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When I receive my tax refund the next year, I'm going to buy 1000+ copies of Ayn Rand's "The Virtue of Selfishness."

Once I've received the delivery, I will pass them out to every person I come into contact with. Maybe even leave some on door steps and park benches for people to find. Something like what Christians do with gospel tracts.

This will spread atheism and selfishness for all time. I don't see how this can fail.

>> No.3080220

Why don't you just keep this glorious ideology for yourself? Fuck those other people.

>> No.3080224

>>3080220

This is my vocation in life.

>> No.3080239

>>3080210
>I don't see how this can fail

Well, you'll probably give them to someone who doesn't like Rand at some point, who will find you and point out the irony of giving out free shit to spread Rand's message while throwing all the copies he was able to recover at you.

>> No.3080243

>>3080210
>I don't see how this can fail.
the modern person doesn't read unless it's tween vampire fantasy, lady sex fantasy, nerd continuity tie in, or classic" so expect your books to end up in the bin or padding a vagrant's nest

>> No.3080261

Was making the second Atlas Shrugged movie wrong by Objectivist standards? The first part flopped hard, so the people financing this one can't be expecting to benefit from it. Were they being altruistic?

>> No.3080270

I thinking you're from a religious group trying to make atheists look bad. Atheism has nothing to do with selfishness or generosity. It has to do with realizing that this world is all you've got and you should make the best of it.

Go back to helping millionaire preachers get their names in nice old ladies' wills.

>> No.3080272

>>3080261

Yup. True altruism is found in the people who make 2nd parts of movies without expecting any profit.

>> No.3080275

>>3080210
>I don't see how this can fail.
>IMPLYING PEOPLE READ

>> No.3080281

>>3080270
Butt mad atheist detected.

>> No.3080285

>>3080281
Wickedness makes me mad, not happy. You got me.

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3080293

>>3080210
10/10

>> No.3080303

>>3080270
>Atheism has nothing to do with selfishness or generosity. It has to do with realizing that this world is all you've got and you should make the best of it.
No, atheism has to do with the absence of belief in dieties. Nothing more, nothing less.

>> No.3080332

>>3080303
You're right. I dressed it up a bit, thinking I would get away with it.

>> No.3080365

Great thread.

>> No.3080369

>>3080303
which begs the question "How does one form a set of morals to live by in the absence of such deities?"

>> No.3080390

>>3080369

Depends on which ethicist you ask.

I've subscribed to a personal form of moral intuitionism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_intuitionism

>> No.3080419

>>3080390
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_intuitionism
what kind of new age hippy bullshit is this?

>> No.3080432

Doesn't handing out free shit go against the teaching of the Lord and Savior Ayn Rand?

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3080436

>>3080369
One doesn't.

>> No.3080437

>>3080432

Hm. No.

>> No.3080445

>>3080437
I'm pretty sure it does. Now kill yourself.

>> No.3080449

>>3080445
You can hand out free shit for selfish reasons, dafty.

>> No.3080454

>>3080436
your nihilism is just a fad
my existential despair is for life

>> No.3080468

>>3080449
You can also be a faggot. Well, I don't have to tell you that, you already know from experience.

>> No.3080487

>>3080454
Existential despair is merely temporary being in denial. It wears of.

>> No.3080517

>>3080369
You combine atheism with something else. The journey for "something else" starts by finding the first true commandment, hidden in a book more intellectually stimulating than all holy scriptures combined -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

>> No.3080525

>>3080449
Yes you can. In fact handing out a political treatise for the purpose of persuading others IS a selfish motive.

>> No.3080528

>>3080210
Please be in Sydney.

>> No.3080570

>>When I receive my tax refund the next year, I'm going to buy 1000+ copies of Ayn Rand's "The Virtue of Selfishness."

Once I've received the delivery, I will pass them out to every person I come into contact with. Maybe even leave some on door steps and park benches for people to find. Something like what Christians do with gospel tracts. This will spread atheism and selfishness for all time. I don't see how this can fail.

Sounds like you should probably actually read the book first.

>> No.3080588

Why are you waiting for the tax refund? Why not start now. Why postpone Armageddon?

>> No.3080597

>>3080588

Bills to pay, friend.