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Studiodekadent, You mentioned that you were an only child, and birth order, as a determining factor in individual psychology, is a fascinating subject to me. I try to read whatever studies come up and I have to say I agree with most of their findings. Also I have the ongoing observation of my 41 first cousins and myself as petri dishes. One thing I think about myself is, I was always a sort of middle-aged child, and now I'm an old child, having skipped the inconvenient maturation most people have to go through. I never learned to fight or negotiate, at the appropriate age, for a place in a hierarchy. I never had to share, because whatever was going for a child was mine. I have always had an all-or-nothing emotionalism; if I wasn't loved unconditionally, totally, then I wasn't loved. Being liked was different, and easy, natural. Liking others was the same. I always felt self-conscious and noticed, not without reason. I am thinking myself back into my childhood consciousness here as best I can--sorry to be self-indulgent. But these childhood self-perceptions and circumstances do determine our adulthood, I am sure. Growing up with just your parents, or with siblings too, makes a huge difference in how you turn out. Am I right?

I see that Perigo along with everybody hopes the Atlas movie will be a success and celebrate greatness, Especially in Music. For the sake of those poor souls who will be working with and for him after he sees the movie, I really, really hope he likes the soundtrack.

Adam, the salaries I understand. They are well deserved. The rest of your post I don't. I know you don't like obama,I get that, but of your chicken hypothesis I just cannot understand One.Single.Word.

Is this bill actually in process of being passed, or is it just a proposal by Uncle Theodore-escaped-from-the-attic-again?

Back at ya!

Yes- really nice article in the NatPost today. they're moving to a bigger & better one, but, but. If you could post the songs I would really like it, feeling very Atlantic this season.

DEEPEST SYMPATHY FROM Your Brothers of the Sacred Igloo local 13 On the CLOSING OF THE NORTH SYDNEY ARENA Dear brother Joel, Please accept our condolences on this sad occasion. We also enclose two messages from friends abroad: "What great games we had, what great guys and gals we had, I wish I was with them, I wish I was with them again." -A. MacGillivrey "This is an end but just a new beginning/ Remember we rise again, and then we rise again" - the Rankin Family. We would upload these messages but you know we have no wifi in the Igloo. ISS, Nanook McGuire I have to do everything around here these days

Adam,it's not like you to snark at me unprovoked! Just because I would not have liked to be homeschooled myself, and was not qualified to homeschool my own children (I could not even get them to do their homework), doesn't mean I don't know there are many examples of excellent results. I am also aware that homeschooling was the norm in most sections of literate society, for most of history. I don't believe in homework, acutally, but that's another topic. Carol: Where was there any "snarking" in my response? I was sharing. Adam You said that the positive examples you knew would"be of no interest to me" - I took this to mean you thought I have confirmation bias. Maybe I was oversensitive. I really would like to know of your impressions of these children and especially of their adult progress, if you have information. Carol always sharing too

http://www.senate.mo.gov/11info/bts_web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=4124271 What an innovative way to mark the Family Day holiday on Monday! Maybe some of the kids will get the day off work to deliver some bread and gruel to the less fortunate. They don't have Family Day in Missouri? Only in Canada you say? Pity. Missouri Mules, hang your heads, clasp your hooves, and bray.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wisconsin_budget_unions Supposedly over 25,000 protesters showed up at the state capital to protest modest cuts in union benefits and being denied their bargaining power as a union. I say good, I was a goverment employee as a kid and I was paid minimum wage. Working for the state/government was never desired when I was younger, the pay was just way too low. Now the pay and pensions are way beyond the private sector. It is wrong and the protesters in Wisconsin are being selfish. IMHO Pippi You bet they're being selfish! And virtuous.

Adam,it's not like you to snark at me unprovoked! Just because I would not have liked to be homeschooled myself, and was not qualified to homeschool my own children (I could not even get them to do their homework), doesn't mean I don't know there are many examples of excellent results. I am also aware that homeschooling was the norm in most sections of literate society, for most of history. I don't believe in homework, acutally, but that's another topic.

Phil, you can order it through my address and I will send it to you. if you promise not to send me your Collected Works I will do it for cost of postage only.

There is also no overestimating the the brief gasps of freedom the parents get when the kids start school. Real freedom finally comes, as the truism goes, when the kids leave home and the dog dies.

