Bipolar Sagacity Volume 3 (Integrity Versus Faithlessness): Those Sayings, Ruminations, Lamentations, Exhortations, Aphorisms and Questions in Reference to the Spiritual, Physical, Social, Psychological and Vocational Issues of Life

By Thomas D. Sharts M.Ed

Bipolar Sagacity Volume 3 continues on with the theme of the first book Bipolar Sagacity. It underscores the profound bipolar spiritual, psychological and social struggles a person of introspection experiences as he/she travels throughout the stages of the adult life cycle. This life, both past and present, witnesses to the fact that many people of astute perceptual skills, religious faith and intellectual knowledge live lives of great contradictions—those bipolar experiences that challenge the very essence of sanity. Yet in truth, the commentary in this book—whether ruminations, lamentations, exhortations, questions, sayings, or aphorisms—encapsulates what it means to be human as a cognizant and vibrant living adult, whether as celebrated through supplications, acknowledgment of thanks, discovered truths or founded wisdom, or by experiencing all the human fallibilities and negative perceptions associated with powerful emotional states such as confusion, fear, anger, jealousy, etc.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543439571

Thomas D. Sharts M.Ed

Thomas D. Sharts is Department Chair of Social Sciences and Fine Arts with Northern Marianas College. Also he has authored the following books: The American Deception; The Poor Man’s Bible A-Z; Avant-Garde Sociology; The Five Areas of Being Human; Sunday School Lessons and Sermon Topics for Real Faith in the Real World; Building a NonProfit Entity, Organization or Agency; The Science and Art of Effective Secondary and Post-Secondary Classroom Teaching; Shartsy’s Artsy Sayings; Bipolar Sagacity; Factual Wisdom for the Age of Apostasy; Bipolar Sagacity Volume 2; Understanding the Heart Origins and Some Relevant Explanations for Male Pornography Addiction; Bipolar Sagacity Volume 3; Bipolar Sagacity Volume 4; Bipolar Sagacity Volume 5; Bipolar Sagacity Volume 6; Bipolar Sagacity Volume 7; Bipolar Sagacity Volume 8 and Shartsy’s Artsy Sayings Volume 2. Mr. Sharts has twenty three years college teaching experience and has taught in higher education in both the United States and overseas. From 1999 to 2007, he was the Founder and Executive Director of Friendship Helping Ministries in Charlotte, NC. In 2019, Mr. Sharts received first prize with the Beverly Hills Book Awards for Bipolar Sagacity Volume 6 in the category of Philosophy; and in 2017, Mr. Sharts was the winner of the National Indie Excellence Book Award for the book Bipolar Sagacity. Also in 2017, he was recognized with a finalist distinction for the Montaigne Medal with the Eric Hoffer Book Awards for Thought-Provoking prose in reference to the book Factual Wisdom for the Age of Apostasy. Mr. Sharts interests are reading, writing, sports, and the visual and dramatic arts. In 2002, he was the recipient of the Community Quarterback Award for Human Services Leadership as designated by the National Football League’s Carolina Panthers. Mr. Sharts is also available for public speaking engagements or educational seminars in reference to sociological analysis on identified specific topics, business analysis, nonprofit creation and development, self-help analysis, etc. He may be contacted at [e-mail]

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If you don’t love and help your own family you got nothing. TS 16

If all you got is fantasy, you got nothing. TS 16

Anomie and social alienation makes the body physically ill. TS 16

Be of good cheer: You could be 74-years-old celebrating your birthday alone because all of your life you have been an egocentric asshole. TS 16

Be of good cheer: You could be changing the diapers of your 85-year-old husband every day. Fun had by all! TS 16

Be humble and wise and thank Almighty Father God for his healing love and the fact that he has not killed you for your sins of unrepentant folly. TS 16

Humility is Kryptonite for vanity. TS 16

The Almighty Dollar is on the throne upon earth and don’t ever forget it! TS 16

Look at how gate she is! TS 16

The smart-phone is a TV in your hand and you decide what the programming is without the commercials. TS 16

The US federal government is so corrupt that asking Godly people to run for office will have no influence upon eradicating the corruption simply because pouring a glass of clean water into a shitted toilet bowl doesn’t seem to make a difference without flushing. TS 16

The no one cares motto mentality has to do with the fact that communities have become too large. TS 16

If you don’t push, things will remain the same as long as they are allowed to. TS 16

Itching can actually be painful to endure. TS 17

Lord, I am ready to be clean. Have mercy upon me and make it happen. TS 16

An addiction ends when the addiction is at the culmination of the pleasure it can derive; or, the body simply has been destroyed by it. One or the other. TS 16

