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Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

Crowsbeak posted:

Right up till the stronger nation kicks your rear end.

thats why its great for america

# ? Jun 26, 2016 20:13

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various cheeses: Jan 24, 2013

cuck cuck im gay posted:

In pog form

Now we're talkin'

# ? Jun 26, 2016 20:13

OXBALLS DOT COM: Sep 11, 2005; by FactsAreUseless; Young Orc

Crowsbeak posted:

Right up till the stronger nation kicks your rear end.

no then it becomes even more important, especially since usually the alternative is becoming a permanent underclass that eventually gets genocided

# ? Jun 26, 2016 20:13

Maoist Pussy: Feb 12, 2014; by Lowtax

Remember that time a D&D cuckposter posted and was all like "sure is a lot of WHITE NATIONALISM itt!" and then I posted pictures of Gandhi and Robert Mugabe and some 1800s mujahideen and Eamon De Valera and the D&D guy shut his mouth and hosed off to take his spironolactone shot? That was cool.

# ? Jun 26, 2016 20:13

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

various cheeses posted:

Now we're talkin'

I cant stop laughing at that dudes name with the word filter

# ? Jun 26, 2016 20:14

various cheeses: Jan 24, 2013

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

I cant stop laughing at that dudes name with the word filter

It makes me genuinely happy every time I see it tbh

# ? Jun 26, 2016 20:15

Thirsty Girl: Dec 5, 2015

Maoist Pussy posted:

Remember that time a D&D cuckposter posted and was all like "sure is a lot of WHITE NATIONALISM itt!" and then I posted pictures of Gandhi and Robert Mugabe and some 1800s mujahideen and Eamon De Valera and the D&D guy shut his mouth and hosed off to take his spironolactone shot? That was cool.

no what happened

# ? Jun 26, 2016 20:15

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

Maoist Pussy posted:

Remember that time a D&D cuckposter posted and was all like "sure is a lot of WHITE NATIONALISM itt!" and then I posted pictures of Gandhi and Robert Mugabe and some 1800s mujahideen and Eamon De Valera and the D&D guy shut his mouth and hosed off to take his spironolactone shot? That was cool.

nope

# ? Jun 26, 2016 20:16

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There's nothing wrong with nationalism as long as your country of origin isn't a cesspool piece of poo poo.

# ? Jun 26, 2016 20:16

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

oldpainless posted:

There's nothing wrong with nationalism as long as your country of origin isn't a cesspool piece of poo poo.

so, maybe Lithuania?

# ? Jun 26, 2016 20:17

paul_soccer10: Mar 28, 2016; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

A ILL BREAKFAST posted:

for like 5 years ive been telling my best friend (a hyper liberal jewish woman) that the pendulum is eventually going to swing back towards conservatism and she still doesnt believe me. im not sure if shes in denial or what but i gloat pretty often lately

