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I never got the whole idea of establishing quotas for "backwards" countries (besides the fact that it's racism). I mean, if they want to come here and get out of whatever situation they're in, aren't they automatically smart?
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I signed up at about the first of the month for kicks, although it sounds to me like hanging with the NTOS is a better way to pick up chicks.
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See I told you guys we can't win this fight with rational philosophy and reason! We gotta just start pokin' around their brains with wires and stuff until they get it right!
Lmao, but it says injuries only make it worse! v
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I don't think I can explain it right now, or in this month, but I ask you, all of you, whether you see any kind of historic value, at least as an enabler, in monotheism, that is in bundling all gods together and thus freeing the earth from endless petty wars (physical and philosophical ones).
That's where you're wrong. Monotheism isn't a bundling all of the invented gods together into one, it's denying the existence of all the others and asserting the exclusive truth of that one god. Furthermore, that assertion is what led to petty wars, because it became the righteous vs. the infidels. Before that, if I may make such a generalization, people were pretty lax about their religion; each town had its own god, etc. It was only when people started claiming that their god was the only god that religion became a problem.
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No, I just see it as a group of people asserting that their interpretation of something that can't be proven or known (i.e. a divinity) is the only correct one.
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Hey kids, it's Mac Daddy Brook and Bad-Ass Ghate -- they gonna lay down some slick axioms for y'all! Check out the rims on those!
Hahaha! I laughed so loud at those!
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Okay, so I noticed there is little to no wallpaper out there for us Objectivists, so I did a little photoshopping and I proudly present:
Follow the link for the proper resolution, then select "Download" on the left hand side next to the thumbnail.
800x600 http://a-is-a.deviantart.com/art/Ayn-Rand-...0x600-106655252
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If you have some weird resolution and would like one done custom, just send me a PM with your resolution and I'll make one for you
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This other writer would call me out on using passive voice by saying "I was born...." She claimed the way I wrote it felt like things were happening to my characters, rather than the characters carrying out actions.
I've never seen what the problem is with it if it's intentionally used for style.
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I've never seen the show, but as far as divvying up resources goes, I do think a trade system could work. You'd give the doctor the things that aid him in his function, and the rest goes the same way. As far as the asthma girl is concerned, on a desert island situation, giving her the medication you have would not be trading a value for a non-value, because in that situation, every hands capable of fishing or whatever is valuable. You could simply trade it for, say, 5 crabs.
As far as the criminals go, if they're killing people, you need to take care of that problem with some retaliatory force.
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That's fine, but make sure you go into it knowing that much of what Branden claims is demonstrably false, and most of the rest is wildly out of character according to practically everyone who isn't a Branden.
Not to mention that Mrs. Branden may have a possible motive to slant the film against Ayn Rand, given the relationship between Nathaniel and Ayn.
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In my mind, It works like this:
If the fetus is dependent on the mother, it is still a potential.
If it is at the stage of viability, that is, it can survive without the mother, just deliver the baby and put it through a private adoption service. I'm not saying it should be outlawed, but I don't much see the point in half-way delivering a baby just to abort it, especially when you're gonna pull it out anyway. Just pull it out, snip the cord, and bam, you're done.
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Occaisonally in a political debate, but never out loud.
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It's an interesting idea, but what makes him think that a) we can assimilate 5 million immigrants quickly, and b ) that immigrants can afford a house with no credit?
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Question: Some creationist I argued with (who apparently was using google to argue for the existence of God, since he first said he couldn't prove anything, then ten minutes later, he comes back with proofs) said something about how the energy needed for work is depleting. So therefore, since it had to come from somewhere, it came from god.
Yet as far as I know, energy is never created or destroyed, it is merely converted to other forms. What's the rebuttal to this?
Then again, he claims that god can exist outside of time and existence in the universe, so I don't know if there's even really a point in trying to rebut that irrationality.
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If I recall, Ayn Rand never held suicide itself to be immoral if the person doing it desired it.
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Do it off school property before school?
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This man needs to learn how to use commas and semicolons.
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XBL: Tip of the Hat
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Any Stargate or Star Trek series, Sanctuary, South Park.
Also a big fan of Fox News' Red Eye.
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While I appreciate Rand's depth of thought and rational mind, I find her style a bit too loose and wandering.
Wow, that's a first
I always thought she was rather strict in her style.
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I've read the opposite. I read that masturbating a lot could make it difficult for you to ejaculate during intercourse since you are use to the tight grip of your hand. Any first hand experiences???
PUNN'D
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God loves unconditionally, yet if you do not accept his love (a condition), he damns you to Hell... ridiculous
Also, that God "gave us the choice" in the Garden of Eden (as I've heard it argued), and when we didn't do what he wanted, he got into a hissy fit.
Which brings me to another point, about the Tree of Knowledge. In Genesis 1:30, God says to man "I give every green plant for food.", but then in Genesis 2:16-17 he says "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil".
C'mon God, get it together now.
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Too bad he doesn't have the figur of Ryan
They better dub.
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Am I the only one who saw this and had "More teens looking at porn" come to mind?
Abortion
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You don't understand Ayn Rand's position because you don't understand her premises.