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I can actually recognise a lot of what she says as a facet of my own personality. I just acquired/developed some extra facets as I got older. So will she.

me too

LTP, that would be the logical way to do it, but I'm afriad that it might cause him *landlord* internal bleeding to suggest a 3 year maintenance plan, even tho he appears to be a laid back pot smoker!!!

I appreciate your suggestions tho

Me too.

I also used to refuse to believe back then that I was unhappy. As though I could not allow myself to be unhappy somehow. Perhaps I was reading too much Ayn Rand?

az

Ayn Rand?

Facets of personality...a myriad of qualities as seen by other facets of personalties, infinately growing. I guess that means, me too...*chuckles*

Reading Ayn Rand would be enough to give anyone problems.

"Four hundred years of philosophical progress dismissed in favour of a superhero fantasy" as I once described it on another thread.

Noggin

I never heard of her, I was hoping that someone would give me a quick breakdown description - thanks Noggin

Ayn Rand. "Philosopher" Founder of Objectivism, an extreme procapitalist, libertarian subjective construct with all the depth of a film of paint.

Noggin

From http://www.objectivistcenter.org/objectivism/faqs/wthomas_faq-what-objectivism.asp

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
— Ayn Rand, Appendix to Atlas Shrugged"


For more information on Ayn Rand and Objectivism visit http://www.ayn-rand.com/



Alji

Noggin. I'm with you there. If anyone wants to read a female philosopher in particular, let them go to GEM Anscombe. She is excellent among any company. Mary Warnock is among the great and the good. I have enjoyed Iris Murdoch's fiction.

toxx

Nogg, have a look @ http://www.askwhy.co.uk/judaism/0470Dating.html#Egyptian%20Chronology

Dating Ancient Near Eastern History I


Alji

Noggin, toxx,

Oh absolutely, but when I was a (seriously f*cked up) teenager Ayn Rand seemed to fit in with a need for almost complete control, to believe that this 'superhero fantasy' could exist because . . . well, it just felt necessary at the time. It was also a time totally devoid of humour or ability to show any sort of affection, so I'm glad it didn't last too long.

az

Sometimes I think that I was a peculiar youngster at others I think I was actually quite ordinary. I spent most of my time in my room or Flat When it came to reading I knew what I liked and what I didn't, I liked Shakespear but couldn't abide Dickens, Was nuts about Tolkien and Asimov, and SF and Fantasy generally but thought James bond and Edgar Rice Bouroughs were boring. I loved Wagner Holst Beethoven Ravel and bill Haley and the Comets. By the time I was 20 my aquaintances (I Had to learn how to make freinds later on I wasn't very good at it then) had decided the pub, Pop Music and the football ground were the triple focus of existance, I had Just discovered Hendrix the Beatles and Pendereki, Philip K Dick was my latest literary Hero.

These days I like TV, Dance Music, and re-reading things I havn't read for years, but most of all I like sharing ideas and thinking about them with other people. Talking and chatting about almost anything and anything. (I still don't like football though)Most of the people I know however seem to want time for themselves, and are discovering classical music and Shakespear.

At times I wonder If I am living most of my life backwards or if most of the other people I know are.

PS Someone please define Troll I'm beginning to get paranoid and think they mean me.

a person or whatsometimes resembles the shell of what was once the raw material to produce a sensible human being.

That turns up on several threads within a alloted time span an replys to a post in a manner that is defintly proocative or deflamentry knowing full well of ensueing chaos as you will see

Hi, SD. Just click on 'House Rules' at the bottom of the page and you'll find h2g2's definition of 'troll'.

toxx

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Another interesting link, alji

Although to be fair I was already generally aware of this line of reasoning already, which makes the same point I was making earlier about the problem of using the conventional Egyptian timeline as a "Gold Standard" for dating Near Eastern history.

As a measure of the confusion nothing can beat the identification of the P-l-s-t who fought with Ramses III as twelfth century Philistines; in Egyptian there is no letter l; it's normally given as r; and the P-r-s-t represented on the reliefs of Ramses' mortuary temple at Medinet Habu wear PeRSian style tiara helmets typical of the Fifth/Fourth centuries. The gap is *800* years.

Noggin

"Try Asimov,Harry Harrison, Ray Bradbury, A.C. Clark they should keep you occupied for a few years at the very least. Asimov wrote more than 300 books."

if human nature interests you, try John Wyndham and Scott Card.

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No siblings. My parents are nice; not that demanding. I don't really know how to describe them.

My mom is a Catholic who holds plenty of beliefs that the Pope wouldn't approve of and who virtually never goes to church. I'd ahve to catagorize her as a socialist of some kind.

What exactly my dad things is is hard to understand; his social, religious, and political views seem quite contradictory to me.