Tag Archives: Society

Thought For the Day: The Heart of A Father Is the Masterpiece of Nature

Posted on June 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.” – Antoine François Prévost d’Exiles, Manon Lescaut

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A Gurnsey Tale

Posted on May 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Watched a movie that I think is bound to become a classic of our times. It was about a complicated and absolutely thought provoking movie that dealt with things as uncomplicated as love and war and what happens when the … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Legal Immigrants Are Welcome To Join American Society and Conform To Our Established Rules

Posted on May 17, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules.” —Thomas Jefferson … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Equality Act Threatens To Erase Protections That Benefit Women and Society By Removing the Protected Category of Sex

Posted on May 14, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Clearly this is a historic and momentous occasion when women on the left and right have put aside differences to come together on behalf of all women. … The Equality Act threatens to erase protections for women — protections that … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Civil Liberty Understood Consists In Protecting Individual Rights Through Society’s Constraints and Force

Posted on May 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Civil liberty, rightly understood, consists in protecting the rights of individuals by the united force of society: society cannot be maintained, and of course can exert no protection, without obedience to some sovereign power; and obedience is an empty name, … Continue reading →

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In A Question of Liberty

Posted on April 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

On this second day of Na/GloPoWriMo, we are invited to explore writing a poem that avoids closure by providing the open end of the question. I believe that as an invitation to explore a significant question raised by a far … Continue reading →

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A Prairie Sky’s Truth

Posted on April 1, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Sometimes seeing things differently is mental illness; sometimes it’s seeing things differently. A show I was watching at the suggestion of a person who is increasingly important to me portrayed that in an interesting bit that I have attempted to … Continue reading →

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The Root Cause

Posted on March 31, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Continuing in my series pertinent to things going on with my health, the influences of someone proving to be very special to me and my advocation of the integration of more traditional medical perspectives into the Western Medicine I have … Continue reading →

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Article 19 (The Burden of Secularism)

Posted on March 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

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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Thought For the Day: Where Plunder Becomes A Way of Life, A Legal System Is Created To Authorize It Until It Is Glorified As Moral

Posted on February 22, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” – Frederic Bastiat … Continue reading →

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