Tag Archives: Absurdity

Does It Make You Cry?

Posted on October 16, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Does It Make You Cry?by Michael DoyleWhen you’re tired of laughing,Does it make you cry?This life you’ve been living, It turned out to be a lie.When you’ve given all you can,And your best isn’t good enough,Sometimes it’s hard to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absurdity, All You Can, Animal, Best, Bloodlust, Bluff, Broken Trust, Cause, Certain, Certainty, Coattials, Criminal, Cry, Good Enough, Hard, Heart, Ice, In Place, Insurgency, Justice, Larceny, Laughing, Lie, Life, Live, Man, March, Own Man, Pause, Poetry and Poems, The World, Tired, Urgency | Leave a comment

Lapsed Into Vulnerability

Posted on June 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Lapsed Into Vulnerabilityby Michael DoyleFor most of my life, it’s been grasp and capabilityNow we’ve followed the Silent Generation into vulnerability. Our straightforward path toward security and prosperityLent itself to jaded jokes that were mostly others’ jealousy.The sky was the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absurdity, Age of Austerity, Boomer Generation, Capability, Confident, Easy Stride, Free Ride, Future, Grasp, Imagination, Innovation, Jaded Jokes, Jagged Edges, Jealousy, Jeopardy, Lapse, Life, Nurture, Our Share, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Poverty, Relaxed Feeling, Silent Generation, Social Security, Spending Hawks, Vulnerability | Leave a comment

First Principles: We Know That Equality of Individual Ability Has Never Existed and Never Will, But We Do Insist That Equality of Opportunity Still Must Be Sought

Posted on August 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt Kamala Harris has made a great deal out about “equity”. That … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Absurdity, Aware, Decline, Equal Outcome, Equality, Equality of Opportunity, Equity, Essential, Exist, First Principles, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harmful, Illogic, Incentive, Individual Ability, Insist, Kamala Harris, Natoin, Pathological Destruction, Reward, Sloth, Society, Sought, Superior Talent, Well-Being | Leave a comment

Imagining Science Incorrectly

Posted on April 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Imagine this: With a huge portion of America’s business not being done from Covid lockdown, only 13% of carbon emissions were reduced.. Biden has stated a goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 50% from 2005 levels by 2030 … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged 13% of Carbon Emissions, 1888, 20%, 50% by 2050, 80% American Energy, Absurdity, Biden, Books, Cleaner, Climate Policy, Climate Related Disasters, Cost of Inaction, Current Renewable Use, Decades, Environment, Followed, Fossil Fuels, Gia, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, History, Honest Job, Hydropower, Ignorance, Imagining, Mandates, Newspapers, Nuclear, Optimism, Photovoltaic Effect, Poorest Among Us, Real Science, Reduction, Reliable, Renewables, Risen, Science, Signs, Solar, Standard of Living, Subsidies, Thought For the Day, Track the Real Science, Welfare of Humanity, Wind | Leave a comment

Triumphal Entry (Palm Sunday 2020)

Posted on April 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Na/GloPoWriMo 2020, Day 5 is Palm Sunday! Challenging, really challenging prompt today. 20 separate components: “Our (optional) prompt for today is one that we have used in past years, but which I love to come back to, because it so … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absurdity, Age, Beach, Beautiful, Beginning, Belief, Bittersweet, Blind, Brutality, Cannibalism, Challenge, Communion, Conform, Cries, Cry, Dealt, Death, Deceiver, Defeat, Degrees of Separation, Die, Donkey, End, Entry, Find, Flight, God, Grace, Hole, Hosana, Hoshiya Na, Human Form, Humanity, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jim Simmerman, King of the Jews, Laugh, Live, Lord, Lost, Me, Metaphor, Na/GloPoWriMo 2020, Narrow, Overwhelmning, Palm Sunday, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pouring Out, Provide, Redeem, Religious People, Return, Ripped Flesh, Sacral, Sake, Salvation, Save, Seek, Senses, Shudder, Side, Sinner, Smell, Spiritual, Symbolism, Tarzan, Taste, Tears, The Gate, Three Day, Together, Torture, Touch, Triumph, Truth, Twenty Little Poetry Projects, Urbanism, Victory, Wait, World, Wounded | 2 Comments

First Principles: Heresies In Politics and Religion Are Rarely Cured By Persecution

Posted on February 19, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.” – Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 1 (1787) … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Absurdity, Alexander Hamilton, Cure, Fire and Sword, First Principles, Freedom of Religiion, Freedom of Thought, Politics, Presecution, Religion, The Federalist Papers, Thought | Leave a comment

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Does It Make You Cry?

First Principles: We Know That Equality of Individual Ability Has Never Existed and Never Will, But We Do Insist That Equality of Opportunity Still Must Be Sought

Triumphal Entry (Palm Sunday 2020)

First Principles: Heresies In Politics and Religion Are Rarely Cured By Persecution

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