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Atlas Shrugged
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God, it is seriously one of my instant favorites. I can't believe it took this long to get to reading it.

Ayn Rand, I think I love you. :bowdown:


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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: Crasher]
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I would recommend it to anyone who appreciates  capitalism and a productive life or conversely, our socialists/communists/collectivists.


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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: Crasher]
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same with The Fountainhead.  :thumbup:


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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: Syle]
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That's next, along with the Virtue of Selfishness.


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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: Syle]
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The Fountainhead made a great movie.  Gary Cooper even kind of sounded like Ayn Rand while his character was giving the speech at the trial.

Yeah it's an old black and white flick, but I like Gary Cooper.  He was a gifted actor.



You'd also appreciate Rush's "2112" because Neil Peart was inspired by Ayn Rand.  I forget what the name of that story was, but when I finished reading it, I got all emotional.  hehe

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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: Ceara]
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That monologue seems like heresy in the modern world these days.


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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: Crasher]
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>>insert generic ayn rand bashing<<

so while some of her ideas or okay, it doesn't maker up for her hideous writing.

and thats what i think of Ayn Rand.


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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: truekimbo2]
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That was uncalled for! :crankey:

>>Vaguely insulting retort alluding to you being a sheep and incapable of understanding<<


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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: Crasher]
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>>unable to let the vaguely insulting retort go, but unable to think of a good reply, i clumsily restate the same generic A.R. bashing but this time i use curse words<<


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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: truekimbo2]
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>>description of 1930's Germany, and how you resemble their tyrannical leader. later edited twice to spell check complicated insults in an effort to seem more intelligent<<


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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: Crasher]
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>>above such petty cockery, but really not, you're all fucking hippies<<


The Fountainhead made me want to be an architect when I was younger. Such an excellent book.


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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: blewmeanie]
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Indeed. I feel the same way about destroying the US by hijacking the important industrialists and artists of our day.


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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: Crasher]
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lol, i went to her book "for the new intellectual" to try and find a funny quote.  i kind of found one, but really you have to read a huge wall of text to realize how hysterical (actually hysterical, not hysterical funny) and repetitive she is. 

5 pages of the monologue by the boss guy who is a secret communist talking about how his only desire it to make all humans into frail creatures full of despair...

she also has some good rants about how shamans are like the most backwards people and worked to keep people miserable and in fear.


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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: Crasher]
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I think its already being done, and I whole heartedly support it.


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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: Crasher]
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Who is John Galt?

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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: JT]
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John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until the day when men withdraw their vultures.


My favorite...


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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: Crasher]
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very nice

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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: Crasher]
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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.


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Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.


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It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.


:strokebeard:


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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: Crasher]
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too many adverbs.  I like Anthem though, it was a short little read.


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Re: Atlas Shrugged [Re: Crasher]
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Going into this thread I thought it was the Atlas that carries the world. I think it's Greek Mythology, could be wrong. :p

Good read?


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