the Moses side of me?
If you say so ... Moses? *hurr hurr*Flaming_Maniac wrote:
the Moses side of me?
Wait behind the line ..............................................................
all of her books are written with a pretty shitty style, ive got to say. seeing you guys arguing over the finer points of her 'literature' is giving me a headache. it's like borderline pedagogy.
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1) "but your member title reflects another side of you that contradicts the very reason you are trying to exhibit in this thread ... "Varegg wrote:
If you say so ... Moses? *hurr hurr*Flaming_Maniac wrote:
the Moses side of me?
I have no idea what you are trying to say.
2) My title is very clearly a quote from South Park.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/151458
also ive been taught from a pretty young age to believe that anyone that gets their world-view verbatim from a book is a fucking dolt
sorry, galt
sorry, galt
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Okay ... so lets asume you're not a conformist and haven't watched all episodes of South Park ...Flaming_Maniac wrote:
1) "but your member title reflects another side of you that contradicts the very reason you are trying to exhibit in this thread ... "Varegg wrote:
If you say so ... Moses? *hurr hurr*Flaming_Maniac wrote:
the Moses side of me?
I have no idea what you are trying to say.
2) My title is very clearly a quote from South Park.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/151458
Read your member title again and then you'll very clearly get the macaronipicture ...
Wait behind the line ..............................................................
Q: How moronic it is to draw parallels between entertainment in a user title and regurgitating a block quote indiscriminately as the entirety of an OP?
A: very^10
A: very^10
I don't know but ...Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Q: How moronic it is to draw parallels between entertainment in a user title and regurgitating a block quote indiscriminately as the entirety of an OP?
A: very^10
Q: How moronic is it to be agitated by an OP on a gaming forum sharing a block quote about something that interests one its members so much he decided to share it with what he hoped was a bunch of like-minded twats?
A: More than very moronic tbh
You are a peculiar little booksmart fellow FM but this time your lack of wisdom reeks this thread, where Uzique eloquently gets a point through with his "witty" insults you fail terribly and just looks stupid trying to cleverly insult people and hope they don't "gettit" ...
Wait behind the line ..............................................................
you just invalidated all of D&ST, foreverVaregg wrote:
I don't know but ...Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Q: How moronic it is to draw parallels between entertainment in a user title and regurgitating a block quote indiscriminately as the entirety of an OP?
A: very^10
Q: How moronic is it to be agitated by an OP on a gaming forum sharing a block quote about something that interests one its members so much he decided to share it with what he hoped was a bunch of like-minded twats?
A: More than very moronic tbh
please lock and close sub-forum
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I don't. My world view preceded reading any of her work.Uzique wrote:
also ive been taught from a pretty young age to believe that anyone that gets their world-view verbatim from a book is a fucking dolt
sorry, galt
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
My worldview was developed after a healthy dose of Berenstein Bears and Judy Blume.
I learned from Ayn Rand that rape is ok.
and adultery.Turquoise wrote:
I learned from Ayn Rand that rape is ok.
Not a big fan of Rand but she got a lot of unjustified criticism on that issue. If you have read The Fountainhead when you were a teenager like most of us i can see it can fuck with our minds a little bit but maybe it just means we weren't ready to get it yet.Turquoise wrote:
I learned from Ayn Rand that rape is ok.
I don't know. It's rare that I see any unjustified criticism of Rand. I experimented with Objectivism out of curiosity and was even a Libertarian for a little while, but it got old really quick.Ticia wrote:
Not a big fan of Rand but she got a lot of unjustified criticism on that issue. If you have read The Fountainhead when you were a teenager like most of us i can see it can fuck with our minds a little bit but maybe it just means we weren't ready to get it yet.Turquoise wrote:
I learned from Ayn Rand that rape is ok.
you make it sound as if political ideologies are outfits you put on for a night out
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For him, they are. Turquoise has represented about four different political ideologies in the year that I've been on this board. He changes quarterly.Uzique wrote:
you make it sound as if political ideologies are outfits you put on for a night out
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
Who Do we know that seams to be taking their Ques from this stratagem as of late ? I hope that was a Cut n Paste Job G@lt
I'm a relativist. Over time, I've come to believe that no specific ideology is suitable to cling to throughout all situations.Uzique wrote:
you make it sound as if political ideologies are outfits you put on for a night out
On some things, I'm still Libertarian. On others, I'm the opposite.
I suppose you could say I have a different "outfit" for each issue. It's the most pragmatic approach.
You say that like it's a bad thing.JohnG@lt wrote:
For him, they are. Turquoise has represented about four different political ideologies in the year that I've been on this board. He changes quarterly.Uzique wrote:
you make it sound as if political ideologies are outfits you put on for a night out
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Your just hard to Pigeonhole. Different views on different topics, Make them work for your Vote. They are supposed to be working for us anyway. They are supposed to vote your conscience, You put them there. Instead their Grilling Rodger Clemens. Its like giving us the Finger. We should be making crosses along I495 maybe they would try a little harder if they saw that.
