Dean probly didn't have the energy to slog thru all the entries at the Storyblogging Carnival, so I'll go ahead and point out that I've got one over there. It's about a writer who finds herself IN one of her books. (It was a lot of fun to write ;>)
They've got more entries than ever, looks like, so even if you're not into my kind of fiction, there should be something there for just about everybody!
I read yours Trudy, enjoyed it. You had a lot of interesting ideas for little wrinkles in the situation. Also, a lot of your character's reactions surprised but also made sense.
I think I got to almost everyone's but Andrew Ian's and his link didn't let me through.
And for Patron Saint of Reason, which has Objectivists, a Pastor, and a Vampire walking in a coffeehouse (sounds like a joke doesn't it?), and was inspired by a smart aleck comment here on Dean's World...
“Altruist!” Jeremy yelled, and then the other three joined in as of one accord. “Altruist!” The first word meant nothing but a puzzled look to the vampire. The second, heated by rage, and sung in chorus smacked him on the face, and left a line of blood down his right cheek.
“What deity do you worship? Who protects you?”
“Objectivists don’t need a deity, or a saint. We just need rational decision-makers.” Kyle explained. “Like Ayn Rand.”
The vampire winced at the name.
“So, you think this saint will protect you with your magic powers? I have killed the children of many gods. You will fare no better.” He sucked in the air, and began to ...
And the piece, Dr. Rummel cited was interesting. I'll have to think about it. It seems to suggest that we need to provoke an economic mess for China...
I don't think she's a Nazi, just immature, narrow, and cold-blooded. That is, she's not evil, just a bit limited. And that we all are a bit limited.
And sometimes this narrowness of thought has advantages. It enables a clarity of thought. This is after all, one of the chief advantages of hard sciences over soft sciences...they can shove distractions and complexitities off to the side better.
I think Rand is best understood as an extreme reaction to the extreme situation of Communism that seemed to permanently mar her psyche.
She did produce a lot of valuable insight, but I think her work stands up primarily as an argument against coercive altruism, rather than free or Christian altruism.
Very good. Spectrumologically, I would have to say that Ayn Rand may have had a superior, i.e., more integrated, philosophy to my own, in certain ways. Don't know. She was at least 90% right. Her Objectivism is, Peikoff-obviously, the diametrical opposite of Nazism, Communism, and Political Correctness.
My one main disagreement is with her atheism. I cannot leave out out a Divine Creator (the Holy Quaternity, in my theology) and a hereafter. Such an omission leaves her philosophy incomplete. I will stick to my own Polytheistic Godliness, Selfishness, Sexiness. Conservative Lesbian Individualist Theology.
They've got more entries than ever, looks like, so even if you're not into my kind of fiction, there should be something there for just about everybody!
I think I got to almost everyone's but Andrew Ian's and his link didn't let me through.
And for Patron Saint of Reason, which has Objectivists, a Pastor, and a Vampire walking in a coffeehouse (sounds like a joke doesn't it?), and was inspired by a smart aleck comment here on Dean's World...
“Altruist!” Jeremy yelled, and then the other three joined in as of one accord. “Altruist!” The first word meant nothing but a puzzled look to the vampire. The second, heated by rage, and sung in chorus smacked him on the face, and left a line of blood down his right cheek.
“What deity do you worship? Who protects you?”
“Objectivists don’t need a deity, or a saint. We just need rational decision-makers.” Kyle explained. “Like Ayn Rand.”
The vampire winced at the name.
“So, you think this saint will protect you with your magic powers? I have killed the children of many gods. You will fare no better.” He sucked in the air, and began to ...
And the piece, Dr. Rummel cited was interesting. I'll have to think about it. It seems to suggest that we need to provoke an economic mess for China...
And sometimes this narrowness of thought has advantages. It enables a clarity of thought. This is after all, one of the chief advantages of hard sciences over soft sciences...they can shove distractions and complexitities off to the side better.
And thanks.
She did produce a lot of valuable insight, but I think her work stands up primarily as an argument against coercive altruism, rather than free or Christian altruism.
My one main disagreement is with her atheism. I cannot leave out out a Divine Creator (the Holy Quaternity, in my theology) and a hereafter. Such an omission leaves her philosophy incomplete. I will stick to my own Polytheistic Godliness, Selfishness, Sexiness. Conservative Lesbian Individualist Theology.