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Tag Archives: Existence
A Rebellion Begins In Questions
A Rebellion Begins In Questionsby Michael DoyleSome seek truth with hesitationWhile others cannot form the questionsOften, answers arrive with simplicityUntangled as these are from the world’s complexityFaith belongs aside it’s sister, reasonComplementing each within its seasonEach tempers the other as … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Beckoning Question, Begin, Blend, Boundaries, Complement, Complexity, Control, Conversation, Cultivation, Day One, Define, Destination, Doubt, Earth, Education, Elements, Existence, Faith, First Questions, Flavor, Focus, Form, Garden of Eden, God's Good Purposes, Grand Design, Grow, Hesitation, Hint, Humanity, Journey, Know, Page One, Poetry and Poems, Protect, Question, Questions, Ragged Souls, Reality, Reason, Rebellion, Relationship, Room, Savor, Season, Seek, Serpent, Shape, Simplicity, Sky, Spiritual, Temper, Travel, Truth, Universe, Untangled, Why
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First Principles: I Never Doubted, For Instance, the Existence of the Deity; That He Made the World, and Governed It By His Providence
“I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that he made the world, and governed it by his Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptable Service, All Crime, Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin, Deity, Doing Good, Doubt, Existence, First Principles, God, Govern, Here, Hereafter, Immortal, Made, Man, Providence, Punished, Rewarded, Souls, Virtue, World
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First Principles: The General Principles On Which the Fathers Achieved Independence Were the General Principles of Christianity
“The general principles on which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.” – John Adams
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Tagged Attributes, Believe, Christianity, Eternal, Existence, First Principles, General Principles, God, Immutable, Indepndence, John Adams, The Fathers
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The Wonderous California Coast
The Wonderous California Coastby Michael DoyleWe are escorted by dolphin laughterComing from guardians who are afterThe company that they find in playAlong the bow of our boat, much like yesterdayWhen mighty Calypso sailed the coastal deepsAlong the coral reefs to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alto, Aquarium, Baja, Battle, Beauty, biodiversity, Blind, Blue Planet, Blue Skies, Cacti, California Coast, Calypso, Capacity, Chart, Coastal Deep, Company, Coral Reef, Distinction, Divers, Dolphin, Drops of Water, Efficient, Escort, Existence, Extinction, Fault, Feed, Find, Forest, George Waashington, Guardians, Heart Break, Imperil, Jouney, Kelp Bed, Knowledge, Laughter, Live, Love, Mankind, Mexico, Nature, Noses, Notion, Oblivious, Ocean World, One Water System, Play, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pretense, Protection, San Jose Island, Scarcity, Sea of Cortez, Sequoia, Squid, Sun, Survival, Sustainability, Time, Water, Wonderous, World Apart, Wounded Heart
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Happy Palm Sunday 2023
As we begin this Holy Week, I am blessed to have the presence of my two daughters that I love more than all the world. God blessed my ex-wife and I with their lives being shared with us and it … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Beauty, Blessed, Blossom, Compassion, Daughters, Deepest lesson, Different, Earthly Plane, Existence, God, Grace, Happy Palm Sunday 2023, Holy Week, Joy, Love, Moment, Reflect, Reflection, Share, Thought For the Day, Unique Attributes, Young Ladies
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Thought For the Day: The State Represents Violence In A Concentrated and Organized Form
“The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” – Mahatma Mohandas … Continue reading
A Future of Self Deceives
A Future of Self Deceivesby Michael DoyleIn a chipped future of self deceivesIt’s hard to say what a fool believesThere it is in a billion lines of codeSentient in being, created life unfoldsAs a computational theocracy brings its lightShining on … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Chatbot, Chip, Computational Theocracy, Data, Deceive, Delusion, Distinctions, Dreams, Engineer, Existence, Fantasy, Feelings, Future, Hesitation, Just-So Story, Leading Questions, Life Unfolds, Light, Lines of Code, Poetry and Poems, Revealing, Robot, Sentient, Shatter, Someday Soon, Tangoed Code, Technical Data, True Sentience, Tumbling Down
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Thought For the Day: Vocations Which We Wanted To Pursue, But Didn’t, Bleed, Like Colors, On the Whole of Our Existence
“Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn’t, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.” -Honore de Balzac, novelist (20 May 1799-1850)
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Tagged Bleed, Colors, Existence, Honore de Balzac, Pursue, Thought For the Day, Vocations, Want, Whole
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In A Hermitage of Petrified Words
In A Hermitage of Petrified Wordsby Michael DoyleLike a forest well petrifiedBy minerals filling in for lifeA poet thinks in his hermitageDreaming about things to study onThere’s an abandonment of conjunctionWhen like Chomsky, language ceases to functionWe drift like lyrics … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandonment, Attack, Bliss, Bygone Eras, Certainty, Chomsky, Discriminate, Dreaming, Emblems, Emptiness, Existence, Fate, Function, Gambit, Hermitage, History, Immutable Stillness, Krazy Glue, Language, Linguistic, Lyrics, Meaning, Minerals, Modern Times, Perfection, Perpretual, Petrified, Petrified Forests, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Politically Aggressive, Resistance, Sterile, Study, Survivor, Truth of Time, Understanding, Verbs, Webster, Words
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