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Thought For the Day: It Is Clear That Thought Is Not Free If the Profession of Certain Opinions Make It Impossible To Earn A Living
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Into Something More
Into Something More
by Michael Doyle
Strive and fight for a better life
Finding believed in utopia was naught
But disappointment with hints of strife
Ideals purchased with bloodied tears sought
Only to find these too lacking in the end
And while life goes on, we cannot pretend
That what is not right is indeed right
Nor that darkness can be mistaken for light
Finding ourselves on some foreign shore
Struggling to make our lives into something more
Putting on all of the feigned trends
And still seeking happiness in our ends
These pursuits lead as such often do
To finding ourselves opposed to the the views
That only yesterday felt as if something true
Which could and can be grasped only by a few
It is that something more of storied legacy
That we see ourselves in mirrors of hypocrisy
Comic operas that leave us with next to nothing
Thinking we have that something more that is everything
Judgments rushed into as if by infliction
Become indulgences of understanding in affliction
That perhaps the best of our found days
Link back to the ancient and tried ways
Lifted in prayers that God will always hear
Finding our voices beyond all sense of fear
Trust then in turning our backs on failed ways
As we found ourselves tempted in our jaded days
No matter where we go, there we indeed are
There is a humor in finding the near has been far
As we find ourselves full circle in our duty
And that in ourselves and God is the truest beauty
What is to be gained in seeking the something more
All that society deems rich, only leaves us poor
There in its dripping poison in words flittering by
We find the more in the less as our days go passing by
There is no need but the simple prayers of connection
As God knows the wisdom needed for our correction
The many follies of man have none of the best answers
And the traps of modern life spread like vicious cancers
Be penitent in returning to the faith that is needed
Where God always answers all of the prayers pleaded
The sufferings of life are but of a petulant season
While leaning on God's business shares purity of reason
God in all of His mercy ponders His long told tale
That we might choose wisely in what will best prevail
And if we then we should still find our lives a little strange
Remember God's something more and repent again to change
(c) February 17, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Thought of the Day: If Liberty Means Anything At All, It Means the Right To Tell People What They Do Not Want To Hear
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” —George Orwell (1903-1950)ople what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell (1903-1950)
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First Principles: In A Society Under the Forms of Which the Stronger Faction Can Readily Unite and Oppress the Weaker, Anarchy May As Truly Be Said To Reign As In A State of Nature
“In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.” – James Madison (1788)
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Thought For the Day: We Are What We Repeatedly Do. Excellence Then, Is Not An Act, But A Habit
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
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First Principles: Liberty..Justly Understood Is Sacred
“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the mouths of some it means anything, which enervate a necessary government; excite a jealousy of the rulers who are our own choice, and keep society in confusion for want of a power sufficiently concentered to promote good.” – Oliver Ellsworth (1787)
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Happy Valentine’s Day 2022
May everyone have the happiest and most blessed of Valentine’s Days this February 14, 2022. Always remember that God loves you!
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Nothing Better Than You, Lord
Nothing Better Than You, Lord
by Michael Doyle
Even as I walk through shadow
There's something that I know
Your love will always surround me
Even when I don't deserve your sympathy
When my life becomes ashes
And my spirit tears with the thrashes
The fight and battle fall before
Conquering God makes my heart soar
When questions fill my head
And my heart is lost in dread
With one prayer there is connection
Your words lend their direction
Searching the world for meaning
Yet knowing its only faith that fills my being
No matter where I have wandered
There's nothing better no mater how I've wondered
It's always been my worst blunder
When I've torn my world asunder
Nothing ever can compare to your love
So I keep my faith in what is above
(c) February 14, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: You Don’t Stop Loving Because You Grow Old, You Grow Old Because You Stop Loving
“You don’t stop loving because you grow old, you grow old because you stop loving.” – Michael Pritchard
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First Principles: The Whole Art of Government Consists In the Art of Being Honest. Only Aim To Do Your Duty, and Mankind Will Give You Credit Where You Fail
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.” – Thomas Jefferson (1774)
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