Rand again
Rand again
Folks,
In the attached link, some liberal comics attack Ayn Rand using mockery. IMHO this fails.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8m8cQI4DgM
Rand was a good philosopher, and her thought experiment was effective. By encouraging us to think of humans as creatures of selfishness only, Rand performs a powerful philosophical reduction. As people without higher functions, Rand describes a zombie world of appetite alone and it is the vision of such a world that points up what is lacking in her picture.
This strategy has been used many times before in philosophy, with Descartes reducing our world to cogito, Wittgenstein reducing our world to language, Ayer reducing our world to logic. The list goes on. This is a game philosophers love to play, and why not? It is in the reduction that we find the value of what is not reduced.
In this search, Rand stands with the best.
Alex.
In the attached link, some liberal comics attack Ayn Rand using mockery. IMHO this fails.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8m8cQI4DgM
Rand was a good philosopher, and her thought experiment was effective. By encouraging us to think of humans as creatures of selfishness only, Rand performs a powerful philosophical reduction. As people without higher functions, Rand describes a zombie world of appetite alone and it is the vision of such a world that points up what is lacking in her picture.
This strategy has been used many times before in philosophy, with Descartes reducing our world to cogito, Wittgenstein reducing our world to language, Ayer reducing our world to logic. The list goes on. This is a game philosophers love to play, and why not? It is in the reduction that we find the value of what is not reduced.
In this search, Rand stands with the best.
Alex.
Re: Rand again
Alex,
You just mentioned what some at OTNOT consider to be a four-letter-word.
May the force be with you!
https://www.google.com/search?q=stand+w ... PgodBRoBbA
You just mentioned what some at OTNOT consider to be a four-letter-word.
May the force be with you!
https://www.google.com/search?q=stand+w ... PgodBRoBbA
Re: Rand again
im glad you warned me about her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Rand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Rand
seems quite dodgy - pro goat and anti bbq.Yvonne Rand is a "lay householder"[1] Soto Zen priest and guiding teacher of Goat-in-the-Road[2] located in Anderson Valley, Mendocino County, California. A meditation center which practices predominantly Soto Zen but also incorporates elements of Theravada and Vajrayana Buddhism, the "name Goat-in-the-Road recalls Yvonne's early rescue of young goats from a local Spring barbecue auction
ultracrepidarian
Re: Rand again
out of the BBQ and into the sex trade as they say....noddy wrote:im glad you warned me about her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Rand
seems quite dodgy - pro goat and anti bbq.Yvonne Rand is a "lay householder"[1] Soto Zen priest and guiding teacher of Goat-in-the-Road[2] located in Anderson Valley, Mendocino County, California. A meditation center which practices predominantly Soto Zen but also incorporates elements of Theravada and Vajrayana Buddhism, the "name Goat-in-the-Road recalls Yvonne's early rescue of young goats from a local Spring barbecue auction
Re: Rand again
sheep with handles or sticky ribs, the kind of binary reductionist outcome that the deli llama loses sleep over.Simple Minded wrote:out of the BBQ and into the sex trade as they say....noddy wrote:im glad you warned me about her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Rand
seems quite dodgy - pro goat and anti bbq.Yvonne Rand is a "lay householder"[1] Soto Zen priest and guiding teacher of Goat-in-the-Road[2] located in Anderson Valley, Mendocino County, California. A meditation center which practices predominantly Soto Zen but also incorporates elements of Theravada and Vajrayana Buddhism, the "name Goat-in-the-Road recalls Yvonne's early rescue of young goats from a local Spring barbecue auction
ultracrepidarian
Re: Rand again
When there is no Mrs. Dali Lama to help keep one focused or to cook the goat, the mind wanders.noddy wrote:sheep with handles or sticky ribs, the kind of binary reductionist outcome that the deli llama loses sleep over.Simple Minded wrote:out of the BBQ and into the sex trade as they say....noddy wrote:im glad you warned me about her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Rand
seems quite dodgy - pro goat and anti bbq.Yvonne Rand is a "lay householder"[1] Soto Zen priest and guiding teacher of Goat-in-the-Road[2] located in Anderson Valley, Mendocino County, California. A meditation center which practices predominantly Soto Zen but also incorporates elements of Theravada and Vajrayana Buddhism, the "name Goat-in-the-Road recalls Yvonne's early rescue of young goats from a local Spring barbecue auction
Re: Rand again
SM,Simple Minded wrote:Alex,
You just mentioned what some at OTNOT consider to be a four-letter-word.
In all honesty, I cannot deny that 'Rand' is a four letter word.
Alex.
Re: Rand again
right you are.manolo wrote:SM,Simple Minded wrote:Alex,
You just mentioned what some at OTNOT consider to be a four-letter-word.
In all honesty, I cannot deny that 'Rand' is a four letter word.
Alex.
oddly enough, so are left and rite.....
Re: Rand again
SM,Simple Minded wrote: oddly enough, so are left and rite.....
You have coined a new term for the political 'rite'.
Alex.
Re: Rand again
seemed like the rite thing to do......manolo wrote:SM,Simple Minded wrote: oddly enough, so are left and rite.....
You have coined a new term for the political 'rite'.
Alex.
Re: Rand again
It ain't easy being self-righteous, or even non-self-righteous for that matter.noddy wrote:wrights write on the rites of the right.
Re: Rand again
Goatsee.Simple Minded wrote:out of the BBQ and into the sex trade as they say....noddy wrote:im glad you warned me about her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Rand
seems quite dodgy - pro goat and anti bbq.Yvonne Rand is a "lay householder"[1] Soto Zen priest and guiding teacher of Goat-in-the-Road[2] located in Anderson Valley, Mendocino County, California. A meditation center which practices predominantly Soto Zen but also incorporates elements of Theravada and Vajrayana Buddhism, the "name Goat-in-the-Road recalls Yvonne's early rescue of young goats from a local Spring barbecue auction
It has now been said and cannot be unsaid.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
Re: Rand again
SM,Simple Minded wrote:.... even non-self-righteous for that matter.
My old philosophy prof used to say: "The only thing I can be sure of is that I may be wrong."
Alex.
Re: Rand again
Timeless wisdom, from a self-conscious individual....... the kind of neighbor I enjoy.manolo wrote:SM,Simple Minded wrote:.... even non-self-righteous for that matter.
My old philosophy prof used to say: "The only thing I can be sure of is that I may be wrong."
Alex.
Re: Rand again
i may be wrong but the chances are far better that its the other durian who is.
ultracrepidarian
Re: Rand again
The best part about being selfless is...... you're never wrong!noddy wrote:i may be wrong but the chances are far better that its the other durian who is.
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Re: Rand again
Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.
“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”
Teresa of Ávila
Teresa of Ávila
Re: Rand again
we are all one, my stupidity is actually yours, im just sharing because im nice like that.Simple Minded wrote:The best part about being selfless is...... you're never wrong!noddy wrote:i may be wrong but the chances are far better that its the other durian who is.
Nonc Hilaire wrote:Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.
ultracrepidarian
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I feel you feeling my pain and it feels like mental masturbation. I think the intellectuals use the term confirmation bi-ass.noddy wrote:we are all one, my stupidity is actually yours, im just sharing because im nice like that.Simple Minded wrote:The best part about being selfless is...... you're never wrong!noddy wrote:i may be wrong but the chances are far better that its the other durian who is.
Misery loves company..... and it's nice to think that I'm not a f**k up, but the world is unfair, the deck is stacked against us liddle guys...... and everyone else is a f**ked as I am....... and all that good stuff.
thanks for being there for me. I'm also there for you and the rest of us......