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Short Form Poetry Workshop: Pleaides – Conserve
The Short Form Poetry Workshop this evening pertained to a New Zealand form of poetry called a Pleiades. What is a Pleiades? • Invented in 1999 by Craig Tigerman, Sol Magazine’s Lead Editor. • a single seven-line stanza. • Only … Continue reading
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Tagged Balanced, Common Sense, Conserve, Pleaides, Poem, Reason, Short Form Poetry, Stewardship
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First Principles: Our Republic Is Predicated on Christian Tolerance
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian, Faith, First Principles, Founding Fathers, Patrick Henry, Public Square, Reason, Republic, Tolerance
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Thought For the Day: Good Books With Purpose Should Be Censored With Care
“As good, almost, kill a man as kill a good book.” – John Milton This work may be read in its entirety here: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/areopagitica/text.html Or listened to here:
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Tagged Areopagitica, Book, Censorship, John Milton, Kill, Man, Reason, Thought For the Day
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Thought For The Day: God Endowed Us With Reason; Use It
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” – Galileo Galilei A lot of people assume, and probably because they … Continue reading
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Tagged Galileo Galilei, God, Intellect, Obligations, Reason, Sense
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First Principles: The Importance of Resting Questions On Available Evidence
“In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788) Relevant discussion of any allegations made against anyone else depends on first obtaining the primary evidence … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Hamitlon, Disquisitions, Federalist Papers, Inquiries, Primary Truths, Reason, Reasonableness
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Thought of the Day: Authority Through Reason
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. -Mary Wollstonecraft, reformer and writer (27 Apr 1759-1797) The above quote is taken from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). This book may … Continue reading
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Tagged A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Authority, Rational, Reason, Virtuous
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