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Thought For the Day: Self-Education Is, I Firmly Believe, the Only Kind of Education There Is. The Only Function of A School Is To Make Self-Education Easier; Failing That It Does Nothing
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The Lord Turns His Blessed Face
The Lord Turns His Blessed Face
by Michael Doyle
Praise the Father; Praise the Son
Praise the Spirit for what is done
Joy spreads across all creation
Giving us all its holy inspiration
Truth is truth, new to old
This is God's story told
All things that are done
Through the power of three-in-one
It's to the king of kings
That the choir sings
Joining in the joy that God brings
It's for this love that we sing
The Lord turns His blessed face
To give us all peace and grace
In His Word, we find the traces
That act to help set our paces
This is our daily prayer said in mind
Giving sacred sight to the blind
If we seek, we're told we will find
The truth of God won't be left behind
(c) October 3, 2024 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Blessed Face, Blind, Choir, Creation, Daily Prayer, Done, Find, God, God's Story, His Word, Holy Inspiration, Joy, King of Kings, Left Behind, Love, Mind, Pace, Peace and Grace, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Sacred Sight, Seek, Sing, The Father, The Lord, The Son, The Spirit, Three-In-One, Traces, Truth, Truth of God
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First Principles: I Would Rather Be Exposed To the Inconveniences Attending Too Much Liberty Than Those Attending Too Small A Degree of It
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.” – Thomas Jefferson (1791)
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Thought For the Day: That Which We Call Substance and Reality Is Shadow and Illusion, and That Which We Call Shadow and Illusion Is Substance and Reality
“That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.” – H.P. Lovecraft
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From the Mountains of Madness
From the Mountains of Madness
by Michael Doyle
It's difficult to say which came first
Was it feelings of fear or bloody thirst
That moves souls beyond the edges of sadness
Pilloried by the blinding drive of madness
The dreams of men are older than Cthulhu's call
Beyond the growing shadows of the world's fall
A contemplative Sphinx sleeps for all eternity
Until the darkness grows and overcomes with urgency
Subjugating and overwhelming the resistance of mankind
Making even the strongest among mere mortals blind
Blind to the unknown heaven where abysmal gods sleep
The walls of slumber speak, grown slippery and steep
The moon grows darker, and the gods dance that night
When the shadows prevail until there is no more light
Eclipses foretell that the sensible will seek death
When the Ancient One comes to claim our last breath
Never say never, as we give way to primeval fears
We lose our way into the pools of blood and tears
Our minds are lost as we slip into our insanity
We seek to forget those things that take our humanity
There, on the borders of this world, standing on the edge
We look into the unceasing chaos just beyond the ledge
Into the terrifying vistas somewhere beyond our reality
We have stumbled into the new Dark Age beyond our safety
(c) October 2, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Reason and Experience Both Forbid Us To Expect That National Morality Can Prevail In Exclusion of Religious Principle
“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” – George Washington, in his Farewell Address
Thought For the Day: Relationships Are Based On Four Principles: Respect, Understanding, Acceptance and Appreciation
“Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation” – Mahatma Gandhi
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Tagged Acceptance, Appreciation, Base, Four Principles, Mahatma Gandhi, Relationship, Respect, Thought For the Day, Understanding
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Doomscrolling the Past Time Lore
Doomscrolling the Past Time Lore
by Michael Doyle
It's a twisted blade to the knife
That makes a struggle for our life
Into a battle to hold off death
Until the very last draw of breath
So much deception when truth becomes lies
While we look for the dreams behind the eyes
Of those that we somehow love without belief
Waiting for them to draw blood and find relief
The relief reached in their thirst for blood
As they and we drag ourselves through the mud
Scratch-by-scratch, somehow barely holding on
Until death by death, we fear humanity is gone
Nobody knows how the zombie virus started
The search for this truth isn't for the faint-hearted
For myself, I believe in the whispered story
That it comes from some government laboratory
Lies told, and deceptions heard strike every nerve
They told us fourteen days to flatten the curve
Of the top ten lies from the government, this makes the list
Instead, the disease spread hand over fist
Setting tribe against tribe, hoping to stay alive
We said our prayers and isolated ourselves to survive
As more and more turned, and we hoped for a cure
We could only hope the human race would endure
Bite by bite, we lost this human's race
With a handful of survivors relying on grace
Building walls of defense to start again
Families of choice not blood, became true friends
Never again accepting unproven authority
Never forgetting what they did to our dignity
This became legends bred from grandparent lore
A new mythology of the lived through and something more
Bullet-for-bullet, there was quite a cost
Between our tears, we remember the lost
This coming Halloween has postured to its meaning
Remembering with honor, those no longer human beings
But ghosts tainted as we are, as we pass through this fire
Giving our best when driven down to the wire
We did what we had to just to somehow stay alive
There is no shame in knowing that we'll survive
The ground we stand on is soaked in blood
What's left of our spirit is mired in mud
We must become and be a people of purposeful nobility
I say this at the blood-stained cost of my humility
I feel the guilt of surviving to live
I say this having given all that I have to give
Can I be among those who begin again?
I extend my hand to you as kindred and friend
(c) October 1, 2024 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Go Confidently In the Direction of Your Dreams. Live the Life You Have Imagined
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
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Tagged Confident, Direction, Dreams, First Princioples, Henry David Thoreau, Imagine, Life, Live
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Thought For the Day: I’m So Glad I Live In A World Where There Are Octobers
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L. M. Montgomery, in Anne of Green Gables
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Tagged Anne of Green Gables, Glad, L.M. Mongomery, Octobers, Thought For the Day, World
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 