Objectivisim: To The Ramparts

The Proper Role of Government: Liberty Not Entitlements

Let us do as Miss Rand suggests, end government interference in the marketplace, return to lassie faire capitalism and kill the corporate welfare state, and the entitlement state, and return to liberty. Miss Rand was no more a supporter of the Orreen Boyles of the world then you are or I am. She considered them villains and traitors. She supported capitalism, reason, and individual rights, not corporate welfare and social entitlements.This is because it is not true that you need a government to have roads, or railroad tracks, or public transportation, or public education, or fire departments. You need a government for only one reason--to protect the rights of man.

Nor is it true that you need a government to provide a safety net for the poor and needy, or to ensure equality. It is not true that another man's tears is a claim on another man's soul, and that that principle requires the government to take what is mine and to give it to some one else who is not as good as me. That would be the same as breaking LeBron James legs to give me a chance to beat him in basketball. In other words, "need" is not a justification for the slaughter of the best (as Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Mao, and Pol Pot did, and now beginning in Venezuela with Maduro), and the enslavement of the rest. "Need" is not a moral justification for the existence of a government. The only moral justification for a government is to ensure liberty.

To see what happens to the poor, the middle class, the rich, the individual, when "need" becomes a justification for increasing government power over the life of the individual, look what's happening in North Korea, and what has happened to Venezuela. If horror and despair really repulse you, the last think you'd be arguing for is government interference and control of the market place and against Ayn Rand's support and promotion of capitalism, reason, and individual rights.

So let me make it perfectly clear to any and all: My life is mine to live, not God's to command, my neighbors' to rob, society's to rule, nor the government's to dictate to or to enslave. I need a government to protect my rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness, not to violate them in the name of public highways or to trample them in name of public education--which is nothing but government indoctrination and a prelude to non-thinking automatons constantly voting the corrupt and power lusters into office, and creates thugs and killers such as BLM and ANTIFA.

Objectivism promotes capitalism because its a free system; it promotes a free system because it promotes reason; it promotes reason because that is man means of survival, and for his reason to work he must be free to think for himself. If that's what you call nonsense, if that is what you hate, abhor, and fear, then good luck to you--you are going to need it.

Ayn Rand: "Under a proper social system, a private individual is legally free to take any action he pleases (so long as he does not violate the rights of others), while a government official is bound by law in his every official act. A private individual may do anything except that which is legally forbidden; a government official may do nothing except that which is legally permitted.

This is the means of subordinating “might” to “right.” This is the American concept of “a government of laws and not of men.”--http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/government.html


Radical Capitalist w/ Yaron Brook: Religion, Liberty and Happiness



The essence of life, man reaching for his highest

Heroes by Bryan Larsen at Cordair

http://cordair.com/

Be free, any other way is a living death. (Visit Hitler's concentration camps to see the reality)

 

Do you hear that? It's the voice of the lack of a reasoned argument--The silence of acquiescence.

Ayn Rand: "America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more—and nothing less. The rest—everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything “noble and just,” and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history—was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle. The first consequence was the principle of political freedom, i.e., an individual’s freedom from physical compulsion, coercion or interference by the government. The next was the economic implementation of political freedom: the system of capitalism."--http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/america.html


Yaron Brook and Dave Rubin: Objectivism, Religion, and the Role of Government (Full Interview)

 

Tomorrow Awaits Today

The absolute number one way to insure corporations do not receive unearned wealth by unjust deductions and hand outs is to make them earn their money in the marketplace by offering their fellow citizens something of value that the citizens will want, say, something like an iPhone. And to do that four things need to be done: First and fore most is to repeal of any and all anti-trust and anti- monopoly, and tariff acts, starting with Smoot-Hawley. These acts do nothing but make lobbyists and special interests groups rich by making it illegal to make money in any form for any reason at any price and with out the government needing to provide any objective evidence that the law was broken; Two: An end to every single tax deduction in existence; Three: An end to every entitlement program in a rational and lest harmful way possible, and lastly, a constitutional amendment prohibiting the government from interfering in the marketplace in any manner. An amendment that says to the government "No! You shall not touch!"

