Beautiful objects arouse pleasure. Beauty relaxes, but the experience of sublimity is of great emotional intensity. Every sentiment is organized around a relationship to a social object, usually another person or a group such as a family. We associate a sentiment closely with particular persons or groups. If we try to recall love, pity, or other sentiments, we usually think of people by whom or toward whom these sentiments have been felt. We feel shame, pride, guilt, or embarrassment toward our selves as social objects when we imagine how other people judge our appearance to them. A sentiment may develop around a nonhuman object, such as love for a pet or reverence for a deity, but the object is usually personified with human qualities. The soul is said to strive toward beauty, which is a manifestation of the spiritual force that animates all of reality. Given that beauty is an objective property, attainable artistically and knowable critically, by reference to the rules, the question of the percipient’s response to it is usually scant. However, beauty can be expected to arouse the appropriate response, which is referred to briefly and loosely as pleasure or delight. It is the total object, the whole of form and expressiveness and what the form is of, that possesses the beauty. #RandolphHarris 1 of 7
Just as one can see the Sunlight without looking into the Sun itself, so can one have knowledge of divine ideas. A sentiment established a framework of meaning within which specific events, gestures, and sensations can be given a social interpretation. A sentiment is identified through an organization of responses toward a person, not through particular acts viewed separately. For example, a sentiment may be detected by others even when the individual does not acknowledge his or her feelings. One may deny being in love with a person, but may be imputed the love sentiment by observers who detect a pattern of protection and preoccupation with another person. We believe that we have detected a man’s love for a woman when he demonstrated joy in her presence, sorrow in her prolonged absence, fear when there is danger of losing her, and anger when she is criticized. The characteristic organization of hatred includes being sorry over the enemy’s good fortune, feeling anger at his or her very presence, being happy at their misfortune, and sensing anxiety over his or her possible success. We interpret, justify, and anticipate acts and feelings in relation to the sentiment’s overall pattern. #RandolphHarris 2 of 7
We attain these ideas in terms of the residual effects of the divine actions—effects which remain in the soul like habitual or buried memories. Our mind is simultaneously enlightened so that it is moved to judge correctly about the object and is hence in accord with God’s own mind on the subject. A sentiment sustains a relationship as an enduring, latent tendency to respond emotionally and overtly toward another person when the opportunity is given. Situational constraints often inhibit direct expression. One factor is over view of what the relationship means to the other person. Sentiments differ in the importance of reciprocal feeling. Reciprocation of hatred will magnify animosity. Failure by the other to reciprocate romantic love may simply heighten the lover’s passion as much as reciprocation. The other person may validate a sentiment with an appropriate but different pattern of gesture and feeling, such as showing gratitude for my kindness. The meaning of a sentiment depends on how the other responds to it. When people have a bad experience, they are often more concerned about how they feel about it, than the issue itself. #RandolphHarris 3 of 7
Timely and effective communications can help one manage negative sentiment, rebuild trust, and promote loyalty. We become highly aware of a sentiment when a controversial discrepancy arises. A single salient act can seem to contradict the whole pattern. Stealing from a loved one, helping an enemy, or cursing a deity are acts that call the sentiment into question. Most acts within a relationship, however, are assimilated into a sentiment and are anticipated and assessed as reflecting its meaning. Bodily sensations are an intermittent phase of every enduring sentiment. Arousal is more frequent and intense in passionate sentiments, such as romantic love, jealousy, and awe, than in others like kindness, loyalty, and gratitude. These visceral and muscular sensations are essentially autonomic arousal symptoms associated with the flow of adrenaline: heart palpitations, accelerated breathing, flushes, and tremor. However, they may be experienced simply as diffused, generalized excitement. Arousal does not persist unabated, even in passionate sentiments, but arises intermittently. Get involved with your business and reputation to reduce the risk of negative perceptions. #RandolphHarris 4 of 7
Bodily sensations do not define the nature of the sentiment. Even if regulatory issues make your company leery of social media, it is becoming riskier not to have a readily available, reassuring presence online because your people expect you to be there. As individuals often voice concerns online, you may receive double the negative feedback if you do not respond. Even a few thoughtful communications can show people that you are listening and ready to help, and that is a good thing. Listen to people’s concerns, admit any mistakes, and be clear about how you will improve their experience. There are no explicit patterns of arousal that correspond to different sentiments. Instead, we interpret our sensation in terms of the encompassing relationship. A feeling of excitement can be interpreted as indicating the continued vitality of a sentiment, whether love or hatred. We express sentiments more spontaneously when we are aroused. Of course, we feel bodily sensations of various types much of the time, and many of these—dizziness, fatigue, hunger, aches—have nothing to do with social relationships. We are socialized to attend selectively to our own sensations, however, and to sometimes attribute them a social meaning in terms of the course of interaction with another person. #RandolphHarris 5 of 7
A sentiment is expressed situationally through a person’s conventional gestures, such as kissing, and overt, involuntary bodily signs of arousal, such as trembling. A review of cross-cultural differences in gestures such as hand movements, laughter, crying, and posturing concluded that there is no natural language of emotional gesture. In dealing with negative sentiment, do not try to respond to everything. Focus on concerns to create the greatest optimistic response. Think beyond a simple apology or refund to what people might expect; what might delight them—perhaps a bonus gift or new benefit. By showings you care about your people and reputation, you may win loyalty and motivate them to praise your brand to others. For facial expressions of emotion, however, there is evidence that anger, disgust, fear, and several other emotions may be expressed and recognized similarly across very diverse cultures. Researchers admit however that in social situations, any natural, innate facial emotion is masked beneath culturally conventional expressions. Even when negative sentiment looms in social media, you can often find loyal customers who will defend your brand. Engage people directly to express appreciation, learn what they like about your company and how you might delight them. #RandolphHarris 6 of 7
Your personal attention might motivate more business and prompt people to help influence more beneficial sentiment online. Social media is a powerful channel to quickly address key concerns, clarify misconceptions, and offer reassurance. Showing people that you are listening and that you care about how they feel can help transform negative sentiment into a winning experience. We interpret a conventional gesture, such as a smile, in terms of situational factors, previous interactions with a person, subtle details in expressive style, and other social criteria. Human gestures are parts of social communication that become significant to symbols when they arouse the same meaning in the observer as in the expressing person. We indicate ourselves the meaning of our own gestures in terms of the perspective of the other person and shape our gestures in terms of the perspective of the other person and shape our gestures according to the meaning we intend them to have. Gestures become meaningful when interpreted as sentiments, which serve as significant categories or symbols held in common by group members. “Those who live without God in the World, judgment of an everlasting punishment is just upon them; and they shall quake, and tremble, and shrink beneath the glace of God’s all-searching eye (Mosiah 27.31).” #RandolphHarris 7 of 7
