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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Kindle price from $3.99 to $1.99

I requested the publisher to permanently reduce the Kindle price from $3.99 to $1.99 ... Per the book's topic, it seems appropriate to make the e-book version as widely accessible as possible...

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Monday, August 20, 2018

It started with an idea

It started with an idea and working title My Allegiance (purposely misleading) in 2006 while writing thematically related verses for the 4th book Commentaries by an American Poet. At the time, I was conducting a 6-week solo peace demonstration in front of the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery, when on a hot August afternoon while looking down Dexter Avenue from the capitol steps, I decided to write a book on "my allegiance" to peace and liberty oppose to merely a flag and a country-turned-empire. Although it became immediately clear, more reading, studying and pondering were necessary thus repeated a thousand times in preparation. Of course many books, essays, lectures, articles, interviews, podcasts, videos, etc have influenced this project, it was the particular re-reading the two treatises by Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) entitled Human Action and Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition that morphed the emphasis from peace and freedom to the Singular Human Right to Consent, thus inseparably the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason.

Note:
The lower 4 photos were taken by sympathetic onlookers and a local journalist in August 2006. The journalist's photo led to a short news radio interview as well. Obviously, photos were taken prior to the suit and fedora era... :-)

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Friday, August 10, 2018

So why am I egotistically quoting myself

So why am I egotistically quoting myself... :-). Yes, admittedly, poets/writers are self-absorbed, narcissistically assuming their readers-without-purpose wait giddily with anticipation for the next creative spasm of rippling butterfly-effect-like significance, desperately hanging on each and every poetic word, literary phrase and inebriated grunt. Consequently, poets/writers are also a bit psychotic. Normally that would be however in this case, merely a shallow, self-serving, marketing ruse... :-)

As quoted from my forthcoming 10th book entitled 100 Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. Performing my final review, to be published/available in a few weeks...

"All actions Past, Present thus Future are judged without exception as rightful, moral or ethical by those involved or affected per Reason manifested by Consent or Dissent, a commonly ignored consistency nonetheless universally constant."

D.C. Quillan Stone

"Interaction is obviously and constantly indicative of individual reason towards individual purpose or preference thus individual consent, the obvious and constant precedence for groups’ achievable purposefulness."

D.C. Quillan Stone

"Diversity is a consideration of individuals first and foremost, not of groups, else it is a matter of denying individuality in part or whole, in a word; presumption, first cousin to covetousness."

D.C. Quillan Stone

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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

What is ethically worst?

What is ethically worst? US laws or policies that "temporarily" separate children from their parents -or- US bullets, bombs and drones that "permanently" separate children from their parents.

By the way, immigration laws are not the only legalities that forcefully separate children from parents, yet where is the "consistent" moral outcry. Moralities or Ethics demand consistency, for that is the essence and characteristic of Truth, else it is mere preference(s).

What should be obvious are the politics, presumptions, fads and trends, sentiments even raw emotions that separate the heart from mind, empowering instinct over reason, rendering quite inconsistent thus unethical the misguided principles thus conjured morals.

Come let us Reason (Is. 1:18). Peace is always a Choice (Mt 5:9).

Sunday, April 8, 2018

CONDEMNATION IV - Either/Or

Most likely to be published later this spring of 2018, my 10th book currently entitled; 100 Proems & Poems on the HUMAN ABILITY to REASON, HUMAN RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover below merely a working version....

CONDEMNATION IV - Either/Or ~

As I entered the editing phase for this book, while considering occasionally appropriate as well fierce critiques, I am reminded how logically, ethically irrefutable is the issue of consent. EITHER one consistently supports, passionately defends each and every individual's Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent on all matters (literally) without exception, OR upon any exception, always arbitrary of course, one must accept their own covetousness to pursue, presumption to scheme, arrogance to impose therefore violence to force against the Preference thus Dissent of others. Setting aside all politically, socially, morally and religiously conjured fantasies, a third consideration is empirically hence realistically nonexistent.

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Come! Let us reason, else treason contra God’s logical beacon
Peace! A choice always, else the Singular Right viciously beaten
Lost the freedom, aloft the daemons hence presumptions reign
Arrogances abstain to respect and regard the Inseparable Twain

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

AMERICA! - Connoted Collection of Nos. 58-59

America! Will God shed on thee grace undeservingly
For blood spilling `neath flag unfurling in every breeze
Flowing since founding, extolling hence compounding
Anthems hymning, spinning the half-truths half-telling

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America! Should God bless thee and thy covetousness
(Right to have by presuming your due lustfully endless)
From citing to be free, to rioting for things free, the fling
To flirt, hamstringing empirics’ logic regardless the swing

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

CONDEMNATION II - Casting Five Castigations

CONDEMNATION II - Casting Five Castigations ~

Christian-Americans have supported as much Cronyistic (Fascistic) Socialism combined with a lesser measure of Communistic Socialism (see Nos. 1-4, 56-60, 83-84, 95) as Other-Americans, while piously blind to the truth and logic thus the one ethic and singular right (see Nos. 25-29), therefore unapologetically coveting and stealing the private resources of fellow citizens under manufactured banners of Charity, Necessity ill defined and more.

