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A Second Change at Love—Falling Asleep at the Typewriter

Just like beauty can be inherited, so can brains. When the Purifier comes, we will see him first as a small red star which will come very close and sit in our Heavens watching us. Watching to see how well we have remembered the sacred teachings. Many people do not know, but what are now considered European Americans had once been enslaved, too. Some people that European Americans all lived on an island called Patmos, and there was nothing but blonde, light skinned, people with blue eyes. A scientist was supposedly trying to heal some of the people who are now known as Africans and through a cell division in somatic called mitosis, which occurs during growth and development, and it also repairs injured tissues and replaces older cells with newer cell created the race of people with blonde hair and blue eyes and they mixed with the darker race creating brown people. As the cell begin to divide, its chromosomes lined up along its center and split apart at their centromeres so that the strands separate. The strands pull away from each other and move to opposite ends of the dividing cell and, at this point, each one is a distinct chromosome, composed of one DNA molecule.

The cell membrane then pinches in and seals, so that two new cells are formed, each with a full complement of DNA, or 46 chromosomes. Mitosis is referred to as simple cell division because a somatic cell divides one time to produce two daughter cells that are genetically identical to each other and to the original cell. In mitosis, the original cell contains 46 chromosomes, and each new daughter cell inherits an exact copy of each one. This is possible because of the DNA molecule’s ability to replicate. Therefore, replication ensures that the amount of genetic material remains constant from one generation of cells to the next. We should mention that not all somatic cells undergo mitosis. Red blood cells are continuously produced by bone marrow cells, but they cannot divide, and they do not have DNA. Also, once the brain and nervous system are fully developed, brain and nerve cells (neurons) do not typically divide, although there is some debate about this. Liver cells also do not divide after growth has stopped unless this vital organ is damaged through injury or disease. However, with these three exceptions (red blood cells, mature neurons, and liver cells), somatic cells are regularly duplicated through the process of mitosis.

While mitosis produces new cells, meiosis can lead to the development of an entire new organism, since it produced reproductive cells, or gametes. Although meiosis is similar to mitosis, can lead to the development of an entire new organism, since it produces reproductive cells, or gametes. Although meiosis is similar to mitosis, it is a more complicated process. In meiosis, there are two divisions instead of one. Also, meiosis produces four daughter cells, not two, and each of these contains only half the original number of chromosomes. During meiosis, cells in male tests and female ovaries divide and eventually develop into sperm and egg cells. Initially, these cells contain the full complement of chromosomes. However, during meiosis, the number of chromosomes is cut in half (to 23 in humans). This reduction is crucial because a resulting gamete may unite with another gamete that also carries 23 chromosomes. The production of this union (fertilization) is called a zygote, and it has the original number of chromosomes (46). Stated differently, the zygote inherits the full amount of DNA it needs (half from each parents) to develop and function normally. If it were not for reduction division (the first division) in meiosis, it would not be possible to maintain the correct number of chromosomes from one generation to the next.

During the first division, partner chromosomes come together to for pairs of double-stranded chromosomes that line up along the cell’s center. Pairing of homologous chromosomes is extremely important, because while they are together, members of pairs exchange genetic information in a process called recombination, or crossing over. Pairing is also important because it ensures that each new daughter cell receives only one member of each pair. As the cells begins to divide, the chromosomes themselves remain intact (i.e., double-stranded), but members of pairs pull apart and move to opposite end of the cell. After the first division, there are two new daughter cells. However, they are not identical to each other or to the parent cell because they contain only one member of each chromosome pair, each of which still has two stands some now contains combinations of genes it did not have before. The second division happens pretty much the same way as in mitosis. In two newly formed cells, the 23 double-stranded chromosomes align themselves at the cell’s center, and as in mitosis, the strands of each chromosome separate and move apart. Once this second division is completed, there are four daughter cells, each with 23 single-stranded chromosomes, or 23 DNA molecules. The evolutionary significance of meiosis is meiosis occurs in all sexually reproductive organisms, and because it increases genetic variation, it is an extremely important evolutionary innovation.

As a result of meiosis, members of sexually reproducing species are not genetically identical clones of other individuals since they inherit a combination of genes from two parents. The genetic uniqueness of each individual is also enhanced by recombination between homologous chromosomes. Furthermore, recombination produces new arrangement of genetic information, and these rearrangements potentially provide additional material for natural selection. As you have already learned, genetic variation is essential if species are to adapt to changing selective pressures. So, you can see that meiosis is important to the evolutionary process because it increases the variation if population. The law of nature, conceived the idea of employing what we today known as the recessive genes structure, to separate chromosomes. Eugenics law was worked on the island of Patmos. After two hundred years only brown people remained on Patmos. Then after 200 more years passed, a red race was created and there was no more brown. Then 200 years after that came a yellow race. And two hundred years after that, the white race was created and the island of Patmos was left with blonde hair and blue eyes. After six hundred years, these people went to Africa, among the black people. And war broke out. The blacks rounded the light skin people with blonde hair and blue eyes up, put them in chains, marched them across the Arabian desert to the caves of Europe. The dogs that were living in caves in Europe tried to kill them and they climbed into the trees, and made clubs (blunt objects) to protect his family from the wild beasts outside trying to get in.

The white race spent 200 years in the caves. After the land was domesticated, the caveman came out of the caves and learned civilization from Moses. They believed that God was half white and half black and he was made in this way so that it would enable him to be accepted by the black people in America, and to lead them, while at the same time he was enabled to move undiscovered among the white people, so that he could understand them. This was during the time that there was wilderness in North America. And the Bible was created to teach people to speak out because silence left in a vacuum would all people to be misled and quarrel and fight. This morning the Eagles have come to circle around and push back the clouds. The fire of Great Mystery still burns in your hearts. Faces from all corners of the World gather for unity. We have gathered here to remember that we are all one people. As we bridge our cultures, we make way for future generations to overcome the separations of the past. It is not time for secrets, it is a time for we the people. Many courageous people will bring back the sacred ways of the people to this land. Your children’s children will remember you and honor you in their stories. They will speak of you gathered here as the ones who held the torches of their spirituality through some of the darkest times. Humankind is awakening from within, many times without the ability to explain the source of such knowledge they know to be the truth. Still, something cautions us against taking leave without further consideration. I have no doubt that the concept of beauty is rooted in the soil of sexual stimulation and signed originally that which is sexually exciting. The more remarkable, therefore, is the fact that genitals, the sight of which provokes the greatest sexual excitement, should be turned to the body, the eyes, lips, and other features. Sexual curiosity serves to supplement the sexual object by uncovering the hidden parts, but by honoring other features, this can be turned into the artistic sublimation.

