For the People
Jim Rosemergy’s blog about politics and spirituality concluded in 2019. His posts are shown below.
Read the Introduction to learn more about Jim’s “For the People” blog.
New Blood In Our Veins The Game of Politics A couple of years ago, my body had a heart attack. There were symptoms of pain, weakness and momentary loss of consciousness. After tests, a triple bypass was performed and recovery began. I now take a simvastatin tablet each day. Is…
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The Only Way Out The Way Forward Sometimes the only way forward is to go back to the beginning. Jim Rosemergy We journey backwards, so we can reorient ourselves. Once we were on the mountaintop and saw the path before us, but then we descended into the valley and discovered…
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Pants on Fire A New Definition of Lying In 1810, William Blake wrote the poem, “The Liar.” It begins Deceiver, dissembler Your trousers are alight… A children’s rhyme is more to the point. “Liar, liar, pants on fire.” Indeed, the child is correct, for the night sky is aglow and…
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The 4th Way “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” So says Ralph Waldo Emerson. What are we to think of America when we say we are a peaceful nation, but global reports reveal we export more weapons than any country on earth? Some…
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The Return of Respect and A Pledge of Civility Assuming Our Responsibility It is time for the American people to return to respect, but the early days of this journey will jar us and shake us and cause us to see what we have done. The tendency is to blame…
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