For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are perishing-you who dread knowledge -I am the man who will now tell you.�
The chief engineer was the only one able to move; he ran to a television set and struggled frantically with its dials. But the screen remained empty; the speaker had not chosen to be seen. Only his voice filled the airways of the country-of the world, thought the chief engineer-sounding as if he were speaking here, in this room, not to a group, but to one man; it was not the tone of addressing a meeting, but the tone of addressing a mind.
�You have heard it said that this is an age of moral crisis. You have said it yourself, half in fear, half in hope that the words had no meaning. You have cried that man�s sins are destroying the world and you have cursed human nature for its unwillingness to practice the virtues you demanded. Since virtue, to you, consists of sacrifice, you have demanded more sacrifices at every successive disaster. In the name of a return to morality, you have sacrificed all those evils which you held as the cause of your plight. You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.
�You have destroyed all that which you held to be evil and achieved all that which you held to be good. Why, then, do you shrink in horror from the sight of the world around you? That world is not the product of your sins, it is the product and the image of your virtues. It is your moral ideal brought into reality in its full and final perfection. You have fought for it, you have dreamed of it, and you have wished it, and I-I am the man who has granted you your wish.
�Your ideal had an implacable enemy, which your code of morality was designed to destroy. I have withdrawn that enemy. I have taken it out of your way and out of your reach. I have removed the source of all those evils you were sacrificing one by one. I have ended your battle. I have stopped your motor. I have deprived your world of man�s mind.
�Men do not live by the mind, you say? I have withdrawn those who do. The mind is impotent, you say? I have withdrawn those whose mind isn�t. There are values higher than the mind, you say? I have withdrawn those for whom there aren�t.
�While you were dragging to your sacrificial altars the men of justice, of independence, of reason, of wealth, of self-esteem-I beat you to it, I reached them first. I told them the nature of the game you were playing and the nature of that moral code of yours, which they had been too innocently generous to grasp. I showed them the way to live by another morality-mine. It is mine that they chose to follow.
�All the men who have vanished, the men you hated, yet dreaded to lose, it is I who have taken them away from you. Do not attempt to find us. We do not choose to be found. Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don�t. Do not beg us to return. We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.
�We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one�s happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.
�There is a difference between our strike and all those you�ve practiced for centuries: our strike consists, not of making demands, but of granting them. We are evil, according to your morality. We have chosen not to harm you any longer. We are useless, according to your economics. We have chosen not to exploit you any longer. We are dangerous and to be shackled, according to your politics. We have chosen not to endanger you, nor to wear the shackles any longer. We are only an illusion, according to your philosophy. We have chosen not to blind you any longer and have left you free to face reality-the reality you wanted, the world as you see it now, a world without mind.
�We have granted you everything you demanded of us, we who had always been the givers, but have only now understood it. We have no demands to present to you, no terms to bargain about, no compromise to reach. You have nothing to offer us. We do not need you.
�Are you now crying: No, this was not what you wanted? A mindless world of ruins was not your goal? You did not want us to leave you? You moral cannibals, I know that you�ve always known what it was that you wanted. But your game is up, because now we know it, too.
�Through centuries of scourges and disasters, brought about by your code of morality, you have cried that your code had been broken, that the scourges were punishment for breaking it, that men were too weak and too selfish to spill all the blood it required. You damned man, you damned existence, you damned this earth, but never dared to question your code. Your victims took the blame and struggled on, with your curses as reward for their martyrdom-while you went on crying that your code was noble, but human nature was not good enough to practice it. And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?
�You wanted to know John Galt�s identity. I am the man who has asked that question.
�Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame. It is your moral code that�s through, this time. Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality-you who have never known any-but to discover it.
�You have heard no concepts of morality but the mystical or the social. You have been taught that morality is a code of behavior imposed on you by whim, the whim of a supernatural power or the whim of society, to serve God�s purpose or your neighbor�s welfare, to please an authority beyond the grave or else next door-but not to serve your life or pleasure. Your pleasure, you have been taught, is to be found in immorality, your interests would best be served by evil, and any moral code must be designed not for you, but against you, not to further your life, but to drain it.
�For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors-between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.
�Both sides agreed that morality demands the surrender of your self-interest and of your mind, that the moral and the practical are opposites, that morality is not the province of reason, but the province of faith and force. Both sides agreed that no rational morality is possible, that there is no right or wrong in reason-that in reason there�s no reason to be moral.
�Whatever else they fought about, it was against man�s mind that all your moralists have stood united. It was man�s mind that all their schemes and systems were intended to despoil and destroy. Now choose to perish or to learn that the anti-mind is the anti-life.
�Man�s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch-or build a cyclotron-without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think.
�But to think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call �human nature,� the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival-so that for you, who are a human being, the question �to be or not to be� is the question �to� think or not to think.�
�A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values to guide his actions. �Value� is that which one acts to gain and keep, �virtue� is the action by which one gains and keeps it. �Value� presupposes an answer to the question: of value to whom and for what? �Value� presupposes a standard, a purpose and the necessity of action in the face of an alternative. Where there are no alternatives, no values are possible.
�There is only one fundamental alternative in the universe: existence or non-existence-and it pertains to a single class of entities: to living organisms. The existence of inanimate matter is unconditional, the existence of life is not; it depends on a specific course of action. Matter is indestructible, it changes its forms, but it cannot cease to e

