(January 22, 2023 at 3:47 pm)Objectivist Wrote:(January 22, 2023 at 2:12 pm)emjay Wrote: Hey there,
Sorry, I wasn't expecting this sort of response... you're welcome
I saw that guy in that video... very animated... do you know him personally then, if you're wanting to sent a copy of my post to him? It's your call of course but I'd prefer you didn't... there's nothing profound in anything I've said, and tbh I don't see what's so controversial about this, that you'd have so much difficulty getting anyone to take it seriously. I mean obviously I haven't learnt the finer points yet, but the general message... or one of many... that logic cannot be, or shouldn't be, separated from facts (ie reality), if I'm understanding that right, seems pretty intuitive to me in hindsight.
Hi Emjay,
No, I don't know him personally and I will respect your wishes. I just know him from his videos. I know it would make him happy and proud that something he said got somebody interested in philosophy. I don't know what's so controversial about it either, but it is. I've been called every name in the book for expressing these ideas and just the other day someone on this forum called me a sociopathic cultist.
I'm sorry to hear you're having such a hard time... from my point of view, what you have say is a breath of fresh air. But just to be clear my interest in it was not really in the sense of looking for a philosophy... as in the sense of a philosophy to live by (Objectivism), but rather that some of the ideas within it were interesting and appealing. That's not to say that I'm not interested now to learn about Objectivism as a whole - which is the subject of that playlist, and which, as long as it is, I really look forward to going through - but just to say that that was not the part that was initially appealing to me; rather the aspects about analysing concepts etc... that sort of thing just always appeals to me. But rest assured I'll watch that playlist with an open mind... I've started already; each lecture is about three hours long but it's relaxing so far and I like what he's saying... I'm just treating it as an audio book because it's basically audio only, and that makes it very relaxing. So who knows where it will lead (Objectivism as a whole)... whether it will resonate with me as a whole, but so far it's looking promising, but even if not, it'll still be something interesting to learn and get my teeth into.
