Hello everyone,
I’ve been reading a few threads on the forum for a few days and decided I’d register as this seems like a great place with a lot of great people. I’m looking forward to possibly getting into a few discussions and learning more about Objectivism.
It seems appropriate to give a little background on myself for an introduction, so I’ll give you that: I first heard of Ayn Rand’s work in high school when my girlfriend read The Fountainhead for a class and said Howard Roark reminded her of me (after I read the book I realized how large of a compliment this was). She said she knew I would like the book and the ideas in it so she bought it for me and I read it quickly. I loved it, but having read it so quickly and being young (though I guess I’m still young) I didn’t grasp the depth of the philosophy of Objectivism.
The book did get me interested though, and I was open to learning more. Not long after this, my girlfriend got me Atlas Shrugged and I was hooked. I knew that I had had similar fundamental understandings as those that were presented in the book. So I decided to really pursue learning more and I looked this forum and various other sources up. Obviously I’m still learning and I can’t call myself an Objectivist yet as I’ll have to put more time into understanding a few things, but I’m very interested in all of it.
In addition to introducing myself, I wanted to say “Thank you” to all of the people who got this forum running and keep it running. The moderators do an excellent job of keeping the level of quality of this forum high and the site itself is designed well.
So I hope I have properly introduced myself. I look forward to future discussions.
-Pickax