
How often is the term “savages” incorrectly applied! None really deserving of it were ever yet discovered by voyagers or by travelers. They have discovered heathens and barbarians, whom horrible cruelties they have exasperated into savages. I might be mistaken thinking that I am sitting in front of a blazing fire, but I could not be mistaken about it seeming true to me. I cannot be mistaken about the idea itself. Usually with pains, sensations, images, and other so-called objects of inner sense being included, it would be absurd to say, “I believe I am in pain, but perhaps I am not,” just as it usually is absurd to say, “I said it seemed so-and-so to me, but I was not sure whether it really did”—absurd, that is, unless the experience itself is indeterminate or borderline. Accordingly, sense statements (presumed to be sincere) are sometimes said to be incorrigible on the ground that one who makes such a statement cannot possibly be mistaken about his or her experience even though one may deceive others. My mother always taught me that it is ridiculous to constantly acknowledge the physical pain that you are feeling and that it could make it worse because one focuses on it more and that we should focus on things that generate happiness. #RandolphHarris 1 of 9

Focusing on physical pain is a lot like focusing on a relationship that has ended, you will feel the pain more because you are thinking about it. However, you notice when a relationship ends, and even when you are experiencing extreme emotional pain, when your friends come around smiling and happy and playing music you like and wanting to take you out to have fun that it distracts you from your pain and you feel better about yourself. Just because you are distracted and enjoying life does not mean that the break up did not happen and that you are not hurting emotionally, it just means you are trying to heal and move beyond the pain. Actualization requires principle and material force. The idea seems to be that self-nourishment is the characteristic sign which we identify the presence of life, and that soul explains the presence of those features. The soul is substance in the sense of form or essence of a living thing. So, the soul is the actuality of a natural body that is potentially alive and we must also feel our soul with things that make us feel good and it will keep the body and emotions strong and alive. #RandolphHarris 2 of 9

A living thing’s soul is its capacity to engage in activities that are characteristic of living things of its natural kind and conducive to their well-being and survival. Anything the nourishes itself experiences growth, movement and rest, perception, and intellect and the soul is what is causally responsible for the animate behavior (the life activities) of a living thing. The Great Ultimate involves both principle and material force. Principle is necessary to explain the reality and universality of things. It is incorporeal, one, eternal, and unchanging, uniform, constituting the essence of things; it is always for, and it is the reason for creation. Material force is necessary to explain physical form, individuality, and the transformation of thins. It is physical, many, transitory and changeable, unequally present in things; it constitutes their physical substance and involves both good and evil. It is the agent of creation. These are nested in the sense that anything that has a higher degree of soul also has all of the lower degrees. #RandolphHarris 3 of 9

The principle of duality is not accepted by everyone. Physicalist do not thing that mental states are brain states—or heart states—or bodily processes at all. Natural objects are given a form regardless of our perception. Reality that is of images, produced by us and dependent on our will, fantasy, and creative processes are impressionism. People use their knowledge about the World and depict reality as it is conceived at a given time. There is no one system of mathematics, but there are many mutually exclusive systems. Various geometries coincide. With accepted proofs not always establishing all the given causes or factors including bias being considered. When we build analysis based on logic, we can accept, reject, or accept the negations of some extralogical existence axioms of infinity, and the assumption of the existence of transfinite cardinal numbers. Logic itself should not decide any existence problem. Conflicting views are presented in long speeches, with few interruptions. Sometimes the clash of opinions leads to insult and denunciations when personal abuse is involved when views are examined on fear of death, on pain, on distress of mind, and on other matters. Nonetheless, dreams and goals and visions ensure preservation; they portray the virtuous soul enjoying a more perfect existence on Earth and in Heaven in the region above the moon. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9