The love of God is the force that holds the universe together. Thus, it is asserted that love is a single principle permeating all things, from the material through the spiritual, and that this principle is the dynamic factor in cosmic change. There is no difference in essence between the attraction the elements have for one another and the forms of love that exist in human beings. Love, shame, gratitude, contempt, jealousy, and other affective states are experiences frequently and vividly in everyday social life. These states often include a psychic excitement expressed through bodily gestures, and, therefore, may seem to be too private and psychological to bear much relevance for sociology or to be amenable to sociological analysis. The sociological perspective allows us, however, to demonstrate how seemingly individual behavior and experience are shaped by social features, culture shapes the occasion, meaning, and expression of affective experience. Love, pity, indignation, and other sentiments are socially patterns of feelings, gestures, and meaning. One must lose oneself in order to find oneself, but in so doing, one finds that what one has really discovered is God. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6
Differences in feeling, action, and meaning among sorrow, guilt, and love are socially created, and that is how we learn enduring societal relationships. Social life produces emergent dimensions of emotion that resist reduction to properties inherent in the human organism. One strong tradition takes the conscious feeling to be the emotion. Thus, a passion of the soul is perception, a conscious state, in which the soul is passively affected, as in sense perception, but in which what is perceived is attributed to the soul itself, rather than some physical body. Emotion is merely a sensual feeling, but is refined by communication and sympathetic imagination in primary-group relationships. Thus, love is a sentiment, while lust is not; resentment is, but not rage; the fear of disgrace or ridicule is, but not terror. Shame originates through the organizing influence of social processes upon arousal sensations, bodily gestures, and other emotional elements. If similar sentiments are found in different societies, their origin should be sought in similarities among social relationships, rather than in innate human nature. The one and only way to know what love, happiness, joy, and remorse is, is to actually experience these feelings. Gratitude, for example, supplements exchange and reciprocity relationships everywhere as a powerful means of social cohesion that effects the return benefit. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6
Thus, the emotion is only cognitions which give rise to it and its expressions, whether voluntary or involuntary. A socially emergent dimension of affect is the prolonged time span of love, hatred, resentment, and most other sentiments. In enduring social relationships, previous interaction and anticipations of the relationship’s future course influence feeling. These social affects transcend the single situation, while rage, surprise, terror are confined to the duration of intense arousal and its transient stimulus. In contrast, a feeling like love or hatred reflects the developing properties of the social relationship over time. The significant sociological problem here is how changes in the social relationships are linked with shifts in the associated feelings. Sometimes when we say what we are feeling, we are actually saying what we are thinking. For example, “I feel that you are not hearing me” is a statement of perception or opinion, rather than of actual feeling, a statement that is debatable (unlike a straightforward statement of real feeling). If you cannot figure out what emotion(s) you are feeling, then give data about what sensations you are feeling: “There is a good fragrance in here” or “My heart is fluttering” or “I feel like a light just turned on in my head.” #RandolphHarris 3 of 6
Many people suffer by shutting themselves off from their own depths. The structural coherence of feeling, gesture, meaning, and occasion for jealousy or indignation is maintained by social, not psychological, forces. The structure or pattern of jealously, for example, is socially constructed and meaningful. Jealously can be accompanied by diverse psychological dynamics and motives across individuals. One person may be mainly angry at the rival, another person may fear losing his or her partner, while yet another’s jealousy has to be prompted by pressure from concerned friends. The structural coherence of jealousy does not derive from these diverse psychological factors, but from social forces, such as how people respond to expressions of jealousy and how the course and meaning of jealousy are socially defined. Faithfulness to a relationship gradually supplements the psychic forces that originally brought the relationship about. These initial feelings and motives gradually weaken, but in spite of all variety of origin, the original psychic states attain, in the form of faithfulness, a certain similarity. Even a relationship begun for extrinsic reasons develops its own faithfulness which, in turn, gives rise to deeper and more adequate feeling states. That is how that popular term “catch feelings” came to be. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6
Truly fulfilling relations encompass empathy, vulnerability, and capacity for emotional literacy. The true power and resolve of relationships also comes from their authenticity, their capacity to anchor themselves in real integrity. Emotion is the modifiability of feeling, expression, and meaning in response to social interaction and cultural norms and beliefs. Love, guilt, and compassion are not fixed in innate human nature. Instead, we identify and act upon them in terms of social events, relationships, and values. Psychologists usually conceive of emotion as acting through the person, motivating and directing his or her behavior and experiences. In addition, that activation process may work mainly in the opposite direction, from consciousness and ongoing action toward feeling and gesture. The social person is sentient, reflecting upon feelings and sometimes changing feeling about how they are interpreted. For example, we may summon up feelings of love, or strive to diminish their intensity. We can also try to mobilize love in another person, directing our gestures to shape their feelings. There is a deeper life for humanity, a life in which responsibility and freedom are connected, a life in which happiness not the foundation of what we have, but in what we fundamentally are. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6
On a larger, historical scale, love and other sentiments change in how they are expressed, where they are appropriate, and what they mean culturally. These social levels of change in feeling and expression are irreducibly independent from the physiological dynamics of emotion, and are an appropriate and important subject for sociological explanation. Emotion is activity and reactivity of the tissues and organs innervated by the autonomic nervous system. An emotion can occur without its typical overt expressions. One can be happy, or feeling love, or excited, or overjoyed, or even angry without anyone else even knowing it. Thus, it seems that the emotion itself is something inner which may or may not issue in overt behavior. Each of your emotions is worth getting to know very well—its nature, its purpose, its expression, its containment, its values, your history with it, your use and misuse of it. Even plants have emotions. I have two potted trees that have been touching for eight years, I move one of them, it took a month, but the other started leaning towards its mate. “And blessed at thou because thou hast established a church among this people; and they shall be established, and they shall be my people. Yeah, blessed is this people who are willing to bear my name (God); for in my name shall they be called; and they are mine” (Mosiah 26.17-18). #RandolphHarris 6 of 6
