Let's misinterpret Rand together

Way back when, when i was a tyke graduating from college, i had a specific run-in with the universe that scared me into changing my world view. I had a liberal arts education and thought i had it down, the universe would have none of that nonsense and presented me with an alternate scenario. I had to clear a lot of mental baggage quickly, but my attention was full time directed on a fascinating novel - Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. This morning, i was treated to somebody else's opinion of Ayn Rand philosophy and the bells of prior thought have started ringing.

As i read this article, she misinterprets Machiavelli as well as Rand, which was central to my thesis. Now if you read Lao Tzu, The Art of War, then Machiavelli's The Prince and finish with Rands Atlas Shrugged - on a base of Marx economics, then you could get very close to the underpinnings of my personal philosophy. " It's a walk on the slippery rocks " If this is what passes for intellectual discourse, i am afraid that the bulshyttometer says to give up reading the nonsense. It is a hit piece on every person who holds a different, non-mainstream-educated opinion.

To get good information is one of the standards for developing a basis set. The basis set is the group of fundamental ideas that we can use to back up the way we think. If i have to question an idea, it goes into the flux box - and if in flux, i must justify my decision without the concept. Certain things in the flux box make the world extremely difficult, but we have to figure it out for ourselves if it is going to be a valid tool in our personal playbooks. I had the 2nd law of thermodynamics in there for a while - it only is valid in closed systems and we use a lot of open systems, so as long as i validate the system application, i can use energy in equals energy out in my mental gymnastics.

I have the ability to think in technical mathematics. It has come from years of looking at numbers of all sorts and sorting them into different forms. Information is carried by numbers, but those numbers then develop patterns that give insight into the sine waves that create apparent reality.

Apprenticeship to nature involves watching quietly in the stillness as the universe unfolds. The bees are calling me, so my apprenticeship this year and next will be to learn hives, to create queens and to comprehend the dance of nature on a personal level that leads to a skill of service to the land. This will allow me to place all of base ten mathematics into the flux box while i look at the different means of nature outside the conventions of cartesian space/time. The bees operate in sacred geometry, which with symmetry and matrix algebra are allowed in context, because i have thought those areas through.

Several other past timelines came through, like the rand download, that tells me that there are way more complications to this one than i have bit off before, but i have a caveat that will allow me to 'keep in touch with conventional reality'. All work related issues of technological connections are allowed until specifically prohibited due to personal abuse. As soon as i decide that a behavior is manic, i will remove the cause into the flux box. At this point, the telephone is gone and shortly my net use will be reduced to three categories : game theory, group theory and information exchange.

If you wish to play guru on the hill, i will be beginning a trial game in march - you are welcome to think about a single word that you would like to have serve as your personal node - the game will require a unique entry for each player in the game. The input will be based on the initial post date as a tie breaker.