“The Quality of Mercy is Not Strained”
♣ Why do some belittle others just to seem important when they can truly be important just by showing someone respect?
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
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Shooting the moon and dragging our heels
Humanity and Its Science: Are They All They’re Cracked Up to Be?
♣ Computers, tablets, IPads, IPods smartphones and the internet, social networks, 3D printing, supercars and drones, virtual Reality organ transplants, superdrugs and clones, designer babies, XBox, genetic engineering, driverless cars, recreational space travel, A.I., robotics, C.A.D., C.G.I. string physics, quantum mechanics, all this science abroad and man still poops in a puddle.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
Eternal Question #2377
♣ Do monkfish lead monastic lives?
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
Since they flourish in the abstract, ironically, the best parts of man remain the hardest ones to fathom, the easiest to devalue and the likeliest to neglect. Frightful depths of thought or feeling alone may awaken them, assimilate them, avert the devastation which exploits their slumber .
♣ While they tend to grow elusive or ethereal, confused or confounded, as long as thought and feeling persist, these fundamental qualities, faith, hope, love, charity, grace, truth, beauty, valor and excellence, the elements of human spirituality, will always be valid, always relevant, always healthy, stirring, heartening, always right, just and good and there will always be the hope that man may extricate himself from the mercenary jaws of destruction yet one more time.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
A Whimsical Glance at Good and Evil
The Frightening Ambiguity of Etiquette
Why have burps been ruled offensive, sneezes full of charm? Are sneezes stuffed with jollity and burps imbued with harm? Burps are often quieted, sneezes loudly blessed? Are sneezes born of angels and burps of all the rest? What is in a burp that’s any worse than in a sneeze? For what could auger any worse than snot upon the breeze?
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
COMING SOON TO A WINCING GLARE BY POPULAR DEMAND–“What Price Justice Part 2: Corporate Lobbying of Congress”
Make Light Your Liberty and Lose It
♣ Those who grow inured to the least servility grow complicit in their own enslavement.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
Age
Complacency Will Morph into Self-Abjuration.
♣ In youth you’re every hero that you dream of being. With age you’re just the person you’ve become.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
The Proverbial Glass #3
♣ Whether the glass is half full or half empty may depend on whether you’ve poured liquid into it or out.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
Power Corrupts
♣ All power tends toward fascism.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com