This will let those who can create, create, who can make money, make money, who can produce, produce, and those who can only do the best with what they have go as far as their drive and ambition will take them. Now, where is the sin and evil in this. Who will suffer? The liars, the cheaters, the fraudsters, the dishonest, the dishonorable, the thieves, the rapists, and the murderers. The rest of us who are good will have a field day, and Christmases that not even Santa has dreamt off. I'm talking cures for cancer, MS, MD, Down's Syndrome, other birth defects and diseases that plague man; plus life expectancies that at this period in time would seem biblical. In other words, a standard of living for everyone that will reward the good with heaven on earth, and punish the bad to the extent they need to grow up and start thinking.

This is what a system of capitalism, individual rights, and reason offers us. What's to hate? This is what following and learning Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism can do for our future and our children's future. This is what is being offered to us by us as reasoning beings--an almost eternal life of paradise and happiness in the universe. Or we can say to hell with it, and get ready to go, to go back to the dark ages of mysticism, gargoyles, superstition, inquisitions, and witch trials.

Ayn Rand: "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."--http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/trader_principle.html

Radical Capitalist w/ Yaron Brook: Pursuing Wealth, the Morality of Finance



Tomorrow Awaits Today
apollinia by quent cordair @http://cordair.com/

 

Todays Heroes

Today we do not have a capitalist system. What we have is a mixed economy controlled by the statists in government. It is time to recognize and acknowledge the truth: we are no longer free men. However, their are heroes today who are fighting for Objectivism, laissez faire capitalism, individual rights, reason, for a future where men are free to keep what they create, can trade that which is theirs for that which they want with other free men, can think and live as they deem fit. They fight for a government that is prohibited from interfering in the market place, for a future guided by reason not faith, for a future that is filled with wonder and joy. These are today's heroes because they are fighting for the truth, the ideal, the good, against a majority that despises man, wants to see him eradicated off the earth because they hate the very thought of their own existence.

Yes! Heroic souls do exist! Ayn Rand is one, Yaron Brook another, Leonard Peikoff, Kira Peikoff, and many more, and with all modesty, I.


Ayn Rand:
"The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights; under socialism, the right to property (which is the right of use and disposal) is vested in “society as a whole,” i.e., in the collective, with production and distribution controlled by the state, i.e., by the government.

Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as in Nazi (National Socialist) Germany. The degree of socialization may be total, as in Russia—or partial, as in England. Theoretically, the differences are superficial; practically, they are only a matter of time. The basic principle, in all cases, is the same.

The alleged goals of socialism were: the abolition of poverty, the achievement of general prosperity, progress, peace and human brotherhood. The results have been a terrifying failure—terrifying, that is, if one’s motive is men’s welfare.

Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. The degree of socialization has been the degree of disaster. The consequences have varied accordingly."http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/socialism.html




Yaron Brook: Ask Yaron: What is the Proper Role of Government?

 

As we near Thanksgiving, I think it is important to recall what happen the first time socialism was tried in America:


Socialism is what the pilgrims first tried their first year--everyone worked and put into a collective pot and at the end of the year, the pot was divided to those whose needs were the greatest. The only problem was that there was nothing in the pot and they darn near starved to death. Next year, new rule, you produce it, its yours to do with as you wish. That winter they had the first Thanksgiving. Didn't have anything to do within Indian corn, hand everything to do with capitalism and self worth.

Ayn Rand: "The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights; under socialism, the right to property (which is the right of use and disposal) is vested in “society as a whole,” i.e., in the collective, with production and distribution controlled by the state, i.e., by the government.

Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as in Nazi (National Socialist) Germany. The degree of socialization may be total, as in Russia—or partial, as in England. Theoretically, the differences are superficial; practically, they are only a matter of time. The basic principle, in all cases, is the same.

The alleged goals of socialism were: the abolition of poverty, the achievement of general prosperity, progress, peace and human brotherhood. The results have been a terrifying failure—terrifying, that is, if one’s motive is men’s welfare.

Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. The degree of socialization has been the degree of disaster. The consequences have varied accordingly."--http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/socialism.html

Yaron Brook The Evil of Socialism:


What socialism does:


And that's reality and not a joke--never was and never will be.

