@chaosprime It was. At her best, she could embody the best that liberalism (and that's what 'libertarians are) stood for.
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@FullPresence her rejection (with Marx!) of dualism was one of her better points, & makes her claiming by god-botherers incredibly offensive1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@FullPresence of course without that we wouldn't get the gorgeous Oxford comma failure, "Dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@chaosprime Yep. One of the reasons why I want to take back Rand. Plus, what she said about the worst effects of religion? She was right.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@FullPresence the ol' memory banks don't seem to be pulling that up… what'd she say?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@chaosprime Basically that it is the ultimate surrender of thinking.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@FullPresence oh, well, yeah. or at least a species thereof. depending on whether your usage of "religion" requires woo or not.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@chaosprime I think LaVey was honest about that; yes, it does, but if you do so knowingly somehow it make sense.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@FullPresence mostly i mean that subsuming your cognition in a system can happen outside of things we normally think of as "religions"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@FullPresence which iirc Rand addressed by calling Leninism a religion, which seems like terminology abuse to me, but whatevs1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@FullPresence also: every time somebody mentions Uncle Anton i am helpless to not remember how he wrote an essay in which he predicted that…
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@FullPresence …in the future we would all become exactly the chair-bound people depicted on the spaceship in WALL-E0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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