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Tag Archives: Riot
Darkness Shapes the Hearts
Darkness Shapes the Heartsby Michael DoylePutin sits as another dictator in a lineCertain his autocratic rule is blessed as divineThis has been the slavery of Russia’s serfdomWith brutality reigning supreme in this kingdomFor five thousand years, we’ve known epilepsy As … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Ashen, Autocratic Rule, Believe, Betrayer, Blessed, Brothers Karamazov, Canker, Chained, Christianity, Civil Liberty, Cloak, Coincidence, Creativity, Cruelty, Dark Place, Darkness, Death, Definition, Demons, Dictator, Disease, Divine, Dostoevsky, Dubious Reputatin, Enigma, Epilepsy, Exceed, Father Zosima, Fight, Fool's Game, Freedoms, God Above, Good and Evil, Grasp, Greatest Miracle, Heart, Heresy, Holy, Initiation, Light, Line, Love, Masses, Mismatch, Mystery, Mysticism, Opiate, Photograph, Poem, Poietry, Preach, Protagonist, Pure, Putin, Questions, Quiet, Reason, Religion, Revolutionary, Riot, Russia, Russian Nation, Russian Soul, Serfdom, Shadow, Shape, Slavery, Super-Impose, Trappings, Treason, Unsure, Violence, Wastrel, Western Civilization, Wicked, Writer
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Reflections In Darkest Times
Who should we turn to in these times if not God? Reflections In Darkest Times by Michael Doyle In these days of riotous insurrection I find myself quietly in my reflection Spending moments silently alone Needing love to be as … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Anticipation, Chorus, Country, Dark Times, Family, Find, God, Hard, Health, Heart, Insurrection, Keep, Know, Legend, Live Life, Love, Love In Action, Mercy, Mind, Mindful, Moment, Need, Participation, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Prayer, Prayerfully, Presence, Reflection, Richness, Riot, See, Silent, Song, Sparkle, Steadfast, Stone, Strike Up, Strong, Tenderly, Thankful, Turn To
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The Woke Wake Up
There are just ways to advocate against injustice. There are ways that make moving for justice anything but that. Now as these predators are being identified by their own online postings, they curl up into fetal position decrying how unfair … Continue reading
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Tagged Acquisitive, Act Just, Advocate, Afraid, All Life Is Sacred, Ambition, American Dream, Another, Arrogant, Avoid Seeing, Basic Right, Be Merciful, Beg Indulgence, Better Self, Better World, Black Hoodie, Broke, Bungle, Burn, Civil Rights, Contribution, Death Culture, Decry, Degreed, Discussion, Divestment, Eat Their Own, Evidence, Fetal, Fetal Position, Fight, Firebombs, Forbearance, Foresight, Fragility, Free Pass, Fruits of Labor, Ghosts, Godless, Ideal, Ignorance, Immortality, Injustice, Inquisitive, Jail, Just Revolution, Justice, Less, Life, Meaning, Media Jungle, Mirror, Morally Broken, Move Foward, No Man, Online, Online Posts, Our Times, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poorly Educated, Predators, Prevail, Profanity, Protect, Quest, Radicals, Reason, Revolution, Riot, Rock, Rubbish, Ruin, Self Signified, Shock Troops, Society, Speak, Spray Paint, Stab, Stall, Streets, Strife, Think, Tick Tock, Trash Talkers, Truth, Undoing, Unfair, Unfairness, Wake Up, Weak, Woke, Worse Saint, Worthy Investment, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: The Woke But Godless, the Arrogant But Ignorant, the Violent But Physically Unimpressive, the Degreed But Poorly Educated…Are History’s Ingredients of Riot and Revolution
“The woke but godless, the arrogant but ignorant, the violent but physically unimpressive, the degreed but poorly educated, the broke but acquisitive, the ambitious but stalled—these are history’s ingredients of riot and revolution.” – Victor Davis Hanson
The Squishy Sound of Democracy
The suppression of free speech is a leading indicator of fascism not freedom and certainly not the small r republican values our Founding Fathers advocated in their classical liberalism. I for one refuse to bend to tyranny from any camp… … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Authoritarian, Bridges, Censorship, Classical Liberalism, Communicate, Conflict, Dangers, Democracy, Disagreeable Voices, Diversity, False Morality, Fascism, Founding Fathers, Free Speech, Freedom, Fundamental, Gaffes, Internet, Margin, Messy, Negotiation, New York Times, Objectivity, Opposition, Perversity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Points of View, Reason, Resolution, Riot, Self Responsibility, Social Control, Society, Strangers, Suppression, Times Square, True, Twitter, Tyranny
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Anaphora: Walk the Walk
Anaphora – The first definition for anaphora is “The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs”: —- Walk the Walk by Michael Romani You talk your talk That you don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Anaphora, Deliberate, Raging Out Your Peace, Repetition, Riot, Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk
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