{"id":8001,"date":"2025-09-05T09:42:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=8001"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:42:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:42:28","slug":"poem-holy-obedient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/05\/poem-holy-obedient\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Holy Obedient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first quote below, I learned as the epigraph of the book, <em>Let Them Call Me Rebel<\/em>, a biography of Saul Alinsky, the great American organizer and social activist. The Lao Tzu quote following it make an interesting pairing and setup for this poem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Holy Obedient<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Highly-evolved-people-have-their-own-conscience-as-pure-law-Lao-Tzu-quote.gif\" alt=\"Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law --Lao Tzu\" width=\"172\" height=\"172\" \/>&#8220;Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.&#8221;<\/em> \u2015 Thomas Paine<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law&#8221;<\/em> \u2015 Lao Tzu<\/p>\n<p>He was called<br \/>\nA rebel<br \/>\nIt was rumored he new know law<br \/>\nThose surround him<br \/>\nGravely in choiring<br \/>\nWhat he may no that they don&#8217;t<br \/>\nKnot equal to the task<br \/>\nThat he is<br \/>\nBehaving won self<br \/>\nHoly obedient<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first quote below, I learned as the epigraph of the book, Let Them Call Me Rebel, a biography of Saul Alinsky, the great American organizer and social activist. 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