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  Atlas Shrugged Part 1

  by littlerockguy in

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  went and saw atlas shrugged part 1 at the rave theater here in little rock friday night.

  i was surprised it showed here since it had such a limited showing.. anyway i was really surprised at how well it was done on such a limited budget and a very tight and short schedule to have the whole picture done and it really followed the book very well.

  i went to the 7:15 showing and the theater was packed but but not sold out.

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  "The success of the Europeaan tribesmen (inaccurately termed "The White Man") was a Darwinian contest of the FITTEST."

  In what sense was it even remotely "Darwinian"?
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  Does your personal NEED or WEAKNESS give you the right to demand?

  by Terry in

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  let's start at the old desert island, shall we?.

  a group of survivors (just like the tv show!

  ) are marooned on an island with no way off.they are all sorts of people with various strengths and weaknesses.. the strongest among them do the hardest work.

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  We play the game in a worldwide competition.

  Indeed we do. We compete with countries such as Germany. Germany takes a decidedly un-Randian view. What is the Terry prescription for America to compete with Germany?
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  Atlas Shrugged Part 1

  by littlerockguy in

  1. social
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  went and saw atlas shrugged part 1 at the rave theater here in little rock friday night.

  i was surprised it showed here since it had such a limited showing.. anyway i was really surprised at how well it was done on such a limited budget and a very tight and short schedule to have the whole picture done and it really followed the book very well.

  i went to the 7:15 showing and the theater was packed but but not sold out.

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  I'm a great admirer of Warren Buffett for that and other reasons. Not exactly sure how to fit him/his children into this discussion though, as he is just one example; extreme both in his wealth and the coolness of his personal philosophy.

  What I'm curious about is how you (or Rand) view inherited wealth/property? Obviously I'm trying to suss out how you are using the phrase " The person who EARNS the money and property (wealth)...." , specifically the word "earns". A person who inherits money obviously didn't "earn" it; and that aside, we even have the term "unearned income" to designate a type of money that comes from investment rather than payment for work.
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  Atlas Shrugged Part 1

  by littlerockguy in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  went and saw atlas shrugged part 1 at the rave theater here in little rock friday night.

  i was surprised it showed here since it had such a limited showing.. anyway i was really surprised at how well it was done on such a limited budget and a very tight and short schedule to have the whole picture done and it really followed the book very well.

  i went to the 7:15 showing and the theater was packed but but not sold out.

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  SixofNine

  I've been curious about the Libertarian/Randian philosophy wrt property rights. Does a person who inherits property holdings from his parent(s) have property rights to that land, Terry?
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  Atlas Shrugged Part 1

  by littlerockguy in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  went and saw atlas shrugged part 1 at the rave theater here in little rock friday night.

  i was surprised it showed here since it had such a limited showing.. anyway i was really surprised at how well it was done on such a limited budget and a very tight and short schedule to have the whole picture done and it really followed the book very well.

  i went to the 7:15 showing and the theater was packed but but not sold out.

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  Meanwhile, back in Washington, the Founding Mothers declared slavery/ownership of blacks illegal....
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  Cruel Hearted People

  by EXMS in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i can't believe how people in the "organization" can be so cold hearted.. .

  last october, i got an invitation to a friends wedding where i grew up in portland, oregon.

  i now live in san diego, california.

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  On the one hand, yes, witnesses have a cruel hearted doctrine/modus operandi. But on the other hand, if you are out in the open about having left the "truth", isn't the surprising thing that he invited you to the wedding in the first place?
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  Atlas Shrugged Part 1

  by littlerockguy in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  went and saw atlas shrugged part 1 at the rave theater here in little rock friday night.

  i was surprised it showed here since it had such a limited showing.. anyway i was really surprised at how well it was done on such a limited budget and a very tight and short schedule to have the whole picture done and it really followed the book very well.

  i went to the 7:15 showing and the theater was packed but but not sold out.

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  <snip> Rand is something of a cultural phenomenon — the author of potboilers who became an ethical and political philosopher, a libertarian heroine. But Rand’s distinctive mix of expressive egotism, free love and free-market metallurgy does not hold up very well on the screen. The emotional center of the movie is the success of high-speed rail — oddly similar to a proposal in Barack Obama’s last State of the Union address. All of the characters are ideological puppets. Visionary, comely capitalists are assaulted by sniveling government planners, smirking lobbyists, nagging wives, rented scientists and cynical humanitarians. When characters begin disappearing — on strike against the servility and inferiority of the masses — one does not question their wisdom in leaving the movie. None of the characters expresses a hint of sympathetic human emotion — which is precisely the point. Rand’s novels are vehicles for a system of thought known as Objectivism. Rand developed this philosophy at the length of Tolstoy, with the intellectual pretensions of Hegel, but it can be summarized on a napkin. Reason is everything. Religion is a fraud. Selfishness is a virtue. Altruism is a crime against human excellence. Self-sacrifice is weakness. Weakness is contemptible. “The Objectivist ethics, in essence,” said Rand, “hold that man exists for his own sake, that the pursuit of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose, that he must not sacrifice himself to others, nor sacrifice others to himself.” If Objectivism seems familiar, it is because most people know it under another name: adolescence. Many of us experienced a few unfortunate years of invincible self-involvement, testing moral boundaries and prone to stormy egotism and hero worship. Usually one grows out of it, eventually discovering that the quality of our lives is tied to the benefit of others. Rand’s achievement was to turn a phase into a philosophy, as attractive as an outbreak of acne. <snip> Washington Post
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  Hi I'm new.

  by sweetmochasista in

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  2. experiences

  hello all.

  i'm not really new i registered about three years ago but never had the guts to post.

  i'm still in but want to be out..

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  SixofNine

  Welcome sista. So what's it gonna take to get you out? :)
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  Need awesome suggestions!

  by the_raisin in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for the last four days, every morning i take donut out for her walk, i always find jw's preaching door to door across the street.

  i always cross to them, and wait with dread at what i think is inevitable: they will try to preach to me.. but it never happens.

  four days, seen three diifferent groups, nothing.

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  First, welcome to the forum, the_raisin.

  When you were witnessing, did you approach random people on the street? I know I never did, and it while it was not unheard of, the vast majority of witnesses I worked with didn't either.

  I doubt they are snubbing you, but rather sense that you are open to being approached and therefor feel a little guilty for being afraid to do so. I don't know what you mean by "look really weird" (post pics please), but if you stand out at all, it intimidates, well, most people, but especially witnesses because, while they can save their own ego by imagining that you are *weird _ and therefor wild/scary*, the truth is that what they are really worried about is that you are *weird _ and therefor willing to think for yourself and challenge whatever someone says*.

  The last thing witnesses want is to be challenged.
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  ...and then, something Amazing happened! (Don't view if you don't want to cry)

  by Terry in

  1. jw
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  game winning homerun turns tragic - but then something amazing happenedwww.godvine.comafter this girl hit her first ever home run, she tore her acl running to first base.

  just when tragedy was inevitable, something odd, yet amazing, happened.

  watch this very touching video to see the inspirational outcome.

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  I just have to point out, however, that Sara's coach looks like Nick Nolte.

  lol, cold. Nick Nolte once handed me a mostly-smoked cigarette and said, "you want this?".