Bipolar Sagacity Volume 8: Integrity Versus Faithlessness

By Thomas D. Sharts M.Ed

Bipolar Sagacity Volume 8 continues with the theme of the first book: Bipolar Sagacity and 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, acknowledgement 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: Apr 24, 2020
• ISBN: 9781796092370

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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CONTENTS

Analogous Business Lessons Learned from

Typhoon Yutu

How is Being Educated Accurately Defined and How does that Apply to Effectively Operating a Business?

Driving is a Serious Business and Needs to

Improve in Saipan with IPDE Education

Some Processes for Building an

Effective Team

The Benefits of Seeking-out a Mentor

Get rid of all that diabolical stress with some sweet pure caress and you no longer will be such a debilitated mess. TS 18

If you can break your predilection for your addiction, then now maybe you can start thinking about helping the other guy through your compassionate intervention. TS 18

Boredom maybe behind your work-a-holism, alcoholism, and your screwed-up metabolism! TS 18

Why would Almighty God allow for a person - who foot the entire bill for the celebration of the Christmas holiday - have an excruciating toothache on Christmas day? TS 18

It’s completely comprehensible why someone with a killer toothache will not be eating any cake, yet alternatively, might be considering to jump-off the local bridge into the lake for believed better sakes. TS 18

When you’re dying, life’s possibilities are now frivolities. TS 18

2018 was the worst year of my life in reference to debilitating afflictions, but it certainly was a year of miracles, survival and deliverance as well despite all of the experienced hell. TS 18

The dude with resilient fortitude and a great attitude will never start a feud and will influence people’s latitude and longitude movements and local commitments for the better. TS 18

When the miracle comes and you’re alone, maybe you’ll groan because nobody will be around to see it known. TS 18

Most people who are getting ready to die are not requesting to eat some pumpkin pie, but instead, have been made into some humble pie. TS 18

Vanity secures itself in constancy. TS 18

Social upset is the decaying root of vanity. TS 18

The Filipinos need to create a sports team with the name The Pinoy Jalopies. TS 18

Waiting upon a new commission is a promising option especially when you’ve done all that is required to make that a reality; however without resources, more time is wasted in the frailty of waiting. TS 18

If you’ve run-out of things to do, maybe laying before the Lord is what you need to do in order to get renewed? TS 18

Review and mediate upon the memories of your life and thereby renew your life. TS 18

How much physical suffering should any person take if he really has no future to be healed before he/she relents and asks for Almighty Father God to let him/her rock-on out? TS 18

There comes a point in your struggles where you ask yourself: What am I really trying to save myself for? TS 18

If you’ve emptied yourself in service and you’re close to 60-years-old, then you could be done. TS 18

Many of us fail in the big picture, yet we’re highly successful in the little pictures too. TS 18

A high achiever guy I know who’s on vacation called his wife at work to tell her that he’s going crazy because he has nothing to do. Unfortunately, this is a glaring symptom of a man who ostensibly doesn’t pray or meditate so maybe he should eat his shoe or take a trip to Timbuktu. TS 18

The breaking of the spirit we refer to is: having no hope left. TS 18

And does it ever really sink into our minds and hearts how many lives have actually been born to be ruined? TS 18

There are so many lives that surround you that you’re never going to invest in and if you could have, how much good would have been added into them? TS 18

Where do the molecules of all of your to and fro activities go to? TS 18

So many geophysical realities versus you; now what was it that you were believing regarding how great you are? TS 18

Total boredom explains a lot of sin. Therefore, the next question is: Why are you bored to begin with? TS 18

Eventually the painkillers killing your chronic pain will kill you and you’ll have no more chronic pain. TS 18

If you have a place of solemn, restful and contemplative refuge, then you’ve done well and you’re one of the lucky ones. TS 18

The only thing the bank wants to know is do you have the ability to pay back on the loan so don’t piss and moan when you don’t. TS 18

It doesn’t matter where you put your money; if you want to spend it you will spend it. TS 18

