Since God is in all things, all knowledge is partly knowledge of God. God is not an abstract being but an eternal process, eternally becoming. The sense most closely associated with memory is the sense of smell. This explains the many pleasing feelings that overtake people in the morning when they are able to step outdoors, for a few moments, and breathe in the fresh air. It may smell like butterscotch or vanilla, some many insist it smells more like coconut. Scientist say it is the pine trees being warmed by the Sun, which smells like baking cookies. The aroma arises from the product of the sap. And pine and other evergreen trees, as it turns out, have a variety of beneficial effects on the human body. Native Canadians knew all about those benefits as much as 500 years ago. French explorer, Jacques Cartier’s ship got stuck near the ice near Quebec. He and his crew faced sudden death from scurvy (a vitamin C deficiency) until a tribal chieftain brewed the sailors pine tea. It saved their lives and their explorations continued. The pine bark needles contain Vitamin C. The one trees are also loaded with other antioxidant compounds called flavanols and bioflavonoids. When the compounds are extracted and mixed with hot water and they are called pycnogenol—which has been used as a jet lag remedy, and has the ability to ease circulatory problems, knee pain, cramps; it may even improve memory in the elderly. #RandolphHarris 1 of 13

A walk in the woods has also been known to ease stress and combat depression. According to researchers at the Kyoto University in Japan, when they sent 498 healthy volunteers on two 15-minute forest strolls one day, compared to a control day when they did not walk. Volunteers rated their mood on a standard psychological scale and their hostility and after walking in the pine forest, their depression scores decreased significantly. The smell of the pine forest can also limit climate change. Scientist have found a mechanism by which these sweet-scented vapors turn into aerosols above the boreal forests. These particles promote cooling by reflecting Sunlight back into space and helping clouds to form. These particles form clouds that block Sunlight as well as reflecting rays back into space. The smell of pine is made up of volatile organic compounds that react with oxygen in the forest canopy to form these aerosols. This is playing a significant role in reducing the impact of rising temperatures. And the effect of the pine trees is like to strengthen in the future. In a warmer World, photosynthesis will become faster with rising CO2, which will lead to more vegetation and more emission of these vapors. This should produce more cloud droplets and will then have a cooling impact, a damping effect. However, if they become too stress, the forests will stop emitting vapors due to the heat or lack of water. #RandolphHarris 2 of 13

If you go into a pine forest and notice that pine forest smell, that could be the scent that actually limits climate change from reaching such levels that it could become really a problem it the World. Therefore, we need to water our trees, instead of placing water restriction, as the water restrictions will kill our trees and accelerate climate change. We actually need more reservoirs as the climate in the Sierra Mountains is changing and the snow melt is coming soon. Also, more snow will start falling as rain, so if we do not store it we will not have a water bank. More importantly, we need to start desalinating ocean water, as it is a reliable source which keeps growing with climate change. This is a marvelous Earth which we find ourselves on, and we should feel a deep gratitude to the Lord for the choice land and the people and institutions he has created. There is much that is good in this land, and much to love. The Lord gave us a choice World and expects righteousness and obedience to his commandments in return. However, when we review the performance of this people in comparisons with what is expected, we are appalled and frightened. Iniquity seems to be abound. The Destroyer seems to be taking full advantage of the time remaining to him in this, the great day of his power. Evil seems about to engulf us like a white squall, and we think we are living in conditions similar to those in the days of Noah before the flood. #RandolphHarris 3 of 13

As God creates himself, he comes to know himself. The relation between his will and his self-conscious is the Holy Spirit. The Trinity is an eternal possibility in God and only becomes actual in nature, which is the principle of self-hood eternally produced by God. Nature is God alienated from himself—his shadow, his desire, his want. The purpose of the existence of nature is to afford an opportunity for the redemption of humanity. In working toward what is tended to be a comprehensive account of human’s actual and possible knowledge, we have to understand that part of our knowledge is supernatural in origin (it comes from God), while other parts of what we know are obtained through our experience. In Baconian psychology, a human being have two souls: one that is peculiar to human beings alone; the other, shared with animals. The study of human’s animal soul is part of science, but the higher soul is immaterial and cannot be investigated by the same techniques. We can enter the kingdom of nature, as we can the kingdom of Heaven, only be becoming honest, innocent, and righteous. Taking pride in what we (and others) have done can be a beautiful part of honoring ourselves and others. However, price can also be a far less honorable state, rooted in arrogance and a sense of superiority, existing mostly an antidote or solution to shame, exalting itself through diminishing or disrespecting others. #RandolphHarris 4 of 13