People in Later Maturity Rattle the Cages

Undoubtedly, a change is slowly taking place. The new mother is gradually being moulded to match the new child. We are less and less called upon to witness the amusing yet rather pathetic spectacle of the well-informed child carefully tempering his or more often her enlightenment to the virginal sensitiveness of a Victorian parent. The literature of recent times is alone enough to create a new atmosphere in this matter, since the taboos that are falling off of life are at the same time falling off are at the same time falling off the literature of life. A double stream is indeed here at work, the stream of science and the stream of art: on the one hand a flood of scientific and pseudo-scientific books aiming at the enlightenment of the public in matters of the sex, and from the other side a flood of novels in which sexual situations are set forth with a freedom, or a nonchalance, unknown, at all events in English literature, since the robustious mediaeval romanticism of Scott and the elegant drawing-room manners of Jane Austen put the eighteenth century to shame, Victor Hugo with his fellow and followers performing the same purgation in French literature.

No doubt the supporters of the antiquated traditional taboos revolt at moments, and spasmodic attempts at suppressions occur from time to time, but they are not only ineffectual, but capricious, for what offends tradition in one country passes without protest in another. We are not here, however, concerned with tests or with the censorship. They represent the last convulsive movements of generation which still possesses a measure of official power but is rapidly dying. Disregarding them altogether, we easily distinguish a modern stream in imaginative literature which arose about the middle of the last century and gradually gained full strength and influence towards the beginning of the present century, while at the same time as that stream arose an older stream was failing. Victor Hugo, already mentioned, was the supreme European representative of the earlier stream; Ibsen may be said to represent the later stream. Zola stands as the World-famous representative of the transition between the two, springing out of the romantic movement and unconsciously retaining much of its spirit, while at the same time he consciously—however mistakenly—aimed at scientific veracity, and vigorously displayed a grasp of real things which disdained any charge of crudity.

The interpretation of dreams of fire justifies a prohibition of the nursery, which forbids children to “play with fire” so that they may not we the bed at night. These dreams also are based of reminiscences of the enuresis nocturna (nighttime urinary incontinence, sleepwetting, bedwetting) of childhood. Nocturnal enuresis is considered primary (PNE) when a child has not yet had a prolonged period of being dry. Secondary nocturnal enuresis (SNE), which Ryan Phillippe suffers from, is when a child or adult begins wetting again after having dry. Most bedwetting is a developmental delay—not an emotional problem or physical illness. Only a small percentage (5 percent to 10 percent) of bedwetting cases are caused by specific medial situations. Bedwetting is frequently associated with a family history of the condition. Such a dream of fire in connection with the infantile history of the dreamer, and is a representation of what mature impulses this infantile material has been utilized. It would be possible to cite quite a number of other “typical” dreams, if by such one understands dreams in which there is a frequent recurrence, in the dreams of different person, of the same manifest dream-content.

One keeps the person involved in the deadly drudgery, kindly but without sympathy, firmly but without punishing. For instance: dreams of passing through narrow alleys, or a whole suite of rooms; dreams of burglars, in respect of whom nervous people take measures of precaution before going to bed; dreams of being chased by wild animals (bull, horses); or of being threatened with knives, daggers, and lances. The last two themes are characteristic of the manifest dream content of persons suffering from anxiety. A special investigation of this class of material would be well worth while. In lieu of this, I shall offer an observation, which does not, however, apply exclusively to typical dreams. The more one is occupied with the solution of dreams, the readier one becomes to acknowledge that the majority of the dreams of adults deal with the sexual material and give expression to erotic wishes. Only those who really analyse dreams, that is, those who penetrate from their manifest content to the latent dream-thoughts, can form an opinion on this subject; but never those who are satisfied with registering merely the manifest content. Let us recognize at once that there is nothing astonishing in this fact, which is entirely consistent with the principles of dream-interpretation.

No other instinct has had to undergo so much suppression, from the time of childhood onwards, as the sexual instinct in all its numerous components: –from no other instinct are so many and such intense unconscious wishes left over, which now, in the sleeping state, generate dreams. In dream-in-terpretation this importance of the sexual complexes must never be forgotten, though one must not, of course, exaggerate it to the exclusion of all other factors. Of many dreams it may be ascertained, by careful interpretation, that they even be understood bisexually, inasmuch as they yield an indisputable over-interpretation, in which they realize homosexual impulses—that is, impulses which are contrary to the normal sexual activity of the dreamer. However, that all dreams are to be interpreted bisexually because many dreams satisfy other than erotic needs (taking the word in the widest sense), as, for example, dreams of hunger, thirst, comfort. And other similar assertions, to the effect that “behind every dream one finds a reference to death, or that every dream shows an advance from the feminine to the masculine line, seem to me to go far beyond the admissible interpretation of dreams.

