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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#0000ff>Rand's <SPAN
class=156255823-17112004>absolute </SPAN>Objectivism<SPAN
class=156255823-17112004> is just at the one extreme of
life.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=156255823-17112004>Of course, the other extreme is the
subjectivism.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=156255823-17112004>It's better to be at the middle way to see the
world.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=156255823-17112004>This world includes everything, not just one
extreme.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=2>Thanks.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=2>Walter.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=zh-tw dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Al
Brooks<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 18, 2004 3:20 AM<BR><B>To:</B> ExI
chat list<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [extropy-chat] Rand<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>The Randians may be 'playing dumb'. Over & over again I've had
communications - or lack thereof- with coy respondents.
What Randians appear to be saying is, to paraphrase
a conservative dictum, 'that which is not unambigiously conservative
tends to erode towards something else'. In the case of Randians, they might be
saying, 'that which is not pro- free market and work ethic tends to erode
towards command economics and evasion of responsibilities', and this
is clear & understandable; however when Randians act like martinets,
even if they are merely putting on an act, they can
only hope to snare those who are susceptible to rope-a-dope rhetoric. </DIV>
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<DIV><EM><B>John K Clark <jonkc@att.net></B> wrote:[...] they just
quoted Ayn Rand back at me as if what she said was more important than Bell's
experiment or Godel. I said a lot of stuff they didn't like very much but then
I said something that made the howls of<BR>protest reach a crescendo and they
looked for the tar and feathers. The<BR>dreadful blasphemy I dared to utter is
this:<BR><BR>"We've suspected for 80 years and known with certainty for nearly
40 that<BR>some events have no cause and are random.<BR>I mean, I liked Atlas
Shrugged as much as anyone but if Ayn Rand tells me<BR>one thing and
experiment tells me another it's no contest; I'm a rational<BR>man so I have
to go with experiment."<BR><BR>I don't believe I will go back
there.<BR><BR>John K Clark jonkc@att.net<BR><BR></EM></DIV>
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