do you think you’ll start becoming interested in spiritual understanding? It does after all constitute an entire half of your brain. I see everyone on here obsessed with left brain knowledge and it makes me sad.
I tried ever so hard to read The Fountainhead, but it was such torture to read that I gave up halfway!!! And yes, I read it long after I graduated university and was all growed up. 
I’m now on book 9 of Wheel of Time. Damn you CSK.
because left brain reasoning is the only way we can communicate between each other. I could have some concept of “spirituality”, but if I can’t spell it out it some way that rooted in logic, then what is the point? We would just be “guessing” that the shared experience is really the same thing.
But yes, I do think about “spirtuality”…but thats such a vague topic. Its personal. To me it is tied to a sense of aesthetic… the root of a persons sense of beauty. I think spiritual experiences are celebrations, in a symbolic way, of something the person finds beautiful. For example, being a competitive athlete is spiritual to me because it symbolically celebrates the will of living things. Anyway, It is something I am working on defining for myself.
Once I define it for myself, then I can try to assimilate it to other people’s interpretations of spirituality. Find the common denominators.
no offense but this is patently untrue and the only reason you believe this is because you’ve never made a serious effort to understand it.
Ok this is a start. Your starting point is very Randian, and like I said, there is nothing inconsistent about that. It is just the left brain interpretation of a broader concept of reality. None of these concepts is opposed to an understanding of the spiritual side of reality.
FAIR WARNING: you are taking the same route I took, don’t let that hold you back.
Are you, like, my Yoda now?
Do you want me to be? you have to ask.
Also… for the record, I felt that way about be an athlete years before I even knew about Rand.
Nice offer, but Im not coachable or even teachable. Gotta do it myself 
yea so did I. I bet the entire time you read it, you were thinking “I already know this”. That’s because it is universal truth that already resides in all of us.
good. I was that kid also. Drove my parents nuts.
yes sir
I guess what made me love it so much was that I already knew I was going to love what the book was about. Before I read it, I very carefully read “The Virtue of Selfishness” and formed a detailed understanding of Objectivism. So, I had a personal attachment from the start. After that it was about the story and visuals. The visuals were a HUGE part of my enjoyment. I knew I was going to LOVE it from the first page where we meet Roark on that rock cliff by the lake… just how it was described!. What a great intro!
Jesus wept, that little interaction was awkward to read.
KMD, hats off to you for reading lots of varied material
After expressing relief for choosing The Fountainhead over Atlas Shrugged, looks like I will be reading it after all.
While reading The Fountainhead I was getting some shade from my activist socialist anti-capitalists friend. In order to keep the peace as well as keep my own mind challenged I asked her to suggest to me what the “antithesis” of Rand would be. Her answer was actually really impressive. She suggested Walden Two by Skinner, a book written in the same time period which describes a socialist commune utopia. It is to modern socialist as Rand is to diehard capitalists.
As I mentioned in earlier posts, I have decided to read it and have started to do so. I am realizing that it is a much more elegant antithesis of Atlas Shrugged. I want to read both Skinner and Rand as a project in finding the ven diagram equivalent of the union between these two.
Looking forward to discussing these books with anyone else who has read or will read them!
Just pirated latest edition of Animal Spirits by Shiller.
Just reread The Art of the Deal and now reading The Big Short.
Have not read his books, so can’t speak for them. However, the sentiment that he is anti transpeople, women, etc really pisses me off. In reality he is neutral to these groups, which I admire.
trans people are just in the process of switching between male and female gender within a lifetime instead of between lifetimes. We have all been male and female many, many times. understanding relieves difficulty.