The assentation that all dreams call for a sexual interpretation, against which there is such an untiring polemic in the literature of the subject. Eventually, the person’s anger turns outward—against the taskmaster, against the injustice. Once the person “blows up,” the depression lifts and more normal interaction can occur. However, some people might go into an uncontrollable and generalized rage. So if you are lucky enough to deal with someone, who can handle you disrespectful and manipulative behavior, one should take initiative for the involvement. It is intended to elicit an uncomplaining obedience in waking reality. Kind firmness represents a response to an appeal to anger and it causes an openly hostile dependence. It is the most difficult of the attitudes for people to understand and to implement. They can mobilize the resources of a lifetime of experience to fight against those things that diminish and oppress us all. Thus, they draw upon the varied backgrounds of the retired to tackle the problems. God might just use the people who are nearest to death to point others to a new life. It is only a variation on all human pain. The tragedy is a lot to take in for a youth, but a mirror reflects of the tragedy of every that. That was brought to the house of my soul with powerful and poignant impact one day.

Moral Degradation—Mortal Know Just Enough!

The great secret of managing the mind of a man is to find employment for it. Strength of mind is improvable; hence strength of mind differs more than strength of body. The aggregate of mind is one things and a distinguished mind another. That has meant the falling away not only of deliberately broken taboos, but of a greater number that have disappeared almost unconsciously and automatically. The girl who without thought stopped in the middle of the pavement to adjust her stocking was the typical pioneering figure. She was introducing a new kind of simple directness into life, a new sort of modesty, a new courage. Naturally, it is in the sphere of sensual emotions and habits that these attributes become most conspicuous, for men and even more for women, whose sphere is by constitution so largely that of sensuality, whether for good or evil. The new freedom and directness is obviously shown in public speech and the World of journalism. In private speech, of course, things have always been spoken of—often ignorantly and unwholesomely, and seldom between people of opposite gender even when married to each other—which were regarded as indecorous to speak of in public, even when they were of most vital concern.

Mental health is such a subject. Before we proceed, a caution is in order. Psychology is to assist communication of human problems. However, if used carelessly, psychological terms may do hard. Psychology concerns everyone, because, however austerely the individual may live, he or she is always liable to come into contact with a mentally ill person or a venereally infected person or even to enter into a lifelong relationship with such a person and so to risk the prospects of health and happiness. Yet all of us who are past youth once lived in a time when the taboo on discussion was so strict that only in professional or highly specialized quarters was it possible to discuss frankly the issues of mental health and venereal disease, and such a word as “psychopath” or “syphilis”—which are simple and correct names for the most potently dangerous health problems—was for public purpose prohibited. Even today, so strong has been the hold of the old taboo, we find a tendency to disguise these subjects under the vague and fumbling names of “mental hygiene” and “social hygiene,” although those terms, so far as it has any meaning at all, as no special connection with the subjects in question.

The necessity for plain speaking about mental and social hygiene, now universally admitted, was first felt as a gradual extension of that great organized movement for “Public Health” which we owe to the enthusiasm for materialistic progress of the so-called “Victorian” epoch. It was inevitable that an important aspect of public health should soon be felt to lie in the spread of information to young people concerning the exact nature of the danger of the mentally ill and venereal diseases. Thus was reached the idea of a sort of “sexual education” and “mental education.” However, it was obvious that an education in the sex and the mind which merely meant the imparting of information necessary as a warning against disease was absurdly inadequate and might even sometimes prove mischievous. There thus came into view, not indeed for the first time, but in a more urgent and generally acceptable fashion, the whole question of educations in matters of mental health and the sex.

This is now being more or less systematically carried out in all countries. In Russia, it may be found here and there developed with relentless thoroughness and with the assistance of the cinema to illustrate the various actual phases in the sex life and mental health. In Germany also, which has long been a centre of sexological and physiological science, the cinema is largely employed. However, even in the most conservative and the most puritanical countries (though conservative and puritanic are by no means necessarily identical) the need of education in matter of the mind and the sex is generally accepted, and, here and there, more or less cautiously carried out, though all its implication are yet far from being generally accepted. Yet this innovation alone represents an enormous change in the incidence of taboos. Of all the taboos in civilization up to recent years none has been stronger than that against speech on matters of the sex and the mental health. It is all the more powerful because they are taboos which have been inherited by civilization from savagery, and in the transfer grown even stronger.

Even in the early books of the Bible, when we read of “feet” they are not always part of the body which we are thereby to understand, and thousands of years later, when I was a child in London, I was told that America was the land where it was indelicate to speak of “legs”; the word “limbs” was used instead. There is no doubt about the progress made during the past century. However, we must not be surprised that even those who no longer believe in the taboo often still observe it in practice. The taboo had always involved private revolts, with outbursts of what even those who thus revolted felt to be filthy and disgusting language, so that they were all the more anxious to keep them secret from the young. It was the most difficult thing in the World to speak to children, their own children, of what they themselves still instinctively felt to be filthy and disgusting. It could only be done rightly and naturally when the parents had undergone more than mere intellectual conviction, something which religious people used to call “a change of heart”; and that change itself, to be really operative, should take place early in life. So that still today, the child is too easily allowed to follow the old paths, and vicious circle remains established.

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Prince Du Sang—A Prince of the Blood

Sensible people get the greater part of their own living done during their own lifetime. A man at five and thirty should no more regret not having had a happier childhood than he should regret not having been born a prince of the blood (a person legitimately descended in dynastic line from any of a realm’s hereditary monarchs). People do not have fortunes left them nowadays; men have to work and women marry for money. It is a dreadfully unjust World. There is no doubt that the growth of urban life and the associated collectivistic activities which are for the benefit of all, but belong to no individual, demand for their full enjoyment a system of taboos, either automatic and instinctive or self-imposed by an effort of discipline. It is only so that the municipal organization of books and pictures and music and gardens and fountains, and all the privileges and the conveniences of urban life, become possible. The individual in whom the taboos necessary for such organization are not either automatic or self-imposed is an anti-social individual, and his elimination would be for our benefit. Pain of mind is relieved by an abstraction of solid thought. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 5

For a while, some of the taboos in question are objectified in rules and regulations with penalties for their violation, many could not be carried out by force, even with an army of officials, unless supported by the general taboo-observance of the community. Many skills are learned by observational learning, or modeling. Observational learning is achieved by watching and imitating the actions of another person or by noting the consequences of a person’s actions. In other words, information is imparted by example, before direct practice is allowed. The value of learning by observation is obvious: Imagine trying to tell someone how to tie a shoes, do a dance step, crochet, or play the trumpet. I believe that anything can be learned from direct experience can be learned by observation. Often, this allows a person to skip the tedious process of experimenting with various methods of doing something until one finds the most successful stage of learning. The recognition of the permanence of the unmentionable-observing impulse, and the constant tendency to develop new taboos, may enable us to face with calmness the counterbalancing fact of the falling away of anathemas which have served their purpose and are no longer required under changed social conditions.

