“Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.” – Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (1787)
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First Principles: Experience Is the Oracle of Truth; and Where Its Responses Are Unequivocal, They Ought To Be Conclusive and Sacred
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Thought For the Day: I Look To the Future Because That’s Where I’m Going To Spend the Rest of My Life
“I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.” – George Burns
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Self Awareness Penned In Resurrection
Self Awareness Penned In Resurrection
by Michael Doyle
A dull cubicle's existence jabs
Leaving the feel of bruising hopelessness
Pondering the future's uncertainty
Life's lemons squeezed with a twist of darkness
It's an endlessly looped sense of stuck
Trapped inside a mental simulation
With crushing inertia's dominant luck
Setting the story in its firm foundation
Evolved into the stains felt deep as sin
No longer believing in any free agency
Life has spun into its unending din
As yesteryear generates its own legacy
It's a reboot culture nostalgic for moments
In which an overly compulsive world hits exhaustion
A patchy bearded anti-hero amidst his torments
While chattering millennials tap out their adoration
The unending treadmill goes on and on and on
As the corporate world desires to make old into new
Creativity debates the luster that is already gone
Moving two steps backward into what once grew
A strained heart's love is blissfully unaware
Of a past repeating in its faded, jaded charms
The sentimental streak that exists only to care
Is powered by its dominance that somehow disarms
All of life relived is a lore to sift and untangle
Significantly raised for the sake of missed stakes
As if the plot slate is wiped clean to freely mangle
This is a universe of constant distractions and mistakes
Intense in its lived in scatter of patterned energy
Provocative in its assault on our senses
Embodying all the best of life's pleasant savagery
Tweaked by the futility despite our pretenses
Escaping the vainglorious bytes of clickbait philosophy
In which emotional hooks lead to their own introspection
There is a retention of our overwhelming chemistry
That well surpasses life's cynicism through true affection
(c) December 23, 2021 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: For My Part I Know Nothing With Any Certainty, But the Sight of the Stars Makes Me Dream
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh
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First Principles: The Tree of Liberty Must Be Refreshed From Time To Time With the Blood of Patriots and Tyrants
“The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” – Thomas Jefferson
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What About Joseph?
What About Joseph?
by Michael Doyle
Following the Lord God means obedience
But when push comes to shove, she grew in diligence
While Joseph played out his part unsung
Holding his head upright and not hung
Trusting in God even when it was hard
Willing to keep going and to never discard
The Mother of God, who told her true story
And Joseph bowed to his knees before God's glory
In a time of Old Testament law there was one law
T o be stoned to death outside the city wall
Troubled Joseph was visited by an angel in a dream
Quietly sealing the truth within its holy seam
The steps of the righteous are guided with love
Directed as those are with trust in the above
This is the question that must be tested
To trust in the holy scripture that cannot be bested
Then all there is to do is simply follow
Through the depths of faith, not by being shallow
Doing what must be done to please an audience of one
So that Mary would give birth to the Holy Son
Brave enough to stay on this holy journey
Joseph quietly loved Mary with great empathy
He brought the holy family out into the night
For the sake of holiness that would be this world's light
(c) December 21, 2021 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: I Hate Deception, Even Where the Imagination Only Is Concerned
“I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.” – George Washington (1779)
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Thought For the Day: The Great Thing About Getting Older Is That You Don’t Lose All the Other Ages You’ve Been
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” –Madeleine L’Engle, writer (29 Nov 1918-2007)
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Even the Mother of God
Even the Mother of God
by Michael Doyle
Even the mother of God was human
Taking her steps best that she can
When she became chosen with care
This world's savior to carry and bear
Gabriel appeared in dead of the night
Telling her the truth and bringing light
As a virgin she kept in her purity
In her favored status, this was her surety
No word from God will ever fail
Her world turned upside down, yet would prevail
A simple mortal given honored grace
Her duty was clear and meant to embrace
In her rare opportunity was also some shame
Though she was blameless, she would bear the blame
Where there should no cause for this blame
On which the could reasonably place this shame
Obeying God, surrendering with full intention
Was Mary's own intention on which she placed attention
All that love, given in a Word that God did say
Determined in obedience, there was no other way
(c) December 20, 2021 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: A Popular Government, Without Popular Information, Or the Means of Acquiring It, Is But A Prologue to A Farce Or A Tragedy; Or, Perhaps Both
“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” —James Madison (1822)
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