>Ahhh, college years - when Atlas Shrugged held the answers to the Universe... :o) I wonder how many today know of the 1968 cult? The split with Branden and the requirement to sign a statement of loyalty by its members? :o) It actually travelled into high schools and had my mom worried for my sister at the time... I don't know what scared my mom more - the prolific drug use or the cults that kept popping up!
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I somehow skipped Ayn ( there was a lot going on in 68 <g> and I found Aldous Huxley a lot more interesting - did go a bit mad for Hermann Hesse for a while as well ) but I made it to San Francisco right after Werner Erhard went rogue on L Ron and started EST. I am embarrassed to this day the amount of BS I was willing to listen to from attractive women who had my hormones in overdrive as they talked about The Training.
Like PT Barnum said - there's a seeker born every minute <bg>
>>>>You seem to be either missing Charles's point or willfully ignoring it.
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>>>Not sure.
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>>>He said that fasting doesn't feed people.
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>>>If you donate the meals you skip to hungry people, I think it does.
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>>And if you play Nintendo for six hours and then donate meals it also feeds hungry people The fasting is a non-sequitur.
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>>Mike, take it from one who know - don't confuse altered consciousness with wisdom <s> There really are people who can spot the signs.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
