Very good!!! Just what I was waiting to hear!!!! But, with the assigning of good and bad as being arbitrary, selfishness is in the mind of the individual. I will admit to some things happening because of willful intent, but the outcome is still never for certain. Kind of like being lured into entrapment through someone using what they know about an individual or individuals to get a given result due to total manipulation. And even if one knows one is being manipulated, the string has to play fully out.

Bottom line, everything happens for a reason, sometimes out of the blue, and other times by design. Its not always under the control of the individual that is on either end of what is happening. Only in the end is the full truth known.

I will also say, at the present time, I'm rebuilding my own belief system because of several events with individuals in my life. I'm in the middle of everything I've been trying to avoid over the past several years concerning cannabis and my use of it. I'm tired of being persecuted or prosecuted by a fucked up lying system, having a target placed on my back because of it, and then having to go through the bullshit legal system so it can cover its own abusive actions on non-criminal people. :twocents:

Now that might be selfish, but I think its altruistic for us all. Look what it does to regular people and how those who do it to us can even look in the mirror and call themselves compassionate people.

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not to quibble, but since everything you do has a reason... this is indeed selfish and indeed very analytical. You have made the choice to do things because you see a need to do them... and this is your personal evaluation and decision. If we throw out ego, a lot of times we can see that even though we like to think that something is selfless and altruistic, it is actually our own selfish desires for satisfaction that drive us to do it. Not that this is a bad thing, but it helps to focus sometimes to see the real motivator in our lives.

Emmie
gypski Reviewed by gypski on . Atlas Shrug(Shrugged?) Heard about this book a while back when Stumbleupon.com was actually stumble, now its just youtube.... Ayn Rand wrote it. I definetley want a copy of this!!!!:thumbsup: Smoke Smoke Smoke Til my lungs Heart:stoned: Rating: 5