I stumbled on this photography, it kind of made me laugh, it took me back, back down memory lane. If the soul as a whole is treated on the analogy of its individual experiences, then, since these do not vanish utterly but often return in the form of memory, the soul itself may likewise continue to exist in God’s memory. Mind and body are not parallel aspects of some third substance, they are identical. The persistence of mind is therefore no more difficult to entertain than the persistence of the material Universe itself, which is only the outward manifestation of an all-inclusive soul. There is an aesthetic threshold where a stimulus must acquire a certain intensity before it can produce pleasure or pain. The effect will then increase gradually until it reaches a maximum point, whereupon it will decrease to the point of indifference. “God sent his holy angel to stop us by the way. And behold he spoke to us as it were the voice of thunder. And we could remember our pains no more; yeah, we were harrowed up by the memory of our sins no more. And oh, what a joy, and what marvelous light we behold; yeah, our souls were filled with joy as exceeding as was our pain (Alma 36.5&19-20).” It is declared and believed that you are going to see God’s goodness in amazing ways! #RandolphHarris 1 of 7

Your faith should give you a boldness and a confidence to believe for the extraordinary. Researchers’ attention is focused on the kinds of messages that can overcome resistance, but it is also true that, in so framing their research efforts, they sometimes neglect other noncontent factors in the communications situation that limits the impact of even the most expertly designed propaganda. The full realization of our rational powers is not something we can achieve or maintain on our own. To realize our powers fully we need at least a group of companions who share our interests and with whom we can cooperate to achieve our mutually recognized goals. This expands our conception of who we are, and they make use of our powers more continuous and more stable. If we and our cooperative partners do their parts responsibly, each will develop feelings of friendship for others involved. In this way, successful cooperative activity transforms persons’ desires and motivations. As a psychological result, we come to like our cooperative partners and develop a concern for their good. Once bonds of friendship are formed, it is natural for us to exhibit the social virtues of generosity, friendliness, and mildness of temper. #RandolphHarris 2 of 7

Nevertheless, modern psychologist have greatly enlarged the frontiers of irresponsibility: they needed more space in this territory. This revolution of rising expectations has its counterpart among poor America, who measures their own poverty against the influence shown on television. National coverage also helps sensitize people to standards different from their own. If there is nothing wrong with a person, the best way to cure the individual is by explaining to one what illness one suffers from. Yet, must like Berliners who were exposed to the Western-oriented mass media, when people feel that they are on the front line and the whole World is watching, it can create a feeling that strengthens their resolve. The thing people also do not realize about the sleeper effect is when people are exposed normally to a persuasive message, their attitudes toward the advocacy of the message display a significant increase. Some dramatic changes can help a political personality build the kind of credibility that subsequently increases one’s effectiveness.  The long-range effect may be cumulative rather than direct, based partly on what people have heard or read, and it can help an individual gain respect and admiration. #RandolphHarris 3 of 7

However, when it comes to the news media and their agenda, they can be at a disadvantage because research indicates that they have overemphasized the one-way flow of messages—from a mass media source to a recipient—and the recipient’s response to this message as the single relevant stimulus. They have failed to recognize the consequences of feedback from audience to communicator as well as the interactions both between communicators themselves and between members of the audience. As the public wakes up and realize that they are being indoctrinated by the mass media and they are not seeing the information they want to learn about, the incompatible approaches are not longer effect remedies for controlling the masses. Those who stress for the need to take feedback into account also stress the need for a more adequate model of the mass communication process. In an interactive model, members of the audience are studied as participants in a larger social system embracing the mass communicators as well. If the social relationships of audience members influenced what media content they paid attention to and how they responded, then the communicators, too, as members of groups and organizations, were also subject to influence from one another. #RandolphHarris 4 of 7

The messages transmitted by the media thus have to be studied as responses to a whole host of pressures and demands, including feedback from the audience. The state of the mass media is withering away because they are competing with scripted television shows, and trying to be entertainment, as well as tyrannical and authoritative and the audience does not want to tune into the news, hear depressing information and feel like they are being held in an interrogation room and being battered by a dictator when they did not do anything wrong. Let us keep in mind that weather-forecaster’s desire to predict good weather forms no part of meteorology. If an analysis of the soul could be carried out without the collaboration of the patient, just as urinalysis can, then while the attempt might do no good, a least it could do no harm. However, a procedure in which the patient becomes a consultant imbues one with a sense of self-importance which may please one but may not please the messenger. Instead of getting the patient away from their symptoms and distracting one from their illness, this method fosters a pride in one’s problems and a sympathy with one’s suffering. “Whosoever shall put their trust in God shall be supported in their trials, and their troubles, and their afflictions, and shall be lifted up at the last day (Alma 36.4).” #RandolphHarris 5 of 7

Media influence usually operates in the service of reinforcing existing tendencies and is not to be mistaken as the sole agent of change of those relatively few occasions when exposure is followed by conversation. Personal influence as exercised in informal conversation with peers is more potent than influence through exposure to the mass media. Research indicates that people are now looking for opinion leaders, who act as transmitters of news and information, usually of something that has already been in the news or publicized in advertisements. So, the audience is now turning off the news and finding trusted people in their community that they like and feel comfortable with to convey information. A magic enchantment now attaches itself to these opinion leaders, as if the Spirit of the Lord passed by, and seized the devotee, making that personal have some kind of supernatural joy. All this is nothing new in the World, but is a vital part of the tastefully furnished company people like to keep. People for secret societies, and have mass meetings of various kinds. Entertainments, suppers, and lectures are held and considerable sums of money are collected and expended, employment is found for the idle, strangers are introduced, news is disseminated and charity distributed. #RandolphHarris 6 of 7

At the same time this social, intellectual, and economic centre is a centre of great power. People feel in untiring energy and superior strength when they are around people they like and feel chosen. There is a sense of moral strength, an exquisite appreciation of the beautiful, and an infinite capacity of wisdom. In the groups with their opinion leaders, individuals gain the joy of this World, and eagerly seize upon the offered conceptions of the avenging Spirit of the Lord, as they enjoy patience in this World, knowing that a Great Day will come—and this is a comforting dream. We shall all be free when the Lord shall appear. It might appear that what is being claimed is, rather, the institution of political and economic arrangements by means of which people may be made immune from feelings and circumstances which they find to be ungodly. These atoms that we are made of are only the simplest elements in a spiritual hierarchy leading up to God. Each level of this hierarchy includes all those levels beneath it, so that God contains the totality of spirits. God is the soul of the Universe; he is to the system of nature as that system is to itself. “And now I know of myself—not of the temporal but of the spiritual, not of the carnal mind but of God. If I had not been born of God I should not have known these things; but God has, by the mouth of his holy angel made these things known (Alma 36.4-5).” #RandolphHarris 7 of 7