I feel like I got my money's worth! ;)

Thanks for posting Scott.

What a great list of great producers.

Wait aaa..... how does Robbie have more points than I do??

Looking forward to 2015 with all of you. Happy New Year!

Congrats to all.
It is an honor to be among such company.

ok. this is kinda fun. how many of the profiles in this list have you clicked on before? guess how many in this list I've clicked on? (hint: I've clicked on my own profile multiple times :))

You ought to be on this list as well, Scott. Happy New Year!

Thanks, Scott. Happy New Year to you and yours!

Points?
I just can't stop posting. Such controversy, such intelligence, such fun. So many topics -- but almost miraculously, so many smart people worth writing to. Thanks is barely good enough.

Congratulations to all. This site is a gathering place of many brilliant minds. The discussions are most stimulating and enlightening. I look forward to a productive and hopefully prosperous 2015.
Happy New Year!

$5Au says "Congratulations" to all of you. Well deserved.

Do any of you guys sleep? Congratulations to all but more importantly thank you all for contributing your thoughts. I enjoy reading and learning from all of you.

3 Posted by  $  Robbie53024 10 months, 1 week ago 
When you insist on putting the modifier "rational" in front of "self interest" you are no different than the religious that those here often decry as being mystics.

Why do you get to limit your descriptions to those who behave "rationally?" If self interest is the virtue, then why isn't it so if taken to the extreme? And in this context, Madoff merely took his own self interest to an extreme point. Yes, he lied and cheated, that's what it took for him to realize his self interest.

This is where I think that Objectivism fails. You cannot say that a little self interest is good, but a lot is bad. It is either good or bad.

Nobody here wants to answer the BAOTB postulate. If my self interest is good, then what stops me from just trampling over everyone else's liberty to get whatever I want? My self interest is paramount.

I hear this retort - "because the only way to ensure one's own liberty is to recognize the liberty of others" - Why? What universal axiom makes that so? I have provided countless examples of individuals throughout history that have not behaved according to that maxim. Some of them died of other than old age because of it, but so what? Is the Objectivist ultimate objective merely to die of old age? So those people ultimately were killed by a Badder ass, so what? They lived and did what they wanted in their own self interest. We still remember, hell, study many of those people - Alexander the Great, Cleopatra, Hitler and Stalin. I posit that those people made a bigger impact on the world - for good or evil - than any 10 Objectivists ever will.

As I'm often told - check your premises.

Not a rant against you, kh, merely a rant.

Cannot wait... the new year will be more prosperous than the last!

Thanks for that, Scott... it's easy when you are among like minds!

My heartfelt thanks to Scott and everyone on the list. I am glad to have found the gulch and "met" all of you here.
Thanks to everyone at Atlas productions for providing this place to meet and exchange ideas.

Happy 2015 and beyond to all Gulchers!
May we find our way to the real Gulch this year.

Hey Allosaur you are not on this list of people who never sleep, but jus' sayin' - i do enjoy reading your posts.

Thank you Scott! I'm honored to be recognize and among such wonderful company! Couldn't be there without you all here. :-) It's been a hell of a ride!

Newbie me found out this week that I can bag a lot of points by posting an interesting thread.
But I think I owe it to everyone to merely post for points.
I'll make sure I've pulled down a big long-neck instead of stepping on some baby stegosaurus.