G. K Chesterton wrote, “Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.” But I cannot remember ever having made such a leap with regard to reason. I intuit that reason is arrived at by an exercise of inherent…
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Just War II, Skeptical Spooner, Buzzwords
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. In the…
Re: On “The Law”
I received this insightful reply to my post on “the law”, by “bootstrap“: The “law” is blatant, obvious, first-order fiction. The “law” does not exist. Period. A sane individual must know how to distinguish what exists from what does not exist, or that individual is insane in the most fundamental possible way. Nothing can be…
Phil’s New Blog!
My podcast co-host Phil Eger has started a blog on what he calls the “Allegorical Imperative” where he’ll be applying AI to just about everything. Check out his inaugural post here, and please subscribe! Skyler.
An Attempt at a Universal Ethic I: Introduction
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing most Mondays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Morality and ethics is a contentious area of philosophy, but I don’t think it needs to be. Rather, if we peel…
Toward a Free Society – Full Book
Toward a Free Society A Short Guide on Building a Culture of Liberty by Skyler J. Collins, Published 2015 Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalPaperback ($6) and other digital formats found here. Preface This isn’t my first publication, but it is my first publication that I authored entirely. Everything Voluntary: From Politics to Parenting…
Wrongs of the US Government
The follow list was compiled mostly by fuck_all_mods and -SPIRITUAL-GANGSTER- on reddit, documenting all the wrongs that the US government is currently engaged in. And you wonder why I’m a voluntaryist? Please. We have intelligence services growing into a technological capacity that eclipse their very governments. We have been waging war on drugs for nearly…
Chapter 3 – Schooling
Table of ContentsPrevious – Chapter 2, Parenting Chapter 3 – Schooling Schooling is the typical next step in a person’s life, and the socialization that occurs in school is quite ill-suited to building a culture of liberty. That’s the intent, actually. Modern schooling was founded in Prussia as a means to socialize children into the…
Movie: Jean Brodie, Spooner #13, Null Hypotheses
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. Everything I…
Must We Seek the Divine?
Send him mail. “One Improved Unit” is an original column appearing sporadically on Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OIU-only RSS feed available here. The last time I wrote about my religious beliefs, I said that I was starting over, “rebuilding” my foundation. I…