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Author Archives: alohapromisesforever
Moments In Joe Rogan’s Mind
Moments From Joe Rogan’s Mindby Michael DoyleLife is the near-death experienceIn which you always stay aliveThe truth of this is felt by preferenceEven when uncertain that you’ll surviveThe backhand data feels a little missingBut no matter how, it feels a … Continue reading
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Tagged Actualization, AI, Anti-Woke, Backhand Data, Brave New World, Chinese, Conscience, Covid, Critical, Dead Bodies, Dismiss, Door, Driverless Cars, Equal Jokes, Fair Folks, Forgive, Forgot, Full-Bore Reality, Gender, Generation, Genetic Memory, Give, God, Joe Rogan, Know, Language, Life, Mankind, Maybe, Mirrors, Missing, Moments, Monkeys, Near Death Experience, Poetry and Poems, Pre-Civilization, Preference, Punchline, Real alues, Science, Smile, Standards, Stay Alive, Survive, Take, Trip To Mars, Truth, Uncertain, Walk, Weird
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First Principles: A Fondness For Power Is Implanted, In Most Men, and It is Natural To Abuse It, When Acquired
“A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired.” – Alexander Hamilton (1775)
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Tagged Abuse, Acquire, Alexander Hamilton, First Principles, Fondness, Implant, Mandkind, Natural, Power
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Thought For the Day: You Cannot Define Electricity. The Same Can Be Said of Art. It Is A Kind of Inner Current In A Human Being, Or Something That Needs No Definition
“You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.” – Marcel Duchamp
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Tagged Art, Define, Eelecdtrity, Human Being, Inner Current, Kind, Marcel Duchamp, Need, No Definition, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The Spirit of Encroachment Tends To Consolidate the Powers of All the Departments In One, and Thus To Create Whatever the Form of Government, A Real Despotism
“”The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism.” – George Washington
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Tagged Consolidate, Create, Encroachment, First Principles, Form of Government, George Washington, One, Powers, Real Despotism, Spirit
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Thought For the Day: So Long As Men Worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons Will Duly Arise and Make Them Miserable
“So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.” – Aldous Huxley, novelist (26 Jul 1894-1963)
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Arise, Casesar, Men, Miserable, Napoleon, Thought For the Day, Worship
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This Love Is Here To Stay
This Love Is Here To Stayby Michael DoyleIn our final steps toward the altarI feel that sometimes we falterIt seems for all purposes and intentsThe pressure is on, and it’s getting intenseMany factors lead to some off-daysThat leaves us side-tracked … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Altar, Analysis, Below, Bride, Broken Trust, Chapter, Daze, Falter, Final Steps, Flawless, Groom, Intense, Life's Book, Love, Off-Days, Paralysis, Poetry and Poems, Right Here With You, Sentimentality, Smile, Stay, Struggle, Thick Or Thin, Twist of Fate
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First Principles: Be A Free Thinker and Don’t Accept Everything You Hear As Truth. Be Critical and Evaluate What You Believe In
“Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.” – Aristotle
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Tagged Accept, Aristotle, Believe, Critical, Evaluate, First Principles, Free Thinker, Truth
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Thought For the Day: Your Time Is Limited, So Don’t Waste It Living Someone Else’s Life
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner … Continue reading
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Tagged Courage, Dogma, Heart and Intuition, Inner Voice, Limited, Noise, Opinions, Other People's Thinking, Someone Else's Life, Steve Jobs, Thought For the Day, Time, Trap, Waste
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Pass the Torch (This Revolution Is Over)
Pass the Torch (This Revolution Is Over)by Michael DoyleOver the course of many stolid yearsI have listened to a tsunami of tearsOver how socialism turned chevere to chimboThe Land of Grace defiled blow by blowThe Land of the Orchids and … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelic Contrast, Army, Beautiful Land, Bloodbath, Bloody Dictatorship, Bolivar, Bullets, Candidate, Courage, Course, Defiance, Dissent, Done, Economic Mismanagement, Election Cycle, Empanadas, Eternal Spring, False Prosperity, Firm, Flowers, Food, Freedom and Liberty, Gauchos, Greater Loss, Hope, Hours, Imprisoning, Intimidating, Jeopdardy, Jester, Kill, Los Llanos, Madness and Buffoonery, Maduro, Marxist Masks, National Depression, Orchids, Outside, Page, Pass the Torch, People's Will, Pessimism, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Policies, Poverty, Prevail, Promise, recipes, Relent, Reliance, Repression, Reprisals, Revolution, Sing, Socialism, South America, Standing, Step Down, Stolen Crown, Street of History, Sun, Tears, The Poor, Totalitarian Comman, Travel, Tsunami, Tyranny, Venezuela, Withstand, Writing
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