The human body is the best picture of the human soul. If there is one common across all cultures, it is the search for a meaningful life—to be able to feel like who we are and what we do matters. “Language skills are the keys to accessing foreign societies, understanding their governments, and decoding their secrets. Stronger language skills will give our officers enhanced access to the information our policy makers need to protect our nation,” reports Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Leon E. Panetta. Many people find solace in creating private languages. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) actually hires people and has a hiring bonus program of up to $35,000.00 per individual and that money is paid in a one-time, lump sum payment. The CIA also offers language incentive payments for people with superior language skills, and they are encouraged to maintain and use their proficiency in support of the mission. Some are successful, but it requires concrete definitions and for many users to understand the language. For example, most people cannot read computer coding, but a set group of computer science engineers are able to read it, like many of us read our native language. However, to the vast majority of us, computer coding is still a secrete language, and trying to read computer codes, for us who are illiterate in the code, would be like reading Colloquial Chinese. (Ta zhidao wo wanquan bu dong diannao, jui yong zui jiandain de shuxue gen wo jieshi diannao shi zenme yi hui shi, keshi ta shuo-le yi ge duo xiaoshi, chule ling gen yi yiwai, wo haishi shenme dou by dong, zuihou wo zhihao gen ta shuo: ) #RandolphHarris 1 of 9

The limits of our language means the limits of our World.  For the most part, the idea of private language has multiple problems. It is impossible for a person to use a word with a meaning that nobody else could, even in principle, understand. It is impossible for people to use words which refer to private objects, that is, objects which nobody else could—even in principle—know. It is impossible for a person who has always lived in isolation to possess a language, even if one’s sounds are understandable by another person. Private language allows that a person to refer to objects which, in fact, that individual alone knows, but again others must be capable of knowing them in appropriate circumstances. Some communities in America also speaking private languages. For instance, a person might say, “You was cookin’ fish last night and we wanted a sample plate. Matter fact, I want the recipe. That exact one.” That may have nothing to do with actually preparing a traditional meal for dinner. However, when you ask them about their private language, they may deny that they were using one, and that they were, in fact, speaking about the actual subject, but that may not be the case. When you ask questions about their private language, they know it may confuse you and so they will deny using it so they can run games on you. It is something people do in primitive societies. Another thing they do is mumble and speak under their breathe so they can get away with saying vulgar things. Then if you respond, they can say you have a problem. #RandolphHarris 2 of 9

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Sometimes large groups of people who may not be native to America, move to a region and start to dominate that area, and they many want to find a target to harass. So, they use these secret tactics to gang up on people and harass them day in and day out. It can be so subtle or so outrageous that no one believes what is going on until it becomes abundantly obvious that there is some kind of unusual cell in the community causing problems.  Private language allows a person, like Robinson Cursoe, to keep possession of a language he learned previously while living in a community of speakers. Many philosophers assume that it is conceptually impossible for two people to share one and the same immediate sensation. Many also hold that, in a strict sense of “know,” others do not really know whether one has certain immediate sensation or not, precisely because they cannot share it. A word might have a meaning understandable to only one person because the word itself is a private object in the sense that it is impossible for a person to use words which refer to private objects, which no one else could even know. For example, the words of a person’s language might all be mental images of German written words, so that all one’s thinking would be a sort of mental reading of German. In this case, the referents of the words would be public, but the words themselves would be private and hence unintelligible to others. All the World is a stage, but not for playacting!  #RandolphHarris 3 of 9

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console humankind. Supported by the holy scriptures, we are all in very deed brothers and sisters, children of the same Heavenly Father in the spirit. (Ta dui zhei ge gongzuo feichang you xingqu, yijng gan-le liu-qi nian le.) We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of our eternity. Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. We must free ourselves from the terror of the heart that seeks and hopes to find the essence of things. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end. Our birth is but a sleep a forgetting; the soul that rises with us, our life’s star, has had elsewhere its setting. And comes from afar; not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory so we come from God, who is our home. Conquer the last, the greatest temptation of all; hope. As eternal beings, we each have in us a spark of divinity. And, as people who have traveled over much of this World, we should be convinced that our Father’s children are essentially good. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9

We want to live in peace, be good neighbors, love our home and families, and we want to improve our standards of living, and we want to do this right. We are essentially good. And we know that God loves us. Where are we going? Do not ask! Ascend, descend. There is no beginning and no end. Only this present moment exists, full of bitterness, full of sweetness, and we should rejoice in it all. We feel love, we feel pain, we struggle. The World seems to be wider than the mind, and our hearts are a dark and almighty mystery. May God bless us wherever we are and be close to us, as he can and will through his spirit. Gratitude for the assurance we have that life is eternal. Yes, life is eternal. We live on and on after Earth-life, even though we oftentimes lose sight of that great basic truth. The spirit World is not far away. Sometimes the veil between this life and the life beyond comes very thin. Our loved ones who have passed on are not far from us. They are brought forth upon this Earth, for the express purpose of inhabiting it to all eternity. When the spirits leave their bodies, they are in the presence of God; they are prepared then to see, hear, and understand spiritual things. If the Lord would permit it, and it was God’s will that is should be done, we could see the spirits that have departed from this World, as plainly as we now see living people with our natural eyes. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9

