“An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.” – Benjamin Franklin, in Emblematical Representations (1774)
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Thought For the Day: Society Cannot Trample On the Weakest and Feeblest of Its Members Without Receiving the Curse In Its Own Soul
“We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.” – Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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The Dreamwork of Nightmares
In these dark times when it is so hard to be optimistic, can anyone be blamed for having nightmares? But what then are these?
The Dreamwork of Nightmares
by Michael Doyle
Even still as we grow and mature
We find a dark side in our human nature
Regardless of our striving and cares
The dream self knows its nightmares
This dream self is sometimes our true selves
Despite our bodily defects or books on shelves
All of these things we suffer and then endure
Both gods and demons cause us to be impure
There is significance to our bad dreams
Played out in full color and monochromatic scenes
Do we find in our warped sense of responsibility
That we seemingly set our own contextuality
As wish fulfillment for what we believe we desire
These are the alarms that set our souls on fire
So much comes to us though almost thoughtlessly
Unpacked into its measure triggering us needlessly
Our naked psyches in all of their division
Know their own self justified moments of derision
So much is layered as if in misty stages
As though perhaps these are ghost written pages
Multiplicity is condensed as if into one
Either completing us or making us come undone
All of our wishes are masterpieces of contortion
Suitable at best as graceless moments of distortion
Each of us, as so it seems, have a dark side
Unwanted desires that we hide behind our pride
The curtain blows in its irony of stark suppression
There in the caverns of our blackened depression
A flood erupts from our sternest repression
Coming across in levels of fuzzy impression
Rebounding into our nightmares of closed reality
Lived out in the scripts of our actuality
Rehearsing our darkest fears greeted at arrival
We will, at last, find our way into our survival
The mind and brain are again cleared; made clean
Sanitized as it were and is even in our worse dreams
(c) May 7, 2020 Michael Doyle
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Thoughts On the Hubble Space Telescope
I find it fascinating that my lady love and I are both interested in things like the exploration of universe and soul. I actually wrote this poem yesterday but didn’t post it. Sort of ran out of time talking… hmmpph….
Thoughts On Hubble by Michael Doyle Overhead we see our silver river A straw path toward our forgiver Today, we call this the Milky Way Crossing our paths in each of our passing days Light pollution in the many urban skies Blots this beauty out from youthful eyes But in our darkest places, we study where they are These same three billion glowing stars New stars form and shine for us to see Out there in this vast cloudy sea This where we wonder wandering in our home Puzzling over the question of if we're alone Into this, we have sent the Hubble to spy To discover what we might marvel over in its supply There in that vast interstellar tapestry Revealing to us piece by piece, parts of this mystery With a blackhole at the center of our galaxy There in a silver cluster of great immensity Light years map our universe's multiple faces In its intensity, this is what serves as our spaces Launched as a deep space program in 1983 The Hubble telescope studies this galactic sea Overlapping in their core of traced light years We wish on these to assuage our hidden tears In a billion galaxies more than one star is born Continuing blessed it assures us not to be forlorn Pinks and blues meld together in their collective Giving our night skies a spiraled perspective Diffuse light finds its similarity As Hubbles searches for some familiarity And yet, you and I wish on our stars tonight To have those wishes allowed as they might (c) May 7, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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Thought For the Day: On Each Part of the Human Race Is Laid the Duty To Keep Alight Its Own Lamp of Mind As Its Part In the Illumination of the World
“On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people is to deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.” -Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (7 May 1861-1941)
I would differ with this in the recognition that despite our differences in skin tint, there is only one race, the human race. I will gladly amend this on the discovery of aliens. But in all parts, human or otherwise, we should allow almost all cultures to be celebrated in their diversity. I say almost because I’m not particularly of those who would kill off others for not agreeing with their views such as say ISIS and other such groups. Otherwise, there is world of beautiful and wonderous differences which should be celebrated for the worth they bring to us as human beings. I hasten to add the obvious, included in this is that Caucasian peoples and culture should be celebrated as well. All lives matter. Anyone who says otherwise is a hater of the worse kind.
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First Principles: They Define A Republic To Be A Government of Laws and Not of Men
“They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.” – John Adams, in Novanglus No. 7 (March 6, 1775)
Consider this a hugely needed public service announcement. We should never allow America to become a mob ruled democracy. I am ashamed of every so called American leader who refers to the US as a democracy or says we who have fought for America fight for ‘democracy’. We are a republic. It’s set forward in our Constitution. As set out above, it’s clear to see the difference for all but the willfully blind or those clearly ignorant of the very fabric of our nation.
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Handling A Bad Day
Based in part on 2 Cor 1:8 :
Handling A Bad Day by Michael Doyle Slewfoot raises to destroy Always out to kill your joy If you serve God, you endure The temptations for sure Brave hearts without fear Through our prayers, keep God near Always practiced so sincere This faith of mine remains clear Approaching life with integrity I thank the Lord for the clarity Of knowing that we will be right Walking in God's healing light Finding heart on my old knees I seek only to do what will please Listening to what God will speak I'll climb to the top of the peak Seeking after our great courage Even in times that do discourage Fighting against our sad inclination We hold on despite our desperation Sometimes this is from our choices Other times, it takes away our voices Through no fault really of our own We are so blessed to know we're not alone Giving to God in our supplication The burdens of our daily temptation Thankful for our joy and gratitude Affixed to our lives our right attitude (c) May 6, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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Thought For the Day: The Beginning of Wisdom Is To Call Things By Their Right Names
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” – Confucius
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First Principles: We Have No Government Armed With Power Capable of Contending With Human Passions Unbridled By Morality and Religion
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams
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On the 1619 Project
An ahistorical work that seeks to repudiate the founding principles of America won the Pulitzer Prize today. In my eyes, all luster is now gone to both the Nobel prizes and the Pulitzer with this move. It’s not as though critics from both conservative circles and from the Left as well have not pointed out that the narrative has very little basis in documentable facts. Nor has it not been pointed out time and again that The 1619 Project is little more than a propagandist hit piece. Yet still it’s being put into the curriculum across our nation and now this prize. It’s horrifying really.
On the 1619 Project by Michael Doyle It's not just my proposition that victimhood Can never be promising for the public good We are a nation of individuals equal under law Not a nation of groups divided into all against all The 1619 Project may have won the Pulitzer Prize But is wrong minded and is ahistorical in discerning eyes We who love America cannot allow this tool of alienation By propaganda untrue to history and values sway our nation Replacing the true meandering path of American history The miscreants who wrote this hope for historical illiteracy And embrace divisive group rights based on political identity Having more to do with asserted privilege than history It can never be the right path to allow Balkanization Surely not, for those wanting the good of our nation Our unalienable rights have always been our struggle Still, the Declaration of Independence was not a bungle These propagandists insist America was built on tyranny Having very little, if anything, to do with liberty Passing over the Notes from the Constitutional Convention These alleged journalists prefer fiction of their own invention Toxifying the record of compromise in the name of pluralism Giving sway into a liar's club of outright ill-liberalism This is little more than arbitrary, capricious mal-intent The plain wrong of self-loathing in virtue signaling content Its purposes are the clear nonsense of repudiation Attempting to do away with the core principles of our nation Overturning our republican values to favor of democracy In all of its self serving mob rule sense of mentality Where if something is said loudly enough it becomes true For a false sake of social justice that just won't do Unity is needed through true consideration of what's told And not this bill of goods that has been oversold Even the Trotskyites declaim the project's integrity Grappling as it does with the fabric of lacked legitimacy Sincere Socialists rightfully asserting that issues need be real It's the conceived truth not ill-liberal fairy tales we must reveal (c) May 5, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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