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Thought For the Day: Secrecy Is the Keystone of All Tyranny. Not Force, But Secrecy…Censorship
“I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy…censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must … Continue reading
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Tagged Censorship, Church, Forbidden, Force, Government, Holy, Keystone, Know, Motives, Oppression, Revolt In 2100 (1953), Robert A. Heinlein, Secrecy, Thought For the Day, Tyranny
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Krampus
Krampusby Michael DoyleWith his cloven hoofs he has comeTo seek out lurkers in the kingdomTo those who would bring such evilKrampus can do worse than bedevilReading as he does from the book of lifeRestoring the peace to those who bring … Continue reading
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Tagged Aware, Bedevil, Book of Life, Cloven Hoofs, Deception, Elves, Escape, Evil, Forbidden, Good, Hidden, Kingdom, Krampus, Lies, Light, Lurkers, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Practice, Reading, Restore, Selves, Sow, Sown, Strife, Surprise, Tenfold, Understood, Undoing, Wrong Doing
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A Gaelic King
A Gaelic Kingby Michael DoyleIn 700 AD, the Picts and the Gaels divided ScotlandAs if that were something natural to commandNo force on Earth could unite these kingdomsTo think that possible is sheer bedlamThe impossible doesn’t stop hearts from tryingBut … Continue reading
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Tagged 700 AD, Bedlam, Betray, Brooch, Comman, Cry, Dark of Night, Desire, Divide, Earth, Fire, Forbidden, Force, Gaelic, Hard As A Rock, Heart of Stone, Hearts, Hidden, Hunger, Impossible, Kept, King, Kingdom, Kingdoms, Love of Peace, Natural, Need, Old King, Photograph, Picts, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Power, Reign, Right, Scotland, Scream, Solemn, Somehow, Son, Steal Away, Throne, Try, Unite, Vengeance, Vengeful, Vow, Vows
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Feelings Felt That Night
Poem Number 5 in the retelling of a classic story of a werewolf event in the life of an otherwise uneventful village: Feelings Felt That Night by Michael Doyle The feelings felt surpass right and wrong It is more a … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Bodies, Chased Around, Classic Story, Compelling, Desire, Despair, Feelings, Felt, Fire, Forbidden, Found, Hay, Hid, Hunger, Kiss, Laid Back, Love, Lovers, Lure, Miss, Night, Night Air, Nothing Stops, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Revealing, Right and Wrong, Seal, Sense, Soul, Village, Want, Wants, Ways of Desire, Werewolf
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The Temptation of Wanting Another’s Share
Based in part on Exodus 20:17: The Temptation of Wanting Another’s Share by Michael Doyle It’s hard to be content in comparison Always measuring yourself on what is done By others when your race is your own Only to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, All, Another's, Bait, Better, Brother, Comparison, Content, Contentment, Course, Covet, Desire, Discontentment, Do, Done, Door, Eve, Exodus, Fact, Faith, Fall, Far, Forbidden, Friends, God's Throne, Had, Hand, Happy, Hard, Have, Heart, Instead, Keep, Keep Your Eyes, Look, Measure, More, No Further, Offer, Others, Paul, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Providence, Race, Reverence, Rich, Run, Safe, Satisfaction, Self, Serpent, Service, Set, Share, Sin, Sister, Snare, Soul, Star, Stem, Tempt, Temptation, Treasure, True, Truth, Want, Well, Wise, You, Your Own
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Felt (The Loss of Shangri-la)
It’s interesting. This poem started of with the intention of being a lighthearted look at the sort of a person who would look at Shangri-La an think that all it’s missing is a casino. By the time, my pen hit … Continue reading
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Tagged Bliss, Blues, Break Up, Breath, Burden, Burn, Cost, Darkness, Dream, Easy, Embrace, Eyes, Face, Feel, Felt, Flow, Forbidden, Forever After, Happiness, Hurt, Kiss, Laugh, Laughter, Lifetime, Light, Lonely, Loss, Lost, Man, Minute, Miss, Moment, Once Upon A Time, Pain, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Rhyme, Rising Star, Rite of Passage, Shake, Shangri-La, Silent, Sleepless Night, Solitary, Soul, Star-shine, Step, Surprise, Thought, Touch, Treasure, True, Wake, Wonder, Word, World
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Thought For the Day: The Charm of the Forbidden Makes It Unspeakably Desirable
“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.” – Mark Twain
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Tagged Charm, Desire, Forbidden, Mark Twain, Thought For the Day, Unspeakable
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Alien Revelation
Until we are dead, to believe or not believe is a matter of faith. My own examination through my life points toward great evidence for God and Christianity. Other equally intelligent people have reached other conclusions. Life is funny that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien, Apple, Atheist, Copernican, Equation, Forbidden, Free Will, God Breathed, God's Image, Goldilocks Zone, Heaven, Humanity, Initiation, Intelligence, Intrinsic, Myth, Oxford, Parable, Perspective, Photograph, Poems, Poetry, Probability, Revelation, Science, Singularity, Special, Spectra, Stars, String, Truth, Universe, Variables
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