Whatever gave you the idea I was an atheist? If people don't agree with you they're atheists and communists? I have shown you that big government intervention economics that you espouse is not capitalism but I have never called you a communist - even though you sort of are. You and Epicure get all upset about Ayn but she never really preached anything that wasn't already implied in the Constitution. "Your life is yours" might be a stunning and dangerous revelation to you two nitwits. No wonder you consider AR's works a substitute religion and Epicure wants to burn her books, you're both terrified of her.
Ayn Rand knew what you and your twin sister epicure will never know. The smallest minority is the individual. X finds comfort in her union gang and Brumar in his church gang. Neither one of them have the strength to stand alone and be individuals as both are identified by the gangs they belong to.
"An individualist is a man who says: “I will not run anyone’s life—nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone—nor sacrifice anyone to myself.” AR
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. If a man values productive work, his happiness is the measure of his success in the service of his life. But if a man values destruction, like a sadist—or self-torture, like a masochist—or life beyond the grave, like a mystic—or mindless “kicks,” like the driver of a hotrod car—his alleged happiness is the measure of his success in the service of his own destruction. It must be added that the emotional state of all those irrationalists cannot be properly designated as happiness or even as pleasure: it is merely a moment’s relief from their chronic state of terror.
Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive by any random means, as a parasite, a moocher or a looter, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment—so he is free to seek his happiness in any irrational fraud, any whim, any delusion, any mindless escape from reality, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment nor to escape the consequences." AR |