In every life, go it fast, go it slow, there are critical pausing-place. When the journey is renewed the face of the country is changed. That process is always going on, and in some spheres, it has during recent years moved with unusual rapidity. The reality of the changes that have thus taken place, whether they are to be approved or condemned, we may thus all accept. As often happens, it is small things—small yet significant—which enable us to grasp the reality of change. When we read Ryan Phillippe’s Diary, it is the minute points which fascinate us, for they enable us to realize profound differences in the attitude of seventeenth-century people compared with modern humans; as when Ryan found lice in a strange bed he slept in, which made us merry. I always recall as significant (so that I noted it in my Impressions and Comments for 23 March 2016) the first occasion on which I observed a young woman on a street in Sacramento, CA pausing a moment to adjust her stocking without embarrassment and without going a step out of her way. I had been brought up in the Victorian period when, if a woman even of the poorest class (though, for a matter of that, it is women of low class who are most prudish) wished to pull up her stockings, she retired into the darkest alley she could find wither face to the wall. The difference is typical of a revolutionary change in the whole attitude of women.

That was wartime, and the Great War undoubtedly had its influence in the movement we are here considering, not indeed by generating but by accelerating it. All the social changes which were witnessed during the war in the belligerent countries would have taken place without it. However, they would have taken place more gradually and unevenly, not in so dramatic and spectacular a shape. Never think of anything until you have first asked yourself if there is an absolute necessity for doing it, at that particular moment. Thinking of things, when things need not be thought of, is offering an opportunity to Worry; and Worry is the favorite agent of Death when the destroyer handles his work in a lingering way, and achieves premature results. Never look back, and never look forward, as long as you can possibly help it. Looking back leads the way to sorrow. And looking forward ends in the cruelest of all delusions: it encourages hope. The present time is the precious time. Live for the passing day: the passing day is all that we can be sure of.

The whole series and changes, so far as women have been concerned—and it is in connection with women that the violated taboos have caused most uproar—were the outcome of a single movement: the movement for making women the companions of men. They were not that in mediaeval theory; women for that theory were either above an or she was below him; as Miss Eileen Power remarks, she was Janus-faced: in one of her aspects, she was Mary, the mother of God and the savior of men; in the other, Eve the seducer of man and the cause of all his woe. By the nineteenth century this theory had become reduced to an empty shell of convention, but it still retained influence, even though within the shell new conceptions were germinating and causing to crack. The woman moulded according to these new conceptions is no longer the angel-devil which her predecessor seemed to imaginative eyes, but obviously made to be—as witnessed even by her hair and her skirts and the simple fashion of her garments—the social equal and companion of man, whether in work or play, even perhaps the play of the sex. Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not match the expectation.
This is your Hour and the Power of Darkness

If the person with whom power relates causes you to sin, cut off the communication and cast them from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. We are to live and respond in the faith which is as floating on the Albatross in a White Squall. Dependency is a drag! A martyr! A disaster! This is the experience we have with a dependent personality. Every endeavor to relate seems thwarted. Every effort to respond comes to naught. Every attempt at ministry goes astray. One is bogged down, engulfed by the other’s needs. Let me put the problem differently: one does not know what the dependent person is experiencing. He or she withholds information necessary to the development of a mutually satisfying relationship. Thus, one finds oneself doing extra work. The harder the responder tried to respond, the less satisfied the other seems. A little help mysteriously expands into the demand for a lot of helping. A little care somehow gets transformed into endless caring.

What begins as meaningful support turns into an irritating Albatross, Gil Martin (played by Ryan Phillippe) engulfed in a White Squall, trapped in a room, on a skinning ship, and one cannot figure out what has gone wrong. Be patient with yourself if you are not readily curious about other people. There are powerful reasons why you have not been able to protect and develop your natural capacity for curiosity. You will be able to get to the root of some of these obstacles as you work with remembering. In the meantime, praise yourself whenever you do notice that you are questioning or wondering about other people’s lives. One possibility overlooked in our discussion of forgetting is that memories may be lost as they are being formed. For example, a head injury may cause a gap in memories preceding the accident. Retrograde amnesia, as this is called, involves forgetting events that occurred before an injury or trauma. In contrast, anterograde amnesia involves forgetting events that follow an injury or trauma.

In the film The I Inside Simon Cable (Ryan Phillippe), after a near-death experience, awakens with amnesia and the ability to travel back and forth in through time. This thriller is a lot what retrograde amnesia can be like. It takes a certain amount of time to move information from short-term to long-term memory. The forming of a long-term memory is called consolidation. Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Simon Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together the enigmatic past. You can think of consolidation as being somewhat like writing your name in wet concrete. Once the concrete is set, the information (your name) is fairly lasting. However, while it is setting, it can be wiped out (amnesia) or scribbled over (interference). Simon Cable finds himself leaping through time between 2000 and 2002 as his past returns to him.