# ? Jun 26, 2016 20:25

Gaunab: Feb 13, 2012; LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL

Mange Mite posted:

no then it becomes even more important, especially since usually the alternative is becoming a permanent underclass that eventually gets genocided

Maoist Pussy posted:

Remember that time a D&D cuckposter posted and was all like "sure is a lot of WHITE NATIONALISM itt!" and then I posted pictures of Gandhi and Robert Mugabe and some 1800s mujahideen and Eamon De Valera and the D&D guy shut his mouth and hosed off to take his spironolactone shot? That was cool.

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

I cant stop laughing at that dudes name with the word filter

are you guys the same poster?

# ? Jun 26, 2016 20:40

OXBALLS DOT COM: Sep 11, 2005; by FactsAreUseless; Young Orc

oldpainless posted:

There's nothing wrong with nationalism as long as your country of origin isn't a cesspool piece of poo poo.

Even then how else are you going to make it better? Libertarianism? Jumping ship to some richer country?

# ? Jun 26, 2016 20:44

get that OUT of my face: Feb 10, 2007

Maoist Pussy posted:

Remember that time a D&D cuckposter posted and was all like "sure is a lot of WHITE NATIONALISM itt!" and then I posted pictures of Gandhi and Robert Mugabe and some 1800s mujahideen and Eamon De Valera and the D&D guy shut his mouth and hosed off to take his spironolactone shot? That was cool.

doesn't ring a bell

# ? Jun 26, 2016 20:46

Maoist Pussy: Feb 12, 2014; by Lowtax

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a a fat chick with problem hair sitting on a V for Vendetta face - forever.

# ? Jun 26, 2016 20:50

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

Gaunab posted:

are you guys the same poster?

maybe.
I do have some unchecked mental problems

# ? Jun 26, 2016 20:55

feller: Jul 5, 2006

Maoist Pussy posted:

Remember that time a D&D cuckposter posted and was all like "sure is a lot of WHITE NATIONALISM itt!" and then I posted pictures of Gandhi and Robert Mugabe and some 1800s mujahideen and Eamon De Valera and the D&D guy shut his mouth and hosed off to take his spironolactone shot? That was cool.

i'm waiting for the movie

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:02

Thirsty Girl: Dec 5, 2015

remenber that one time i ordered a caramel dilly bar and got two dilly bars? i just drove off and didnt correct anybody about the mistake but when i got home i could only eat one

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:07

Dreddout: Oct 1, 2015; You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

paul_soccer10 posted:

