When people perform a version of themselves that is opportunistic or false, it can dominate spaces meant for genuine expression. This erasure of authenticity often silences those who are already marginalized or struggling. The idea that some profit off the labor and suffering of others — without contributing meaningfully — is a recurring theme in both global and domestic economies. America’s history of systemic inequality, especially for communities that have been here for generations, mirrors the exploitative conditions often criticized abroad. The difference is sometimes only in branding, not in substance. Criticizing sweatshops overseas while ignoring domestic labor exploitation — from underpaid service workers to undocumented labor — reveals a selective moral lens. The term “slave wages” is not hyperbole for many Americans who work full-time for years, 16 hours a day, seven days a week, without a vacation, and still live in poverty. The MTV quote — “You think you know, but have no idea” — captures the pain of being misjudged. People often assume they understand someone’s life based on surface impressions, but they miss the silent battles, the sacrifices, the trauma endured just to survive. Britney’s lyric — “Be wary of others, those closest to you…” — resonates with the heartbreak of familial betrayal. When love turns into manipulation or neglect, it is not just painful — it is disorienting. The very people meant to protect you become the source of harm. #RandolphHarris 1 of 27

The observation that broken families often drift from spiritual grounding is poignant. When the guiding principles of compassion, humility, and grace are lost, relationships fracture. The holidays, meant to be a time of unity, can instead expose these wounds, but at least you are seeing the reality that it is not you who is the drama. Sometimes people hide feelings of inequality and jealousy towards you. Your life—you are supposed to be nothing more than a blood sacrifice to bring them wealth and status. While some people are so heartbroken that they could not be there for their loved ones who died at a young age, others are trying to sweep their family member into an ocean like an unwanted thought. Some people feel like you are supposed to be there just for them to take advantage of, and then discard of like rotten food. When you have given all you could — emotionally, financially, physically — and still faced ingratitude, forgiveness becomes a gift to yourself. It is the final act of love: not for them, but for your own peace. However, the goal is not just to survive in this world; it is to transform your pain into wisdom. God gave His one and only Son so that we could live, and He used his pain to create human beings. Human beings, to God, are the most precious life forms on earth. “I will make a man more precious than fine gold,” reports Isiah 13.12. And so, maybe our goal on this planet is not only to teach others the love of God, but also to learn to turn pain into wisdom as God did. #RandolphHarris 2 of 27

People who already carry heavy burdens are often the ones pressured to “step up,” because they are empathetic, responsible, or simply used to surviving without support. Meanwhile, those with more resources sometimes avoid responsibility, neglect their own obligations, or even damage what others have worked hard to maintain. That imbalance creates resentment — not because someone is unwilling to give, but because they are being drained by people who do not appreciate. The shift from innocent curiosity to invasive control, and how that shift can poison relationships that were meant to be built on trust, respect, and healthy boundaries, can be a hindrance. Snooping through an adult child’s email or bank accounts crosses a line from care into control. It often leads to misinterpretation because people who spy are usually looking through the lens of their own fears, insecurities, or assumptions. Instead of understanding, it creates suspicion and resentment. It is a far cry from kids sneaking a peek at Christmas gifts. That was about wonder. This is about power. If someone cannot appreciate what you have already given — emotionally, financially, materially — why would they suddenly respect something even more valuable when they uprooted what you have provided, damaged what you entrusted to them, or treated your generosity as an entitlement, rather than a gift? People sometimes forget that value is not just the price tag—it is the intention, the sacrifice, the love behind it. #RandolphHarris 3 of 27

I know people say that everyone is going through something horrible, but some people are only going through something horrible because they did bad things to get to where they are in live in luxury. Others are enduring a tremendous amount of weight. They face the kind of exhaustion that comes from fighting battles most people never see, never acknowledge, and often never believe. When someone is pushing themselves to survive, to improve, to protect themselves, and to hold their life together under pressure that would break most people, the toll is enormous. Some people are carrying: Physical strain from overwork or constant stress, emotional wounds from being targeted, mistreated, or undermined, psychological pressure from feeling unsafe or constantly on guard, social isolation because no one around them understands the depth of what they are enduring, and the fear of what is to come. When someone is pushed to the point of pain, bleeding, or blacking out from exhaustion, that is not “just stress.” That is a sign of a person who has been forced into survival mode for far too long. When someone is being targeted or harmed—whether by people, circumstances, or systems—it can create a sense of being under siege. That experience is real, and the suffering is real, even when the situation is complicated or misunderstood by others. This is the kind of pressure that leaves a person: Hypervigilant, drained, physically depleted, emotionally raw, and often completely unsupported. No one should have to endure that alone. #RandolphHarris 4 of 27

