Love. Who knows about another’s love? The more you love, the more you know the burnt our loss of love, the more the silence of the unknowing in the face of another’s spiritual bondage. Our dilemma is that we are born into a World of others. We are, simply by virtue of being born, a member of at least one social grouping, our family. Thus, one has both an individual identity (“Baby Leo”) and a group identity (“Leo Harris”). He is given, at birth, several statuses or positions which he will occupy. He is first son, or middle child, or change-of-life baby, or only child, maybe even a big brother. He is male. He is European or African or Asian or Hispanic. He inherits a specific religion and an economic classification. However, he is also 1/7.40 billionth of the human population of Earth—a statistic, a fraction of a decimal. This knowledge may eventually give him a sense of insignificance that can overwhelm the other identities and statuses altogether. And this, too, is part of the newborn child’s reality: He is a Somebody. Not Everybody, not Nobody, a Somebody. At times, a child is made to feel that the Sun and Earth rotate around and because of him! At other times, he is reminded: “You are not the only one in this house, you know!” or “You do not want to eat that? Think of all the starving children in the World!” #RandolphHarris 1 of 10

Parents expect him to learn to share, to give-and-take, to earn, produce, strive, achieve, win, compete, and do thousands of things that convince him not only that he is not alone in the World, but that in many cases it is an extremely difficult, dangerous and cutthroat World in which to live. So an individual has to compete with millions of others, and since there are so many of them, one solitary individual often feels that he just does not make much of a difference. This is called the feeling of insignificance. It is more than a feeling that our individual vote, voice, dollar, or presence does not matter much. It is much more than getting lost in the gears or fearing that a computerized machine is going to take our job or feeling that the World is getting too crowded. It is very much akin to being trapped—a feeling that individually and as people we are fighting a losing battle to maintain our own uniqueness and that there appears to be no end in sight. Perhaps this is the strength that we all have at a young age. The child never gets bored of asking “Why?” “Why?” and “Why?” It is the adults instead that are too tired to answer and we do not even know that we are weakening this beneficial strength! Curiosity is taking an interest in ongoing experiences for its own sake; finding subjects and topics fascinating; exploring and discovering. #RandolphHarris 2 of 10

One study shows that curiosity is one of the components of optimal functions and links challenge and novelty with the opportunity to grow. For example, searching for the meaning of things could guide a sense of direction and purpose in life. Furthermore, in social contexts, people with high curiosity are more responsive, infuse more novel twists of excitement to interactions, and are more likely to seek, capitalize, and build on interaction partner disclosures. The anxiety of meaninglessness is anxiety about the loss of an ultimate concern, of a meaning which gives meaning. This anxiety is aroused by the loss of a spiritual center, of an answer, however symbolic and indirect, to the question of the meaning of existence. Everything is tried and nothing satisfies. The contents of the tradition, however excellent, however praised, however loved once, lose their power to give content today. And present culture is even less able to provide the content. Anxiously one turns away from all concrete contents and looks for an ultimate meaning, only to discover that it was precisely the loss of a spiritual center which took away the meaning from the special contents of the spiritual life. #RandolphHarris 3 of 10

However, a spiritual center cannot be produced intentionally, and the attempt to produce it only produces deeper anxiety. The anxiety of emptiness drives us to the abyss of meaninglessness. The question then is this: Is there a courage which can conquer the anxiety of meaninglessness and doubt? Let us look at the times. In the past one hundred- and twenty-eight-years men and women have produced more inventions than have accumulated throughout all of recorded history. This means that the mind of human beings is capable of creating a limitless number of forms and processes. Thus numbers to grow, because of each idea suggest other idea, each machine contains the hint for another machine. People say that no one has created a machine that can think, but that is currently being investigated and hotly debated among some of the most brilliant minds. Scientists have created mechanical apparatuses that can actually repair and, in some cases, completely reproduce themselves. Even if machinery if machinery is limited by the minds of its human devisers, some of the machines perform so well, so faultlessly, that many human beings feels extremely threatened. They have to admit that they cannot produce as much, as often, nor for as long a time, as some of the mechanisms now being manufactured. And these same people wonder if there is any particular advantage in being mortal. #RandolphHarris 4 of 10

The courage to be conquers the threat of meaninglessness by courageous actions. Faith is the basis of the courage to be. Is there a kind of faith which can exist together with doubt and meaninglessness? The act of accepting meaninglessness is in itself a meaningful act. It is an act of faith. The faith which creates the courage to take them into itself has no special content. It is simply faith, undirected, absolute. It is undefinable, since everything defined is dissolved by doubt and meaninglessness. The content of absolute faith is the God above God. Only if the God of theism is transcended can the anxiety of doubt and meaninglessness be taken into the courage to be. The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. Humans are human because man and woman are capable of reflective thought. In the World, some say that humans alone have yet been able to demonstrate that one can cognitively consider his or her own existence, one’s own ending, one’s own limitations, and one’s own strengths. Perhaps the limitations of human’s communicative abilities keeps them from knowing any more than one does about the talents of others members of the Earthly kingdom; nevertheless, what one is sure of is that humans can perform these other, higher acts. #RandolphHarris 5 of 10

