I’m affraid that there’s been a lot of missuderstanding.
The main reason that I didn’t comment on your refutations of my comments is that, as far as I can see, you didn’t understand my point. Perhaps I was not all that clear.
Things were not helped by your insistence to refure “the usual suspects”, such as subjectivism and determinism, not my comments in themselves.
To be blunt and non-intellectual about it, I meant to say that I think that there’s only so much you can do to yourself, using reason, more precisely, that your’re not under your absolute complete control, and that this is also true for emotions.
This is what I wanted to discuss. The limitations of self-engineering.
I also regret being up-front about my oppinion on Ayn Rand’s approch to the mind (her own, and man’s in general). I certainly didn’t intent to mud her name as a whole. I do take issue with certain claims she’s made.
You should not take as an attack my statements in which I claim that Ayn Rand was in denial, or repressing, important areas of her life.
Regarding me leaving, I will do as you wish. It seems to me that the downside of being certain is that you try to avoid having to explore issues that might destroy that certainly.
Perhaps my approach wasn’t best, but my doubts remain (on several issues, regarding the amount of free will).
You should not be affraid to question even Ayn Rand or ARI.