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Thought For the Day: Night Conceals A World But Reveals A Universe
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First Principles: Learning Is Not Attained By Chance, It Must Be Sought For With Ardor and Diligence
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” – Abigail Adams
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Mistakes of the Conscience
Mistakes of the Conscience
by Michael Doyle
Sometimes secrets spill out over drink.
This is especially true when we overthink.
Guilt makes us say we're better than that.
But we're only human, as a matter of fact.
At first, even the iconic, troubled German Jew
Whispered to himself, wondering what was true.
But there was only so much a patriot could take,
Before he realized looking away was a huge mistake.
There is only so much running a good man can do.
When you are raised upright, it's especially true.
The time comes when a man is ready to fight.
It's easier when it's obvious the fight is right.
His parents had forced him to flee into the night.
Even if only one, he would know America's light.
Still, he had made his pledge in the darkness
That he would be back to fight against the harshness.
And return he had toward the end of that war,
Remembering the promise he alone knew more,
Landing on Omaha Beach on Eisenhower's D-Day,
This dignified German Jew fought for the American way.
There is only so much running a good man can do.
When you are raised upright, it's especially true.
The time comes when a man is ready to fight.
It's easier when it's obvious the fight is right.
What sort of men finalize solutions by endless death?
What kind of pride can be had in extinguishing the breath
Of millions whose only guilt was simply to be living?
How could there be found the ability to be forgiving?
Confronting the truth matters more than most know.
Having integrity and honor is more than just a show.
Tears filled the eyes of the young man of dignity,
He had sworn an oath upon his people's nobility.
There is only so much running a good man can do.
When you are raised upright, it's especially true.
The time comes when a man is ready to fight.
It's easier when it's obvious the fight is right.
(c) May 6, 2026 Michael Doyle
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The Wrong of the Right (The Right of the Wrong)
The Wrong of the Right (The Right of the Wrong)
by Michael Doyle
Conspiracies accuse innocence of complicity.
It's how inconveniences become simplicity.
Those that do not fit into shame or grace
Are awkwardly hammered into their needed place.
Ugly images shown cannot be left behind.
They instruct the horrors that melt the mind.
Mankind can treat others with banal cruelty.
No one is superior in acting so brutally.
We can pretend that we never did wrong,
But untruths like that don't belong.
Errors are too often the way of humanity.
To say otherwise is the sheerest vanity.
Starved and beaten to brutal extermination.
The truth of this deserves our examination.
Never let it be said that it wasn't this way.
Those who did this surely deserve to fully pay.
Bodies were stacked outside the crematory
As though the business of death were a factory.
To see these things is the crudest obscenity,
It reduces man to the worst forms of savagery.
We can pretend that we never did wrong,
But untruths like that don't belong.
Errors are too often the way of humanity.
To say otherwise is the sheerest vanity.
It beggars the mind, how this is possible.
Evil such as this is more than we are capable.
Outraged, we look and take extreme offense,
While excusing Hiroshima and Dresden with petulance.
There is some truth in calling out the hypocrisy.
The razor's line between the two is incendiary.
I've seen battle, and this is the worst sort of death.
With a startled pause, it takes away my breath.
We can pretend that we never did wrong,
But untruths like that don't belong.
Errors are too often the way of humanity.
To say otherwise is the sheerest vanity.
The German justification rested on history.
Had they won, they believed their superiority
Would be told about as a conquest and glory.
Genghis Khan retold as a modern sort of story.
Coming face-to-face with the horrors that took place.
It's a cold sort of truth and hard to openly embrace.
Motivation can only truly make a difference,
If we hold life as sacred and to be held in reverence.
We can pretend that we never did wrong,
But untruths like that don't belong.
Errors are too often the way of humanity.
To say otherwise is the sheerest vanity.
(c) May 5, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: People Demand Freedom of Speech As A Compensation For the Freedom of Thought Which They Seldom Use
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” – Soren Kierkegaard
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First Principles: Allow A Government To Decline Paying Its Debts and You Overthrow All Public Morality – You Unhinge All Principles That Preserve the Limits of Free Constitutions
“Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the present debt and to avoid as much as possibly the incurring of any new debt.” – Alexander Hamilton
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Crimes Against Peace
Crimes Against Peace
by Michael Doyle
Heading into court for the first round,
There were issues with no precedent found.