One of the hardest parts of suffering is that outsiders often minimize it. They assume: “You are fine.” “You are overreacting.” “You are imagining things.” However, they do not feel the pain in your body. They do not live with the fear or exhaustion. They do not see the nights you barely make it through. Your experience deserves to be taken seriously. It is an incredibly painful and disorienting experience —feeling harmed, feeling unsafe, doing everything you are “supposed” to do by reporting it, and still being met with dismissal or indifference. Anyone in that position would feel exhausted, resentful, and deeply alone. When authorities say it is a “civil issue,” hearing that phrase when you are reporting something life-threatening or dangerous can feel defeating. Like you life does not matter. It often means: They do not see enough evidence to classify it as a criminal matter, they are limited in what they can act on, they are treating it as a dispute, rather than harm. None of that makes your experience any less real or any less distressing. It just means the system is not built to respond to every kind of threat or crime in the way people need. And that gap—between what you are living and what they are willing to acknowledge—is where the pain grows. When someone is dealing with ongoing stress, fear, or harm, and the people who are required by law do not act, it creates a sense of being trapped. It is not just your imagination. That is a very human response to being unheard. When you are tired, when you have been fighting for so long, you just want to rest. You want safety. You want someone to take you seriously. #RandolphHarris 5 of 27

Even when authorities or doctors do not act the way you hoped, it does not mean your experience is unimportant. It does not mean you are overreacting. It does not mean you are wrong to feel the way you do. It means that you are dealing with something overwhelming, and you need people who will actually listen and take your case seriously. When someone feels unheard by authorities, or when reports do not lead to action, documentation becomes a kind of shield. Lawyers often recommend it because: It creates a timeline that cannot be dismissed later, it shows patterns, not just isolated incidents, it preserves details you might forget under stress, and it demonstrates that you have been consistent and proactive. If the situation escalates or if another agency finally takes it seriously, it can become evidence. Even when it feels like no one is listening, the record you keep can become the thing that finally forces someone to pay attention. If I Go Missing (directed by Stefan Brogren, written by Andrea Shawcross, starring Emma Elle Paterson, Hannah Vandenbygaart, and Robert Bazzocchi) reaches into something that is very real. It references how a person’s struggles can be overlooked until it is too late, and how the truth of someone’s life is often far more complex than what others assume. It is the kind of story that resonates with people who have felt invisible, dismissed, or misjudged—people who have had to fight to be believed. It also reflects that you must be careful who you trust and who you accuse. And there is always the most important source you can turn to for help. That is God. God listens to all your prayers, and Jesus Christ is fighting all your battles even before you get there. Just remember to take the limits off God and magnify what is going right in your life. Find things to do that make you happy. Be focused on the constancy of the plan of the Lord, with its fixed, eternal law, and the security of enduring justice, and the tenderness of mercy when earned by obedience. God has an unending variety of possibilities that He has provided for us. We have so much freedom, so many opportunities to develop our unique personalities and talents, our individual memories, our personalized contributions. #RandolphHarris 6 of 27

Be sure to take the time to discover how beautiful each day can be. Doing the law, of course, presupposes hearing the law. Yet, even this formation is questionable, because it might be taken to imply a differentiation and separation of hearing as the prerequisite and doing as the consequence. However, if hearing is made independent of doing and if it acquires a right of its own, this means that doing itself is once again already disrupted. Certainly, the doer of the law must also be a hearer, but only in the sense that the hearer is always at the same time the doer (James 1.22). A hearing which does not at the same instant become a doing becomes once again that “knowing” which gives rise to judgment and so leads to the disruption of all action. If what is heard does not become doing, but if it becomes this “knowing,” then, paradoxical as this may sound, it is already “forgotten” (James 1.25). No matter how long it may be stored up, reconsidered, and elaborated as knowledge, it is forgotten as that which it essentially is, namely, as that which points solely and entirely towards action. The hearer of the word who is not at the same time the doer of the word thus inevitably falls victim to self-deception (James 1.22). A hearing which does not at the same instant become a doing becomes once again that “knowing” which gives rise to judgment and so leads to the disruption of all action. If what is heard does not become doing, but if it becomes this “knowing,” then paradoxical as this may sound, it is already “forgotten” (James 1.25). No matter how long it may be stored up, reconsidered, and elaborated as knowledge, it is forgotten as that which it essentially is, namely, as that which points solely and entirely towards action. #RandolphHarris 7 of 27

