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  • From: ted <music AT thenightshades.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] Ayn Rand (lee's fave =)
  • Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 08:49:47 -0800

Good stuff!
Ted

on 2/8/05 7:55 AM, homestead-request AT lists.ibiblio.org at
homestead-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

>
>> Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his
>> only means to gain it.
>
> Not only not true, it isn't even reasonable! Most really amazing knowledge
> is gained through insight and transcendence. Reason only serves a secondary
> role as a filter for such knowledge.
>
>
>
>> It is this characteristic
>> more than any other that makes a cult, a religion, a nation, or any
>> other group, dangerous to individual freedom.
>
> That is, of course, unless individual freedom IS the cult or IS the
> religion.
> It's possible but not likely. Like all religions, individual freedom's
> existence is embodied in every decision every day. Religions in the
> ordinary
> sense don't go about dismissing themselves - rather even martyrdom is
> prefered.
> Islam, Christianity, and such are not besprinkled with "But wait, you can't
> expect me to ..." From the homesteading paradigm every concession to "You
> can't expect me to hoe a garden, saw wood, milk a cow, scythe grass, can
> beans
> ...
> etc." is a laying down of some individual freedom in that the alternatives
> make one dependent on others and worse, on the fickle corpus of society.
>
> Don't worry about religions and cults and governments limiting our freedom,
> we do a much better job of it ourselves.
>
> James




  • [Homestead] Ayn Rand (lee's fave =), ted, 02/08/2005

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