Tag Archives: Arguments

First Principles: The Belief In A God All Powerful Wise and Good, Is So Essential To the Moral Order of the World and To the Happiness of Man

“The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: It’s Always Wise To Seek the Truth In Our Opponents’ Error, and the Error In Our Own Truth

“It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.“– Reinhold Niebuhr, in the Forward of The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness  (1944)  — The man who really did … Continue reading

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The Knife Slipped In

The Knife Slipped In by Michael DoyleWith the surrender of human freedomThe therapeutic class becomes a fiefdomEach criminal a victim of circumstanceSimply put they have become marionettes of happenstanceThose meant to help come to equally defendWith the incomes and career … Continue reading

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Interiorly Designed

Interiorly Designedby Michael DoyleThe things that come along to discern thisThat God places use where we can learn goodnessHow then can we make the most of it and embraceWhere God has put us in our time and spaceTo make the … Continue reading

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Attached In Meaning

Attached In Meaningby Michael DoyleWords are mainly symbolsSomething that vaguely resemblesAn agreement between we human beingsAs to what it is that we are meaningWe need a little less of the dictionaryAs we each act out our own PictionaryOf all that … Continue reading

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To My Not So Anonymous Enemy

Don’t worry.  I have a pretty good idea who you are.   shrugs… Your game is all but washed out…Incidentally, if you think being an ocean apart somehow protects against slander and libel in an electronic communication, well, I guess I’m … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Discuss Disagreements Do Not Argue

“Discussions are always better than arguments because an argument is to find out who is right, and a discussion is to find what is right.”  – Anonymous        

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Thought For the Day: Contempt Prior To Investigation Will Keep Mankind Ignorant

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” – Herbert Spencer, philosopher … Continue reading

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Truth In All Ill Repute

Truth In All Ill Repute by Michael Romani Arguments in the guise of truth Set a bad example for our youth The world has tilted off its axis The question left, I have to ask is When we’ve broken this … Continue reading

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