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Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 06:48 PM Aug 2012

Ayn Rand's independent, free man

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.............................[font size="5"]....unencumbered by society.[/font]


His vocabulary: "Ugh", "Huh?", "Aauugh!!". Without society, there's no need for language....who you gonna talk to?
Without society and languange there is no culture. Then, does he have ideas or just perceptions such as pleasure, pain, fear and anger?

Then, is he a man ... or an animal, just a creature?

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alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
1. She admired a man who kidnapped, murdered and dismembered a little girl.
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 07:34 PM
Aug 2012

He sewed her eyelids open when he delivered her body to collect the ransom to fool the father her a few minutes. Just for shits and grins apparently. That was a man admired by Ayn Rand as free.

Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
2. who was that? I'm assuming he was brought to justice....not that that makes much difference to the
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 08:44 PM
Aug 2012

parents or the child.


 

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
3. here's a link to the story.
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 08:50 PM
Aug 2012

This is the “amazing picture” Ayn Rand — guru to the Republican/Tea Party right-wing — admired when she wrote in her notebook that Hickman represented “the amazing picture of a man with no regard whatsoever for all that a society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. A man who really stands alone, in action and in soul. Other people do not exist for him, and he does not see why they should.”

http://exiledonline.com/paul-ryans-guru-ayn-rand-worshipped-a-serial-killer-who-kidnapped-and-dismembered-little-girls/

She was never more than a sick twisted evil person.

Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
4. thnks. Always knew she was imbalanced - her so-called philosophy makes that obvious.
Tue Aug 28, 2012, 08:55 PM
Aug 2012

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alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
6. There was a video of Ayn that played on something my boyfriend and I were watching
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 07:44 PM
Sep 2012

Probably Colbert Report or something like that.

He's not political at all but he is a very kind just person. (I'm trying to get him to vote for the first time)

He actually physically recoiled.

...and then she started talking.



"What the hell is wrong with that woman???!!!"

"Anyone that would be for that kind of shit is fuckin evil!"

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