tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.comments2014-02-01T06:58:08.931-08:00This Is Ragnar Danneskjöld SpeakingRagnar Danneskjöldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07761782170471633530noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-87742430964336073522014-02-01T06:58:08.931-08:002014-02-01T06:58:08.931-08:00Well done, Rags. Well done indeed.
Well done, Rags. Well done indeed.<br />Bret Holbertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-14345497209309633182014-02-01T05:59:27.734-08:002014-02-01T05:59:27.734-08:00Well said, and Pirate on! There are no contradict...Well said, and Pirate on! There are no contradictions if facts. If your 'friend' has two seemingly contradictory 'facts', they need to re-examine their premises....one of them is wrong :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-38325125587074232352014-01-31T18:04:24.667-08:002014-01-31T18:04:24.667-08:00You are completely right in your interpretation of...You are completely right in your interpretation of Rand and her philosophy. You were self-directed - not forced by the state - to help your fellow man because YOU wanted to do it. Imposed "volunteerism" isn't self-less at all. I'm glad you were out there to help and did so of your own volition. Misinterpretation of Rand will continue, but those of us who aspire to be Objectivists will keep demonstrating it's positive nuances. Pirate on!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-46392239406596735402013-03-01T14:58:46.906-08:002013-03-01T14:58:46.906-08:00For some reason, this comes to mind.
Nero's T...For some reason, this comes to mind.<br /><br />Nero's Term<br />Nero was not worried when he heard<br />the prophecy of the Delphic Oracle.<br />"Let him fear the seventy three years."<br />He still had ample time to enjoy himself.<br />He is thirty. More than sufficient<br />is the term the god allots him<br />to prepare for future perils.<br /><br />Now he will return to Rome slightly tired,<br />but delightfully tired from this journey,<br />full of days of enjoyment --<br />at the theaters, the gardens, the gymnasia...<br />evenings at cities of Achaia...<br />Ah the delight of nude bodies, above all...<br /><br />Thus fared Nero. And in Spain Galba<br />secretly assembles and drills his army,<br />the old man of seventy three.<br /><br />- Constantine P. Cavafy (1918)<br />Behttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04593480051760923088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-88564545170474648522013-02-28T06:24:15.156-08:002013-02-28T06:24:15.156-08:00Well, its about time. It hurts when the full reali...Well, its about time. It hurts when the full realization that you've been duped finally hits home huh? It hit me back in November that any way I voted was simply an endorsement of the status quo regardless of whether there was a D or an R behind whichever candidates name I selected.<br /><br />So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable - Aldous Huxley <br /><br />This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector - PlatoRightWingNutJobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11872880320712486733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-35675457093599229842012-05-07T08:37:11.818-07:002012-05-07T08:37:11.818-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.David Batsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05008042032888826805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-55544781692010540992012-05-07T08:33:34.770-07:002012-05-07T08:33:34.770-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.David Batsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05008042032888826805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-80893156187235857812011-11-30T08:26:32.640-08:002011-11-30T08:26:32.640-08:00test post anonymoustest post anonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-52983492911973345612011-11-30T08:26:00.216-08:002011-11-30T08:26:00.216-08:00Test postTest postKris Hawkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664008567631442796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-83177362519031148052011-11-30T08:21:32.880-08:002011-11-30T08:21:32.880-08:00Guns?Guns?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-65574558444107385622011-11-30T04:10:25.589-08:002011-11-30T04:10:25.589-08:00Damn straight skippy!Damn straight skippy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-29599612442349218452011-09-07T01:02:29.792-07:002011-09-07T01:02:29.792-07:00hahaha..this is hilarious, been laughing all throu...hahaha..this is hilarious, been laughing all through it..hope nobody will be stupid enough to take offence!Nupur Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05313672009525589377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-74461703233475337562011-08-05T16:25:50.846-07:002011-08-05T16:25:50.846-07:00What I believe myself that he was dead to begin wi...What I believe myself that he was dead to begin with, there were reports of some people who claimed there was nobody in the house when the "team six" attacked. I don't believe in far fetched out conspiracy theories, but I believe in facts and witnesses and by going with that alone, I believe he might have been dead, there is just too conflicting evidence and they didn't show anything counter evidencing it, they did not prove his death, only later some members of his family said so, but what if they were told to say those exact things? We may never know, but I sure as hell don't believe the official story.Leo TCKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14630951703598405024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-23998200232570246952011-04-20T22:01:55.477-07:002011-04-20T22:01:55.477-07:00Ayn Rand did actually mention (I forget which essa...Ayn Rand did actually mention (I forget which essay book) that she believes a fetus is not a life, but a 'potential' life, and therefore, was pro-choice (or pro-abortion). <br /><br />BUT ... any so-called Objectivists that sit on their armchair philosophical high horse and declare you NOT OBJECTIVIST because of your disagreement are tools and mindless slaves.