A person may go to Heaven with half the pain which it costs one to purchase hell. An ascetic renunciation of the World and its life—and even of the will to survive in life—may be named, as the best-known discipline of peace that has been proposed, as yet, to mankind. And if one may judge from the historic circumstances of its original pronouncement, it arose—or at least caught on—as a response to a desperate general sense of things falling apart. Whatever philosophy and experience may pretend on such subjects, it is certain that humans are disposed to be superstitious in respect to the secret influenced that guide their fortunes, in the dark passage of the World. It is not the persecution, but the catastrophe which is annexed to it, that makes the difference between the tyrant and the sufferer. In mere corporal exertion, the hunter into a new state. Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.  For now, we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Right now, you may not see all clearly. You are only looking at it in part. However, one day it will come into focus.  #RandolphHarris 1 of 9

Some people oppose those individualist theories of the state that invoke concepts of the social contract and of natural rights, and, on the other, all natural law and organic theories of the state. Persons’ moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live. Natural rights have some key ideas that all humans are created equal and have inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Few will deny that a genuine revival of Natural Law has occurred everywhere in the Western World. Natural law means that the State is not only an association of associations, but it is the highest natural association. Humans are basically good and the functioning of the states is to develop our good faculty into a habit of actions. The organic theory of society is entertained by nearly every serious thinker of the present time. Everyone seems ready to declare, although often with some reservations, that society is an organism; in other words, humans and nature are one, and so, among many other things, that no device or institution of human life is free from conditions of change. These principles all for the social contract theory.  #RandolphHarris 2 of 9

Some arguments of the social contract theory have suspicion of it and these suspicions are increased by its being one of those legal fictions in which some see have the root of so much evil. Player are heroes upon the stage; but beggars, sots, or prostitutes in their private lodgings. It was not asserted that every citizen had in fact contracted to obey the law, but only that they should be deemed to have so contracted. However, this is mischievous unless obeying the laws does in fact make for the general happiness. The principle of utility, then, is the real basis of obedience. To suppose anything else is misleading, since it suggests that the individual need not obey any law to which one has not personally assented—a principle that, if taken seriously, could lead only to anarchy. Therefore, to say that humans have inalienable rights is nonsense on stilts, when the assertion is made by way of protest against a government that has in fact alienated right. There would be no need for revolutions if humans were in fact equal, as they are asserted to be: what is meant is that they ought to be treated as equal but as not. Yet each life has equal value. What is a country village without its mysterious personage?  #RandolphHarris 3 of 9

Things unserviceable in one way may with advantage be applied in another.  If we take the doctrine of natural rights as a statement of what governments ought to do, it will be found untenable. No government could continue to govern if it abstained from ever depriving any of its citizens of life, liberty, or property (still less of happiness), since taxation and punishment would then be impossible. So indeed, would law itself, since any law is a restriction on liberty. The only principle that can be justified to the extent that it is backed by coercion, is that the law should not impose restriction on any individual unless this is necessary to avoid greater pain, on balance, to other individuals: in short, the principle of utility. The civilized life of individuals start from the family reaches its top in form of state. Therefore, the family is the starting point and state is the last point of human development. Although most of the needs are fulfilled in family, villages and tribes but the super sufficient life is not possible without state. Therefore, state is a natural requirement of human uplift. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9

State is the super-most and top human institution that is a sovereign body and it works for comforting its citizens. Whether bread be cheap or dear do not much signify, if we have nothing to buy it with. States exists for the establishment and preservation of a perfect and healthy life. The State provides a safe and sound environment to enable its people to use their capabilities and potentials for the common good and welfare. Denial of natural law is confusing. Many people wonder how could natural law literally be law, so that an enactment that contravenes it is null and void. This would mean that the supreme governors who makes the laws have a legal duty not to make certain kinds of law. However, that this is my duty to do, which I am liable to be punished, according to law, if I do not do…Have these supreme governors any such duty? No: for if they are at all liable to punishment, according to law…then they are not, what they are supposed to bee, supreme governors. What is meant, doubtless, is that they have either a religious duty or a moral duty. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9

