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SullivanSt's avatar

Great, now I have "I'm a gnu, how do you do?" stuck in my head.

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bobbert's avatar

Hey, at 65, there's times when seven years ago seems like "recently".

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Monsieur_Grumpe's avatar

I would think that giving someone else an orgasm would very unlike a Randian.

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SullivanSt's avatar

All this is true, and yet, despite it all, most sois-disant "Objectivists" are <em>still</em> not rational, in that their attempts at logic contain leaps that are, to put it mildly, unreasonable.

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Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

Objectivist <strike>wink</strike> wank.

(Just being rational, here)

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

did you hear about the libertarian that walked into a bar and bought everyone a round?

Me neither...

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

and attending Rush concerts

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

sadly, I see it too

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

"Hate: altruism ... " So, yeah.

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

they'd never get the ball inbounds since none of them would pass it to a teammate

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

I see it, and not at a distance. Then again, a glasspusher's idea of "at a distance" is probably a bit off the curve.

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

Oh, you can be all that, easily. Expecting someone to want to date you, on the other hand, seems quite ... irrational.

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

worse yet, I'm that way all the time anymore. Even my flashbacks have flashbacks...

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

I wonder how many of these people cross post at <a href="http://survivalistsingles.com" target="_blank">http://survivalistsingles.com</a>?

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bobbert's avatar

The most closely-reasoned and cogently articulated expression of libertarian philosophy I've seen in some time.

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

"I hate altruism"

TRANSLATION: you're sleeping in the wet spot...

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