It is imaginable that in some way we accept these marvels—not merely by naturalizing process to which we are prone, sine it is not often applicable; nor by symbolizing process, which must too much tax our inventiveness; nor by that gracious suspension of disbelief that permits the work to live at all. It is imaginable, rather, that we accept what in some obscure manner answers to something in us—to an inclination for, and a sense of, mystery that does not quite surrender to the commanding patterns of rationalistic life. Indeed, the more rational the ordering of existence, the greater the thirst for mystery; and our own is unslaked. Mostly we appease it in shoddy ways, by automation; and so we have readiness for the larger mystery that is not snuffed out by the mundanely factual in the past era of detective triumph. This is the report we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claimed to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by truth. However, if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us all from sin. If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all the unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives. My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin.

However, if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours, but also for the sins of the whole World. We know that we have some to know him if we obey his commands. The man who says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. However, if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly made complete in you. Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard. Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and you, because the darkness is passing and true light is already shinning. Anyone who claims to be in the light, but hates his brother is still in the darkness. Whoever loves his brother lives in the lights, and there is nothing in that person to make one stumble. Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. However, you know that he appeared so that he may take away our sins. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. Dear Children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is righteous, just as he is righteous. He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother. This is the report you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil, and his brothers were righteous. Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the World hates you. On Tuesday, 9^th December 2014, in Saint Louis, Missouri, a 17-year-old boy was charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action. It was reported that he was fighting with his 25-year-old brother, and the mother got scared and left the house, but it is unclear what the young men were fighting about. When officers responded, the found the body of the 25-year-old man lifeless, and the teenage brother is being held, at the Saint Louis County Jail, on $200,000.00 bond, so someone will have to come up with $20,000.00 to bail the teen out of jail. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal love. This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and see his brother in need, but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with the words or tongue, but with actions and in truth. However, even thus open to the unresolved may be sentimental indulgence.

What justifies the sense of mystery is, in the end, that quality of the mysterious event that makes it seem, but a teasing and unresponsive puzzle, but a breaking-through of transcendental reality. Some such experiences may be provided reputably by the spirits, the visions, all the strange existences and events beyond nature that God keeps coming back to and setting forth for our contemplation. Through mystery, that is, we grasp a little more of the totality which we hazard is the felt essence of God. And in reminder: mystery and totality are attributes of the reality ordinarily called religious—a double moral process hardly to be dealt with as no more than amiable make-believe. No animal is more gregarious than a fashionable man, who, whatever may be his abilities to think, rarely decides, and still less frequently acts for himself. Nothing is great, but the personal. As civilization advances, the accidents of life become each day less important. The power of man, his greatness and his glory, depend on essential qualities. Brains every day become more precious than Blood. The frigid theories of a generalizing age have destroyed the individuality of man.

In the 1990s, a lot of know it all’s, who knew nothing, came out claiming to be experts in psychology and economics and did more harm by convincing people to buy things they could not afford, based on speculation of a consistent increase in income, due to short term predictions that the tech bubble and real estate boom would continue, but they failed to look at long term projections that the market would eventually contract because it surpassed the equilibrium and there was not a large enough population to keep fueling the demand. Also, novice psychologist spent a lot of time watching the new CSI and Police detective shows and became inspired to be psychologist and therapist, but did not really spend enough time studying life, the brain, sociology, communication, and life to understand what was truly going on in society. Instead of telling people to try harder or study more, psychologist and therapist started using affirmative action to make loser children feel better than they were. They would tell the fat kids that the skinny kids were abnormal, instead of encouraging more physical education classes.  These novice social doctors also told losers it was there right to harass popular kids and get away with it because they will send popular kids to jail for defending themselves against the losers; these losers are now disrupting the natural order, and becoming vicious and evil bullies.

So the popular high school jocks, with the blonde hair and brown eyes, never made it to college, and were replaced. The popular cheerleader, with long black hair, and caramel skin never became prom queen because some fat mean girl set her up. Teenage kids pay a great deal of attention to clothes. They do not consciously dress to be popular. They dress to look good. But to who? To the other kids. Other kids’ opinions become their definition of right, not just for clothes, but for almost everything they do, right down to the way they walk. And so every effort they make to do things right is also, consciously or not, an effort to be more popular. Nerds do not realize this.  Adam Lanza, Newtown School Shooter, was a Nerd, honors Student. And now Adam Lanza is accused of killing his mother and 20 children because no one was allowed to push back and stand their ground, so nerds go insane and kill people when they get up set, and these are rich kids, who have everything they need. Nerds do not realize that it takes work to be popular. In general, people outside some very demanding fields do not realize the extent to which success depends on constant (though often unconscious) effort. For example, most people seem to consider the ability to be a journalist as some kind of innate quality, like being tall. In fact, most people who can be journalist like writing, photography, and communication and research, and have spent many hours doing it; that is why they are good at it. Not everyone is a real journalist. Not just anyone is trusted enough or has the skill to host Nightline, Good Morning America, World News Tonight, ABC World News, CBS This Morning, or Anchor for CNBC. Not just anyone gets to work for NBC and all the major Networks and basically becomes the Queen of Babylon (Media).

 Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requires. Unless they also happen to be good-looking, natural athletes, or siblings of popular kids, they will tend to become nerds. And that is why smart people’s lives are sought after, life at that level revolves far more around popularity than before or after, and everyone wants to be you. However, people need to learn to happy with who they are, not everyone has star quality and that is just part of life. Look, we need people to build rocket ships, not everyone can play football, you nerds will be rich in about ten years, just sit tight, a lot of pretty women will want to marry you because you are smart and make a lot of money, later in life, and you will afford nice cars and homes. And thick women know how to cook and are nice. Men want to date them because they know how to love. Some people only know how to be popular. Likewise, popular is not just something you are or you are not, but something you make yourself.  The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about. Their attention is drawn to books or the natural world, not fashions and parties. They are like someone trying to record a like shot, while balancing a journal on his head. Other photojournalist, who can focus their whole attention, on the game, effortlessly get all the best images, and wonder why they seem so incapable. Even if nerds cared as much, as other kids, about popularity, being popular would be more work for them. The popular kids learned to be popular, and to want to be popular, the same way the nerds learned to be smart, and to want to be smart: from their parents. While the nerds were being trained to get the right answers, the popular kids were being trained to please, and be pretty and happy and outgoing and smell good.

All because people were made to believe lies that made the feel better and other people rich. Like the Jetson’s, they were basically telling you, just push a button and it is now your turn to shine! Forget all ethics, morals and laws and go against logic to get your way, even though you know it is wrong, you will believe me because I am a college graduate, and you think I am smarter than you just because I went to college and will not trust your own discernment. To have lost the godlike conceit that we may do what we will, and not to have acquired a homely zest for doing what we can, shows a grandeur of temper which cannot be objected to in the abstract, for it denotes a mind that, though disappointed, forswears compromise. Though all me be made of one metal, yet they be not cast in one mold. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything, so keep that in mind. Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he have us. Love can make a molehill appear as a mountain, a Jew’s-harp sound like a trumpet, and a daisy smell like a violet.

Love is of the spirit and knows not death. There is only one perfect flower in the wilderness of Life, Love. The man who works up a good income has had no time to learn love to its solemn extreme; the man who has learned that has had no time to get rich. The beloved lover is always called happy, and happiness is considered as a well-fleshed indifference to sorrow outside it. That simple, primitive love which knits us to the beings who have been nearest to us, in their times of helplessness or of anguish, is perfect love of poetry, which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings. Do you agree or disagree with the concept that globalization will influence the fashion industry, worker wages, and conditions in American industries? In 2015, the media described the deplorable conditions at a factory in downtown Sacramento, where immigrants worked 80 hours a week, at $2.00 per hour, virtually enslaved behind wrought iron fences. Such conditions are the norm in the industry. Most immigrant workers toil in old high-rise office buildings that were not constructed for manufacturing. Consequently, the vast majority of factories are dirty, dangerous, and overcrowded.

People rarely get breaks—even for visits to the restroom—and the noise levels are extreme, including shouts and threats by foremen, who harass and intimidate operators.  Chad Appelbaum mention one interview in which he told of his visit, at his brother’s apartment on New Year’s Day: The neighbor shouted, at my brother all day long…Finally, she came screaming and kicking on the door, and hollering like she lost her mind. She screamed, and then she started crying…She stood up, grabbed her purse, and she left. She never came back or said anything, just like everybody else does. Norma Macias, Councilwoman, is speaking out against what she calls “Shameful” at a local Apartment-home complex. The councilwoman reported that she intends to do whatever she can, including raising the issue to colleagues, to support residents of the high-rise. “What is taking place here is nothing short of criminal, to take advantage and gouge these people. I, for certain, want to make an issue of what is going on here. We need to protect our residents. The landlord knows these people are stuck. It really breaks my heart. The old people have other options, the youth do not. There is discount senior housing everywhere.” Norma Macias reported. One resident, who asked to remain anonymous, for fear of retaliation said that his family has lived in the community for more than 30 years, and has seen their rent skyrocket. When they first lived there, rent was $100.00. Now, it is $1,160.00 a month just for the dirt.

According to the U.S. Census American Community Survey, the median rent for in apartment, in Sacramento California, from 2009 to 2015 is $1,003.00 a month. American families have always been highly diverse and resilient, and they are even more so today. Currently, many people shift from one family type to another, over the life course to suit their changing interest and needs. A person may begin in a child-dree, dual-earner family, then decide to have children, later divorce, and head a single parent family, and still later to remarry and establish a blended family. In some ways, daytime soap operas are social pioneers, providing cutting-edge models of family diversity and family problems. Watch a soap opera some afternoon and critically assess family images and gender roles, however. You will discover that few soap operas have relinquished fundamental patriarchal themes. Men still have more control of the action than women and women continue to be portrayed as more emotional than men. And soaps persist in the belief that women’s value is directly related to their sexual allure and physical attractiveness, and that finding Mr. Right is every woman’s goal.

Certainly, the mainstream media play an important role in enlightening the public about family trends and problems. Polls have consistently shown a strong correlation between media publicity and public concerns about domestic violence, date rape, child neglect, and a host of other important social problems. However, the most part of the mainstream media emphasize drama and novelty for entertainment purposes—not to critically assess or remedy family problems. And virtually all mainstream media frame issues in ways that emphasize the personal, rather than the social contexts in which family problems occur, as noted. Are there some things regarding your physical or intellectual life to which you have been paying no attention at all? You no more need a day off, from spiritual concentration, no more than your heart needs a day off from beating. As you cannot take a day off morally, and remain moral, neither can you take a day off spiritually, and remain spiritual. You have to be a good person every day. God wants you to be entirely His, and it required paying close attention to keep yourself fit. Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurance that it all the while disbelieves. The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her own beauty until she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

The Winchester Mystery House

A tour through The Winchester Mystery House provides an intriguing introduction to Mrs. Winchester, medieval rituals and superstitions about the dead. https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/