Blogs by D.C. Quillan Stone

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

100 Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters

My 10th book; manuscript completed, edited, front/back covers designed, thus hopefully published/released sometime in June or July 2018 (click here for prior 9 books of poetry)... The following proems are short, topically introductory comments, followed by poems also short, 4-line complimentary verses, will remain online in draft/unedited form only for a few more months...

100 Proems & Poems
on the
Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON,
Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT
&
Other Neglected Matters

No. 1 - What Is Murder, Rape, Slavery and Theft

No. 2 - What Is Tyranny

No. 3 - What Is Justification

No. 4 - What Is Justification / Reprise

No. 5 - Psychosis and Depravity

No. 6 - Each Action, Every Activity

No. 7 - Each Action, Every Activity / Reprise

No. 8 - The Decisional Expression

No. 9 - Space (x,y,z) by Time (t)

No. 10 - The Decisional Expression Simplified

No. 11 - Tower of Babel

No. 12 - Tower of Babel / 1st Reprise

No. 13 - Tower of Babel / 2nd Reprise

No. 14 - Nimrod’s Tower versus Solomon’s Temple

No. 15 - Language Confounded

No. 16 - Language Confounded / Reprise

No. 17 - Divine Force, Human Force

No. 18 - Daftly Mob Deftly Robbed

No. 19 - Conjured Lists

No. 20 - Conjured Lists / 1st Reprise

No. 21 - Conjured Lists / 2nd Reprise

No. 22 - To Reason Is Human

No. 23 - To Reason Is Human / 1st Reprise

No. 24 - To Reason Is Human / 2nd Reprise
No. 25 - To Consent Is Unalienable

No. 26 - To Consent Is Unalienable / 1st Reprise

No. 27 - To Consent Is Unalienable / 2nd Reprise

No. 28 - To Consent Is Unalienable / 3rd Reprise

No. 29 - To Consent is Unalienable / 4th Reprise

No. 85 - What Is Tyranny, What Is Slavery

No. 86 - What Is Tyranny, What Is Slavery / 1st Reprise

No. 87 - What Is Tyranny, What Is Slavery / 2nd Reprise

No. 88 - What Is Tyranny, What Is Slavery / 3rd Reprise

No. 89 - What Is Tyranny, What Is Slavery / 4th Reprise
No. 90 - What Is Tyranny, What Is Slavery / 5th Reprise

No. 91 - The Academic Bomb / 2nd Reprise

No. 92 - The Academic Bomb / 3rd Reprise

No. 93 - The Economic Bomb

No. 94 - The Economic Bomb / Reprise

No. 95 - Sum of All Isms / Reprise

No. 96 - Jefferson, Epicurean or Lockean / Part 1

No. 97 - Jefferson, Epicurean or Lockean / Part 2

No. 98 - Jefferson, Epicurean or Lockean / Part 3

No. 99 - So What Is Individualism

No. 100 - So What Is Individualism / Reprise

The bonus section (if you will) below will be included in the book as well. As the section's title implies, it was a book project abandoned in favor of the more particularly important topic (above) regarding reason and consent.

MY ALLEGIANCE
- The Abandoned Project / Cantos -

Preceding Quotes by Roger Williams
I. Vainglorious Erections
II. Thy Birth and Blood
III. Cowáump, Nowáump

Preceding Quotes by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
IV. Sophisms for Paltry Profits
V. Germ of Hatred and War
VI. The Barmecidal Aegis
VII. Sweet Redolence of Benevolence
VIII. Love in Market Square

Preceding Quotes by Claude Frédéric Bastiat
IX. Inhumation of Logic
X. The Heart and Art of Harmony
XI. Not by Smith’s Hand Hidden

Preceding Quotes by Spooner/Bruce, Burke, Mason, Franklin, Flynn, Hazlitt
XII. Nothing to Hide
XIII. Songs of Troubadours
XIV. Every Passion Natural
XV. Ineradicable Thistles
XVI. Man's Trinity of Ills
XVII. The Silver Rule

Preceding Quotes by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
XVIII. Game Shell
XIX. Sweat Warm, Hands Worn

Preceding Quotes by Carl Menger
XX. Fitted and Fixed as Iron and Steel
XXI. Liken Knees Deep in Dung
XXII. Obelisk to Sapience

Preceding Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
XXIII. Individualismo
XXIV. Dark Wombs to Marked Tombs
XXV. Das Naturgesetz
XXVI. O Violence, The Devil