For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are perishing-you who dread knowledge -I am the man who will now tell you.�
The chief engineer was the only one able to move; he ran to a television set and struggled frantically with its dials. But the screen remained empty; the speaker had not chosen to be seen. Only his voice filled the airways of the country-of the world, thought the chief engineer-sounding as if he were speaking here, in this room, not to a group, but to one man; it was not the tone of addressing a meeting, but the tone of addressing a mind.
�You have heard it said that this is an age of moral crisis. You have said it yourself, half in fear, half in hope that the words had no meaning. You have cried that man�s sins are destroying the world and you have cursed human nature for its unwillingness to practice the virtues you demanded. Since virtue, to you, consists of sacrifice, you have demanded more sacrifices at every successive disaster. In the name of a return to morality, you have sacrificed all those evils which you held as the cause of your plight. You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.
�You have destroyed all that which you held to be evil and achieved all that which you held to be good. Why, then, do you shrink in horror from the sight of the world around you? That world is not the product of your sins, it is the product and the image of your virtues. It is your moral ideal brought into reality in its full and final perfection. You have fought for it, you have dreamed of it, and you have wished it, and I-I am the man who has granted you your wish.
�Your ideal had an implacable enemy, which your code of morality was designed to destroy. I have withdrawn that enemy. I have taken it out of your way and out of your reach. I have removed the source of all those evils you were sacrificing one by one. I have ended your battle. I have stopped your motor. I have deprived your world of man�s mind.
�Men do not live by the mind, you say? I have withdrawn those who do. The mind is impotent, you say? I have withdrawn those whose mind isn�t. There are values higher than the mind, you say? I have withdrawn those for whom there aren�t.
�While you were dragging to your sacrificial altars the men of justice, of independence, of reason, of wealth, of self-esteem-I beat you to it, I reached them first. I told them the nature of the game you were playing and the nature of that moral code of yours, which they had been too innocently generous to grasp. I showed them the way to live by another morality-mine. It is mine that they chose to follow.
�All the men who have vanished, the men you hated, yet dreaded to lose, it is I who have taken them away from you. Do not attempt to find us. We do not choose to be found. Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don�t. Do not beg us to return. We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.
�We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one�s happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.
�There is a difference between our strike and all those you�ve practiced for centuries: our strike consists, not of making demands, but of granting them. We are evil, according to your morality. We have chosen not to harm you any longer. We are useless, according to your economics. We have chosen not to exploit you any longer. We are dangerous and to be shackled, according to your politics. We have chosen not to endanger you, nor to wear the shackles any longer. We are only an illusion, according to your philosophy. We have chosen not to blind you any longer and have left you free to face reality-the reality you wanted, the world as you see it now, a world without mind.
�We have granted you everything you demanded of us, we who had always been the givers, but have only now understood it. We have no demands to present to you, no terms to bargain about, no compromise to reach. You have nothing to offer us. We do not need you.
�Are you now crying: No, this was not what you wanted? A mindless world of ruins was not your goal? You did not want us to leave you? You moral cannibals, I know that you�ve always known what it was that you wanted. But your game is up, because now we know it, too.
�Through centuries of scourges and disasters, brought about by your code of morality, you have cried that your code had been broken, that the scourges were punishment for breaking it, that men were too weak and too selfish to spill all the blood it required. You damned man, you damned existence, you damned this earth, but never dared to question your code. Your victims took the blame and struggled on, with your curses as reward for their martyrdom-while you went on crying that your code was noble, but human nature was not good enough to practice it. And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?
�You wanted to know John Galt�s identity. I am the man who has asked that question.
�Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame. It is your moral code that�s through, this time. Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality-you who have never known any-but to discover it.
�You have heard no concepts of morality but the mystical or the social. You have been taught that morality is a code of behavior imposed on you by whim, the whim of a supernatural power or the whim of society, to serve God�s purpose or your neighbor�s welfare, to please an authority beyond the grave or else next door-but not to serve your life or pleasure. Your pleasure, you have been taught, is to be found in immorality, your interests would best be served by evil, and any moral code must be designed not for you, but against you, not to further your life, but to drain it.
�For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors-between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.
�Both sides agreed that morality demands the surrender of your self-interest and of your mind, that the moral and the practical are opposites, that morality is not the province of reason, but the province of faith and force. Both sides agreed that no rational morality is possible, that there is no right or wrong in reason-that in reason there�s no reason to be moral.
�Whatever else they fought about, it was against man�s mind that all your moralists have stood united. It was man�s mind that all their schemes and systems were intended to despoil and destroy. Now choose to perish or to learn that the anti-mind is the anti-life.
�Man�s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch-or build a cyclotron-without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think.
�But to think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call �human nature,� the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival-so that for you, who are a human being, the question �to be or not to be� is the question �to� think or not to think.�
�A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values to guide his actions. �Value� is that which one acts to gain and keep, �virtue� is the action by which one gains and keeps it. �Value� presupposes an answer to the question: of value to whom and for what? �Value� presupposes a standard, a purpose and the necessity of action in the face of an alternative. Where there are no alternatives, no values are possible.
�There is only one fundamental alternative in the universe: existence or non-existence-and it pertains to a single class of entities: to living organisms. The existence of inanimate matter is unconditional, the existence of life is not; it depends on a specific course of action. Matter is indestructible, it changes its forms, but it cannot cease to e

You should write a book or something, dude.

