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re: Your Top 5 People that influenced your thinking
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:24 pm to OMLandshark
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:24 pm to OMLandshark
1.) Ronald Reagan
2.) Ben Shapiro
3.) Jordan Peterson
4.) Descartes
5.) Carl Jung (Jungian psychology about religion is incredibly meaningful to me)
2.) Ben Shapiro
3.) Jordan Peterson
4.) Descartes
5.) Carl Jung (Jungian psychology about religion is incredibly meaningful to me)
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Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:25 pm to NeverRains
Ooh. Carl Jung.
That is a really good one.
That is a really good one.
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:29 pm to OMLandshark
Liberals
The more listened to them the more I realized I didn't want to be like them.
The more listened to them the more I realized I didn't want to be like them.
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:31 pm to OMLandshark
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Marcus Aurelius
Thomas Carlyle
J.R.R. Tolkien
Carl Schmitt
Marcus Aurelius
Thomas Carlyle
J.R.R. Tolkien
Carl Schmitt
This post was edited on 1/29/19 at 8:37 pm
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:31 pm to Wednesday
I've never really thought about it. Off the top of my head, in no particular order, from different periods in my life:
Aristotle
Plato
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ron Paul
Thomas Sowell
Aristotle
Plato
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ron Paul
Thomas Sowell
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:32 pm to OMLandshark
Thomas Jefferson
Bill Buckley
Robert Heinlein
Marcus Aurelius
Bill Buckley
Robert Heinlein
Marcus Aurelius
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:33 pm to OMLandshark
Thomas Sowell
Walter Williams
Walter Williams
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:34 pm to OMLandshark
In no order...
Philip H Anselmo
Jim Valvano
Dale Brown
Ronald Reagan
Jesse Ventura
Larry David
Philip H Anselmo
Jim Valvano
Dale Brown
Ronald Reagan
Jesse Ventura
Larry David
This post was edited on 1/30/19 at 5:41 am
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:35 pm to OMLandshark
Jung
Alan Watts
John Muir
Thoreau
Nietzsche
Alan Watts
John Muir
Thoreau
Nietzsche
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:35 pm to OMLandshark
The Mt Rushmore of Conservatism.
Buckley
Goldwater
Reagan
Limbaugh
Buckley
Goldwater
Reagan
Limbaugh
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:37 pm to OMLandshark
1. Dan Carlin
2. Matt Stone and Trey Parker
3. George R.R. Martin
4 Frank Herbert
5 William Shakespeare
2. Matt Stone and Trey Parker
3. George R.R. Martin
4 Frank Herbert
5 William Shakespeare
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:38 pm to OMLandshark
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wayne Dyer
Vince Lombardi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mercury Seven (The Original Seven Astronauts)
Wayne Dyer
Vince Lombardi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mercury Seven (The Original Seven Astronauts)
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:38 pm to fr33manator
quote:
Frank Herbert
Man, some of the chapter prefaces in Dune are absolutely golden.
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:40 pm to OMLandshark
Ron Paul
Friedrich Hayek
John Milton
Victor Hugo
Shelby Foote
Friedrich Hayek
John Milton
Victor Hugo
Shelby Foote
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:40 pm to NeverRains
quote:
4.) Descartes
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:41 pm to OMLandshark
Murray Rothbard
Thomas Sowell
Ron Paul
Lysander Spoorer
Bastiat
Thomas Sowell
Ron Paul
Lysander Spoorer
Bastiat
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:41 pm to OMLandshark
1. Guess. See Avatar! LOL
2. Thomas Sowell
3. My 11th grade teacher for a class that I think was called American Democracy - Day 1. Put a loaf of bread on our desks and gave us an assignment. Come back a week later with a list of every entity required to get loaf to the shelves. We ALL failed miserably. LOL. But, it helped me understood the rank absurdity of centrally planned ANYTHING
4. Ayn Rand
5. Socrates
Runner's up.
Adam Smith
Reagan
And not a person, but two things. Federalist Papers and, a book I read in college that was nothing but a collection of the letters exchanged between the various principles leading up to the constitutional convention.
2. Thomas Sowell
3. My 11th grade teacher for a class that I think was called American Democracy - Day 1. Put a loaf of bread on our desks and gave us an assignment. Come back a week later with a list of every entity required to get loaf to the shelves. We ALL failed miserably. LOL. But, it helped me understood the rank absurdity of centrally planned ANYTHING
4. Ayn Rand
5. Socrates
Runner's up.
Adam Smith
Reagan
And not a person, but two things. Federalist Papers and, a book I read in college that was nothing but a collection of the letters exchanged between the various principles leading up to the constitutional convention.
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:42 pm to SCLibertarian
Ayn Rand
Ron Paul
Hunter S Thompson
Charles Bukowski
David Lynch
ETA my spirit guide and leader of the 5......
Tom Waits
Ron Paul
Hunter S Thompson
Charles Bukowski
David Lynch
ETA my spirit guide and leader of the 5......
Tom Waits
This post was edited on 1/29/19 at 8:43 pm
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:42 pm to Wednesday
quote:
1) Penn Jillette
2) George Carlin
3) Christopher Hitchens
4) Matt Stone and Trey Parker
5) Sam Harris
I’m going to expand my Top 5 to a Top 20, but here it goes (remember, both positive and negative influences):
6) Osama Bin Laden
7) Karl Marx
8) Jesus
9) Winston Churchill
10) OJ Simpson
11) Bill Clinton
12) Bill Hicks
13) Bill Maher
14) Aristotle
15) Jordan Peterson
16) Ben Shapiro
17) Adolf Eichmann
18) Hayao Miyazaki
19) Steven Pinker
20) Immanuel Kant
This post was edited on 1/29/19 at 9:12 pm
Posted on 1/29/19 at 8:42 pm to OMLandshark
My father
Milton Friedman
Thomas Sowell
Ronald Reagan
Norm McDonald
Milton Friedman
Thomas Sowell
Ronald Reagan
Norm McDonald
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