Some people erroneously think if they receive all the ordinances of the gospel, regardless of their transgressions, they will inherit the celestial mansions of our God. What a rude awakening awaits such false-thinking individuals. “For the Lord cannot look upon sin with the lest degree of allowance,” reports Alma 45.16. We must not fall to the misleading precepts of popular culture and foolishly break God’s laws and thus lose our opportunity for exaltation. The Constitution of the United States of America secures to every citizen the sacred right to worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience. A person earnestly seeking eternal life must avoid the traps of temptation and sin. We are never safe from committing sin unless we have fully prepared ourselves and decided on the course we will take before the temptation comes into our lives. Behind all appearances, is divine a struggling essence. We want to merge with it. We feel that behind appearances this struggling essence is also striving to merge with our hearts. However, the body stands between us separates us. The mind stands between us and separates us. Yet, everything is overflowing with God. We cannot accept boundaries; appearances cannot contain us. We choke! To bleed in this agony, and to live it profoundly, is the second duty. #RandolphHarris 6 of 9

The mind is patient and adjusts itself, it likes to play; but the heart grows savage and will not condescend to play; it stifles and rushes to tear apart the net of necessity. God is the force and power to do good; to live righteously, to enjoy freedom of choice, and to be courageous and faithful. Life is a real challenge, but blessed with God-given powers, we can overcome every stratagem and obstacle placed in our paths. The path to eternal life may not be an easy one to follow with all the popular culture enticements about us, but when we consider the rewards and blessings we gather if we travel the narrow way, it is worth every sacrifice we make. Thus, even when we truly learn to love God, we must humbly acknowledge that the Lord loved us first. Longing for a Heavenly home is real, especially in view of how this life is designed. When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and fine music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time. It is possible to live as if everything is changed with eternity. We as believers have the calling to being eternity into time, of bringing the reality of Heaven down to Earth. Time was created along with the Heavens—meaning that at least that time is the measure of change, and perhaps that it is identical with the movement of the Heavenly bodies. Therefore, eternity is a timeless duration. Time is the moving image of eternity. (Nin bu duo zuo yihuir le ma? Zai he bei kafei ba.) #RandolphHarris 7 of 9

God, being necessary, is everlasting. It may be reported that the everlasting is not bound by time. The timeless eternity of God follows from God’s being that which nothing greater can be conceived. Grammar of the divine powers, which determines what it makes sense to say of the most perfect being, including that being’s timelessness. God’s timeless eternity is unending, lacking both beginning and end, and an instantaneous whole lacking succession. It is incapable of being defined or fully grasped by a human. Timeless eternity constitutes part of the grammar of talking about God. Since God is timelessly eternal it does not make any sense to ask how many years God has existed, or whether he is growing old, or what will he be doing later on in the year. God could be eternal, with a life that is not marked by temporal succession, while being located at every spacetime point. Conversely, God could be everlasting while not located in physical spacetime at all. Eternity is the whole, simultaneous, and perfect possession of boundless life. Or again, eternity is the complete possession all at once of illimitable life. The life of a timeless being (of a non-biological kind) is alive. Therefore, God involves a special sort of, atemporal, duration. A timeless being possess its life all at once, completely. That is, it does not experience succession. That is what makes a timeless being outside of time.  #RandolphHarris 8 of 9

By contrast, a living biological being in time experiences succession, only ever possessing one moment of its life at a time. Not only does a timeless being not experience succession, but its life’s events do not involve succession. Since change requires succession, a timeless being does not change. However, a timeless being is still presently alive in some sense of presently. Moreover, the events in that being’s life are simultaneous in some sense, both with each other and with temporal items. An eternal present is infinitely extended, pastless, futureless duration (strictly speaking, on the terminology used here, it would be timeless present). When physicists announced that they had detected subatomic particles, called neutrinos, that appeared to be traveling faster than the speed of light (the speed of light travels 300 million meter per second or 186,000 miles per second), this was an exception to a cosmic speed limit set by Dr. Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity. And God said, “Let there be light,” reports Genesis 1.3. This proves that God is not controlled by laws. The temporal present is represented by light that moves steadily along the lower lines, while the eternal present is represented by the upper line being lit all at once. An infinite stretch or extension of some kind. “The Lord will be our light in the Wilderness,” reports 2 Nephi 10.14. #RandolphHarris 9 of 9