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About Me
- Jonathan
- Me? I like to see how things work. And by 'things', I mean everything. Given this fascination with everything under the sun, I have honed a skill of being mechanically inclined in multiple areas. I like to fix things. I am like a little kid when it comes to nature; I like to explore stuff. I turn over rocks out of constant curiosity always filled with the excitement of what I might find.
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A morality of reason counters the relativism and the undiscriminating "tolerance" of non-absolutes
ReplyDeleteSuch a morality begins with the individual's life as the primary value and identifies the further values that are demonstrably required to sustain that life. It observes that man's nature demands that we live not by random urges or by animal instincts, but by the faculty that distinguishes us from animals and on which our existence fundamentally depends: rationality.
ReplyDeleteI originally had written in my post that I wish I had not evolved from an animal only to be left with the underlying lower brain instincts and desires that continually attempt to chip away at my moral structure.
I was weak in but a moment, and now my realization of such allows me to recognize that weakness and uproot it through inner reflection and intelligent teachings.
My first step is to purchase and completely ingest Atlas Shrugged.
Always act in accordance with the hierarchy of your values and never sacrifice a greater value to a lesser one.
ReplyDelete--Ayn Rand
(I suggest you get it on audio. it's so very good on audio. I'm listening to it right now in the office -- 2.5 hrs into it, 58 somethin' to go)it is such a beautiful journey.
That quote shook me to the bone.
ReplyDeleteI have torn the fabric of my existence.
I must now search for the means to learn how to sew.