CONNOTED COLLECTIONS of CANTICLES

O Publius - Nos. 20-21

Ability and Virility - Nos. 33-34

Zen, Yin and Sin - Nos. 11, 36-43
America! - Nos. 58-59

How So - Nos. 81-82, 91

Te Deum Laudamus - Nos. 85-86

Dagger `Neath Cloak - Nos. 93-95

Carissimum Te Esse Mibi - Nos. 96-100

CONFESSIONS & CONDEMNATIONS

Confession I - By Logic Then By Faith

Confession II - Study of God by Study of Man

Confession III - Study of God by Study of Man / Reprise
Confession IV - Arrogant Bastards

Condemnation I - Broken Fountains, Blistered Levees

Condemnation II - Casting Five Castigations
Condemnation III - Casting One Last Castigation

Condemnation IV - Either/Or
Condemnation V - Pax Americana

Commentary I - Diversity of Individuals
Commentary II - Subjected, Enslaved, Citizen’ed
Commentary III - Liberty Already Lost
Commentary IV - A Good Person
Commentary V - Meaning of Life versus Means to Life

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

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To my daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren, who I love more than they know. It is my hope they someday will read this book when aged enough by human experiences hence mildly or gravely despondent over the human yet quite inhumane experiments, that is, the political and social monstrosities called Government.

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To the following (incomplete list of) influences, who in various decrees marginally or largely shifted my ideological thus moral paradigm(s), facilitating and fostering the conclusions in this book. Consequently in somewhat chronological order; the Taoist and Greek writers, the Apostles and their Gospels and Epistles, the Early Church writers, the theologians and economists of the School of Salamanca, Roger Williams (his book The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience), John Locke, Richard Cantillon, John Stuart Mill, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Jean-Baptiste Say, Claude-Frédéric Bastiat (of course the essay The Law as well his complete works), Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton (his article No. 84 only) thus the Federalist Papers, then the arguably preferred Anti-Federalist Papers therefore contributors, Patrick Henry (his fiery speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention), writers and orators like Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman) as well chiefs Red Jacket, Joseph, Luther Standing Bear, Seattle and others (as compiled by numerous historians), Henry David Thoreau, Lysander Spooner, Mark Twain (his short story/prose War Prayer) and the American Anti-Imperialist League, Carl Menger, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Ludwig von Mises (particularly his books Liberalism and Human Action), F.A. Hayek, Garet Garrett, Albert J. Nock (his book Our Enemy, The State), Frank Chodorov, John T. Flynn, C.S. Lewis (his book Mere Christianity), Leonard Read, Henry Hazlitt (his masterly book Foundations of Morality), Ayn Rand (her book Atlas Shrugged and television interviews), Murray N. Rothbard (his two volume historical work on Economic Thought), Martin Luther King Jr. (his speeches and sermons on nonviolence and peace), John Lennon, Milton Friedman, Francis Schaeffer (his book True Spirituality, most noteworthy the section on covetousness), as well the few (among many) contemporaries per their books, essays, articles, lectures, shows, podcasts, documentaries and interviews like Lew Rockwell, Jeff Deist, Tom Woods, Walter Block, Hans-Herman Hoppe, Jesús Huerta de Soto, Walter E. Williams, Jeffrey Tucker, Rand Paul, Peter Schiff, Gerald Celente, Niall Ferguson, Hernando de Soto Polar, Thomas Sowell and of course Ron Paul (consistently a noninterventionist hence a man of peace).

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Is 1:18a / Mt 5:9a

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Monday, April 30, 2018

Thoughts on Justice by Epicurus

"Justice has no independent existence, it results from the mutual contracts, and establishes itself whether there is a mutual engagement (consent) to guard against doing or sustaining (singular or) mutual injury. Injustice in not intrinsically bad; it has this character only because there is joined with it a fear of not escaping those who are appointed to punish actions marked with that character."

Epicurus (341–270 BC)

This Greek writer particularly states there is no justice, of any kind, social or political, without consent mutually, that is to say, unanimously among the involved and effected individuals. Murder is so without the consent of one or more, with mutual or unanimous consent it is assisted suicide. Theft is so without the consent of one or more, with mutual or unanimous consent it is some form of exchange; barter, purchase, loan, gift, etc. Rape is so without the consent of one or more, with mutual or unanimous consent it is some form of sexual activity. And so on.

