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Looking at Rand's Ideas Part One

  Yes, the ‘Rand’ is Ayn Rand.  The atheist, selfish, capitalist, free market, anti collectivist, merciless etc…  Don’t like her?  Well that doesn’t really matter here.  I’m looking at ideas and maybe I won’t even express hers accurately.  I’ll take a little piece at a time.  I’m interested to see if (though an atheist) her broader views are compatible with scripture.  I think they are.  Lets begin where she would, I think, with first principles. Rand was a great fan of Aristotle.  Each volume of Atlas Shrugged was named after principles he basically codified.  ‘Non-Contradiction’, ‘Either Or’, and ‘A is [.......]

Thomas Ice and Empirical Eisegesis (not quite finished, but concluded)

Now briefly, what is the real controlling principle governing ‘this generation’ for Ice and others? It’s Empiricism. In this case it is the context of Ice’s empirical mind. That context is eisegeted into the text.

Destined for a Reality Check

How many times have you heard someone say something about creating our own reality or destiny? You know, “reality is what we make it,” or “don’t you know, we create our own destiny.” I cringe a bit when I hear that these days. Sure there is a bit of truth in the clichés but it’s a tiny bit. If taken to heart and lived by those clichés can lead to disaster. They definitely lead to a misunderstanding of how the universe REALY IS.

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