| | Some years ago, when, in the course of a typically varied discussion, my mother asked me what the hell I was on about, I attempted to tell her that I was an Objectivist.
So, quite unpredictably she asked me, what is that you're objecting to, Ross?
I laughed for quite some time.
And many of you may see why.
I wasn't laughing at my mother, I was laughing at the wonderful trueness of meaning that she embodied. To her, the philosophy that I had subscribed to since a teenager, had a very literal meaning. Je object!
True, in many respects :-)
I still haven't been able to fully explain Objectivism to my mother, but, and here's the rub, due to her Catholic upbringing, many of the tenets that underpin my sense of life are not unusual to her.
Ross
NB: Hardcore atheists here should not fail to appreciate the deist sentiments of those like my mother and, oh yes!, Thomas Jefferson, who saw the impact of their God not so much as miraculous & revelatory, but as salutary.
(Edited by Ross Elliot
on 10/29, 2:00am)
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What is it that you're objecting to?
