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How Ayn Rand Influences Your Thinking | AUTHENTIC with Shawn Boonstra
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- Опубликовано: 17 авг 2024
- Chances are, she's changed the way you think...and not necessarily in a good way. Shawn Boonstra explores the writings of one of the most influential-and controversial-thinkers in modern American history: Ayn Rand.
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Host Shawn Boonstra makes it easy to understand how philosophy and biblical principles can help you live an authentic life in the 21st century.
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I didn't take time to absorb or even listen to history in high school. Now at age 46, I love it. I have learned a lot from you! Just saying thank you!
I used to teach philosophy at the college level, and you nailed Ayn Rand. Of course, I personally take issue with her libertarian definition of freedom. Freedom includes responsibility, and that includes responsibility to others. And sometimes in a sinful world, society must compel people to treat others with a certain degree of respect. The ultimate answer is Jesus and His kingdom. But the trick is to find the right balance of individual freedom and responsible behavior. And in simple terms, that balance is found in the context of society requiring basic adherence to most of the second table of the 10 Commandments while leaving the first table completely alone.
A philosophy professor-nice! Yes, a free society requires that delicate balance. Glad the series is resonating with you. 👍 And thank you so much for your engaging comments! 🙏 In fact, the Authentic team is currently looking to gather more feedback and reach more viewers, and part of it involves documenting on video some testimonies from Authentic viewers sharing how they've been impacted by the program. We'd love to get your perspective as an educator on these universal subjects. If that would be something you'd be interested in, please let us know! It'd be a blessing to the ministry and to others. 🙂
@@VoiceOfProphecy Can you explain why so many Christians vote for Democrats?
That program was pregnant with double meanings. Thank you, Pastor Shawn. God bless, from Northern New England!
JUST FOUND YOU AND AM VERY IMPRESSED!!
THSNK YOU FOR VLOGGING!!!
I remember when Amazon was Wallace's College Book Company, owned by Wallace Wilkerson. I worked there on Nandino Blvd. in Lexington, KY before Wally ran for governor. When you showed the photo of the inside of the warehouse, it was just as I remembered it. It blows me away that I was a manager of that company for awhile.
I appreciate how Shawn understands the dangers of the "common good", and subjugating the individual to that.
However, Christians also believe in the "common good", they just call it God. So if God tells Abraham to kill his son, for no apparent reason, Abraham is "virtuous" because he is willing to sacrifice himself and his son for God. If God says not to kill him instead, this also becomes "virtuous". So ultimately, there is no individual in Christianity. You are a slave to God. And since God doesn't exist, you become a slave to whichever person convinces you the best that he "feels" and "communes" with God. You become a slave to someone else's whimsical emotions.
But in reality, you exist. You are alive. And you must choose to live or die. If you choose to live, you must look at reality, think, produce, build. Just as a bird must fly to live, or a tiger must hunt.
You can make the most of this one life you have, and you can make it beautiful. You can know reality, and have certainty in your choices. You can do it. No one else can do it for you. You must if you want to live as a man.
I leave my life in the hands of God. He has never left me nor forsaken me, even though at times I have done that to Him. My needs are always met, I have peace which is more important than any "worldly" ambition. The common good is a dangerous philosophy that is rapidly taking influence in this world. It will put Christians in harms way if they want to follow God according to their conscience. The Bible warns this will happen in the last days. You're either a slave to the government of God (which leads to eternal life) or a slave to Lucifer's selfishness (sin) and sin leads to death and destruction. No fence sitters, only the living and the dead.
@@Year1BanditTA Yes, the idea of a "common good" is dangerous.
But you also believe in a "common good". You call it God. It's still a dangerous idea that can make you willing to sacrifice yourself and others if you think they're not following God's commands.
Just as a Communist will sacrifice themselves and others for the proletariat.
Man is neither a slave to a God nor to a devil. Though first you'd need good evidence for a god, and then that it's *your" god.
A man is not a slave. You have the capacity of independent judgement. You have reason. You are capable of knowing reality and making the right decisions to live your life successfully.
However, only you are ultimately capable of making those choices. Choosing to leave it in the hands of another, and pretending that's good, is to say you don't want to make any choices in life. That you don't want to actively live your life. Instead wanting to be a kind of vegetable that someone, who doesn't exist, might water.
That you don't want your life. That you want some kind of death.
It's no coincidence that the symbol of Christianity, the thing to "strive" for, is a dying being.
Please, that music at the end is so distracting...could you please turn it down while you are talking?
Never heard of her lol
You preached more than a few false teachings, pastor. Ayn Rand read and thoroughly understood Nietzsche, but she condemned him for many reasons. She condemned those who seek power for the sake of power. To her, these are people with no legitimate purpose. She viewed professional politics as a career that leads to corruption, therefore any RATIONAL women or man would find another path. I could go on, but I will only ad my primary concern with regard to Christianity in the United States. Fanaticism is driving too many otherwise decent citizens into the flocks of exploiting leaders. Dominion Theocracy is dangerous, and if you are unaware of this particular creed, I suggest you look it up. The book-burnings have begun. Between the fanatics on the Left and the fanatics on the Right, the free-thinking, free-market individual will be sacrificed to your civil war. And some of those who yearn to be free may be your children.