Profits Are Not "Satanic"

[TravelsHopefully]

Well, Have you heard of Immanuel Kant?

Wasn't he a real pissant who was very rarely stable

[dwheeler]

be afraid Animus

BE VERY AFRAID

today is Louie's birthday and she's just trying to behave herself
which,at her age,is a very hard thing to do

tomorrow is another day

At any age Louise is hot.    BTW  fuck Ann and all her Boring BS.  A good editor would of cut Atlas to twenty five pages.  That was how many pages the story took.

[mtlouie]

No, I'm not going to change my beliefs unless I hear something more rational. Happy birthday Lou 

Well, Have you heard of Immanuel Kant?

Peelo!!!  You're a newb again!!!!  STOP doing that!!   

[mtlouie]

Ayn Rand was very clear that we should deal with people using neither force, nor fraud. Mtlouie's portrayal of Objectivist ideals are not accurate at best, and fraudulent at worst because she can't recall basic details of the story of Atlas Shrugged, but says she read, understood, and summarily rejected the philosophy.
Fraud of the highest sort. "Objectivists" like to pretend that capitalism just happened, conveniently leaving out the fact that it was instituted by FORCE and has been maintained and expanded by FORCE, ie Enclosures, starting in England, followed by imperialism.  I knew a bunch of "objectivists" when i was a freshman   in Fall '65 and joined the Young Conservative Club. I thank them for shaking my faith in capitalism, as i learned how they sympathized with slumlords and polluters. A bunch of well-off brats.
My favorite Randist ejaculation, years later, was a top person in the Ayn Rand Institute writing a defense of Columbus and the European invasion of the Americas and decimation of the indigenous population, upon the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Columbus's journey, he asserted that the indigenous peoples were just wasting the place by not utilizing it to maximum productivity and efficiency, and good riddance.

Yeah, welcome back, Peelo!

Lord, Animus, it's been years since I read that shit.  PLEASE do not make me go back and read it again!!!  Look, if the "Libertarians" are touting it, I don't need to re-read it.  It's shit.  That's good enough for me.

Honey, you are not one of "them."  You never will be.  But if you want to pretend.....well, okay, whatever it takes to make it through this strange world.  I'm beginning to think it doesn't matter one whit what we "believe."  The great game player is going to do whatever he/she/it/they want.

[mtlouie]

I totally agree that bankers control the economy and the UK and US governments, and are systematically orchestrating their collapse using force and fraud.

That means they are not Objectivists.

Now see how this relates to Marxism and how it doesn't work in the REAL world??

[mtlouie]

be afraid Animus

BE VERY AFRAID

today is Louie's birthday and she's just trying to behave herself
which,at her age,is a very hard thing to do

tomorrow is another day

At any age Louise is hot.    BTW  fuck Ann and all her Boring BS.  A good editor would of cut Atlas to twenty five pages.  That was how many pages the story took.

Fucking AWESOME, Dave!!!  A magazine article!! 

At any age Louise is hot.

Thanks, Dave!  You make a woman feel good.  Even if it is her 48th (!!!!!!!!!!) b-day!  And remember, folks, Dave has really met me!   

[picasso moon]

Now see how this relates to Marxism and how it doesn't work in the REAL world??
Lou, happy birthday and all, i already wished you one a couple of days ago , but     EH? What does this mean?

And why did you post my comment and then reply to Animus?

[mtlouie]

I was drunk.  That's my excuse.

Just ignore anything I said last night.   

[picasso moon]

You got it , forgotten, Happy day-after-birthday!!

[quietnite]

Jock, I love you, freakin' lovely Picard visual...so perfect to the occasion.

[Peelo]

Well, Have you heard of Immanuel Kant?

Wasn't he a real pissant who was very rarely stable

Among other things ...
To me it's clear that Rand just ignores hundreds of years of western philosophy and thinking, to make up her own theory. It's like writing a book on gravity and ignoring Newton. You can't ignore Kant anymore than you can ignore Newton.  Her followers are far more interesting than her theories.

[skiah]

A good editor would of cut Atlas to twenty five pages.  That was how many pages the story took.

Bingo! Galt's radio address was the height of tedious rambling. I read the first few pages of that and skipped to the end. How I managed to finish the rest of that piece of crap is beyond me.

[jerrypenguin]

Goldman Sachs was not preaching anything new.  A few years ago New York Goldman Sachs had their very own chaplain and motivational speaker. (External Embedding Disabled)

There are the Dollar Ministries.

Even the US Military has a Chaplain who preaches the gospel of money.