John Galt a libertairian modeled off of Jesus?

Posted by jyokela 10 years, 3 months ago to Books
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I have to say no on both counts.

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  • Posted by rlewellen 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I did I dinged myself for making a mistake and wasting people productive energy.
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  • Posted by rlewellen 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    kinda sorta maybe but your brought it up
    >To date, the number patents issued for bio-engineered organisms numbers in the tens of thousands. Creating life is no longer god's claim to fame but the province of men. Perhaps art should endeavor to make its image of man that it portrays more "man-like" than "god-like."
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  • Posted by $ jlc 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I did not know that. I knew that mitochondria, chloroplasts (and perhaps mitochloridia...but with The Force, who can tell) had their own nucleic acid. I cannot find anything on Golgi having it's own...can you point me towards a source please?

    Jan
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  • Posted by rlewellen 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's funny though. The Golgi apparatus might be tricky. It has it's own DNA.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thank you, rlewellen for the entertaining conversation, by the way. You are completely correct: Venter et al synthesized about a million base pairs of essential-to-live genes beginning with Mycoplasma mycoides and then plunked
    the resulting genome into an enucleated Mycoplasma capricolum cell - which had all of the other organelles present (Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, ribosomes, etc). The new M.
    laboratorium cell happily chuffed along with its
    little cellular life, eating and reproducing and
    occasionally writing notes on its blog. We still need to synthesize the organelles, which we are
    in the process of doing. In 2009, Church at
    Harvard made some progress in synthesizing
    RNA in ribosomes and then assembling whole
    ribosomes from remnant parts.
    The DNA was the tough part (IMO) and we
    have done that; the other organelles are just
    a matter of time.

    Jan
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  • Posted by rlewellen 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am just thinking out loud. It goes through my head because from what I have been reading the only right she recognized was property rights. The only rights she thought should be protected were those of producers. I posted something on the bottom of our discussion about starting America. If I am wrong show me where I am wrong on there.
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  • Posted by rlewellen 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Here I looked it up it started with a lifeform all it is is synthetic DNA. plus an existing bacteria On May 21, 2010, Science reported that the Venter group had successfully synthesized the genome of the bacterium Mycoplasma mycoides from a computer record, and transplanted the synthesized genome into the existing cell of a Mycoplasma capricolum bacterium that had had its DNA removed. Key word existing cell.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Synthia" is an actual organism, based upon the Mycoplasma paradigm. It eats and grows and reproduces.

    Jan
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    huh? She got out of the Soviet Union and its oppression. She was anti-communist. How could you think otherwise?
    She was raised in a jewish household. She was not religious.
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  • Posted by rlewellen 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Was she? I never thought about it. She was an atheist in the end.She might still have been a commie though, I am still trying to nail that down.
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  • Posted by ShruginArgentina 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Blarman, Have you ever heard of "empirical evidence?

    Faith is the suspension of reason. Wher did you eve get the idea that it was the "principle of hope for a bette future?"

    Talk about innane...

    Believeing in something doesn't make it true.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A witty, yet vapid response.

    I don't have any problem with rational disagreement and other viewpoints, but I came to this site hoping for meaningful discussion. If I want to subject myself to the inane I can go troll media sites, read the progressive/liberal propaganda and see comments by their name-calling toadies.
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  • Posted by teri-amborn 10 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Faith is the substance of things not seen, the evidence of things hoped for."
    Paul's very wordy phrase simply means: Inductive and deductive reasoning.
    Religion is man-made rules of obedience to allegedly please God and is antithetical to thought.
    Religion (and hence obedience) flies in the face of what a very great mind expects from the human race.
    Ayn is correct about religion, but she confuses "religion" with "God" and "faith" and so her lexicon was incomplete...but she is definitely applying correct epistemology.
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