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Steadfast Against the Culture

Posted on November 13, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Steadfast Against the Cultureby Michael DoyleThere are two kinds of believersThose committed to the Bible and deceiversSome are guided by the Holy Spirit to aspireAnd then there are the carnally minded led by desireThere are two types of ways to … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Problem In Our Country Isn’t With Books Being Banned, But With People No Longer Reading

Posted on August 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. … You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” – Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (22 … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Banned, Books, Country, Culture, Destroy, No Longer Reading, People, Problem, Ray Bradbury, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

On Behalf of the Uyghurs

Posted on July 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

On Behalf of the Uyghursby Michael DoyleGive me the whole of your sentence And I will still my will and serveGive me the entirety of your pretenseTell me what it is that I deserveAnd I will still write my poetryNever … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Banner, Behalf, Blossom, Bosom, Committing Verses, Conscience, Courage, Cried, Culture, Defend, Deserve, Encoourage, Endless Grief, Everything, Fade Away, Familiar Voice, Family, Fire n Throat, Flowers, Freedoms, Genocide, Gulnisa Imin, Hope, Human Contact, Integrity, Joined In Voice, Language, Live Dead, Live Freely, Living Legacy, Make Us Friends, Manner, Memory, Moonless Nights, Patriotism, People's Rights, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Reeducation, Regret, Said, Sentence, Separatism, Serve, Shared Thoughts, Sharing Freedom's Plea, Sing Freely, Stars, Strength, Strokes of Penmanship, Stubborn Pride, Supress, Tenderness, Thoughts, Thousand Nights, Tribe of Poets, Truth of Peace, Uyghurs, Vital, WeChat Snippets, Wilderness, Yearn | Leave a comment

Standing Against Gender Identity Ideology

Posted on May 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Standing Against Gender Identity Ideologyby Michael DoyleI.Warnings from the churchRight the bell of genderAn articulated realityOr a decision capriciously madeAre women to have rightsOr does post-modernist MarxismErase these differences based on secrecyPropelled into an intercultural revolutionFracture of family and identityQuestions … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Account, Alienate, Anti-Realist, Art, Articulated Reality, Articulation, Basis, Bell, Best of Minds, Blurring of Lines, Bodies, Body, Capricious, Chameleon, Christmas Address, Church, Compass, Concepts, Concerns, Conditions, Confuse, Confused, Construct, Contentions, Creation, Culture, Decision, Deep Thinking, Define, Defined Within Reality, Defining Line, Dehumanizing, Destroy, Development, Differences, Digital Age, Disassociation, Discursive, Disembodied World, Distinct Differences, Distinguish, Diversion, Each Sex, Entrenchment, Exception, Expressed, Facades, Fall Back, Family, Fiction, First Called, Flesh, Fracture, Fracturing the Law, Freedom, Fullness of Functionality, Fundamental Source, Gameable, Gender Dysphoria, Gender Identity, Gender Identity Ideology, Genesis, Gift From God, Gifts, Gingerbread, Gnostic Essentialism, Gnostic Temptation, God and Nature, Harm, Heart, Heresy, Historical Moments, Holiness, Holy Sacrament, Humanity, Hydra, Identity, Illusion, Immersed, Impulse, In God's Image, Individuals, Insist, Intention, Inter-Sex, Intercultural Revolution, Isolation, Journey, Language, Legal Protections, Life, Long Way, Male and Female, Malleable Identity, Man, Marxism, Meaningless, Mind, Modern Myths, Natural Form, Open Con, Performance, Physical World, Poetry and Poems, Political Football, Post-Modernist, Post-Structualism, Potential, Pragmaticism, Problematic, Projection, Purpose, Question, Rampant, Reborn, Rights, Screen, Secrecy, Self-Definition, Separate, Sex Theology, Shift, Society of Contradictions, Source, Spiritual, Standing, Subversion, Suspiciion, Systems, Tear, Technology, Temporal Utility, Texture, Trans-Humanism, True Categories, True Story, Truth, Unicorns, Unity, Uprooting, Vulnerable, War, Warnings, Within A Sex, Woman's Space, Women, Worlds Apart, Wrong Paths | Leave a comment

The Importance of the Word

Posted on April 30, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Importance of the Wordby Michael DoyleIn this roll of yearsSoftly past the flowing tearsI think on words soughtTo connect the dot-to-dotThe words in mindI seek and sometimes findThat words are cultureAnd culture is the we nurtureSlipped into this elasticityIs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Beginning, Being, Bond, Breath, Community, Complexity, Connect, Cousin, Crumble, Culture, Death, Define, Display, Dot-To-Dot, Elasticity, Find, Float Over, Flowing Tears, God, Grumble, Importance, Knowledge, Me, Meaning, Mumble, Nurture, Occurred, Odd, Past, Played, Poetry and Poems, Politely, Ponds, Quest, Refine, Roll of Years, Seal, Seek, Sense, Sleep, Slip, Sought, Sudden, Symbol, Table, the Word, Theories, Think, Thirst, Thought, Words, Words In Mind | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: As A Culture, We Have To Do A Better Job of Figuring Out Who Is Just Famous and Who Actually Knows What He or She Is Talking About

