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  • Exchange of Kin as Security

    EXCHANGE OF KIN AS SECURITY

    —“Uncle Curt, what was it called when Kings would exchange Princes for a required amount of time, and keep as their ward the exchanged Prince? As this was keep the Peace.”—

    Meaning changes over time. So that’s why it doesn’t immediately come to you. Hostage: “a lodger held by a landlord as security”. It’s hostage, although it means something more like ‘guest held as security’. The modern meaning has been twisted – and fairly recently. COMPARISONS A hostage held as security under guarantee of safety vs a hostage hold for ransom under threat of harm. So it’s held as hostage (safe), vs held for ransom (harm). ETYMOLOGY hostage (n.) late 13c., from Old French ostage, hostage “kindness, hospitality; residence, dwelling; rent, tribute; compensation; guarantee, pledge, bail; person given as security or hostage” (11c., Modern French ôtage), which is of uncertain origin. Either from hoste “guest” (see host (n.1)) via notion of “a lodger held by a landlord as security” [Watkins, Barnhart]; or else from Late Latin obsidanus “condition of being held as security,” from obses “hostage,” from ob- “before” + base of sedere “to sit,” with spelling influenced by Latin hostis. [OED, Century Dictionary]

  • Exchange of Kin as Security

    EXCHANGE OF KIN AS SECURITY

    —“Uncle Curt, what was it called when Kings would exchange Princes for a required amount of time, and keep as their ward the exchanged Prince? As this was keep the Peace.”—

    Meaning changes over time. So that’s why it doesn’t immediately come to you. Hostage: “a lodger held by a landlord as security”. It’s hostage, although it means something more like ‘guest held as security’. The modern meaning has been twisted – and fairly recently. COMPARISONS A hostage held as security under guarantee of safety vs a hostage hold for ransom under threat of harm. So it’s held as hostage (safe), vs held for ransom (harm). ETYMOLOGY hostage (n.) late 13c., from Old French ostage, hostage “kindness, hospitality; residence, dwelling; rent, tribute; compensation; guarantee, pledge, bail; person given as security or hostage” (11c., Modern French ôtage), which is of uncertain origin. Either from hoste “guest” (see host (n.1)) via notion of “a lodger held by a landlord as security” [Watkins, Barnhart]; or else from Late Latin obsidanus “condition of being held as security,” from obses “hostage,” from ob- “before” + base of sedere “to sit,” with spelling influenced by Latin hostis. [OED, Century Dictionary]

  • Acceleration?

    Acceleration? https://t.co/6aQcVezrcg

  • (ESSENTIAL) HOW DOES PROPERTARIANISM ADDRESS (FILL IN THE BLANK) PROBLEM OR PROB

    (ESSENTIAL) HOW DOES PROPERTARIANISM ADDRESS (FILL IN THE BLANK) PROBLEM OR PROBLEMATIC/PARASITIC GROUP? https://t.co/5wnwCyzlBV

  • (ESSENTIAL) HOW DOES PROPERTARIANISM ADDRESS (FILL IN THE BLANK) PROBLEM OR PROB

    (ESSENTIAL) HOW DOES PROPERTARIANISM ADDRESS (FILL IN THE BLANK) PROBLEM OR PROBLEMATIC/PARASITIC GROUP? https://propertarianism.com/2020/06/01/essential-how-does-propertarianism-address-fill-in-the-blank-problem-or-problematic-parasitic-group/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-06-01 23:08:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1267593817059975190

  • Christians: What Is the Difference?

    Christians: What Is the Difference? https://t.co/ujtpWF2onY

  • Disambiguating P for Mass Consumption?

    Disambiguating P for Mass Consumption? https://t.co/AGc3pdLeBk

  • Disambiguating P for Mass Consumption?

    Disambiguating P for Mass Consumption? https://propertarianism.com/2020/06/01/disambiguating-p-for-mass-consumption/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-06-01 18:26:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1267523052142759938

  • Disambiguating P for Mass Consumption?

      How do we disambiguate P-Method, P-Law, and a P-Constitution Template, and P-Constitutions for Each Polity?

    1. The system of thought we call propertarianism – that would be better called ‘natural law’ or ‘Testmonialism’ – is a methodology that completes the sciences by completing the transformation of traditional philosophical categories of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics as well as the pseudo-sciences of psychology, sociology, and political science into a single science with a uniform fully commensurable operational vocabulary and logic. Where “Operational” might be better stated in philosophical terms “realism, naturalism, operationalism (human actions).

    2. With this uniformity provides the ability to write constitution and law in value-neutral prose fully commensurable across all peoples, all, disciplines and all contexts.

    3. We can write any constitution for any people using any group strategy in this P-law – as long as we state it under realism, naturalism, operationalism, sovereignty, and reciprocity – where reciprocity includes testimonial speech.

    4. The only unique properties of a P-law constitution are (a) the suppression of false and ir-reciprocal speech, (b) operational and technical language that prohibits misinterpretation, interpretation, and arbitrary extension.

    5. Using P-method, and P-law, I wrote the The P-consitution as a template for a flexible government that varies from authoritarian to market to redistributive dependent upon circumstances that create demand for different government, and it includes a set of options for government from authoritarian or authoritarian monarchy to multi-house social democracy, and everything in between.

    6. The P-Constitution for the USA is tailored for the problems of the Anglo Civilization (UK, USA, Canada, and Australia-NZ), and I would need to tailor one for western Europe, eastern europe (Intermarium), and one for Russia. But it’s possible to write one for any and every civilization in entirely truthful terms – and there is little reason to do otherwise, since each civilization survives by competing on its terms, and its terms can be stated truthfully (realism, naturalism, operationalism, testimonialism).

  • Disambiguating P for Mass Consumption?

      How do we disambiguate P-Method, P-Law, and a P-Constitution Template, and P-Constitutions for Each Polity?

    1. The system of thought we call propertarianism – that would be better called ‘natural law’ or ‘Testmonialism’ – is a methodology that completes the sciences by completing the transformation of traditional philosophical categories of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics as well as the pseudo-sciences of psychology, sociology, and political science into a single science with a uniform fully commensurable operational vocabulary and logic. Where “Operational” might be better stated in philosophical terms “realism, naturalism, operationalism (human actions).

    2. With this uniformity provides the ability to write constitution and law in value-neutral prose fully commensurable across all peoples, all, disciplines and all contexts.

    3. We can write any constitution for any people using any group strategy in this P-law – as long as we state it under realism, naturalism, operationalism, sovereignty, and reciprocity – where reciprocity includes testimonial speech.

    4. The only unique properties of a P-law constitution are (a) the suppression of false and ir-reciprocal speech, (b) operational and technical language that prohibits misinterpretation, interpretation, and arbitrary extension.

    5. Using P-method, and P-law, I wrote the The P-consitution as a template for a flexible government that varies from authoritarian to market to redistributive dependent upon circumstances that create demand for different government, and it includes a set of options for government from authoritarian or authoritarian monarchy to multi-house social democracy, and everything in between.

    6. The P-Constitution for the USA is tailored for the problems of the Anglo Civilization (UK, USA, Canada, and Australia-NZ), and I would need to tailor one for western Europe, eastern europe (Intermarium), and one for Russia. But it’s possible to write one for any and every civilization in entirely truthful terms – and there is little reason to do otherwise, since each civilization survives by competing on its terms, and its terms can be stated truthfully (realism, naturalism, operationalism, testimonialism).