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Thought For the Day: An Entirely New and Unique and Dense Sort of Ignorance Will Be Manufactured By A Combination of Censorship of the Press and.. By the Press
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First Principles: The Best Means of Forming A…Virtuous, and Happy People Will Be Found In the Right Education of Youth
“The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.” – George Washington (1784)
The only thing needed to be changed in this concept, which was not culturally thought of back in those days, is that the concept applies to men and women. Otherwise, this is entirely on point.
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Thought For the Day: Every Attempt To Gag the Free Expression of Thought Is An Unsocial Act Against Society
“Every attempt to gag the free expression of thought is an unsocial act against society. That is why judges and juries who try to enforce such laws make themselves ridiculous.” – Jay Fox (1870-1961)
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First Principles: Man, Once Surrendering His Reason, Has No Remaining Guard Against Absurdities
“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck.” – Thomas Jefferson (1822)
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Thought For the Day: Your Eyes Saw My Substance, Being Yet Unformed. And In Your Book, They Were Written, the Days Fashioned For Me, When As Yet Where Were None of Them
“Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.” – Psalm 139:16
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First Principles: Nothing Is More Essential To the Establishment of Manners In A State Than 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, letter to James Warren, 1775
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In Full Stomp (On Satan’s Head)
In Full Stomp (On Satan's Head)
by Michael Doyle
Lift the cross and trust in the Father
Though the steps seem sometimes farther
We must walk away from things of enmity
Keeping united to love in all its entirety
Life does come with things that pain
Despite this and all it does contain
There is an echo of reconciliation
That plays its theme of full liberation
God spares us through this pain
Every single moment is not spent in vain
But instead leads up to our redemption
Despite dark ponderings of our contemplation
As if a serpent on its scaly, belly crawling
It is the dust ate from Satan's first falling
Stomped hard is evil's head by the bruised heel
When you speak the fight for all that is real
There are no predictions, only promises of truth
Waiting to be fulfilled from mankind's youth
The fist of God is coming the Devil's way
There are rules by which he and life plays
There is no avoiding pain in living our purpose
We have all come that we might do God's service
And by serving God, we live our lives on the level
It is this or become one of the children of the Devil
Keeping our selves to task and then keeping on track
We are all running but not necessarily the same lap
We must believe in the truth and live out integrity
And to the causes of the Devil give our only enmity
Equipped as we are for the tasks each has at hand
We must keep to the end goals and try to understand
More than companions we are God's good family
Though we seem as if we are burdened with fragility
Our belief in the faith that conquers all of Hell
And to rise up in our choices beyond what we feel
Bringing it on to keep things constant and real
We keep our eyes on the prize and now on how we feel
Swinging for the fence with all that we truly are
Clinging to the path of the truth northern star
The patterns we live require our focused attention
In relying on scripture, we live by our right intentions
(c) October 22, 20222 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Some Books Are To Be Tasted, Others To Be Swallowed, and Some Few To Be Chewed and Digested
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”-Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
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First Principles: Nature Never Deceives Us; It Is Always We Who Deceive Ourselves
“Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
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Stay the Course
Stay the Course
by Michael Doyle
Standing rooted in our visibility
Seeing beyond our vulnerability
Lead out in example of God's flow
Is the only star we should follow
Shifting hearts torn from God
Into doubts that are feeling odd
Jealously looking with envious eyes
Though we know from the start, this is unwise
This is life in its full conversation
We recognize its the journey, not the destination
As we see God juggling bits of everything
Taking moments needed for our all of nothing
Slipping and falling even in our state of grace
Finding it hard to hold on from what we face
Traces of learning from which we must stand
These cannot be assumptive and are not God's plans
We squander our treasures without meaning
Yet our heavenly Father understands our being
In all that brings us to our humility
When, the prodigal child, rejoins the family
(c) October 21, 2022 Michael Doyle
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