Your lustful passion can keep you from where you need to be. TS 16

The man that is the funniest is the one we least expect to be funny, and that’s why he’s the funniest. TS 16

My soulmate was the little beautiful girl behind me who lovingly touched me on my left arm (and gazed into my eyes with love) while we were standing to make our first communion. Unfortunately, I never got her name and I never saw her again. It’s the only time in my life I ever experienced love in all its purity. TS 16

When you die, you’ll be more thankful than you ever were while living on earth. TS 16

Why won’t anyone take the time to minister to me beyond 30 seconds? TS 16

What faithful man can sit in a prison of a life and not go insane? TS 16

The deluded souls are the fearful souls. TS 16

Self-destruction makes it all for naught. TS 16

If what you do or say is so forgettable, then you don’t have much going on. TS 16

And what’s more depressing than looking upon an aimless depressed 18-year-old soul? TS 16

For most of us, all we can do is imagine the way we wish it should be. TS 16

There’s a number for everything you have ever done – including the number of times you should have been thankful and were not. TS 16

It’s all a pile. TS 16

So much anger relates to a state of being called ignorance. TS 16

Life is like ordering a dozen donuts. You better check the box before you leave the donut shop and make certain you got what you ordered and paid for - lest you start fantasizing about the donut you wanted to eat first and it’s not even in the box. TS 16

The fear I remember so well that has been with me since youth was being demarcated as winners or losers and knowing that being a loser was the kiss of death that spelled rejection and isolation. TS 16

What is said or not said is all the difference in the world. TS 16

And how many hours have you stood in line waiting for something in life and how many total days of your life do those hours equate to? TS 16

It’s the compassion of Christ that is attacked by the Devil and anyone whose idolatry prevents him/her from being transformed by it. TS 16

The most important order of business at the top of the pyramid of life is realizing and being transformed by the compassion and mercy of Christ. All else is less than relevant without this reality in place. TS 16

The Satan’s goal is to obscure our understanding of the compassion and mercy of Christ in reference to how imperative it is for the functioning and peace of all social order. TS 16

And what is this world but a temporary stage for the vain, ignorant and hateful in order to carry-out their futile plans for pleasure, aggrandizement and power while only to see it all end for naught? TS 16

With truth and justice abolished as exemplified by the corrupt US Federal Government – particular the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Democratic National Committee and the Presidency of the United States - why should anyone feel guilty about not obeying the laws of the land? TS 16

Purely caring for someone these days? How are people doing with that? TS 16

Speak into a tape recorder and confess that you’re an addict. Then, play the tape back so you can hear yourself in your own voice admit that you’re an addict. Maybe this experience will wake you up! TS 16

For Christmas, I want my body to be free from self-destruction. TS 16

If love is so powerful, then why are we dying? TS 16

The boredom has overtaken me and I’m in a freefall descending into hell. TS 16

There’s nothing dignified about sitting in a socially-imposed prison of a life because of bigotry, hate, untruth and injustice. TS 16

Pilate asked Jesus What is truth? I ask: What is love? TS 16

Your productivity is your penance. TS 16

The greatest thing in our lives to give-up equates to the greatest gain to ever realize. TS 16

Too much excess means closure is coming. TS 16

Overcoming false intimacy is the hardest addiction to overcome. TS 16

The stupidity of these times is endless. TS 16

Sorrow inverted is anger. TS 16

If you like somebody, then why are you acting like you don’t know him or her when you see that soul? TS 16

The possibilities of creativity are all-around you if you just open your blind eyes. TS 16

When you can’t feel any touch at all, it’s over. TS 16

If you conduct your business honestly, what do you have to worry about? TS 16

Lawyers are like roaches; they will eat-up anything. TS 16

The man freed from self-destruction related to his folly, is the bored man. TS 16

Is as much as you have dammed-up, is as much as you should get back. TS 16

And who are Those people? TS 16

What does it mean when all of your siblings don’t acknowledge your birthday and your sister’s kid didn’t invite you to his wedding a couple of weeks before? TS 16

The toys we like are an expression of ourselves. TS 16

Most of our lives are just plagued by guilt – rational or irrational. TS 16

A huge part of great teaching is planning. TS 16

Being too comfortable is a slow excruciating death. TS 16

Without a Big Love in your life, all is for naught. TS 16

There are so many people walking around with addictions and you don’t even know it. TS 16