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. The social structural conditions to which the poor are exposed (chronic unemployment and under-employment, low income, lack of property ownership, absence of saving and chronic shortage of food, money, medical care, and other necessities of life) give rise to distinctive patterns of community and family disorganization. These, in turn, produce a distinctive set of beliefs, attitudes, and values (that is, strong feelings of marginality, of helplessness, of dependence, and of inferiority, weak ego structure; confusion of sexual identification; lack of impulse control; strong present-time orientation, with relatively little ability to defer gratification and plan for the future. The cultural of poverty, however, is not only an adaptation to a set of objective conditions of the larger society. Once it comes into existence, it tends to perpetuate itself from generation to generation because of its effect on the children. By the time underprivileged children are age six or seven they have usually absorbed the basic values and attitudes of their subcultural and are not psychologically geared to take full advantage of the changing conditions or increased opportunities that may occur in their lifetimes. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Initially (time/generation I) structural conditions of poverty give rise to subcultural patterns (that is, family and community disorganization), and both of these create in children and adults the patterns of individual personality and behavior characteristic of the poor (for example, weak ego structure, inability to delay gratification). For persons who first become poor as adults (for example, as a result of migration, economic depression, drought, and so forth), this personality and behavior pattern is an adaptation to changed structural conditions. However, their children know nothing else and tend to recreate the same subcultural patterns and to pass on these same personality and behavior patterns to their children. And so on for succeeding generations—a shared set of individual beliefs, values, and attitudes (cultural of poverty) become self-perpetuating and may persist in spite of changes in the larger structural conditions. Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth, these are one and the same challenge. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6
New generations resemble preceding ones because they confront the same structural conditions and hardships. A housing crisis is increasing poverty levels in California. As of now, 51 percent of adults live in middle-income households, and 29 percent live in lower-income households, while only 20 percent live in upper-income households. The lack of affordable housing, and apartments for middle class, and lower-income families is the reason so many people are struggling to make it. The median cost of a house is now $500,000.00, which is twice the national cost, and homelessness is rapidly increasing across the state. While the region’s median household income is $61,320.00 and the nationwide median is $53,291.00. In contrast the poor are bring in between $14,000.00 to $24,000.00 a year, and there is no place less than $1,000.00 a year for rent. As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our World, none of us can truly rest. Poverty, including rates of unemployment, crime, school dropout rates, and drug use, are assumed to be the result of behavior preferred by individuals living within conditions of poverty. The culture of poverty theory presumes the development of a set of deviant norms, whereby behaviors like drug use and gang participation are viewed as the standard (normative) and even desired behaviors of those living in low-income neighborhoods. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6
Alternatively, individuals behave in ways that are nominally illegal, like participation in the underground economy or participation in gangs, not because they wish to do so or are following cultural norms, but because they have no choice, given the lack of educational and job opportunities available in their neighborhoods. In other words, individual living in poverty may see themselves as forced to turn to illegal methods of getting money, for example by selling drugs, simply to survive within the conditions of the hot economy. Poor children generally share the values, beliefs, and attitudes of the larger society, but as they experience the same lack of socioeconomic opportunity as their parents, they adopt the peculiar social and individual modes of response that characterize the culture of poverty. Also, some people who turn to selling drugs, for instance, to make a living, after they get started, they are not willing to turn to conventional means of earning a living because some of them can make $10,000.00 in a weekend, others have reported making $60,000.00 a month, and they are not willing to give that up to make $10 an hour, as they are making more than a lot of doctors. Hard core drug users spend approximately $60 billion a year on drugs. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6
Although the dealers are putting their lives and freedom in danger with every transaction they make, and many do get shot and beat up, they feel it is worth it because the money gives them something to live for. They can buy brand new cars, houses, and where there is money, there are a lot of beautiful women. If the set of structural conditions persist, they will recreate the same sociocultural and personality patterns in the new generation. Living in poverty and being unable to participate in the economy is oppressive. People are walking on eggshells. If they are accepted for affordable housing, it is a blessing, because most of the waiting lists in most cities are 20,000 people long. Then affordable housing is no way to live. The people are usually the undesirable people like criminals, uneducated, prostitutes, and drug attics. Also, because most people in affordable housing are on government assistance, they do not work due to physical disability or serious mental problems and tend to be dirty, loud, rude, and violent. They also attract a lot of homeless people and that is why people do not want affordable housing in their communities. The solution would be to give people vouchers, like a supplement to their rent, so they could spread out the undesirables, and they are not segregated to one apartment building or neighborhood. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6
When affordable housing is erected in high-income areas, the strong housing prices drop very locally and then it radiates outward over time. The new low-income building can lead to a loss of approximately $17 million, as the poverty values individual decrease by 15 percent. That is why education is to important. Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens, how to work for a living, and the righteous values. Education is not just for the privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right. When people are educated it changes their culturally patterned ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that will be passed on from one generation to the next. That is why a lot of people in the early 19th and 20th century enlisted in the armed services, it taught them discipline and provided education benefits, and helped them learn to deal with society. “The poor and the needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. However, if I the Lord will answer them; I, the God, will not forsake them. I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched grounds into springs.” (Isaiah 41.17-18) #RandolpHarris 6 of 6
Roger Williams called his new home of Rhode Island, Rogue’s Island because it attracted so many misfits. In 1634, the New England officials tried to use reason and scripture against the wayward. Since the Puritans believed they had the whole truth, anyone with whom they reasoned and who then refused to agree with them had to be sinning against one’s own conscience, and this made a criminal out of the individual. We tend to see group differences in behavior (between nations, races, social classes, and so forth) as rooted in the different beliefs and values share within each group, which are in turn generally seem to arise from the different ways people in these groups have been socialized from early in life. Roger Williams came to American to be a voice for civil order, and the citizens were hungry to hears the message of grace. It is important and worthwhile to distinguish among the people a number of purposes in a sociocultural system, which is a set of person and social positions or roles that possess both a culture and a social structure. A culture is a set of cognitive and evaluative beliefs—beliefs about what is or what ought to be—that are shared by the members of a social system and transmitted to new members. A social structure is a persisting and bounded pattern of social relationships (or pattern of behavioral interactions) among the units (that is, persons or positions) in a social system. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5
