Mentioning in public that you like Ayn Rand is like...

[Procrustes Stretched]

Telling people you are a Scientologist.

Or is IT?

What do you think of people who speak Ayn Rand and her ideas in a positive light?

 

[Anguille]

Scientologist LOL

Not a bad analogy

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Scientologist LOL

Not a bad analogy

*thh

I'm in trouble now. I went down to hollywood and there were the uniformed ones...teh true cultists. Scary. My balls shrivelled up at the site of them. For the first time in my life I knew what it was like to feel as fearful as a samuraijack exposed.

 

[eagleseven]

It's more like saying you're homosexual in public, actually. But if you use the right words, you can sniff out others who share your sentiments.

In fact, it is very similar to announcing your opposition to Obama anywhere in New York.

 

[KittenKoder]

It's more like saying you're homosexual in public, actually. But if you use the right words, you can sniff out others who share your sentiments.

In fact, it is very similar to announcing your opposition to Obama anywhere in New York.

Doing that in Seattle is a death wish ... I recently discovered. The glares my friend and I get ...

 

[eagleseven]

It's more like saying you're homosexual in public, actually. But if you use the right words, you can sniff out others who share your sentiments.

In fact, it is very similar to announcing your opposition to Obama anywhere in New York.

Doing that in Seattle is a death wish ... I recently discovered. The glares my friend and I get ...

Tell me about it...

...and one of my Navy friends loves to hit up Starbucks with me on Sunday afternoon and loudly discuss politics. It never fails, the entire place ends up glaring at us, and I eventually convince him to leave. If someone asks him why he is so loud, he replies "I have an M-16 and I know how to use it. First Amendment, fuck off!"

I'm not in the Navy, so I can't be so bold...I don't feel like losing my job!

 

[The Illusion]

It's more like saying you're homosexual in public, actually. But if you use the right words, you can sniff out others who share your sentiments.

In fact, it is very similar to announcing your opposition to Obama anywhere in New York.

Doing that in Seattle is a death wish ... I recently discovered. The glares my friend and I get ...

I personally dont see anything wrong with it. When you say something like that, it attacks other people's belief systems by saying to them that there is something out there other than what they believe. This in turn puts them on the defensive because its something they dont know about...it hurts their egos. Humans are egotists. It will forever be this way...and when something unknown pops up, it just scares people. Too bad for them, I say. If they dont like it.. then they can wear earplugs in their ears for the rest of their lives. I live in the US where freedom is scarce these days.. but it is my entitlement.

Jamie

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

I'm not a big fan of Ayn Rand, but why should it matter if somebody likes her ideas?

 

[JBeukema]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to The Illusion again

Bummer, dude(tte?)

 

[JBeukema]

Why do people hate her so much?

 

[KittenKoder]

It's more like saying you're homosexual in public, actually. But if you use the right words, you can sniff out others who share your sentiments.

In fact, it is very similar to announcing your opposition to Obama anywhere in New York.

Doing that in Seattle is a death wish ... I recently discovered. The glares my friend and I get ...

I personally dont see anything wrong with it. When you say something like that, it attacks other people's belief systems by saying to them that there is something out there other than what they believe. This in turn puts them on the defensive because its something they dont know about...it hurts their egos. Humans are egotists. It will forever be this way...and when something unknown pops up, it just scares people. Too bad for them, I say. If they dont like it.. then they can wear earplugs in their ears for the rest of their lives. I live in the US where freedom is scarce these days.. but it is my entitlement.

Jamie

I am a huge free speech advocate and fan, it bothers me that our country has gotten so anti-free speech, started seeing it get really bad when Bush got into office and didn't think it could get worse ... but it has. Now they just changed the name of censorship to something more kind, now it's called Political Correctness. But yeah, I talked bad about Bush and didn't get the glares, but now with Obama, just mentioning that he's not the right person for the job and I swear his puppets are everywhere.

 

[Said1]

Is like having a friend who lets you pick their nose. In public.

 

[Father Time]

I haven't read Ayn Rand, but is she/he anything like Andrew Ryan?

 

[Anguille]

Scientologist LOL

Not a bad analogy

*thh

I'm in trouble now. I went down to hollywood and there were the uniformed ones...teh true cultists. Scary. My balls shrivelled up at the site of them. For the first time in my life I knew what it was like to feel as fearful as a samuraijack exposed.

The Scientologists or the Randians wear uniforms?

 

[eagleseven]

Scientologist LOL

Not a bad analogy

*thh

I'm in trouble now. I went down to hollywood and there were the uniformed ones...teh true cultists. Scary. My balls shrivelled up at the site of them. For the first time in my life I knew what it was like to feel as fearful as a samuraijack exposed.

The Scientologists or the Randians wear uniforms?

Scientologists. Randian philosophy is categorically opposed to uniforms of any kind, clearly.

*Shudder*

 

[Epsilon Delta]

I haven't read Ayn Rand, but is she/he anything like Andrew Ryan?

Andrew Ryan?? The bad guy from BioSchock?? If that's who you mean, he's basically based on her.

 

[Father Time]

I haven't read Ayn Rand, but is she/he anything like Andrew Ryan?

Andrew Ryan?? The bad guy from BioSchock?? If that's who you mean, he's basically based on her.

Yeah him, "a man chooses, a slave obeys".

 

[eagleseven]

I haven't read Ayn Rand, but is she/he anything like Andrew Ryan?

Andrew Ryan?? The bad guy from BioSchock?? If that's who you mean, he's basically based on her.

Oh, that's right, Bioshock, now I remember.

*SPOILER WARNING*




Only, if you actually finished the game, you realize at the end that Andrew Ryan isn't the bad guy, but your father. His last words make you realize how you've been a pawn the entire game, and reveal the true bad guy.

With Andrew as a fatally flawed John Galt, it seemed that the game's authors were quite fond of Ayn Rand, a love-hate relationship.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEKVrTa40qo]YouTube - bioshock - the death of andrew ryan[/ame]

I find a strange beauty in that sequence. Do you?

 

[Father Time]

I haven't read Ayn Rand, but is she/he anything like Andrew Ryan?

Andrew Ryan?? The bad guy from BioSchock?? If that's who you mean, he's basically based on her.

Oh, that's right, Bioshock, now I remember.

*SPOILER WARNING*




Only, if you actually finished the game, you realize at the end that Andrew Ryan isn't the bad guy, but your father. His last words make you realize how you've been a pawn the entire game, and reveal the true bad guy.

With Andrew as John Galt, it seemed that the game's authors were quite fond of Ayn Rand, a love-hate relationship.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEKVrTa40qo]YouTube - bioshock - the death of andrew ryan[/ame]

That was my favorite part of the game, also one of the best plot twists I've seen in a game (here's one that came in close second, although it may not make sense if you aren't familiar with the Twisted Metal games).
[youtube]WO8OPvtZ92Y[/youtube]

I always thought it weird, wasn't the Adam the thing causing the place to go nuts? It was Ryan who fought for the Adam to not be held to any safety standards, I remember that much. Yet then there's the twist that paints him as the good guy.

Also was Jack Fontaine supposed to represent someone or not?

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

I'm not a big fan of Ayn Rand, but why should it matter if somebody likes her ideas?

It's like somebody talking about being abducted by UFOs and having probes stuck in their orifices. Tell me you can keep a straight face and then respect anything eklse they have to say.