sammi
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hi
want to try WOW and they have a trial offer...
I am afraid i will get totally addicted to it and spend $15 bucks a month on it which is something i DONT want to do
any good MP online games that are free and or less costly?
thanks for any suggestions
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i really enjoy this show-the bbc version is a bit better than the fox version. I like him coming in and not holding back on what is wrong with the restaurants he is trying to save-it is amazing how much resistance he gets from the staff/owners and chefs
anyone else enjoy this show?
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Objectivism advocates the ethic of independence, not self-sufficiency. Independence means never placing other people's judgment above your own, and living by the values earned by your own efforts. It does not mean isolating yourself from others. Voluntarily trade with others does not surrender your independence, but rather recognizes that other people are also independent, productive beings.
I understand that and totally agree, but that is in a perfect world which this is not.
I want to place my judgment first and do but I realize the work I do to earn money isn't the best work I can do (although I try and do my best at my job always)-and I do NOT want the best work I can do sold off and used by people who don't appreciate it or reward it (monetarily especially) sufficiently. It is too often the case that that happens and it has happened to me too many times.
For now until something different occurs withholding is a better path for me to be independent.
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I have always been fascinated and very interested in living as self sufficiently as possible (like e.g. Thoreau, the pioneers, American Indians of the past, the pilgrims - the thanksgiving ones that is) and have tried in fits and starts to incorporate self sufficiency into my own life by cooking my own food - spending as little as possible - heating with wood
All these things I want to do in order that the "powers that be" can have as little control over my life as I can manage.
It isn't really running away in my case it is wanting to own my own life as much as possible. I have no real "career" where I can advance in and find that the work i do have to do by and large is dictated by how many times you pucker up and suck up.
Is this anti O ? i mean even Galt had an 'intentional community'
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sammi
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btw re: the villain known as skinner
"The bad guy in this movie is Skinner, who tries to put Remy in a box. The character was named after behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner, who was known for the Skinner Box, where rats were placed and trained to push a button for food."
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i loved this movie too-made me want to cook WELL again not just fast-i love to cook and eat GOOD food
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i recently saw the trailer for the movie Into the wild-I have also read the book, from what I see from the trailer it looks quite good-the book was a great read
(side note-ok it is a sean penn project)
it is as I see it about a person who is a total individualist with specific goals and a (sort of) plan who is willing to risk everything
Looking forward to seeing this one.
opinions?
trailer:
sammi
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read the fountainhead about 4-5 times
atlas 2x
got the audio cds of atlas at the library-awesome-there are about 30 cds in all -broken into parts one and two
the librarian said they are always being loaned out!
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things have been ironed out and i am now a member there-i like what i see so far VERY much
thanks for listening
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I am getting kind of annoyed now...
I signed up once and forgot to add my email address to the sign up-I wrote them and they said they had no record of me signing up. (It took almost 2 days to get this reply)
Signed up AGAIN about 8 hrs ago and am still not authorized to login, sent them an email awhile ago still no reply.
I have an authorization # which I sent in the email.
If I get one more email saying I am not signed up I am not going to try again-this plan costs $ and to me this is shoddy service especially considering this is an individual trying to help themselves.
Will post on the outcome. I expect this runaround from mental health professionals - I shouldn't but I do-this case is just completely annoying!
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i thought dennis miller was a liberal! guess not
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What a fantastic antidote for "there is no I in team"!!! Thank you.
but there is an M and an E
another good one
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yes hedonistic pleasures not pleasures that come from living your values and reaping the rewards of your efforts not that at all
excess drinking, gambling, drugging, obessions with sex, overeating-all those pleasures that are basically physical and mindless
they still have not let me "in" to the site I signed up yesterday and sent 2 emails, not a good sign
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I don't know the context of their entire philosophy, but it sounds like they're saying pleasure is bad - and not just in the hedonistic sense, but in the sense that an underlying principle of "this makes me happy" is contrary to a happy lifestyle. I mean, it sounds like these people are conflating short-term pleasures which are taken to avoid long-term miseries, such as avoiding the current relationship issues with your wife, by going out for a night on the lash with the boys.
no i don't know any more about them-i do have the book rational recovery which i am 1/2 way through-it is pretty good i like the theories I have read so far-the writing is geared toward a large audience.
i have read archives of their bboards and understand that it is not that they are saying pleasure is BAD-it is when pleasure is your main focus in life above all others (no self control) that things turn out badly. A person who has a night out with the boys once in awhile is not the same as someone who drinks excessively daily - the first person has no problem to "recover" from
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has anyone heard of this?
here is the page of the website's faq
i signed up for a 1 month subscription because i want to stop drinking alcohol-it was $29 but well worth it if is a good tool to keep me sober.
i like the basic premise of this ALOT more than the AA model of recovery
here is a bit from the site:
In effect, you have two separate brains within your head which, among other things, compete with each other. One is primitive, similar to the brain of a dog or a horse. This we call the midbrain. It is basically the brain of a beast, and its only purpose is to survive.The beast brain generates survival appetites which drive the rest of the body toward what it demands, such as oxygen, food, sex, and fluids. These survival needs are all associated with physical pleasure, i.e., the better something feels, the more necessary it seems for survival. Your crazy appetite for alcohol or drugs springs from the force of life, physical survival through the pursuit of physical pleasure. Your survival appetite is aimed at the wrong stuff, to be sure, but the desire to drink excessively is more a reflection of health than of a mysterious disease. The desire for pleasure fades among sick or diseased people, further suggesting that addiction is a reflection of health rather than a disease process. In RR, some call the human midbrain "the party center," because of the bond between pleasure and addiction. Of course, it is often quite stupid (self-defeating) to act on healthy desires or impulses, as in substance addictions.
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Do you know why men similar to Roark manage to survive? It's because they know that all the evil in the world cannot penetrate their souls. No matter how much it accumulates, the 'formalities', the abuse, the guilt, the shame, the rebuttal of reason - it's all based on fear, irrationality and denial. One clean soul can cut through it all like butter, because really, it all doesn't matter, in the metaphysical sense.
so great, thanks for this! this forum is wonderful.
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love or loved him but i was just wondering if anyone else likes his stuff?
read all of it a ton of times when younger but now-ok he wasnt an objectivist but he WAS an elitist in that he respected intelligence even if it came out daffy