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First Principles: Accept the One Whose Faith Is Weak, Without Quarreling Over Disputable Matters
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Ed Gein’s Mind
Ed Gein's Mind
by Michael Doyle
This time of year, with all of its chills
Has taught us, along with all the thrills
That the worst monster is the human one.
Among the animals, we are who kill for fun.
Post-World War II saw a rising tide of deviance.
One in which serial killing grew in prevalence.
Some want answers to be made with excessive haste.
Serial killing is blamed on wanton industrial waste.
Running straight at what passes for a crazy wall,
Violence begets violence, our narrative recalls.
The confluence of brokenness since we saw Eden fall,
There is still so much unknown in the horror of it all.
This American Murderland is an environmental catastrophe.
But there really isn't all that much remaining mystery.
Meta-analysis finds among the killers a common thread.
Impulse and aggression increased and were caused by lead.
Pins pushed into patterns obsessively lead to lunacy.
The truth becomes a conspiracy of meaning to you and me.
Smelter smoke lingers until it enters the bloodstream.
From there, it poisons the fetus of motherhood's dreams.
Running straight at what passes for a crazy wall,
Violence begets violence, our narrative recalls.
The confluence of brokenness since we saw Eden fall,
There is still so much unknown in the horror of it all.
American society stands above in its haughty evaluation.
Hate, greed, and indifference each know their devastation.
The forces loosened in the name of simple corporate greed
Did not know the price that would be paid for their seed.
The unspoken anguish screams out its need for declarative
Uncertain as we are in the search for a meaningful narrative.
Scratching at answers that reek of open wound correlation,
We wonder at just what all of this means for a weary nation.
Running straight at what passes for a crazy wall,
Violence begets violence, our narrative recalls.
The confluence of brokenness since we saw Eden fall,
There is still so much unknown in the horror of it all
(c) October 11, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: No One Should Fear To Undertake Any Task In the Name of Our Saviour, If It Is Just and If the Intention Is Purely For His Holy Service
“No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. The working out of all things has been assigned to each person by our Lord, but it all happens according to His sovereign will, even though He gives advice. He lacks nothing that is in the power of men to give Him. Oh, what a gracious Lord, who desires that people should perform for Him those things for which He holds Himself responsible! Day and night, moment by moment, everyone should express their most devoted gratitude to Him.” – Christopher Columbus
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First Principles: It Should Be Our Endeavor To Cultivate the Peace and Friendship of Every Nation
““It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation.” – Thomas Jefferson (1787)
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Listen
Listen
by Michael Doyle
Every new day is a cause to rejoice.
We gratefully raise our loving voice,
Singing our love songs through the length
Of our days with our fullest strength.
Faith is kept in all of our days.
It's a bond working both ways.
The river runs until it overflows.
These are the ways we are to know.
Listen and you will hear it.
We are closer now to the Holy Spirit.
Blessed by the power of His name.
His love removes our blame.
As we give our praise in return
For the love and laws that we learn.
We find He loves us as we deserve.
In return, we live as we serve.
We raise our voices in celebration
As we are reminded in fascination,
Jesus takes us from where we are
And guides our lives like the North Star.
Listen and you will hear it.
We are closer now to the Holy Spirit.
Blessed by the power of His name.
His love heals our shame.
(c) October 10, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: It Will Not Be Denied That Power Is Of An Encroaching Nature and That It Ought To Be Effectually Restrained From Passing the Limits Assigned To It
| “It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” – James Madison (1788) |
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Thought For the Day: Music Is A Higher Revelation Than All Wisdom and Philosophy. Music Is the Electrical Soil In Which the Spirit Lives, Thinks and Invents
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
A Sense of Loneliness
A Sense of Loneliness
by Michael Doyle
The strange new thoughts are invasive.
The changes to what life is are pervasive.
One must be careful out on the street,
Especially of who one decides to eat,
To keep things in the superlative,
One must never eat a friend or a relative.
It is only those that no one will ever miss.
That will receive that final vampiric kiss.
Life is filled with a cold sense of rage
That is seldom written about on the page.
But more, there is a sense of loneliness
And it bleeds the path of this cold emptiness.
Every attempt is made to keep life pro quid.
The reality is that all around is now liquid.
The values a man once held are void, and soon gone.
And the loneliness rages on and ever on.
Feelings such as love are an unanswered question.
The search for a suitable lover holds hesitation.
Who would want to live forever, seeing loved ones die?
Unquenchable is the thirst making the vampire sigh.
Still, it is that music pierces even jaded souls.
The mastery of this art whispers of universal control.
There is something in a well-written piece's majesty
That fills even an immortal soul with beauty and legacy.
The hunt is on as the curtain falls like a guillotine,
Death, it seems, is the dark dream of every living being.
And when life has come to be held in vapid disdain.
It cannot be long before the grasp on such life is in vain.
Death in all of its tender beauty is something to behold,
This is the truth that the maestro allowed slowly to unfold.
As drop by precious drop, the victim's life drained to feed
The visions of a vampire feeding with vision, not greed.
The end of life can be a studied meditation of impunity,
The release allows the sufferer his moments of dignity.
The human moments of tangled imperfections play at the heart.
It is these that make life, living, and undead, a work of art.
(c) October 9, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Let Us Recollect That Peace Or War Will Not Always Be Left To Our Option.. However Moderate or Unambitious We May Be
“Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
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Thought For the Day: I Still Believe That Love Is All You Need. I Don’t Know A Better Message Than That
“I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.” – Paul McCartney
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 