knowing that this guy is an atheist I asked him if he agreed with the current definition of atheist. Which according to webster, in the first definition are the words "archaic" and "wickedness".

    1 archaic : UNGODLINESS, WICKEDNESS

    I asked him if he agreed with that definition and he said no. I said so Objectivism is a cult because they reject the current definition of selfish but atheist according to you get a pass for doing the same thing with the word atheism? He did not answer the question even though I put it in front of him many times.

    Also, he capitalized the word atheist repeatedly. Too many times for it to be mistaken as a typo. When asked why, he did not answer that either.

    Also, I asked him what does he do with his extra income that he has left over after he pays for the basic needs of survival. He said that he spends it on entertainment. I called him a greedy bastard. He said that that wasn't greed it was " self interest ". I asked him at what point does self interest stop being self interest and start being greed. He said once he has had his "fair share".

    And yes I asked him to define fair share and guess what? He refused again to answer the question and he has with drew his contradictory incoherent pityfull self from the thread.

  6. Allan Greenspan

    in Current Events

    Posted · Edited by GreedyCapitalist

    I was wondering if he was or not because I know he use to hang our with Rand quite often. Also are there any interviews of him where as he speaks about Rand or Objectivism? What are his views on all of it today?

  10. Socialist claim on drug companies

    in Political Philosophy

    Posted

    I have recently come across a claim by a fellow at work that I was unprepared to answer. He said that drug companies intentionally keep life saving medications and cures off of the market in order to sell drugs to treat the symptoms so they can make more of a profit. I asked him if he had any proof of this and he just responded that it was common knowledge or some crap like that. I told him that it sounds a lot like the "we never landed on the moon" conspiracy theory.

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