 

A Lone Voice In A World Of Post Modern Madness
Ayn Rand: "Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

The recognition of individual rights entails the banishment of physical force from human relationships: basically, rights can be violated only by means of force. In a capitalist society, no man or group may initiate the use of physical force against others. The only function of the government, in such a society, is the task of protecting man’s rights, i.e., the task of protecting him from physical force; the government acts as the agent of man’s right of self-defense, and may use force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use; thus the government is the means of placing the retaliatory use of force under objective control."--http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/capitalism.html

Dr. Yaron Brook - The Morality of Capitalism - Radley College, Feb 2017

One aspect of Capitalism that is great is its ability to radiate joy and progress through an entire population. Here is one of the results of living in a capitalist nation
How Far We've Come by Byran Larsen@http://cordair.com/artists/larsen/works/how-far-weve-come/index.html

 

Are we being bombarded by a Russian Bot??

 

Wonder Women: Only Love Can Save The World

Just finished watching Wonder Women. This is an extremely will made move. The acting is superb, the cinematography, fantastic, and the theme and plot line perfectly matches. The theme is: Is mankind evil beyond redemption. It's presented via a plot of a perfectly moral being, Wonder Women, discovering mankind during WWI. She blames mankind's lust for killing and war on the God Ares, but in the end realizes that Ares only wishes to destroy mankind because humans are evil beyond redemption. That it is not he who is destroying them, but they who are destroying themselves. Ares states he only gives them the means, mankind makes the choices. On these points, the movie is spot on. Humans are not born evil, it is the choices they make and the actions they take that determine their moral character.

However, the ending makes a fatal error by asserting that only love can save the world. It's asserted when Steve tells Diana he loves her, and runs to an airplane full of mustard gas to crash into a burning building to destroy the mustard gas. He does this so mustard gas never kills humans again. It is this act of sacrifice based on Steve's love of Diana's values that motivates him to sacrifice himself for love. And it is this sacrifice that causes Diana's conclusion that only love can save the world. This is a very grievous metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical error. There is only one thing that can save the world and that is man doing what is necessary to reach the best within himself, think!

In other words, man must act rationally and use his reasoning mind. It is up to each individual, acting in his own self-interest and using his reasoning mind to reach the best within himself that will save mankind as the greatest creation of the universe. Steve's act of sacrifice was pointless. It did nothing to alter the war, and did not prevent WWII,, nor the 100 other wars that have taken place since WWI. Only reason, capitalism, and governments based on individual rights will stop wars. Only Man, acting rationally can save mankind, not in the name of love, but in the name of reason.

Ayn Rand: "Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being—not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement—not survival at any price, since there’s only one price that pays for man’s survival: reason."--http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/man.html



Self Made Man by Bobbie Carlyle@http://cordair.com/artists/carlyle/works/self-made-man/index.html


Living Objectivism w/ Yaron Brook: Trump's Poland Speech & Saving Western Civilization

 

An Echo Chamber: Are You All Really That Irrational

Is the world that evil that it hates Ayn Rand beyond all reason? A philosopher who discovered the key to existence and erased its mystery. A philosopher who took the heroic man off the cross and put him on a pedestal to emulate. A philosopher who proved the fallacy and evil of the notion of original sin. A philosopher who logically, with reason, proved the most sacred possession you have is your soul, which means your life and how you live it. This is what is to be hated. No I cannot fathom that the human race has sunk that low. I cannot accept that man prefers the sluts and the gutter to heroine and the penthouse. I will not surrender the best in man to the worst of mankind.

Ayn Rand: "It is not in the nature of man—nor of any living entity—to start out by giving up, by spitting in one’s own face and damning existence; that requires a process of corruption, whose rapidity differs from man to man. Some give up at the first touch of pressure; some sell out; some run down by imperceptible degrees and lose their fire, never knowing when or how they lost it. Then all of these vanish in the vast swamp of their elders who tell them persistently that maturity consists of abandoning one’s mind; security, of abandoning one’s values; practicality, of losing self-esteem. Yet a few hold on and move on, knowing that that fire is not to be betrayed, learning how to give it shape, purpose and reality. But whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man’s nature and of life’s potential."--http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/man-worship.html

Ayn Rand: Philosophy, Objectivism, Self Interest (full interview with Yaron Brook)


Why settle for this: PIcasso--Weeping Women When you can have this: Ascent of Man by Sylvia Bokor at http://cordair.com/artists/bokor/works/ascent-of-man/index.html


Are you all really that irrational? Your lives; your choices.
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None of those three things existed prior to 20th century US, at least not in their current form. Unions were not protected under law, there was no minimum wage, and welfare payments were not a thing.