Anne Hutchinson was a midwife and she also held church meetings church meetings in her house, she claimed that she heard the Spirit of God speaking to her own soul. Women were not allowed to be the head of the church. Anne Hutchinson was accused of preaching falsely; she also violated good practice and church order because she was a woman preaching to men. She was preaching to sixty or eighty people. At that time Governor Winthrop had the mandate to act fast, but he was reluctant to banish anyone from the knit community he desired. During a twenty-four-day synod in which her case was discussed—by now minsters were differing with each other, and the World closed in of Mrs. Hutchinson. In the midst of the turmoil her ally and friend Mary Dyer gave birth to a repulsive monster. Midwife Hutchinson desperately hurried to hide the creature from view, but neighbors glimpsed it and soon word spread that the devil was especially busy among Massachusetts troublemakers. The accusers of Anne Hutchinson were also her judges, and they made no pretense of trial by jury, due process, or even presenting clear charges. She wanted to know what law she had broken. They charged the Fifth Commandment because while it only demanded respect for father and mother, they interpreted it to include all other authority in church and state as well. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5
Values and beliefs are transmitted rather then directly (though not always consciously or intentionally) from agents of socialization to targets through mechanisms such as learning, identification, or internalization. According to Freudian theory, we learn the values of our culture by identifying with parents or others who hold these values and hence take these values as our own. Governor Winthrop, pressing his advantage, called for and received the guilty verdict, so the accusers and judges now turned into sentencers. Almost all members of the General Court found Anne Hutchinson unfit for their society and decreed that she must be imprisoned first and then banished out of their liberties. Not ready to retire, Mrs. Hutchinson wanted to know why she was being banished. “Say no more,” she heard, “the court knows whereof and is satisfied.” Underlying all their anxieties, the Boston Leaders feared that England might find them guilty of tolerating seditious libel, a crime against which they decided to pass their own laws—after the incident. Anne Hutching took her time going into exile. The Reverend John Wilson took delight in reading the order that expelled her, commanding her in the name of Jesus Christ to withdraw as a leper out of the congregation. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5
The prohibition was accepted because it was supported by strong inner forces; it proved to be stronger than anything else. The Prohibitions maintained themselves from generation to generation, perhaps only as the result of a tradition set up by paternal and social authority. An individual, who has violated a taboo, becomes oneself taboo because one has the dangerous property of tempting other to follow one’s example. Sometime later, the great disturber of the peace of Boston also gave birth to a monster, no doubt a menopausal baby who seemed to the whispers to be a divine judgment. Mrs. Hutchinson’s end was violent. After her husband died she moved to Long Island Sound. There, in the conflict that Governor Kieft triggered by foolish policies, Indians attacked and tomahawked her and five children to death. And there was not any light seen, neither fire, nor glimmer, neither Sun, nor Moon, nor the Stars, for so great were the mists of darkness which were upon the face of the land. And it came to pass that it did last for the space of three days that there was no light seen; and there was great mouring and howling and weeping among all the people continually; yeah, great were the groanings of the people, because the darkness and the great destruction which had come upon them. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5
We have established what is practically the most important point in the psychological correspondence between taboo and compulsion neurosis. Research on socialization within the family indicates that children are more influenced by the structure of the family (for example, size, birth order, sibling structure and so forth) than by the values and beliefs that the parents or family share and try to transmit. In looking at the child’s relation to the parents and other socializing agents, a structural approach emphasizes the pattern of the interpersonal relationship where a cultural approach focuses more on the content of the relationship (that is, the ideas and beliefs being communicated). Patterns of discipline (for example, physical punishment verses guilt induction verses reasoning) have been shown to sometimes have greater effect on the child than the values, beliefs, or behavior the discipline is used to promote. Physically punishing children for aggressive behavior tends, paradoxically, to increase their aggressiveness. That is probably while the governors’ and others punished, banished, and later terminated the life of Mrs. Hutchinson and her children, especially because they no longer had a male, their father, to protect them. May God’s purpose and will be relived in out lives and may we accept that will. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5
It is a dangerous and powerful mythology to believe that most humans are rational and act on volition of their own free will. There is so much conflict in the World today because many human behaviors, and much of human action is not the consequence of moral decision, but are the symptoms of medical diseases—in other words, human beings are not free moral agents, but most are foolish medical patients. The journalistic practice of mixing news with comment and the falsification of genuine ideas by clichés threatens public life with spiritual and eventual physical corruption. Repression must be replaced with truth gained through psychoanalytic insight. We recognize the word of God as the most explicit and courageous moralizer, and the divine knowledge and wisdom cannot escape our grip once we lay hands on it, but it is also important to study the mind so that we can understand what is going on psychologically, as well as spiritually with people. Genuine questioning will help to open the interlocutor’s eyes and mind, and it is a preliminary step leading individuals to answer questions, filling one’s own mind as well as our interlocutor’s minds with our interpretations, and silencing the inquiry. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5
Conversation denotes a process through which a new or formerly peripheral universe of discourse comes to function as a person’s authority. The key to understanding conversation resides within the psyche or background of the individual. No one of sound mind and spirit can find appealing the nonsensical World views of many movements. Hence the necessity of milieu control and over stimulating or inhibiting the nervous system by subjecting conversation prospects to extreme physical stress or sensory deprivation. The intensities of the individual ideas become capable of discharge in their entirety, and pass from one idea to another, so that the individual ideas are formed which are crowded with great force. Through the repeated occurrence of this process, the intensity of an entire train of thought may ultimately be concentrated in a single conceptual unit. This is the fact of compression or condensation. It is condensation that is mainly responsible for the strange impression produced by certain situations, for we know of nothing analogous to it in the normal psychic life that is accessible to the consciousness. Some extraordinary event or experience will enable an individual to see the light. There will be a moment of awakening, which functions much like an electrical switch that has just been turned on, suddenly rendering aglow and objectifying what had been invisible, hazy, or anathema only moments earlier. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5
