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Thought For the Day: The Attempt To Force Human Beings To Despise Themselves Is What I Call Hell
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Another Verb Spoke
Another Verb Spoke
by Michael Doyle
Heaven help us for promises made
When we are feeling ignorant and afraid
Though it is that we respect God's might
We must not fear that God will smite
The things we do in ignorance and confusion
Knowing His rest carries our absolution
The superstitions held are tall as mountains
That Prometheus climbed to find immortality's fountain
Mankind tells itself necessary covering lies
As our hearts try to hide the silence from our eyes
Yet, some unpleasant truths must be told
For the last of our silence is our souls sold
For the thirty pieces of silver on which we stumble
As humility falls into the world as it crumbles
Our minds never stop; running for bore though broke
As each of us become ye another verb spoke
Our minds are engaged in universal games
Calling on each of God's holy and unholy names
Seeking after truth regardless of what we find
We search around on learning we must leave this world behind
We make our demands, no longer willing to implore
Breaking down the locked doors, free to explore
And unwilling to accept ignorance that we know to be untrue
This is the adventure that will leave marks by me and you
No one should die before knowing life's meaning
To die before then is to fail as a human being
Some are willing to give all to become a beacon of light
It's only anything that causes our fear of being right
Truth in light comes horrifying and frightening
As the searching mind seeks its enlightening
The questing mind seeks its path of investigation
As it searches for the path toward eternal resurrection
We know there are consequences to man's impertinence
As we try to forge resurrected life in all its importance
We think ourselves new gods seeking for man's new destination
And deem ourselves responsible to find our own resurrections
The search becomes the enigmatic riddle that has no negative
At least not to those who seek with us instead of being reactive
Such answers are banned precisely because these are true
With God's help then, there is yet work to do
(c) November 2, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Absolution, Confusion, Ignorance, Ignorant, Immortality, Lies, Mankind, Mountains, Poetry and Poems, Prometheus, Promises, Respect, Smite, Spoke, Superstitions, Verb
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Thought For the Day: The Ongoing War In the Middle East Has Raised the Threat of An Attack Against Americans In the United States To A Whole Other Level
“The ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole other level.”
“We assess that the actions of Hamas and its allies will serve as an inspiration, the likes of which we haven’t seen since ISIS launched its so-called caliphate several years ago,” Wray said. “In just the past few weeks, multiple foreign terrorist organizations have called for attacks against Americans and the West. We also cannot and do not discount the possibility that Hamas or another foreign terrorist organization may exploit the current conflict to conduct attacks here on our own soil.” – Chris Wray, FBI Director
A weak person who barely knows which direction to walk is in the White House. Without such weak leadership, these attacks by Hamas likely would not have taken place. Without weak leadership in the White House, there would not be porous southern borders which has allowed Jihadis to infiltrate our nation. Remember this when you vote in 2024.
First Principles: To Be Prepared For War Is One of the Most Effectual Means of Preserving Peace
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” – George Washington (1790)
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Upending the Trump Cards
Upending the Trump Cards
by Michael Doyle
Before my almost disbelieving eyes
The stuff of comics is seen as I realize
That theoretical physics is being sold
And the multiverse is the story being told
Page one and above the paper's fold
The blockbuster is showing up in bold
Print!...crashing technology into the mundane
Lives lived in parallel are presented as inane
While frames flash with the stuff of memory
That paints varied images as if choices of scenery
It serves to illustrate quotidian dissatisfaction
Yet doesn't miss a single beat of action
Spidey senses, despite pretenses, still tingle
While multiple discomforts manage to mingle
Some say this makes religion and philosophy obsolete
Because this has somehow made the past incomplete
In all the explanations that have been proffered
And most of the truth that has been offered
Human minds have internalized the cosmos until technology
Has begun to upend the trump cards of our past cosmology
(c) November 1, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Action, Beat, Block Buster, Bold, Choice, Comics, Cosmology, Cosmos, Disbelieving, Discomfort, Dissatisfaction, Explanation, Eyes, Fold, Frame, Human Minds, Illustrate, Incomplete, Memory, Mingle, Multiverse, Obsolete, Page One, Paint, Parllel, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Print, Religion, Scenery, Spidey Senses, Story, Technology, The Past, Theoretical Physics, Tingle, Told, Trump Cards, Truth, Upend
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Enough Pain To Go Around
Enough Pain To Go Around
by Michael Doyle
If there's one thing
That I've found
It's there's enough pain
To go around
Pages of sorrow
Tears of rage
Holding on for tomorrow
On this world's stage
It's the state of art
Of my darkened heart
Calling out across the multiverse
I've engineered it in reverse
Trying to live where the pieces fit
It only hurts just a little bit
The answers are missing, I must confess
When you live in the zip code of the wrong address
(What a mess...)
