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First Principles: An Honest Man Can Feel No Pleasure In the Exercise of Power Over His Fellow Citizens
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Thought For the Day: The Shepherd Always Tries To Persuade the Sheep That Their Interests and His Own Are the Same
“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.” -Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), novelist (23 Jan 1783-1842)
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If You’re Going To Stay
If You're Going To Stay
by Michael Doyle
Despite the world's distractions
We hear the clarion call for action
There is much to be done
If this battle is to be won
Each side fights to stay on top
In and endless cycle that never stops
It doesn't matter, wrong or right
Most are here just to stay in the fight
If you're going to stay, then stay
If you're not, then just runaway
If you stay, then things must change
The dominos on the table rearrange
Bringing this as if the madness grows
This is the mystery of how it goes
A bullet finds its home in the flesh
Lord knows, how it got to be this mess
Dog-eat-dog, the world knows
In the rules of this game of shadows
A hammer to the head leaves you just as dead
As the loose lips sinking ships as it's said
If you're going to stay, then stay
If you're not, then just runaway
If you stay, then things must change
The dominos on the table rearrange
Bleeding out on the basement floor
Is something a little hard to ignore
There's a lot of pain that's felt
Over all the blood that's been spilt
Morbidity has head its erosion
Like the poison pen of the worse corrosion
My confidence is dented by your conception
That I'd be any part of this world's deceptions
If you're going to stay, then stay
If you're not, then just runaway
If you stay, then things must change
The dominos on the table rearrange
(c) January 22, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Truth Is Ever To Be Found In the Simplicity, and Not in the Multiplicity and Confusion of Things
“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” – Isaac Newton
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First Principles: If A Man Will Begin With Certainties, He Shall End In Doubts; But If He Will Be Content To Begin With Doubts, He Shall End In Certainties
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.” – Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
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Benediction For A New Day
Benediction For A New Day
by Michael Doyle
If it isn't too demanding
Might we live in peace and understanding
With opened eyes might we see
The path walked within divinity
The wooded trace is sacred ground
Waiting for its holiness to be found
With every step each of us takes
Let us give each other grace for our mistakes
Life is a long road; let's walk together
Hoping to leave this world somewhat better
Than those who have walked this way before
Living with gratitude as our spirts soar
Let love be in every song that we sing
And mercy show in all that we bring
Let us remember God is in everything
And is absent in nothing -
(c) January 21, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Wrath of God or Wrongness of Man?
Wrath of God or Wrongness of Man?
by Michael Doyle
There is no doubt that God is against sin
In His Bible, He records this again and again
God's truth exchanged for man's lies
Reveals why it is that man now dies
When darkness is chosen, not light
All appears as if living in the night
Given the choice between deceptive philosophy
Me and mine will choose God's theology
God is merciful and just in his attributes
Each of His paths serves for what these contribute
By the mercy of the cross always preserving
More love and mercy than we are deserving
Greek culture believed what is seen through their eyes
And they believed this way to be the most wise
But in the beginning, God created all we might see
And asked only in return that we worship His divinity
What passes for man's wisdom is merely the shadow
The real light is outside the cave of what we know
Those who have escaped and return then to teach
Finds that those preferring darkness remain out of reach
All of nature points to the source of its creation
That is to God the creator, who is life's inspiration
All of life's successes are a matter of compatibility
This points away from randomness and toward spirituality
Eyes grow wide with God's creation, it gives much to amaze
As we long to understand God's transcendence in our days
It is no accident that belief serves the best for our humanity
Our best does not fall to the ideology of immorality
Rejection of God is an exchange of truth for living a lie
It is the spiritual closing of our dying eyes
The righteous love with the aim of God's will being done
Those who reject this argue that their sinful will be done
It is our sinful nature that is the contradiction
It is our wrath against the conditions of our own creation
Indeed, every single one of us has the Devil inside
This is the truth that those such as I readily confide
Righteousness reveals two sides - sacrifice and service
These reveal the truth of humanity's meaning and purpose
It would be spiritual malpractice not to openly state
That doing the opposite of God's will is what creates our fate
Let this liberating truth be openly known
In all of this, may God's light be glowing
It is God that provides life course correction
Guiding us to keep the flow in the right direction
Let a prayer full of miracles show the right way
For each of us to best live our living days
Following God's will and leaving behind our own
Provides the truest path for us to privately atone
(c) January 21, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Bible, Choice, Christianity, Darkness, Faith, God, Jesus, Lies, Light, No Doubt, Poetry and Poems, Reveals, Sin, The Bible, Truth, Wrath of God, Wrongness of Man
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First Principles: It Is the Reason Alone, of the Public, That Ought To Control and Regulate the Government
“It is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.” – James Madison (1788)
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Thought For the Day: See Every Problem As the Opportunity To Find A Solution
“I decided to see every problem as the opportunity to find a solution.” – Walt Disney
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Inauguration (January 20, 2025)
Inauguration (January 20, 2025)
by Michael Doyle
Watching the proceedings of the inauguration
I joined in my nation's celebration
A nation led by a vision of principled humility
One of the rights of the free, filled with majesty
In the stillness bestowed by God, we valiantly call
While remember in prayer to have no malice for all
Trusting our nation will live by our true aspirations
Becoming a guiding light for freedom's nations
Let us, by God, be mended of our every flaw
Predicated on God's glory under the rule of law
Let us be courageous and have fortitude to be wise
We will wake to this duty with every sunrise
Two men swear an oath to our nation's Constitution
Reviving as they did allegiance to this institution
Their faithful execution to the best of their ability
This is the crux of our history and philosophy
This day rises above its notorious pomp and circumstance
As power is transferred without noted incidence
Our truth marches on as our country happily revives
To thrive, and not just to barely survive
These splendid moments are our nation's great glory
As we live up to the best of our nation's story
A new president's silent prayer is seen on his face
As these truths, he steadies himself to embrace
(c) January 20, 2025 Michael Doyle
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