Conversation, conversion is a function of a gradual social learning process rather than a consequence of some dramatic and extraordinary event that affects fertile psychological dispositions. In order to experience conversation and give testimony to it, a person must first learn something about the new interpretive schema. For example, what kind of experience and events are symbolic of conversation? Sometimes the deeper challenge is to reject or turn away from what is being presented, saying no to what others are insisting is right for us to pursue, so that we might more fully align ourselves with more worthy, more relevant challenges. One of our biggest challenges is to break the grip our illusions have on us. For us to overcome illusions, we have to be in a position where we can actually see them for what they are. Sometimes our eyes may truly open only when we are right at big moments, extraordinarily alive moments. Slivers of time when we are profoundly present, often featuring vivid proximity to immense danger, or immense opportunity. A healthy challenge is not meek nor halfhearted nor apologetic about the situation. This is a stand that need to be delivered in a form that serves the best interest of the recipient. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5
Predispositions must be ordered, put into the service of the movement, linked with its values, harnessed to its goals, intermeshed with its own internal requirements as an organized collectivity. Pre-existing motives become relevant mainly as the points of departure of a process of learning and relearning, which the movement must direct. Personal motives are not necessarily extinguished in this process, but they come to be linked with new patterns of conduct which are relevant to, and supportive of, the collective enterprise which the movement represents. Many of us are on amazing journeys of discovery—leading to personal fulfillment and spiritual enlightenment. However, some are on a trek that leads to sorrow, sin, anguish, and despair. We keep our covenants and consecrate our lives to building up the kingdom of God. God will forgive sin and have a close, unbroken relationship with his people. Everyone is offered salvation by grace through faith. “And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Acts 2.21). Our focus should be on our entire life span. The costs and rewards of involvement in a covenant with God can account for the rewards that are expected for good behavior. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5
People frequently behave altruistically. Social action in one direction rather than another is frequently prompted by interpersonal loyalties and obligations. And people often act on the basis of principle or moral considerations. Some people want to help. They want to get along. Leaders are created by social circumstances. Leadership is transactional cutting across expectations, personal characteristics, and social settings. The term charisma is applied to certain quality of individual personality by virtue of which one is set apart from ordinary people and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These are such as are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded as of divine origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual concerned is treated as a leader. Dear Lord in Heaven, thank you that you do not send irritations to make our lives miserable. Thank you for giving us grace to be here. God thank you for the grace to be here. Thank you that you are changing our lives little by little from glory to glory. We believe that our present sufferings are nothing compared to the glory that is coming. Our situation may not be fair, but there is a secret…God is still on the throne. He will make the wrongs right. We are going to get over it and keep moving forward. Bless it be. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5
Measure of giving thanks, helping the underrepresented, and loving members of the community have been linked to participation in charitable programs. Some individuals who are doing well in society know how hard it was for them when they started their lives and had to struggles by themselves to come up in the World, and they see this same phenomenon in others people and want to reach out and provide support to make life a little easier on other individuals. Some movements are good because they are peaceful, supporting, and caring. They offer gentle advice, social inclusion, understand, a sense of community and goods and services needed to support people who may have a requirement. Some members of society are actually looking to conform to social norms and accept the people around them. People who come together for a charitable cause usually have overlapping networks and interpersonal ties for movement recruitment and growth. People are usually recruited by being in close contact, or knowing someone who is familiar to other members. Of course, many people report being drawn to a peaceful social organization by the direct action of God. Subsequent conversation with several individuals who are involved in charitable organizations revealed that significant relationships with relatives or friends has been involved. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5
Recently, Jillian Harris did a brunch fundraiser at her house to raise money for a charitable group called “Mamas for Mamas,” which is an organization that has like a store and they help new mothers and families with clothes for their babies. The close or either new or in like new condition. Jillian Harris was looking for someone to donate all of the items she no longer needed that were for her son Leo, and that is when she came in contact with the Mamas for Mamas team in Kelowna, Canada and they desired gently used baby items. Much like the way Jillian Harris came into contact with Mamas for Mamas, it has been revealed that 82 percent of people are recruited through social networks. The interconnections between movement network attributes and the interpersonal association of potential participants are just as and perhaps even more important in the recruitment process than social-psychological attributes. When Jillian saw how many families were in need in her community, she felt lucky to help out these single mothers who are trying to work and care for their brand-new babies. The team at Mamas for Mamas puts in a lot of effort to help every family that needs their services by providing them with clothes, making sure they have enough money to pay their rent, and even finding a way to feed them. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5
The woman at the charity Mamas for Mamas dedicates their time, love, and service without being paid. With the help of Jillian Harris and a crew called Sticks + Stones, they came together to provide the office/work space of Mamas for Mamas with a renovation that is valued over $200,000.00 and 85 generous donors and sponsors also raised $70,000.00 for Mamas for Mamas. Jillian, her family, the crew from Sticks + Stones and all the other participants took what looked like a traditional office building and turned it into what looks like a luxury house for rich and famous new mothers. The space looks phenomenal! So many businesses and people came together and took time out of their busy schedules to provide materials, donations, and labour to help the project come together. Their ambition to make a revolution and give cohesion to the community by unifying people, helping to organize, created an atmosphere of high exaltation, which greatly facilitates peace and love and support to those in need, while providing kind people with a bonding moment that they will remember always. It is amazing how the community came together and invested in the organization Mamas for Mamas with an aura of invincibility and future triumph. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5