Recent memories are more easily disrupted than older memories. Apparently, consolidation is already complete. That is why Simon Cable, much like other people with head injuries, lost his memories before the accident. His heart stopped for two minutes and he was dead. When he came back to life, it was a puzzle and he was struggling to remember what happened. Many parts of the brain are responsible for memory, but the hippocampus is particularly important. The hippocampus seems to act as a sort of switchboard station (an apparatus for varying connections between electric circuits in other applications) between short-term and long-term memory. Humans who have had hippocampal damage show a striking inability to store new memories. Described as typical, one year after a head injury damaged his hippocampus, a 42-year-old man, continued to give his age as 41. He also reported he felt as just though the head injury had just occurred. His memory of events before the head injury remained clear, but he found forming new long-term memories almost impossible. (He suffered, in other word, from anterograde amnesia.) #RyanPhillippe 4 of 5

When his family member moved to a new apartment a few block away, a cross the park, he could not remember the new address. Month after month, he read the same magazines over and over without finding them familiar. If you were to meet this man, he would seem fairly normal, since he still has short-term memory. However, at the time, if you were to leave the room and return 15 minutes later, he would act as if he had never seen you before, and run off. Then he would see you months later, and be looking sad, but then notice you and perk up like a flower, and walk home. And people are wondering what happened to this guy, before Christmas of 2015, you guys spent every day together and he went from looking angry to happy, and then he just disappears. Then all this drama erupts in his personal life, and he totally shuts down and acts like he does not know anyone. Years ago, one of his favorite uncles passed away, but he suffers the same grief anew each time he is told of the death. Lacking the ability to form new lasting memories, he lives eternally in the present. If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will help you make nourishment for other people. (www.thedeedle.com)

Let Virtue be Dressed in Smiles

Vengeance, bloodlust, severe dehumanization, torture, acting with extreme prejudice is irresponsible. Nationally, 70 percent agree that when a boy is growing up, it is very important for him to have a few fist fights. Violent behavior among delinquent people does not appear overnight. Usually, their capacity for violence develops slowly, as they move from minor aggression to increasingly brutal acts. Eighteen percent of the population admit to having slapped or kicked another person. Overall, aggression increases dramatically in early adolescence as boys gain physical strength and more access to weapons. Social learning theory holds that we learn to be aggressive by observing belligerence in others. Social learning theory combines learning principles with cognitive processes, socialization, and modeling to explain behavior. According to this view, there is no instinctive human programming for fist-fighting, mass injury, knife wielding, gun loading, 95-mile-an-hor bean balls, or other violent or aggressive behaviors. Hence, aggression must be learned. Violence seems to beget violence, from generation to generation. Its very long history, dating back to our origins, has a momentum that shows little indication of slowing down. It is as if we were caught in an unresolved and seemingly unresolvable blood feuds. There may be talk of honor, but it is mostly just more fuel for the fires of violence and has nothing to do with real honor. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5

A single deed of violence and cruelty affects our nerves more than when these are exercised on a more extended scale. While school violence and drugs have been perceived by the public as problems primarily for urban school districts, declining test scores and poor academic performance are a nationwide concern. Children and adults are treated to an almost nonstop parade of aggressive models, in the media as well as in actual behavior. We are without a doubt, an aggressive culture. Every day, TV provides an endless stream of bad models, especially concerning violence. In the United States of America, there are nearly 200 hours of violent programs per week. Eight-one percent of all programs contain violence, which is often quite unrealistic. For instance, an astounding 73 percent of violent character go unpunished, and 58 percent of violent acts do not lead to painful results. Only 16 percent of all program shows any realistic long-term consequences for violence. So the problem many not be the violence in the TV programs, the problem might be people think violence is acceptable because so many people on TV go unpunished and do not see to get hurt. Younger children often do not grasp the nuances of TV plots. A child may simply remember that when good guys were bothered in some way by others, they aggressed. Heroes on TV are as violent as the villains, and they usually receive praise for their violence. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5

Disinhibition (the removal of inhibition) leads to acting out behavior that normally would be restrained. For instance, many TV programs and the news may give the message that violence is acceptable behavior that leads to success and popularity. For some people the message can lowers inhibitions against action out hostile feelings. In Sacramento, California USA, three news anchors actually went on air and encouraged people to engage in violence, but where not fired for their actions. Another effect of TV violence is that it tends to lower sensitivity to violent acts. As anyone who has seen a street fight or a mugging call tell you, TV violence is sanitized and unrealistic. The real thing is gross, ugly, and gut-wrenching. Social learning theory applies that aggression begets aggression. In other words, watching a prized fight or violent television program may increase aggression, rather than drain off aggressive urges. Viewers who watch violent DVDs, news, and videotapes have more aggressive thoughts. Violent thoughts often precede violent actions. Thus, the spiral of aggression might be broken if we did not so often portrait it, reward it, and glorify it. In many cases, the products can react to re-form the original reactants. Reactions in which the products can themselves react to re-form reactants are called reversible reactions. The World’s most peaceful societies actively teach their children to be cooperative, non-violent, and helpful. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5

The process of learning violence is reversible. Anger control can be successful in teaching some people to control the rage and aggressive impulses. Anger control refers to personal strategies for reducing or cubing anger. The key to remaining calm is to define upsetting situations as problems to be solved. Therefore, to limit anger, people are taught to: Define the problem as precisely as possible. Make a list of possible solutions. Rank the likely success of each solution. Choose a solution and try it. Assess how successful the solution was, and make adjustments if necessary. The reverse reaction can occur, but at first the rate is slow because of the small concentration of options. However, as time goes on, the rate of anger decreases because it helps lessen tendencies toward violence, and other destructive outbursts. For the more immediate future, it is clear that we need more people who are willing to engage in prosocial behavior (actions that are constructive, altruistic, or helpful to others). #RandolphHarris 4 of 5

Those who have never been guilty of any indiscretion are generally people who have very little active virtue. If you feel shame over hurting another, stay with that dishonor until a feeling of remorse arises, and then make amends from your heart. If you are reluctant to do so, admit this, letting any disgrace over such reluctance further spur you into taking healing action. Turning toward your shame, feeling it fully without losing yourself in its viewpoint and contractedness is one of the biggest and most courageous steps you will ever take. Yes, doing so hurts, but such pain is secondary to the healing that you are making possible through your bravery, the healing that begins when you cease being a victim or denier of your embarrassment. Disgrace can bend and halt us, and sometimes needs to—such as when we are mistreating or are about to mistreat another—but is does not have to break us. Remember that the more compassion and vulnerability you can approach your shame with, the greater odds are that you will handle it skillfully. Virtue, soon or late, meets the good it merits. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5