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It IS a bad thing!Turquoise wrote:
I'm a relativist. Over time, I've come to believe that no specific ideology is suitable to cling to throughout all situations.Uzique wrote:
you make it sound as if political ideologies are outfits you put on for a night out
On some things, I'm still Libertarian. On others, I'm the opposite.
I suppose you could say I have a different "outfit" for each issue. It's the most pragmatic approach.You say that like it's a bad thing.JohnG@lt wrote:
For him, they are. Turquoise has represented about four different political ideologies in the year that I've been on this board. He changes quarterly.Uzique wrote:
you make it sound as if political ideologies are outfits you put on for a night out
We need to pick something, and stick to it gosh darn it!
How else are we gonna spread Dem-O-Cracy and fight th' Commies???
EE (hats
Ayn Rand had some very good observations. Unfortunately, she lost herself in her own "epistemology" in later years. And her successor really lost the original point of her works, in favor of the later dithering about.
Read the Fountainhead right up until beofre Roark rapes Dominique (rape "by written invitation", as Ayn Rand has described it). That first part of the book has everything you need to understand the stereotypes her characters represent. The rest (1/2 to 2/3rds) of the book is just spelling those characters and philosophical viewpoints out in explicit detail.
Ayn Rand, boiled down to a couple of sentences:
Be your own Individual self, have Integrity, live your own life - and respect your fellow men that choose to live as such. The worst atrocities of government and religion have only been made possible by drones who (blindly, unquestioningly) followed others orders & beliefs, and did not stand up for their individual Self
The rest of her work is either bland noodle-fucking around, getting lost in her own logic, or attempting to explain every possible permutation of her original point as applied to every possible situation she could think of. It is unabashed Romantic Idealism, by her own admission.
Her family escaped Soviet Russia, and the brutality of the USSR's early years. She witnessed World War II. This is the Collectivist nightmare she was preaching against, Soviet Communism, Nazi Fascism, and Chinese Socialism - the abandonment of Individual worth, in favor of an Orwellian existence where the person has value only as a drone of the state or party.
Read the Fountainhead right up until beofre Roark rapes Dominique (rape "by written invitation", as Ayn Rand has described it). That first part of the book has everything you need to understand the stereotypes her characters represent. The rest (1/2 to 2/3rds) of the book is just spelling those characters and philosophical viewpoints out in explicit detail.
Ayn Rand, boiled down to a couple of sentences:
Be your own Individual self, have Integrity, live your own life - and respect your fellow men that choose to live as such. The worst atrocities of government and religion have only been made possible by drones who (blindly, unquestioningly) followed others orders & beliefs, and did not stand up for their individual Self
The rest of her work is either bland noodle-fucking around, getting lost in her own logic, or attempting to explain every possible permutation of her original point as applied to every possible situation she could think of. It is unabashed Romantic Idealism, by her own admission.
Her family escaped Soviet Russia, and the brutality of the USSR's early years. She witnessed World War II. This is the Collectivist nightmare she was preaching against, Soviet Communism, Nazi Fascism, and Chinese Socialism - the abandonment of Individual worth, in favor of an Orwellian existence where the person has value only as a drone of the state or party.
Oh i was only talking about the sexTurquoise wrote:
I don't know. It's rare that I see any unjustified criticism of Rand. I experimented with Objectivism out of curiosity and was even a Libertarian for a little while, but it got old really quick.Ticia wrote:
Not a big fan of Rand but she got a lot of unjustified criticism on that issue. If you have read The Fountainhead when you were a teenager like most of us i can see it can fuck with our minds a little bit but maybe it just means we weren't ready to get it yet.Turquoise wrote:
I learned from Ayn Rand that rape is ok.
Trust me Rand got old for me when i was about 16 before that was Nietzsche and after the Existentialists. When we realise there are truths and lies in all of them...then we really have to grow up
I feel like Nietzsche has more lasting value as far as writing and philosophy go.Ticia wrote:
Oh i was only talking about the sexTurquoise wrote:
I don't know. It's rare that I see any unjustified criticism of Rand. I experimented with Objectivism out of curiosity and was even a Libertarian for a little while, but it got old really quick.Ticia wrote:
Not a big fan of Rand but she got a lot of unjustified criticism on that issue. If you have read The Fountainhead when you were a teenager like most of us i can see it can fuck with our minds a little bit but maybe it just means we weren't ready to get it yet.
Trust me Rand got old for me when i was about 16 before that was Nietzsche and after the Existentialists. When we realise there are truths and lies in all of them...then we really have to grow up
His whole ubermenschen and untermenschen idea was pretty solid.
I think I'm more of a fan of Epicurus and H.L. Mencken.
i don't think the existentialists will ever get old for me. nor the surrealists or absurdists. it's fascinating and beautiful.
nietzsche is such a teenage-cliche... but i don't think really that any teenage reader fully comprehends it. it's just precocious contrivance.
i'm more a lasting fan of wittgenstein/russell, kierkegaard, schopenhauer and cioran
nietzsche is such a teenage-cliche... but i don't think really that any teenage reader fully comprehends it. it's just precocious contrivance.
i'm more a lasting fan of wittgenstein/russell, kierkegaard, schopenhauer and cioran
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