Posted on February 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“You know, I have a couple of pretty simple rules in life. Don’t ever compare anything to slavery, don’t ever compare anything to the Holocaust, and if you’re a man, don’t compare anything to pregnancy. That’s rule number one. Rule … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Better Job, Confuse, Culture, Famous, Know, Thought For the Day, Trey Gowdy | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: One of the Great Principles of Socialism Is Division. If Everything Is Racist, Then Nothing Is Racist

Posted on October 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“One of the great principles of socialism is division. If everything is racist, then nothing is racist. In our culture today, we have many racial issues that need to be dealt with. And in my estimation, we were making some … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Culture, Deal, Discussion, Division, Estimation, Everything, Great Principles, Growing, Progress, Racial Issues, Racist, Real Issues, Reverend David Jeremiah, Socialism, Thought For the Day, Touch | Leave a comment

The Positive and Negative Of Social Learning From Television and Other Screens

Posted on April 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

The Positive and Negative Contributions of Social Learning From Television and Other Screens: The case is, more often than not, made that social learning from television and other screens is largely negative. To the degree that the negative case … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Adults, Application, Arthur, Attention, Attitude, Bandura, Basement Price, Children, Church, Church Services, Consume, Courses, Cultivation Analysis, Culture, Documentaries, Dora the Explorer, Drawing, Education, Emotional, Fast Paced, FCC, Fine Arts, Focus, Funhouse Distortions, Grokker, Guitar Playing, Handling Emotions, Health, Humanity, Influence, Informative Content, Innovations, Landscape, Leadership, Marquee TV, Mass Communications Theory, Mass Media, Media, Media Is A Tool, Media Literacy, Modern Household, Music, National Geographic, Negative, Negative Beliefs, Netflix.com, Nicholas Johnson, Offerings, Online Experiment, Other Choices, Overall Education, Pandemic Times, Peer Interaction, Perceptions and Thoughts, Philippines, Physical, Positive, Positive Choices, Prevalent View, Profit, Public, Quizzes, Recognize, Reinforce, Screens, Selective Mirror, Selective Process, Self-Development, Sells, Sesame Street, Skills, Social Learning, Society, Sporting Events, TED Talks, Television, The Great Courses Plus, Thinking Patterns, Thought For the Day, Thrive, Topics, Use, Viewing Consumption, Viewing Habits, Well-Being, Yoga, Youtube.com | Leave a comment

On the Influence of Mass and Social Media

Posted on March 30, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Mass Media Shaping of Culture and Perceptions of Self, Others and the World: Where once Gutenberg’s printing press led the way in shaping the world, the driving technology in the modern world is mass media in its many and … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Advantages, Agendas, American, American Revolution, Bad Actors, Bad Product, Barbie Doll, Body Image Disturbance, Change, China, Citizens, Civilization, Communicate, Computer Mediated, Conservative, Conservative Opinions, Consumers, Consumption, Crack Down, Critical Thinking, Cultural, Culture, Dark Underlayer, Discussion, Dominance, Dystopian, Economic, Electronic Feet, Empirical Evidence, Entertainment, Exacting Beauty, Exodus, Facebook, Facts, Feedback Loop, Feelings, Free For All, Free Speech, Future, Global Community, Global Culture, Great Leveler, Gutenberg, Hate Groups, High Order Statistical Functions, Influence, Information, Intellectual Free Market, Intelligence Work, Interaction, Internet, Irrationality, Logical Inconsistency, Manipulate, Mass Media, Mattel, MeWee, Normative Values, Observable Facts, Others, Perception, Perfect Woman, Platforms, Politics, Post-Modernistic, Presidential Election, Printing Press, Privately Owned Fora, Products, Public Opinion, Pubs, Respect, Russia, Self, Shaped, Shapes, Sites, Social Issues, Social Media, Speech Freedoms, Suppress, Taverns, Technological Determinism, Technology, Thinkers, Thomas Paine, Thought For the Day, Twitter, United States, Values, Voting, World | Leave a comment

Split the Difference

Posted on January 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Split the Differenceby Michael DoyleKicking back with my girls on the holidaysSharing life with them in a million waysWhen we happened on a soulful snip of movieWith a lot of heart that played out groovyThere in the middle of a … Continue reading →

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Steadfast Against the Culture

Thought For the Day: The Problem In Our Country Isn’t With Books Being Banned, But With People No Longer Reading

Standing Against Gender Identity Ideology

The Importance of the Word

Thought For the Day: As A Culture, We Have To Do A Better Job of Figuring Out Who Is Just Famous and Who Actually Knows What He or She Is Talking About

Thought For the Day: One of the Great Principles of Socialism Is Division. If Everything Is Racist, Then Nothing Is Racist

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