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Ayn Rand reading poetry...



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This is a stanza from what I think is her favorite poem ("If"):
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
-Kipling


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The problem with " ... ( 1 year ago by AluminumFoilHatMan)
The problem with "objectivism" (and "objectivists") is that it has always been torn between actual objectivity, and a neurotically-driven, gratuitous narcissism and tendency to egomaniacally deny any truth that does not enhance its appearance of oversimplified, Nietszchean vaingloriousness.
Why do we fear the ... ( 1 year ago by abilityoflove)
Why do we fear the self? The Self is the Greater Life. The mind fears it as it brings transformation and death to the illusion of separateness, which can be painful. The stronger the attachment to that we identify with, the greater the fear of Life. If we would not be so conditioned and stuck in our ideologies, the spiritual experience would be something natural to us. :)
Maybe the ego ... ( 1 year ago by Mork5)
Maybe the ego separation is helpful for youths to develop their skills by competing, but the better that works the bigger the task of deprogramming later ...
Sure that the ego ... ( 1 year ago by abilityoflove)
Sure that the ego has its role, just like a baby walker does. But it is not good to be stuck with it. ;)
the ego is merely ... ( 1 year ago by norcal999)
the ego is merely to be used...dont identify your self with it
'Only Fear Dies' by ... ( 1 year ago by commment)
'Only Fear Dies' by Barry Long is a great book !
check out Francisco ... ( 1 year ago by normonics)
check out Francisco Varela
"Ego" means "self". ( 1 year ago by PaulMcKeever)
"Ego" means "self".
I agree with ... ( 1 year ago by otonanoC)
I agree with everything you say here however, I
don't see how this is a follow up vid to the
Schroedinger video. I just want to take this
opportunity to say that copperb knows nothing about physics. Schroedinger's cat means the cat is literally (and physically) in a
superposition of alive and dead, not that "we can't know". copperb is just an idiot. There. I said it.
If only every ... ( 1 year ago by commment)
If only every comment could be like me...
"Ego" means "the ... ( 1 year ago by finbar1984)
"Ego" means "the self's sense of the self"
there are many fine ... ( 1 year ago by redliterocket4)
there are many fine definitions of "ego." my favorite is that ego is that sense of self we derive from others' opinions of us. we have no other way to be self-aware but through the eyes of another. if we are treated with respect by others, we respect ourselves. if we are treately with neglect, we have no self-esteem.
I think an ... ( 1 year ago by finbar1984)
I think an interesting concept is: consciousness without out an ego(a sense of self). Is this a contdiction in terms? Can we be aware of events that we see without being aware that we are seeing them? Maybe not in states of normal consciousness...but maybe in dreams, on drugs or in a psychotic state. In the later two examples we could well be percieving actual 'reality'. Maybe the only true way to experience things objectivly is to transcend the ego.
I do not think "we ... ( 1 year ago by redliterocket4)
I do not think "we can be aware of events that we see without being aware that we are seeing them." that just doesn't make sense. But I do think we can be aware with out identifying with any ego or desire for what we are aware of. we can simply witness... witness thoughts, feelings, events in the world, etc. the ego is aware because it wants to control and to have; the witness is aware because it has stepped out of all those attachment games.
Yeah I'd say I ... ( 1 year ago by finbar1984)
Yeah I'd say I agree with that. How about if we see events but we have no reference point to what/who we are...can that make sense? Kinda like an out of body experience coupled with amnesia. What if observing 'reality' through the ego is only the statas quo for minds and the rest of reality observes its self without an ego?
You have never ... ( 1 year ago by MrCropper)
You have never conceived of objectivity. Objective means abstractions that are abstracted FROM reality - not unrealated to reality, but derived from it. You seem to think there is a world of abstraction and a world of concretes - very Plato-esque.
are the ... ( 1 year ago by redliterocket4)
are the abstractions (words like truth, justice, objectivity) which are "abstracted" from reality mirrors of that reality? are they merely isomorphic? or does the language they are written in logically map the world of facts which exists "out there"?
My issue with objectivism is the implied dualism. I ask you these questions because I want to know if the objective truth lay in the abstractions or in the reality those abstractions are supposed to stand in for...
yeah i agree you ( 1 year ago by dilan2225)
yeah i agree you
Yes, the language ... ( 1 year ago by cropperb)
Yes, the language they are written in logically maps the world of facts which exists.
Have you been reading Wittgenstein or something?
" I ask you these ... ( 1 year ago by cropperb)
" I ask you these questions because I want to know if the objective truth lay in the abstractions or in the reality those abstractions are supposed to stand in for..."
Both - i.e. the truth is in objectivity. Concretes cannot be divorced from abtractions, and abstraction divorced from concretes (like Santa, God, gremlins, or any other phenom which is not observed) are equally impossible. A valid idea is a union of concretes into a concept (abstraction).
Think her name is ... ( 11 months ago by mistaspot1)
Think her name is pronounced "Ann".
Impressed by your ... ( 11 months ago by realisticmystic)
Impressed by your sincere attempt to take the middleground. Your call for communication is crucial. I've found that most have little desire to communicate, and would much rather win. When this is their goal, it seems that they also need to block communication even with their own thoughts, whenever they might present a conflict, or have the potential to be philosphically threatening.
there is nothing ... ( 10 months ago by davidngo4415)
there is nothing mutually exclusive about "artistic" or "aesthetic" and rationality. I don't know why you attribute subjectivism with art, while rationality has none. And you make no logical argument or support for this claim that we are unable to make definitive statements about reality, or an objective reality.
Figured that out ... ( 3 months ago by mistaspot1)
Figured that out since 8 months ago. Thanks, though.



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