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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Concerning Orcs . . .
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
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That was a really clever joke!
ReplyDeleteDear Lord, yes. I just finished reading Atlas Shrugged, and I'll take Orcs any day. Real Orcs, with stabby spears and swords, who want to put me in a stew pot and eat me.
ReplyDeleteI'm realizing I've spent too long on Facebook when I'm searching for the "Like" button.
ReplyDeleteTHE HEAD OF THE INFIDEL!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojR-XRt4rrA
Is America burning yet?
Maybe we need some more...
we use the DIVINE against the ESTABLISHMENT... you?
we do better DEMOLITIONS than you, savage...
RENOUNCE YOUR ATHEISM AND JOIN THE SOCIALIST FAITH!
let them know if the MDC continues more people will die...
the WORLD TRADE CENTER PROPHECY - THE DANCE OF DEATH
WORLD TRADE CENTER PROPHECY
FLUSH ATHEISM!
Actually it is a ROYAL FLUSH!!!
Let me show you how ATHEISTS were partially responsible for 911
These ATHEISTS NEED TO BE ON THE TERRORIST WATCH LIST!
You don’t even have SCIENCE on your side…
You’re a perfect example of when PHILOSOPHY becomes an ENEMY OF LIFE...
http://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2010/06/playing-mystery-card.html
not quite samantha with her *supernatural spit*, eh?
this isn't one of your little WORD GAMES...
blasphemy is a DEATH SENTENCE
you people actually BELIEVE the BS you preach!
GOD 1 - atheists 0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQcNiD0Z3MU
Atheists,
you are ENEMIES OF GOD AND ARE GOING TO BE ANNIHILATED...
Repent and turn to God or be destroyed...
YOU HAVE NO CHOICE...
my interpretation of the STATUE FIRE... it symbolizes the SPIRITUAL DEATH of atheism...
ttp://www.salon.com/news/2010/06/15/us_lightning_strikes_jesus_statue
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/6/16/1276680110544/The-King-of-Kings-statue--005.jpg
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-06/54332292.jpg
http://friendlyatheist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/butterjesus-1.jpg
PRINCESS DI IS WEARING A NEW DRESS!
http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/speechesandarticles/a_speech_by_hrh_the_prince_of_wales_titled_islam_and_the_env_252516346.html
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http://skepticblog.org/2010/04/06/would-i-ever-pray-for-a-miracle/
Shermer, I WANT TO SEE YOU BEG FOR A MIRACLE...
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we do like your music Lady Gaga, but...
The B**BQUAKE - 911
Let me show you the FATE OF TRAITORS...
http://www.loiterink.com/photos/products/182_3424_500x500.jpg
they are incapable of telling the difference between SCIENTIFIC *FACT* AND
RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL *TRUTH*... FATAL ERROR!
they also preach a *VALUE FREE SCIENCE* called *POSITIVISM* that ignores the
inequalities of wealth and power in capitalist civilization...
for a sample taste of PZ Myers' GARBAGE...
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/06/sunday_sacrilege_imagine_no_he.php
HIJACKING IN PROGRESS!!!
http://hawaiiwebgroup.com/maui-design/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/website-hijacking.jpg
HIJACKING IN PROGRESS!!!
how can these HEADLESS IDIOTS BET AGAINST GOD!!!
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what happens when you LOSE Pascal's Wager...
http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/pascals-wager.htm
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you FIGHT PAPER MONSTERS...
the blood and bodies of the atheist movement...
you mofos killed MICKEY MOUSE!!!!
this has more TRUTH then what Dawkins, Randi, Harris, Myers, and Shermer
combined have said in their entire lives...
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=5R2wE8Sduhs&playnext_from=TL&videos=hht1U_19anc&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_fresh%2Bdiv-1r-3-HM
they tried to BULLDOZE the entire METAPHYSICAL DIMENSION...
they LOST THE WAR......
you have FORFEIT YOUR SOUL, shermer... you have become an object in the material world, as you WISHED...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUB4j0n2UDU
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/7/11792994_ffaaee87fa.jpg
we're gonna smash that TV...
They had become ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE AND OF GOD...
you pushed too much and *CROSSED THE LINE*
degenerates (PZ) or children (HEMANT) - ATHEISTS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRRg2tWGDSY
THE BOOBQUAKE - 911!
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http://dissidentphilosophy.lifediscussion.net/philosophy-f1/the-boobquake-911-t1310.htm
DM- did you read Atlas Shrugged as a fourteen-year-old? Just askin'.
ReplyDeleteThat is hysterical.
ReplyDeleteI tried to read the Hobbit as a young teen, but I gave up before 100 pages because the writing style was tedious and nothing had happened yet. I'm told Ayn Rand's novels are even more boring, though I haven't attempted them myself.
It's especially interesting to know that Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's circle of intimate friends.
ReplyDeleteAfter I waded through the entire Koran, I tried to read Atlas Shrugged, but I couldn't finish it.
ReplyDeleteI was physically incapable of reading that book. (and I'd already read The Fountainhead)
XKCD disproves Ayn Rand
ReplyDeleteApologies for mispelling "xkcd"
ReplyDeleteI hope everyone here won't despise me when I admit that I actually enjoy Atlas Shrugged. I also liked Anthem.
ReplyDeleteDo I skim the hell out of the redundant, verbose passages in Atlas? Hellll yeah. Do I think the heros in it are actually human beings to be emulated in the real world? Hellll no. I just find it an interesting story.
Cynical: yeah, I must admit to liking Atlas Shrugged, and Fountainhead and Anthem too. They're pretty good adventure stories of the old school, but with women being heroes as well as men. Rand's worship of the powerful personality, and her rather naive faith in free enterprise's ability to produce good society, make them bad political models, however, to say the least.
ReplyDelete@CN - I just finished Atlas Shrugged. (I somehow managed not to read it in my youth.) And you're right, despite its flaws it's actually quite entertaining. I'm a little appalled that anyone takes it seriously as a work of political philosophy when it's so clearly a fantasy novel, but that's a topic for an upcoming blog post...
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