[MineralMan]

"My favorite poem, "The Westerner," by Badger Clark, illustrates the proper approach toward the past.

My fathers sleep on the Eastern plain,
And each one sleeps alone.
But I lean on no dead kin.
My name is mine, for fame or scorn,
And the world was made when I was born,
And the world is mine to win."

Proper? This is your conceit. It is one way to approach the past. It is not the only, nor the "proper" way to do so.

Your transparent attempt to impose your "proper" way is amusing. Had you any power, it would be frightening. Since you do not, I will continue to chuckle.

You'll find that Free Republic is not a forum full of Randian Objectivists. Your meanderings will not always meet with universal approval here, and you'll have to do better at justifying them than you have up to this point.

Again, I suggest you return to simple musical compositions. There is nothing to argue about in them.

[GulliverSwift]

This is a very entertaining thread y'all have going here. I'd contribute but you two are doing such a fine job there's no need to hear my echo.

[possible]

And the world was made when I was born, And the world is mine to win.

And you reveal your true name to be Narcissus!

May God help you before you die. For you shall surely die.