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First Principles: Only A Virtuous People Are Capable of Freedom. As Nations Become Corrupt and Vicious, They Have More Need of Masters.
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.“ – Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Capable, Corrupt, First Principles, Freedom, Masters, Nation, Need, People, Vicious, Virtuous
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One Family Seen
In looking down on this world from space what might we see? One Family Seen by Michael Romani Ten million bats seen in migration Descend on the fruited Zambian nation Always in motion as they play their part Delivering the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Africa, Bats, Capable, Coincidence, Confusion, Connection, Droplet, Evidence, Family, Fruit, Illusion, Motion, Oblivious, Obvious, One, Pattern, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Significance, Space, Stable, Storm, Time, Understand, Universe, World, Zambia
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First Principles: No Government Has The Power to Contend 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… Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Capable, Constitution, Contend, First Principles, Govern, Human Passions, Inadequate, John Adams, Moral, Morality, No Government, Others, Religion, Religious, Unbridled
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Thought For the Day: Stoop Low To Rise High
“There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.” – Lady Marguerite Blessington, writer (4 Apr 1789-1849)
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Tagged Capable, Desire, Lady Marguerite Blessington, Low, Person, Rise, Stoop, Thought For the Day, World
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The Beauty of Healing
Learning more about how belief shifts biology in connection between mind and body led to this spilling out on my notepad… The Beauty of Healing by Michael Romani The mind body connection Stimulates the immunity It’s a matter of chemistry … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Answer, Apply, Aspire, Authority, Average, Balance, Beauty, Belief, Believe, Biology, Body, Capable, Chemistry, Consequence, Cure, Dark Seed, Desire, Diagnosis, Die, Diffidence, Direction, Discard, Fortify, Harm, Heal, Healing, Immunity, Impersonal, Increase, Know, Light of Day, Living, Magic, Mind Body Connection, Modality, Negative Thinking, Photograph, Plant, Poem, Poety, Possibility, Power, Present, Proactive, Probability, Prognosis, Ratify, Reactive, Recovery, Regard, Say, Shadow, Shift, Soul, Statistics, Stimulate, Trust, Truth, Us, Within, Yield
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The Last Days of Death
Regard well the moments of your life and never disregard a chance given to tell someone you care about or who needs an encouraging word those things that you might say to make their world better. You never know when … Continue reading
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Tagged Biology, Breath, Buy, Capable, Constraint, Day, Death, Disease, Dream, Ease, Encourage, Equality, Escape, Expiration Date, Fight, Frailty, Good fight, Google, Grim Reaper, Hand, Immortality, Iron Clad, Life, Mantra, Mortality, Nap, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Realign, Rush, Science, Sensible, Tap, Technicality, Time, Truth, Value, View, World, Young
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Article 19 (The Burden of Secularism)
I have been reading through a series of works by Yuval Noah Harai that seems topical and a historian’s blend of philosophy and history projecting into humanity’s future. It’s been challenging and is spawning a few poems that are often … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Article 19, Ashes, Bad Impression, Billions, Blindspot, Capable, Catechism, Citizens, Compassion, Constraint, Creed, Dictatorship of the Majority, Dignity, Dissent, Dogma, Drag, Earth, Echo, Elite, Enslave, Equality, Ethics, Extermination, Failure, Fragments of Faith, Fraud, Free Thought, Freedom, Future, Global, God's Law, Godless, Gulag, Hierarchy, History, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Ignorance, Industrialiization, Legacy, Liberty, Lies, Marxism, Masses, Mercy, Misery, Modernization, Moral Compass, Oppression, Optimism, Pessimism, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Progressive, Reality, Responsibility, Seculariism, Self Expression, Self Righteous, Shadow, Slogan, Society, The Fall, Tolerance, Truth, Truth Seeking, Vanity, Youth, Yuval N Harai
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The Truth of the Present
It’s so easy to believe these are the bad ole days as modern day snake oil salesmen tell us of how horrible things are and that they’re bound to get worse. But is that true? Or, is the doom … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Accountable, Age, al-Qeada, Armada, Asymmetry, Baton, Begun, Brave, Broken, Bungle, Calamity, Capable, Catastrophe, Cause, Cave, Change, Chicken Little, Choice, Coca Cola, Complicity, Conspire, Data Mine, Destruction, Devil, Doom and Gloom, Foothold, Gain, Goat, God, Gunpowder, History, Humanity, Imprint, Innocence, Kings, Law of the Jungle, Legacy, Living History, Logic Bomb, Manage, Manipulate, Mankind, Mery, Motivation, Mutual Destruction, Mystery, Nuclear, Obesity, One, Oppenheimer, Optimism, Orchestrate, Pages, Pain, Peace, People, Pessimism, Pestilence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Power, Present, Prevail, Rare, Save, Self Defeat, Sown, Spoken, Starvation Line, Sugar, Terrorism, Tire, Tragedy, True Peace, Truth, Unity, Vanity, Veil, War, World
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Samson IV
Tyranny believes in the power of man over God’s law. True liberty believes in the guidance of God in effecting a lawful and truly just world over the evils of man. Based in part on the Book of Judges: Samson … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Judges, Brave, Capable, Champion, Command, Defeat, Evil, Faith, Free, Glory, Hebrew, Holy, Liberty, Living God, Mercy, Obey, Philistine, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Power, Rise Up, Sacred, Samson, Servant, Steeple, Truth, Tyranny, Victory
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Questioning Prayers
From time to time, a soul is shaken into questioning things even convictions firmly held. Questioning Prayers by Michael Romani Questioning prayers Questioning the Divine Caught in emotional snares Laid like cerebral landmines Poems to all its owed To dreams … Continue reading