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:09

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

im gaye posted:

remenber that one time i ordered a caramel dilly bar and got two dilly bars? i just drove off and didnt correct anybody about the mistake but when i got home i could only eat one

that was awesome

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:09

Business Gorillas: Mar 11, 2009

paul_soccer10 posted:

For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are perishing-you who dread knowledge -I am the man who will now tell you.�
The chief engineer was the only one able to move; he ran to a television set and struggled frantically with its dials. But the screen remained empty; the speaker had not chosen to be seen. Only his voice filled the airways of the country-of the world, thought the chief engineer-sounding as if he were speaking here, in this room, not to a group, but to one man; it was not the tone of addressing a meeting, but the tone of addressing a mind.
�You have heard it said that this is an age of moral crisis. You have said it yourself, half in fear, half in hope that the words had no meaning. You have cried that man�s sins are destroying the world and you have cursed human nature for its unwillingness to practice the virtues you demanded. Since virtue, to you, consists of sacrifice, you have demanded more sacrifices at every successive disaster. In the name of a return to morality, you have sacrificed all those evils which you held as the cause of your plight. You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.
�You have destroyed all that which you held to be evil and achieved all that which you held to be good. Why, then, do you shrink in horror from the sight of the world around you? That world is not the product of your sins, it is the product and the image of your virtues. It is your moral ideal brought into reality in its full and final perfection. You have fought for it, you have dreamed of it, and you have wished it, and I-I am the man who has granted you your wish.
�Your ideal had an implacable enemy, which your code of morality was designed to destroy. I have withdrawn that enemy. I have taken it out of your way and out of your reach. I have removed the source of all those evils you were sacrificing one by one. I have ended your battle. I have stopped your motor. I have deprived your world of man�s mind.
�Men do not live by the mind, you say? I have withdrawn those who do. The mind is impotent, you say? I have withdrawn those whose mind isn�t. There are values higher than the mind, you say? I have withdrawn those for whom there aren�t.
�While you were dragging to your sacrificial altars the men of justice, of independence, of reason, of wealth, of self-esteem-I beat you to it, I reached them first. I told them the nature of the game you were playing and the nature of that moral code of yours, which they had been too innocently generous to grasp. I showed them the way to live by another morality-mine. It is mine that they chose to follow.
�All the men who have vanished, the men you hated, yet dreaded to lose, it is I who have taken them away from you. Do not attempt to find us. We do not choose to be found. Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don�t. Do not beg us to return. We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.
�We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one�s happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.
�There is a difference between our strike and all those you�ve practiced for centuries: our strike consists, not of making demands, but of granting them. We are evil, according to your morality. We have chosen not to harm you any longer. We are useless, according to your economics. We have chosen not to exploit you any longer. We are dangerous and to be shackled, according to your politics. We have chosen not to endanger you, nor to wear the shackles any longer. We are only an illusion, according to your philosophy. We have chosen not to blind you any longer and have left you free to face reality-the reality you wanted, the world as you see it now, a world without mind.
�We have granted you everything you demanded of us, we who had always been the givers, but have only now understood it. We have no demands to present to you, no terms to bargain about, no compromise to reach. You have nothing to offer us. We do not need you.
�Are you now crying: No, this was not what you wanted? A mindless world of ruins was not your goal? You did not want us to leave you? You moral cannibals, I know that you�ve always known what it was that you wanted. But your game is up, because now we know it, too.
�Through centuries of scourges and disasters, brought about by your code of morality, you have cried that your code had been broken, that the scourges were punishment for breaking it, that men were too weak and too selfish to spill all the blood it required. You damned man, you damned existence, you damned this earth, but never dared to question your code. Your victims took the blame and struggled on, with your curses as reward for their martyrdom-while you went on crying that your code was noble, but human nature was not good enough to practice it. And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?
�You wanted to know John Galt�s identity. I am the man who has asked that question.
�Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame. It is your moral code that�s through, this time. Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality-you who have never known any-but to discover it.
�You have heard no concepts of morality but the mystical or the social. You have been taught that morality is a code of behavior imposed on you by whim, the whim of a supernatural power or the whim of society, to serve God�s purpose or your neighbor�s welfare, to please an authority beyond the grave or else next door-but not to serve your life or pleasure. Your pleasure, you have been taught, is to be found in immorality, your interests would best be served by evil, and any moral code must be designed not for you, but against you, not to further your life, but to drain it.
�For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors-between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.
�Both sides agreed that morality demands the surrender of your self-interest and of your mind, that the moral and the practical are opposites, that morality is not the province of reason, but the province of faith and force. Both sides agreed that no rational morality is possible, that there is no right or wrong in reason-that in reason there�s no reason to be moral.
�Whatever else they fought about, it was against man�s mind that all your moralists have stood united. It was man�s mind that all their schemes and systems were intended to despoil and destroy. Now choose to perish or to learn that the anti-mind is the anti-life.
�Man�s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch-or build a cyclotron-without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think.
�But to think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call �human nature,� the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival-so that for you, who are a human being, the question �to be or not to be� is the question �to� think or not to think.�
�A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values to guide his actions. �Value� is that which one acts to gain and keep, �virtue� is the action by which one gains and keeps it. �Value� presupposes an answer to the question: of value to whom and for what? �Value� presupposes a standard, a purpose and the necessity of action in the face of an alternative. Where there are no alternatives, no values are possible.
�There is only one fundamental alternative in the universe: existence or non-existence-and it pertains to a single class of entities: to living organisms. The existence of inanimate matter is unconditional, the existence of life is not; it depends on a specific course of action. Matter is indestructible, it changes its forms, but it cannot cease to e