The war to end all wars would continue
Using words as weapons and points of view.
Formality and contempt were on display,
Which would be wiser was hard to say.
Crimes against peace held heavy responsibility.
Their adjudication must be handled capably.
World War II left the world in a state of agitation.
The worst crime committed was that of aggression.
The accumulated evil of the whole disturbed the tranquility,
And with it went the world's constrained civility.
Civilization could not afford to ever again compromise
With the cruel violence, and so the world must realize
All wars, however local, become world wars to dread,
And make our world, a place even angels fear to tread.
A just world comes about only when all answer to the law.
The end of tyranny comes when its shadow cannot ever fall
In such a way as to darkly conceal truth from us all.
Guilty or not guilty, we must each answer this call.
World War II left the world in a state of agitation.
The worst crime committed was that of aggression.
The accumulated evil of the whole disturbed the tranquility,
And with it went the world's constrained civility.
(c) May 4, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Keep Your Mind On Your Objective, and Persist Until You Succeed. Study, Think, and Plan
“Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.” – W. Clement Stone
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First Principles: No Religious Establishment by Law Exists Among Us. The Conscience Is Left Free From All Restraint, and Each Is Permitted To Worship His Maker After His Own Judgment
“The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent – that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgement.” – John Tyler
Rahab: A Matter of Reputation
Rahab: A Matter of Reputation
by Michael Doyle
We step out past the transactional,
Living our Christianity as transformatiional.
We're celebrating our blessed priority
Knowing Jesus is loved with sincerity.
What we're known for may not be our reputation,
As we lead through mistakes and found a nation.
God's path is filled with amazing grace.
It's a matter of finding our right place.
Rahab was such a woman of low reputation,
But came to play her part in the disputation.
She believed in God despite her immorality.
Still, she played her part with intentionality.
The story of humanity's holy redemption
Offers a lot of complexity for contemplation.
Consideration must be given to our reputation
We must try to cultivate by our inspiration.
As followers of Christ, we must have credibility
That moves past anyone's reasonable credulity.
We must do our living best
To live lives that pass God's test.
Subjects and objects are matters of discerning
As each of us navigates life and is learning.
Opinions change as we learn and grow.
We have softening hearts the more we know.
Building bridges through our given explanation,
It graces us better than simple definitions.
Scaffolding is the walk of life in our story.
It shares the secrets of our hearts and glory.
Experiences in life become forgotten scenes.
But these seasons are seldom the human beings.
These become the worn labels, incompletely true.
It's a matter understood as points of view.
Respect for the Lord begins all wisdom,
And reputations overcome are the keys to the kingdom,
Opening doors for the heroic acts of feeding life.
This happens in peace but more often in strife.
Tumbling down the walls of Jericho,
God's truth dictates where you'll go.
Moments of revelation tell our destination,
Setting up the next shots to be played with distinction.
From the Heavens to the Earth below,
Learning about God reveals all we know.
There is a God, and He has spoken
In full illumination of what's real and unbroken.
The fullness of God is revealed in Christ.
This is the truth that must not be missed.
Testimony shows that the Enemy knows our story,
And we must focus, if we're to know full glory.
Shaken to shape our true destiny,
Perfect theology is not always met in history.
Not knowing better is alright in His outspokenness.
God accepts and loves us all in our brokenness.
In our God, we find our security.
This brings us humility tethered in Christianity.
To rise above our life's circumstances,
And take the moments that provide our chances.
Destruction or deliverance depends on perceptions.
It forms the Hell of faith through our conceptions.
Obedience to God brings us to living mercy,
This is the theological aspect of human history.
There are no lost causes where God is concerned.
This is a lesson to be discerned.
We must crank up the volume of love,
From places of shame to Heaven above.
(c) May 3, 2026 Michael Doyle
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