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I was pretty sure you'd never read it, and I guess this confirms it. What confuses me is why you think Atlas Shrugged was never available. Is it banned where you are?Phatscotty wrote:Finally, you have the option to pass up reading the book!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK7B6mAIhU0 New Atlas Shrugged Trailer
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 best seller behind the Bible.
...except it isn't that.Phatscotty wrote:there is a reason why it's the World's #2 best seller behind the Bible.
Chariot of Fire wrote:As for GreecePwns.....yeah, what? A massive debt. Get a job you slacker.
Viceroy wrote:[The Biblical creation story] was written in a time when there was no way to confirm this fact and is in fact a statement of the facts.
No I havent I am on page 130 something right now. I didnt think it was never available, I was more dissapointed that I had not gotten around to reading the first 20 pages. It's easy to pick up and read the first 5 pages and be bored, but once I got through to about page 20, the light bulb went off in my head.Symmetry wrote:I was pretty sure you'd never read it, and I guess this confirms it. What confuses me is why you think Atlas Shrugged was never available. Is it banned where you are?Phatscotty wrote:Finally, you have the option to pass up reading the book!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK7B6mAIhU0 New Atlas Shrugged Trailer
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 best seller behind the Bible.
There are a fair few books that turn off the lightbulb in my head too after twenty pages.Phatscotty wrote:No I havent I am on page 130 something right now. I didnt think it was never available, I was more dissapointed that I had not gotten around to reading the first 20 pages. It's easy to pick up and read the first 5 pages and be bored, but once I got through to about page 20, the light bulb went off in my head.Symmetry wrote:I was pretty sure you'd never read it, and I guess this confirms it. What confuses me is why you think Atlas Shrugged was never available. Is it banned where you are?Phatscotty wrote:Finally, you have the option to pass up reading the book!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK7B6mAIhU0 New Atlas Shrugged Trailer
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 best seller behind the Bible.
I never got this memo...Phatscotty wrote:there is a reason why it's the World's #2 best seller behind the Bible.
Actually I think the worlds #2 book is the communist manifesto.Phatscotty wrote:Finally, you have the option to pass up reading the book!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK7B6mAIhU0 New Atlas Shrugged Trailer
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 best seller behind the Bible.

You're both wrong:Baron Von PWN wrote:Actually I think the worlds #2 book is the communist manifesto.Phatscotty wrote:Finally, you have the option to pass up reading the book!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK7B6mAIhU0 New Atlas Shrugged Trailer
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 best seller behind the Bible.

Not even close. I'm not saying I agree with this list, but here's 100 books that are a hell of a lot more influential: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100_Mo ... %28book%29Phatscotty wrote:perhaps it is the second most influential. probably because it's written by an Atheist.
USA todayArmy of GOD wrote:Not even close. I'm not saying I agree with this list, but here's 100 books that are a hell of a lot more influential: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100_Mo ... %28book%29Phatscotty wrote:perhaps it is the second most influential. probably because it's written by an Atheist.
But Atlas Shrugged is more point-blank with Rand's philosophy, and it's the second-most-influential book of all time, a distant second to the Bible, according to a survey of 5,000 Book-of-the-Month Club members taken a decade ago for the Library of Congress
or, the prince, or the communist manifest or ....Army of GOD wrote:It's a book of the month club, so obviously they're going to lean toward American-y novels.
You can't tell me with a straight face and 100% objectivity that Atlas Shrugged is more influential than the Art of War.

Atlas Shrugged is being read in 60,000 high school classrooms every year and have specialized University classes dedicated to it. I'm sure the same could be said for Tzu, but not in 60,000 classroomsArmy of GOD wrote:It's a book of the month club, so obviously they're going to lean toward American-y novels.
You can't tell me with a straight face and 100% objectivity that Atlas Shrugged is more influential than the Art of War.
Also, Objectivism is just an intellectualization of American values that basically already existed. Just because a lot of conservative Americans like to read a book that reaffirms their beliefs doesn't make the book influential.Phatscotty wrote:USA todayArmy of GOD wrote:Not even close. I'm not saying I agree with this list, but here's 100 books that are a hell of a lot more influential: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100_Mo ... %28book%29Phatscotty wrote:perhaps it is the second most influential. probably because it's written by an Atheist.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies ... rand_x.htm
But Atlas Shrugged is more point-blank with Rand's philosophy, and it's the second-most-influential book of all time, a distant second to the Bible, according to a survey of 5,000 Book-of-the-Month Club members taken a decade ago for the Library of Congress
That would be true if that was all the book did, however it is not.InkL0sed wrote:Also, Objectivism is just an intellectualization of American values that basically already existed. Just because a lot of conservative Americans like to read a book that reaffirms their beliefs doesn't make the book influential.Phatscotty wrote:USA todayArmy of GOD wrote:Not even close. I'm not saying I agree with this list, but here's 100 books that are a hell of a lot more influential: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100_Mo ... %28book%29Phatscotty wrote:perhaps it is the second most influential. probably because it's written by an Atheist.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies ... rand_x.htm
But Atlas Shrugged is more point-blank with Rand's philosophy, and it's the second-most-influential book of all time, a distant second to the Bible, according to a survey of 5,000 Book-of-the-Month Club members taken a decade ago for the Library of Congress
Chariot of Fire wrote:As for GreecePwns.....yeah, what? A massive debt. Get a job you slacker.
Viceroy wrote:[The Biblical creation story] was written in a time when there was no way to confirm this fact and is in fact a statement of the facts.
I have respect for them. They are smart. Mostly this 10% consists of people who are not students and have a career job and pay taxes and have families to care for.GreecePwns wrote:And at least 10% of Democrats are conservatives. Conservative does not = Republican, Liberal certainly does not = Democrat.
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I think you missed the point there.Phatscotty wrote:I have respect for them. They are smart. Mostly this 10% consists of people who are not students and have a career job and pay taxes and have families to care for.GreecePwns wrote:And at least 10% of Democrats are conservatives. Conservative does not = Republican, Liberal certainly does not = Democrat.
Chariot of Fire wrote:As for GreecePwns.....yeah, what? A massive debt. Get a job you slacker.
Viceroy wrote:[The Biblical creation story] was written in a time when there was no way to confirm this fact and is in fact a statement of the facts.
I might have been continuing on my original point, which is what you might have missed.GreecePwns wrote:I think you missed the point there.Phatscotty wrote:I have respect for them. They are smart. Mostly this 10% consists of people who are not students and have a career job and pay taxes and have families to care for.GreecePwns wrote:And at least 10% of Democrats are conservatives. Conservative does not = Republican, Liberal certainly does not = Democrat.
And what of those non-students who have a career job and pay taxes and have families to live for that aren't conservatives?Phatscotty wrote:I might have been continuing on my original point, which is what you might have missed.GreecePwns wrote:I think you missed the point there.Phatscotty wrote:I have respect for them. They are smart. Mostly this 10% consists of people who are not students and have a career job and pay taxes and have families to care for.GreecePwns wrote:And at least 10% of Democrats are conservatives. Conservative does not = Republican, Liberal certainly does not = Democrat.
Chariot of Fire wrote:As for GreecePwns.....yeah, what? A massive debt. Get a job you slacker.
Viceroy wrote:[The Biblical creation story] was written in a time when there was no way to confirm this fact and is in fact a statement of the facts.