The hearer of the word who is not at the same time the doer of the word thus inevitably falls victim to self-deception (James 1.22). Believing himself to know and to possess the word of God, he has, in fact, already lost it again, because he imagines that a man can possess the word of God for a single instant otherwise than in doing it. St. James’s polemic against the hearer of the word corresponds exactly to Jesus’s polemic against the Pharisees. It is not that the zealous hearer of the word to whom St. James refers does not engage in many kinds of action, just as the Pharisee indeed was certainly not backward in action, but this doing is secondary to the hearing; it is connected with it through the intermediacy of knowing; the hearing is in itself an independent entity and the doing is now added to it as another; it is therefore false doing, self-deception, or as Jesus calls it, hypocrisy. It is self-deception because the man who performs this false action does, in fact, suppose himself to be the one who is acting genuinely and cannot but utterly reject the reproach of hypocrisy. One is making the mistake of psychologizing the antithesis between the hearer and the doer of the word if one represents it as an antithesis between thinking and willing or between theory and practice. The Pharisee, too, knew that the word of God demands not only the thought but also the will, not only the theory but also the practice, and accordingly he exercises his will no less than his understanding in obedience to the word. It was not the thought and the will that the Pharisee failed to unite, but precisely the hearing and the doing. #RandolphHarris 8 of 27

For the hearer of the word who makes the hearing independent, there is the saying that “the doer shall be blessed in his doing” (James 1.25). The doer is here, the man who simply knows of no other possible attitude to the word of God when he has heard it than to do it; who therefore continues to concern himself strictly with the word itself and does not derive from it a knowledge for himself on the basis of which he might become the judge of his brother, of himself, and eventually also a judge. A hasty explanation could assert that to pray is a useless act, because a man’s prayer does not alter the unalterable. However, would this be desirable in the long run? Could not fickle man easily come to regret that he had gotten God changed? The true explanation is, therefore, at the same time the one most to be desired. The prayer does not change God, but it changes the one who offers it. It is the same with the substances of what is spoken. Not God, but you, the maker of the confession, get to know something by your act of confession. Much that you are able to keep hidden in darkness, you first get to know by your opening it to the knowledge of the all-knowing One. Even the most atrocious misdeeds are committed, even blood is spilt, and many times it must in truth be said of the guilty one: he knew not what he did. Perhaps he died, without ever in repentance really getting to know what it was he had done. For does passion ever properly know what it does? Does not passion’s insidious temptation and its apparent excuse center in that deceptive ignorance about itself because, in the instant, it has forgotten the Eternal? For if passion continues in a man, it changes his life into nothing but instants, and as passion cunningly serves its deluded master, it gradually gains the ascendancy until the master serves it like a blind serf! #RandolphHarris 9 of 27

For when hate, and anger, and revenge, and despondency, and melancholy, and despair, and fear of the future, and reliance on the world, and trust in oneself, and pride that infuses itself even into sympathy, and envy that even mingles itself with friendship, and that inclination that may have changed but not for the better: when these dwell in a man—when was it without the deceptive excuse of ignorance? And when a man remained ignorant of them, was it not precisely because he at the same time remained ignorant of the fact that there is an all-knowing One. Yes, if he was deprived either of the opportunity or the capacity to learn, there is an ignorance which no one needs be troubled over. However, there is an ignorance about one’s own life that is equally tragic for the learned and for the simple, for both are bound by the same responsibility. This ignorance is called self-deceit. There is an ignorance that, by degrees, as more and more is learned, gradually changes into knowledge. However, there is only one thing that can remove that other ignorance which is self-deception. And to be ignorant of the fact that there is one thing and only one thing, and that only one thing is necessary, is still to be in self-deception. The ignorant one may have been ignorant of much. He can increase his knowledge, and still there is much that he does not know. However, if the self-deluded one speaks of quantity, and of variety, then he is still in self-deception, still deeply ensnared by and in the grip of multiplicity. The ignorant man can gradually acquire wisdom and knowledge, but the self-deluded one if he won “the one thing needful” would have won purity of heart. #RandolphHarris 10 of 27

