Intellectual Archive
The Singing Revolution: How the tiny country of Estonia overthrew their Soviet occupiers, without killing a single person
I just ordered a copy of The Singing Revolution, a documentary about how the Estonian people organized themselves in the 1980s and cleverly used the cultural power of songs to overthrow their Soviet occupiers.
An entire ...
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Transcript of my Reason.tv interview about Ayn Rand’s legacy
My thanks to a user on braincrave.com for transcribing the parts of my August 2008 interview with Reason.tv that pertain to Ayn Rand's legacy. I'm pasting his transcription below (with a few light edits and ...
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“None of the cool kids like Ayn Rand anyway…” and other sneers
February 9, 2010 · Category: Intellectual, Objectivism
Jeff Perren sent me a link to two recent articles about Ayn Rand -- "Ayn Rand: engineer of souls" by Anthony Daniels and "One or two thoughts about Ayn Rand" by Roger Kimball -- and ...
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Do corporations deserve the same legal protections as people?
This is a conversation from Facebook. My philosopher friend Stephan Pernar joined the group called "Corporations are not people." In response I asked:
What essential difference does it make whether corporations "are" people, when they are ...
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Suffering as a form of spiritual guidance
January 5, 2010 · Category: Buddhism, Eckhart Tolle, Intellectual, Mindfulness, Witness Consciousness
In response to my post on the significance of suffering, Andrew ends his insightful comments with:
So in that sense I think the issue of suffering is important: I think denials of it lie at the ...
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On the significance of suffering
Peter's reply to The Invitation reminded me of a conversation he and I had several years ago, which had prompted me to write my post on Buddhism and Suffering.
In that post, I concluded:
So to me, ...
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The Invitation
December 26, 2009 · Category: Individualism, Intellectual, Mindfulness, Personal, Witness Consciousness
by Oriah
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how ...
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Reason TV interviews Atlasphere founder Joshua Zader
November 9, 2009 · Category: Atlasphere, Buddhism, Individualism, Intellectual, Objectivism, Personal
The interview, titled "Dating in the Atlasphere," was actually conducted in August 2008, but they've waited a while to publish it as part of a long series of interviews about Ayn Rand's legacy.
From Reason TV's ...
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Nathaniel Branden is highly recommending the Lifebook program by Jon Butcher
Nathaniel Branden sent the following message to members of his announcement list:
It is my great pleasure to introduce to you a man and a program of stunning originality and practical results. The man is Jon ...
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On having betrayed Ayn Rand 50 years ago
I received the following today from an Atlasphere member. Our form for removing yourself from the member database asks for a reason for the removal and, inside that form, he wrote:
You are associated with the ...
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