Backlighting Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 To all the good people of OL, and as a famous vulcan often said, live long & prosper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Thanks LV and same to you and all of OL... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryanhoyt1168 Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Welcome to OL Ryan.Actually, when you find out the actual story of the colony it was much more than that. They had a communist colony and they basically were starving to death. Then the leader changed it to private property and it flourished...http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2010/11/24/the_true_story_of_thanksgiving3 The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well. They were going to distribute it equally. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well. Nobody owned anything. They just had a share in it. It was a commune, folks. "Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives. He decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage, thus turning loose the power of the marketplace. That's right. Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism. And what happened? It didn't work!" They nearly starved!What do you do? Student? Wage slave for the state? Businessman?Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryanhoyt1168 Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Good to be here. I just learned about Objectivism a few weeks ago, and I had never heard of it or Ayn Rand or anything until then but all my life I've believed in reason, purpose, individualism, capitalism, and paving your own path to achievement instead of it being handed to you. Only now did I realize I wasn't the only one. And yeah I remember learning that in history. People had to eat their shoes and what not just to survive. Thank God for George Washington. Anyway, I'm a student. In 9th grade. A little younger than most people would expect someone to care about identifying their philosophy and using critical thinking, and all, as opposed to getting high in some secluded room and trying to date every girl in the class. Haha. Is your name Adam or Selene? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9thdoctor Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 as opposed to getting high in some secluded room and trying to date every girl in the class. Haha.All things in moderation. If I could go back and do 9th grade again I'd put more effort into these other activities that you're deriding.Is your name Adam or Selene?He even answers to Mycroft. Oh, and I'm The Doctor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Good to be here. I just learned about Objectivism a few weeks ago, and I had never heard of it or Ayn Rand or anything until then but all my life I've believed in reason, purpose, individualism, capitalism, and paving your own path to achievement instead of it being handed to you. Only now did I realize I wasn't the only one. And yeah I remember learning that in history. People had to eat their shoes and what not just to survive. Thank God for George Washington. Anyway, I'm a student. In 9th grade. A little younger than most people would expect someone to care about identifying their philosophy and using critical thinking, and all, as opposed to getting high in some secluded room and trying to date every girl in the class. Haha. Is your name Adam or Selene?Adam.Out of curiosity, public school? Also, what state in the US? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryanhoyt1168 Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I'm a noob to sites like these, so I don't know how to respond to each of your posts individually so I'll just do one big one. To Ninth Doctor: All things in moderation, yeah. I don't abandon a social life or refuse to have fun, I just don't want to end up a drug addict, and I don't want to date everyone, just maybe like one or two. I'm all for that stuff. And I've heard about this Doctor Who show, what exactly is it about? To Selene: Private school. Sucky one, delinquent kids, but their parents are rich somehow. I live in North Carolina, just outside of Charlotte. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 To all the good people of OL, and as a famous vulcan often said, live long & prosper.You did not extend greetings to the bad people of OL. Quite right and proper. Still, we are hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Nor did he wish the ugly Happy Thanksgiving!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUslGSoEH8I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Happy Thanksgiving everybody (when it finally gets here).Much love from Kat and me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backlighting Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 To all the good people of OL, and as a famous vulcan often said, live long & prosper.You did not extend greetings to the bad people of OL. Quite right and proper. Still, we are hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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