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First Principles: Truth Can Stand By Itself. Subject Opinion To Coercion: Whom Will You Make Your Inquisitors

Posted on October 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” -Thomas Jefferson (1781)

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Eudaimonia

Posted on October 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Eudaimoniaby Michael DoyleAs a matter of virtue and philosophical inquiryAristotle unveiled many a treasured mysterySetting eudaimonia as the telos of human lifeTranslated toward peace and against strifeInvestigations into the dream of pure reasonTurning the colors of each passing seasonThe functionality … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: If You Tell the Truth, You Don’t Have To Remember Anything

Posted on October 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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Thought For the Day: There Are Times When We Must Sink To the Bottom of Our Misery To Understand Truth, Just As We Must Descend To the Bottom of a Well To See the Stars In Broad Daylight

Posted on October 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.” – Vaclav Havel, writer, Czech Republic … Continue reading →

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Evil Does Not Truly Sleep

Posted on September 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Evil Does Not Truly Sleepby Michael DoyleEvil does not truly sleepIt merely waitsOut there in the darkness deepGone unseen, it seals our fateOnly in the blessed is there restIn the secrets where it’s confessedThat hearts must find their healingBringing truth … Continue reading →

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The Spiderhead of Practiced Madness

Posted on August 29, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

The Spiderhead of Practiced Madnessby Michael DoyleForced into our darkest compulsionsWe have no sense but to feel revulsionSlipped needle holds its riddle darklyThe truths revealed are shown starklyThe spider’s head feels so libertineUntil examined for what it really meansInjected in … Continue reading →

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Passing It Down

Posted on August 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Passing It Downby Michael DoylePassing it down to the next generationHoping it might be held in venerationSharing openly our ways of instructionIn hopes that they would avoid destructionFrom child to child this is taughtTo do as we should and not … Continue reading →

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First Principles: It Is Error Alone That Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself.

Posted on August 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” —Thomas Jefferson (1781)

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Thought For the Day: We Can Sing the Truth and Name the Liars…We Must Work To Overturn the False Narrative of Tyrants

Posted on August 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb… But we are not helpless… We can sing the truth and name the liars… we must work to overturn the false narrative of tyrants.” – Salman Rushdie, writer … Continue reading →

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Scrambling On God’s Path

Posted on July 31, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Scrambling On God’s Pathby Michael DoyleIt was a Sunday morning scrambleWhen with his words at a rambleThe minister began to tell his taleHoping somehow the truth will prevailHoping to bring his congregationCloser to the heart of God in aggregationGod’s grace … Continue reading →

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