Cherring109
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I have ran through these..it horrible that a lot of these are legit actions that get thrown in there with the evil things he has done. It still eye opening either way and shows just how bad this fool really is. Horrible. I need a bath now.
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I had a idea for a Objectivist oriented V-Log (or V-Blog) that would be a talk show kind of like a o'ist version of Rachel Ray or The Late Night Show...
I am interested in suggestions and maybe someone would like to collaborate on this? This could be something good? I hope to hear from you all out there.
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I am not a paedofile and I do not have children so its not my problem.
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I just thought this was kind of funny.
Casting For Short Film (Dallas)Date: 2011-03-21, 11:34AM CDT
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Talent call for short film: Morning in America
Project Description:
Morning in America is a short film about "Walter" an upper middle class husband and father. He loses his job in the mortgage industry, he's in a loveless marriage and begins fighting with his daughter. He reaches the end of his rope and attends a tea party meeting, Soon he's befriended by "Andrew" the groups leader. Andrew takes him under his wing and soon takes over Walter's life leading him down an path of anger, hate and murder.
Character Description:
Walter: 40-55 White, average looking. I'm looking for a talented and professional actor thats willing to challenge himself.
Compensation: This is a low budget short film. Compensation will be deferred all meals, and snacks will be provided and everyone will receive a dvd copy of the film.
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I was reading a book wherein there was a chapter which describes the authors opinion on the West Memphis Three. I didn't know what he was talking about so i looked it up and found the subject fascinating. Has anybody else on this forum heard about this case?
Here is the link to the West Memphis Three support group web site. My link
The reason why I made this post is I thought it would be interesting to get my fellow O'ists take on this case. I honestly have been studying this peicemeal and from what I have seen there is no evidence that the West Memphis Three is guilty and that really the courts can not really make a case agaist anybody et al and should just declare mistrial and free them. But I may be speaking out my yin yang i honestly don't know all the facts.
What do you think?
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I would think so. Though I used to own a Kia. I think you should not sanction your own own destroyers. Boo on Hyundai!
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I would love to see some of these that attack all the rest of the religions...ha!
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I read the "24 Types of Libertarian" and they did not even get the Libertarian viewpoints correct thus misrepresenting their viewpoints. Notice how from what I could tell, and if I am wrong point it out to me, that the "24 Types of Tyrant" shows the real motivations of people.
The liberal poster (the original) was a smear. Disgusting!
Though I have to say that I want both of them side by side hanging on "my" wall just for the humor!
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In my forest all the animals would be roasting over a fire.
Therefore tasty, but no longer sound receptive
Is that free range and grass fed? Add chestnuts!
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Minome-ke. Hands down!
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I discovered anime in 1985. But I didn't know that I was watching anime at that time. What I was turned on to, by a relative, was a show called "Robotech". At the time, I was fundamentally disinterested in 'cartoons', but after three tries, I gave in and watched a few minutes of it. I remember thinking, "now this is different from what I conceived cartoons to be". Within 3 days, I was hooked and watched the whole series.
A year later, the series was cancelled, and I wrote letters to the TV station. I learned who the syndicator was and wrote them a letter. Then one day I was in a supermarket and discovered a rack of comic books. One of them was "Robotech". I bought it and read it. I purchased a subscription and this became my first comic book experience (I am living my live backwards, going from adulthood to childhood.
) In the back of the comic book was a pen pals address exchange. I submitted my address and in a few months, I received letters from other fans. One of the fans was from Hawaii, and he introduced me to the 'hard core' stuff.Simultaneously, there was an anime convention in New York City that year (now 1987) and I went. I purchased a 12" LP record of the Macross TV soundtrack, not knowing what it was going to be like. I also had unknowingly purchased the Macross movie soundtrack. I bought each because a familiar character likeness was on the cover of both). I bought a VHS tape of the Macross movie there too.
When I got home, I watched the movie that night. Talk about a 'context shift'! Here I was, seeing all the familiar characters from Robotech, but with Japanese names, in their original roles!
I listened to the LP recordings, not knowing what I was to expect. The music was not what I expected. It had a feel like the "Easy Listening" instrumental music from the late 1950s/early 1960s. But it was different. And it was beautiful.
And I was hooked.
My pen pal in Hawaii was prolific in sharing many original Japanese anime titles. Many were tenth generation VHS copies that gave me a headache to watch, but I watched intently. I was fascinated.
Time went by, and my penpals eventually went their separate ways, but anime stuck with me.
One day, through a fan club that myself and a HAM radio friend of mine started, we came into contact with a tape trader. He had an admirable list of anime soundtracks on tape and if we sent him blank cassettes and a list, he'd tape it for us. I discovered a lot of wonderful music that way.
