Atlas Shrugged II - Opens This Weekend

[Phatscotty]

[Iliad]

i hope dave and sultan have a contest to see who can chug a gallon of bleach faster

But libertarians are famous for their compassion and great social ability, it's such a shame john's defying that stereotype.


It's also really amusing that Atlas Shrugged has been bitchslapped by the invisible hand of the free market.

[thegreekdog]

i hope dave and sultan have a contest to see who can chug a gallon of bleach faster

But libertarians are famous for their compassion and great social ability, it's such a shame john's defying that stereotype.


It's also really amusing that Atlas Shrugged has been bitchslapped by the invisible hand of the free market.

DOUBLE ZINGER!

[BigBallinStalin]

When people watch and then rate Atlas Shrugged on imdb.com, are they rating the film itself or are they rating the ideas expressed within the film--or even worse, are they expressing a kneejerk reaction to ideas which they have misconstrued?


Since Atlas Shrugged and Objectivism are such contentious issues, with which many people address emotionally, then I would guess most reviewers (in the explicit and implicit sense) fall in the later two categories.

[john9blue]

But libertarians are famous for their compassion and great social ability, it's such a shame john's defying that stereotype.


It's also really amusing that Atlas Shrugged has been bitchslapped by the invisible hand of the free market.

i'm only compassionate to people who deserve it...

also, are you talking about the movie or the book? i could make a shitty adaptation of the (extremely successful) book and get bitchslapped by the free market. so what?

[jonesthecurl]

I will be purchasing Beezelbub's Tales to his Grandson immediately! Thanks AoG!

Let me know how far into it you get.
Sheesh. I tried. Honest I did.

[xeno]

we read all this shit in high school. and it was just that, shit

[Symmetry]

we read all this shit in high school. and it was just that, shit

You had to read it at school? Ouch.

[john9blue]

i read the fountainhead in high school.

the class was a literature class. our teacher had a giant list of books that we could read and be tested on for points. i think i was the only person in class who read it, despite the fact that the teacher had 10 copies or so which any student could borrow. i read it because i had read anthem earlier in the year and enjoyed it.

[Phatscotty]

The Wet Nurse embodies the collectivist world in which he was trained. Although he has a degree in metallurgy, he has no practical skills. He merely repeats things he has been told and uses words cleverly so as not to say anything clearly. He is taken aback by Rearden’s insistence on calling things exactly what they are. His job is to determine Rearden’s output so that it is in compliance with the laws. But without the laws, there would be no need for his job in the first place. Rand, a strong proponent of unfettered capitalism, uses him to demonstrate the absurd ways in which bureaucracy fuels its own growth and the waste and foolishness required to keep an artificial system running. In a capitalist system, Rearden would be free to produce as much steel as his customers require, and they would be free to buy it or to go elsewhere if he could not give them what they wanted. For Rand, the simplicity of free markets stands in obvious contrast to the complex bureaucratic structures seen here.

[nietzsche]

[Atlas Shrugged] it's the World's #2 most influential western book behind the Bible.

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is this guy for serious???????????


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[Phatscotty]

[Atlas Shrugged] it's the World's #2 most influential western book behind the Bible.

ROFL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
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is this guy for serious???????????


HAHAHAHAHHAA

1991, a survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club found that readers rated "Atlas" as the second-most influential book, behind only the Bible

The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States of America, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in four buildings in Washington, D.C., as well as the Packard Campus[2] in Culpeper, Virginia, it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and number of books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress

[nietzsche]

Dude, if that's the logic you use in all of your posts/threads/discussions... lol

There's no way to defend what you said.

One could just shut up had that been said by someone else, but the way you push you agenda and claim knowledge of the world and the economy and stuff, I had to say something.

It shows how little your perspective is, and your intent to further defend it shows also how you would go to inexplicable lengths in order not to lose a point.

I'm going to quote you here again, because knowing you, you will go and edit the post so that I end up like a fool:

I saw it yesterday, I am going to see it again today, and I regret not having read the book earlier. I have always wished there was a book like this available, I guess I just needed to get over the size of it and figure there is a reason why it's the World's #2 most influential western book behind the Bible.

Up next, 3 links, 4 out of context quotes and two videos where someone with the credibility of an ant says Atlas Shrugged is the best ever ever ever inception dark night!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Phatscotty]

Dude, if that's the logic you use in all of your posts/threads/discussions... lol

There's no way to defend what you said.

One could just shut up had that been said by someone else, but the way you push you agenda and claim knowledge of the world and the economy and stuff, I had to say something.

It shows how little your perspective is, and your intent to further defend it shows also how you would go to inexplicable lengths in order not to lose a point.

I'm going to quote you here again, because knowing you, you will go and edit the post so that I end up like a fool:

It's not logic...it's a source. It's not my credibility, it's the Library of Congress's.

My opinion has nothing to do with anything, I have not offered any opinion, or perspective, nor any intent. There are no points to be made or lost, it was just a simple statement.

You can ignore it if you want, but trolling the messenger won't accomplish anything.

[nietzsche]

Dude, if that's the logic you use in all of your posts/threads/discussions... lol

There's no way to defend what you said.

One could just shut up had that been said by someone else, but the way you push you agenda and claim knowledge of the world and the economy and stuff, I had to say something.

It shows how little your perspective is, and your intent to further defend it shows also how you would go to inexplicable lengths in order not to lose a point.

I'm going to quote you here again, because knowing you, you will go and edit the post so that I end up like a fool:

It's not logic...it's a source. It's not my credibility, it's the Library of Congress's.

My opinion has nothing to do with anything, I have not offered any opinion, or perspective, nor any intent. There are no points to be made or lost, it was just a simple statement.

You can ignore it if you want, but trolling the messenger won't accomplish anything.

I can find 12309899802019380123088012 such misleading statements online, even by sources with alleged good reputation. Your quote says that it was a "survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club", not a public statement by say, the president of the Library of Congress, and even if it was said by the president of the Library of Congress a he was and scholar, even then it wouldn't mean much.

But you didn't quote anything in your OP, you stated it as if it was very well common sense and a widely accepted belief that Atlas Shruged was the second most influential book in the west world. (And of course, a cherry on top "only second to .. wait.. wait The Holy Bible".

You didn't offer an opinion? It's a lame tactic you use, you push your points thru videos and links and BIG WORDS IN ITALICS AND BOLD WITH A LINK because deep down you know that you've been proven wrong so many times you can't handle it to happen again.

And I was trolling your OP because it's ridiculous and it bothers me that you would go ahead and post such a statement as if we were all idiots here, and were to take you word and the word of a "survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club" (which you are, by some leap of awesome logic attributing to the Library of Congress) as truth, only because you say so next to 2 videos.