Tag Archives: Philosophy

Shape Shifting Ideologies

Posted on July 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Shape Shifting Ideologiesby Michael DoyleIn this age of putrid and flaccid philosophy We have turned our faith away from mankindSome feel AI is a better path than ideologiesIn which undefined concepts are a forced bindWe bid the surface farewell and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Age, AI, AI's Capability, Answers, Asunder, Aware, Better Path, Beware, Binary, Blunder, Burden, Button, Children, Complexity, Conception, Cosmic Hijinks, Decision, Dream, Emperor's New Clothes, Faith, Farewell, Fever Pitch, Forced Bind, Forgotten, Formation, Freedom, Glory, Hail, Humanity, Ideology, Impartial Information, Itch, Kingdom, Know, Launch Date, Life's Serendipity, Mankind, Matter, Miracles, Need, Nerds and Geeks, Ones and Zero, Perfection, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Power, Read, Real, Reject, Satisfied, Scratch, Shadows, Shape Shifting, Shatter, Simplest Machine, Simplicity, Source, Surface, System, The End, Thinking, Told, Tossed, Trust, Undefined Concepts, Vaporware, Wall, Yet To Come | Leave a comment

How, Then, Should I Live?

Posted on June 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

How Then Should I Live?by Michael DoyleI look around this world with troubles to seeAnd I wonder to myself how then should I be?There are troubles all around – enough to seeThe need is here everywhere for another way to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absolution, Adere, Answers, Beatitudes, Believing, Better Citizens, Bible, Blind, Christian Theology, Christianity, Clear View, Comfortable, Confusion, Correct, Direction, Disbelieving, Everywhere, Forgive, God, God's Worship, Guidance, Head, Heart, Heartache, Hesitation, Hid, Home, Human Beings, Humility, Illusion, Jesus, Kingdom, Leaders, Leadership, Lean-In, Lessons, Live, Meaning, Meekness, Mercy, Miracles of Life, Misdeeds, Mistakes, Mourn, Obedience, Others First, Ourselves Less, Path, Patience, Philosophy, Place, Poetry and Poems, Poor In Spirit, Pride, Profusion, Quench, Questions, Recognition, Relationship, Religions, Repentance, Righteousness, Satisfied, See, Seek, Sermon on the Mount, Sight, Sin, Sinful Nature, Steps, Strength, Submit, Thrist, Troubles, Unjust World, Ways of Man, Weakness, Wonder, World | Leave a comment

Citizens: Me and You

Posted on June 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Citizens: Me and Youby Michael DoyleI. This nation was born under the authorityBlessed into birth by God’s wise dignityAs one filled with freedom and libertyGiven to us, not by government, but God’s divinityWe, this republic, are born by providenceThat all … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged American Civilization, Authority, Belief and Obedience, Bible, Birth, Christianity, Citizens, Commandments, Conspicious, Daily Affairs, Duality, Faith, Faithfulness, Freedom and Liberty, God, God's Divinity, God's Hand, Godly Principles, Govern, Government, Gratitude, History, Independence, Inheritance, Interplay, Jesus, Liberties, Madison, Maintenance, Manifest, Mayflower Compact, Me and You, Nation, Oppressed, Patrick Henry, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Prayerful Hands, Promise, Providence, Representation, Republic, Reverence, Right Attitude, Samuel Adams, Scrripture, Sin, Sovereign, Spirituality, Station, The People, Under God, Washington | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Science Gives Us Knowledge, But Only Philosophy Can Give Us Wisdom

Posted on March 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.”– Will Durant

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Knowledge, Philosophy, Science, Thought For the Day, Will Durant, Wisdom | Leave a comment