I discovered the music of Joe Hisaishi, composer of most of Hayao Miyazaki's film soundtracks. I heard the hauntingly-beautiful soundtrack to Nausicäa and I was in nirvana. I thought that this had to be the closest experience to being under the influence of psychotropic drugs, and I coined the term "sonic narcotic", which I reserved for music that put me in a trance-like state.
I watched many anime films over the years. The 1980s were the "golden years" of anime.
My favorites:
Kaze no tani no Nausicäa (Nausicäa of the Valley of Wind)
...about a young princess who's valley is beseiged by war, in a time where the earth had already been destroyed by the "Daikaisho" (Seven Days of Fire) war some thousand years earlier. Readers of Ayn Rand's Anthem will see a parallelism in the world of Nausicäa's valley, where only ancient remnants of the modern world remain, buried beneath the ground. Nausicäa uses her cognitive abilities to discover the process by which to restore the ecology of the planet and she studies the forbidden plants of the Toxic Jungle and makes discoveries that no one else is willing to bother with. She alone finds the answer to why the world is dying and she must stop three warring nations before they bring about the total destruction of the planet.
Laputa: Legend of the Sky Castle
...this is loosely based on Gulliver's Travels. A story about a mythical 'flying castle' and the quest of a young boy and girl to find this legendary castle.
Kiki's Delivery Service
... a story about young "majos" (women of magic, literal translation) or witches and their coming of age. Kiki turns 13 and it is time for her to go into the world and find her trade as a witch. It is about growing up, leaning to cope with setbacks, understanding one's self, overcoming hardships and making a life for one's self.
Omohide Poro Poro (Only Yesterday)
... this film is a high fidelity anime. It's so realistic. The beauty of the scenery and the glimpse into Japanese common life is splendid. They say that this was the first animated film to convey the nuances that up til then, only live actors could convey. The story is just an ordinary love story, but the visuals and the nostalgia (it flashbacks to 1966 frequently) make it a very enjoyable film for older viewers.
Whisper of the Heart
...this is a film about a young girl who discovers her calling in life. She has a ironic love/hate relationship with her image of a boy that she is infatuated with--by the books he reads (she finds his name on all the cards of the books she takes out at the school library) and she is frequently annoyed by a certain boy who's grandfather just happens to own the antique shop that she frequents.. could it be that her dream boy and this boy are one and the same? This is a story about growing up, maturing and setting goals and following through. A wonderfully-inspiring story.
Hotaru no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies)
....the saddest animated film (actually of any genre) that I have ever seen. Ten times more saddening than Gone with the Wind, and told in retrospect, a powerful way of setting the stage for impending doom of a young boy and his little sister, caught in the fires of WWII. Sad, hopeless, with a message that war is hell.
(Incidentally, I worked for the import distributor at the time this film was licensed in USA, and I designed the packaging for the original VHS release.)
Rumic World: Fire Tripper
...this is a love story that takes place in two time periods: present day, and 15th centrury Feudal Japan. Suzuko is 16 years old. Most of her life is normal, but she remembers little about her past. But a gas explosion triggers a shift in time for her, and she finds herself on a battlefield in the 15th century. The boy who rescues her from bandits will have a strange attraction for her... a beautiful love story, if a bit confusing due to the several shifts in time and the question of who's whom.
I have more, but I'll post this for now.
Robotech....are you a woman...i love you. I love that show!!!!!!1
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William James is a good example of a bad philosopher.
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That second video is a perfect proof of Ayn Rand's rejection of conservatives.
There are three interrelated arguments used by today’s “conservatives” to justify capitalism, which can best be designated as: the argument from faith—the argument from tradition—the argument from depravity.Sensing their need of a moral base, many “conservatives” decided to choose religion as their moral justification; they claim that America and capitalism are based on faith in God. Politically, such a claim contradicts the fundamental principles of the United States: in America, religion is a private matter which cannot and must not be brought into political issues.
Intellectually, to rest one’s case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one’s enemies—that one has no rational arguments to offer. The “conservatives’” claim that their case rests on faith, means that there are no rational arguments to support the American system, no rational justification for freedom, justice, property, individual rights, that these rest on a mystic revelation and can be accepted only on faith—that in reason and logic the enemy is right, but men must hold faith as superior to reason.
Consider the implications of that theory. While the communists claim that they are the representatives of reason and science, the “conservatives” concede it and retreat into the realm of mysticism, of faith, of the supernatural, into another world, surrendering this world to communism. It is the kind of victory that the communists’ irrational ideology could never have won on its own merits . . . .
Now consider the second argument: the attempt to justify capitalism on the ground of tradition. Certain groups are trying to switch the word “conservative” into the exact opposite of its modern American usage, to switch it back to its nineteenth-century meaning, and to put this over on the public. These groups declare that to be a “conservative” means to uphold the status quo, the given, the established, regardless of what it might be, regardless of whether it is good or bad, right or wrong, defensible or indefensible. They declare that we must defend the American political system not because it is right, but because our ancestors chose it, not because it is good, but because it is old . . . .
