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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