<br /><br />I disagree with something Ayn Rand said about handguns, but I proudly carry her philosophical label. I also think lots of so-called Objectivists are cowards.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09873593856395305049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-28327847300120314892011-02-14T22:34:07.026-08:002011-02-14T22:34:07.026-08:00CNN, HLN, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC and BBC....CNN, HLN, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC and BBC. Not sure if there were more, those are just the one's I saw.Moÿhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04766339465524749073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-23380152797890406522010-07-27T14:59:07.136-07:002010-07-27T14:59:07.136-07:00you are invited to follow my blogyou are invited to follow my blogSteve Finnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15041851737677873347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-23247190332816779282010-06-26T05:06:51.148-07:002010-06-26T05:06:51.148-07:00I couldn't get through all of this, because I&...I couldn't get through all of this, because I'm in a hurry, but I had to ask this: What media were you watching after 9/11 that showed MUSLIMS celebrating what happened? <br />I am a Muslim, and till this day I get goosebumps and teary-eyed whenever I remember what happened that day, and in all the days that followed and preceded it.<br /><br /><br />Believe it or not, most Muslims are human beings who care and feel and actually think a bit before denouncing 1.5 billion people, which, I'm sure, you did before denouncing Muslims everywhere.<br /><br />MAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-67134528533104822010-06-10T13:56:10.641-07:002010-06-10T13:56:10.641-07:00I did not know the story of Tyler Perry. Interest...I did not know the story of Tyler Perry. Interesting!Dawnmariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11122009874006244579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-14811940834986604672010-06-10T11:59:26.910-07:002010-06-10T11:59:26.910-07:00Ah , you are quick to point out what you consider ...Ah , you are quick to point out what you consider the flaw in my argument, but you do so with an opinion Colin. Your opinion is that it has no rights. You even equate it to a dog, a cow, a chicken etc, but I present to you that these things also have rights. If a dog has no rights, it would be okay to torture it. Yet dog fighting is illegal? Why? Because the dog has a right to not be tortured. Just because it is not a human right violation, does not mean that something has no rights. The arguments I hear about the "potential personhood" reminds me of the scientific data of the 1830' that said that black people were not the same as white people. That they had no feelings, and were below us, therefore, it was perfectly fine to treat them as property, as you have just assigned the fetus as the "property" of the mother and strangely enough the father. So in your argument, since the fetus is owned by the father, can the father then stop the killing of the fetus, since it is his property?Ragnar Danneskjöldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07761782170471633530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-20753401630556307722010-06-10T08:56:36.215-07:002010-06-10T08:56:36.215-07:00Again I must disagree with you my friend, from the...Again I must disagree with you my friend, from the very beginning your argument is flawed. Your entire argument rests on the idea that the fetus is an individual with rights.. and much of this is derived from the fact that is merely alive and responds to outside stimuli. However, I would argue that this is not enough.. a dog, a cow, a chicken, a rat, a spider, can do all of the things a fetus can, with the exception of eventually becoming a person (I won't debate the issue of potential personhood here, it is irrelevant) and yet we kill these animals every day without any thought towards the morality of it. The simple answer to the abortion issue is: Yes abortion is killing.. but it is killing something that is the property of the mother and father, and has no rights of its own.. therefore no injustice or immoral act has been committed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-41745953104298369782010-06-05T18:48:29.777-07:002010-06-05T18:48:29.777-07:00Ann: Also in regards to your objective reality abo...Ann: Also in regards to your objective reality about this>><br />"is that when I lay on my 4 months pregnant daughter's bed and sing into her belly, that baby suddenly moves. He travels around and bumps and we can physically feel the moving, she can much more than me. That's the objective reality."