you know you have a lot of really good points here, heres a 5 to you, goon sir

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:13

Crowsbeak: Oct 9, 2012; by Azathoth; Lipstick Apathy

Mange Mite posted:

no then it becomes even more important, especially since usually the alternative is becoming a permanent underclass that eventually gets genocided

No it generally means building a welfare state afterwords and feeling ashamed of your attempt to stick it to America.

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:15

ate shit on live tv: Feb 15, 2004; by Azathoth

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

thats why its great for america

agreed.

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:26

jiggerypokery: Feb 1, 2012; ...But I could hardly wait six months with a red hot jape like that under me belt.

As a white male, I feel marginalised ITT.

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:28

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbU8B-QVZk

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:31

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jiggerypokery posted:

As a white male, I feel marginalised ITT.

You're just feeling how modern society treats you now

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:39

Archer666: Dec 27, 2008

Horniest Manticore posted:

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Is that what they're calling a school shooting now?

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:40

Linux Pirate: Apr 21, 2012

oldpainless posted:

You're just feeling how modern society treats you now

tell us more about gamer gate and how feminism is a cancer.

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:41

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

Archer666 posted:

Is that what they're calling a school shooting now?

yeah, it helps us sell more guns

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:42

Maoist Pussy: Feb 12, 2014; by Lowtax

Honestly, feminism is more like diabetes than cancer.

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:43

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Linux Pirate posted:

tell us more about gamer gate and how feminism is a cancer.

I'm not really familiar with gamer gate above a very superficial level and I think feminism is a good thing so I'm not sure why you assumed I would say those things.

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:47

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I am however sorry that you have made yourself look like a fool

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:48

Thirsty Girl: Dec 5, 2015

every nice lady i know who has fallen down that rabbit hole really means well but they also invariably end up praying to crystals, thinking the CIA is hiding the cure for cancer, or whatever the hell else

# ? Jun 26, 2016 21:51

Maoist Pussy: Feb 12, 2014; by Lowtax

# ? Jun 26, 2016 22:30

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# ? Jun 26, 2016 22:40