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I don't get the second guy, does he mean she need to go in gas chamber? Him? The character in the book? The book itself?
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Yaaaaaay! Applewhite presents: Ayn Rand Story Time theater.
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Jun 10, 2015 15:11
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The Selfish Gene is such a good book but lay people really can't get it without an understanding of teleology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleology
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Jun 10, 2015 15:16
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Okay so Anthem is the tale of a dystopian future society where personal pronouns have been outlawed. When referring to oneself, individuals must use the word "we" or "us." The story is told in the first person. Also everyone's name is a word like "unity," "cooperation" or "collective" followed by a serial number. Society has regressed to a medieval level of technology and the economy is heavily regulated. The narrator (our hero) recalls someone getting burned at the stake for saying a forbidden word. Later, he stumbles down a well and discovers a lightbulb at the bottom. He brings it back up to the surface and claims he invented it. He's exiled because lightbulbs make candles obsolete and his invention threatens to put all the people who make candles out of work. His girlfriend goes with him into exile. In the wilderness, they stumble on the ruins of an ancient city and discover the forbidden word: "I" The End?
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Jun 10, 2015 15:17
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Applewhite posted:Wanna learn the plot of Anthem, OP? My high school english teacher had us read this. A dude lives in a primitive society, discoveres electricity and makes a lightbulb but is banished because it'll put the candle makers out of work so he goes and lives on his own saying "at least I am a man!" or something. That's all I remember about it. /\/\/\e yeah what applewhite said. thankfully it was only a novella.
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Jun 10, 2015 15:18
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Applewhite posted:Okay so Anthem is the tale of a dystopian future society where personal pronouns have been outlawed. When referring to oneself, individuals must use the word "we" or "us." Are you sure that's not 1984?
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Jun 10, 2015 15:19
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roikun777 posted:Are you sure that's not 1984? It is a completely original plot, unrelated to 1984.
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Jun 10, 2015 15:20
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Applewhite posted:It is a completely original plot, unrelated to 1984. Well, good job bro Another!
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Jun 10, 2015 15:21
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also some people like 1984. not even ayn rand fans like anthem.
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Jun 10, 2015 15:22
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roikun777 posted:Well, good job bro I'd do We the Living but tbh I never finished it. By the time I got to it I was p. burned out on Rand, tbh. Someone else wanna give that one a shot?
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Jun 10, 2015 15:23
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Here op, just watch the movie instead. Take a peep at the trailer. It's got the actor who played Quark on Star Trek in it too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W07bFa4TzM
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Jun 10, 2015 15:24
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Here op, just watch the movie instead. Take a peep at the trailer. It's got the actor who played Quark on Star Trek in it too! Oh shot cool omg I forgot about this it used to be on Netflix I think! Is it still? Apple white explain IT please
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Jun 10, 2015 15:25
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Here op, just watch the movie instead. Take a peep at the trailer. It's got the actor who played Quark on Star Trek in it too! lol the bitch from Orange is the new Black is in it lol
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Jun 10, 2015 15:29
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roikun777 posted:Oh shot cool omg I forgot about this it used to be on Netflix I think! Is it still? So, Midas Mulligan is a banker who closed his bank rather than loan money to minorities. The mysterious guy approaching him is John Galt. "Rearden Metal" is Hank Rearden's invention: a super metal that is proportionately as strong to steel as steel is to iron. Dagny Taggart operates the railroad company Taggart Transcontinental with her whiny beta brother ("Why do we have to be the first?"). Their railway is falling apart and so she decides to rebuild it using the new metal. A bunch of rival steel barons and railroad barons don't like this so they conspire with the government to try and regulate Taggart and Rearden.
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Jun 10, 2015 15:36
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If there's anybody out there who _hasn't_ read atlas shrugged but _does know the name of the man they had sex with_ please reply
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Jun 10, 2015 15:40
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Typical parasite trying to freeload off my brain info.
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Jun 10, 2015 15:47
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sometimes i think about embracing objectivism because gently caress it why not
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Jun 10, 2015 15:57
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Also Dagny's brother drives his wife to suicide by displaying bad philosophy.
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Jun 10, 2015 15:59
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The only really pathetic thing about Ayn Rand's philosophy is the large number of influential people who subscribe to it. It's not comforting to know that the "Captains of Industry" are ridiculously stupid. Same thing with Scientology, IMO. Some of the most influential people are not worthy of their influence. Make me supreme leader. I wll sort this poo poo out.
