The Desertrat Philosopher

golwis@yahoo.com

 
Created on November 12, 1996
Latest Update: December 07, 2005

 
 

Personal Contributions

Blog
Conscientious Objection
Resolution of Independence
Moral Maze: A Morality Play

A winter evening in my tent

 

 Purpose and Scope:
     
    This web site was created for the purpose of making public my application for Conscientious Objector status and separation from the military. It contains most of the official documents that were available to me regarding that application.

    The most important part of the application was the "Request for Conscientious Objector Status (1-0)" required per AR (Army Regulation) 600-43 Appendix B-1. b. (2) "A description of the nature of the belief that requires the person to seek separation from military service or assignment to noncombatant training and duty for reasons of conscience."

    I was given two and a half weeks to throw that document together and I wasn't completely satisfied with it submitting an addendum to it about three months later at the time of my official hearing with the investigating officer.

Additionally
    I've included some of the articles and essays that have had a significant influence on my philosophical worldview as well as a number of my own political, moral and philosophical writings for what they're worth.

   
   

     

 
The Best Books
    Natural Law by Lysander Spooner
    Vices Are Not Crimes by Lysander Spooner
    Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do by Peter McWilliams
    Defending the Undefendable by Walter Block (a review)
    The Myth of Natural Rights by L. A. Rollins
    No Treason by Lysander Spooner

The Best Resources
    Buildfreedom
(Quick Overview of the Entire Site)
    The Memory Hole
The Rogues of Liberty (Photos)
Anarchism: What It Is And What It Is Not by J. A. Labadie
Forced Consent by Lysander Spooner
The Ego And Its Own by Max Stirner
Give Me Liberty by Rose Wilder Lane
The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boetie
Anti-War Propaganda
    Prof. Bryan Caplan's Home Page
The Anarchist FAQ by Bryan Caplan
The Anarcho-Statists of Spain by Bryan Caplan
    Wendy McElroy's Home Page
We Believe by Wendy McElroy
Why I Would Not Vote by Wendy McElroy
Voting Is No Sin by R. W. Bradford
Damnation of Bill Bradford by Sam Konkin III
A Reconstruction of Trial by Jury by Wendy McElroy
    No Treason: a Journal of Liberty
    Against Politics
    David D. Friedman's Home Page
    Voluntaryist Home Page
    Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA)
    Just Cause Law Collective
    The Freedom Portal


Other e-Books, Articles and Websites

Freedom, Civil Liberties, Individualist Anarchism
    Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau
    Two Treatises Of Civil Government by John Locke
    On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
    Trial By Jury by Lysander Spooner
    The Anarchists by John Henry Mackay
    The Man Versus the State by Herbert Spencer
    Our Enemy the State by Albert Jay Nock
    Isaiah's Job by Albert Jay Nock
    The Principles of Ethics, vol 1 by Herbert Spencer
    The Principles of Ethics, vol 2 by Herbert Spencer
    Native American Anarchism by Eunice Minette Schuster
    Discovery of Freedom by Rose Wilder Lane
    The Road To Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek
    The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich A. Hayek

Atheism, Freethought, Scientific Method
    The Secular Web (Internet Infidels)

Why I Am An Infidel by Luther Burbank
Why I Am An Agnostic by Clarence Darrow
Robert Green Ingersoll
Modern Library: Subject Index
    Tennessee vs. John Scopes The "Monkey Trial"
    Evolution
On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin
The Descent Of Man by Charles Darwin
    Morals and Emotion by Albert Einstein
    The War Prayer, and other stories by Mark Twain
    The Mysterious Stranger (red letter) by Mark Twain
       (The Mysterious Stranger at Project Gutenberg)
    God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin
    The Other Side of Religion by Frederick Mann
    Atheism: The Case Against God by George Smith

Philosophy, Eudaemonism
    The Art of Living: a New Interpretation by Sharon Lebell
    The Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

Prohibition, Drug War, Government Abuses, Big Brother
    The Wall (The November Coalition)
    Death By Government by R. J. Rummel
    Lost Rights by James Bovard

Feminism
    Wendy McElroy's Home Page
    ifeminists.com
    An Individualist Feminist Compendium
    The Women's Freedom Network
    Association of Libertarian Feminists
    NARAL: Pro-Choice America
    The Abolition of Marriage by John Beverley Robinson
    The Woman Question by Victor Yarros
    A Reply to Victor by Zelm (Sarah Holmes)

