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A tiny, weeny WTF_Nature wank...
I was unsure whether to post this here or iwank, but I posted twice, once to LOL and once to say, "Dude, you're being really annoying", so I figure it might go better here. Right.

WTF_Nature is a super fun community on LJ devoted to the crazy shit nature comes up with. Freak storms. Animals we didn't know existed. Animals that do exist but mutate. If it's in nature, and it makes you go "WTF", it's in the comm.

Yesterday, writerspleasure decided to post about a species of goby in South African waters that has turned on its natural predator, the jellyfish, and made those squishy suckers into their dinner. A really interesting subject, full of fascinating ramifications for the local ecosystem in that area. For some reason, he brought in an Ayn Rand reference.

markslj is tired of this political bullshit.

Wank is soon in the waters once the first blood is shed.

pazi_ashfeather makes a comment on writerspleasure's behaviour.

Thing degenerate and get mighty personal after that, all while the both of them argue about Ayn Rand. I don't know why, but people arguing about Ayn Rand always makes me laugh.

So anyway, one minute you think it's over, but those crazy kids start up the argument again in another thread. Are the Bearded Gobys Libertarians or Bolsheviks? A question for the ages!

Ahhh... Ayn Rand. *chuckle* Tiny, to be sure, but like the Bearded Goby, kind of cute as well.

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Re: How about a drinking game?

darksumomo
2010-07-21 02:55 pm UTC (link)

16.Finally 920 odd pages in, you've made to Galt's famous 56 page long climactic speech. Call your doctor and put yourself on the wait list for a liver transplant. If you’ve followed the rules so far, you’re going to need one.

17.Galt strikes his death blow by taking over the nation's radio networks and reading a really long, really boring philosophy paper. It's a crazy plan, but it may be just crazy enough to work.
Every time Galt says something you recognize for PHIL 101, drink.

18.Every time Galt says something that would have gotten you flunked out of PHIL 101, drink.

19.Every time Galt says something that would have made your PHIL 101 professor suggest you change majors, drink.

20."This is John Galt speaking"...
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"The key to what you so recklessly call 'human nature', the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness."...
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"Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two - existence and consciousness - are axioms you cannot escape, these two are the irreducible primaries implied in any action you undertake, in any part of your knowledge and in its sum, from the first ray of light you perceive at the start of your life to the widest erudition you might acquire at its end."...
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"...the formula defining the concept of existence and the rule of all knowledge: A is A."...
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blah, blah, blah...
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"A is A."
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"Whosoever is now within reach of my voice, whosoever is man the victim, not man the killer, I am speaking at the deathbed of your mind, at the brink of that darkness in which you are drowning..."
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flip, flip, flip...
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"A is A."
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"a sacrifice is the surrender of a value. Full sacrifice is full surrender of all values. If you wish to achieve full virtue, you must seek no gratitude in return for your sacrifice, no praise, no love..."
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"A is A."
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"Discard the unlimited license to evil which consists of claiming that man is imperfect..."
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My god, this just goes on and on.
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"A is A".
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"Some of you might plead the excuse of your ignorance, of a limited mind, a limited range..."
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"A is A."
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and on, and on...

Drink.

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	Re: How about a drinking game? erototoxin 2010-07-26 02:24 am UTC (link)
	"Whosoever is now within reach of my voice, whosoever is man the victim, not man the killer, I am speaking at the deathbed of your mind, at the brink of that darkness in which you are drowning..." Oh dear. Now that old song "Windmills of Your Mind" is running in my head, but with "Deathbed of Your Mind" instead. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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