So why were there not constantly uprisings of the poor?

 

There were.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_the_United_States

Not to the extent your comment would seem to suggest.

Making some bullshit living wage isn't easy because the amount of **** implied by it keeps growing exponentially with the progress that Capitalism brings. It's not difficult to eat. What you want is all sorts of other things for the bottom-feeders: a fridge, 3 televisions, a family of 8 when you don't have a good job, etc. If the poor got to a place where large portions of them were struggling to generate the $1.20 per day necessary for a basic diet through work or charity, you're right, we might need to shoot some criminals in the streets, but even way back before any of the programs you listed it rarely got to that point. Additionally, today it's a whole lot easier to get that portion of food, because through free competition we've become astronomically more efficient at producing it.

Cut, cut, cut. I say this as a member of the working class.

 

Survival in the Lower Class
Even though the early 1900s are part of the Progressive Era, a majority of the working class didn’t experience the benefits of urban life. Many struggled to survive. The Library of Congress estimates that by 1904, one in three people living in the cities was close to starvation. Poor urban workers experienced overcrowded living conditions, dirty and poorly lit working conditions, insufficient clean water supplies, poor sewage methods and disease. The poor working class resided in slums and relied on low wages for basic survival. Many had a better standard of living as rural farmers in America or in their native homelands than in industrialized American cities.


Yea it was a great life.

 

Never said it was a great life, just that revolution was not constantly imminent.

 

Would love to see a citation on that. Thanks.

 

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And so would I. I would estimate her estate at time of death to be worth at least a million. I did read that it was her friends who strongly urged her to use Medicare in her dying days, and they were absolutely right. The state robs us blind and anything we can do to get part of it back is moral. Let's make a deal, stop all entitlements in a humane and rational process, i.e., have the state stop spending like a bi-polar on a binge shopping spree, stop taxing (stealing) like an Al Capone thug, and I won't need or use your useless programs. I rather be a free man in a shack with a oil lantern than a slave of the state. But as free man, I could live in mansion on a hill, and be proud of the life I created for myself, and the man in the shack with an oil lantern would be the slave of the state that robs and loots the productive under the banner of altruism. The state produces nothing but loot and misery. No? Well please then explain Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, and Zimbabwe. All run by collectivist dictators be they communists or socialists, under the morality of altruism, and all filled with misery, horror, torture, murder, and screams for help.

 

All of your observations are possible, but not guaranteed. Man has free will and can choose his path, either one of reason, individual rights, and capitalism, or the path of faith, collectivist rights, and collectivism, be it socialism, communism, or a combination of both, fascism. The futures is ours to create, not to surrender blindly to.

 

Thanks for the comments. With a special shout out of appreciation to Merwen for his likes. It's good to hear voices of reason instead name calling and insults.

 

It is a great life. I am no way what you call rich. I'd say I'm middle middle-class. Yet I have a big screen HD TV, DVD Player, a guitar, central heating and A/C, two cars, one a 2017, the other a 2010. Both Nissans, a computer, a library of books, hundreds of cds and dvds, refrigerator, stove, dish washer, 4 smart phones, and on, and on, and on. The wife and I go on a cruise each year in February to celebrate our anniversary on Valentine's Day, and to escape the harsh snow and cold of a Chicago winter. I am swimming in capitalist generosity made possible by their profit motive. What I don't do is waste my money and life shooting up heroin, or doing cocaine 8 balls, or using meth. It is easy to live a great life in America, all you have to do is think, work, and produce.

 

To any and all, I'd appreciate any passing of the word to others about this board. All are welcome, and I only put on ignore the name callers, the haters, the smearers. All rational debate is welcome, no matter your point of view. But be forewarned: I am an Objectivist and do not suffer fools easily, but treat the inquisitive, the rational, and the logical with great respect and admiration.