Everybody, thanks for the great comments so far. wss. infact I had noticed Kellys blog and I got the reference, but the title was just too cutesy for me to want to investigate it. My biased mistake. Cheerful chirping I can conjure up for myself, thought I. Studio, you are a real survivor. Private religious school can be the worst. And boarding school is to me a kind of perversion. You remove the child from real society and family and put him in a microcosm of arbitrary authority, where all his possible friends, role models and mentors are pre=chosen through narrow criteria. I know someone who was sent to such a place (Catholic yet)at age seven and never got over it. Ted, we see to have had similar experiences. The high school Latin and poetry we had to memorize, and the algebra I still use fairly regularly, have served me better in life than university advanced literary criticism or Theory of Journalism spun out over whole semesters, which boiled down to "Great writing is subjective, time will tell" and "Afflict the comfortable, comfort the afflicted, spell the names right." Xray, we are on a wavelength again. I would add that the social aspect of school is as important for the adults I teach as it is for children. Maybe more. Obviously I am a strong proponent of public education, because the school is part of the public and the community. This is especially true in small towns, where all the parents know everything that goes on in school because the teachers and the cafeteria lady are their neighbours and relatives and friends or enemies. Kids are unable to spin their misdeeds, or escape the idea that there is a real world and someday they will have to do real work in it.

I wonder if vaguelyhumanoid or other teens who visit here have any thoughts on this.

I never came across RoR when I was still just lurking. Wss, I wish I had come across your excellent summary of the Osites then. I ventured onto OL because it lacked the sycophancy and earnest drear that the other sites contained in too full measure. Still, if I hadn't read them I would not have come across three of my favourite characters, the Stoic Scand, the Ultimate Philosopher of Plumbing, and the Unluckiest Man in the World.

"Nihiliam it might be; Objectivism, it ain't."

Goodness gracious me Mr Coates, you are very interesting man. Iqqy

Many Objectivists are drawn to Rand in their teenage years, when they become disenchanted, to say the least, with their school experience and most of their classmates. Some of them go on to homeschool their own children, based on their educational and philosophical values. The object is to provide the child a superior education compared with that available in the public school system. At the same time, of course, they provide the child with an individualist upbringing apart from the pack mentality of their schoolgoing cohort. I'm not aware of any studies on how these children fare in adult life, but it's a very interesting subject to me. I will say straight out that I would have hated to be homeschooled, though likely not as much as my parents would have hated it. As an only child my entire social life and lifelong friends came from going to school, and the feeling of belonging to a group was very important to me. The continual emotional learning from interacting with others in my own agegroup, was as important as the basic (pretty good) education I got. Anyone have any experience or thoughts in this area?

Oh, Adam. This brings back the ones who stood by me and still do, my heroes. You are making me cry you cad.

This site gives the pronuniciation of the "a" vowel in Rand as in "canned or "banned": http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/d98/Ayn_Rand As for "Ayn": Rand's decision to have "Ayn" pronounced that way was an arbitrary one. She might as well have opted to pronounce the "Ay" as in "lay", which would have been more in sync with a pronunciation one would expect in English. It looks like Rand constructed Ayn from the Finnish name "Aina": The German language for example does not have 'th' as a phoneme, which is why Germans who wrongly proncounce "think" as "sink" can be misunderstood by English speakers because the minimal pair has been changed into two homophones. The "th" sound seems to be a fairly complicated one to produce, which is why kids in the language learning process, often go through a phase where they pronounce "think" as "fink". Maybe only those in love with linguistics will truly understand Ted's passion about all this. Really enjoyed reading this old thread. Could somebody recommend me a good, simple Indo-European language family chart or tree to show my ESL class? I've told them that English, Russian, Pashto, Farsi, Romany and Hindi are all related but they don't believe me. I've lied to them before.

To Ms. Aline Andamine, Area Manager Tourism Canada Outreach Dear Ali, I am sorry you have had complaints from the Human Rights Commission about my characterizations of Toronto multiculturalism. You told me to use social networking to pull in US tourists and I am trying to do it. We can't just take the van down to Buffalo and kidnap them off the street anymore. Harriedly, Daunce

Dear Mr. Coates, I am very interested in your drink ideas and think they would be a good fit with my cuisine. If you are ever in Toronto I would like to welcome you to my establishment and share synergistic ideas. In the meantime could you send me recipe for Beer Float as it sounds very like a specialty of my friend Hamish next door at the tavern. Yours sincerely Iqbal Omaratenti, Prop. and Head Chef Papa's Poutine and Souvlaki Hut Toronto, Ontario

Oh, well Phil, Vancouver, they barely know how to be Canadian out there except in Olympic years. Come to Toronto for the real Canada where we say "Wei, wei" instead of Eh,eh, knit up anything you want including the wraveled sleeve of care, and ain't no mountains we can't weigh.Wei. Way!

Whoops! Look like our staff of 14 neglected to add the actual tips to the money points on #s2-5. On the shoulders of a civil servant, again, rests the burden of producing the tips. A servant, a slave, yet a producer of the tips. 2. Rob Ford - invite him to your house for a long, long vacation, and keep him there. 3. Leafs -Just remember how you felt at your favourite uncle's funeral, and put on that face, but don't actually cry. 4. TFF - when you see Angelina and Meryl and Tom, pretend you don't recognize them. They love that. 5. George's - closed on Sundays. If my numerology is mixed up, I am just essentiazlizing. Bon voyage!