Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1892-1000489149-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:41:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 31999 invoked by uid 510); 14 Sep 2001 17:39:34 -0000 Received: from n25.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.75) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 14 Sep 2001 17:39:34 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1892-1000489149-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.53] by mv.egroups.com with NNFMP; 14 Sep 2001 17:39:12 -0000 X-Sender: drewschaefer@ftnetwork.com X-Apparently-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 14 Sep 2001 17:39:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 50566 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2001 16:04:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Sep 2001 16:04:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO email002) (216.35.122.207) by mta3 with SMTP; 14 Sep 2001 16:04:02 -0000 Received: from AspEmail - 216.35.122.203 by email002 with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1774.114.11); Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:07:30 -0700 To: "iwar@yahoogroups.com" <iwar@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: <0877e3007150e91EMAIL002@email002> From: <DrewSchaefer@ftnetwork.com> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:05:40 -0700 Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [iwar] one Rational Comment Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fred, I do appreciate your savage surfing of the 'net, to find and bring us these often overlooked, and often very incisive commentaries. I happened, today on my AM bus, to read a portion of Ayn Rand's Journals, that hit what I have not yet said myself. Sorry to hide behind a more eloquent author: (NB: this was one paragraph; I changed the format. Anyone not familiar with AR, she was a philosopher/intellectual radical Free market person; any twinge of 'racism' comes from the perspective of not having a deeper look at her writings) From the Journals of Ayn Rand: [p.253 of the Plume paperback edition: 1997] "Man cannot change his nature. But its realization and fulfillment are up to him. Being a man is given to him - remaining a man is not. He is the only creature that can slip beneath his nature. He is man only so long as he functions in accordance with the nature of a rational being. When he chooses to function otherwise, he is no longer man. There is no name to the thing he then becomes. It is not an animal - it does not possess the animal's equipment of survival. It cannot survive, but it has that interval of time at its disposal before the consequences of its choice catch up with it, an interval as a prelude to destruction, a process of disintegration like a slow-rotting disease. Thus it exists for a while - a thing of corruption and death." I'm getting a shiver, rereading that. Sleep well all, Drew Drew Schaefer, JD 41 76 549 1907 (Mobile #), 9, ruelle des Galeries 1248 Hermance, Suisse ***************************************************** "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own." --Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814. ME 14:119 ****************************************************** ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Get your free e-mail account at http://www.ftnetwork.com Visit the web site of the Financial Times at http://www.ft.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get VeriSign's FREE GUIDE: "Securing Your Web Site for Business." Learn about using SSL for serious online security. Click Here! http://us.click.yahoo.com/LgMkJD/I56CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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