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First Principles: Children Should Be Educated and Instructed In the Principles of Freedom
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In A Dissonance Theory
In A Dissonance Theory
by Michael Doyle
What if...
What if is the beginning
As good as any beginning
Or so it often seems
The waking is stuff of dreams
And dreams bring as much truth
As that which we are told
All the bill of goods that we are sold
And...
What if...
What if those we have lost
Have a point made in their cost
Like rooms left to explore
And maybe just a bit more
As we look deeply inside
To the discomfort that we hide
Yet... without any real success
So many questions left to address
Here in this dissonance theory
Is the chaos of paradigms
Each chooses as if personal history
Pressurized into personal diamonds
That create our conceptions of worth
Without ever knowing our real worth
As if our lives might be panned
Or to be lived out like live stream on demand
And ... made to order as we wish
What if...
What if we create our own illusions
And the outside world is just the intrusion
Of the illusions of others in that flow
Who create without knowing that they know
The maze to freedom is within
Where "what if" is where we truly begin
It seems a thing of things is our own creation
And to be set free, we are limited only by our imaginations
(c) November 4, 2021 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Excellence Demands Competition
“Excellence demands competition. Without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence — in education or in any other walk of life.” – Ronald Reagan
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First Principles: Without Morals, A Republic Cannot Subsist For Any Length of Time
“Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time. They therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure and which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.” – Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence
Comfort Zone Christianity
Comfort Zone Christianity
by Michael Doyle
It's always seemed to lightly
How we fail to take things rightly
In our comfort zone Christianity
Failing to take on things needed by you and me
To the best of our capacity
We take up baptism in accountability
Repentance to the God who walks among us
In the sacredness we know just because
We need to take on the robes of immersion
A measure of weeding away the chaff in conversion
Putting away the ways of the world to follow
Where only those who hold to the sacred can go
Come make your needed recommitment
Into the ways of holy devotion in this sacrament
Holy angels sing over us before we are born
Now this is the day to awaken in this morn
Beginning as it is the never ending
Reborn not for comfort but in service not pretending
Giving our selves to take up the holy yoke
By reverently taking on the words the Lord has spoke
(c) November 2, 2021 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Accountability, Angels, Awaken, Baptism, Beginning, Born, Capacity, Chaff, Christianity, Comfort, Comfort Zone, Conversion, Fail, God, Holy Devotion, Immersion, Light, Morn, Never Endind, Poetry and Poems, Repentance, Reverent, Right, Robes, Sacrament, Sacred, Service, Sing, Spoke, The Lord, Walks Among Us, Ways of the World, Weeding Away, Words, Yoke
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Thought For the Day: All Great Human Deeds Both Consume and Transform Their Doers
“All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an artist, or an independent business creator. In the service of their goals they lay down time and energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves.”– Lois McMaster Bujold, author (b. 2 Nov 1949)
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First Principles: The People Alone Have the Incontestable…Right to Institute Government; and To Reform, Alter, or Totally Change the Same, When Their Protection, Safety, Prosperity and Happiness Require It
“…(T)he people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.” – John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776
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Thought For the Day: If People Knew How Hard I Worked To Get My Mastery, It Wouldn’t Seem So Wonderful After All
“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.” -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (1475-1564)
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First Principles: The Foundations of Our National Policy Will Be Laid In the Pure and Immutable Principles of Private Morality
“The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.” – George Washington, First Inaugural Address, 1789
On Immersion
On Immersion
by Michael Doyle
Baptism is the symbolic immersion
To speak to the joy of conversion
This the way forward in progression
Washing away our sins and perversions
Sin entered the world through the tree
The knowledge of good and evil spoken to you and me
Bringing the chasm in broken relationship
Until we make right our ways in worship
There is no way to build or earn
The restoration we need to discern
The ways of holiness to be without sin
Until the price is paid by Christ's bridge again
Grace received if we are to ever take
The right decisions we all need to make
The steps back from the pit of burning Hell
A place for the Devil, where demons dwell
Baptism cleans us of our lack of certainty
A cleansing path back to ways of purity
Knowing our disappointments and our failing
Back on the journey of God's will prevailing
(c) October 31, 2021 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Baptism, Bridge, Broken Relationship, Chasm, Christ, Clean, Conversion, Disappointments, Discern, Failing, God's Will, Grace Received, Hell, Holiness, Immersion, Journey, Joy, Knowledge of Good and Evil, Make Right, No Way, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Price, Progression, Purity, Restoration, Right Decision, Sin, Symbolic, Tree, Washing Away, Worship
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