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First Principles: Love of Truth and Veneration of Virtue Are the Sparks of Discernment of Right and Wrong and True and False
“A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the ‘latent spark’… If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what … Continue reading
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Tagged Difference, False, First Principles, John Adams, Latent Spark, Love of Truth, Mankind, Passions, Principle, Right, True, Understand, Veneration of Virtue, Vice, Virtue, Wrong
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To Obey God
2 Corinthians 10:5 : “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” To Obey God by Michael Romani Changing the world … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, Connection, Difference, Disposition, God, Kingdom, Light, Love, Mirror, Obedience, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Points of View, Praise Songs, Prayer, Reflection, World
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Seeds of Totalitarianism Dispersed
Generally speaking, we as a people stand for liberty and all its intendent duties and responsibilities. In this day and age, there has been an increasing move toward surrendering liberties for what we have latched onto as security, be it … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Absurd, Belief, Clever, Connotation, Cynicism, Deception, Difference, Double Speak, False Nuance, False Positive, God, Help, Language, Liberty, Matters, Morbidity, Myth, Orwellian, Perverse, Photography, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Provocation, Reality, Resolution, Society, Tactics, Totalitarianism, Truth, Tyranny, Understanding, Version, Willful Amnesia
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Thought For the Day: Life Can Be Lumpy
“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump … Continue reading
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Tagged Bumps, Difference, Discernment, Inconvenience, Life, Lumps, Problems, Robert Fulghum, Thought For the Day
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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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Thought For the Day: One of the Oldest Human Needs Is To Be Needed
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.” – Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978)
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Tagged Belong, Care, Difference, Human, Humanity, Margaret Mead, Need, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: We Can Each Change the World For the Better
“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of … Continue reading
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Tagged Better, Change, Charity, Difference, Kindness, Peace, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World, Tolerance
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