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ayn rand Rebirth of ReasonTM is an organization dedicated to the philosophy of Objectivism, a philosophy devoted to living on earth. The philosophy was developed by Ayn Rand, a novelist-philosopher in the 20th century.

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The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom. - Ayn Rand
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Of Fundamentals and Fidelity by Lindsay Perigo
Reason and Passion by Joseph Rowlands
Making Life Extraordinary by Ashley Frazier
In Praise of Aristocratic Attributes by Larry Sechrest
The Pope, Objectivism, and The Best Within by Lindsay Perigo
La Boheme by James Kilbourne
Supersex Me! by David Bertelsen
Romance & Rationalism by Lindsay Perigo
Cheese to go with that Whine? by Elizabeth Kanabe
Responsibility without Authority: An "Incredible" Injustice by JJ Tuan
The Pitfall of Passivism by Lindsay Perigo
Contentment: The Enemy by Joseph Rowlands
Stylized Life by Glenn Lamont
Forty-Two Will Do by Anton Kelly
The Ghost of Thomas Jefferson by Ross Elliot
Rediscovering Leonardo by Marcus Bachler
When Men Become Nem by Lindsay Perigo
Liking People by Joseph Rowlands
Capitalism Soaring Into the Heavens by Jeff Landauer

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Why SOLO? by Lindsay Perigo
The Meaning of Life by Joseph Rowlands
The Elixir of Youth by Lindsay Perigo
What is Architecture? by Peter Cresswell
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Wednesday
May 7, 2008
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Soros' Follies Again
by Tibor R. Machan
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In the late 60s I was invited to listen to a fellow Hungarian refugee in Los Angeles discuss communism. I nearly walked out when he began with the refrain about how communism is such a wonderful ideal but, sadly, unattainable in practice. What wonderful ideal? The prospect of a worldwide intelligent ant colony, bound together completely with no individual initiative in play anywhere, all automatically serving humanity--is that some wonderful ideal? It is hell, so (Read more...)
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I want them to feel that they are somebody and their congressman is somebody. And when they say, 'This is nice,' it feels good.
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY)
US News & World Report (http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2008/05/02/out-loud-may-2-2008.html)

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A City Committed to Recycling Is Ready for More
Posted by Scott Cram on 5/08, 11:53pm
San Francisco is considering a new law that would punish people for not providing coerced labor free of charge. Their justification for this is in the name of already-subsidized recycling.(Read more...)
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Head of Al Qaeda in Iraq - Captured?
Posted by Ted Keer on 5/08, 4:17pm
Unconfirmed reports by the Iraqi government say Abu Ayyub Al Masri has been captured in a raid in Mosul. DNA tests are being performed.(Read more...)
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CEOs Pushing Ayn Rand Studies Use Money to Overcome Resistance
Posted by Jeff Landauer on 5/07, 12:39am
"Ayn Rand's novels of headstrong entrepreneurs' battles against convention enjoy a devoted following in business circles. While academia has failed to embrace Rand, calling her philosophy simplistic, schools have agreed to teach her works in exchange for a donation."(Read more...)
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Monday
May 5, 2008
Objectivism101
Emotional Responses and Selecting Values
by Joseph Rowlands
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In the last lecture, I talked about how intrinsic values can't be rationally compared, so you're left with just feeling your way to a solution. This is a pretty serious problem, and what we're going to focus on in this thread. (Read more...)
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Here at home, our State Department is advising its officials to avoid perfectly descriptive terms for our enemies like "jihadist" and "Islamo-fascist" in favor of vague terms like "violent extremist" or "terrorist" -- as if we could just as easily be fighting Basque separatists.
Victor Davis Hanson
The Half-Won, Half-Lost War