Bricks without Straw

Throughout history, the treatment enslaved people received and the amount of social mobility afforded them varied greatly, depending on economic and political circumstances. In some societies, enslaved people had legal rights, were fairly well treated, assumed important political positions, and could gain freedom and become respected members of society. Slavery in the United States was very different because of racism and a supposed link between biology and class position. Some sociologist maintain that when slavery was abolished in the United States of America, Southern African Americans entered the second major system of stratification—the caste system. Not only African Americans are part of the caste system, but other cultures are well, however. Member of distinct families and lineages have restrictive sexual code that was ensured by a belief in ritual pollution, which held that even casual contact, among people from different social strata caused those of higher ranks to be contaminated. If a person from a high social hierarchy has the sex with a member of a lower caste, their defilement cannot be removed. This belief was very important in protecting the integrity of caste boundaries.

In a caste system, rank is hereditary and permanent, and marriage between members of different categories is prohibited. As an ideal type, the caste system is totally closed—status is ascribed, and no matter what they might do to change it, people inherit the social position of their parents. Power is the second dimension of class ranking. Power is the ability to realize one’s will, even against resistance and the opposition of others. There is a difference between personal power—the ability to make decision that affect one’s life—and social power—the ability to make decisions that affect the lives of others. Of course, power can refer to physical force, or the threat of violence by a person or group against others. However, authority, or legitimate power, carries far more weight in the conduct of human affairs. The difference in wealth leads to the formation of classes, which have similar lifestyles, or ways their members consumer goods and express their social worth. Differential wealth also gives social classes different life changes, or opportunities for securing such things as healthy, education, and longevity. We often use the word wealth to mean money, but it is more than just about financial standing.

In advanced industrial societies, wealth includes a person’s or family’s total economic assets. Wealth comes in the form of knowledge, human capital, stocks, real estate, trusts, yachts, and others goods and services are vitally important to class standing. For most people, however, income, which includes money earned in the form of wages and salaries, is the primary economic asset. Suppose you were given the task of helping the underprivileged in the United States of America. How would you go about identifying those are truly need financial assistance? Poverty is about the lack of food, housing, medical care, and other basic necessities. However, if you look more carefully you will see that in United States of America, poverty is also seen as failure, degradation, insecurity, and being at the very margins or even beneath mainstream society, as the term underclass clearly implies. In your assessment of who is and who is not poor, you can take either absolute or a relative approach. Absolute poverty occurs when people fall below a minimum subsistence level and are unable to function as members of society. For example, adults require at least 1,500 calories each day to function, and those who fall beneath this daily minimum may be defined as poor (and at the edge of survival) in absolute terms. Relative poverty is a lack of resources relative to others and the overall standards of a society. So, there is really nothing funny about being poor, especially when people are trying hard and being oppressed.

Since the majority of American have little contact with the poor, where do they get their opinions and “facts”? For many, the answer is that they watch television cop shows, Hollywood movies, and the evening news, or they listen to the talk radio, which daily informs millions of people about poverty and other social problems. Overwhelmingly, these mainstream media focus on inner-city ethic groups as the prototypical poor. According to the media spotlight, the vast majority of the poor are either young African American men or ghetto single moms (with many young children) who are routinely portrayed as preferring welfare to work. Examine the evening news or a Hollywood movie and its portrayal of poverty. Who are the poor and why are they poor? Are these portraits consistent with the government’s profile of the poor, which we now examine? The movie “54” with Ryan Phillippe as Shane 54 shows how a young man desires a more prestigious life, and gets in with the wrong crowd, and then loses everything. It was really sad to see him going from being a bright-eyed young man, with big dreams, to living on the streets wrapped in a trash bag because he was trying to win the affections of a young lady in a different caste.

The World has arrived at a period which renders it the part of Wisdom to pay homage to the prospective precedents of the Future in preference to those of the Past. The Past is dead, and had no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; the Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before. The future not being born; we abstain from baptizing it. For me, less privileged than my fellows, I never seen the future. I say that men who do not live in the present chiefly, but hamper themselves with giant tasks in excesses of alarm for the future, however devoted and noble they may be, reduce themselves to the dimensions of pigmies; they have the cry of infants. You reply, Foresight is an element of love of country and mankind. However, how often is not the foresight guesswork? The doubts of the past may be as nothing to the dangers of the future.

And Just What Crazy Half-Illuminated Afterlife are You from?!

With half-baked mystical promises, every man’s work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of life. Each day, the wire services that provide news capsules for all media—from radio to the Internet—detail stories of bureaucratic waste, inefficiency, and corruption. Television news magazines like 60 Minutes and Nightline virtually depend on these stories for their popularity and high ratings, as do late-night television comics, newspapers, and magazines. In terms of challenges to government and the establishment in general, however. The mass media cannot compare to the diverse voices and opinions on the Internet or those associated with interactive television, cellular phones, and other evolving media. For example, we do not have bloggers creating their own forms of news and in two short years, Randolph Harris Research and Development has written more articles than journalist, who have been in the business for 40 years, which might be generating some animosity from seasoned jerkenheads. The news of the day is commonly a lie, and that lie a stupid one: somebody in, somebody out, a new chariot, a new play, a hand at quadrille descried to a pip.

This is the most dangerous game. When you can turn to light, do not make this darkness your house. Do not you wander here searching and moaning. Many media scholars believe that the techomedia are radically altering virtually all groups and organizations Worldwide. Technopagans, a term coined by Anne Rice, are creating endless clusters of new and very valuable groups with some common intense commercially exploitable interest. It is clear that the technomedia and techonopagans have enabled many marginalized groups—those based on ethnicity, gender, age, disability, religion, and sexual orientation, as well as low-income nations (the politically correct term for third World country)—to vice their perspectives, learn about the ideas and concerns of others, and instantaneously communicate with legions of people across this beautiful Earth. Some technopagans and scholars contend that the technomedia has brought even greater changes to bureaucracies. With the help of the new media, debureaucratization of the unreality that TV and newspapers play in the dissemination of fostering lies and trauma for entertainment will proceed at an accelerate rate in this century, to the point that virtually all news bureaucracies will become smaller and more manageable, and some will become obsolete because they are not providing the public with helpful information, besides the weather.