<br /><br />However emotionally touching that may be...it really is completely irrelevant! <br /><br />So the potential human inside that belly moves to stimuli...big fricken deal! What is so fascinating about that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-7116200825909974902010-06-05T18:39:43.837-07:002010-06-05T18:39:43.837-07:00Ann....Abortion is not immoral! I do not care what...Ann....Abortion is not immoral! I do not care what science tells me, my spiritual beliefs (Which are none of your business) guide me, I tell me what I should and should not do...not science...not another man, women or child! Not some invisible man in the sky...not some ancient text written by god knows who (pun definitely intended) But my own inner feelings about what is and what is not ok....all of your hype and rhetoric about what some stupid fricken movie has brainwashed you into believing is not going to change the fact that I believe what I believe and whether you or anyone else likes it or not, they cannot refute my argument that an abortion is the removal of a potential independent life, not an already independent life! Telling one human that they have to continue to be a feeding tube for another as consequences of their actions when they have alternative consequences to choose from is sick and insane! Not to be rude, but I find you using a stupid propaganda movie to substantiate your beliefs in real life, fricken scary!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-10325244607420060972010-06-05T07:26:52.990-07:002010-06-05T07:26:52.990-07:001984, page 32, definition of Doublethink: "....1984, page 32, definition of Doublethink: "....To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies..."<br /><br />I read that entire article Curio, and what keeps coming to mind is the objective reality (that I'm sure you have a 'rational' 'intellectual' argument for me being crazy) is that when I lay on my 4 months pregnant daughter's bed and sing into her belly, that baby suddenly moves. He travels around and bumps and we can physically feel the moving, she can much more than me. That's the objective reality. <br /><br />Also, read what scientists thought of blacks regarding their "physical" inferiority in 1851: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3106t.html<br /><br />There were pretty good scientific arguments (based in math) that the world was flat not too long ago, also.<br /><br />Curio, don't let science tell you that what is sitting in front of your face doesn't exist or what you're seeing is wrong.<br /><br />We can put a man on the moon but we can't cure cancer. Why? Because a large segment of our economy would collapse (hospital/doctors/nurses/PHARMACEUTICALS). Science often sacrifices facts (AND LIVES) for the convenience of society, to further their own agenda, and to line their own pockets. We must observe science with a critical eye.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-50410247752680830712010-06-04T20:33:16.046-07:002010-06-04T20:33:16.046-07:00Ragnar:
Your premise that an abortion is removin...Ragnar: <br /><br />Your premise that an abortion is removing the littlest minority is touching and emotionally provoking- but does not appeal to my rational mind.<br /><br />My rational mind: The part responsible for objective reasoning; tells me that an abortion that is preformed before brain activity is in fact a medical removal of tissue - with the potentiality of becoming an individual. The potential of something is not the same thing as it being something.<br /><br />I am sorry, but I have had this discussion so many times I just cannot bring myself to argue this anymore. I will however post a passage that gives the gist of my rebuttal. <br /><br />"But the human part of the brain—the cortex—is not fully developed, as shown by "brain waves" on an EEG, until very late in gestation; in fact the EEG continues to change and mature into childhood. Indeed, the "individuating" function of a person's brain doesn't start to come into existence until the outer surface of the cortex begins to develop those deep furrows, grooves, and convolutions (sulci and gyri) that make a human brain look like a walnut, unlike the smooth brains of other animals. The furrows and grooves are what enable our brains to have millions more cells and connections between them than other animals, and so create our humanity. And the precise configuration of the grooves and convolutions are part of what determines our individuality; why, for instance, indentical twins have different personalities, and even, perhaps, why Einstein was a genius. However, these structures don't begin to form until the last 2 months of pregnancy. <br /><br />So I have no objection to saying that "a human life" or "human personhood" begins when brain waves are measured on an EEG. That is well into the second half of pregnancy"<br />http://eileen.250x.com/Main/Einstein/Brain_Waves.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026444096187550479.post-66578266590942259202010-06-02T20:56:38.557-07:002010-06-02T20:56:38.557-07:00Interesting timing of your post, RD. At work, I am...Interesting timing of your post, RD. At work, I am an island of conservatism surrounded by liberal sharks. Today, I had my first, in your face moment. After listening to one of them spew on about the evils of capitalism, I reminded the idiot that he was working for a firm that was created in 1929 by a guy who started out working on a survey crew. Through hard work and investment, the company grew to where it is today. It's called "capitalism". Idiot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com