Tag Archives: Morality

WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Authentic

Posted on April 20, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

It’s a daily sort of hectic struggle In the midst of this half mast jungle Trying to keep our world true and real In a place that devalues the think of our feel At the risk of sounding a bit … Continue reading →

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First Principles: National Morality Cannot Prevail When Belief Is Excluded

Posted on April 11, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality … Continue reading →

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First Principles: An Objective Standard of Right and Wrong Morality Is Best Applied To the Affairs of Mankind

Posted on March 30, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?” – … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Democracy Degenerates Into Anarchy Without Subordination to Morality

Posted on March 8, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Faith Mitigates the Wickedness of Humanity

Posted on February 16, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?” —Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: Aim Toward Your Honest Duty In Governance

Posted on January 23, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Better to Give Up Everything Than Embrace Dishonor Or Immorality

Posted on January 11, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you … Continue reading →

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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Arabian Nights – The Introduction

Posted on January 7, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

We have previously discussed the Arabian Nights in detail on several past posts. Today, one of the best tutorials out there marks this to be a day to revisit this material beginning with the introduction. If you wish further background, … Continue reading →

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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Viable

Posted on January 4, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

They tell me that no one gets out alive They say this as I shuck and I jive They say it earnestly and are reliable But, I have a plan and I think its viable I’m put my trust in … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Steady Employment and Regular Worship Is For the Nation’s Good

Posted on December 27, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The almost general mediocrity of fortune that prevails in America obliging its people to follow some business for subsistence, those vices, that arise usually from idleness, are in a great measure prevented. Industry and constant employment are great preservatives of … Continue reading →

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