Happiness is to be found in living according to nature, which is revealed to us through experience; there is no absolute good or evil, as we may deduce from the multiplicity of customs and laws. Knowledge is acquired through our sense and has only relative validity. Only the truths of mathematics and reason are universal. Religious beliefs, however, do not spring from reason; it is reason also reason that should guide an individual in regulating their lives, establishing society and laws, and achieving happiness. Toleration and love of others is important, we were all saved by God’s love. Therefore, one who is both body and soul, is free and immortal, and one’s behavior should be governed by reason and by conscience. People should worship God and abide by the golden rule to treat others with the same courtesy and respect that you would like to be shown. Truth has to be found in the individual soul. It is absolutely and undeniably certain that something has existed from all eternity. There is something now, and since something cannot come from nothing, there must always have been something. There has existed from eternity someone, unchangeable and independent being. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9

That unchangeable and independent being, which has existed from eternity without any external cause of its existence, must be self-existent, that is necessarily existent. The only true idea of a self-existent being is the idea of being of a being whose non-existent being is an express contradiction. The self-existent being is infinite, omnipresent, intelligent, free, omnipotent, wise, good, and just. The fitness of certain kinds of behavior between persons is as manifest, as that the properties which flow from the essences of different mathematical figures have different congruities or incongruities between them. These fitting relations between person are the eternal law of righteousness. With respect to our fellow creatures this law is: so deal with every person as in like circumstances we could reasonably expect one should deal with us, and that in general we endeavor, by an universal benevolence to promote the welfare and happiness of all humans. The eternal law of righteousness is also spoken of as the Law of Nature and the right reason of things. The right reason to account for someone’s obligation to follow the law of righteousness. #RandolphHarris 6 of 9

Right reason distinguishes humans from beast and enables us to see that there is a natural and necessary difference between right and wrong and between just and unjust. It follows that a vicious person is someone whose reason has been either clouded by education or bad habits or overborne by selfish desires. Reason is the faculty that discerns the fitness of actions and impels our obligation. However, at the same time the role of reason in speculative matters and the role of reason in morality are not wholly similar. In mathematics, for example, as soon as one understands the terms and conditions of their compatibility, one immediately assents to those propositions in which the terms are properly combined. However, morality is a matter of both reason and will, and despite a person’s knowledge of the right reason of things one might nonetheless withhold one’s will from conforming to it. In founding morality on the fitness and unfitness in the relation of thins, God must discover the fitness and conform his will to it just as any other moral agent must. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9

Whenever our right becomes the guiding factor of our lives, it dulls our spiritual insight. The greatest enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but good choices which are not quite good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best. God answers prayers in the best way—not just sometimes but every time. God has chosen to order things as they are because this order makes for the best of all possible Worlds. Gravity is an act of will on the part of God, an instance of pre-established harmony. God is the primary cause of motion, and the quantity of motion in the Universe is constant. The planets are moved by vortices in the ethereal substance. Once our Lord was glorified in His ascension, the Holy Spirit came into the World, and He has been here ever since. We have to receive the revealed truth that God is here. The attitude of receiving and welcoming the Holy Spirit into our lives is to be the continual attitude of believers. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive reviving life from our ascended Lord. If truth and justice, and the better principles of our nature, cannot exist unless enforced by the statute-book, how are we to account for the social condition of the Typees? #RandolphHarris 8 of 9

The good law will come with a better civilization; but before society can be civilized it has to be de-barbarized. If anything is a mystery to you and is coming between you and God, never look for the explanation in your mind, but look for it in your spirit, your true inner nature—that is where the problem is. Once your inner spiritual nature is willing to submit to the life of Jesus, your understanding will be perfectly clear, and you will come to the place where there is no distance between the Father and you, His child, because the Lord has made you one. After passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. What is the sign of a friend? Is it that one tells you one’s secret sorrows? No, it is that one tells you one’s secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you. Have we ever let God tell us any of His joys? Or are we continually telling God our secrets, leaving him no time to talk to us? The total being of our life inside and out is to be absolutely obsessed by the presence of God. God’s will alone is sufficient reason to account for things being where they are. #RandolphHarris 9 of 9

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