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PepeSee 1 point ago +1 / -0

This site brought out the ban hammer for that shit.

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PepeSee 1 point ago +1 / -0

Don't be ghey, Sparky. Don't be ghey.

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PepeSee 6 points ago +6 / -0

Precisely. And it's not just the big differences where this could go awry (as you say, Satanism, or I'd add Islam) but there's plenty of difference between denominations, which really was more where many in the colonies were coming from with sep of C&S vs keeping God entirely out of the picture.

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PepeSee 6 points ago +6 / -0

a) Dooming

b) Theocracy? Are you fucking nuts?

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PepeSee 2 points ago +2 / -0

OK downpoot may have been harsh, retracted.

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PepeSee 2 points ago +2 / -0

Correct. That's my point. Tabasco is inferior to LA brand for use in actual Cajun cooking.

Did you mean to reply to "eagledriver" slappin his mama etc?

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PepeSee 1 point ago +1 / -0

"The Objectivist ethics proudly advocates and upholds rational selfishness—which means: the values required for man’s survival qua man—which means: the values required for human survival—not the values produced by the desires, the emotions, the “aspirations,” the feelings, the whims or the needs of irrational brutes, who have never outgrown the primordial practice of human sacrifices, have never discovered an industrial society and can conceive of no self-interest but that of grabbing the loot of the moment.

The Objectivist ethics holds that human good does not require human sacrifices and cannot be achieved by the sacrifice of anyone to anyone. It holds that the rational interests of men do not clash—that there is no conflict of interests among men who do not desire the unearned, who do not make sacrifices nor accept them, who deal with one another as traders, giving value for value."


"The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word “selfishness” is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual “package-deal,” which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.

In popular usage, the word “selfishness” is a synonym of evil; the image it conjures is of a murderous brute who tramples over piles of corpses to achieve his own ends, who cares for no living being and pursues nothing but the gratification of the mindless whims of any immediate moment.

Yet the exact meaning and dictionary definition of the word “selfishness” is: concern with one’s own interests.

This concept does not include a moral evaluation; it does not tell us whether concern with one’s own interests is good or evil; nor does it tell us what constitutes man’s actual interests. It is the task of ethics to answer such questions."


There is much more. I also suggest finding the entry on altruism.

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/selfishness.html

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PepeSee 1 point ago +1 / -0

7:12 AM and probably the most ignorant take I'll see all day.

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PepeSee 4 points ago +4 / -0

Downpooted because without context people who don't know won't understand this is in the BOOK Anthem, in which the planet is ruled by a totalitarian government, electricity has been banned, most people are menial slaves, breeding is selective and involuntary, and the pronoun "I" has been erased from the language.

This is NOT some actual philosophical quote by her that goes against basically anything she would actually be for.

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PepeSee 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yes, but Louisiana brand is better flavoring in stuff like gumbo, jambalaya, etc. It's got a sort of richer/rounder (not sure how to put it exactly) profile to it.

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PepeSee 1 point ago +3 / -2

Or to assert that chance couldn't result in life (or other complex systems). It's a mathematical fact that given enough time, something nearly impossible becomes fairly likely.

Now, my take is the universe is infinite and has no start or end (I think the Big Bang theory is just God for science types) and life was always part of it in the right spots anyway. It just comes and goes, shifts around, etc.

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PepeSee 2 points ago +2 / -0

Good song but that band esp the bass player - SO arrogant, just insufferable.

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PepeSee 3 points ago +3 / -0

ROFK

Yeah I just did a stupid training at work that was "in 2 minutes" and it was like 2:53.

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