For your health, it’s good to collect a lot of wealth as a reminder that your dedicated actions actually have amounted to something concrete beyond just eating Cream of Wheat. TS 18

You firstly have to secure security and comfort in your own home. Without that, you have nothing of great value. TS 18

Amazingly, tragedy can elevate you and crown you! TS 18

How many noodles do you know who are socially brutal? TS 18

Don’t erroneously think it’s the holy will of God when it’s actually your stupidity that has authored the unwanted or undesirable outcome. TS 18

What is there to say but that all people should be diligently making the effort to pray every day while there’s still time to do so – in order that their lives don’t resemble a yoyo? TS 18

People that cannot ever readily give-out praise should be given a tas and maybe that will faze them to get out of their social daze. TS 18

And how many girls are so hot in the pants that they put these young men in a trance or make them want to take a chance and ask these chicks out for a dance? TS 18

The cost of living is out-of-control and the utility companies should receive from Santa Claus a bag of coal. TS 18

Unfortunately, the United States does not have the financial resources to converge upon and purge those worldly leaders who are turds like that jackass who gassed the Kurds. TS 18

In the final analysis, our knowledge and experience should build-up empathy in our lives to the point where we can see with clarity that our fellow human beings are just like us and it’s truly so we will know they’re not our foes. TS 18

Truly, some people for God’s sake just take the cake because on life’s stage, all they can do is live like fakes and take, take, take! TS 18

The celibate person is at high-risk for obesity and that’s not good when alternatively, a little bit of some wild passionate loving would keep him/her from baking favorite addiction cookies in the oven. TS 18

The urge to procreate is a God-given surge that never needs to be purged from the human race lest we lose our way and pollute our future days. TS 18

Addictive lust can rust your talents and drive you to bust-up or end-up in an outside the bar dust-up. TS 18

The person that is trying to furtively get a handle on his/her scandal will ultimately fail rather than prevail and maybe end-up in jail or have to set sail or end-up getting kicked in the tail by a former pal or mistress gal. TS 18

Completely uninspired - means moving to become retired or completely fired. TS 18

The greed of the minority-based wealthy people in this world foments and maintains a social economic system of oppression that leaves masses of impoverished people with all kinds of social and psychological problems, spiritually hopeless and maybe even physically dead as well – along with the birth and growth of other numerous aggregate societal social problems. Thanks a lot assholes! TS 18

If you have a rat, then get a cat and that’s that for the limited future of the rat! TS 18

Maybe soon your life will come-out of the ruin and you’ll be shooting for the moon while singing a new tune! TS 18

We should always be meant to prevent or make sent that negative energy or thinking that makes people spent or unable to pay their stinking rents. TS 18

And how many people wasted their entire lives with too much pride and have already died and nobody even cried? TS 18

Ultimately, you cannot hide whose side you’re truly on because your body language will serve to confide that maybe you have lied. TS 18

Some things in life can be quite austere along with being unfair especially when other people around you don’t care, thereby motivating you to pull-out your hair. TS 18

The closed mind has usually been authored in its current state of debilitation and immorality as a result of living and working in the daily grind. TS 18

And how many people living and manipulating wealth actually have access to what they truly don’t deserve because they never serve anyone but themselves? TS 18

The cost of being yourself is that you might just now be all alone because of it and consequently debilitating your health or your wealth. TS 18

Nothing to do and totally burned-out is horse radish and spaghetti. TS 18

In the end, hard work supports the math that says you’ll get the last laugh rather than the complete shaft. TS 18

Idealism doesn’t pay the bills but it just might get some people killed. TS 18

A chronic addiction to hand-held electronics might be considered somewhat demonic by those who are quite sardonic while others might view such behavior as simply culturally iconic. TS 18

You cannot ratify or sanctify behavioral actions or policies that support lies, instead you should be finding ways to kiss them goodbye! TS 18

So many bankrupt intimate social lives undermine people’s self-control and really takes a spiritual and psychological toll upon many forlorn