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Social Justice Fallacies
Social Justice Fallaciesby Michael DoyleThere is something to be saidThough I have a given explanationIt’s been rolling around in my headAnd must be spoken for the good of this nationThere is no sense in pursuing ‘equity’It only serves to put … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Adapt, Best Society, Born, Brother, Cultivated Ability, Deilitating, Elude, Equal, Equality, Equity, Explanation, Face-To-Face, Factual Matter, Fairness, Fallacies, Forgot, Games, Genetic Determinism, Good, Good and Bad, Head, Ignore, Illusory, Increase, Legal, Live, Loss, Louse, Love, Maple, Me and You, Measure, Merit, Million Other Ways, Mind, Nation, Oak, Opportunity, Optimism, Overall Good, Overcome, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Potentiality, Poverty, Proved, Rolling Around, Room, Rule, Said, Serves, Shot, Social Justice, Society, Some, Spoken, Steadily Pursue, Trick, Truth, Utmost, Workday
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First Principles: The Extravagant Expenditure of Public Money Is An Evil Not To Be Measured By the Value of That Money To the People Who are Taxed For It
“The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.” – Chester Arthur
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Tagged Evil, Expenditure, Extravagant, First Principles, Measure, Mony, Public Money, Tax, The People, Value
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Mountain of Consequence
Mountain of Consequenceby Michael DoyleThere are legends of lost treasureThat goes deep and beyond known measureThe locks that must be brokenAs the stories are told, quietly spokenMankind’s greed leads to deathAn old man mumbles under breathWhile the bringer of life … Continue reading
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Tagged Age Old Story, Ansswer, Arrogance, Awe, Beg, Beyond, Bleed, Breath, Bringer of Lifee, Broken, Bury, Calculated Science, Call, Castle, Consequence, Control, Cres, Darkness, Date, Day, Death, Death and Misery, Deep, Dies, Disenchanted, Echo, Embrace, Everything and Everyone, Face to Face, Fairytales, Fate, Forgive, Fractured Soul, Fragile, Free, Frozen Prayer, Greed, Harshness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heresy, Horror, Intolerance, Know, Left, Legends, Length, Live, Lock, Lost Treasure, Love, Mankind, Measure, Meet, Mercy, Mountain, Mumble, Need, New Strength, Old man, Pines, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Promise, Search, See, Seeking Glory, Snow, Sorrows, Spoken, Street, Survive, Tears, The End, Tomorrow, Tortured Souls, Trace, True Secret, Universe, Unknown God, Valley of Sorrow, Verse, Wish
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Neon Eye Cage Conclusions
Neon Eye Cage Conclusionsby Michael DoyleIn the heart of the neon eye cage of the cityThe glitz is overdone and isn’t really prettyBut despite the walk-in of unsteady delusionsIt is a happenstance that brings certain conclusionsOne of these is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Agreement, Arrive, Beauty, Best, Best Attempt, Bind, Bleed, Break, Burden, Cease, Choice, Choke Down, City, Coexist, Conclusion, Contrary, Crown, Delusion, Essence, Face, Firing Line, Fragility, Funny Valenines, Glitz, Golden Rule, Greater Tragedy, Habit, Happenstance, Heart, Heaven and Hell, Insight, Kind, Life's Narration, Love, Measure, Mediocre Persons, Memorry, Mind, Minds and Hearts, Neon Eye Cage, Pages, Peace, Pearly Gates, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pretty, Quotation, Read, Recompense, Refuge, Rules, Sanctuary, Stare, Stolen Consequence, Struggle, Successful Life, Test, Trace, Uncharted Regions, Unity, Variety
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A Graduated Conflict of Morality
A Graduated Conflict of Moralityby Michael DoyleThe late 1960s were a time of generational conflictWith more moral questions than principles to inflictRestrictions on all the choices between the rightAnd wrong of what was needed to get through the nightTo some, … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Blown Smoke, Choice, Clean Cut, Cling, Conflict, Daylight, Echoes, Experience, Fading Sight, Forgot, Generational Conflict, Graduate, Hues, Late 1960s, Life, Lost Passages, Measure, Merit, Moral Questions, Morality, Motivation, Neon Signs, Night, Pleasure, Pockets of Poetry, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pointed Vieews, Principles, Question, Quirky, quotes, Restrictions, Revealing, Right, Search, Smile, Souls, Sounds of Silence, Spirituality, Stay the Same, Stuck In A Rut, Stupid, Time, Vision, Waves of Feeling, Wrong
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In Healing Hymn
In Healing Hymnby Michael DoyleTo be human is to fantasizeMore than can be seen with naked eyesWorried about what ghouls might beAfter death’s last-breath tragedyWe keep our eyes on what is nextAnd all the riddles that do connectCaught in our … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrogance, Bittersweet, Blasphemy, Breath, Burn, Bury, Climb, Conceal, Courage, Cure, Death, Desceration, Die, Dream, Endure, Fadeaway, Faithlessness, Fantasize, Flowers, Fluidity, Ghouls, God, Grave, Grow, Heal, Health and Sickness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heaven's Gate, Hesitation, Human, Hymn, Know, Lives, Lullaby, Measure, Memories, Mortal Love, Mountain, Mourn, Mystic, Naked Eyes, Offense, Pockets of Desolation, Poetry and Poems, Pursue, Question, Remembered, Resurrection, Riddles, Sacred Reason, Save, Sin, Sorrow, Sympathy, Timid Souls, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Treasure, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: The True Measure of A Man Is How He Treats Someone Who Can Do Him Absolutely No Good
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” – Samuel Johnson
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Tagged Absolute, Good, Man, Measure, Samuel Johnson, Someone, Thought For the Day, Treat, True
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I’m Growing Through It
I’m Growing Through Itby Michael DoyleEvery day brings the miracles that we prayIn peace and calmness as we stayCollected in the Church of His holy nameWe trust in God to remain the sameWisdom is shown when we pay attentionTo the … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Alone, Attention, Attentive, Available, Aware, Beautiful, Call, Calmness, Care, Church, Community, Creator, Cross, Easy Yoke, Embrace, Eyes of God, Faith, Family, Finished Work of God, Foolish Joke, God, Godliness, Grain, Grow, Growth, Heeded, Holy Name, Integrity, Lord's Will, Loss, Measure, Mercy, Miracles, Needed, Opportunity, Own, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Present, Questions, Real, Restore, Slug It Out, Soul, Sparrow, Stay, Stewardship, Tension, Theology, Treasure, Trust, Truth, Universe, Wisdom, Wonderful, Word of God, Worldly Domination, Wrestle
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