Sex
    Sexuality.org
    The Polyamory Ring Hub
    alt.polyamory
    PAARC
    XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography by Wendy McElroy
    The Guide to Getting It On by Goofy Foot Press

Drugs
    The Vaults of Erowid
    The Lycaeum
    NORML
    Cannibis.com
    James Arthur    

Mushrooms and Mankind by James Arthur
    High Times
    JackHerer.com    
The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer

Rock and Roll
    Top40db
    Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Free Market, Economics
    Free-market.net
    Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
    The Case For Free Trade and Open Immigration

Personal Interests (Natural History)
    Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum
    The Tree of Life
    Sonoran Arthropod Studies Institute
    Ants of Arizona
    BugGuide.net
    Beetle Science
    Insect Hobbyist
    Spider Web Ring Hub
    Lichen Herbarium
    Bat Conservation
    Biotic Communities of the Southwest (Map)
    World Spider Catalog by Norman I. Platnick
    Comets and Meteor Showers

Personal Interests (Languages)
    Ethnologue Language Families
    Omniglot a guide to written language
    Paleolithic Indo-Europeans
    Indo-European Roots
    Etymologically Speaking
    Online Etymological Dictionary
    Word Origins
    Source Languages of borrowed words
    Verbivore Richard Lederer
    Pun of the Day
    Singlets
    Grandiloquent Dictionary
    Luciferous Logolepsy
    The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

alternate site

Romanticism, Miscellany
    Escapeartist.com

Escape From America Magazine
    The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam with illustrations
    Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam translated by Edward FitzGerald
    Exit Mundi The End Is Near!

Ordering Books and Things Online
    Loompanics
    Barnes & Noble
    Amazon
    Movies Unlimited
    Bioquip

 

Biographies
and such

       Anthony, Susan B.
       Bakunin, Mikhail
       Beethoven, Ludwig van
       Bierce, Ambrose
       Bohr, Niels
       Burbank, Luther
       Camus, Albert
       Caplan, Bryan (Prof.)
       Cicero
       Cochise
       Confucius
       Copernicus, Nicolaus
       Cousteau, Jacques
       Curtis, Edward S.
       Darrow, Clarence
       Darwin, Charles
       de Cleyre, Voltairine
       de la Boetie, Etienne
       Edison, Thomas
       Einstein, Albert
       Emerson, Ralph Waldo
       Epictetus
       Epicurus
       Feynman, Richard
       Ford, Henry
       Fossey, Dian
       Franklin, Benjamin
       Friedman, David D.
       Fuller, Buckminster
       Galileo Galilei
       Gandhi, Mahatma
       Geronimo
       Goldman, Emma
       Goodal, Jane
       Guevara, Che
       Gutenberg, Johann
       Hayek, Friedrich A.
       Henry, Patrick
       Heywood, Ezra
       Ingersoll, Robert Green
       Jefferson, Thomas
       Kafka, Franz
       Kepler, Johannes
       Khayyam, Omar
       Kropotkin, Peter
       Lane, Rose Wilder
       Leeuwenhoek, Anton von
       Linnaeus, Carolus
       Locke, John
       Mackay, John Henry
       Marsden, Dora
       Marti, Jose
       Mendel, Gregor
       McElroy, Wendy
       McWilliams, Peter
       Mill, John Stuart
       Misis, Ludwig von
       Montaigne, Michel
       Muir, John
       Newton, Isaac
       Nietzsche, Friedrich
       Nightingale, Florence
       Nock, Albert Jay
       Paine, Thomas
       Parsons, Lucy
       Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
       Rand, Ayn
       Rumi
       Schopenhauer, Arthur
       Shelly, Percy Bysshe
       Shreve, Forrest
       Spencer, Herbert
       Spooner, Lysander
       Stirner, Max
       Tecumseh
       Tesla, Nikola
       Thoreau, Henry David
       Tolstoy, Leo
       Tucker, Benjamin
       Twain, Mark
       Van Dyke, John C.
       Voltaire
       Warren, Josiah
       Whitman, Walt
       Wollstonecraft, Mary
       Wright, Orville and Wilbur
       Zappa, Frank
   
 
   

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