 

Racism: A Pile of Pig Manure:
This commentary is sparked by another board called "Leftists suggest RACIAL SEGREGATION in New York Times Article" discussing the following article: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/...ald-trump.html?referer=https://www.google.ca/
It is a very interesting take on racism and Trump. What follows is my commentary on the article:


The article makes some valid points, but does have a touch of racism to it. All whites do not support Trump. I am one who does not. I voted for Yaron Brook as a write in candidate, even though he had no chance, as a protest against the insanity I was being offered .

However, the author's assessment of Trump is basically accurate. But his point that now he has to teach his children racism to protect them from white people is beyond the pale, ugly. If he truly wants an end to racism he needs to embrace reason as his ethics, capitalism as his economic system, and Individual Rights as his political philosophy. This will end racism for good.

Ayn Rand: "Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.

Racism claims that the content of a man’s mind (not his cognitive apparatus, but its content) is inherited; that a man’s convictions, values and character are determined before he is born, by physical factors beyond his control. This is the caveman’s version of the doctrine of innate ideas—or of inherited knowledge—which has been thoroughly refuted by philosophy and science. Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. It is a barnyard or stock-farm version of collectivism, appropriate to a mentality that differentiates between various breeds of animals, but not between animals and men.

Like every form of determinism, racism invalidates the specific attribute which distinguishes man from all other living species: his rational faculty. Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination."--http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/racism.html

Ayn Rand--Racism



Yaron’s AM560 Rewind: Racism Is Collectivism




In Mother's Arms: Motherhood, like fatherhood, is not racial. Like a father's love for his son, it's an individual female's love for her child, no matter what race she is, black, white, Hispanic, or Asian.

As in the painting by Han Wu Shen: In Mother's Arms
View here: http://cordair.com/artists/shen/works/in-mothers-arms/index.html

As in bonding
Bonding by Han Wu Shen @http://cordair.com/artists/shen/works/in-mothers-arms/index.html


Each of us, no matter what our race, color, creed, or religion, are first and foremost, individuals with our own hopes, dreams, and desires. Let's not wallow in the pile of pig manure that racism is. Let us follow Dr. King's dream and treat each one of us as an individual worthy of our respect until proven otherwise by facts, not skin color. This is the message the author of the article misses, but one I send to him as an individual.

 

Capitalism: The Only Choice For Free Men

Here's why: Capitalism is the only economic system based on the following principle: Free men trading freely that which is theirs for that which they want. Where is the problem? Where is the evil? Where is the injustice:

Or if you prefer, what is yours, or anyone else's definition--without definitions, how can there be a debate?

Ayn Rand: "Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

The recognition of individual rights entails the banishment of physical force from human relationships: basically, rights can be violated only by means of force. In a capitalist society, no man or group may initiate the use of physical force against others. The only function of the government, in such a society, is the task of protecting man’s rights, i.e., the task of protecting him from physical force; the government acts as the agent of man’s right of self-defense, and may use force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use; thus the government is the means of placing the retaliatory use of force under objective control.--http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/capitalism.html

Ayn Rand: "In a free economy, where no man or group of men can use physical coercion against anyone, economic power can be achieved only by voluntary means: by the voluntary choice and agreement of all those who participate in the process of production and trade. In a free market, all prices, wages, and profits are determined—not by the arbitrary whim of the rich or of the poor, not by anyone’s “greed” or by anyone’s need—but by the law of supply and demand. The mechanism of a free market reflects and sums up all the economic choices and decisions made by all the participants. Men trade their goods or services by mutual consent to mutual advantage, according to their own independent, uncoerced judgment. A man can grow rich only if he is able to offer better values—better products or services, at a lower price—than others are able to offer."--http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/free_market.html

Starjet: Please note the prohibition against the use of the initiation of force in my definition, in Ayn Rand's comments on Capitalism, and the free market. But because American politicians constantly interfere in the marketplace--and remember,the government is the power of the gun--and though there are some elements of capitalism in our economy, we are not a capitalist economy, we are as most nations, a mixed economy with some economic freedom, but mostly controlled by regulations and regulators created by our statist politicians--who keep getting voted in by bribing us with our own stolen money, i.e., taxes.