A Wood Dragon’s Cosmology

Posted on February 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Wood Dragon’s Cosmologyby Michael DoyleThe time spent quietly comes to its endIt’s been another year of pleasant enough livingHaving found my best habits and friendsAnd it has been another year of peacefully givingBut in truth it has been yet … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Balance, Bestiary, Center, Chinese Mythology, Confidence, Contain, Cosmology, Desire, Determination, Diffidence, Diplomacy, Divinity, Dreams, Elements, End, Eternity, Expansion, Eyes, Fifth Cardinal Direction, Flight, Friends, Future, Gentle Rain, Give, Green Dragon, Habits, Imagination, Infinite, Journey, Legacy, Mast, Mist, Nature Deity, Night, Pass, Peace, Perfect Harmony, Philosophy, Phoenix, Poetry and Poems, Power, Rebirth, Sail, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Self-Worth, Sky, Spring, Time, Tree, Truth, Weary World, Winds, Wood Dragon, Worry, Yang, Year, Year of the Wood Dragon, Yin | Leave a comment

Long Live Freedom

Posted on January 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Dedicated and inspired by Argentinian President Milei at Davos: Long Live Freedomby Michael DoyleFreedom is the path to prosperitySocialism, of any kind, leads to povertyThe Western World would be well-advisedTo keep toward liberty, as the best plan devisedAn example can … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ailments, Argentina, Better Price, Cake, Capitalism, Collectivism, Contemptuous, Destitution, Economics, Economy, Empirical Observation, Entrepreneur, Example, Extreme Poverty, Free Market Economy, Freedom, GDP, Goods and Services, Help the Poor to Rise, Incentive, Industrial Revolution, Liberty, Long Live, Market Discovery Process, Moral Path, Natural Consequence, Pandmic, Philosophy, Plague, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Poverty, Prosperity, Prosperous, Recompense, Social Justice, Socialism, Solution, Success, The Left, Trust, Unfair, Unjust, Western World, Wise, World Hunger | Leave a comment

Upending the Trump Cards

Posted on November 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Upending the Trump Cardsby Michael DoyleBefore my almost disbelieving eyesThe stuff of comics is seen as I realizeThat theoretical physics is being soldAnd the multiverse is the story being toldPage one and above the paper’s foldThe blockbuster is showing up … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Beat, Block Buster, Bold, Choice, Comics, Cosmology, Cosmos, Disbelieving, Discomfort, Dissatisfaction, Explanation, Eyes, Fold, Frame, Human Minds, Illustrate, Incomplete, Memory, Mingle, Multiverse, Obsolete, Page One, Paint, Parllel, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Print, Religion, Scenery, Spidey Senses, Story, Technology, The Past, Theoretical Physics, Tingle, Told, Trump Cards, Truth, Upend | Leave a comment

Since the Days that Eden Fell

Posted on October 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Since the Days that Eden Fellby Michael DoyleEver since the dark days that Eden fellMankind has cast pennies down the wishing wellHoping to find some bright point of lightTo get us through our darkest times of nightEver since the dark … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Avoid, Awaken, Barbarism, Best Selves, Blight, Blurred, Boundaries, Cast, Curiosity, Dance, Dark Days, Days, Deposition, Disposition, Dwell, Eden, Enlightenment, Eyes, Fact-Checked, Fail, Fanaticism, Feelings, Fell, First Steps, Fruitless, Frustrated, Get It Right, Healing, Heart, Hell, Human Nature, Improvement, Incredulity, Indwell, Intellect, Light, Manage, Mankind, Night, Own, Peace and Love, Pennies, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pursuit, Radiance, Right, Rootless, Sense, Shaken, Somehow, Soundrel, Step, Stirred, Struggle, Temperament, Unknown God, Wishing Well, Working | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Jokes of the Proper Kind, Properly Told, Can Do More To Enlighten Questions of Politics, Philosophy, and Literature Than Any Number of Dull Arguments

Posted on March 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.” – Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Dull Arguments, Enlighten, Isaac Asimov, Jokes, Literature, Number, Philosophy, Politics, Proper Kind, Properly Told, Questions, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

First Principles: I Never Considered A Difference of Opinion In Politics, In Religion, In Philosophy, As A Cause For Withdrawing From A Friend

Posted on December 7, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” – Thomas Jefferson

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Cause, Consider, Difference of Opinion, First Principles, Friend, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Thomas Jefferson, Withdraw | Leave a comment