Nietzsche’s tragedy is found here once again. The aims and prophecies are generous and universal, but the doctrine is restrictive, and the reduction of every value to historical terms leads to the direst consequences. Marx thought that the ends of history, at least, would prove to be moral and rational. That was his Utopia. However, Utopia, at least in the form he knew it, is destined to serve cynicism, of which he wanted no part. Marx destroys all transcendence, then carries out, by himself, the transition from fact to duty. However, his concept of duty has no other origin but fact. The demand for justice ends in injustice if it is not primarily based on an ethical justification of justice; without this, crimes themselves one day become a duty. When good and evil are reintegrated in time and confused with events, nothing is any longer good or bad, but only either premature or out of date. Who will decide on the opportunity, if not the opportunists? Later, say the disciples, you shall judge. However, the victims will not be there to judge. For the victim, the present is the only value, rebellion the only action. Messianism, in order to exist, must construct a defense against the victims. It is possible that Marx did not want this, but in this lies his responsibility which must be examined, that he incurred by justifying, in the name of the revolution, the henceforth bloody struggle against all forms of rebellion. Therefore, today, one cannot yet see in any way how the management of politics as a “vocation” will shape itself. Even less can one see along what avenue opportunities are opening to which political talents can be put for satisfactory political tasks. He who, by his material circumstances, is compelled to live “off” politics will almost always have to consider the alternative positions of the journalist or the party official as the typical direct avenue. Or, he must consider a position as representative of interest groups—such as a trade union, a chamber of commerce, a farm bureau, a craft association, a labor board, an employer’s association, et cetera, or else a suitable municipal position. #RandolphHarris 11 of 27

Nothing more than this can be said about this external aspect: in common with the journalist, the part official bears the odium of being declasse. “Wage writer,” or “wage speaker” will unfortunately always resound in his ears, even though the words remain unexpressed. He who is inwardly defenseless and unable to find the proper answer for himself had better stay away from this career. In any case, besides grave temptations, it is an avenue that may constantly lead to disappointments. Now then, what inner enjoyments can this career offer, and what personal conditions are presupposed for one who enters this avenue? Well, first of all, the career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one’s hand a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions. However, now the question for him is: Through what qualities can I hope to do justice to this power (however narrowly circumscribed it may be in the individual case)? How can he hope to do justice to the responsibility that power imposes upon him? With this, we enter the field of ethical questions, for that is where the problem belongs: What kind of a man must one be if he is to be allowed to put his hand on the wheel of history? One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion. #RandolphHarris 12 of 27

This means passion in the sense of matter-of-factness, of passionate devotion to a “cause,” to the god or demon who is its overlord. It is not passion in the sense of that inner bearing which my late friend, Georg Simmel, used to designate as “sterile excitation,” and which was peculiar especially to a certain type of Russian intellectual (by no means all of them!). It is an excitation that plays so great a part with our intellectuals in this carnival we decorate with the proud name of “revolution.” It is a “romanticism of the intellectually interesting,” running into emptiness devoid of all feeling of objective responsibility. To be sure, mere passion, however genuinely felt, is not enough. It does not make a politician, unless passion, as devotion to a “cause,” also makes responsibility to this cause the guiding star of action. And for this, a sense of proportion is needed. This is the decisive psychological quality of the politician: his ability to let realities work upon him with inner concentration and calmness. Hence, his distance to things and men. “Lack of distance’ per se is one of the deadly sins of every politician. It is one of those qualities the breeding of which will condemn the progeny of our intellectuals to political incapacity. For the problem is simply how can warm passion and a cool sense of proportion be forged together in one and the same soul? Politics is made with the head, not with other parts of the body or soul. And yet, devotion to politics, if it is not to be frivolous intellectual play but rather genuinely human conduct, can be born and nourished alone. #RandolphHarris 13 of 27

However, that firm taming of the soul, which distinguishes the passionate politician and differentiates him from the “sterilely excited” and mere political dilettante, is possible only through habituation to detachment in every sense of the word. The “strength” of a political “personality” means, in the first place, the possession of these qualities of passion, responsibility, and proportion. Therefore, daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity, the deadly enemy of all matter-of-fact devotion to a cause, and of all distance, in this case, of distance towards one’s self. Vanity is a very widespread quality, and perhaps nobody is entirely free from it. In academic and scholarly circles, vanity is a sort of occupational disease, but precisely with the scholar, vanity—however disagreeably it may express itself—is relatively harmless; in the sense that as a rule, it does not disturb scientific enterprise. With the politician, the case is quite different. He works with the striving for power as an unavoidable means. Therefore, “power instinct,” as is usually said, belongs indeed to his normal qualities. The sin against the lofty spirit of his vocation, however, begins where this striving for power ceases to be objective and becomes purely personal self-intoxication, instead of exclusively entering the service of “the cause.” For ultimately, there are only two kinds of deadly sins in the field of politics: lack of objectivity and—often but not always identical with it—irresponsibility. #RandolphHarris 14 of 27

