Rescinding membership in Free State Project

[Friday]

Geez I dont care how much I get insulted by Libertarians...

Huh??  How did Libertarians get involved in this? The only active Libertarian I'm aware of who even posted on this thread is Lloyd... the one who refused to state the obvious.

[d_goddard]

Just send an email to spierre@freestateproject.org and I'll purge you faster than you can say "raghead".   

The cyborg is back!

[FTL_Ian]

I'll purge you faster than you can say "raghead".   

Awesome.   

[anthonybpugh]

This has been entertaining.  It is probably all for the better.  Someone with such thin skin that they would drop out over a few disagreements with people posting on a board probably isn't cut out for a larger political fight. 

[Dave Ridley]

<<Don't worry about it, Dada was the same way. >>

Even if I still felt ok with invading iraq or what not i would just set the issue aside and focus on what we were united on.  so should objectivist.   

[Kat Kanning]

I don't think you understand objectivists very well, if you think he's going to do that, Dada.

[Ruger Mason]

Threads like this are a textbook example of an Objectivist "break".

http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/009560.html

[Dreepa]

I don't think you understand objectivists very well,

I don't at all... I see don't know what they 'believe'

[AlanM]

I don't think you understand objectivists very well,

I don't at all... I see don't know what they 'believe'

Have you read anything by Ayn Rand?

I am, therefore I think. A=A

[Lloyd Danforth]

Geez I dont care how much I get insulted by Libertarians...

Huh??  How did Libertarians get involved in this? The only active Libertarian I'm aware of who even posted on this thread is Lloyd... the one who refused to state the obvious.

I was thinking that the posting confused Rand with Wolf.  Error could not have received an email from Rand.

[Lloyd Danforth]

I am, therefore I think. A=A

[eques]

I read "Atlas Shrugged."

Normally, I'm a fast reader.  Occasionally, while I'm reading, my eyes will skip and chatter across the page like a needle on a fast-spinning record.  I will then have to go back to the beginning of the paragraph.  No big deal, though.  It only happens once in a while.  With Ayn Rand, however, this happened frequently to the point of irritation.

I can usually devour a book of a few hundred pages or so in about a week--Dawkins' writings are a testament to that.

I think it took me four or five months to read "Atlas Shrugged."  Granted, some days, I could only read a page or two before I had to put it down.

The way I described it at the time was that the material was very "fibrous"--tough to swallow and digest.  It was also kind of chalky.

No, I didn't physically ingest the book, but I think I would have gotten more out of it if I had.

[Dreepa]

I don't think you understand objectivists very well,

I don't at all... I see don't know what they 'believe'

Have you read anything by Ayn Rand?

I am, therefore I think. A=A

I have read all her books... but I still don't get what makes someone call themselves an 'objectivist'.
From wikipedia:

Objectivism is a philosophy[1] developed by Ayn Rand that encompasses positions on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics.

Objectivism holds that there is a mind-independent reality, that individuals are in contact with this reality through sensory perception, that they gain knowledge by processing the data of perception using reason or "non-contradictory identification," that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or "rational self-interest," and that the only social system consistent with such a morality is laissez-faire capitalism.

Stilll what the fuck does that mean? 'mind independent reality'   


By the way check out this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivist_poets

[Michael Fisher]

I don't think you understand objectivists very well,

I don't at all... I see don't know what they 'believe'

Have you read anything by Ayn Rand?

I am, therefore I think. A=A

Cogito non sum, ergo sum.

[AlanM]

I don't think you understand objectivists very well,

I don't at all... I see don't know what they 'believe'

Have you read anything by Ayn Rand?

I am, therefore I think. A=A

I have read all her books... but I still don't get what makes someone call themselves an 'objectivist'.
From wikipedia:

Objectivism is a philosophy[1] developed by Ayn Rand that encompasses positions on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics.

Objectivism holds that there is a mind-independent reality, that individuals are in contact with this reality through sensory perception, that they gain knowledge by processing the data of perception using reason or "non-contradictory identification," that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or "rational self-interest," and that the only social system consistent with such a morality is laissez-faire capitalism.

Stilll what the fuck does that mean? 'mind independent reality'   


By the way check out this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivist_poets

'mind independent reality' : That's just a fancy phrase for saying we can be sure of nothing except that which our senses can perceive, and our own minds can quantify. We must make decisions based on what we perceive in our own self-centered best interest. If I see a fire for the first time, as a child would, I see flame, but know not its characteristics. I soon find out that flame is hot, so in my own best interests I will not put my hand in the fire a second time.

A=A : a thing is what it is. Aristotle first talked of this. A rock is a rock. You can call it a bird, but it is still a rock. It is what it is.