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First Principles: I Never Considered A Difference of Opinion In Politics, In Religion, In Philosophy, As Cause For Withdrawing From A Friend
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: If We Don’t Believe In Freedom of Expression For People We Despise, We Don’t Believe In It At All
“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” -Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor and political activist (b. 7 Dec 1928)
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Tagged Believe, Despise, Freedom of Expression, Noam Chomsky, People, Thought For the Day
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Krampus
Krampusby Michael DoyleWith his cloven hoofs he has comeTo seek out lurkers in the kingdomTo those who would bring such evilKrampus can do worse than bedevilReading as he does from the book of lifeRestoring the peace to those who bring … Continue reading
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Tagged Aware, Bedevil, Book of Life, Cloven Hoofs, Deception, Elves, Escape, Evil, Forbidden, Good, Hidden, Kingdom, Krampus, Lies, Light, Lurkers, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Practice, Reading, Restore, Selves, Sow, Sown, Strife, Surprise, Tenfold, Understood, Undoing, Wrong Doing
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Wishing You All A Very Blessed St. Nicholas Day, 2021!!
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Tagged Blessed, Fill, Generosity, Kindness, Love, St Nicholas Day 2021, Thought For the Day, Wish
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Thought For the Day: The Give of Every Good and Perfect Gift Has Called Upon Us To Mimic God’s Giving, By Grace, Through Faith and This Is Not of Ourselves
“The giver of every good and perfect gift has called upon us to mimic God’s giving, by grace, through faith and this is not of ourselves” – St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra
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Tagged Bishop of Myra, Call, Faith, Gift, Give, God's Giving, Good, Grace, Mimic, Not of Ourselves, Perfect, St. Nicholas, Thought For the Day, Us
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First Principles: The Virtues of Men Are of More Consequence To Society Than Their Abilities
“The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.” – Noah Webster (1788)
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Tagged Ability, Assiduity, Consequence, Cultivate, First Principles, Head, Heart, Mankind, Noah Webster, Reason, Society, Virtues
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A Tale of Two Kings
A Tale of Two Kingsby Michael DoyleWatching as our days unfoldInto the stories yet untoldLife is a gift for us to liveIn taking less than we have to giveLet’s not let the Grinch steal ChristmasNo snarling sneer will stop this … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Baby, Best, Cheer, Christmas, Christmas Story, Confess, Death, Deception, Egypt, Evil, Fail, Fate, Fear, Forfeit, Gift, Gift of Gab, Give, Glory, God, Gold, Grinch, Hatred, Herod the Great, History, Impression, Insecurity, Joy, King of the Jews, Kingdom, Kings, Life, Live, Mary, Mass, Mirage, Myrrh, narcissistic, Nothing, Obsession, Poetry and Poems, Posession, Power, Preoccupation, Prestige, Prevail, Pride, Riches, Rule, Salvation, Savior, Separation, Serve, Sigh, Sin, Sneer, Soul, Strife, Surrender, Taking Less, Tale, Test, The Magi, Two, Tyranny, Unfold, Untold, Violence, Watch, Ways
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Thought For the Day: Someone Is Responsible For What Happened, and I Can’t Say Who That Is, But I Know It’s Not Me
“Someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who that is, but I know it’s not me.” – Alec Baldwin, deflecting the responsibility that everyone holding a gun has toward others with respect to gun safety
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First Principles: Passion Never Fails to Wrest the Scepter From Reason
“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.” – James Madison (1788)
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Tagged Assembly, Athenian, Avoid, Character, Citizen, Confusion, First Principles, Intemperance, James Madison, Legislative Assemblie, Limit, Mob, Multitude, Number, Passion, Reason, Scepter, Socrates, Wrest
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Rittenhouse
Rittenhouseby Michael DoyleWhen the cognitive dissonance begins to divergeAnd we find America struggling and on the vergeThere is no doubt that we must must ask the whyMartyrs are made but no one wants to really dieA young man, barely a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020 Election, Abyss of Sin, America, Around, Ask Why, Cabal, Cognitive Dissonance, Conspiracy, Courage, Die, Disney, Diverge, Doubt, En Masse, Eternal Vigilance, Exoneration, GoFundMe, Good Guys, Greater Injury, In the Open, Injustice, Jury, Kenosha, Kidnapper, Law Enforcement, Martyrs, Mass Action, Not Guilty, Our Nation, Out of Town, Pander, Peers, Poetry and Poems, Political Hacks, Raw Violence, Righteous Celebration, Riot Kitchen, Riots, Rittenhouse, Seattle, Sigh of Relief, Stoke the Flames, Torment, Underclass, Urban, Verdict, Verge, Weep, Win, Wrong Intention
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