The Morality of Capitalism - executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, Yaron Brook



What a free market loves: Talent
As in Byran Larsen Paintings@ http://cordair.com/artists/larsen/works/the-unknown-awaits/index.html

 

They Are The Future Building It Today:

Where are the freedom lovers, the men of liberty. Am I the only one with enough courage to face a whole culture gone mad? I can tell you where the men of liberty aren't. They aren't in safe places. They aren't in the Alt-right. They aren't with Breibart and Bannon. They aren't with Trump, or Hannity, or O'Reilly. They aren't hanging out with the Evangelicals, or the Catholics, or any form of Christianity. And they aren't in the sewers of hate with the Black Lives Matter, or the New Black Panthers. They aren't friends with Obama, or the Bushes. They aren't hanging out with the Antifa nut cases, who claim to be against fascism, while practicing fascism.

The men of liberty are pro- capitalism, pro-liberty, pro-constitutional republic with its system of check and balances. They are pro-reason, pro-science, pro-Individualist. They are pro-thinkers and pro-men and women of action. And I'll tell you were they are: they are at the Ayn Rand Institute developing their understanding of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. They are becoming the new intellectuals, the new men and women of action. They are dedicated to the founding principle of liberty of this country, e.g., "Life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness" They are adherents to principle of Individualism, of reason, of Romantic realism, of science, of facts, of truth, of justice, and yes, damn it, the American way of life, which means: Reaching for the best within you to go further then you thought you could reach.

They are the future building it today.

Ayn Rand: "“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”--https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/432.Ayn_Rand



Yaron Brook: What is Killing Western Civilization:


The Art of Romantic Realism @ http://cordair.com/
Man of the Future by Karl Jensen @ http://cordair.com/artists/jensen/works/man-of-the-future/index.html


If liberty is to be saved, if the future is to be won for reason, for western civilization, for Individualism, for the heroic in Man, the world will owe a debt of gratitude to Ayn Rand, and to the Objectivist leaders of today.
Count on it. It is as real as the all the souls who reading this post, and to them I say: What's your choice? Its your life, you make it.

 

God Is Non-A

As to the subject of God, He doesn't explain anything. He's a delusion created to ease the human fear of living a life of their own direction. An early attempt to explain the forces of nature that Man faced. We should have out grown God by know, especially after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the launch of Gemini 1 with John Glenn.

Furthermore, I find it incredulous that psychics are still making a living in the 21st century, and that astrology still exists. It appears we never really out grew the gargoyles of the dark ages when Christianity ruled the political and cultural world during the dark ages.

There was the Age of Enlightenment or as otherwise known, the Age of Reason, but it appears do have died an early death, seriously injured by the "Great Awakening", and finally murdered by today's Post Modernists, and it remains to be seen if we will have another rebirth. If we do, it will be because of the intellectual leaders of the Objectivist movement, specifically, Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute, as well many others of the Objectivist movement.

Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand's Philosophy and Objectivism--




Ayn Rand: "They claim that they perceive a mode of being superior to your existence on this earth. The mystics of spirit call it “another dimension,” which consists of denying dimensions. The mystics of muscle call it “the future,” which consists of denying the present. To exist is to possess identity. What identity are they able to give to their superior realm? They keep telling you what it is not, but never tell you what it is. All their identifications consist of negating: God is that which no human mind can know, they say—and proceed to demand that you consider it knowledge—God is non-man, heaven is non-earth, soul is non-body, virtue is non-profit, A is non-A, perception is non-sensory, knowledge is non-reason. Their definitions are not acts of defining, but of wiping out."



This is my God, Reason--speaking metaphorically, of course, not literally.
Sense of Wonder by Bryan Larsen at http://cordair.com/artists/larsen/works/sense-of-wonder/index.html


On display @ http://cordair.com/, the best Art Gallery in world, according to my tastes. And with works of Art light years ahead of anything Van Gogh, Monet, or Picasso ever created.

And lastly, God is nonsense because you can't exist if their is no existence, i.e., nothing can't exit, because its nothing, meaning, non-existence. Has reason and logic totally died and been replaced by Post Modern lunacy? It would appear so. In essence: because contradictions cannot exist, God is nothing more than a delusion of the weak-minded, an opioid for the frighten masses of asses. In other words, God is non-A

 

Yeah, no, as much as I support and encourage thinking and knowledge, the road to happiness lies through not thinking and not gaining wisdom, but living in the moment and being ignorant.

"For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." Ecclesiastes 1:18

Correction: the joy of life when you're young, pretty, healthy, able-bodied, and don't have a care in the world.