Hello. Where to begin.
Lessee…was an athiest since at least 82 at the ripe age of 12. Was introduced into the free market by a group called 10 Pillars Foundation that took mush brained kids in public schools about how important free market economics is. They also had a group of kids called the Constitutional Corroborators. They had 8 kids that memorized the constitution. Not a simple feat. The groups now employess people like Burton Folsom and Jacob “Bumper” Hornberger to teach public school teachers about free market capitalism so that they can then take it to their kids.
Oh yes, growing up in Pasadena, Tx (see the movie Urban Cowboy for reference, he was a negihbor BTW), being an athiest wasn’t easy. Highest ratio of churches to people in the US. I was the kid that did the invocation at the local football games for four long years. Talk about hiding! But then the humor was I removed almost every reference to any kind of god from the prayers and almost nobody noticed. Very funny. Thousands of people praying to an atheists prayer…
In 1988 at the U of Houston a VERY religious Bill Buckley fanatic that I outed my atheism to mentioned that he thought the Students of Objectivism were both capitalists and athiests. (a notion I hadn’t considered being possible) I talked to a student named Brian and immediately went to Barnes and Noble to get a copy of Capitalism: The Unkown Ideal. I sat down in the food court of the mall and kept reading until the book was finished.
I was blown away. I knew this Russian lady had me spot on. How did this lady write down what I’ve been secretly thinking all along?! Whoa. I mowed through all of her non-fiction and eventually read the fiction. My favorites are anything dealing with economics and the capitalist system. I’ve got a real weakness in the whole epistimology and metaphysics but I’m learning…
As for the practical application of what I learned, I majored in business and work in the brokerage industry. At one point managed about $900 million in assets for my clients and my company and was putting in 80 hrs a week at the peak. 
I really hated that job because I learned that the “social storke” you get isn’t important but dealing with people and making a difference was. So I went to work where I was my own boss and can provide the level of customer service I know clients deserve.
My proudest accomplishment is getting a very mint copy of Capitalism first edition first printing. It is the keystone of my collection of 1st editions. I managed an antiquarian bookstore for a few years before becoming a broker and have a deep love of the printed word.
As for the physical, I enjoy the sport of powerlifting. Basically the sport is lifting as much weight as humanly possible. However, it’s not as mindless as people think… in order to build muscle and perform, you have to have an absolutely logical rational approach to working out or else. Just a milisecond of loss of focus and something internal will tear. Though I don’t strictly follow his methods, I recomend you check out Mike Mentzer, the Objectivist bodybuilder. Quite the real world version of Anthem athletics wise.
Hmmm. Hope that is descriptive enough. Oh, I’m glad to find that such a sight as this exists. It’s a great solution for the irrationality I face each day to know smart logical people exist. Man am I glad I followed the link from the A&M O’ist club…