Morality is not a matter of inner law, but apprehension of, and obedience to, God’s will. Salvation depends on prayer, faith, and the sacraments as well as on morality and good works. “Inequality should be no more in land,” reports Mosiah 29.32. A majority of Americans base their beliefs and moral decision on feelings, and reject the idea of absolute truth. The Harris poll reported that 64 percent of adults and 83 percent of teenagers interviewed believed that the truth is always relative to the person and their situation. Adult respondents who called themselves born-again Christians were more likely to reject moral relativism, with 32 percent affirming their belief in moral absolutes. However, there was a little difference in the responses of Christian and non-Christian teenagers: only ten percent born-again teenagers accepted the idea of absolute moral truth, almost the same rate as their non-Christian peers. The research indicates that humans left to themselves are not able to find absolutes; they become their own standard of truth. Yet, social life is not harmonious unless there are absolutes acknowledged by those who are a part of it. Otherwise chaos will reign through selfishness. We need knowledge that is beyond our limited feelings and experiences, and that contributes to the development of characters that reflect high moral values. If the truth is relative, not absolute, people what do what feels right, not what is right. #RandolphHarris 5 of 13

Humans are social beings under the law of the state, and the subject owes total subservience to one’s ruler, God. “God has created us and granted unto us our lives,” reports Mosiah 2.20-23. The state is under the law of the church. Any departure from this divinely ordained order leads to the twin modern evils of despotism and liberalism. We must reconcile nature and spirit, science and religion, the individual and society so people do not hunt after words more than matter. Our destiny is to make a decisive break with the negativity of the past. Many people are seeking knowledge, a couch whereon to rest a searching and restless spirit instead of a storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of human’s estate. “God reveals all things from foundation of the World to end,” reports 2 Nephi 27.10. The Lord know all things that are to come. The category of the supernatural plays a prominent part in the outline of knowledge that leads us to God. However, the research into final causes, like a virgin dedicated to God, is barren and produces nothing. There is no reason to expect God’s nature to conform to our own wishes or fancies, and the more preposterous a religious doctrine, the more merit there is in believing it—just as in the realm of morals, the more painful the duty, the more virtuous the execution of it. Whatever you want to believe in theology, the realm of faith, it is very important that we should not be deceived in science, the realm of knowledge. #RandolphHarris 6 of 13

If knowledge is to be advanced, when we discern certain general tendencies of the human mind that need to be corrected, we need to look beyond the defects of current learning. The false notions that many people form are called Idols, and there are four types. The first are Idols of the Tribe, so called because they are inherent in human nature and the very tribe or race of humans. We must put the Lord first and refrain from worshiping false gods. False gods are everything which entices a person away from duty, loyalty, and love for and service to God. Wholehearted commitment to the Lord is at the foundation of the lived of Christians. Few people have ever knowingly and deliberately chosen to reject God and his blessings. Rather, we learn from the scriptures that because the exercise of faith has always appeared to be more difficult than relying on things more immediately at hand, carnal beings have tended to transfer trust in God to material things. Therefore, in all ages when people have fallen under the power of the Destroyer and lost the faith, they have put in its place a hope in the arm of flesh and in gods of silver and gold, false notions. That is what is meant by false idols. Whatever a person set their heart on and one’s trust is most in is their god; and if this god does not also happen to be the true and living God, that person is laboring in idolatry. “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people,” reports Proverbs 14.34.  #RandolphHarris 7 of 13

It is natural for people to suppose that their sense gives direct and veridical knowledge of reality. They forget that their sense perceptions often act like false mirrors, distorting what is received from outside. Our understanding imposes on the external World an order and regularity that comes from us and does not belong to reality itself. Furthermore, our judgments are colored by our feelings—we tend to believe what we want to believe. For example, if we have a dream that comes true, we jump to the conclusion that are dreams are prophetic, forgetting the numerous instances of dreams that have not come true. The only way to correct this tendency is to give as much attention to negative as to the encouraging instances of such seemingly connected sequences. Such are the ways in which all people tend to be deceived, and because they are common to the generality of people, they are the Idols of the Tribe. However, there are also defects that are peculiar to each individual; these are the Idols of the Den. By den, we are referring to the Platonic myth of people living in a cave, or den, and mistaking the shadows that pass before them as reality. Each person has one’s own private den or cavern, which intercepts and discolours the light of nature. A rule that might serve as a corrective to this tendency is whatever one’s mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be held in suspicion. #RandolphHarris 8 of 13

Idols of the Market Place are errors that arise from commerce and intercourse between people. People converse with one another in a language, by means of words, and words have two dangers: they are often ambiguous and they are apt to be taken for things. Two people use the same word with different meaning and do not realize what they are doing; they thin they are agreed when they are not agreed, and that they disagree when they do not disagree. Likewise, people treat those words which serve to name fictions as if they were the names of real entities. There are also Idols of the Theater, the errors which have crept into people’s minds from the various doctrines of systems of philosophy. These systems are really inventions, like stage plays; they do not give a picture of the Universe as it actually is. One type of philosophy is defective because it leads experience like a captive in a procession; another is worse because it has abandoned experience altogether. Yet another type passes hastily from a few obscure experiments to create a complete natural philosophy. Then there is the type that confuses philosophy with theology. Not only fantastical philosophy but heretical religions springs from an absurd mixture of matters divine and human. Some people in the church are really atheist who pay only lip service to religion, but their true religion is exchanging sleazy gossip, slander, and kabuki theater. #RandolphHarris 9 of 13