A religious duty is one whose neglect renders one liable to punishment by God, and a moral duty is one whose neglect renders one liable, not to punishment in a strict sense, but to various unorganized mortifications and inconveniences at the hands of one’s fellow citizens. This is in line with the moral sanctions, which is the fear of public opinion. In this sense, moral duties are certainly political realities: and the ruler is limited by what public opinion will tolerate. However, this is distinguishing from a legal limitation, and both from a nebulous law. Therefore, the legislator ought to make those laws that promote the greatest happiness of the greatest number. It is clear that a law that, on balance, causes more suffering than it prevents is not necessarily one so unpopular that it provokes the citizens to active resistance. We have at least one moral right: the right to have one’s happiness considered equally with that of other humans. This is clearly not the same as the fact that humans will seek their own happiness, nor does it follow from the further fact that the legislator, seeking his or her own happiness, will see to it, if he or she is wise, that one does not provoke one’s subjects too far.  #RandolphHarris 6 of 9

When a door closes, you do not know what God is saving you from. If your prayers are not answered the way you want, instead of being discouraged or feeling like God let you down, why do you not have a more comprehensive perspective? You may be discouraged because your plans have not worked out, but those closed doors were not an accident. That was God directing your steps. The reason God closed them is because He has something better in store for you. Will you trust Him? Gods ways are not our ways. They are better than our ways. There will be times when a door closes and you cannot understand why? You may be experiencing that right now. However, will you stay in faith while you wait to see what God is up to? This one bright young man who was in the top five percent of the nation had a dream to become an engineer. However, when he applied for graduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California-Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, and others, he was turned down again and again, while some of his friends with lower grades and even undocumented citizens were accepted. He could not understand it. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9

It had been a bleak few months, for a lot of reasons. He could hardly write through the tears. He crumpled up the poems he had been writing since December and tossed them into the flames. While this well-educated, but distraught young man was waiting, he went on a mission trip with a group of doctors from his church. When he saw the doctors taking care of the people, treating their injuries and aliments, something new was birthed on the inside.  It was like a ray of Sunshine through the clouds. He did not want to be an engineer anymore. He wanted to become a doctor. After he returned home, he applied to medical school and was immediately accepted. God closed the doors to the engineering school on purpose, to open the doors into his divine destiny. God is wonderful in His design and excellent in His working. Believer, God overrules all things for your good. The needs-be for all that you have suffered has been most accurately determined by God. Your course is all mapped out by your Lord. Nothing will take Him by surprise. There will be no novelties to Him. There will be no occurrences which He did not foresee, and for which, therefore, He has not provided. He has arranged all, and you have but to patiently wait, and you shall see an extraordinary deliverance.  #RandolphHarris 8 of 9

 

Sailing with sealed orders, we ourselves are the repositories of the secret packet, whose mysterious contents we long to learn. There are not mysteries out of ourselves. Dear Father in Heaven, You are amazing! Thank you, God, for loving me so much that certain prayers have not been answered. You have not allowed certain people into my life whom I really wanted, because they would have limited my growth. I know that God is in complete control. There is no power greater than the power of God. I believe that my destiny is ordered by God. I know that new opportunities will arise in my life and I will keep a good attitude. I am moving forward in faith, knowing that God has my best interest at heat. I believe the reason God block certain opportunities is because something better is in store. Sometimes we have to realize that God did not break his promise to us, he just needed to delay its fulfillment. The bounty of thoughts, however, will remain undiminished. Far sweeter are mysteries than Sunrises: though the mystery be unfathomable, it is still the unfathomableness of fullness; but the surmise, that is but shallow and unmeaning emptiness.  #RandolphHarris 9 of 9

The Winchester Mystery House

 The spirits come to life once more as tourist explore Mrs. Winchester’s home. https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/