Surely the issues of murder, theft, and rape as well their ethical versus unethical determinations by consent versus dissent are fundamental to any sense or notion of justice. Thus the broader political, social justice must consistently be judged by all involved and/or all effected, for without the consent of one or more the same political, social arrangement is gravely unjust.

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Mr. Trump; the 3rd Warmongering US President of the 21st Century

Mr. Trump; the 3rd warmongering US President of the 21st century, rightly joining prior warmongers Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama as part of the evolving and expanding American Axis of Evil.

There is no point in supporting in detail my above comment. Online news sources of both partisan persuasions are littered with articles and videos of invasions, regime-changes, occupations, airstrikes, drone-strikes, with targets including homes, shops, schools, hospitals, even wedding parties, and more. Unceasing as well increasing from Mr. Bush's administration, throughout Mr. Obama's administration, until Mr. Trump's administration, and still, there is no end in sight to United States' imperialistic presumption, political arrogance as well military atrocities against humanity.

I condemn the US government on the matter, as well the Democratic / Republican politicians and constituents in support of American militarism and police-statism. More so, I condemn Christian-Americans claiming a faith in the Prince of Peace while remaining aligned or apathetic.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Against War in Syria, as well US Wars Elsewhere, Past and Present

"Modern war is merciless, it does not spare pregnant women or infants; it is indiscriminate killing and destroying. It does not respect the rights of neutrals. Millions are killed, enslaved, or expelled from the dwelling places in which their ancestors lived for centuries. Nobody can foretell what will happen in the next chapter of this endless struggle. This has little to do with the atomic bomb. The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. It is probable that scientists will discover some methods of defense against the atomic bomb. But this will not alter things, it will merely prolong for a short time the process of the complete destruction of civilization."

Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973)

"The second Wilsonian excuse for perpetual war ... is even more utopian: the idea that it is the moral obligation of America and of all other nations to impose "democracy" and "human rights" throughout the globe. In short, in a world where "democracy" is generally meaningless, and "human rights" of any genuine sort virtually nonexistent, that we are obligated to take up the sword and wage a perpetual war to force utopia on the entire world by guns, tanks, and bombs."

Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995)

"But wars are not made by common folk, scratching for livings in the heat of the day; they are made by demagogues infesting palaces. It is not necessary for these demagogues to complete the sale of a war before they send the goods home, as a storekeeper must complete the sale of, say, a suit of clothes. They send the goods home first, then convince the customer that he wants them. ... But the main reason why it is easy to sell war to peaceful people is that the demagogues who act as salesmen quickly acquire a monopoly of both public information and public instruction. ... The dead are still dead, the fellows who lost legs still lack them, war widows go on suffering the orneriness of their second husbands, and taxpayers continue to pay, pay, pay. In the schools children are taught that the war was fought for freedom, the home and God."

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

"Modern war is not a war of royal armies. It is a war of the peoples, a total war. It is a war of states which do not leave to their subjects any private sphere; they consider the whole population a part of the armed forces. Whoever does not fight must work for the support and equipment of the army. Army and people are one and the same. The citizens passionately participate in the war. For it is their state, their God, who fights."

Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973)

More commentaries and quotes at below link...

https://mises.org/wire/against-war-syria

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.

Monday, April 2, 2018

CONDEMNATION III - Casting One Last Castigation

CONDEMNATION III - Casting One Last Castigation ~

The Five Castigations in the previous Condemnation II, of course the featured 100 Proems & Poems, as well the cantos of the Abandoned Project, can be easily summarized if not already understood concisely at this juncture. For each installment share and state one Ethic thus Right applicable to all actions and activities involving two or more individuals, therefore an ethical dilemma consistently arises when transgressed, while unrecognized per the intentional or unintentional shrouding by the deviant or delusional among polity and democracy, society and popularity, majority and minority, economy and industry, clergy and laity, and more.

Christian-Americans are no exception, that is, brutally deviant and balefully delusional as Other-Americans, in stark contrast to New Testament theology and theme, Apostolical gospel and creed, as well Christly narratives accurately quoted or remotely paraphrased. With that said, each person’s conscious and confession are private matters, consequently between God and man. However between individuals, Christian-Americans have claimed distinction in society, but retained none in actuality, historically and persistently disrespecting and disregarding the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, inseparably the Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent.

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Imposition resisted thereafter the proposition dissented

Presumption insisted upon the justification hence twisted

Covetousness encysted for tightfisted so the propensities

Depravity’s totalities; errors, excesses, Sin’s immensities

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.