Atlas Shrugged

[siouxz72]

hee hee! I would never "dump" you!

[Over43]

Originally Posted by Moksha

I think that Christian stuff gets in the way of truly appreciating a dog-eat-dog philosophy of life.

That's quite a profound statement. Plus most of Ayn Rand's Objectivism is quite opposite of what we are taught in King Benjamin's speech.

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[ADoyle90815]

I have to admit that I didn't like either Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead when I read them. I don't remember what order I read them, just that I didn't like Ayn Rand's philosophy.

[a-train]

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. - Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged 35th Anniversary Edition)

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God. But we cannot keep all the commandments without first knowing them, and we cannot expect to know all, or more than we now know unless we comply with or keep those we have already received. That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another.- Joseph Smith (TPJS pp. 255-256)

-a-train

[Loudmouth_Mormon]

Yeah, but Joseph Smith found value in children, whereas our good buddy Ayn found value in nookie.

(Don't take this to mean I'm not an Ayn Rand fan, I'm just not an Ayn Rand disciple.)

LM

[Over43]

Originally Posted by Loudmouth_Mormon

Yeah, but Joseph Smith found value in children, whereas our good buddy Ayn found value in nookie.

(Don't take this to mean I'm not an Ayn Rand fan, I'm just not an Ayn Rand disciple.)

LM

I haven't heard that word since junior high. Ms. Rand was a bit chastity challenged throughout her life. But she justified it by stating that people who she spent time with were her "intellectual equals".

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