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Jun 10, 2015 16:04
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roikun777 posted:Oh so what that first guy said WAS the summary She died alone, angry, unloved and on welfare. She was the parasite her own philosophy said should be killed.
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Jun 10, 2015 16:04
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Ayn "Huge Bush" Rand was the type of "intellectual" the Commies wanted to put in the Gulag. It's really unfortunate for all of us that she didn't get famous while in Russia.
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Jun 10, 2015 16:05
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http://activatecomix.com/162-1-53.comic LOL. She cucks her husband for decades and bangs all sorts of dudes, but then throws a fit when someone else she used to gently caress fucks someone other than his wife.
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Jun 10, 2015 16:11
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Here op, just watch the movie instead. Take a peep at the trailer. It's got the actor who played Quark on Star Trek in it too! 'you can't kill men on an untested line for profit!' = villain 'I can and if they refuse I'll make sure they never work again but I won't force them to do anything they don't want to' = hero This is Ayn's world.
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Jun 10, 2015 16:15
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The biography comic is v. good. Just think, if only Ayn's mother hadn't given away her toy chicken all those years ago, she might have grown up to be a nicer person.
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Jun 10, 2015 16:18
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Ddraig posted:She died alone, angry, unloved and on welfare. She was the parasite her own philosophy said should be killed. But that doesn't mean she was wrong! lol
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Jun 10, 2015 16:19
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Applewhite posted:Okay so Anthem is the tale of a dystopian future society where personal pronouns have been outlawed. When referring to oneself, individuals must use the word "we" or "us." LOL Ayn Raynd was such a dumb loving pussy.
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Jun 10, 2015 16:42
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Why are milktoast rear end white folks so susceptible to moronic individualism? Yes, we loving get it. Everyone is a singular person who deserves sovereignty. But there's also this crazy thing called EVERYONE ELSE. It's crazy, EVERYONE ELSE are people just like you. And they are neither more nor less important than you. But you shouldn't be a dick about it. We also got this far by working together. - A Communist
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lmbo
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Frijolero posted:Why are milktoast rear end white folks so susceptible to moronic individualism? communism is for sadbrained faggots
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Jun 10, 2015 16:53
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I'm gonna embrace personal responsibility and go to the gym everyday but still somehow maintain the body shape of a bloated pear. -A libertarian I know.
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anchoress posted:communism is for sadbrained faggots You must have no class 
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Jun 10, 2015 17:02
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Frijolero posted:You must have no class 
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Applewhite posted:So, Midas Mulligan is a banker who closed his bank rather than loan money to minorities. The mysterious guy approaching him is John Galt. That's very good but I meant IT, like in caps, like by Stephen king
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Jun 10, 2015 17:07
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isn't there a scene in one of the ayn rand books where a train gets stuck in a tunnel and like hundreds of people die but the message is 'it's okay because they were leeches on society'? because lol at that
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roikun777 posted:That's very good but I meant IT, like in caps, like by Stephen king oh. In IT, there's a killer ghost clown who menaced a bunch of kids, who barely manage to defeat him by having sex in a sewer. Later, the clown is back to menace the kids as grownups. They defeat him again through the power of friendship. The clown is a metaphor for our inner demons, and is actually not as dangerous to our heroes as the town bully and his sociopath gay lover. The sociopath gets eaten to death by giant mosquitoes.
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Jun 10, 2015 17:10
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Atlas Thugged starring 50 Cent.
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Moridin920 posted:isn't there a scene in one of the ayn rand books where a train gets stuck in a tunnel and like hundreds of people die but the message is 'it's okay because they were leeches on society'? Yeah that was in Atlas Shrugged. TBF, they brought it on themselves by willfully ignoring several clearly and competently explained warnings by safety experts.
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Darkhold posted:This is better Haha, the people who like Ayn Rand seem like the type of people who watch Scarface and think Tony was weak to not blow up the car with the wife and kids in it and how they totally would have done it in his position.
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I like the part where one of the guys torturing John Galt lets out an actual scream after realizing the pure sexy genius power of the guy he's torturing.
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Ape Fist posted:Selfishness and Sociopathy are moral imperatives. Empathy is a weak and unnatural state for Humans. White autism the book.
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