Let us be faithful to what we have believed and know. The human’s ability to anticipate, to project oneself into abstract situations, to think of things not present and physically real to one: these are evidences of advanced cerebral functioning. In the search for significance it is time that people dwelt upon these features that make one unique among other living beings. People’s ideas about themselves both limit one and set one free. A person can call oneself cripple (or an Eighteenth Street prisoners) and that is just what one will limit oneself to being. Or, an individual can say that he or she is a free thinker and adventurer and one can get to Jupiter and beyond. Humans have spiritual gifts and propensities. Pray to understand your spiritual gifts—to cultivate, use, and expand them, even more than you ever have. One person will change the World as they pray to better understand their spiritual gifts. As Godly people, you can inspire others and set a standard of worthy emulation. Each decade of life brings unique challenges, and yet, many people, week after week, still mingle together and teach the word of God together, and make a real difference in the World. #RandolphHarris 6 of 10

The potentials of the natural essence of human beinghood have scarcely been touched. When all the facts are in, we may find that humans do have E.S.P, that one is affected by movements of stars and planets, that one has a soul, that one has an afterlife. However, we are primarily interested in finding out through  studies and approaches that begin with capabilities and experiences that are accessible and familiar to all people, right now! As humanists, we follow what has become an informal Code for Humanism based accepted guidelines for humanistic orientation in the study of who and what we are and how and why we live our lives the way we do: Because we are a part of Nature, we are evolutionary products of the Nature of which we are active participants; our minds are inseparably joined with the functioning of our brains; and as inseparable unity of body and personhood, we can have a conscious (or real) survival in eternal life. As impossible as that may seem with all you are trying to manage in your life, if you will accept this invitation with full purpose of heart, the Lord will help you find a way to achieve it. And, as you prayerfully study, I promise that the Heavens will open for you. The Lord will bless you with increased inspiration and revelation. You and your family will be drawn closer to the Savior through this process. And changes, even miracles, will begin to happen. #RandolphHarris 7 of 10

With courage, vision, and reliance on our own human resources, we can solve the problems we have created and which are imposed on us by natural circumstances or happenstance. Although most of us are conditioned by the past and even the present, we have genuine freedom of creative choice and action, and within certain objective limits, are masters of our own destiny. The humanist ethic or morality bases all human values in the experiences and relationships of this Earth and has as its highest goal the happiness, freedom, and progress (economic, cultural, personal, and ethical) of all humankind in this World. A full appreciation of cultural values and contributions is also part of this morality. However, observation shows that only very few persons are capable of remaining polite, not to speak of objective, in any scientific dispute, and the impression gained from a scientific quarrel was always a horror to me. Perhaps this attitude of mine has been misunderstood, perhaps I have been considered as good-natured or so intimidated that it was supposed no further consideration need be shown me. An individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfaction and continuous self-actualization with significant activities that contribute to the welfare of one’s human community. No person is an island, nor is one part of a mob; people are both an individual and a member of one’s society and culture and World. #RandolphHarris 8 of 10

Please teach those whom you love what you learn from the scriptures. Teach them our to turn to the Savior for his healing and cleansing power when they sin. And teach them how to draw upon one’s strengthening power every day of their lives. This will allow the Lord to teach you how to draw upon his priesthood power with which you have been endowed. This view of life proposes a far-reaching social program that stands for the establishment through the World, peace, and a high standard of living on the foundations of a flourishing economic order, both national and international. Such a view assumes that we can operate with the fullest resources available to us as humans and that our reason and science, utilized in humanitarian fashion, can provide for full freedom of expression and civil liberties in all areas of economic, political, and cultural life. In the development of this new way of life, the esthetic experience can and must become a pervasive reality in the lives of people. “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in Heaven, for in the same way they have persecuted the prophets before you,” reports Matthew 5.11. You have permission from God to love yourself. #RandolphHarris 9 of 10

Together we can do all that our Heavenly Father needs us to do to prepare the World for the Seconding Coming of his Beloved Son. Such view proves that we can operate with the fullest resources available to us as humans and that our reason and science, utilized in a humanitarian fashion, can provide for full freedom of expression and civil liberties in all areas of economic, political, and cultural life. “God created humans after his own image, and God gave humans commandments, and because of transgression, humans had fallen,” report Alma 22.12. In the development of this new way of life, the esthetic experience can and must become a pervasive reality in the lives of people. Humanists advocate the widest possible development of art and the awareness of beauty. They also insist on the ending questioning of a basic assumptions and convictions including their own in order to develop a way of living life that is always open to experimental testing, newly discovered information, and more rigorous reasoning. The emphasis here on reasoning is not a contradiction of our previous statements on the importance of emotion, group experience, interaction, and other human experiences. Introspection, the self-report of our own thoughts, ideas, reactions, moods, feelings, is very important. Reason, combined with the other human resources, can make our lives fuller, freer, more satisfying, and enable us to better understand and live with the other 7.4 billion human beings who occupy space on Earth. #RandolphHarris 10 of 10