tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post1783219028771236798..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: Atlas is Shrugging bionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-29083607130747897062021-04-06T10:56:38.881-07:002021-04-06T10:56:38.881-07:00The glass prison which once held me is now gone
A ...The glass prison which once held me is now gone<br />A long lost fortress<br />Armed only with liberty<br />And the key of my willingness<br /><br />Fell down on my knees and prayed<br />"Thy will be done"<br />I turned around, saw a light shining through<br />The door was wide open <br /><br />:-)<br />bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-14420265608252640192021-04-06T10:52:40.180-07:002021-04-06T10:52:40.180-07:00If you have not seen it, this sermon by John MacAr...If you have not seen it, this sermon by John MacArthur is worth watching:<br /><br />Too Late for Grace: When a Nation Rejects God <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqJjF5aemj0 bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-20870206767274829722021-04-06T10:51:04.078-07:002021-04-06T10:51:04.078-07:00Regarding your family member, Rand would describe ...Regarding your family member, Rand would describe his/her lack of reply as "blank-out."<br /><br />I hope nothing I wrote here is taken as an attack on the main theme and lesson of the novel. It is a valuable story; Rand just ignored and / or ridiculed the higher virtues necessary for free market capitalism to remain useful to the greater population.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-43259748651174157132021-04-06T10:47:06.906-07:002021-04-06T10:47:06.906-07:00Agree. To blame the slave for not working under w...Agree. To blame the slave for not working under whatever conditions the master chooses, and then blame the slave for the result of the slave's not working - it takes a warped mind to come up with that ethic.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-84355698185466152942021-04-06T09:33:24.868-07:002021-04-06T09:33:24.868-07:00Anyone who quotes Dream Theater must be a genius w...Anyone who quotes Dream Theater must be a genius with impeccable taste.Darrin Clementhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06584609480790684821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-54955555182246739192021-04-06T06:07:50.390-07:002021-04-06T06:07:50.390-07:00Atlas Shrugged is not talked about much because pe...Atlas Shrugged is not talked about much because people have stopped reading anything that takes more than 2 minutes and does not have any pictures.<br /><br />People do not want to be unpopular so have stopped speaking truth in the face of lies.<br /><br />I agree John Galt was not the problem. He was the solution. The fall out is laid at the feet of those who elect to remain silent or ignorant and feed off the scraps of the corrupt.<br />If the dire predictions come true it is the fault of the masses who begged for security in exchange for their freedom. Who gave their children to the state to be educated at the alter of the state.<br /><br />"There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. <br />The very power of the teacher in the school-room is either moral or it is a degrading force. <br />But he can show the child no other moral basis for it than the Bible<br /> Hence my argument is as perfect as clear.<br /> The teacher must be Christian. <br />But the American Commonwealth has promised to have no religious character. <br />Then it cannot be teacher."<br />Robert Lewis Dabney<br /><br /><br />I know a man who got fed up as did those in Atlas Shrugged and took early retirement. He ran a large municipal utility. It quickly began a downward spiral as those who replaced him chose not to fight the corrupt city council that over the years changed from competent businessmen to the incompetent electable. <br />As in the book, the good slowly left for the same reason as soon as they could.<br /><br />Federal Farmer<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-9361465997682437222021-04-06T05:46:29.790-07:002021-04-06T05:46:29.790-07:00John Calvin said:
“When God wants to judge a nati...John Calvin said: <br />“When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.”<br /><br />Isaiah 66:4<br />4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.<br /><br />John Bunyan 1628-1688<br />“The reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man's mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things.”<br /><br />John Bunyan 1628-1688<br /><br />Folks, you are seeing the Lord's judgment on a pagan world.<br /><br />Brutus<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-79811346964370976952021-04-06T03:35:39.696-07:002021-04-06T03:35:39.696-07:00I have found it curious that there is virtually no...I have found it curious that there is virtually no discussion of Atlas Shrugged in our society today. In past downturns, Atlas Shrugged and Ayn Rand were hot topics, much to the chagrin of the left. Remember how, during the Obama recession, John Oliver led off with "Atlas Shrugged: How is that still a thing?" He then went on to trash Rand, capitalism, etc., demonstrating a twisted knowledge of her and her writings.<br /><br />Drawing parallels in life with a novel is never going to be perfect...after all a novel is a fictional world not subject to fact checking...and certainly Atlas Shrugged was not intended to be literally predictive. As you said, we are not witnessing a strike of the men of the mind...we are witnessing a takeover by those minds who turned from creating to manipulating. The crash about to happen was a product of their genius, fully intended, gamed, planned, and now being executed. Atlas Shrugged did not deal with this level of evil (except in the characters of the politicians and industrialists who opined for and pursued control of society...for society's own good. The current crop of elites make no secret of their desire to eliminate large swaths of population for the good of those who survive).<br /><br />There is one parallel that does continue to ring true, however. It is Rand's portrayal of people who continue to work, create, trade, and live moral lives despite the temptations to go on the lucrative dole and participate in the now acceptable debauchery. The reason there is still product to be purchased in the stores is because there are still people who would not think of taking handouts, who take pride in work well done, who consider their integrity more important than a short term gain. I work with these people every day. They are the ones whose jobs have become oppressive because there is more to do than ever before, creating, producing, transporting, stocking, in order to serve people who refuse to do anything. I've seen the herculean efforts of people who must get even small shipments to their destinations. Will these people someday 'shrug'? I expect so.<br /><br />I have a family member who has been thoroughly indoctrinated in the leftist mind set. His demands for free this and that, I remind him, must be provided by someone. Then I ask him Rand's question: What are you counting on? That these people, overworked, underappreciated, will voluntarily be enslaved to provide you with whatever you want, forever? What are you counting on? <br /><br />He must think I've gone daffy with such a silly question.<br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16872751505331436887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-77794401825878681202021-04-05T23:07:16.762-07:002021-04-05T23:07:16.762-07:00Contrary to John Galt being a genocidal prick, it ...Contrary to John Galt being a genocidal prick, it is the men who forced him to do what he did who were the genocidal pricks.<br /><br />They could, at any time, have stopped or reversed the process John Galt put into motion had they stopped what they were doing to rape the productive.<br /><br />That's all that they would have been required to do. Give up their lust for control, their greed, their envy.<br /><br />They were responsible for what happened, not the man who got the ball rolling. They are the ones who set up the conditions for the failure. He was the pin that popped the balloon of their fantasies.Antoniohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08990294366697832943noreply@blogger.com