I'm not the only one
Who has had enough
All this has already been done
It's not enough to hang tough
Inside holds a primal scream
There's no hugging it out
When life rips apart the dream
Leaving only confusion and doubt
It's the state of art
Of my darkened heart
Calling out across the multiverse
I've engineered it in reverse
Trying to live where the pieces fit
It only hurts just a little bit
The answers are missing, I must confess
When you live in the zip code of the wrong address
(What a mess...)
(c) November 1, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Answers, Confess, Confusion, Darkened Heart, Done, Doubt, Dream, Engineer, Enough, Found, Go Around, Hang Tough, Hugging It Out, Huts, Inside, Little Bit, Live, Mess, Miss, Multiverse, Not the Only One, Pages, Pain, Pieces Fit, Poetry and Poems, Primal Scream, Rage, Reverse, Rip Apart, Sorrow, Stage, State of Art, Tears, Tomorrow, World, Wrong Address, Zip Code
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Thought For the Day: It Is Estimated That About 10 Percent of Students Will Experience Educator Sexual Misconduct By the Time They Graduate High School
“(I)t is estimated that about 10 percent of students will experience educator sexual misconduct by the time they graduate high school.” – Elizabeth Jeglic, Ph.D.
And yet the Uber Left tell us that parents should leave the well-being of their children up to the educators. What madness is this?
Educator Sexual Misconduct Remains Prevalent in Schools | Psychology Today
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Tagged 10%, Educator, Elizabeth Jeglic PH.D., Estimate, Experience, Graduate, High School, Sexual Misconduct, Students, Thought For the Day, Time
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First Principles: The Foundation of National Morality Must Be Laid In Private Families
“The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. … In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose principles and licentious habits are impressed upon children in their earliest years.” – John Adams (1778)
Happy Halloween 2023
Happy Halloween 2023
by Michael Doyle
Pumpkin, ghosts, and black cats
Coffins, ghouls, and witches hats
It's a dizzying juxtaposition
Of death in a freeform composition
Each holiday has its own marked place
That helps society's children embrace
The traces of life that we all know
That shift like magic to help them grow
These are the moments frightfully whimsical
That come scattered, and at times, nonsensical
All saintly souls are present on this day
Teaching the acceptance of death that comes this way
For all the horror tales, movies, and witches
That scare us to death or leave us in stitches
Memento mori pieces leave their best trace
As a reminder to all of mortality's embrace
Pumpkin, ghosts and black cats
Coffins, ghouls, and witches hats
It's a dizzying juxtaposition
Of death in a freeform composition
Scares, laughter, fear, and frivolity
As Fall prepares for Winter's dormancy
We wish each other happiness on this Halloween
And though we smile, we know exactly what it means
(c) October 31, 2023 Michael Doyle
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Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acceptance, Black Cats, Children, Coffins, Composition, Death, Dormancy, Embrace, Fall, Fear, Freeform, Frivolity, Ghost, Ghouls, Grow, Halloween, Happiness, Happy Halloween 2023, Holiday, Horror Tales, Juxtaposition, Know, Laughter, Life, Magic, Marked Place, Mean, Memento Mori, Mortality, Movies, Nonsensical, Pieces, Poetry and Poems, Pumpkins, Reminder, Saint, Scare, Scares, Scattered, Shift, Smile, Society, Soul, Stitches, Teach, Trace, Whimsical, Winter, Wish, Witches, Witches Hats
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First Principles: If We Can Prevent the Government From Wasting the Labors of the People, Under the Pretence of Taking Care of Them, They Must Become Happy
“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.” – Thomas Jefferson (1802)
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