Second: That the writ of habeas corpus is suspended in respect to all persons arrested, or who are now, or hereafter during the rebellion shall be, imprisoned in any fort, camp, arsenal, military prisons, or other place of confinement, by any military authority, or by the sentence of any court-martial or military commission.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this Twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

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http://www.freestateproject.org/files/101-Reasons-to-Move-to-NH.pdf

live free or die….

The underlying concept is that social tensions and certain environments can cause stress, resulting in a feeling of alienation. Gemütlichkeit is an active way of preventing such negative influences by going to places and/or meeting with people that are regarded to be gemütlich. A gemütlich person again is one that takes part in this lifestyle and knows about the tensions he/she is able to cause, and thus tries to avoid these things actively. This way an agreement is established to make an “environmentally cosy” site (Heuriger, garden, cellar, backyard restaurant, living room…) “socially cosy”.

One characteristic of a gemütlich situation is that one could blot out everything else (past, future, other places and absent people) and yet everything would be fine (an eternal “now and here”). Germans describe that as “leaving everything at the doorstep” (though a gemütlich place doesn’t necessarily have to be inside a house).

Continue reading “Abandon all burden, ye who enter here.” »

The Danes do not traditionally consider themselves a “warm” culture or people, and generally consider themselves reserved. However, one of the fundemental aspects of Danish culture is “hygge”, which, although translated as “coziness” has no exact English equivelent. Hygge is a complete absence of anything annoying, irritating, or emotionally overwhelming, and the presence of and pleasure from comforting, gentle, and soothing things. Hygge is often associated with family and friends so close that they are understood as family. Christmas time with loving family indoors with candles lit on a cold raining night is “hygge”, as is grilling a pølse (Danish sausage) on a long summer evening. These are necessary examples which, although they do not precisely define “hygge”, can give an English speaker an idea of a deeply valued traditional concept of Danish culture.

Dabrowski also described a group of people who display a different course: an individualized developmental pathway. These people break away from an automatic, rote, socialized view of life (which Dabrowski called negative adjustment) and move into and through a series of personal disintegrations. Dabrowski saw these disintegrations as a key element in the overall developmental process. Crises challenge our status quo and cause us to review our self, ideas, values, thoughts, ideals, etc. Continue reading “Positive Disintegration” »

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

From the US Declaration of Independence.

The next level of freedom would be to replace positive instances of “government” with “natural organization”.  But those old cats didn’t ask my opinion when writing it up.