At this point, I need a scarecrow to show me the way to go. TS 16

The vile is from deep within but the vile is with – out too! TS 16

There’s nothing to be gained of this world; be sure of it! TS 16

I am living with 1/3 of the cup full and a lot of that reason is my fault. TS 16

I am an island living on an island. TS 16

I have lived so much life, but nobody to share it with. The island life has prevailed. TS 16

Lord, open my eyes for I am blind. TS 16

The best people are trustworthy, self-motivated, knowledgeable, experienced and tempered by troubles. TS 16

When your excess becomes a bore, you’re in trouble. TS 16

It took Almighty God 108 years to have mercy on the Chicago Cubs. TS 16

I’m sorry for people wasting time. TS 16

Why do you have to put a good face on selling Christianity? TS 16

So many bullshitters running the world. TS 16

Patience is just living. TS 16

What’s more embarrassing than lauding yourself? TS 16

And how much time has been wasted on immature dreams? TS 16

And how many people are waiting for people to come into their lives that don’t exist? TS 16

Sigma! TS 16

So much time wasted in early socialization and young adulthood learning about ideals when ideals need wealth in order to be semi-realized. TS 16

The impoverished live vanishing lives dedicated to eating, drinking, shitting and screwing; and then, they’re gone like the June Bugs. TS 16

And what does healing smell like? TS 16

This thing called life encapsulates everything; and some of that everything is the miserable – yet, that qualifies as living too! TS 16

An intellectual sobriety check for many idealistic working class educated poor persons is that they are on the periphery and they’ll never be able to get to the center of social and political relevancy regardless of how hard they try. TS 16

Coming to grips with our anonymity is our peace. TS 16

It is true that beauty can be derived from ugliness. TS 16

Law enforcement agencies make criminals out of people. It’s big business in the USA now. TS 16

And on Monday morning, the courts of law are filled with those poor who will be represented by public offenders – not defenders. TS 16

Is as much as you love people is as much as you can hate them. TS 16

And all the media neurotic does is just build-up more hateful contempt as he sits by and assumes his role as an irrelevant little bystander. TS 16

So many people bloviating about nothing. TS 16

The one thing that can be absolutely counted upon is that vanity will never quit trying to find his audience that he can suck-off. TS 16

When you have no hope, even Mary Jane cannot make you feel any better. TS 16

And who is the bigger fool than the idiot that believed his life was going to amount to something and it amounted to squat on rye? TS 16

I don’t need another higher-education degree or a lawyer; I need a miracle. TS 16

The true believer in his sobriety knows that the darkness hates the light and that the darkness rules over this earthly world. Therefore, he knows that there is no hope for himself in this world. TS 16

People are in too much of a spiritual coma to ever truly process that they need to save themselves. TS 16

Yesterday may be gone never to return, but the remnant of its fart or perfume remains to influence the present. TS 16

It’s all gravity! TS 16

A fart that penetrates walls is a demonstration of real power. TS 16

Turn-off all your media overkill access and you will be able to find spiritual and psychological clarity. TS 16

They say nothing is impossible. However, here are some things that are impossible:

1. Major League baseball will make it mandatory for catchers not to use gloves.

2. God will tell a lie.

3. An animal will talk in intelligent sentences.

4. 2+2 will equal 5.

5. The National Basketball Association will use a square ball.

6. Human Beings will evolve wings.

7. Spiders will stop spinning webs.

8. There will be no more human physiological waste produced.

9. A fish will be capable of having a human baby with no ovaries.

10. All former living US Presidents will become transgender.

11. All living human beings on earth will never die.

12. Halloween will be on Christmas day.

13. The Pope will become the US President.

14. 100 people will swim across the entire Pacific Ocean at the same time with no assistance.

15. A dog will become a man.

16. People will reside on Jupiter.

17. Farts will be used to power automobiles.

18. All of the rest of the future farts to be blown upon earth will have no smell. TS 16

And Mona finally left the castle to come over to my estate to wiggle that ass. TS 16

And your incessant suffering will inevitably result in a spirit of thanksgiving in your life. TS 16

And what’s the math on how many people are throwing their lives away on a daily basis? TS 16

And Christ’s highest priority for you is to be holy not because you’re play-acting to be but because you really be. TS 16

Society is made-up of individuals. Therefore, for positive societal social change to occur on a massive basis, colossal amounts of individuals must change. Likewise, no discussion about social change can be commenced without first considering what power sources will energize people to change? TS 16

Being comfortable with your success is your game changer. TS 16

When you incessantly pray for someone to come minister to you - and no one ever comes - what does that mean? TS 16

