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Active 4 years, 7 months ago-
Gravy posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
That was exactly what came to my mind. I just couldnât pronounce it! -
Gravy posted an update 4 years, 8 months ago
Wow! You wake up one day and find you are living in a world of global fascist tyrants.
How is it that nobody saw this coming or warned people what was happening?! đ -
Gravy posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
Thanks for sharing. Same basic playbook. No way that I can see to deny it! -
Gravy posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
Honestly, I found it a heavy read being so dark and negative. She was very thorough and detailed, which to me became a tendency toward beating dead horses at times.
I can’t say that I share her philosophy or world view on the whole, but felt that her grasp of truth on some topics was extremely powerful.My understanding is that she…[Read more]
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Yes reading Atlas Shrugged is not a pleasure to read and requires a commitment of time to process the messages. Experiencing the totalitarian system in her homeland and witnessing the same slowly happening here during her lifetime must have been horrific.
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i really couldn’t stand Atlas Shrugged. I topped out at the umpteenth “Who is John Galt” and just put the book down and never looked back. As an avid reader the number of books I’ve put down mostly unfinished in my lifetime out of many thousands is 3 and that is one of them. Leaden, poorly written and vastly overrated, with a simplistic…
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Gravy posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago
Unsettling when current events consistently cause you recall passages from books like Atlas Shrugged. I feel that the line separating our “reality” from a work of fiction grows thinner each day and the rhetoric becomes a mirror.
NYT:
âCritical thinking, as weâre taught to do it, isnât helping in the fight against misinformation.â
âStop overthink…[Read more]-
Ah, the art of deconstruction and fostering the idea there are no universal maxims.
Reading Atlas Shrugged the first time opened a whole different spectrum of thought.-
Throwing out the bathwater with the baby and also the bathtub.
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The author was and is quite controversial, which to me was a red flag that what she had to say was worth my time to find out.
https://aynrand.org/ideas/philosophy/-
Honestly, I found it a heavy read being so dark and negative. She was very thorough and detailed, which to me became a tendency toward beating dead horses at times.
I can’t say that I share her philosophy or world view on the whole, but felt that her grasp of truth on some topics was extremely powerful.My understanding is that she…
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Yes reading Atlas Shrugged is not a pleasure to read and requires a commitment of time to process the messages. Experiencing the totalitarian system in her homeland and witnessing the same slowly happening here during her lifetime must have been horrific.
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i really couldn’t stand Atlas Shrugged. I topped out at the umpteenth “Who is John Galt” and just put the book down and never looked back. As an avid reader the number of books I’ve put down mostly unfinished in my lifetime out of many thousands is 3 and that is one of them. Leaden, poorly written and vastly overrated, with a simplistic…
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âFear not and Think not! Consensus equals Truth!â I imagine this being chanted again and again…
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I would say the NYT today is fiction.
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Gravy posted a new activity comment 5 years, 5 months ago
Nope, you guys are right. Will not play.
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Gravy posted a new activity comment 5 years, 5 months ago
I still see it for now. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KeJNxbI-kkw
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Nope, you guys are right. Will not play.
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