1) EVERYONE is welcome here.
2) ALL opinions are welcome here. No matter what ideas or beliefs I express, I most strongly believe in the right to liberty; the freedom to engage in self generated thought, action, and expression.
3) Enjoying one’s liberty; otherwise known as intelligent debate, is ALWAYS welcome here.
4) Therefore, the ONLY “rule” here is to avoid the infringment of anyone else’s rights.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Okay you.
Not sure where to begin, so I’ll start by noting that your intelligence is showing. I’ve read a few of your articles here, and although your comments which I found elsewhere (and which led me to your site here) intrigued me with their modest hints of a very refined intelligence, I’m yet even more surprised by an unexpected triumph of same as revealed in your articles. Damn. It is so very difficult to surprise me.
Please allow me to dispose of this necessity quickly, so that we can get on with a stress-free introduction. I’m an old guy, not a candidate for your services, and have a distant lady friend anyway, with whom I’m quite happy. So I will not be looking for more with you than the clear light of vision which I recognize in your writing. You strike me as being a very remarkable person, and a rare intelligence. Expressed in a vernacular expression, that’s all I’m up for.
I’ll need a few more visits to catch up with the reading materials you’ve collected here, but, being old, I’m also slow, and prefer a slow pace for enjoyment in my reading, and as you know I’m also busy with my work, so it may take me a while. But I look forward to reading more of your articles. I’m also curious (forgive me, I may have not seen it yet) if you publish in any magazines or other venue? You are really an excellent writer, and your take on liberty as well as the intent of the founders, fits me like a glove. It’s not a big deal, of course, but I am a very discerning consciousness and very seldom do I encounter a mind like yours, so it’s a pleasure for me.
So thank you for sharing your vision. I’m glad we met, and I hope to tempt you with some lines from time to time. If my intuition serves me well, you and I shall most likely engage in some metaphysical discourse which will allow for some poetic expression – we’ll see. I may not be quite bright enough to keep up with you, but perhaps.
I’ll close with a gambit – an offered poem, written by Frances Cornford (1886-1960). It is called, “The Guitarist Tunes Up”.
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With what attentive courtesy he bent
Over his instrument;
Not as a lordly conquerer who could
Command both wire and wood,
But as a man with a loved woman might,
Inquiring with delight
What slight essential things she had to say
Before they started, he and she, to play.
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Thanks, Kelly James.
Salute!
Elias
Elias – a pleasure to have you visit. Thank you for the kind words
I have heard wonderful things regarding you and your work; I can see that you’ve been a source of inspiration to many. Your friends obviously respect and love you dearly. As such things are generally a good indication of character, I am very happy that you took the time to stop by to offer your friendship!
Consider the necessity you spoke of disposing completely disposed. LOL. I have many “friends”, but few truly like minded friends, and greatly appreciate a discovery of the latter as it is quite rare and of infinitely higher value.
Your forum is amazing; it may take me till the next election to read it all! I do however think I’ll feel at home there. In my “quick scan” of the forum I noticed many of the exact topics on which I’ve recently been seeking answers. Coincidence is a strange phenomenon.
I don’t currently publish anywhere but hope to in the near future! Interest in our shared philosophy is growing along with the movement for Freedom and I intend to make sure people get it right this time! LOL I’m completely and totally 100% kidding. I’m nowhere near that narcissistic. Ayn Rand, in a shameless display of ego masturbation, already declared herself to be the greatest philosopher of all time. I simply adapt her philosophy to a rather colorful array of subjects
. However, good ideas do spread just the same as bad ones…and when one understands the good ones well enough to know that they are in fact good, it’s almost obligatory to spread them.
Thank you for the poem and again for stopping by. My email is sincerelykellyjames@gmail…I’m generally online…well, constantly
and am always thrilled to hear from a fellow lover of freedom.
In liberty,
Kelly
Kelly James,
Thank you for your warm reception and for scooting us right along into a mutual friendship in which we can talk about your writing, the fight for liberty, Constitutional issues, creative living, and perhaps even the more mysterious side of existence here on planet earth. I am just waking up here, so am not coherent yet – two more cups of coffee should help. Thank you for the email addy. I’ll use that.
I am most likely not as “wonderful” as you may have heard – just an old Vet who is concerned enough to start looking into our hidden history and discovering our legacy and heritage in freedom. Like you, I would like to remove government from my personal life and insist on being a self-owner, as is our mutual birthright in this country. I will repeat again – why I am here is the level of intelligence and patriotic focus on key issues of liberty which I find in your articles. I really and truly congratulate you on the maturity and gracefulness of your self-engineered knowledge, insightfulness, style and poise, and philosophical exactness. I am interested in your writing and hope to be helpful in spreading it around.
In fact, I am presently urging a friend back east to hurry and get my new website up and running. I would be delighted to feature your writing there – but, this guy is not the swiftest boat in the fleet, (he is already over-burdened for time), so it could yet be another month or two before he gives me the keys and sets me free to express myself on my own site. Dang, that’s exciting. I will have some very interesting writers corralled there, and your work would compliment theirs in many ways, so I’m hoping you’ll grant permission for me to re-publish your writings and link to their source when the site goes “live”.
Meanwhile, I’ll thank you again for making me feel welcome at your site. I look forward to an unhurried conversation with you over coming times (sheesh, I’m trying to leave off with the Freudian subliminal associations, but find that our language is rife with such, lol!). Anyway, I am a grateful new friend for you and I’m sure we will discover interesting visions of applied liberty if we talk much at all. And btw, thank you for checking out that forum – there are all sorts of things there, and some truly obnoxious flame wars if you dig far into the archives, but there are also many wonderful views from the perspective of freedom’s philosophy, and I hope you find things you enjoy discovering – not that there will be much there you have not already worked into in your own research into principles of liberty and freedom.
Bests to you for a great day there. Thank you for taking time to write to me.
Salute!
Elias
Hi Kelly,
I’m reading over your site a little. Some of the topics you are writing about in detail with the proper research are things that I’ve skimmed over the surface of a little.
I am inspired by your work to delve a little deeper.
Thank you,
Mark