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To: Brumar89 who wrote (20690)	2/3/2012 11:56:46 AM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

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

To: Brumar89 who wrote (20690)	2/3/2012 11:57:25 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

Anything can be made into a religion Brumar. Take for example the science of global warming. If someone accepts the precepts of Global Warming just because Al Gore says so they accept it on a religious base, i.e. on faith not using their own God given reasoning power. Ayn Rand never at any time said to anyone don't use your own brain to figure something out. She never said anything that was unconstitutional whereas you and momma epicure want unlimited government power for your gangs. How do you construe the following statement to be faith based? "To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money—and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement. For the first time, man’s mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being—the self-made man—the American industrialist. If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose—because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase “to make money.” No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity—to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created." AR