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Thought For the Day: When Our Divisions Become So Deep That Civil Discourse Can No Longer Mend What Has Unraveled, We Need To Tread Carefully
“When our divisions become so deep that civil discourse can no longer mend what has unraveled, we need to tread carefully. … How can a nation remain intact when large parts of the population have absolutely nothing in common with … Continue reading
Waters of Life
Waters of Lifeby Michael DoyleNavigating the waters of lifeFrom dreams of others comes lateThe sacrifices are not in vainFor the dreams and nightmares on the mainTo open one’s eyes and seeThe rebirth needed for eternityDreaming of the endless nightThe one … Continue reading
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Tagged Abel, Answers, Avarice, Battle Flag, Blame, Blood, Cain, Days, Death, Dreams, Dreams and Nightmares, Endless Night, Eternal Quest, Eternity, Eyes, Fallen Glory, Fell, Found, Future, Go Wrong, Hell, Immortality, Know, Life, Light, Lucifer, Main, Morning, Murder, Murders, Navigate, Pride, Rain, Ravens, Rebirth, Sacrifice, See, Sight, Story, Tale, Talons, Tangled Web, Three, Vain, Victim, Waking World, Waters
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First Principles: Charity Is No Part of the Legislative Duty of the Government
“Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” – James Madison (1794) I have no idea why followers of the Constitution and the rule of law would have any problem with a singular executive order that did … Continue reading
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Tagged Charity, Duty, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Legislative, Part
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Thought For the Day: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is us
“We have met the enemy and he is us.” -Walt Kelly, cartoonist (25 Aug 1913-1973
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Tagged Enemy, Met, Pogo, Thought For the Day, Walt Kelly, We
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First Principles: Dependence Begets Subservience and Venality, Suffocates the Germ of Virtue, and Prepares Fit Tools For the Designs of Ambition
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, Query 19, 1781
Overcoming the Flesh
Overcoming the Fleshby Michael DoyleHow then do we find our wayThroughout our present and everydayWhat then will bring us to joyThan in a buoyancy we can employIt is to live as if fully persuadedTo live the Christian life not evadedBut … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Believe, Buoyancy, Christian Life, Contentment, Control, Courage, Dedication, Devotion, Feel, Flesh, God's Love, Holy Spirit, Human Condition, Inspiration, Joy, Noble, Overcome, Path, Persuaded, Poetry and Poems, Receive, Resentment, Reveal, Soul, Still, Strength, Temptation, Trust, Waking Prayer
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First Principles: To Take From One…Is To Violate Arbitrarily the First Principle of Association, the Guarantee To Everyone the Free Exercise of…Industry
“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate … Continue reading
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Tagged Acquired, Arbitarily, First Principles, Free Exercise, Fruits, Guarantee, Industry, Principle of Association, Skill, Spare, Take, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: O, What A Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice To Deceive
“O, what a tangled web we weave, / When first we practice to deceive!” -Walter Scott, novelist and poet (15 Aug 1771-1832)
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Tagged Deceive, First, Practice, Tangled Web, Thought For the Day, Walter Scott, Weave
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Ways of the Flesh
Ways of the Fleshby Michael DoyleThere is nothing wrong with desire under subjugationHealthy appetites are not cursed with God’s rejectionIt is when these things spiral out of all controlThat these become harmful and damaging to the soulAs to superstitious sins … Continue reading
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Tagged Appetite, Begin Again, Control, Correct, Covertly, Craven, Cross, Desire, Difference, Enemy, Enmity, False Desire, Fire, Flesh, Fragility, God, Gods, Hostility, Human Condition, Idolatry, Living Sin, Odd, Peace, Perfect, PettyJealousy, Poetry and Poems, Rejection, Self Iinterest, Social Sns, Sorcery, Soul, Spiral, Subjugation, Tendencies, Ways, Wrong Direction
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