“For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.” – Romans 15:4 NIV
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First Principles: For Everything That Was Written In the Past Was Written To Teach Us, So That Through the Endurance Taught In the Scriptures and the Encouragement They Provide We Might Have Hope
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Thought For the Day: Life Is Mostly Froth and Bubble, Two Things Stand Like Stone, Kindness In Another’s Trouble, Courage In Your Own
“Life is mostly froth and bubble, / Two things stand like stone, / Kindness in another’s trouble, / Courage in your own.”– Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet (19 Oct 1833-1870)
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Verses of the Illuminati, Part I
Verses of the Illuminati, Part I
by Michael Doyle
Wondering if it's really worth speaking
To say that our world is at the point of breaking?
Artificial masters seem to take over life,
All in the promise of ending our daily strife.
Dreams of universal credit keep us giving,
Wondering about the point of modern living.
Everything is run by our intelligent machines
The world is getting taken over, if you know what I mean.
Artificial Intelligence is our new best friend,
Taken to regeneration, it will bring our end.
As we parade everything that we used to know,
Who is the master? It begins to show.
In increments, our freedom is surrendered for benefits
As we surrender all to the power of the government.
We cry out in desperate need of our cure,
Our edges are surrendered for impulses that are impure.
Disciplines are improved by the means of science
As humanity loses what passed for our conscience.
Big brother is quietly watching us a little too close
As our miracle dreams are just another likely overdose.
Power for its own sort of sense and it's own sake
Has gained the narrative that we cannot shake.
Power is not the means but has become the end.
Big Brother cannot pretend that he is our friend.
Tell me now, do you begin to understand?
The Illuminati is grabbing at command.
The Internet of Things is selfishly calling
As half awake, our freedoms are swiftly falling.
Meteors seen are nothing but debris
As esoteric branches struggle to keep free.
Secret societies fight for final control,
And none of these cares about our souls.
The evolution of us all ends in slavery
When mankind willingly gives up our liberty.
Intelligent life comes visiting with ancient artifacts,
All in a grand puzzle of questionable acts.
(c) October 18, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Tagged AI, Artificial Masters, Best Friend, Breaking, Dreams, End, Government, Illuminati, Increment, Intelligent Machnes, Know, Modern Living, Poetry and Poems, Power, Regenration, Speak, Strife, Universal Credit, Verses, Wonder, World
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Thought For the Day: We Have A Choice Every Day Regarding the Attitude We Will Embrace For the Day. Life Is 10% What Happens To Us and 90% How We React To It
“We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.” – Charles R. Swindoll
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First Principles: Whoever Would Overthrow the Liberty of A Nation Must Begin By Subduing the Freedom of Speech, A Thing Terrible To Traitors
“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know…. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Lessons In Ballet
Lessons In Ballet
by Michael Doyle
No one dares wake Suzy from her sleep.
Her dreams of ballet run very deep.
With the slippers on her young feet,
The Devil's own she's gone to meet.
Ruby red paints the airport's walls,
As she answers dance's sacred call.
Rushing headlong into the stormy night,
Something in the rain doesn't feel right.
The flood waters whisper of a witch,
And Suzy feels her fear beginning to twitch.
Shadows flicker through the wooded drive,
The question becomes, will she safely arrive?
Gaining no admittance at the school door,
She finds that she'll need to explore
Her options; her mind takes a run through the woods.
She'd escape from this nightmare if she only could.
In the school lobby, a ballerina finds bright and vivid walls,
As she rushes to the elevator down the rustic halls.
Forced from the school, she is startled by the absurdity,
Knowing only to take each step and to do so urgently.
The outside wind blows the curtains against the window,
While lightning makes thunder from the hidden shadows.
Stab and then again stab pierces her from the night,
Suddenly, we become aware of the questions of the light.
A twist of the blade makes its way through her heart.
All of this is done in the name of Satanic art.
Crashed through the glass and chased scream after scream.
Hush, don't you wake, it's only the worst sort of dream.
A painted skylight breaks through, so the dancer would hang.
Somewhere in the midst, a wide-eyed globin sang.
Blood puddles in patterns along the floor,
The pain of still life that no one can long ignore.
Just as suddenly, with the next day's morn,
Suzy was admitted to the school feeling a bit worn.
Introduced and thrown into the wicked ways of the school,
She learned how people were there under a coven's rule.
Here in this womb of shadows bleeding vividly red,
There is room for mystery and the suddenly dead.
In one possessed motion, Suzy's innocence is lost,
And only Satan's daughters know the truth of cost.
(c) October 17, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Nothing Is More Essential To the Establishment of Manners In A State Than That All Persons Employed In Places of Power and Trust Must Be Men of Unexceptionable Characters
“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.” – Samuel Adams (1775)
Thought For the Day: Don’t Be Seduced Into Thinking That That Which Does Not Make A Profit Is Without Value
“Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.” -Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (17 Oct 1915-2005)
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Does It Make You Cry?
Does It Make You Cry?
by Michael Doyle
When you're tired of laughing,
Does it make you cry?
This life you've been living,
It turned out to be a lie.
When you've given all you can,
And your best isn't good enough,
Sometimes it's hard to be your own man.
You rock hard, but it's just a bluff.
You believed in the justice
Of what passed for just cause,
Until you slipped on life's ice
Far enough that it gave you pause
Man is lower than an animal
When it comes to broken trust.
A heart full of larceny is criminal,
And willing to commit bloodlust.
Caught by the coattails of absurdity,
You remain certain of your certainty.
The world marches in place with great urgency,
All in the cause of your insurgency.
When you've given all you can,
And your best isn't good enough,
Sometimes it's hard to be your own man.
You rock hard, but it's just a bluff.
You believed in the justice
Of what passed for just cause,
Until you slipped on life's ice
Far enough that it gave you pause
(c) October 16, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: It Is Not What We Do That Matters, But What A Sovereign God Chooses To Do Through Us
“It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn’t want our success; He wants us. He doesn’t demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.” – Charles Colson
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