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     7 years ago 

    I have posted some pictures of where I live with stories. I post about videos I have seen and articles which I have read. I have posted about some fruit that my business has available.

    Atlas Shrugged is a novel that seeks to lay bare Communism, Socialism, Bureaucracy, Religion, and Altruism. It is a thousand page novel that takes a Socialist Bureaucracy to its logical conclusion, at least according to Ayn Rand's view of what the conclusion would be. In reading it, I was challenged in my business ideas, because when I formed my business, I had a little bit more of a socialist type philosophy, and quickly discovered that all my current and potential customers were capitalists in how they wanted to purchase from me.

    Furthermore, Ayn Rand argues for selfishness as being the best philosophy rather than altruism. In the book, she examines people who live off the generosity of people, while internally their very being disapproves of the one who is being generous. As a Christian, I have always been very others-centered, and probably took a lot of how I saw myself off of how others saw me. This is an area, that I am still pondering in who I should be. A key passage from the Bible related to what I have taken as foundational for me is Matthew 22:36-40 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all of your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments."

    This is some of what I have been pondering through as I seek truth.

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