On Apr 17, 4:30*pm, "D. Peter Maus" wrote:
On 4/17/11 13:54 , Gary Forbis wrote:





On Apr 17, 8:52 am, "D. Peter *wrote:
On 4/17/11 09:29 , Gary Forbis wrote:

On Apr 17, 6:13 am, "D. Peter * *wrote:
On 4/16/11 23:44 , Nickname unavailable wrote:

On Apr 16, 11:02 pm, "D. Peter * * *wrote:
On 4/16/11 22:37 , Nickname unavailable wrote:

On Apr 16, 10:26 pm, "D. Peter * * * *wrote:
On 4/16/11 20:08 , Nickname unavailable wrote:

On Apr 16, 8:03 pm, "D. Peter * * * * *wrote:
On 4/16/11 15:43 , Nickname unavailable wrote:

On Apr 16, 2:02 pm, "D. Peter * * * * * *wrote:
On 4/16/11 10:55 , Nickname unavailable wrote:

On Apr 16, 9:55 am, Gary * * * * * * *wrote:
On Apr 16, 6:29 am, Barack Hates * * * * * * *wrote:

Obama and his band of liberal fools will dismiss this like they do
anything thats true

You realize it is a work of fiction don't you?

* * * * and its a poor one at that. written by a drugged up sex maniac, that
worshiped serial killers. then ended up living on the socialist dole
its easy to start a cult in america, any demagogue can do it, look at
limpballs and beck. america has a lot of people will malformed brains,
lacking the gray matter necessary in the part of the brain that can
understand complex situations. so they flock to cranks, hoping for
some direction in life.

* * * * *And there you have it. No substance, only adhoms.

* * * * *No impact, here.

* * * *i cannot help what shape your brain is in, its a retardation, it
might be environmental, or genes, its hard to say. but its been quite
well reported what rand was. its just to complex for you to
understand.

snicker, i have always felt this was the case:
A new study shows liberals have more gray matter in a part of the
brain related to understanding complexity, while the conservative
brain is bigger in the section linked to fear:How Your Brain May Be
Different Than a Conservative's

* * * * Try making an actual case, instead of simply making a personal
insult.

* * * i did, and your response proves all of my points. none of what i said
were insults, it was all facts.

* * * *LOL!

* * *giggling is a sign you know

* * * Giggling is a sign that you've done nothing but levelled personal
insults, and defended that as a rational argument.

* * * Knowing that you're as empty as your handle is quite amusing.

* * * Carry on.

* * i posted lots of empirical evidence what rand was.

* * *All of it personal insults. What you do not do, is debate the
content, nor the ideas.

* * *You simply insult the person.

* * *The USENet equivalent of "So's your old man." You either have no
position of substance, or you're not willing to engage one for fear
of defeat in the arena of ideas.

In the case of Rand one has to debate philosophy becuase there
is no substance.

* * Of course. Why am I not surprised. Deny the substance of the
argument, default to personal insult.

* * *Because there was no argument. Only a dismissal based on personalities.

* * *You've yet to address the substance of the work. You've only
dismissed the author.

What substance? It's a work of fiction. Tell me what substance you
see so we can discuss it. The work of fiction was written to
reenforce
the author's beliefs. The beliefs themselves come from her life
experiences.
I have introduced her life experiences to explain her beliefs.

Sci Fi has a tradition of using fiction as a setting to narrate a
comment
about reality. That's all well and good but it isn't evendence of
anything.
One has to do the leg work of starting with reality then drawing
conclusions.
Do you really believe we're programming robots with the four laws of
robotics?
I would say that after that Killdozer experience we sure need to.

* * *Shoe on the other foot, you've decried such tactics as small
minded, unenlightened, and unfair. Interesting that you hide behind that
door.

Example? Sure you can find me replying in kind to small mindedness
as an object lesson. Have I started with that somewhere without a
history?

I've argued objectivism for decades now. I don't need to start from
Ayn
Rand to show it of little value. I've forgotten most of the arguments
now
but they will come back quickly if you want to start with one. My
memory
isn't as good as it used to be.