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Thought For the Day: Of the Twenty-Two Civilizations That Have Appeared In History, Nineteen of Them Collapsed When They Reached the Moral State the United Sates Is In Now
“Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.” – Arnold J. Toynbee
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Tagged Arnold J. Toynbee, Civilization, Collapse, History, Moral State, Thought For the Day, United Sates
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My Heart Grows Heavy (I’m Dipping In)
My Heart Grows Heavy (I’m Dipping In)by Michael DoyleMy heart grows heavy in the sadnessAs I look at this world of madnessAnd know that love is the needed legacyAs it should be walked as its meant to beNo Matter what … Continue reading
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Tagged Back, Bible, Book of Romans, Broken, Burden, Christianity, Death and Rsurrection, Dipping In, DNA, Eden, Faith, Foot Prints, Forgive, Forward, God, God's Will, Haters, Heart, Heart Heavy, Heaven, Hurting, Imprint, Jesus, Legacy, Madness, Palm Sunday, Personal Theology, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Sadness, Shame, Sin, Spoken, The Garden, Walked, Whispers, World
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Thought For the Day: A Disciple Is One Who Thinks, Feels and Acts Like Jesus Christ. It is Being Conformed To the Image of Christ
“A disciple is one who thinks, feels and acts like Jesus Christ. It is being conformed to the image of Christ as Romans 8:28-29 states-that God’s No.1 purpose in our lives is to make us like Jesus.” – Rick Warren
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Tagged Acts, Christ, Conform, Disciple, Feels, Image, Jesus Christ, Like Jesus, Lives, Purpose, Rick Warren, Romans 8:28-29, Thinks, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: If Christ Is In You, Though the Body Is Dead Because of Sin, Yet the Spirit Is Alive Because of Righteousness
“If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.” – Romans 8:10
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Tagged Body, Christ, Dead, First Principles, Righteousness, Romans 8:10, Sin, Spirit
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Beneath the Skin
Beneath the Skinby Michael DoyleThere just beneath my skinAs simple as you pleaseIs the real me that beginsWith the will not to appeaseBut to be just who I am insideBehind my appearance, I hideDisguised by the roles I playIs the … Continue reading
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Tagged Appearance, Appease, Beneath, Blues, Disguise, Fiction, Guitar, Heart, Hide, Horror, Inside, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Real Me, Road, Roles, Short Story, Simple, Skin, Str, Tales, Thousand voices, Writing
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First Principles: The Secret of Freedom Lies In Educating People, Whereas the Secret of Tyranny Is In Keeping Them Ignorant
“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” – Maximilien Robespierre
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Tagged Education, First Principles, Freedom, Ignorance, Maximilien Robespieere, People, Secret, Tyranny
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Thought For the Day: One Day You Will Ask Me Which Is More Important? My Life Or Yours? I Will Say Mine and You Will Walk Away Not Knowing That You Are My Life
“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” – Kahlil Gibran
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Tagged Important, Kahlil Gibran, Know, Life, Mine, One Day, Thought For the Day, Walk Away, You Are My Life
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Dire Consequences
Dire Consequencesby Michael DoyleBack breeding and use of DNA sequenceWithout thinking of possible consequencesSeems so easily at our potential expenseThat I struggle to make it make any senseYes, what we have lost was wonderfulAlmost all of it has been something … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, Apex Predator, Aspiration, Back Breeding, Balanced Diversity, Beasts, Beautiful, biodiversity, Climate Change, Complexity, Conservator, Considrations, Dark, Dire Consequences, Diseasee, DNA Degradation, DNA Sequence, Encroashing, Face, Genetics, God, Greater Care, Habitat Loss, Health, Intention, Jurassic Park, Man and Nature, Mankind, Misunderstood, Nation, Philosophy, Planetary Health, Poaching, Possible Consequence, Potential Expense, Protect and Ease, Rearange, Recompense, Restore, Science, Sense, Spirt of God, Struggle, Trace, Unintended Consequence, Unleash, Wonderful
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First Principles: A Nation That Destroys Its Soil Destroys Itself
“A Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Tagged Air, Destroy, First Principles, Forest, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Land, Lungs, Nation, Our People, Soil, Strength
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Thought For the Day: Man’s Heart, Away From Nature Becomes Hard… Lack of Respect For Growing, Living Things Soon Led To Lack of Respect For Human Too
“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.” – Luther Standing Bear
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Tagged Grow, Hard, Humans, Lack of Respect, Lakota, Living Things, Luther Standing Bear, Man's Heaert, Nature, Thought For the Day
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