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Tomer Ravid

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  1. Superman: I don't understand why you should be proud of your sexual tendencies.

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    2. Tomer Ravid

      Tomer Ravid

      It is not a stereotype, my friend. This is what "pride parade" means.

    3. Maken

      Maken

      It is a stereotype to say that they all wear costumes and shout. Some gay people do not even partake in this. Just saying, you made a stereotype.

    4. Tomer Ravid

      Tomer Ravid

      Who is "them?" No, you misunderstood me. I have nothing against homosexuals in general. Our topic was gay 'pride.' If I were gay, I would certainly not be 'proud' of it and take part in those embarrassing parades. And no, there is nothing 'individualistic' about the opposite.

  2. Both communism and capitalism are founded upon principles, and both concern the nature of a true entity from negative positions. No man can thus properly claim over a system to perfectly contain the good of each doctrine at one and the same time; your appraisal is a mere consequence of the independently existing fact, and no individual right is ever to be consistent with self-sacrifice.

    1. Tomer Ravid

      Tomer Ravid

      The only economic "mixture" one can possibly perform, therefore, is the avoidance of *all moral substances*, that is, the violation of individual rights for a purpose other than 'the greatest good for the greatest number' or in the absence of any purpose at all. Contradictions can bring no good on earth.

  3. Getting home from work, after a couple of years listening, I finally got to understand the meaning of the lyrics and found out that it is ultimately romantic. (That said even know that music is no conceptualization and independent of poetry. I refer here to the original artistic intention, as well as the successfully expressed musical performance.) The song perfectly criticizes the cruel way mediocre, simple people educate children. People use such catch-phrases as "When you grow up you...

    1. Tomer Ravid

      Tomer Ravid

      --'ll understand it" and "Get down to earth!" on their own children and are thus ruining them for the rest of their lives, because they know that *they* can't. This is now official: As a rule, the musical genre I have admired and tried to resolve whose apparent contradictions for my whole youth is *not* contemporary, sweeping aside the exception of some 'avant-garde' experiments and attempts to create music thrown into progressive rock's very cage.

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  4. Multi-personality is far less tough to fall for, and far less unnormal than people tend to consider it. Translate your implicit comprehension into ideas, turn your ideas into action. Be as good as you present your ideas on the psychologist's couch (and in today's corruption, usually leave him and try to figure the issue out yourself). Do NOT ever attempt to treat anyone 'politely' if he does not deserve it. This is your greatest threat: letting alone your ideas in order to not...

    1. Tomer Ravid

      Tomer Ravid

      be reproached (i.e., to function as if you were somebody else as an end in itself). Try to get rid of any possible-psychological-social cause of that. And always remember that having the right ideas you can achieve anything!

  5. Unfortunately, I have Holocaust Ceremony the day after tomorrow (May 2), which harmed my rest (by leaving me to decomposition two hours more than planned at school---taken from the morning). Now, why would a dictatorship-hater and man's life valuer like me regard the ceremony---unnecessary? The circumstances of loathing the day and loathing the specific ceremony, being made dishonestly by hypocritical people who don't manage to recognize what's been wrong in pre-Hitler and Hitler ...

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    2. Tomer Ravid

      Tomer Ravid

      state that their philosophy is a cause of the most horrendous murder on earth.

    3. Tomer Ravid

      Tomer Ravid

      For the same reason they do not celebrate socialism memorial day the day before. That is since it is too explicit an embodiment for them. It is too clear (though the Nazis did declare the root of their morality time and time again as well) that its cause was the morality of altruism and the epistemology of mysticism;

    4. Tomer Ravid

      Tomer Ravid

      and there are no such red herrings, sources of evasions and non-essentials as "inequality", package dealings to deal with the term "rightist" et al. There is no smoke screen to hide behind any longer.

  6. "The circumstances of loathing the day and loathing the specific ceremony, being made dishonestly by hypocritical people who don't manage to recognize what's been wrong in pre-Hitler and Hitler Germany."

    They maybe not, but you do

  7. Today I achieved analyzing my brother's old PC until dark in the backyard. I removed most of the screws, found that my brother kept a Guns N Roses CD there (ugh) which had unfortunately survived complete, and finally kept some beautiful conduction coils which I think I'm gonna hang over my room. Am I nerd enough?

    1. Leonid

      Leonid

      "The circumstances of loathing the day and loathing the specific ceremony, being made dishonestly by hypocritical people who don't manage to recognize what's been wrong in pre-Hitler and Hitler Germany."

      They maybe not, but you do

  8. Socialism: Collectivized means of production -- your mind. Explanation: Socialism is the political system in which man has no individual rights in the name of the 'society'. nationalizes any of the property one is to create. Do you consider it to be just about money?---Think again. If it were, people would find a separate standard of exchange, and the economy shall become free once again. Socialists (or at least *senor* socialists) know that it causes inflation, and that the suggested...