The argument that we must respect “tradition” as such, respect it merely because it is a “tradition,” means that we must accept the values other men have chosen, merely because other men have chosen them—with the necessary implication of: who are we to change them? The affront to a man’s self-esteem, in such an argument, and the profound contempt for man’s nature are obvious.
This leads us to the third—and the worst—argument, used by some “conservatives”: the attempt to defend capitalism on the ground of man’s depravity.
This argument runs as follows: since men are weak, fallible, non-omniscient and innately depraved, no man may be entrusted with the responsibility of being a dictator and of ruling everybody else; therefore, a free society is the proper way of life for imperfect creatures. Please grasp fully the implications of this argument: since men are depraved, they are not good enough for a dictatorship; freedom is all that they deserve; if they were perfect, they would be worthy of a totalitarian state.
Dictatorship—this theory asserts—believe it or not, is the result of faith in man and in man’s goodness; if people believed that man is depraved by nature, they would not entrust a dictator with power. This means that a belief in human depravity protects human freedom—that it is wrong to enslave the depraved, but would be right to enslave the virtuous. And more: dictatorships—this theory declares—and all the other disasters of the modern world are man’s punishment for the sin of relying on his intellect and of attempting to improve his life on earth by seeking to devise a perfect political system and to establish a rational society. This means that humility, passivity, lethargic resignation and a belief in Original Sin are the bulwarks of capitalism. One could not go farther than this in historical, political, and psychological ignorance or subversion. This is truly the voice of the Dark Ages rising again—in the midst of our industrial civilization.
The cynical, man-hating advocates of this theory sneer at all ideals, scoff at all human aspirations and deride all attempts to improve men’s existence. “You can’t change human nature,” is their stock answer to the socialists. Thus they concede that socialism is the ideal, but human nature is unworthy of it; after which, they invite men to crusade for capitalism—a crusade one would have to start by spitting in one’s own face. Who will fight and die to defend his status as a miserable sinner? If, as a result of such theories, people become contemptuous of “conservatism,” do not wonder and do not ascribe it to the cleverness of the socialists.
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal “Conservatism: An Obituary,” Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 196.
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"A world where a billion people have never heard the name Jesus...." Oh, the horror!
Jesus T.F. Christ
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Greatest by what standards?
Greatest IN what? AT what?
Ditto that!
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Neato.
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I wonder how many times Mr Brook had to bathe after appearing on the show?
I agree with the sentiment completely.
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I have been keeping up with the Atlas Shrugged Video contest and I hope you are as well. I am dismayed by the lackluster quality of many of the entrees and I think I have found the top five in my opinion and I am hope you will vote for these. I think these are the cream of the crop and I want everybody here to help me get these to the top because so far I don't see it happening. So let's help make sure that the best get what they deserve.
1. Six Sense- Abhay Kumar http://wildfireapp.com/website/6/contests/42465/voteable_entries/12473666?order=recency
2. My Life- Chuck Butler http://wildfireapp.com/website/6/contests/42465/voteable_entries/12406036?order=recency
3. Lessons From Atlas Shrugged Reg Schickel http://wildfireapp.com/website/6/contests/42465/voteable_entries/12634408?order=recency
4. Lemonade- Charlote Jerett http://wildfireapp.com/website/6/contests/42465/voteable_entries/11578856?order=votes
5. Last train- Alexander Kitchenko http://wildfireapp.com/website/6/contests/42465/voteable_entries/12445355?order=recency
Please vote and vote and vote and...I think these people deserve it.
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I would love to see somebody from ARI especially Peikoff or Brook debate the four Horsemen. Could it ever happen?
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Set commies on fire, much?
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Way to go! Great job, buddy. Hell yea. I voted for you and I will vote again tomorrow and the next day, until the contest is over, for your video.
I love the looter Uncle Sam guy following you around. Hey, what city is that---Chicago? Or what, please excuse my ignorance.
Great job, and catchy tune by the way. Definitively in the top five of the videos I have seen on there. Good job. Here's to your success, pal.
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Actually I know it's not a initiation of force and I know why it's not. But it makes a good debate topic doesn't it. :lol: :lol:
Epic Rap Battles of History
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These is the Youtube page for user Nicepeter of Epic Rap Battle of Histoy Fame.
For the fun of it I have made a list of ten Rap battles I would like to see.
1. Al Gore vs Captain Planet
2. Prophet Moe vs Prophet Bahaullah
3. Cyrano de Borgerac vs Guru Nanak
4. Godzilla vs Barney
5. Marilyn Manson vs Mr. Rogers
6. Lion-O vs He-Man
7. Ayn Rand vs Immanuel Kant
8. Chucky Cheese vs Splinter (from Ninja Turtles)
9. Mum-Rah vs Tutankhamen
10. The "Im a mac/Im a PC" guys from the commercials