Commitment in the field of social movements suggests that the willingness of people to do what will help maintain the group because it provides what they need. Commitment means the attachment of self to the requirements of social relations that are seen as self-expressive. Commitments links self-interest to social requirements. People can only give what is in their heart, and in the hearts of the people who are linked to Mamas for Mamas is love and concern for the community. This kind of commitment binds members together emotionally, thereby giving rise to group cohesion and solidarity. Gratification flows from attachment to and involvement with other movement member. The moral commitment reflects a beneficial evaluative orientation to the charity and their ideology. Here comment is to reach out and help others, obey the authority of the group, and support its values. Yet, the moral commitment or ideological congruence is not an anomaly. Within many groups there usually are participants who are devoted to advancing the cause on purely moral grounds. Simply put, they do what is righteous. They see it as the way of life. “Do good and share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God (Hebrews 13.16).” #RandolphHarris 4 of 5
True success is not just about money and power. It is also about well-being. If you are not happy, then what does all that work add up to? Showing the love of God through charitable acts is something we call can do. Charity helps bonds of tradition that root people within specific landscapes and near familiar people. The efforts make a difference and uplift other people. Many people also find that helping others makes them feel good, too. In addition, when your kids see you being an upright member in the community, they are much more likely to adopt the same mindset and be giving people when they grow up. When friends and family find out about your charitable donations, they may find themselves more motivated to undertake their efforts to give. The Almighty promises us that if we train ourselves to give in times of ease and hardship, our sustenance will increase. Giving awakens our souls and triggers genuine concern for the well-being of others. The personal sacrifice of giving one’s time or possession, no matter how small, for the sake of helping those in need is a blessing and means purifying our soul’s wealth. From a drop of water to gardens of fruit, we must remember that everything in this World is a gift from God. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5
Newcomers may have been prodded by dreams of self-betterment. They did not always provide for others or for the justice necessary between persona and peoples. Social movements are organized collective manifestations of issues for which people have considerable concern. Movements deliberately attempt to promote or resist change in a group, society, or World order of which they are a part. They do so through a variety of means, not excluding violence, revolution, or withdrawal into Utopian communities. Depending upon the degree of correspondence between the goals of a movement and the value orientation of the observers, a movement can be heroic or despicable, on the side of the angels or in the league with the devil. Some movements are more dramatic than others; some are more successful than others; and some are more significant than others in terms of the range and depth of their consequences. However, seldom are they bland or without controversy. Rarely do they not reflect the ongoing dialectic between the individual and society. Hardly ever do they not demonstrate the relativity of belief systems and the importance of human agency or social action in the ebb and flow of social life. Social movements can function as an important bridge for understanding the relation between the individual and society, between structure and process, and between psychology and sociology. #RandolphHarris 1 of 7
People power is one of the most important resources movements need in order to advance their interests. If a movement is to make headway in its goal attainment efforts, it must reach out, make contact with, and secure potential participants, and then transform at least some of the new recruits into committed members or devotees. Father gives meaning to the environment in which they (the participants) live. Complexity, confusion, hopelessness, and purposelessness are changed into simple understanding, peace, happiness, and a faith in the abstract principles embodied in the person of Father. (He thus) provides an escape from a tortuous mental confusion caused by complex, conflicting circumstances. He gives meaning to the individual life and to the World. However, Individuals who are seen as being especially susceptible to the appeals of movements on the radical right and left are usually dogmatic, highly prejudice, and insecure. The submission to an external cause or authority compensates for the feelings of self-inadequacy, and the desire to escape from an unwanted self. The permanent misfits can find salvation only in complete separation from the self; and they usually find it by losing themselves in the compact collectivity of a mass movement. #RandolphHarris 2 of 7
By renouncing individual will, judgement, and ambition, and dedicating all their powers to the service of an external cause, people involved with movements are lifted off the restless treadmill which can never lead them to fulfillment. Their moral failing often stems from their own wounded vanity, and perhaps from their well-grounded fear that someone or something has indeed successfully unmasked their pretensions. The underlying participation in various contemporary movements is a collective search for identity. It is a search symptomatic of mass society’s failure to generate and sustain meaningful symbols and anchorages, which are seen as the functions of rituals. These people are demanding that society guarantee each individual a sense of personal worth and dignity. Movement participants are seen as those individuals who lack a series of institutional affiliations and group loyalties. In contrast, those people who are well integrated into kinship groups, cohesive local communities, and various intermediate associations are less susceptible to the appeals of social movements. Readiness to participate thus comes from an absence of those conditions that integrate people into the system and constrain them from involvement. Participants in such movements hypothetically meets the previously isolated participants’ needs for social affiliation, a sense of belongingness, and group identity. #RandolphHarris 3 of 7
The belief that one’s life situation is largely a matter of fate or destiny has also been discussed in relation to movement participation. It is hypothesized that subjective powerlessness or little internal control renders the person susceptible to movement appeals and participation. It has also been hypothesized that a strong sense of personal control or system blame, is more likely to lead to movement participation, particularly when the movement is political in orientation. A riotous husband, or a loose wife, has an easy opportunity, assisted by means of the persecution, to rid themselves of one who is a check to their vices. When the inquisitors have taken umbrage against an innocent person, all expedients are used to facilitate one’s condemnation; false oaths and testimonies are employed to prove the accused to be worthy of torture and sacrificed to the bigoted revenge. When making a martyr, people involved in the movement pretend to wish the individual well and act like they are advising one well; and pretended kind hints. If the individual is mute, they will shut that individual up without light, or some other necessity to cause harm; and if that individual declares innocence, they torment one till one either dies with pain or confess oneself guilty. #RandolphHarris 4 of 7
As an important determinant of movement susceptibility is the frustration or tension that supposedly results from status dissonance or inconsistency. The more frequently acute status inconsistencies occur within a population, the greater will be the proportion of that population willing to support programs of social change, even if it is harms innocent people. Some people are, as odd as this sounds, still seeking retribution for the Iberian Conquest of America. From 1492 to 1518, Spanish and Portuguese explores opened up vast parts of Asia and the Americas to European knowledge. In some of the bloodiest chapters in recorded history, the Spanish nearly exterminated the native peoples of the Caribbean islands, toppled and plundered the great inland empires of the Aztec and Incas in Mexico and Peru. Within a single generation of Christopher Columbus’s death in 1506, Spanish conquistadores explored, claimed, and conquered most of South America (except Brazil), Central America, and Southern parts of North America from Florida to California. Led by audacious explorers and military leaders, and usually accompanied by enslaved Africans, they established the authority of Spain and Catholicism over an area that dwarfed their homeland in size and population. #RandolphHarris 5 of 7
