New Bumper Sticker

Posted by crystalquartz 9 years, 9 months ago to The Gulch: General
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I just came back in here, after about 1.5 years. I saw this bumper sticker today that said;

Atlas Shrugged is no Longer Fiction.

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  • Posted by plusaf 9 years, 9 months ago
    see my home page and scroll down a bit to a view of my car's bumper...

    http://www.plusaf.com/

    And someone was giving THAT one away for free in Asheville, NC! That, alone, surprised the hell out of me!
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  • Posted by Zero 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think we're talking past each other Crystal. I was only responding to Flapnap's jibe.
    (Frankly I'm having a hard time figuring out the exactly what (s)he meant.)

    I have no idea how Miss Rand was paid for Atlas Shrugged, but I'm sure the money was quite secondary.

    Hers was one of the greatest minds in history. She was the fountainhead of a powerful new philosophy, destined to change the world and this book was to be her masterwork. Her chance to lay it all out in images everyman could understand.

    Every moment of her life had led up to the writing of that book.
    The money was icing on the cake, not a motive force.
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  • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes shame on you, LOL. I have said before that AS should be required reading in high school but truth be told, until a person is receptive to the truth it would not make a difference to read AS. Same reaction as you until you're receptive.
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  • Posted by crystalquartz 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, and the main stream media actually put the interview on the air.

    If not for my dad, I never would have learned it, either. I used to think he was nuts; shame on me.
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  • Posted by H2ungar123 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "It could be you." It IS us.....frightening days
    are already here. Now what, dear 'leaders' =
    now what? Yes, I am fearful!
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  • Posted by crystalquartz 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No she didn't do it for the money. She did it because; if someone will pay you, for your work, then you have more reason to do it.
    It is like slavery; the slaves were lazy and did what they were forced to do but nothing more, and the masters were lazy because they just bossed the slaves.
    It is good to get paid for work, and ideas, and inventions; then you will not be lazy, and have incentive to work.
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  • Posted by crystalquartz 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, every time Obama parties with his Hollywood elites, raising funds and eating gourmet $5,000.00 dollar a plate dinners, while we all just watch in horror; I think of that scene from Animal Farm, where all the pigs were partying in the kitchen, laughing, drinking, eating the best, while all the animals were looking into the window, gasping at their shock.
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  • Posted by Zero 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My bad, I got it now, your saying she just did it for the money.
    That both she and her magnum opus are overrated.

    Yeah, well, everyone has the right to their own mind.

    Just a little disappointed is all. I was hoping for a little more COLOR if not substance.
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  • Posted by crystalquartz 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No, she was not a ghost writer, or her name would not be on the book as author. Maybe someone gave her an advance before the book was written, because she presented her idea, and they liked it.
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  • Posted by crystalquartz 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It all started in the 60's with Alinsky and his communist regime. And all the hippies, taking LSD and listening to him. And Bill Ayers, Obama's mentor, starting the Weather Underground.
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  • Posted by crystalquartz 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I guess they sell them on the Atlas Shrugged movie site. I haven't looked yet. We should get one. Most people wouldn't understand it, anyway.
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  • Posted by crystalquartz 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It is funny you should say that, because it seems as if our Earth, got shifted into a parallel universe, where Obama and the communists rule, and
    1984 Animal Farm, is a reality.
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  • Posted by crystalquartz 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I hope everyone has a lot of emergency supplies at the very least. Anything could happen now. There could be an Ebola outbreak, for instance, and how would we know if it was real or not? But Obama could call marital law and put us all in FEMA quarantine camps.
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  • Posted by crystalquartz 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Probably. I zoomed by the car and the bumper sticker caught my eye, and I didn't expect it to say Atlas Shrugged, so it happened fast. I was debating in my mind if it said "is now non-fiction" or "is no longer fiction". Anyway, it made me think of you all. :)
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 9 months ago
    I am encouraged of late. I have been seeing more recognition and running into more people than ever that are learning of the message and the messenger.
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  • Posted by Zero 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Y'know, I'm curious, I've never heard any conspiracy theories regarding our great She.

    Who was it that was supposed to have hired her, FlatNap?

    Are you saying she was a ghost writer?
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    now, if you are gonna say stuff like that, you will
    get a minus one, flanap -- we've done our homework
    on this subject for 50 years. -- j

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  • Posted by Retired24-navy 9 years, 9 months ago
    Sad to say, but its all coming true as Obama and his minions take over everything. I hope some good smart people are hiding somewhere to help fix everything when the US falls.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 9 months ago
    In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand foresaw the inevitability of what is happening today. The reason it took years to write was putting it in a form that was readable, and inspiring, while hitting all the points she wanted to make. That took genius. It was as if we were reading about the folly of a parallel universe in which a few things were different but the moral lesson was clear as glass. It said, "This could be you." From the perspective of 2014, paraphrasing Pogo, "She has seen the future and they is us."
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  • Posted by Rex_Little 9 years, 9 months ago
    While she was alive, someone once remarked to Rand that everything she depicted the government doing in AS had already happened. She replied, "I know it." I forget exactly when this was, but my guess would be early 70's at the latest.
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    Posted by flanap 9 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ms. Rand was hired to write the book; it is not some miraculous ordaining of intelligence that resulted in the tome.
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