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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-24-06 03:11 PM Original message |
If religious and philosophical ideas were liquid substances... |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-24-06 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
1. I would add a fourth... |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-24-06 03:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. You listed one explanation. Are there others? |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-24-06 06:01 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. So do I. When Ayn Rand isn't merely irritating, she's boring my ass off. |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-30-06 11:58 AM Response to Reply #6 |
38. I can't count how many times I've started Atlas Shrugged... |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-30-06 08:53 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Hi, SidDithers. Yep. Hell of a keen mind no matter my take on the |
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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-25-06 12:20 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. Aye |
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TallahasseeGrannie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-24-06 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
3. Whooooosh! |
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charlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-24-06 05:18 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. While we're brushing the jet fumes out of our hair |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-24-06 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
5. In that surreal realm I hold that John Calvin would be represented by |
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nemo137 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-24-06 07:39 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. You and me both, sir. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-24-06 09:15 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Hi, nemo137. I go pale when I think of what it must have been like |
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Random_Australian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-25-06 01:49 AM Response to Original message |
10. Can't be a fluid. there are just 94 elements to work with. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-25-06 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
11. Is this the Fifth Commandment of Ayn Rand worship? |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-25-06 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
12. Absurd commandments, indeed |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-25-06 06:48 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Yet since you can't prove YOUR set of moral laws has any sort of |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-25-06 07:09 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. There is no superiority |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-25-06 07:57 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I happen to agree with you - mostly. |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-30-06 11:59 AM Response to Reply #14 |
39. Exactly..it's a personal choice... |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-25-06 08:56 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. The proof is in the absurdity |
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Random_Australian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 04:37 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. There was no notion that "no set of laws were any better than any other" - |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 11:11 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. You can judge someone else's morality, |
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Random_Australian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 09:11 PM Response to Reply #24 |
32. The act of judging gives properties of right and wrong, all subjectivity |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 06:49 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. There is no "proof from absurdity" when it comes to moral systems. |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 11:06 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. It must be a strange life you live |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 02:20 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. You just don't get it. |
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Zebedeo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 04:24 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Ah - HAAA! |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 04:39 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Let me repeat: you still don't get it. |
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Random_Australian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 09:18 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. Nope, it is still subjective, but unequal inside the subective reality |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 08:50 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Could you define what it means to say that something is any kind of a |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 08:59 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Oh, I'm not defending big-O Objectivism. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 09:09 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Before you tell me that an evaluation of the quality of a moral system |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 09:16 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. There are definitely objective elements. |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 05:21 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. The escense of the Bible answers a lot! |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 05:25 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. You can say all those things, |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 03:35 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. But can we not any longer fully accept or deny the relative |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
26. Some might say religious faith was mercury. |
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Random_Australian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-26-06 09:27 PM Response to Reply #26 |
34. Actually, that could be a variety of comliments and insults. |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-27-06 04:44 AM Response to Reply #34 |
35. "Whoosh." |
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Random_Australian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-27-06 05:36 AM Response to Reply #35 |
36. I really should explain better. The big party trick of the alchemists |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-30-06 11:10 AM Response to Original message |
37. Where can I find a complete list of Commandments of Ayn Rand Worship? |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-02-06 06:14 AM Response to Reply #37 |
41. Boojatta, you might try contacting the Ayn Rand Bookshop in Irvine, CA. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-04-06 11:35 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Perhaps the marketing department of the Ayn Rand Bookshop in Irvine, CA |
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