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Tag Archives: Lies
Parasitic Pathogens
Parasitic Pathogensby Michael DoyleParasitic pathogensEffect our societyWhether it’s the lunacy Of the politically correctOr the social constructionThat derives from mass anxietyOf tribalistic social identityDiversity, identity, and equityEach seeks allegiance to its ideologyBad ideas escape the laboratoryWe should never surrender to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Allegiance, Anxiety, De Minimis, Diversity, Epistemology, Equity, Identity, Ideology, Lies, Lunacy, Noise, Nomological, Parasitic Pathogens, Poetry and Poems, Politically Correct, Post-Modernism, Reason, Satire, Social Construction, Social Identity, Society, Steady March, Surrender, Tabula Rasa, Tribal, Truth, Universal Truths, Woke
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First Principles: Falsehood of the Tongue Leads To That of the Heart, and In Time Depraves All Its Good Disposition
“(F)alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1785)
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Believe, Depraves, Falsehood, First Principles, Good Dispositions, Habitual, Heart, Lie, Lies, Permit, Thomas Jefferson, Time, Tongue, Truths
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A Republic To Be Kept
A Republic To Be Keptby Michael DoyleStart then as it were with a nameWhat we will call out as informationThen like chess parts to the gameWe provide definition in affirmationWhat does this take in its inflectionTo voice what it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute, Achieve, Affirmation, Believe, Blemishes, Chess, Coal, Consequences, Conspiracy, Constitution, Convention, Deception, Definition, Deform, Diamond, Disputation, Divine Geometry, Explanation, Feemen, Forced Hands, Fuzzy, Generation After Generation, Gilded Cage, Glimpse, Inflection, Information, Justice, Kept, Knowledge, Law, Lies, Mercy, Name, Nation, Object, Page, Peace, Plato, Poetry and Poems, Power Corrupts, Price, Prosperity, Reality, Reflection, Republic, Reputation, Rule of Law, See, Signed Name, Slaves, Spirit, Start, Surprise, Tempered, Truth, Tyrant, Voice, Winter, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: None Are More Hopelessly Enslaved Than Those Who Falsely Believe They Are Free
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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Tagged Believe, Depth, Enslaved, Eyes, Falsehoods, Feed, Free, Hopeless, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lies, Master, Minds, None, Right, Rule, Thought For the Day, Truth, Wrong
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The Maze (Inside Our Minds)
The Maze (Inside Our Minds)by Michael DoyleConsciousness is who we areEqually near as it is farPast every bit of memoryRather in sadness or reveriePast the loops of improvisationThat edges us toward our creationTeetering there on the edges of madnessAre the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alive, Answer, Believe, Collect, Consciousness, Creation, Dedication, Deep Question, Destruction, Dignity, Edge, Essence, Far, Freedom, Gates, Ghosts, Gifts, Glimpse, Hesitation, Honor, Hour, Humanity, Improvisation, In the End, Liberation, Lies, Life, Loops, Love, Madness, Maze, Meditation, Memory, Mind, Myster, Near, Nothing Else, Open Door, Own, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pristine, Pure, Reconstruction, Reverie, Sadness, Step, Survive, Thought, Truth, View, Vital Key, Will Power, Zest
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Waking From Lies
Waking From Liesby Michael DoyleThe life before usSeen as if waking from liesMaybe it never wasWe awake with opened eyesDanger stands on either sideWhile we choose our confessionWe can fake that it stops at wounded prideOr press forward despite our … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Cast Off, Children, Choose, Confession, Content, Danger, Disappear, Either Side, End of the Story, Every Day, Every Heart, Feel, Feeling Alive, Forget, Hope, Human Beings, Hurt, Kiss, Learn, Lies, Life Before Us, Never Was, Opened Eyes, Poetry and Poems, Predilection, Press Forward, Pretend, Quest, Questioning, Real, Real Meaning, Reverie, Seek Happiness, Seeking Glory, Sermons, Shadows, Sorrow, Stay Near, Tears, Tomorrow, Travel, Vast Distances, Wake, Waking From Lies, Walk, Wounded Pride
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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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