Bipolar Sagacity Volume 4 (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 4 continues 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, is witness 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 celebrated through supplications, acknowledgement of thanks, discovered truths, founded wisdom, or the experience of 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: Nov 9, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543457711

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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Getting there too late and not getting access to the potential love of your life is an unspeakable living tragedy. TS 17

Before one’s execution, is there a last shit taken? TS 17

Mid-life is about the extinction of romantic possibilities unless you want to dance with the fat girls. TS 17

No confidence equates to a life of poverty. TS 17

No courage relates to a life of guilt. TS 17

Mercy and compassion administered are all that matters. TS 17

The US ship sinks when the Western Caldera erupts. TS 17

The way of Christ is aloneness and only the courageous can finish the trip. TS 17

In the aloneness of the abyss, what else can you do but find Christ? TS 17

And he sighed and concluded, She will never be mine, and the world did not care. TS 17

Ironically, the merciful man has limited friends. TS 17

The complaining man that disappears, renders relief to the social environment he perennially poisoned and such respite is like the rancid fart that vacates in the cleansing wind. TS 17

And here’s my truthful eulogy of my colleague: You never took me out to lunch; you never invited me into your home, and you talked shit about me all of the time behind my back. Now how is it that you were such a great man? TS 17

You can strive in going forward toward your life goals, but eventually, it all has to end somewhere; and likewise thence – there will be no moving forward. Can you deal with that day? TS 17

Those individuals who are in constant attendance and are prolific with their production day-in and day-out are the machines. TS 17

The only thing holding me back now is the legitimate opportunity being offered to me to do something else. TS 17

All I ever wanted to be was having a happy home and a family; yet, it never became a reality. TS 17

The Washington Post mantra is: Democracy dies in darkness. I thought democracy created darkness as a result of the sham that it is? TS 17

Don’t even try to determine how the level of hate ever made it in your heart? However, having no family probably didn’t help. TS 17

There’s no love when we are dropping bombs on each other. TS 17

Genius is taking shortcuts with effective results. TS 17

My own sins obscure the purity of my heart that wants to do good. TS 17

If the world hates truth and Christ too, then why are you confused? TS 17

The emptiness of hopelessness cannot be explained by the lexicon. TS 17

I have lost my ability to believe that good triumphs over evil. TS 17

In the last days that we live in now, evil does triumph over good and good men bemoan ever having to be born as their heads are trampled upon. TS 17

I didn’t want to be alive to see NO HOPE reign upon earth. TS 17

Jesus, if it’s over, can I go home? TS 17

When your utility upon earth is done, you’re done. TS 17

And when you have to sell your soul for money, now you know what 666 is. TS 17

If you look at it real close, the compelling substantial fact that’s always present is vanity. TS 17

You can quit your job and think you’re free, but chicken broth lunches at the City Mission are not going to keep that smile on your face for far too long. TS 17

There is no salvation to be wrought upon earth; not from God, not from man and not from yourself. TS 17

Lord, I remain imprisoned and hated. I am not your enemy so why do you allow the Devil to continue to be my jailer – even making my chains stronger and my misery more complete in my old age? TS 17

Tokenism is that all cowards around you know that you should be the one running things and even intimate to you that this should be the case; yet, they will never publicly support you regarding this belief. TS 17

The good-willed man will have the pleasure of watching the world tear down any semblance of good he achieved or erected. TS 17

The manager that makes stupid decisions because of his ego and unteachable spirit is an ass and not worthy to be taken seriously. TS 17

Attend truth’s funeral because she is dead upon earth. TS 17

Willful stupidity is one of the great wrecking balls of the Satan. TS 17

Almighty God will let you sit in your shit. Don’t think otherwise. TS 17

If you sound too intelligent, that guarantees you are not getting the job. TS 17

Don’t make it out like he has to go see the King or Queen. TS 17

The sophistication of psychologically induced experiences in association with technology exemplifies a human race still entrenched in the Stone Age. TS 17

Loving untruth is making me physically ill. TS 17

Sometimes your life course is not doing what you should have done. TS 17

I’m sorry that when I was on the mark, the world didn’t want me. TS 17

It’s sad to watch people sell their souls for a paycheck – I included. TS 17

If you have Jesus, you’re never lonely; however, he may leave you alone at times for the larger scheme of things to be fulfilled. TS 17

When you don’t even know what kind of help you need, I would say you’re bad-off dude. TS 17

Sun-up or Sundown are either your friend or your enemy. TS 17

The content analysis yields the thesis. TS 17

And actually, how many confused clowns are institutions across America employing? TS 17

Hey PhD holder, go take a shit and wipe your ass with your PhD. That’s what it’s worth! TS 17

If you can’t die with Jesus every day, you’re not ultimately dying for him sport. TS 17

Facebook offers not empowerment to its users but delusion. TS 17

And the one homeless man walking toward the other mentally ill homeless man came upon him and said, You’re nuts man. Now, that’s funny man. TS 17

Dying with nobody would suck. TS 17

In many instances, the world you live in rejects truth; so why are you expecting that your life is going to get better then? TS 17

I don’t care about what you’re saying or doing; however, I do care about the spirit that is behind what you’re saying or doing. TS 17

I cannot believe that the Lord seldom responds to the greedy misers (who hold most of the world’s wealth) by having them drop dead. TS 17

Federalism is replete with clowns and the Chief Clown is Mr. Trump. TS 17

The dignity of diligence cannot be defiled. TS 17

The American waters of the social, cultural, economic and political American world are so polluted that they’re beyond EPA help. TS 17

All that diligent/excellent and prolific work and no reward! Astounding! TS 17

There’s a price to pay in order to lift God’s curses. TS 17

To kill anyone out of anger, malice or plan means you are not human. TS 17

How is that two middle-age men and an old man - all who have no offspring - are living next to each other side by side by random choice? How weird is that? TS 17

The cross of Christ is no joke. TS 17

Don’t end-up being a deluded 74-year-old man driving around a jalopy thinking that a beautiful 30-year-old woman is going to come into your life to pleasure you. TS 17

Old age psychologically is about coping with being obsolete. TS 17

If you had someone cheering you on who really dug you, think of how much different your life would be? TS 17

The failure to procreate is the biggest shame of all to bear. TS 17

Almighty God’s not afraid of your word or your biceps sport. TS 17

When you’re in another place, people will not find you unless they want to. TS 17

So sorrowful to see relationships that have never commenced that should have been commenced along with those that have gone down the shitter. TS 17

There’s more behind the veneer that’s for sure! TS 17

Intimacy with yourself is as low as it goes; yet, it’s better you have that than not. TS 17

Guilt can keep you on drugs as you punish your self-away. TS 17

If you can take the