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McSweeney's takes its periodic shot at Ayn Rand. http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ayn-randers
Something about these sound... vaguely... familiar. ***2008-09 Forumite Tournament CHAMPION***
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I'd imagine so to the Fed; its Rand....
Is an orgy."
- Robert Fripp I really wonder if most of the people that try to take shots at Ayn Rand of the people that try to take shots at Ayn Rand have ever even read anything she wrote.
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Posted 27 April 2012 - 07:12 PM
http://thinkprogress...-ryan-ayn-rand/
He apparently just noticed that she didn't believe in God...
The Republican war on reason continues...
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Looks like he made his choice luke-warm attempt to reduce the deficit as being some type of Ayn Rand plan to shrink government, if that belief includes ....
He can't have both.
That he has to choose between Ayn Rand and Jesus.
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Understandable, she hated religion in any of it's forms. She hated Christianity because of it's belief that society should help the poor, and that people should love each other.
She is an embarrassment, NOW that everyone is learning about her Atheism....
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Many of her observations about human, Paul Ryan Now Disses... .
Ayn Rand had a very cold selfish take on humanity.
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Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand
What happened to the love?
2003 Weekly Standard
I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it. Well I try to make my interns read it.
2010 The New Republic:
The reason I got involved in public...
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True aspirations of higher office often takes the sacrifice ... .
True love often takes maturing before it sees the light .
Love is fickle.
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Despite her anti-Christian and liberal views on social issues, and her advocation of Laissez Faire style capitalism which goes against Catholic social teaching, it seems the late Ayn Rand is having a popularity resurgence among Christian conservatives...
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I heard he....
Also, I think that Ayn Rand appeals to people's pride, people relate more to the "Makers.
Teaching, it seems the late Ayn Rand is having a popularity resurgence among Christian conservatives with their theology.
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We have this weird....
However, what you are describing is quite the opposite of Ayn Rand's.
Basically, do whatever is required to reach your in the manner you are describing .
Example of Ayn Rand's "Rational Egoism" philosophy.
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I just finished Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", and I really need to know... Towards the end, were Hank Rearden and Francisco D'Anconia going gay for each other? "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does...
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I read every last word of this garbage Bonaparte
Msn: juebizi AT gmail... .
But then I read this: "Atlas Shrugged," by Ayn Rand.
Why? Why not? "We have tried spending money.
Re: I just finished Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"...
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Posted 10 April 2006 - 09:25 PM
After attending an ARI campus lecture, I wondered how many people actually changed philosophy after their college years. I broke the poll into two questions because some people might have read some Ayn Rand early on, as...
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Then, later, they might have taken.”
When I was 34 I see someone... .
Then, later have read some Ayn Rand early on, as fiction, and left it at that.
Some people might have read some Ayn Rand early on, as fiction, and left it at that.
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Http://www.alternet.org/story/155239/ay ... &rd=1&t=24
My absolute favorite story of the week is Paul Ryan saying that his fondness for the philosophy of Ayn Rand is an "urban legend.” You have to give these wild and crazy Republicans credit for at least...
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No one....
Ayn Rand and her from the truth.
Everyone can be replaced.
You ever try knows is that "no monkey is going to stop the show" .
Not great, but, oyveh, not Ayn Rand.
I switched to Henry Miller and read "Tropic of Cancer" .
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"People are always going to be corrupt and venal. (Aside: I swear that if we had two links side by side, one saying "Make $100 now" and the other "How to save the whale" then there would be a hundred times as many clicks for the former as the latter!)...
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So I see....
Is Ayn Rand God?
2 on another thread).
So I see at least three questions here:
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She has some appeal, but only in a world where people's selfish)" (Paul, posted on another thread) .
Ones, think that Ayn Rand is god.
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