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May 16th, 2008, 12:01 PM
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Endemic Vagabond
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Rialto/Rancho Cackamonga - California
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I hate Ayn Rand with a passion.
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May 16th, 2008, 12:05 PM
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#452 (permalink)
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Slam Till U Cum
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Boston MA
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ditto
EDIT: Corporations pay schools to teach her to business students. That's fucked up.
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May 16th, 2008, 04:19 PM
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#453 (permalink)
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of the Hill People
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: California
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Originally Posted by Ender Rises
I don't care if someone read that or not, it was a hate filled rant, not part of a discussion.
I usually make really short posts, and separate longer ones well, thank you very much.
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It was just a joke, telling you how to do something, in reference to what you actually posted about 
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May 16th, 2008, 04:27 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: east sussex, u.k
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i was looking forwards to the kamelot + firewind gig but got the wrong fucking venue! grrrrr
and my friend who is pissing everybody off by thinking hes hard because he gets drunk a lot. and hes turned into a fucking emo.
and my dad has cancer and three years to live if the major surgery doesnt work. other than that im peachy 
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They rose lifeless in the shadows of greatness
With vacant eyes they gorge blindly on their own flesh
Making a mockery of the millions they would dare to lead
Where once was passion Now only vanity and avarice dwell
A puppet show whose masters devour their young with delight
And even as they are ground in the mouths of their makers, they sing
Songs that are as empty as their words
As meaningless as their promises
And as dead as their souls
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May 16th, 2008, 04:31 PM
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Run! A grue!
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
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Originally Posted by angelic-rage
i was looking forwards to the kamelot + firewind gig but got the wrong fucking venue! grrrrr
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I just imagined some guys in leather jackets and band shirts and shit with long hair, already slightly toasted, walking into a country music concert and being all "FIREWIND!!!!"
Sucks about your dad, though. Sorry to hear.
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May 16th, 2008, 04:37 PM
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Winter is Coming...
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Home in Buffalo, college in Tampa, FL
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Originally Posted by The Ozzman
The Fountainhead is decent. Atlas Shrugged is way better though
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I've wanted to read Atlas Shrugged for years. Ayn Rand is a very intereseting person.
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Originally Posted by Seraphim Belial
I hate Ayn Rand with a passion.
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I believe that a lot of people on this forum do...
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Originally Posted by cookiecutter
ditto
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...and I knew you would cookie. 
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Originally Posted by cookiecutter
EDIT: Corporations pay schools to teach her to business students. That's fucked up.
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Well, she is one of the biggest defenders of capitalism in the nation. They teach Adam Smith, so why not Ayn Rand?
Personally, I admire Ayn Rand. She definitely has some flaws in her reasoning (I actually wrote a paper for a critical thinking class where I focused on one of her speeches and found some fallacies in her argument), and she isn't very open-minded towards communism. But you have to look at her past, and how much Soviet Russia fucked her family's life up. She has a legitimate reason to hate communism and support capitalism. Her family was forced to flee their home because of "communism." |
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May 16th, 2008, 04:49 PM
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Life Is Worth Losing
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NJ, USA
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She was extremely intellectually lazy. She doesn't deserve to be praised as she is if she doesn't have the integrity to at least get the philosophical arguments that she's countering in her books correct. She also just wasn't a very good novelist in general. Which I guess should be obvious since she was a propagandist and not a novelist.
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May 16th, 2008, 04:51 PM
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Woooooooooooooo!!
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 12,217
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Originally Posted by cookiecutter
ditto
EDIT: Corporations pay schools to teach her to business students. That's fucked up.
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May 16th, 2008, 05:15 PM
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Drinker of milkshakes
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Back in Funkytown for good! Fuck East Texas!
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Ayn Rand is decent. The ideas she has are good, I think, and I'm really into the Fountainhead, it's well written, but I agree that she is a bit intellectually lazy and I think she's a complete idiot in real life (she was strongly against feminism and gay rights, so she was a cuntrake imho) but Objectivism has a grain of truth. It's not to be taken to extremes, but it is interesting. She could have gone about presenting it better, and explaining it better, but she got her point across. I don't see myself becoming an Objectivist though.
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<-- has humor sensors set to fail
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May 16th, 2008, 06:12 PM
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#460 (permalink)
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Slam Till U Cum
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Location: Boston MA
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