Christian-Americans have supported as much Imperialistic Militarism (see Nos. 1-4, 76-77, 83-84) and the idolatrously requisite Patriotism (see Nos. 5, 71-73) as Other-Americans, while piously blind to the truth and logic thus the one ethic and singular right (see Nos. 25-29), therefore unapologetically killing, preceded by coveting, succeeded by stealing the private resources of foreign citizens under manufactured banners of Safety, Liberty, Democracy, Loyalty (Duty, see Nos. 5, 69-73), Necessity ill defined and more.

Christian-Americans have supported as much Paternalistic and (aforementioned) Militaristic Interventionism (see Nos. 1-4, 32, 76-77, 83-84, 95) as Other-Americans, while piously blind to the truth and logic thus the one ethic and singular right (see Nos. 25-29), therefore unapologetically coveting and stealing the privacies and liberties of fellow and foreign citizens, killing as collaterally expedient, under manufactured banners of Safety, Liberty, Democracy, Loyalty (Duty, see Nos. 5, 69-73), Necessity ill defined as well Propriety, Sobriety, Morality, Theology, Philosophy, Economy and more.

To implicatively enlarge, Christian-Americans have supported as much Political Force (see Nos. 17, 43-46, 54-70, 74-80) as Other-Americans, domestically, internationally as well categorically per confiscation by annihilation and reservation(s), subjugation (slavery of some then tyranny o’er all), manipulation by taxation, regulation, prevention, preemption, socialization (all forms of enslaving life), consequently incarceration as well execution (another form of aborting life), persecution too (torture) therefore implementation and continuation by unification, centralization, regimentation (government’s public education), militarization, eventually domination far more expansive than past empires.

To specifically charge, Christian-Americans have favored Violence (Political Force) since their country’s founding, by supporting monstrous wars thus incalculable atrocities against humanity, of course in stark contrast of similar proportion, Christ Jesus called the Prince of Peace (Is 9:6), who encouraged with quite logical words, Blessed are the Peacemakers (Mt 5:9), favor(ed) Nonviolence from ordinary birth till extraordinary death by one of the cruelest of executions.

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Broken fountains and blistered levees, aft’ the revelries
Thus plethora of superfluities amid the bubbled naiveties
Ah the busted fantasies per the forged realty-cheques
Inevitably acid rain upon the arrogant just-and-unjust necks

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Sunday, March 25, 2018

CONDEMNATION I - Broken Fountains, Blistered Levees

Upon the prior confessions, the following condemnations presume not to arrogate as one now righteous enough to cast a stone (Jn 8:7), but to humbly and regrettably state facts. However admittedly, subtlety as well humility will be unavoidably set aside for the moment, while sincere apologies for the direct, near-arrogant manner (see Confession IV).

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The compulsion to condemn passionately stirs, swells even spills like broken fountains and blistered levees, per endurably observing the endless confiscating thus mass stealing, resulting to the ceaseless warmongering thus mass killing, initiating from the relentless scheming, colluding, envying and begrudging behind politic, militaristic, cronyistic (or fascistic) and socialistic doors thus mass coveting. The larcenous endlessness, murderous ceaselessness and gluttonous relentlessness transgress unethically by disregarding the right to consent or dissent, as well transgress biblically by discarding the scriptures thou shalt not steal (Ex 20:15), thou shalt not kill (Ex 20:13) and thou shalt not covet (Ex 20:17).

Seemingly tangent yet appropriate, if honest self-examination is allowed, then the core motivation for egotistic frustration even self-righteous anger therefore brutish resistance towards this book’s manifesto (if you will) is not solely due to opposing ideas, views or preferences, rather, specifically due to confronting immovable constancy or unavoidable consistency. Categorically, the one actual ethic that may preempt or prevent desirous while injurious actions thereby refute or reject fabulous while presumptuous ideas, illustrious while spurious views as well propitious while avaricious preferences.

