Who is John Galt?

Ayn Rand is a good read and I read all her stuff. But I got a good education at an American university back when she was saying this too, and if you didn’t, that’s on you.
She definitely appeals to a reader who requires certainty and feels put upon by life’s complexities. Smart people outgrow her and see through her too. Just doing whatever you feel like isn’t actually a philosophy. In the end, she required public assistance too.
She was adamantly atheist, by the way. Politics makes strange bedfellows.
 
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HHusky said:
Ayn Rand is a good read and I read all her stuff. But I got a good education at an American university back when she was saying this too, and if you didn’t, that’s on you.
She definitely appeals to a reader who requires certainty and feels put upon by life’s complexities. Smart people outgrow her and see through her too. Just doing whatever you feel like isn’t actually a philosophy. In the end, she required public assistance too.
She was adamantly atheist, by the way. Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. "
 
The left doesn't require you to unquestionably follow their certainty

Not at all. Look at free thinkers like H and Ern here.
 
Since a great many of us dislike much that Miss Rand dislikes, quite as heartily as she does, many incline to take her at her word. It is the more persuasive, in some quarters, because the author deals wholly in the blackest blacks and the whitest whites. In this fiction everything, everybody, is either all good or all bad, without any of those intermediate shades which, in life, complicate reality and perplex the eye that seeks to probe it truly. This kind of simplifying pattern, of course, gives charm to most primitive storyknown as: The War between the Children of Light and the Children of Darkness. In modern dress, it is a class war. Both sides to it are caricatures.
—Whittaker Chambers' review of Atlas Shrugged.
 
I didn't say that did I
You're not smart. Everyone knows it. I checked
 
RaceBannon said:
The left doesn't require you to unquestionably follow their certainty

Not at all. Look at free thinkers like H and Ern here.
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Exactly. The dazzler pulls this all the time. Some Assistant Deputy to a County Clerk in rural North Carolina says something stupid and the dazzler has the quote up as evidence of the the pervasive bigotry of the conservative movement. On the other hand all the major dem leaders are afraid to tell us what a woman is. Only Team Dazzler is all in on group think. There is good and evil and no one is perfect. But you can strive to be better. Ayn Rand is on the right side of the line. Anyone who wanted someone locked up for not taking the vaxx and denied medical care for not doing so is not on the right side of the line. Anyone who hates Musk because he freed Twitter is not on the right side of the line.
 
Rand an atheist? Pretty certain there are some conservatives here on the Shed(2) as well.

Only Dems adore the hive mind.
 
georgiaduck said:
Rand an atheist? Pretty certain there are some conservatives here on the Shed(2) as well.

Only Dems adore the hive mind.
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Yes, I said “adamantly atheist”. Anti religious in fact. As in this excerpt from Atlas Shrugged:
[R]eason is an absolute that permits no compromise. . . . [A] concession to the irrational invalidates one’s consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality. . . . [T]he alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind. . . .
 
HHusky said:
georgiaduck said:
Rand an atheist? Pretty certain there are some conservatives here on the Shed(2) as well.

Only Dems adore the hive mind.
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Yes, I said “adamantly atheist”. Anti religious in fact. As in this excerpt from Atlas Shrugged:
[R]eason is an absolute that permits no compromise. . . . [A] concession to the irrational invalidates one’s consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality. . . . [T]he alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind. . . .
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RAT, for short.
 
HHusky said:
georgiaduck said:
Rand an atheist? Pretty certain there are some conservatives here on the Shed(2) as well.

Only Dems adore the hive mind.
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Yes, I said “adamantly atheist”. Anti religious in fact. As in this excerpt from Atlas Shrugged:
[R]eason is an absolute that permits no compromise. . . . [A] concession to the irrational invalidates one’s consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality. . . . [T]he alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind. . . .
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Who cares whether she is an atheist or not?
hh likes to derail a beating by sidestepping the point. What next hh? She hates Chinese because she is not a fan of pot stickers?
 
Bendintheriver said:
HHusky said:
georgiaduck said:
Rand an atheist? Pretty certain there are some conservatives here on the Shed(2) as well.

Only Dems adore the hive mind.
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Yes, I said “adamantly atheist”. Anti religious in fact. As in this excerpt from Atlas Shrugged:
[R]eason is an absolute that permits no compromise. . . . [A] concession to the irrational invalidates one’s consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality. . . . [T]he alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind. . . .
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Who cares whether she is an atheist or not?
hh likes to derail a beating by sidestepping the point. What next hh? She hates Chinese because she is not a fan of pot stickers?
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Auntie Ayn and I agree that peanut and orange sauces don't belong on food or on anything, ever. We'll just leave it at that.

- Teriyaki Man
 
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HHusky said:
georgiaduck said:
Rand an atheist? Pretty certain there are some conservatives here on the Shed(2) as well.

Only Dems adore the hive mind.
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Yes, I said “adamantly atheist”. Anti religious in fact. As in this excerpt from Atlas Shrugged:
[R]eason is an absolute that permits no compromise. . . . [A] concession to the irrational invalidates one’s consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality. . . . [T]he alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind. . . .
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Who cares whether she is an atheist or not?
hh likes to derail a beating by sidestepping the point. What next hh? She hates Chinese because she is not a fan of pot stickers?
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When one you girls endorses a self-proclaimed philosopher, the alleged philosophy is part of the package, Barbara.
 
Sound advice. Next time tug leftards get excited about the Pope's comments on immigration, I will take it as a lock they're in line with his abortion opinions as well.
 
georgiaduck said:
Sound advice. Next time tug leftards get excited about the Pope's comments on immigration, I will take it as a lock they're in line with his abortion opinions as well.
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I'll leave it to others to excite themselves with what any pope thinks.
When's the last time the Vatican's Olympic team or army ever won anything?
 
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