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December 11, 2004 by John Galt
Yes, that was a road sign that I saw the other day... Yes, I suck at spelling, and every once and a while I make stupid gramatical mistakes because my brain gets ahead of itself. But this is pathetic. People, it's slowly, really, awefully. It is not slow, real or aweful. Learn what an adverb is.... it's frightening how fast the adverb is getting bastardized into irrelivence in English in North America. Fight the urge, fight it every time you catch yourself doing this, correct yoursel...
December 6, 2004 by John Galt
With all of the talk about Chritian Rock lately, here's my answer: Ana Johnsson "The Way I am" Excellent stuff. Everyone run, don't walk to buy this. She may or may not be an official objectivist, but she certainly is a really great accidental one I had a friend listen to "We Are" after hearing it on Third Watch. He said "Of course you like her". I said "Why?", "Because she's an objectivist chick!" Yup, I'm transparent Now where the hell are the ones that I can date? ...
December 6, 2004 by John Galt
Yes, I just saw it on DVD. Stupid me bought it cause he had the first one which wasn’t so bad, at least it didn’t hit you over the head like this one… but hey… Spiderman II perfectly encapsulates everything that is wrong with Altruism in any form. The only result of altruism is self-destruction. His life is falling apart because of it, and to survive long enough to sacrifice himself a little more, he has to be selfish for a while thus being a hypocrite in the process… oh and let’s not f...
December 3, 2004 by John Galt
http://www.mychoice.ca Yes, this is a group of smokers that are upset that here in Canada we're starting to come to our senses and are banning smoking in all public places. Maybe someday we'll even get to the point of realizing that smoking in a house with a child under the age of 18 is ABUSE and charge people as such. FACT: Second hand smoke is actually worse than the stuff you suck into your lungs with those cancer sticks. This is just as much fact as Evolution. Yes, I said Evolutio...
November 27, 2004 by John Galt
Women: Men don't change. And when you force them to, then they become something less, something far less attractive, something that they don't want to know and you sure as hell don't either. Greatness, that which attracts you to us, in whatever form, requires confidence, it requires drive and determination. All of these traits are counter to change. Don't get me wrong, men evolve, we even refine ourselves over time, but we do not change. We're not likely (unless we happen to be metr...
November 27, 2004 by John Galt
Lately I’ve been watching as people get more and more upset and argumentative fighting over who’s right, democrats or republicans. I’ve also been watching so many other arguments to the point of stupidity about which cell phone system is better… All of it has a common thread. There is a continual “that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong” implied corollary to everything everyone says but at the same time, the division between people because of the arguments is surreal. The PC attitude has ...
November 2, 2004 by John Galt
Ok, so Draginol just posted an article on How to make a Kerry voter into a Bush voter. One of the things that has stuck with me throughout my readings of Draginol, that I just find so very very wrong, is his assumption that the will of the people is what democracy is all about. (“We're a democracy. The will of the people should be paramount.”) I agree with almost everything else he says. However, democracy is NOT about the will of the people. It is about the people electing representative...
October 18, 2004 by John Galt
Yes, I know I was going to write a whole pile of stuff and I’ll get back to it eventually. But I think this important. It’s the false assumption that is the basis for almost all thought in the world. It’s the concept of “the greater good”. Sorry, but the greater good doesn’t exist. It’s a contradiction in terms and the only result is mediocrity, and slavery. Yes I said SLAVERY. We’ve been creating ever more ingenious ways to enslave portions of our society, throughout history. The Romans ...
July 24, 2004 by John Galt
Welcome to a blog about rational thought. By writing this blog I intend to outline and refine a philosophy that is similar to, but in no way ends at Objectivism as outlined by Ayn Rand and later put into practice wonderfully in Terry Goodkind's novels. Warning, I'm a Canadian, so lots of my posts will be specific to Canadian politics (i.e. the evil CRTC!) that some Americans probably won't understand because you guys don't get very much Canadian news (whereas we get inundated with you...