The Objectivist Academic Center - Ayn Rand Institute
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Sounds like he gets his information from select hearsay and knows little about the subject he is criticizing. It's like saying that Obamanizim reduces itself to, Socialism is great, eliminate the rich and everyone will do better. I wonder how many other stupid things he has said?
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Wall Street theology.
8 months ago 2
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@TeaParty1776 What you are experiencing is a virtual simulation of what it is like "out there". The shock you receive from an electrical socket is a virtual representation of the interaction with what you perceive as the external world. Your brain processes information, not physical objects, therefore you will always be experiencing a cognitive representation of objects etc, not the actual things themselves. Get me? I recommend you do a little research into human perception and the brain.
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@OxiDemonik And if you removed your finger from that electrical outlet, what might you experience?
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Why a level why not just to Know, you always can find out for self !
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We are not in direct contact with reality... We perceive electromagnetic waves in the form of electrochemical impulses. We do no experience reality itself, but an idea generated by the brain. If we were in direct contact with reality then we would not be able to perceive each moment as it passed because rather than perceiving visual and auditory snapshots all the information would be merged together and incomprehensible, also we would have the capacity to perceive ultraviolet and infrared rays.
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Why do kids these days need classes for common sense? Why are kids these days so perplexed by common sense? If you don't have common sense you're most likely of the liberal mindset and classes like these may appeal to you.
To the rest of America, this class looks like day to day life.
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No connection between scientology and Rand. Reason vs alien spirits spewing out volcanoes. Ideas based on reason always trumps mysticism. Basketballbat should do a wee bit of research.
jcomd 2 years ago 5
I would be very careful, if I were you, in the way I define "cult." A cult is not, as you suggest, something that conferrs happiness on an unfortunate. (If that were the case, a business which employs a jobless person could be considered a cult.)
In actuality, a cult's distinguishing features are a hierachichal organization of members and rites of initiation; this does not describe Objectivism. (Indeed, most people who identify themselves as Objectivists do not belong to any organizations.)
XxxNuMbxxX0301 2 years ago 3