Originally Posted by sillygirl
And the "open ear" problem strikes again.
How so? Open ear? As in willing to listen to other's ideas? Maybe, if you were the first person to speak of objectivism to me that would be true, but I have already stated that I've had too many 'discussions' with objectivists in the past. Why would you make this assumption?
Originally Posted by sillygirl
Well to be fair, I wouldn't hole myself into an entirely objectivist label because I believe that there is an underlying theme to all philosophies and as I mentioned before, the problem is how we communicate these ideas to other people. Language creates roadblocks.....
Differences in ideas/philosphies/opinions create roadblocks too. I think your placing to much emphasis on language here.
Originally Posted by sillygirl
....... - and often specific terms force people to become defensive or shutdown because of what they naturally associate with those terms ......
Defensive: no, shutdown: OK
Originally Posted by sillygirl
- which you just perfectly demonstrated. my use of the word objectivist made you turn off. Here I was agreeing with you and defining my words so you would see that, and you failed to see it because you were not able to move past the "language" barrier.
If by agreeing with me you mean the part about protecting the environment then I think you're missing my point. While the 'ends' are the same, the means were not and that's a big deal for me because I am not an 'ends justifies the means' person. Unless I read you wrong, I believe you were attempting to explain that we were saying the same thing with your toy analogy and that it was a language issue because of your seemingly reversed selfish/selfless wordplay (and the true ramifications of the act). But in reality, it still says 'what's in it for me' as if that's a reasonable way to build future relationships and I reject that for the same reason. It might get you somewhere but it's the low road in my opinion.
Originally Posted by sillygirl
Then again I also believe that objectivism can also be reconciled with relativism since i dont live in the dualistic world that most people do around me.....
Well the only time I've seen objectivism reconciled with relativism is when it's used as a device to achieve a particular objectivist goal, but then that's not being inconsistent. For the record I'm not a relativist.
Originally Posted by sillygirl
So I am a strange one... I think its important to explore all ways of looking at life - and be wary of living too inside your personal bubble of beliefs. How do you know that pecan pie is your favorite if you only judge the other types from the pictures on the box instead of taking time to do a taste test?
Once again you assume that my views were formed in a vacuum. Isn't it just as possible that I had learned about objectivism and formed my opinions long before you were ever interested in it? I don't know enough about you to say ... that road runs 2 ways.
Take care...
Jim