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They're Catholic.

He means that there are no PURE altruists, because that would ultimately and quickly result in death.

I think by "honest" he means "saying what he really thinks/feels" rather than "intellectually honest".

An attractive woman with no brains.

Disgusting.

Well, "living death" merely means "not living qua man". If you're not living qua man, but your biologically vital functions are still working, what are you?

As if the government owns those products.

Was one of my favorite parts. Not because it was good, but because it so accurately depicted men like Toohey. Made me put the book down to chew it for a few minutes.

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Demand is up.

Welcome to OO.net!

Broken link.

It's three hours read aloud.

http://www.churchofsatan.com/Pages/SatObj.html I found that kind of shocking at first. But then I remembered that LaVeyan Satanism is incredibly polemic towards Christianity, so it made a bit more sense.

Found this in there and laughed. "This book is an insult to not only Theodor Seuss Geisel & Ayn Rand, but to any intelligent human being. I have read both authors extensively. My two favorite books in fact being "Oh the places you'll go" and "Anthem" Ayn Rand, as intelligent and perceptive as she was, lived in a very different time than now. Indeed, with all the proof discovered over the last generation of the effects of Global warming and an unchecked financial system, there can be little doubt (and fools often need little more than little doubt) that she would have changed her opinions as to certain aspects of her stated views. There are those die hard Randians who hold fast to every word she wrote 4 decades ago and older as if it were a gospel and just like someone who takes the bible as literal they only show themselves to be little more than Lemmings. NOTHING like the adaptive and ever observant Rand herself. Avoid the embarassment of having someone find this book on your family bookself several years hence, and just go out and buy an actual Dr. Suess book. It will undoubtedly contain more proven facts that this travesty of literature."

"to kill intentionally and with premeditation" http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_e...q=define:murder Seems to imply "murder" is premeditated.

She's not even funny as a comedian. Her saying that ARI is anti-intellectual because they oppose what university professors are doing is like saying you oppose doctors because you loath Harold Shipman.

Any and all force necessary.

"If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments."

Except for Picard.

"You think this is bad? You should try Hungry Hungry Bolsheviks!"

http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/2009/04/g...of-nihilism.htm As an example, control+F search shows that the words "black", "African", and "race" all appear a grand total of zero times in that article. EDIT: clarification.

Ha! That's hilarious in only a way irony can make it.

More and more lately, I notice that a lot of people's (namely, my friends') psychological and relationship problems stem from low self-esteem. Holding my friends as values, I of course want to help them. What are some methods of boosting your self-esteem? (I of course realize that only the people in question themselves can do something about it). Thanks in advance.

You don't mind if I use that as my new signature, do you? Crediting you, of course.