They were motivated by religion, growing pride of nation, and dreams of personal enrichment. “We came here,” explained one Spanish foot soldier in Cortes’s legion, “to serve God and the king, and also to get rich.” In two bold and bloody strokes, the Spanish overwhelmed the ancient civilizations of the Aztec and Incas. In two bloody strokes, the Spanish overwhelmed the ancient civilizations of the Aztecs and Incas. In 1519, Hernando Cortes set out with 600 soldiers from coastal Veracruz and marched over rugged mountains to attack Tenochtitlan (modern-day Mexico City), the capital of Montezuma’s Aztec empire. At its height, centuries before, the ancient city in the Valley of Mexico had contained perhaps 200,000 people, but in 1521, following two years of tense relations between the Spanish and the Aztecs, it fell before Cortes’s assault. The Spanish use of horses and firearms provided an important advantage; so did a murderous smallpox epidemic in 1520 that felled thousands of Aztecs. Of course, Puritan Protestantism forcefully shaped much of early America and indirectly influences it still, but millions do not recognize the ethos and many reject it. God exists within and also beyond our World. #RandolphHarris 6 of 7
The past is done. We are supposed to learn from it so not to repeat it. Trying to make one individual pay for the sins of many is insane. Also, if you do not like your own country, you are welcome to leave. “Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you” (Colossians 3.13). Thanksgiving is a day that should be celebrated. It is a day of giving thanks to God for his goodness and his enduring love. It is also a day that we can take time from our busy lives to come together with our families and have a meal. The federal government gives people time off school, and sometimes work so they can go home, eat and bond with their families. Family, gratitude, and thankfulness are the true meaning of Thanksgiving. Put aside differences. Families can be wonderful and enjoyable, focus on the aspects of your family which you are grateful. Have some fun. Maybe you can start a new tradition like baking a cake together, or sharing happy stories. And eat some turkey, but “No legs for me, you can never tell where a bird’s been walkin’” says Archie Bunker. You are children of God, “I covenant with thee that thou shalt have eternal life; and thou shalt serve me and go forth in my name, and shalt gather together my people” (Mosiah 26.20). #RandolphHarris 7 of 7
A new high in lowness. Prejudice is a social attitude propagated among the public by exploiting class for the purpose of stigmatizing some group as inferior so that the exploitation of either the group itself or its resources or both may be justified. People are generally exploited in hard economic times or competitive economic situations or in periods of major socioeconomic change—bringing special trouble; and corporations or individuals may have profited (commercially, agriculturally, economically, legally, and so on) at the expense of an underrepresented group or individual. The structure would produce the kind of alienation from human identity (alienation of human from human) that is expressed not only in economic terms and not only among the subjugated classes. The person is also estranged from the essential source of identity and if purpose for the human species by making one concerned for their safety and unable to trust former connections or new ones, as they tend to be frustrating and unsatisfying. Scapegoating (the practice of singling out any party for unmerited negative treatment or blame) is used to explain the flow of hostility toward the underrepresented individual under conditions of economic stress. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6
A wishing of misfortune upon an individual, is one step short of hating them. Ill will can manifest emotions like contempt, jealousy, envy, and schadenfreude (the emotion of taking pleasure in others’ suffering). When one is carrying ill will toward another, they may not look aggressive, but feel it and emanate it (however subtly), reducing the target to something less than human. Relative deprivation is another oppressive method used by oppressors. They make sure the person has a lack of resources to sustain the diet, lifestyle, activities and amenities that the individual is accustomed to or that is widely encouraged or approved in the society to which they belong. That makes the person not only feel alienated, but as if they not worthy because no matter what they do the individual cannot seem to advance in life. So, an individual is not only enduring poverty, but also facing social exclusions. Relative deprivation has important consequences for both behavior and attitudes, including fear, stress, political attitudes, and participation in collective action. People generally operate so as to maximize their own self-esteem. The individual’s sense of personal mastery over life circumstances is one important ingredient for the achiever. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6
The sense of low self-control is generated by extensive prejudice and discrimination and is a significant element in mobility behavior. One can have control over themselves and gain empowerment by having faith in God, and putting actions behind what one believes in. Demonstrate your faith by knowing that you are a child of God and no matter what circumstances you are facing, you are still worthy of life and worthy of achieving your dreams. God will open doors and create new opportunities and you will have the strength to do what you could not always do. God will show you his favor in unusual ways. Find the dreams in your heart, and keep them in mind every day knowing that they will become a reality. Know that God will comfort your souls, and give unto you success and also those who are with you will experience success. God will grant the strength to bear afflictions, whether they be internal or social. Our souls are precious to God and many people have things in common with us and we will eventually be encouraged and empowered in society. There is a natural power that comes from being a human being. Find your voice and authority to exercise the empowerment that you naturally have. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6
Our natural drive to achieve, along with our urge to move forward and be out front on the issues, tends to appeal to those who are leaders and bearing responsibility for their own visions, goals, objectives, and expected outcomes. Have a willing commitment, communicate with confidence, courage, and obvious intelligence characterized by determination and resilience. People are born with traits that can be cultivated in the direction of leadership. However, there is no doubt that leadership can be cultivated. The characteristics of leadership, necessarily has to have certain decisiveness and confidence comes from knowledge based on studies and training. The fundamental thing is your basic knowledge, the development of your mind, and your ability to apply this knowledge as you go along in life. There are no mistakes in life; there are only lessons. Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great. With internal discipline there goes together a whole set of moral traits, among others perseverance, conscientiousness, and planning one’s actions. Perseverance enables one to reflect—at length strenuously, and patiently—on some selected issues. This reflection helps to overcome discouragement, apathy, self-indulgence, or laziness. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6
Be mentally awake! Every work – and especially a scholarly one—calls for a rationally thought-out regularity, planned action, correctness, order and harmony, to avoid sliding into chaos. Exactness and conscientiousness is important so one can finish all details without leaving any gaps or bundling, and as such is the opposite of superficiality. Dear God, thank you for all of our blessings and help us to welcome challenges in our lives. Please give us the strength to persevere in them. When we are feeling weak, tired or discouraged, please help us to remember we depend on you, God. God, also please bless this great nation, for its people and government as well. Bless humanity and the beautiful creatures and environment you have created. May we take better care of ourselves and our planet. We ask for forgiveness for any disobedience, laziness of spirit and lack of faith. God remembers the dreams he placed in our heart. Get your passion back and know that things will work out to your favor. God is going to finish what he started. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. Bless it be. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6
