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Time Well Spent
In this age of global interconnection, we face a modern paradox. At the same time that we are more connected than ever, we are also increasingly polarized and alienated from one another. What might have been and can still be … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Algorithm, Alienation, Alternative, Balance, Belong, Biometric Sensor, Common, Communicate, Community, Conception, Connect, Dialog, Disconnect, Dividing Line, Ethics, Facebook, Family, Focus, Fogot, Free Speech, Friends, Gatekeeper, Generation, Global, Global Community, Google, Happy, Humanity, Imperative, Inform, Interconnection, Interface, Internet, Isolate, Learn, Life, Local, Modern, Monologue, Narcissism, Offer, One, Opinion, Paradox, Peel, People, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Polarization, Profit, Profit Motive, Reach, Repent, Screen Time, Self, Skin, Social Media, Strand, Time, Transform, Twitter Revolution, Tyranny, Unintended Consequence, Virtual Onion
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Chance Encounter
For most of us, it seems from time to time that life is often a string of circumstances in which we try our best to make sense of it all… Chance Encounter by Michael Romani Like anonymous walls Meeting in … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alibis, Alienation, Alone, Association, Blue Dollar, Chance, Circumstances, Connection, Encounter, Gap, Heart, Life, Love, Mourn, Passage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Resonance, Scars, Squalor, Stars, Stumble, Telephone, Together, Wall
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Thought For the Day: Illiberalism Breeds the Conditions Ripe For Mob Rule
“The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women — of all classes — detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion — mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob … Continue reading
First Principles: May We Ever Endeavor To Be Friends Despite Our Differences
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” – Thomas Jefferson (1800)
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Tagged Alienation, Difference, First Principles, Friendship, Inquiry, Opinion, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Thomas Jefferson, Truth
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First Principles: The Right To Freedom Is God Given and Cannot Be Given Up
“If men … give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the … Continue reading
Alien Invasion
I thought I’d try something a little different. Let me know what you all think, please? Alien Invasion by Michael Romani We look up into the skies Beholding the infinite stars And we believe we are alone We need to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien, Alienation, Earth, Infinite, Invasion, Natural Rights, Negative, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Stars
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Thought For the Day – Kindness and Love
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -William Wordsworth, poet (7 Apr 1770-1850) Isn’t it a pity that so few remember this in their day to day? This quote … Continue reading
