Month: September 2011
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SoCal Objectivists Meeting #2
by Jason Stotts This is just a reminder that the next meeting of the SoCal Objectivists is fast approaching. We’re having it at 7:30pm on Saturday October 15th. The location is still TBD, but will be in the OC area (if you know a good location, please let us know right away). Don Watkins, of…
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Curing Cancer with HIV
by Jason Stotts Science is doing amazing things recently (take that religion!). They recently found a cure for HIV through stem-cell implants (1,2) and are looking into applying this breakthrough to more people to hopefully cure HIV once and for all. Now, they’re starting to use a neutered form of the HIV virus to infect…
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Sexual Distinctions: Candaulism, Cuckold, Threesomes
by Jason Stotts In this post, I want to draw some distinctions between different, but somewhat similar, sexual practices. Candaulism Candaulism is a term that comes to us from the Greek myth of King Candaules. In the myth, the king surreptitiously reveals his wife to one of his ministers. The sexual practice, then, is when…
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Objectivist Blog Carnival
Welcome to the September 22, 2011 edition of objectivist round up! We’re going to start this Round-Up with one of my favorite Ayn Rand quotes: “If some man like Hugh Akston,” said Hank Rearden in Atlas Shrugged, “had told me, that by accepting the mystic’s theory of sex I was accepting the looter’s theory of economics, I would…
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It’s a Good Day to be Gay
by Jason Stotts There’s a couple of reasons to celebrate today if you’re a gay, or, you know, support individual rights. Today is the first official day that the US military will allow openly gay service members (“gay service member” might be a term of art, I’m not sure). This is a great move forward…
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SoCal Objectivists Introduction
by Jason Stotts [I wrote this for our SoCal Objectivist group, but I thought the rest of you, my dear readers, might find it interesting as well.] Greetings and welcome to the SoCal Objectivists. We are an organization dedicated to taking a serious look at Ayn Rand’s ideas and how they apply to the problems…
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Reminder: SoCal Objectivists First Meeting
by Jason Stotts Just a reminder for anyone who is interested, our very first meeting and social get-together is this Saturday night! Details are available on our Google Group or you can find information on our Facebook page or via our twitter (@SoCalOists). If you’re planning on coming to this meeting, please RSVP via our Google…
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Assorted News
by Jason Stotts Sometimes when I see an interesting news story, I file it away and plan to talk about it here, on Erosophia. From time to time, people also send me interesting links and some of these are so interesting, that I want to share them. Unfortunately, sometimes I also end up with a…