lorean
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That was a fantastic scene.
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If we're indulging in this sordid gossip and keeping it confined to North America...
Pat Robertson comes to my mind immediately, I'd also be tempted to say the Pope but being raised Protestant I know nothing of the Papacy.
I'm honestly having a great deal of difficulty with this. "You see Toohey, I don't think of you." matches my attitude.
Not trying to knock you Mammon, I think we'll be friends but isn't there something, just wrong about this?
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I know its valuable to know and avoid the enemy and this thread can help in that but still ...
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That's pretty voracious, so say the least.
Which other books of hers have you read?
The Fountainhead, Anthem, For the New Intellectual, Philosophy: Who Needs It?, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. About her I've read her Journals and The Ayn Rand Cult. I want to read We the Living as I heard its her best book and I'd like to read some of Peikoff, his summary of her philosophy mainly.
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How long did it take you? Took me 18 months (not that I found it drudgery, it was, and remains, my favorite book of all time).
Atlas took roughly a week, the five or six other books I've read took about 2 or 3 weeks more.
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I don't know what the "package deal" refers to but I assume that Watts is drawing on Buddhist Madhyamika that basically says the following:
Nothing exists absolutely, independently in isolation, but all things exist only relatively depending on their causes and conditions. E.g., this table seems to possess an intrinsic tableness, an identity belonging to a class of objects of a certain form that perform a certain function. But obviously it didn't just materialize as a table from that seemingly intrinsic tableness. Before it was a table it was lumber; before it was lumber, it was a tree. Its tableness is the result of causes other causes can remove. What sits here is more or less a temporary configuration of wood that we designate a table. But it can be used as a chair. If we were termites, we might call it dinner. Similarly, everything that exists in this universe exists because of an interdependent network of causes and conditions. Everything is empty of an intrinsic reality of its own. In short, the identity of a table is an imputed one, it is not intrisically real
Where does Objectivism find fault with this analysis?.
I agreed largely with the first 8 minutes, the problem was with the implied conscious = ego and bad, subconscious = supernatural and good
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Word up.
I read Atlas a few weeks ago, very good book. Went out and got a few more Objectivist books and am liking what I see.
So, hello everyone.
Redoing Your Education Independently
in Metaphysics and Epistemology
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A real education is independent, I hope it goes well for you.