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Web Posting Pointers from Leonard Peikoff
(34) Philip Coates - 5/07, 7:34pm - . . . also, I haven't noticed if Mr. Stickler has included f...
(35) C. Jeffery Small - 5/08, 12:15am - Hey Phil, after all this time, what's the point? Rega...
The Zimbabwe-Tibet-Venezuela-Dafur Connection
(1) Ted Keer - 5/09, 2:03pm - Cassus Belli? Neil Cavuto is reporting that hard ...
McCain Implies Iraq War Is For Oil
(2) Ted Keer - 5/08, 11:59pm - The Constitution be Damned? Ed, that's a false di...
(3) Ed Thompson - 5/09, 4:39am - Ted, Two false dichotomies don't make a truth. ...
(4) Ted Keer - 5/09, 11:04am - Idee Fixe Ed, Bush did indeed refer to his oath o...
(5) Ted Keer - 5/09, 4:05pm - According to McCain, Huffington has lied about his comments ...
Summer Seminar Early Registration Deadline May 12
(1) Ed Hudgins - 5/09, 11:47am - Monday, May 12 Deadline for Summer Seminar Discounts   ...
Objectivism Q&A
Getting ahead in a society that hates you
(91) Ted Keer - 5/08, 11:34pm - More Empirical Evidence (Can You Spot the Transexuals?) ...
Article Discussions
Randula, the Altruist Slayer
(79) Ed Thompson - 5/08, 4:28am - Rand said that it's fine to send boatloads of weapons to oth...
(80) John Armaos - 5/08, 10:31am - That also seems specious to me. Ideally an Objectivist gover...
(81) Ted Keer - 5/08, 8:07pm - Context? We Don't Need no Stinking Context Was o...
(82) John Armaos - 5/09, 1:39pm - Ted I was only trying to make the point that whatever foreig...
Soros' Follies Again
(1) Phil Osborn - 5/07, 7:48pm - There's an interesting take on the issue of market oversight...
(2) Ted Keer - 5/07, 8:15pm - By what right, Phil? "The issue is not really whe...
(3) Phil Osborn - 5/07, 8:44pm - This is not an issue of rights.  You may be jumping to concl...
(4) Ted Keer - 5/07, 9:33pm - What, beside fraud, which is a crime, would you regulate? I...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (5) Michael E. Marotta - 5/08, 5:42am - No loudspeakers at the Farmers' Market, please.  That's the ...
(6) Michael E. Marotta - 5/08, 6:01am - "In human affairs, as distinguished from natural science, I ...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (7) Ted Keer - 5/08, 11:42am - Definition by Non-Essentials The self-imposed rul...
(8) Phil Osborn - 5/08, 8:26pm - Ted:  The self-imposed rules of the farmers' market that MEM...
(9) Michael E. Marotta - 5/08, 9:34pm - Ted, you need to read the Soros interview cited.  I agree wi...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (10) Ted Keer - 5/08, 10:00pm - Michael, read your own post #5 where you speak of the rules ...
(11) Ed Thompson - 5/09, 4:47am - I really liked this quote from the essay: ========= ...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (12) Merlin Jetton - 5/09, 4:52am - Ted Keer: "my computer doesn't do exponents." Of cour...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (13) Kurt Eichert - 5/09, 6:19am - Not sure if it is justified using average growth rate from t...
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (14) Machan - 5/09, 6:43am - I just got tired of always qualifying "regulation" with "gov...
(15) Ted Keer - 5/09, 10:34am - Dr machan said "I just got tired of always qualifying "r...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (16) Laure Chipman - 5/09, 4:38pm - (Merlin & Ted:  Or, just go to google.com & type in the expo...
(17) Ted Keer - 5/09, 4:51pm - Wow! Cool! Thanks, Laure.
News Discussions
CEOs Pushing Ayn Rand Studies Use Money to Overcome Resistan...
(5) Phil Osborn - 5/07, 8:25pm - A long-time friend of mine - a philosophy professor who spec...
(6) Ted Keer - 5/07, 10:18pm - Rand and Bribes The corrupted party in a transact...
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (7) Philip Coates - 5/07, 11:48pm - > [professor] said that libertarianism had less academic cre...
(8) C. Jeffery Small - 5/08, 12:05am - I understand Phil Coates' points in post #4 and thought I wo...
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (9) Stephen Boydstun - 5/08, 5:32am - Jeff and All, I think this sort of effort can have a ...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (10) Glenn Fletcher - 5/08, 7:00am - Phil said in post #5: I'm very uncomfortable with the iss...
(11) Sam Erica - 5/08, 8:08pm - Glenn: I appreciate what you're saying, but it isn't ...
(12) Ted Keer - 5/08, 11:52pm - More, not Less, Please This is how Universities w...
(13) Glenn Fletcher - 5/09, 6:41am - Sam, I guess I was addressing those students who already ...
(14) Michael E. Marotta - 5/09, 6:46am - It's just an excuse. They don't utter a peep when the Ford F...
Head of Al Qaeda in Iraq - Captured?
(0) Ted Keer - 5/08, 11:38pm - Al Masri's such a pretty boy. Perhaps putting him in a Burq...
(1) Ted Keer - 5/09, 1:56pm - Updated reports from the US military are saying the man who ...
Quotes
I want them to feel that they are somebody and their congres...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (0) Ed Thompson - 5/09, 5:15am - Two highly-relevant links ... Corruption Chronicles (...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (1) Summer Serravillo - 5/09, 6:04am -  What utter nonsense.  I don't need Charles Rangel -- or...
(2) Ted Keer - 5/09, 10:46am - Ed, Rangel's one of the biggest (no double entendre intended...
Dissent
Overdermination and causation
(26) Phil Osborn - 5/07, 6:39pm - It is discouraging to see objectivists, of all people, stuck...
(27) robert malcom - 5/07, 8:29pm - ah yes - Eric Frank Russell's And Then there Were None....
(28) Robert J. Kolker - 5/08, 5:45am - Reply to post 26. See what Lysander Spooner, the Amer...
(29) Ed Thompson - 5/08, 8:11pm - Phil, Until we arrive at that kind of Utopia (and we ...
(30) Ted Keer - 5/09, 4:44pm - Speaking of Mediaeval: "In a just society, if som...


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Thursday
August 5, 2004
Objectivism
Of Brains, Vats and Stolen Concepts
by Cameron Pritchard
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The whole brain in the vat argument is based on fallacious reasoning that refutes itself. With good philosophical tools in our hands, life is made so much easier. So long as we know how to use these tools, there are so many arguments we barely even have to refute because they do the job for us themselves. (Read more...)
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