Every Christian should seek to bring industry, government, and society as a whole under the sway of the principles of righteousness, truth, and brotherly love because current attitudes and practices in some segments of American life in such important areas as sex, marriage, money, and power reveal that American society is in moral decline and God judges or blesses nations based on their morality. God’s Word provides guidance for living a moral life that pleases God and beings the Lord’s blessings, and leaders in every walk of life in America, such as church, government, and business have destroyed their careers and brought shame to themselves, their families, and friend because of poor moral choices. Regardless of their political, social or economic status, our leaders should set a righteous example for every World citizen by living and serving according to the highest moral and ethical standards. The church has the responsibility in every season to proclaim to the culture the moral standards of God as reveled in the Lord’s Word, not as legalists, but as advocated of the Savior’s transformative grace. We express our appreciation to those leaders in all walks of life who have chosen to live according to God’s moral standards; and be it further. We express our gratitude and support for those public officials who have displayed consistent moral character and uncompromising commitment to biblical principles of right and wrong, resulting in blessings upon the people they serve; and be it further. #RandolphHarris 10 of 13

We commend those leaders who choose not to meet privately with members of the opposite gender who are not their spouses in order to ensure that they leave no room for temptation to lead them astray and to avoid any suspicion of wrongdoing. We call on all leaders in every walk of life to conduct themselves, to the best of their ability, according to the moral standards set forth by God’s revealed truth. We commit to pray for our nation’s leader to be able to resist every temptation that would create a hinderance to the fulfillment of their calling in society. We pledge to hold ourselves to the same high moral standards that we require of our leaders. We commit to pray that God will help us and all our fellow citizen to embrace the biblical moral values that will honor our creation in God’s image and being God’s blessing on our nation. We endeavor to serve as examples to others of the blessings of living in accordance with God’s moral guidance. May God bring industry, government, and society as a whole under the sway of the principles of righteousness, truth, and fraternal love. We commit to be ready to work with all people of good will in any good cause, always being careful to act in the spirit of love without compromising our loyalty to the Savior and the Lord’s truth. Means and methods used for this improvement of society and the establishment of righteousness among humanity can by truly and permanently helpful only when they are rooted in the regeneration of the individual by the saving grace of God. #RandolphHarris 11 of 13

Baby, do you understand me now? Sometimes I feel a little mad, but do you not understand that no one alive can always be an angel. When things go wrong, I feel real bad. I am just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh Lord, please do not let me be misunderstood. Baby, sometimes I am so carefree with a joy that is hard to hide and sometimes it seems that, all I have to do is worry and then you are bound to see my other side. If I seem edgy, I want you to know that I never meant to take it out on you. Life has its problems, and I get my share, and that is one thing I never mean to do because I love you. Oh, baby—do you not know I am human. I have thoughts like any other one. Sometimes I find myself, Lord, regretting some foolish things, some little simple thing I have done. Yes, I am just a soul whose intentions are good. We make up the environment in which our youth live. Whatever habits, good or bad, are observed in their conduct from day to day will eventually find expression in the conduct and lives of other youth. It is, therefore, of the greatest importance that our schools be so organized as to surround our youth with the richest and best influences. The way to overcome a bad environment is to substitute a good one. The way to break up a bad habit is to substitute a good habit. The way for the children to grow up to be good men and women is to live in a good environment and to be taught to cultivate the best habits. Not the least of these is the habit of caring for property. #RandolphHarris 12 of 13

In our institutional society too much if often done for our youth which they might be taught to o for themselves, and they are fine too freely of the best things of the nation without even the price of such an appreciation as will insure he proper use and care. They, therefore, look lightly upon the destruction of a piece of property, thinking it can and will be replaced without any sacrifices upon their part. They, therefore, become careless of property, not understanding its value, and careless of clothes not bought by themselves. Would it not be better for these youth to be taught the meaning of the declaration, “By sweat of the brow shall people eat bread,” not in a way as to work unnecessary hardship, but in the spirit and degree that wen they have left school the habit of caring for property, by knowing its values, will be thoroughly fixed. Healthy pride celebrates what is best or most life-giving in our doings, without isolating us in our momentary specialness. Many become unnaturally humble in the face of this, self-consciously downplaying how well they have done, as if associating any display of pride with grandiosity. Yes, healthy pride often makes a noticeable splash, highlighting us for vivid moment, but does not go over the top. In it, we walk tall but do not strut; as big as we may feel at such time, we do not look down on others, and are open to celebrating their triumphs as we are our own. #RandolphHarris 13 of 13Deng shei? Wo by deng shei! Wo deng gongong qiche dao cheng-li qu mai piao. Zhei tiao lu zhen bu jin, zai huoche-shang de shijian name chang, ni dou xiang ganma? Kongpa dei dai jishiben xiaoshou ba?