“Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.” – Thomas Aquinas
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Thought For the Day: Bestow Upon Me, O Lord My God, Understanding To Know Thee, Diligence To Seek Thee, Wisdom To Find Thee, and A Faithfulness That May Finally Embrace Thee
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First Principles: Let Love and Faithfulness Never Leave You; Bind Them Around Your Neck, Write Them On the Tablet of Your Heart
“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart”– Proverbs 3:3-6
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Moments In Joe Rogan’s Mind
Moments From Joe Rogan's Mind
by Michael Doyle
Life is the near-death experience
In which you always stay alive
The truth of this is felt by preference
Even when uncertain that you'll survive
The backhand data feels a little missing
But no matter how, it feels a bit dismissing
We are the generation of the anti-woke
Walking in a world of mirrors and puffing smoke
We are the team of the real values
The one with the language we don't need to choose
The world gets weirder than weird more than a lot
As we track the paths God seems to have forgot
I prefer to live my life in full-bore reality
Where gender has standards and actually
It seems that no one knows which way is up anymore
It's just a brave new world we can infinitely explore
In this world that mysteriously lost its conscience
We had best be careful of following the science
Be it Covid or the Chinese use of prematurely dead bodies
There are a lot of really strong possible maybes
It seems this is a life set up for equal jokes
It's how we learn if our companions are fair folks
If people can take as much as they willingly give
We live in a world of live and let's forgive
After all, we owe ourselves to pre-civilization
Successes before the door led to our actualization
And as mankind prepares for its trip to Mars
We wonder how AI evolved into driverless cars
These sorts of thoughts build on our genetic memory
Of how mankind moved beyond laughing with monkeys
Rogan teaches us to think one critical smile at a time
What if the best life offers is simply a punchline?
(c) August 3, 2024 Michael Doyle
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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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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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Intoxicatingly Lost
Intoxicatingly Lost
by Michael Doyle
We paraded all of our songs
Singing on the trail to each other
Strumming our tunes to one another
Wondering where we might belong
We were tripping over the cost
Feeling intoxicatingly lost
As we fished for the stars
Inventing our stories on our guitars
Like butterflies in metamorphosis
We drifted in our focus and emphasis
Telling each other's lost dreams
We'd be the stars on gilded screens
Or maybe at least a moment on MTV
Our 15 minutes would be eventually
Until then, it was good just to conspire
Seated there around the ringed fire
By the time we were done
Like vampires, we traded glory for the sun
Like so many, the fools you and I were
It didn't even once occur
That however fast our fingers
We weren't born to be rock's gunslingers
We were just a couple of troubadours
We set out to sonically explore
The world might be a blue stone
In which we held court, never done
But as two pyrotechnics that played
Half as hot as the derring-do we displayed
It was all made worthless, the day you died
I sat there motionless and silently cried
Alone in the dark with nothing left to leave
And nothing left to hang onto and believe
Gothic cathedrals leave their lonely shadows
Like a full moon blazing over the moonbow
I guess that we took our bows and chances
Lost up in the universe's cosmic dances
The bamboo flute song floated on the wind
That night that I lost my best friend
Now, the darkness runs in the tides of the moon
And life, lived and loved, ends far too soon
(c) August 2, 2024 Michael Doyle
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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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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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This Love Is Here To Stay
This Love Is Here To Stay
by Michael Doyle
In our final steps toward the altar
I feel that sometimes we falter
It seems for all purposes and intents
The pressure is on, and it's getting intense
Many factors lead to some off-days
That leaves us side-tracked in a daze
Maybe no is the answer in the analysis
As we feel the struggle of our paralysis
Broken trust is the deal that busts
The deal that must be kept if it's not to burst
When black is white and up is down
There's no way to that victory crown
All the struggles that we've worked through
You are my person - I'm in love with you
We've had so much thinking to work through
I'm certain that nobody else will ever do
I know that I'll never be above you
It shows that I'm not there below you
Yes, I know that I'm right here with you
Through thick or thin, no one else will do
Broken trust is the deal that busts
The deal that must be kept if it's not to burst
When black is white and up is down
There's no way to that victory crown
You'll be my bride, I'll be your groom-to-be
It's perfectly flawless, this sentimentality
With a twist of fate and a smiling look
We're ready for another chapter in life's book
Everyone has their ideals about working it out
To move beyond the flaws and costly doubts
There comes a time to have it no other way
One more look says, this love is here to stay
Broken trust is the deal that busts
The deal that must be kept if it's not to burst
When black is white and up is down
There's no way to that victory crown
(c) August 1, 2024 Michael Doyle
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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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