Electronic communications have already begun to produce dramatic changes in many large corporations, as it has facilitated the removal of middle management and eliminated millions of jobs. For instance, bank tellers have been replaced by automated teller machines (ATMs), TV news anchors are expected to be replaced by robots, and cars can now even drive themselves. I used to be against the rise in technology, until I noticed how rude and sarcastic many humans are. I come from a family where you are not supposed to speak much, and if you do not have anything nice to say, do not say anything at all because not only is it improper, but being rude to the wrong person can get your wig split. However, after interacting with psychopaths who are employed, I welcome machines. I do not like unnecessary rude comments, nor assumptions. And since we cannot control people, and do not like to complain, many corporations are just finding it easier to replace them. However, it is sad because human interaction is great, but no human interaction is better than dealing with deviant people. As more people shop by computer, the number of department stores and supermarkets may decline as well, which could be a good thing because it will reduce the number of cars on the road, decrease vehicle insurance rates and the number of automobile accidents will go down, saving millions of lives.

Inexpensive, high-quality videos and teleconferencing, like Cisco TelePresence, which is a TV that can link two physically separated rooms so they resemble a single conference room, will eliminate educational bureaucracies at all levels and even supplement the work office. Basically, it is a TV that you can watch, and the people in the TV can see you and interact with you also. If you think about it, technology wise, as a society, we are behind. We do not have many internet cafes, it is hard to find public WiFi, and there are no pay phones on the street. Not everyone has a cell phone, and what happens if your cell phone dies or gets lost and you need to make a phone call? Society is set up for the wealthy, and technology is an equalizer, making sure that everyone has access to the resources they require. We should have modern telephone booths, with an integrated computer capable of 5G internet service (5G is about 100 times faster than what you are using today), where you can pay to access the internet, make phone calls, and charge your phone on every street corner by now, it is almost 2020 and the World, technologically speaking still looks like we are stuck in 1985.

It has also been predicted that many of these overpriced universities and colleges will also be replaced by a small number of education centers with high-tech media capabilities and media-savvy instructors, who will teach and offer affordable and safe college degrees to students all over the globe. Again, this is good people will not have to buy school clothes, will not get bullied, nor will they get sexually assaulted like many young men and women do on college campuses. It will also reduce fraternity hazing, saves lives, and keep cars off of the road, which will save energy and the environment. Without so many people on the streets, crime will also go down because people will be tucked away safely in their houses, and when they go out, it will be for a purpose. Evening—that mystic period between the glare and gloom of the World when life is changing from one sphere or condition to another. Ah, the promise of the night. What does it not hold for the weary! What old illusion of anticipation is not here forever repeated! Moonlight is a medium the most suitable for a romance writer to get acquainted with his illusive guest.

In Mixed Company

Of all human dealings, satire is the very lowest, and most mean and common. It is the equivalent in words for what bullying is in deeds; and no more bespeaks a clever being, then the other does a brave one. God never speaks to us in dramatic ways, but in ways that are subtle. Symbolic interactions contend that all of social life—including social institutions—are in a constant state of flux. This is because people continually define and redefine relationships, and even those social arrangements that appear to be deeply embedded in social structure change. Interactions contend that there is more flexibility in roles and relationships and much greater possibility for change. Interactionists stress that human social structure is built of all collections of people who interact with one another according to expectations rather than certainties. This results in a constant reordering of society as people in interaction define and redefine social relationships and expect changes. Most people yearn for intimacy and deeper connections. Going back to the roots of how you have developed your beliefs, fears, and hopes about life can be very exciting and illuminating.

If you are regarded as a hero, it is one thing to follow God’s way of service, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God required becoming one who submit meekly to domination or mistreatment by others. Are you ready to be sacrificed like that? Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted? Competent communication requires the ability and the willingness to adapt communication behavior to changing situations. Some individuals, however, get locked into the mindset that they must play a certain role and there are no good substitutes. Leader, information giver, feeling expresser, and tension reliever are among the most likely candidates for role fixation—the acting out of a specific role alone no matter what the situation might require. Professional comedians sometimes do not know when to be serious in social gatherings. They are always “on.” Lawyers who cross-examine their spouses as they do hostile witnesses on the stand at a criminal trial may find their role fixation is a ticket to a court of a decidedly civil sort.

It is fiction to think that institutional arrangements benefit all individuals and society as a whole. Instead, institutional arrangements grant a disproportionate share of wealth, power, and privilege to certain individuals and classes, and it is they who seek to maintain the existing conditions or state of affairs by defining particular institutional arrangements—whether slavery, feudalism, or capitalist system—as vitally important to society. We look for vision from Heaven and for Earthshaking events to see God’s power. Even the fact that we are dejected is proof that we do this. Yet, we never realize that all the time God is at work in our everyday events and in the people around us. If we will only obey and do the task that He has placed closet too us, we will see Him. One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that. It is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent of Christ. Society is structured, but many use their roles, statuses, and institutions to exploit and dominate subordinates as well as to maintain and perpetuate elite wealth, power, and privilege.

The American institution: the economy emphasizes, however, free enterprise, and religion free will; the family system promotes high mobility and individual choice; the education system stresses competition and being first; the mass media glorify stars and heroes, and the political system, with its democratic ideology, emphasizes the personal character of political candidates, as well as universal suffrage. Review the prevailing beliefs about love and intimacy at the time you grew up, and how your cultural roots helped shaped you. That consists of your ethnicity, class, geographical location, neighborhood, religion, education, and even how the media influenced you. Also, take a good look at the relationships you have experienced in your adult life to see how your fears, hopes, longings, and even aversions have been determined. Conflict theorists’ reason that it is impossible to understand human behavior without reference to social stratification, for people’s positions in the social hierarchy influence virtually everything they think and do.