Most importantly is: what spirit empowers the emotions? TS 16

Lust takes on more meaning when emotional attachment toward the objects of affection are in place. TS 16

And how many total lies have been told in all of human history? TS 16

Restoring hope revives the physical body. TS 16

Pure love is the magic bullet. TS 16

You can be so lost within yourself, that you’re not living. TS 16

The world that could be and the world that should be are the two worlds I would like to be living in. TS 16

Lust is the search for intimacy. TS 16

If they cared, they would be trying to find you. TS 16

Losing all hope can lead to slow-suicide. TS 16

Our greatest heart’s desire should be purity because purity leads to the good things in life. TS 16

Addiction’s deepest origin is the need for intimacy. TS 16

And who is me? TS 16

And are you killing yourself in the meanwhile? TS 16

Living in the meanwhile is the hardest thing to do without killing yourself. TS 16

Maybe the best place to be in life is waiting upon the miracle to come on your behalf. Likewise, that place cannot be realized until you are exhausted in befuddlement. TS 16

The longer I look at it, the more I realize what an utter disgrace it all actually is! Total bottom of the barrel experiences equate to lunacy. TS 16

Put-up or self-destruct. TS 16

After all of the socially-constructed worldly bullshit is stripped-away, all you have left is your soul - which in reality - is all you had to begin with. TS 16

The highest call for the righteous man less execution is to sit in prison for doing nothing wrong while suffering with sorrow as his best friend. TS 16

US institutions are corrupt and abandoned by Almighty God because truth is not a resolute requisite for selecting employees and maintaining their operations. TS 16

I am cast-out completely now. Just waiting to die. TS 16

Doing all the so-called right things sometimes brings no reward. Sounds like fun. TS 16

As long as someone who is so-called greater than you is still taking daily shits, then all things remain equal. TS 16

The mathematical odds that no persons want anything to do with you despite your dedication and empathy towards them – says it all. TS 16

There is nothing more sad and pathetic than to watch a 70-something individual go down with his egocentrism. TS 16

The rejection of Christ’s heart is sorrow. TS 16

Maybe the greater good has already been realized in your life. So now what? TS 16

And how many people don’t have anybody to talk to? TS 16

A man not begetting children is his shame. TS 16

Touch - not online - is the best life has to offer. TS 16

And who isn’t fantasizing about being lovingly touched? TS 16

No trust equates to no touch. Likewise, both lose. TS 16

The thing that people need in relationships the most is what they do without the most and that is loving touch. TS 16

If you’re unthankful in your way of life, then Almighty God inevitably will spank you for it, and you will be better-off for it. TS 16

It is true that a man can live only on the word of God. Jesus proved it to be true. TS 16

The theories of intake and out-take need to be revisited for the good of humankind. TS 16

Borders, bodies and parameters are the same thing. TS 16

Being alone and afraid is like peanut butter on a hot pepper. TS 16

And how long can fools parade around in do-nothing jobs feigning competence? TS 16

What will suck the life out of you is truth be gone. TS 16

Without the mercy of Almighty Father God, there is no hope for humankind. TS 16

Truck models and train sets are the best toys for a young boy to have in order for him to know that being a boy is about maleness. TS 16

The only thing left is the miracle. TS 16

Almighty Lord God will intercede in his own time and you’ll have nothing to do with that. TS 16

Holy Spirit inspired giving expects nothing in return. TS 16

If I could slay boredom, I might live. TS 16

Jesus, can you send somebody to me that can energize me to live. TS 16

A Filipino will surely win the Annual Jalopy Contest hands-down! TS 16

Boredom and its blank canvas waits for the mark of destiny to be composed. TS 16

The end of our hypocrisy is realized when we line-up our private and public self. TS 16

The 21st century is the Age of Unreason and Utter Boredom. TS 16

And how many people are living in the world that should not be who if living in the world that ought to be, might not be making any dollars that equate to wealth? TS 16

As spatially long as the universe is, is the length of the knowledge that is yet to be made known. TS 16

I guess it’s all summed-up when someone calls you a foreigner. TS 16

You’re just one cog on the wheel in reference to influencing what the world behaves; yet, you never know who you’re influencing that could change the world. TS 16

Hate is love inverted. TS 16

Greatness means nothing if it can’t stop death. TS 16

Being educated by the smartest people doesn’t mean you’ll turn-out that way. TS 16

And why are you fearing the future when you’re going to die anyway? TS 16

What a man might do in the privacy of his own home might be his undoing. TS 16

And are all our fantasies related to the fact that we won’t take some sort of responsibility where