Hence an explanation as to why people at large partially or less, marginally embrace or regard the Singular Human Right to Consent or not Consent, by so doing, partially or less, marginally embrace or respect the Human Ability to Reason. For to embrace wholly, consistently is to set aside much invested ideas, views and preferences politically, economically, socially, personally, publicly, domestically, internationally therefore militarily. As such Christian-Americans, along with Other-Americans, whore with Government in a jointly beneficial ménage à trois, thus condemned logically therefore ethically, biblically too as judged by their own religious standards. The moral digression have trended to perhaps irreversible depths, as conditions were (perhaps similar) when the prophet rightly wrote; woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter (Is 5:20).

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Broken fountains and blistered levees, liken Antediluvians

Hence Postdiluvian Isms, while all dead-walk in self-delirium

Insisting, imposing, equally inflicting their preferred Elysium

Till praxeological elisions, lesions by parasitical socio-legions

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

CONFESSION IV - Arrogant Bastards

While writing this book, there persisted a hounding (from heaven) conviction for appropriate self-condemning in addition to contending, confessing as well condemning of others, Oddly yet rightly, this poem serves the purpose quite well. When first drafting the verse with a smirk on face and sting of truth on the rocks, intentions were of course more satirical thus less actual. Nonetheless, God used time to methodically, pointedly, applicably reverse the effect. So as originally noted, quoted and composed for the book Commentaries of an American Poet (Jan 2007)…

Note:
While listening to Green Day’s American Idiot CD, written on 27 October 2005.

There is a great amount of poetry within

unconscious fastidiousness.

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

Poets are arrogant bastards, opportunistic romantics

Whining, sniveling, pining, reminiscing, proselyting

As though patrons hesitate on every verb and adverb

Adjectively alienable yet solitarily co-dependent

To the psycho-babble bullshit immersed in the egoism

Permeating the intellect, where the sub-consciousness

Lose identities, conjunctional collisions of non-beings

Where Parmenides’ one becomes elusively ostensible

Or is it so, the shrouded consciousness joins hip-to-hip

To ancestral continuity inheriting both sins and blessings

A trough of self-exaltation, a horn of plenteous conceit

Hence, wise is the stoic silence of the indigenous

Wake me up…when humility rains upon the parade

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Friday, March 23, 2018

CONFESSION III - Study of God by Study of Man / Reprise

Evolutionary sciences or theories cannot adequately propose, certainly cannot specifically demonstrate, the spawning and dawning of the Human Specie’s psychology, nor academically, defensively argue the causal transitions from subconscious to conscious states therefore gravely lacking if to expound on the obvious quantum leap from solely, vulnerably instinctive to vastly, superiorly reasonable compared to other species. Clearly, the otherwise featherless, furless, clawless, fangless as well weaker and slower, bipedal Human Specie (see No. 22) can uniquely, particularly reason within beautiful, equally perilous environments terrestrial and (recently) celestial, surviving, sustaining, then progressing, innovating, constructing, expanding far beyond all other comparatively stationary species (see No. 33).

By the obviously, unexplainably Particular Human Psychology, Consciousness as well Ability to Reason, inseparably, the empirically, undeniably Singular Human Expectation, Prerogative, Ethic as well Right to Consent or Not Consent, the logical mind must contemplate and determine a Consideration extra-scientific, Constant or Consistency unidentified ergo Causality misunderstood. Yet indisputably, this seemingly mysterious yet quite rationally exhibited Aforementioned is not completely unknown to the Human mind and soul, un-experienced by the Human body and senses, unfelt by the Human emotion, passion as well spirit.

Therefore, is there more imaginable effort to ignore, deny, resist or reject versus far less intellectual effort (or stretch) to recognize, allow, assist or accept further inquiry into the Extra-natural at least, at most the Supernatural. Yet, some force extra-natural fails per the Design Reasonable or Design by Reason, affirming Someone not Something Supernatural reasoning from preexistence to existence as well post-existence, hence Extra-finite if not Infinite even Eternal, that is to say quite precisely, preferably; God was, is and will be. The tangibly physiological science of diverse kinds capably suggests the pursuit, while the intangibly praxeological science of various sorts logically demands it. The latter superiorly contend over the former pursuit for as God the Creator infinitely reasoned thus consented to create unlimitedly, so naturally mimics each Human of Creation finitely reasoning thus consenting to create however limitedly.

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Study of God by study of man, to mindlessly twine not
Yet to mindfully resign, humbly, upon empirical thought
O the human fraught `twixt and `tween womb and tomb
Still, fixed to glean the Self-evidence o’er Utopian doom

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

CONFESSION II - Study of God by Study of Man

Per merely observing and/or extensively studying the Present as well the Past, there arose an acknowledgement of self-evident truths, that is, inescapable causalities amid all Individuals acting, always upon all Individuals consenting (or not), inseparably all Individuals reasoning, therefore quite normal and synonymously logical for Human intelligence to conclude determinable Consistencies to measurably discern, beneficially estimate even accurately predict the Future (see Nos. 6-10, 22-29, 33-34).