It is important to realize at the outset that stereotypes are not simply something that only bigots have experience with. We all know about stereotypes; they are a cognitive structure that contains the perceiver’s knowledge, beliefs, and expectancies about some human group. Stereotypes clearly do not give us the whole picture of a group, as if such a thing is even possible, and they are not neutral in their evaluations. Instead, stereotypes give us highly edited and distorted images of groups that tend to support the way groups are treated in society. Cultural stereotypes of minority groups, especially, tend to reflect the biases and the histories of the majority (keep in mind majority is a relative term that could relate to a mindset, gender, age group, and may vary depending on geographical location), such that the people being stereotypes are reduced to a few characteristics that are socially relevant for understanding that group’s perceived place in society.

We, as individuals, may not endorse these stereotypes at all, nor have any intention of seeing the World through prejudicial lenses. However, unfortunately, a stereotype, as just another schema that helps some process the World around them, and helps them maintain a view of that World that works in favor of their majority. If they know about them, people can inhibit these tendencies, but they have to have the cognitive capacity to overcome prejudice. The inferences many may about other people’s behavior tends to be biased in favor of their in-group. People tend to make the in-groups they identify with look good and the outgroups they do not identify with look bad. In theory, in-group members seeing someone doing something bad will be more likely to attribute that behavior to internal causes if the person is not one of their, a member of the outgroup. However, if it is an in-group member doing something awful, they will attribute the bad sinful behavior to external factors. Examine your reasons and continually look back to the foundation of your love and affection and remember where your Source of power comes from.

Be exhausted for God (Allah, Buddha, Djevel, Goddess, Jehovah, Lord, Nature) but remember that is your supply. The real test of spiritual focus is being able to bring your mind and thoughts under control. Is your mind focused on the face of an Idol? Is the idol yourself? Is it your work? If so, then your ability to see your creator is blinded. You will be powerless when faced with difficulties and will be forced to endure in deviance. If your power to see has been blinded, do not look back on your own experiences, but look to God. It is God you require. Lift up your eyes and see who has created things. Your mind is the greatest Gift God has given you, and it ought to be devoted entirely to your savior. This will be one of the greatest assets of your faith when a time of trial comes, because then your faith and the Spirit of your Source will work together. You will begin to see that your thoughts are from your Source as well, and your mind will no longer be at the mercy of your impulsive thinking, but will always be used in the service of your creator. Therefore, be deliberate careful and thoughtful.

Good Society Never is Wrong: How Much I Shall have to Tell, and how Much I Shall have to Conceal

Good sense will shew you the power of self-conquest, and point out its means. The symbolic interactionist perspective views social meaning as arising through the process of social interactions. Contemporary symbolic interactionism rests on three basic premises: Human beings act toward things on the basis of the meanings that they attach to them. These meanings are derived from, or arise out of, social interactions with others. These meanings may be changed or modified through the process of interaction and interpretations. Proponents of this perspective, often referred to as the interactionist perspective, engage in mircolevel analysis, which focuses on the day-to-day interactions of individuals and groups in specific social situations. Because audience members (children and adults alike) can be influenced by real people or fictional heroes, storytellers many want to consider carefully how they depict their characters. Meaningful symbols are sounds, objects, colors, and events that represent something other than themselves, and are critical for understanding social interaction. Language is one of the most important and powerful meaningful symbols humans have created, because it allows us to communicate through the shared means of words. If people define situation as real, they are real in their consequences. Simply put, people define social reality through a process of mutual concessions and compromise.

The time that people put into a relationship impacts its strength. This includes how long they have known each other, how often they see each other, and how much time they spend together. More time tends to lead to stronger relationships. Relationships that are relatively strong can grow very quickly because when two people share an intense emotional experience, it strengthens the relationship between them. Society has a structure consisting of a variety of important components—for example, basic social institutions such as the family, religion, education, politics, and the economy. These institutions are interrelated and interdependent. Each performs an important function contributing to the overall structure of society. A problem in one area creates a problem for the entire system, and for society to function properly, all social institutions must fulfill their basic functions. When all aspects of society are functioning properly, they are in a state of equilibrium, or balance. A companionable man will put up with many inconveniences for the sake of enjoying agreeable society. The cranberry juice cannot be bad where the company is agreeable. When people are angry and passionate, one does not so much mind what they say. However, when they speak with kindness, it seems to pierce to the very heart. When you and another are truly connected, emotionally and otherwise, the arising of emotional disconnection is not a problem because there is enough trust and safety to openly communicate and explore this more deeply, which almost inevitably leads to more connection, thereby reinforcing and deepening your trust. Simply saying, “I feel sad about our disconnection, and I miss the feelings we used to share,” can help catalyze emotional reconnection.

Communication, at its best, is communion and articulation functioning as one. It is the electricity and circuit board of relationship, optimally flowing when its emotional components are illuminated, respected, and fully connected. It is a touching thing to hear the mind reverting to the ordinary occupations and pursuits of health, when the body lies before you weak and helpless; however, when those occupations are of a character the most strongly opposed to anything we associate with grave or solemn ideas, the impression produced is infinitely more powerful. There are two sorts of great Worlds; the great vulgar World, which includes all but the very best in taste, principles, and manners, whether it be in a capitol or a country; and the great respectable World, which, infinitely less numerous, contains the judicious, the instructed, the intelligent, and, on some questions, the good. It is always best to not get in trouble and to dodge people who want to bring you trouble. A good dodger seldom gets into trouble in this World, and lives to a green antiquated age, while the noble patriot and others of his kind lie in dungeons. The man that covets good will more than money, and the praise of benevolence more than that of private gain has some soul in him; and other things equal, is to be trusted before him of a contracted spirit, and self-love, in all his actions.
