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First Principles: The Fundamental Trouble With the People of the United States Is That We Have Gotten Too Far Away From God
“I have been thinking a lot about these things as I have come to the realization of the tremendous responsibilities which rest upon me. It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Conviction, Duty, First Principles, God, Humanity, Imperative, Realize, Responsibility, The People, Think, Troulbe, United States, Warren G Harding
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First Principles: The First Duty of Every Citizen Is To Question Authority
“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Authority, Benjamin Franklin, Citizen, First, First Principles, Question, Responsibility
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The Path of Kindness
Based in part on Proverbs 3:3-4 The Path of Kindness by Michael Romani Stretched patience gives its opportunity As a choice of kindness felt in empathy God has given His shine into this darkness That would otherwise know not but … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolution, Actions, Acts, Angry, Answer, Attention, Blindness, Calm, Capability, Children, Christ, Command, Community, Compassion, Consideration, Darkness, Day of Judgment, Deeds, Do, Empathy, Enemy, Focus, Fruit of the Spirit, Gentle, Gift, God, God's Will, Grace, Gracious, Harshness, Head, Hear, Heart, Importance, Inner, Inscribe, Kindness, Light, Love, Mankind, Natural, Needs, Opportunity, Outer Beauty, Path, Patience, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Proverbs, Quality, Reflection, Relationship, Repentance, Responsibility, Retribution, Righteous, Said, Salvation, Sensitivity, Shadow, Shine, Sight, Sin, Society, Soft, Soul, Steeple, Tolerance, Treat, True, Truth, Understand, Ungrateful, Ways, Worship, Wrath
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First Principles: The First Responsibility of Every Citizen Is To Question Authority
“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Authority, Benjamin Franklin, Citizen, Every, First, First Principles, Question, Responsibility
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Article 19 (The Burden of Secularism)
I have been reading through a series of works by Yuval Noah Harai that seems topical and a historian’s blend of philosophy and history projecting into humanity’s future. It’s been challenging and is spawning a few poems that are often … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Article 19, Ashes, Bad Impression, Billions, Blindspot, Capable, Catechism, Citizens, Compassion, Constraint, Creed, Dictatorship of the Majority, Dignity, Dissent, Dogma, Drag, Earth, Echo, Elite, Enslave, Equality, Ethics, Extermination, Failure, Fragments of Faith, Fraud, Free Thought, Freedom, Future, Global, God's Law, Godless, Gulag, Hierarchy, History, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Ignorance, Industrialiization, Legacy, Liberty, Lies, Marxism, Masses, Mercy, Misery, Modernization, Moral Compass, Oppression, Optimism, Pessimism, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Progressive, Reality, Responsibility, Seculariism, Self Expression, Self Righteous, Shadow, Slogan, Society, The Fall, Tolerance, Truth, Truth Seeking, Vanity, Youth, Yuval N Harai
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Lasting Changes
Based in part on Hebrews 12:1: Lasting Changes by Michael Romani Lasting change can be elusive Burdens are felt so intrusive It seems that in our gut We get stuck in a rut It’s a fatalistic mentality That feeds our mortality … Continue reading
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Tagged Burden, Change, Christ, Drive, Effort, Elusive, Faith, Fake It, Fatalistic, Foward, Hebrews, Key, Living Testimony, Make It, Mankind, Mercy, Mortality, Persistance, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pressing On, Push, Relief, Resistance, Responsibility, Rut, Servant, Unworthy, Victory
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Thought For the Day: Conserve Truth As the Most Valuable Thing We Have
“Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.” – Mark Twain
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Tagged Commodity, Conserve, Indvidual, Mark Twain, Responsibility, Thought For the Day, Truth, Value
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Thought For the Day: Leadership Is Taking Care of Those In Your Charge
“Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.“ – Simon Sinek
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Tagged Care, Charge, Foster, Lead, Leadership, Responsibility, Simon Sinek, Subordinates, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Absent Reason We Become Bigots, Fools or Slaves
“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.” – Lord Byron, poet (22 Jan 1788-1824)
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Tagged Ability, Bigot, Choice, Courage, Fool, Lord Byron, Reason, Responsibility, Self, Slave, Thought For the Day
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Journalistic Contradiction
Jou Journalistic Contradiction by Michael Romani With opinions come views Often dressed up as news It’s comical to discuss trust When trustworthiness is a bust The truth is in this contradiction That objectivity is lost in nuance and projection Basing … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Battle Flags, Capability, Egocentric, Facebook, Hostile, Journalism, Nation, News, Objectivity, Opinions, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Polarization, Real News, Responsibility, Society, Trust, Undemocratic
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