Importantly more, all actions Past, Present thus Future are judged without exception as rightful, moral or ethical by those involved or affected per Reason manifested by Consent or Dissent, a commonly ignored consistency nonetheless universally constant. So consistent the constant (if you will), a scientific mind would conclude theories initially, principles eventually. Further examination would favor singularity over plurality as well, upon questioning and rejecting each and every proposed morality, ethic or right, superseded by the Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent, inseparably the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason.

To go further still, diligence would duly note the subtle yet prompt dynamic(s), the Singular Right or Ethic to Consent or Not Consent, governing as law all encounters between two Individuals or more. Already engaged is this Law as two or more Individuals prepare, approach or happen upon an encounter, as well linger beyond departure until irrelevant or forgotten the event or action. The firstly mentioned parallel is uncanny, by two or three witnesses shall every word be established (2 Co 13:1), likewise by two, three or more encountering shall every action be judged.

Alternatively, the aforementioned Condition, Dynamic, Law or Ethic precedes, endures as well succeeds the Human Now, by preceding, enduring and succeeding every Human Encounter, innately therefore irresistibly judged by every Participant Individually. Hence, the secondly mentioned parallel is as uncanny if not more profoundly. As God is theologically, reasonably then logically revered per the inseparable characteristics Omnipresent, Omniscient thus Omnipotent, likewise Individuals expectantly, reasonably then logically judge by the Singular Human Right to Consent or Dissent, a Condition, Dynamic, Law or Ethic seemingly as divinely Omnipresent, Omniscient thus Omnipotent, that is, ever-present, ever-revealing and ever-exacting comparatively to the Non-omnipresent, Non-omniscient thus Non-omnipotent. To elaborate risking redundancy, an apostle once rightly attached to the Former, as could be empirically said of the latter, the elementary antiphon; the same yesterday, and today, and forever (He 13:8).

It is of course reasonable to say God the Creator is arguably revealed by logical studies of His creations physical, geological, astronomical, biological, botanical, zoological, anatomical, and more as composed by the psalmist; when look(ing) at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established (Ps 8:3,4). However, it is reasonable to say God the Creator is convincingly revealed by logical studies of His one Creation individual, psychological, intellectual, innovational, social, economical, and more as well combined praxeological as scribed perhaps implied by an apostle; what may be known of God is manifest…, for since the creation of the world his invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead (Ro 1:19,20).

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Study of God by study of man, sound design, not by flesh
Manifested yet in flesh; human actions threshed then enmeshed
`Tween competing interests, thereby Ethic arises by the threats
Consent or Dissent mid bloodless conflicts by sweated respect

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Monday, March 19, 2018

CONFESSION I - By Logic Then By Faith

The last two decades of reading, contemplating, determining, and reflecting while writing poems, comments, essays, outlines, notes, as well reaffirming, relearning and dismissing while conversing, debating and of course repeating the aforementioned over and over again (resulting to this book hence Nos. 1-100), led me as part of a Specie uniquely yet finitely reasonable and logical per Human non-omnipresence, non-omniscience thus non-omnipotence (see No. 80), to studiously reexamine and fastidiously therefore precisely determine God uniquely yet infinitely reasonable and logical per Divine omnipresence, omniscience thus omnipotence (see Nos. 38-41). To momentarily note for reference later...

I believe in God, the Father Almighty,

the Maker of heaven and earth,

and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord:

Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,

born of the virgin Mary,

suffered under Pontius Pilate,

was crucified, dead, and buried;

He descended into hell.

The third day He arose again from the dead;

He ascended into heaven,

and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;

from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost;

the holy catholic church;

the communion of saints;

the forgiveness of sins;

the resurrection of the body;

and the life everlasting.

Amen.

Critically necessary the former determination as the unavoidable prerequisite to this subsequent decision, not by reason then logic, but by reason (see Nos. 6-10) then faith or substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (He 11:1), therefore echoing the particular answer Thou art the Christ (Mk 8:29) to the persistent question Whom do men say that I am? (Mk 8:27), consequently was inwardly spurred to prayerfully concur, soon later forthrightly recite the earlier historical confession and longstanding Apostles’ Creed, privately before friends and pastor so by two or three witnesses shall every word be established (2 Co 13:1).

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By logic then by faith, the twain swathed by the Same
Thus Child swaddled as Humanity modeled by God’s frame
Reason arises as humility circumcises presumption’s pride
Else feral arrogance, the instinctive thorn in Adam’s side

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.