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   Steve Hayes to darylgene@aol.com   
   Re: The Lion, the Which and the Wardrobe   
   05 Oct 05 02:02:29   
   
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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On 4 Oct 2005 07:22:30 -0700, "darylgene@aol.com"  wrote:   
      
   >>>Ayn Rand? It would go like Mere Scientology.   
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   >>Well that's one I would not like to be in -- where everyone *sincerely*   
   >practised the virtue of selfishness.   
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   >Enlightened self intrest? Have you read Rand? At least you would live   
   >in a society where liberty and property were respected, and one that   
   >was based on reason (some religious philosophies are actually   
   >anti-rational denying objective reality altogether) . If I had been   
   >denied communion with God, it would certainly be the society I would   
   >prefer.   
      
   Yippeee yay for Mammon.   
      
      
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