Author: Voluntary Japan
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Dragonflies Into Fall: Haiku/Pictures/Poems Vol. V
https://read.cash/@VoluntaryJapan/dragonflies-into-fall-haikupicturespoems-vol-v-14ec1d1f
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Violent Governments Are Powerless Without Our Participation
John Lennon famously said: War is over, if you want it. People too thick to understand laughed and called him a utopian and a “dreamer,” which he readily acknowledged in song. A guy with pie-in-the-sky ideals, not fully in touch with reality. But actually, he was 100% correct. Whatever you may think of Lennon as…
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Run With Me to Zen Poet Ryōkan’s Hermitage
One of the amazing things about living in Japan is being so close to so much history all the time. Last winter I discovered that one of my favorite Zen poets — and one who is now famous worldwide, though long-gone from this world physically — Ryōkan, spent around 20 years near the foot of…
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‘Of Savage Disposition’ — Most People Don’t Actually Want Peace
I’ve gone to great pains over the years to refine my arguments for voluntaryism, testing myself to the brink of obsessive exhaustion, arguing against my own points and counterpoints in my head, talking to myself walking down the street, skipping sleep to understand something better — more thoroughly — reading, writing, debating, being wrong, being right,…
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Better Off Dead: Japan’s Covid-Cult Child Abuse Continues Unabated
*The kanji characters behind the teacher in the feature image are, ironically, the word “air.” While most regions of the world have left the masking largely behind, and “climate crisis” is the new boogeyman spooking the unthinking order followers, Japan is left in the lurch, still stringently obeying masking policies, getting injected with jab after…
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Spearfishing Update
I’ve been enjoying learning how to dive a bit and identify some fish and spear ’em and eat ’em these past months. After lots of very spooky (I’ve never really done diving around sunken rocks/tetrapods) and failed attempts — including a lost GoPro camera, stabbing myself in the heel, and a lost snorkeling mask —…
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I finished my first book
It’s not a full-on novel. More like a cliff notes of a full-on novel, and an autobiographical thing probably lacking proper character development. Technically, it’s a “novelette” by word count. Oh well, enough boring stuff. I never meant it to be orthodox because that was too intimidating, and I also didn’t really want to do…
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My Body Is Mine. No Caveats. Whether You Agree or Not Is 100% Irrelevant.
My body is mine. I own myself. I own the property I non-violently acquire thereby. Whether or not you agree with this is irrelevant. You say I have to pay taxes to support war. To build roads. To pay for healthcare. You say it is also “voluntary.” It is not voluntary. If I refuse to…
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My latest op-ed @ Bitcoin.com is live. CBDCs are gov scam coins. Watch out.
https://news.bitcoin.com/get-real-lagarde-the-underlying-asset-guaranteeing-your-euro-scam-coin-is-a-gun/
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“Link Rot”
Hey, here’s a new song demo — no access to top-quality studios these days, or even top-quality home recording gear at present — and a DIY vid made using TikTok and a hodgepodge of whatever. Special thanks to battery-powered Casio keyboards. I guess it fits the song. Free download on Soundcloud. Video also on Odyssey.…
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