Any Rand

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Wed Oct 23 20:24:57 CDT 2002


David Morris wrote:

>
>> From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
>>
>> I consider cults very exciting. I'd like to join one but just haven't 
>> yet found the right fit.
>
>
> Cults?  I know cults.  I was in one once;  for ten years; an avid 
> believer.  That's why I know my Bible.  I know it pretty well.  
> Bible-cult.  But I left (kai knows a bit of my story).  Stll I was in 
> no less a cult than the Holy Roman Catholic Church.  They just have a 
> bigger membership and a longer (but no less undistinguished) history.
>
> I know cults. Just ask me.

I grew up in the same insane asylum as David.

Sorry I couldn't think of something more interesting to say about Ayn 
Rand. But her prose is so clusmsy and her ideas are so simplistic. The 
thing she has going for her is a dominant personality. I do admire her 
for that. She's a kind of hero and I'm not joking. Pity we need heroes 
but we do.

P.

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