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Monthly Archives: September 2017
Thought For the Day: Serve Others
“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.” – Leo Tolstoy, in What Is To Be Done? (1886) While there is certainly a lot that I disagree with Tolstoy on, there is this in common. I believe … Continue reading
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Tagged Avocation, Leo Tolstoy, Love, Others Orientation, Service, Thought For the Day, Vocation, What Is To Be Done?
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Sonic Gems – Peter Gabriel – 3
Peter Brian Gabriel was born on February 13, 1950 and is an English singer-songwriter, producer and humanitarian. He rose to fame as lead singer and flautist of Genesis. Gabriel left Genesis in 1975 and launched his solo career with Solsbury Hill. … Continue reading
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Tagged Apartheid, Biko, Games Without Frontiers, Genesis, Melt, Peter Gabriel, Political Protest, Solsbury Hill, Sonic Gems, Three, Vision
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – The Germ Theory – Pasteur
Louis Pasteur died on September 28, 1895. Louis Pasteur lived from December 27, 1822 through September 28, 1895. He was a biologist, microbiologist and chemist renown for his work with respect to vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. He had … Continue reading
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Tagged Biology, Chemistry, Disease, Harvard Classics, Louis Pasteur, Microbiology, The Germ Theory
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Images and Shadows
Images and Shadows by Michael Romani Images and shadows Seen through the windows Death plays its card As life comes on real hard Never was what you wanted Old dog; old school This dog never hunted Taking steps through broken … Continue reading
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Tagged Broken, Forsaken, Images, Kept, Photographs, Poem, Poetry, Rules, Shadows, Throw Down
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Launch
With the launch of the Cassini Across the great celestial sea Mankind played the rings around Saturn With the flare of a rocket burn Knocking on interplanetary travel’s door And gain knowledge just a little more In the first steps … Continue reading
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Tagged Cassini, Daily Prompt, Dreams, Exploration, Launch, Rings, Rocket, Saturn, Space, Wordpress
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First Principles: Seek To Friend A Righteous Government; Be An Enemy To Tyranny
“Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.” John Hancock, in … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Massacre, Enemy, Enmity, First Principles, Friend, John Hancock, Justice, Oration, Principles, Reason, Righteous Government, Tryanny
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Thought For the Day: Seek First To Understand
“I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.” – Confucius, in The Analects To master life with grace it must be that you seek to understand others more and … Continue reading
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Tagged Confucius, The Analects, Thought For the Day, Understand, Understood, Wisdom
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Sonic Gems: John Fahey – The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
In 1965, American finger stylist guitar player John Fahey composed and released The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death. This was his fifth album and the first released by a company outside of his own. In the turbulent underpinnings of his … Continue reading
Troubles and Tribulations
Tonight’s Wednesday Night’s sermon was based on: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+12%3A5-6&version=ESV Hebrews 12:5-6English Standard Version (ESV) 5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved … Continue reading
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Tagged Atonement, Character, Circumstance, Embrace, Hebrews, Morality, Peace, Poem, Poetry, Posterity, Reign, Sermon, Soul, Training, Tribulations, Troubles
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Thoughts (Pensees) – Blaise Pascal
“If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is….” The Pensees (“Thoughts”) is an unfinished … Continue reading
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Tagged Aplogetics, Belief, Blaise Pascal, Christianity, Defense, Harvard Classics, Pensees, Philosophy, The Thoughts, Theology, Unbelief
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 