Ayn Rand's Politics and AS?

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13 Jun 2013, 2:47 pm

I've never read anything of hers,not sure if I want to now.
Nothing against Vikings,my daughter looks like a Viking.

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13 Jun 2013, 3:08 pm

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Nothing against Vikings,my daughter looks like a Viking.

HAH! My father *is* a Viking. And his name is none other than Jørn! Danish Dynamite!! !

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13 Jun 2013, 4:00 pm

^^^^ My great-great grandfather was named Vilda,explains why my daughter looks like a valkyrie.Mostly we are Scotch-Irish.

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13 Jun 2013, 4:08 pm

Not to try and be overly provocative here, but after reading Atlas Shrugged, the only thing I took away was that Ayn Rand was an unimpressive storyteller, and not all that great of a writer. I don't know of any literary scholars that aren't Libertarians or Objectivists who hold her in very high regard. Personally, I thought the motives of her protagonists were unrealistic, the characters who disagreed with Rand's philosophy were straw men, and John Galt's crazy, rambling monologue that everyone who adores her cites, is exactly why there is a need for editors.

Also read some of her shorter, political works. I see the appeal for Aspies and Auties, but practically, it doesn't offer much for our community. Nothing really, other than to be left alone. In my house that's great, but I don't believe that I would want to live in a society like that.

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13 Jun 2013, 8:13 pm

Misslizard wrote:

Nothing against Vikings,my daughter looks like a Viking.

Does she have horns?

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13 Jun 2013, 8:15 pm

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I know of Rand's adoration of that psychotic pond scum Hickman, and as she never recanted it as a youthful indiscretion, it will always hang over her head.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Hickman looked like a Viking. Rand had a crush on Vikings.

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Makes sense - The land of her birth, Russia, was founded by Swedish Vikings, who the native Slavs called the Rus (blond).

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But the Rosenbaums were a Jewish family. Have you ever heard of a Jewish Viking?

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13 Jun 2013, 8:21 pm

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Misslizard wrote:

Nothing against Vikings,my daughter looks like a Viking.

Does she have horns?

Yes,she does.And a spear also. :lol:

If you had to talk to her on the phone,you would agree.

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13 Jun 2013, 8:49 pm

Sign her up for the upcoming World Championship Viking Longboat Races.

[img][600:413]http://www.iomguide.com/peel/events/photos/viking-longboat8-big.jpg[/img]

[img][600:413]http://www.iomguide.com/peel/events/photos/viking-longboat4-big.jpg[/img]

To be held on July 15, 2013 in Peel, Isle of Man.

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13 Jun 2013, 9:05 pm

ruveyn wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

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I know of Rand's adoration of that psychotic pond scum Hickman, and as she never recanted it as a youthful indiscretion, it will always hang over her head.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Hickman looked like a Viking. Rand had a crush on Vikings.

ruveyn

Makes sense - The land of her birth, Russia, was founded by Swedish Vikings, who the native Slavs called the Rus (blond).

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

But the Rosenbaums were a Jewish family. Have you ever heard of a Jewish Viking?

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Just because she was Jewish doesn't mean she couldn't appreciate her former country's Nordic founders.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

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13 Jun 2013, 9:06 pm

^^^^^She would be perfect,they would row fast in fear of her.

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13 Jun 2013, 9:07 pm

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^^^^^She would be perfect,they would row fast in fear of her.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

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13 Jun 2013, 9:11 pm

Either way we're still going to be treated to an endless array of butthurt threads about Rand from the left.

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13 Jun 2013, 9:18 pm

Butthurt about butthurt, are we?

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13 Jun 2013, 9:23 pm

^^^Isn't Prep H good for that? :lol:

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13 Jun 2013, 9:33 pm

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Butthurt about butthurt, are we?

You've got another butthurt thread about Ayn Rand going on.

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13 Jun 2013, 9:41 pm

Rand's support of Hickman was disgusting, I support neither Randian (Objectivism) or Classical Liberalism, but respect them both? I also respect a gun pointed at me.

Regardless of her indiscretions her impact on society (good and bad) is hardly arguable, if not regrettable.

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