Everyone I like stays the hell away from me. Attitudes are alive and well and gainfully employed in the sphere of action. The concept attitude should refer to evaluation of objects and only to such evaluations. Our measurement procedures frequently confound what an individual knows about an object and his or her evaluations of that object. Similarly, some have combined measures of what an individual believes should happen in a situation with evaluations of the expected outcomes. Some people cannot make a clear distinction between their evaluations and expectations. Prejudice is thinking ill of others without sufficient warrant. Prejudgments becomes prejudice only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge. Still, prejudice, in a general sense is an inevitable part of contemporary life. Therefore, an analyst finds it necessary to distinguish the prejudice that is truly problematic—in effect, to distinguish simple prejudgments from prejudices. The preferred distinctions posit that the categorical usages of importance are those that are basically inaccurate (stereotypes), or so emotionally engaged that they are rigid (irreversible on new evidence), or those that violate established normative standards (regarding equality, fairness, and so forth in social relations). #RandolphHarris 1 of 8
A rigid emotional attitude toward a human group can be considered irrational. As far as prejudice is concerned, the key point is that social categories are wrongly conceived to have qualities that inhere in the very nature of the category. The errors come in misconceiving and misjudging such groups, and the individual members thereof, as a consequence of misreading the nature of the category involved. Often enough the misreading occurs because the cultural and historical sources of supposed category qualities are not take into account or are attributed to irrelevant features of the category, that is, to a gender, relation, ethnic group, or disability. What makes all this extremely tricky is that it is difficult to demonstrate what, in fact, the appropriate characterizations are for the social categories we find it necessary to employ; and given the powerful control that majorities exercise, pressures are generated that tend to socialize the members of a given category into the very features we discern: some groups are seen as intellectual, others as hostile, or indolent, and dependent. Thus, though demonstrable relevance (correctness) of the attributed qualities to the category is critical, there is typically a seeming relevance (a misread relevance) that beclouds the issue both for the participant and the analyst. #RandolphHarris 2 of 8
In a fifteen-city study under the auspices of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, the evidence concerning cross-situational variation in attitude toward interracial Black-White contact is impressive: in a sample of some 3,000 Whites, 90 percent were consistently optimistic when presented with four different types of contact (working with a Black supervisor, neighborhood integration, children’s playmates, and personal friendship)—and 94 percent accepted all four of these interaction. In addition, 86 percent said they would not mind at all working with a qualified Black supervisor; and 51 percent said they would not mind at all if a Black family with equivalent income and education moved in next door. Attitudes are not general enough to predict behavior across even a relatively narrow range of situations, so that the analyst is forced either to narrow the prebehavior measurement drastically to behavioral intentions that are almost directly matched with the behavior that is being predicted (“Do you intend to cut your sociology class on Wednesday?”) or at least to require, not only a measurement of one’s attitude toward an object, but also an attitude toward the situation in which the object-related behavior takes place. #RandolphHarris 4 of 8
High education is associated with greater tolerance; and indeed, the differences by educational level are sometimes quite impressive. People tend to want to live around those with similar family backgrounds, friends of a certain status, people who share personal experiences, and other idiosyncratic influences. More than 40 percent of people say that the upper-class has a right to keep the lower class out of their neighborhood, and that the lower classes should respect that. 56 percent say that the lower class themselves (not discrimination) are responsible for their inferior jobs, education, and housing; 42 percent agree that certain groups of people use shady practices to get what they want. And contrary to conventional wisdom, social classes indices are of little help in predicting either the perceived environment of the respondent or drug-related behavior among adolescents. Family and friends can basically be seen as a way of focusing on cultural norms and that is often invoked to explain the generalities of widespread attitudes of ethnic rejection, the variety of people encompassed, and the stability of stereotypes. Some people do not want their families involved with others who are known to do drug, prone to certain diseases like lying and jealousy, or who have wild parties and drink. #RandolphHarris 6 of 8
There are also people in society who have a deep faith and God and follow the divine laws and human laws very closely, but do not want their family to be involved with the church nor the media because they see them as “Starters,” which means they are the people who often facilitate trouble. These individuals who like their privacy only want their family to go to work and school and socialize limited with people who are known to be good and safe. There are people who want to protect their family and maintain family values. It is a method to get their family to conform and not be exploited by someone looking for a story, trying to build a case, and ruin their reputation and life. Discipline is conductive to the modeling of the parental attitudes, it is inclined to the child to seek parental approval by internalizing parental attitudes. The prejudice of conformity is not necessarily the active prejudicial hostility of the true bigot. It is one thing to ask about the bigotry that is manifested in strong, situationally unattuned hostility, and that which is simply conventional learning. Some people simply want to make sure their children reflect the everyday and ubiquitous learning of the “right” things to say and do. #RandolphHarris 7 of 8
The authoritarianism is concern with trust, rigidity, obedience, and so forth, and so it does not correlate with prejudice, but rather the meaning, coherence, consistency, and stability. This disposition is not immediately related to the exclusion of any race or class, but with more generalized personality like attitudes of trust, anomie, or status-mindedness. The behavior represents a fact of life. God is wonderful in his design and excellent in his workings. Believer, God overrules all things for your good. The needs-be for all that you have suffered has been most accurately determined by God. Your course is all mapped out by your Lord. Nothing will take him by suppose. There will be no novelties to him. There will be no occurrences which God did not foresee, and which, therefore, he had not provided. God has arranged all, and you have but to patiently wait, and you shall sing a song of deliverance. Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God’s motives, but in understanding his character, in trusting in his promises, and leaning on him and resting in him as the sovereign who knows that he is doing and does all things well. Holy, holy God; we believe that you are holy, and that you were a spirit, and that you are a spirit, and that you will be a spirit forever. And the Lord provided for us that we should not hunger nor thirst. He also gave us strength, that we should suffer no manner of afflictions. #RandolphHarris 8 of 8
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