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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
by Jason Stotts In case you’re still interested in procuring a copy of the speech I read at COSCon, or simply donating to help cover my travel costs to the Chicago Conference, copies of my speech are still available. I’m offering a copy of the extended version of the speech I read for anyone who [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
by Jason Stotts Earl Parson and I have decided that we’re going to be starting an Objectivist Society here in Southern California, home of the Ayn Rand Institute and of probably the highest concentration of objectivists in the country. It’s really strange that with so many us living in the area, there are no social [...]