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    2. Tomer Ravid

      Tomer Ravid

      Presuming that never mind how rational you are, inconsequently, *uncausally* you will have to act as a sacrificial animal having no individual---that rationality is a worthless rationality. Thus in order to deal with the metaphysical error (still rationalizing), socialist philosophers have invented "dialectic materialism", which means, there is no such thing as an intellectual product; mind has nothing to do with actions; paraphrasing Immanuel Kant, mind is 'the world of appearanc...

    3. Tomer Ravid

      Tomer Ravid

      appearances' whereas physical, maybe irrational acts are 'things in themselves'. Rather /moral/?---Let us define morality. Morality is a chosen code of values to guide man's actions and purposes and his course of life. Any living organism; any sensational consciousness, consist of values, of things that they act to gain or keep. But man, being a volitional consciousness, being born tabula-rasa, i.e., he has to think and experience in order to obtain knowledge, needs this guida...

    4. Tomer Ravid

      Tomer Ravid

      guidance of action in order to survive. Let me explain myself. Value is not a mystical deontological axiomatic duty, but rather the same as the clear, objective and practical meaning of economical value. In a 'big government' tyranny, where everyone threats anyone at the point of a gun, *this* is what they will to take from you.

  9. What's the use of repeating useless data without deriving any colclusions? What necessary a knowledge is that? Keep the given facts for the machines. It is man's rational faculty that is his means of survival, not the way mosques in ancient Bagdhad used to look.

  10. Misses sharing values with *human beings*, and misses encountering people who are neither evil nor barbarian.

  11. And I tought that Israel finally got rid of its socialist past.

  12. UPDATE: He accepted to totally nationalize the discovered natural gas!

  13. P.S., it doesn`t mean he`s any worse than any ``radical`` (the only randicalness I know is in the recognition of individual rights) liberal or conservative leader.

    He is not evil, he even attempted to recognize individual rights (as capitalist philosophy regards them) in the 90`s. He merely has no opinion or purpose as a prime-minister. He does not evaluate.

  14. They both regard themselves `adovcates of freedom`. The question is what they really hold and desire.

    If `consevatism` is about God and the nation and `liberalism` is about the society and self sacrifice (to the enemy) Benjamin Netanyahu is about God, the society, the nation and self sacrifice, and they both are `left-wing` (i.e., they do not attempt to recognize individual rights).

  15. "If right-wing means `conservative` he is both ``right-wing`` and ``left-wing``."

    Quite confusing, doesn't it? Maybe the whole classification is obsolete. Traditionally left wing are liberals, that is-for freedom, and yet left wing wage permanent assault on individual rights, freedom and industrial civilization.

  16. If right-wing means `conservative` he is both ``right-wing`` and ``left-wing``.

    If ``right-wing`` means an honest person whose mere purpose is defending individual rights (whether he is an O`ist sense of life or simply good ends---he is not a liberal dictator, this is for sure) he is currently left-wing and was previously right-wing.

  17. "Capitalist pig" Sharon evacuated "socialist" settlers from Gush-Kativ and capitalist all American Nataniyhu supports virtual nationalization of Israeli gas and oil industry but doesn't want to negotiate any further territorial compromises. Is he right or left?

  18. It's amazing that in Israel the difference between left and right isn't related to the socio-economical questions like socialism versus capitalism, but rather to the question of territories and relations with Arabs. "Socialist" (Mapai-avoda) government won 6 day War and doubled Israeli territory. "Capitalist" government of Likud returned Sinai.

  19. However, the initiative of all the philosophic essays (e.g., the one dealing with the proper order of the axioms) and philosophic essays` not bad translation is really appreciated.

  20. Once in a while, only Arad`s aticles.

    It has some quite nice on-the-mark content in the economics field, but somewhat conservative in the foreign policy, maybe because it is the only widespread alternative to the `left` it tries to seem appropriate to any `rightist``s convinctions, but anyway there is no fundamental difference between them.

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  21. Hi, Tomer

    Do you read " Anochi"? Pretty exiting stuff!

    I recommend

    Leonid

  22. (I see this every day at home through my young brother who acts as I wouldn`t have this age), and as long as we have such communist parliament members as: Shelly Yechimovitch or Amirr Perez, Israel is probably not the America of the 21st century.

  23. I know the reason for which Objectivists regard Israel as a moral state (Peikoff, Brook, Rand), which is the alternative: an Islamic totalitarianism. But the things are not fundamentally different. As long as people here have the hatred of good for being good at the form of this Islamic culture of ``beating up the nerds for being rational,``

  24. I have heard of no one who succeeded to get over the Sanction of Evil, though as long as they want me to acknowledge that I need their help and I say I am standing beyond my own words I will be the first man I know to, at least at this small high school.

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