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The Rise and Fall of Boethius
The Rise and Fall of Boethiusby Michael DoyleGraven images are made and meant to saveWhen Christianity met Plato’s caveOffering more than shadows on the wallA philosophical bend had come to callChrist was both the Father and the SonJoined with Wisdom … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Beleived, Belief, Blasphemy, Boethius, Brave Hearts, Call, Christ, Christianity, Constantine, Constantinople, Control, Convert, Created, Creator, Cruelty, Decency, Different, Dignity, Diocletian, Dispute, Divinity, Doing Good, East, Enemy, Fabricated, Fall, False Cries, Fatal Suppression, Father, Fight, Forbearance, Good Heart, Good Man, Good Measure, Goths, Grace, Graven Image, Hands, Heritage, Ill Repute, Justice, Legacy, Loss, Miracle, Nation, Patronage, Philosophy, Photograph, Plato's Cave, Poem, Poetry, Propserity, Quest, Reformation, Repression, Rise and Fall, Roman Empire, Romans, Save, Shadow, Sign of the Cross, Sonic Gems, Surrender, Temper, Testimony, Theodoric, Tolerance, Treason, Trinity, Triune, Understood, Victory, Wall, Western Roman Empire, Wisdom, Works
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Christ Meets the Grecian World
Christ Meets the Grecian Worldby Michael DoyleThere are things that we’ve learned along the waySuch as that, evil will never truly win the dayAnd that while the devil deals in duplicity A truly good person will always withstand adversityIn the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, Christ, Christianity, Death, Defeated, Devil, Divine, Duplicity, Evil, Foray, Good Person, Gospel of John, Gravity, Grecian World, Intellectual Investigation, Key, Kingdom, Learn, Mystery, Observation, Paradigm, Patterns, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rebbe, Salvation, Testimony, Third Century, Tradition, Wisdom, Wisemen, Withstand
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Covid and the Constitution
Covid and the Constitutionby Michael DoyleVoices arrayed together against an institutionOut of control of the reining in by the ConstitutionChecks and balances swept away along with our rightsStill, we ride forward like beleaguered knightsStay at home orders meant for communicable … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Amendment, Abeyance, Abuse of Authority, Adversity, Aghast, America, Array, Ask, Beautiful, Beleaguered Knights, Best Practices, Blight, Bureaucrats, Case, Casinos, Chains, Checks and Balances, Churches, Closed Down, Constitution, Contrarian, Conversation, Cost of Silence, Course, Covid, Crown, Current Crisis, Death or Liberty, Decision, Deliberation, Desperate Situation, Dictate, Draconian Regulation, Economy, Effective, Embrace, Emergency Police Powers, Enforcement Issues, Executive Branch, Executive Dictate, Exercise, Face, Fail, Federal, Feduce, Force, Forgiving, Fray, Free, Freedom, Freedoms, Functionalism, Good Citizens, Governance, Government, Great, Health, History, Hour, Institution, Interpretation, Irritation, Jeopardy, Laboring Oar, Legal, Legislation, Legislature, Libertarian, Liberty, Limitation, Lives Lived, Looking Out, Loss of Our Liberty, Lost Liberty, Machination, Make A Living, Mankind, Mask, Money, Nation, Natural Law, Nature, New Normal, Noble, Open, Others Will Take, Out of Control, Overbearing, Partisan Warfare, Peaceful Assembly, Permanent Emergency, Perspective, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Political Landscape, Pretending, Price, Protected Right, Pushback, Question, Quiet, Rationalism, Recall, Rein In, Restrain, Right, Rights, Rigor, Rule of Law, Safety, Samuel Adams, Sealed Fate, Security, Seize, Separation of Powers, Soul of Our Nation, States, Stay At Home Orders, Steps, Strangle, Stripping Away, Strong Enough, Surrender, Suspension, Swept Away, Technocrats, The Courts, The People, Today, True Representation, Ugly, Unending, Unfair, Urgency, Virtue Signaling, Virus, Vocal, Voices, We The People, Welfare, Withstand, Worse
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Thought For the Day: The Inherent Vice of Capitalism Is the Unequal Sharing of Blessings. The Inherent Virtue of Socialism Is the Equal Sharing of Miseries.
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. … Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.” – Winston … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: There Is No Difference In Principle, Between the Economic Philosophy of Nazism, Socialism, Communism, Fascism and That of the American Welfare State and Regulated Economy
“There is no difference in principle, between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.” – Jacob Hornberger paraphrasing F.A. Hayek
First Principles: I Must Study Politics and War That My Children May Have Liberty To Study Math and Philosophy
“The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, out to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other arts. I must study Politicks … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Adams, Administration, Art, Arts, Children, Duty, First Principles, Geography, I, John Adams, Legislation, Liberty, Mathematics, Natural History, Negotiation, Philosophy, Politics, Science of Government, Sciences, Study, War
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Woven Into A Delicate Tapestry
Faith and reason must work in combination with one another to approach the balance necessary to navigate the life of individuals and of nations around the world. Woven Into A Delicate Tapestery by Michael Doyle Woven into a most delicate … Continue reading
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Tagged Balance, Blind, Bloody, Capricious, Church, Civilization, Combination, Creativity, Deity, Delicate, Deny, Diversity, Era, Evidence, Exceed, Faith, Freedom, God, Holy Kingdom, Incomplete, Inculcate, Known, Liberty, Life, Limits, Mankind, Mastery, Modernism, Monotheism, Navigate, Need, Pantheism, Path, Pathology, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Psychology, Rational, Realization, Reason, Record, Reverent, Roots, Seeds, Self-Evident, Struggle, Tapestry, Theology, Truth, Twentieth Century, University, Wisdom, Woven, Youth
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Specter of A Well Aimed Gun
Between the chase scenes, I believe science fiction grapples on some of humanity’s biggest questions. Do you? Specter of A Well Aimed Gun by Michael Doyle Specters of a gun take aim Innocent of the perceptions slain Fooled by the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Analogy, Analysis, Big Questions, Convention, Dare, Deception, Deduction, Dream, Electric Dream, Essential, Exact, Fact, Fantasy, Fiction, Fool, Glasses, Grapple, Gun, Hesitation, Humanity, Inception, Influence, Innocent, Interplay, Inventions, Lift, Operation, Paralysis, Perception, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Reach Out, Scene, Science, Science Fiction, Seen, Shake Down, Slay, Specter, Thought, Translate, Veils, World
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First Principles: Never Let A Difference of Opinion In Politics, Religion Or Philosophy Be A Cause From Withdrawing From A Friend
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged Cause, Consider, Difference, First Principles, Friend, Opinion, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Thomas Jefferson, Withdraw
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