“Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.” – Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.” – Joseph Story (1833)
Pure Love
by Michael Doyle
What is Pure Love
But the giving of love
Without expectation
Who is Pure Love
But the giver of love
To a man who felt undeserving
But has given this love
With her full heart
What is Pure Love
But to live in humility
All the days of our lives
Walking love and truth
Who is Pure Love
But the bringer of light
To my darkest days
Shining brightly as she does
What is Pure Love
But a hint of heaven
Walking by my side
Like a dream come true
Who is Pure Love
But my peace felt inside
When she is by my side
Wanting only the best that life can give
(c) December 13, 2021 Michael Doyle
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“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)
“What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious”. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE)
The Unfolding Story of the First Christmas Day
by Michael Doyle
Christmas didn't come with a pretty bow
If you didn't know this, you need to know
There was a lot of ugly in what became beautiful
The something simple transformed into the wonderful
Shepherds were tending flock in the field
When the angels announced what would yield
The coming of the Lord in that lonely manger
To walk among us as a friend, not a stranger
In a testimony filled with truest inspiration
The tending the lambs of God for the Israeli nation
The lowest of the low came to find the highest of the high
On that fateful night the angels filled the sky
Love does not discriminate for cause of social standing
Let this be our first and greatest bit of understanding
God is not a respecter of status but of pure hearts
And in His kingdom, each such heart play their parts
All peoples come together for the majesty and the glory
Here within the very first of the greatest Christmas story
Then there an angel appeared to tell his holy news
The same we listen to in filling the Christmas pews
The good news proclaimed to be spread among the least
All are and will be welcomed, come famine or great feast
We are all loved and blessed in our Father's eyes
Let this truth never be forgotten or come as surprise
In the town of Bethlehem, there laying in the manger
Came God to walk among us, no longer to be stranger
There as a multitude of angels filled that night's skies
The hosts of Heaven praised before the shepherd's eyes
Glory to God and on the highest winds be praise
Came the Word of God to live by in all of our days
Kept in the fullness of our most broken parts
To be filled with shalom enough to cure our hearts
Wholeness of peace offered for the goodness of all
It is a restoration of Eden to bridge our fall
There is a completeness by which we may best live
If if our complete surrender, our praise we give
Habits of a lifetime lived with our best intention
Gratitude and loving worship given our humble attention
Lovely and pure in our humbled but steady admiration
This will restore our hearts and the best satisfaction
Life is not about living for selfishness and ambition
And it doesn't matter about whatever our situations
It only takes overcoming fearful ways to open eyes
To the truth of that light show that filled the skies
Trust in God beings the purest of sacred imprints
To do that something that keeps us steadily intent
Following the Lord is the message we must spread
Whatever the world might say and things we dread
Living the presence of the Lord is best for us all
The worship and relationship is what we must recall
It is the love and the completeness in which we praise
That brings the joy to give pristine peace to our days
A living invitation comes with the telling of salvation
As we learn to see what might rescue every desperate nation
It's the telling of the sacred words all need to hear
That will bring the peace that surpasses all of our fear
Go then and tell it on on the tallest mountain
Go then and tell it near, far; tell it everywhere
The living waters heal flowing like a fountain
As we humbly approach and let this truth shine clear
(c) December 12, 2021 Michael Doyle
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“There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. All information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility.” – Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974)
“Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge.” – -James Wilson, Of the Study of the Law in the United States, 1790
Birds Aren't Real
by Michael Doyle
Spoken with a sense of zeal
Is the thought, "Birds Aren't Real"
Youth joins together to upend
A disturbing sort of the worse trend
In an age of misinformation
Gen Z links arms across the nation
Engaged in a case of absurdism
With vigor and great enthusiasm
It is a parody social movement
Meant to tackle a world of rabbit holes
In this sense, it is an improvement
That might be good for their souls
Fighting lunacy with lunacy
The youth of America take this opportunity
Started by a floppy haired McIndoe on his own
Who is ready to admit that birds are not drones
Cosplaying the zeal of conspiracy theory
They process while aware of the line they walk
This is the now of getting through somehow in theory
By pretending to laugh together at their own talk
Growing up in high schools where the noxious gateway
Was and has been a diet of social media every day
Reading Reddit's viewpoints on causes of "Remote Control"
A little irreverence is after all good for the soul
Constructing a world fabricated in its constant fiction
As a way of fighting off banality in a world of friction
Concocting elaborate histories to deal with frustration
Had in dealing with a world turned mad with unnatural diction
Despite its falsity, this is a benign collaboration
Building a world of absurd charm across this nation
Engaging as its worse, those against absurdism
And who have had enough of lives lived in misinformation
Laughing at the world in all of its tainted madness
This is a way of overcoming all of the profound sadness
Like a social mirror held to America's internet age
"Birds Aren't Real" is about laughter and not rage
(c) December 11, 2021 Michael Doyle
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“It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.” – George Washington (1789)
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