Vanity, the need personally to stand in the foreground as clearly as possible, strongly tempts the politician to commit one or both of these sins. This is more truly the case as the demagogue is compelled to count upon “effect.” He, therefore, is constantly in danger of becoming an actor as well as taking lightly the responsibility of the outcome of his actions and of being concerned merely with the “impression” he makes. His lack of objectivity tempts him to strive for the glamorous semblance of power rather than for actual power. His irresponsibility, however, suggests that he enjoy power rather just because, power is the unavoidable means, and striving for power is one of the driving forces of all politic, there is no more harmful distortion of political force than the parvenu-like braggart with power, and the vain self-reflection in the feeling of power, and in general every worship of power per se. The mere “power politician” may get strong effects, but actually, his work leads nowhere and is senseless. (Among us, too, an ardently promoted cult seeks to glorify him.) In this, the critics of “power politics” are absolutely right. From the sudden inner collapse of typical representatives of this mentality, we can see what inner weakness and impotence hides behind this boastful but entirely empty gesture. It is a product of a shoddy and superficially blasé attitude towards the meaning of human conduct; and it has no relation whatsoever to the knowledge of tragedy with which all action, but especially political action, is truly interwoven. The final result of political action often, no, even regularly, stands in a completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning. #RandolphHarris 15 of 27

This is fundamental to all history. And because of this fact, the serving of a cause must be absent if action is to have inner strength. Exactly what the cause, in the service of which the politician may serve uses power, looks like a matter of faith. The politician may serve national, humanitarian, social, ethical, cultural, worldly, or religious ends. The politician may be sustained by a strong belief in “progress”—no matter in which sense—or he may cooly reject this kind of belief. He may claim to stand in the service of an “idea” or, rejecting this in principle, he may want to serve external ends of everyday life. However, some kind of faith must always exist. Otherwise, the curse of the creature’s worthlessness indeed overshadows even the externally strongest political success. In principle, institutionalization may take place in any area of collectively relevant conduct. In actual fact, sets of institutionalization processes take place concurrently. There is no a priori reason for assuming that these processes will necessarily “hang together” functionally, let alone as a logically consistent system. Habitualization or incipient institutionalization may occur with their being functionally or logically integrated as social phenomena, regardless of what content their relevance might have. Also, functional, or logical integration cannot be assumed a priori when habitualization or institutionalization processes are limited to the same individuals or collectives, rather than to the discrete ones. Nevertheless, the empirical fact remains that institutions do tend to “hang together.” You are holding in your hands the most concise and easy-to-understand information concerning the seal of God and the mark of the beast. You see, evil, accessible and acceptable. You want to talk about the mark of the beast; you have been holding it. #RandolphHarris 16 of 27

Without the mark of the beast, individuals may face significant limitations in various aspects of daily life, particularly in a Christian apocalyptic context. Economic restriction—the mark of the beast is often associated with the inability to engage in commerce, meaning individuals cannot purchase goods or services. As the penny is being phased out, this is foreshadowing the end of physical currency. Social implications—those without the mark of the beast may be ostracized or marginalized, facing difficulties in social interactions and community participation. Without the mark of the beast, how will you keep up with family, friends, and other professionals? Access to resources—essential resources, such as food and shelter, may become inaccessible without the mark of the beast, leading to survival challenges. With cash and physical credit cards becoming archaic, how will you pay for goods and services, start your car, or apply for a mortgage? Religious context—in some interpretations, not having the mark may signify a commitment to faith, but it could also lead to persecution or suffering. How will you pay tithes or prove who you are? What is the mark of the beast? According to Revelation 13.16-18, “And he cases all, both small and great, rich and poor, freed and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six; 666. The glowing talisman you carry binds you to the beast’s kingdom. #RandolphHarris 17 of 27

Wherever possible, let us not use a language remote from common understanding. Wherever possible, we should avoid language that feels remote from everyday understanding. However, when clarity requires a bit more effort, we trust people to rise to the task. Fire safety works the same way: the basics are simple, but the responsibility is shared. Learn the essentials, understand the risks, and take the steps that keep you—and everyone around you–safe. Heat is one of the most dangerous things that firefighters face at any blaze. Firemen can tell when the room or building they are in is getting too hot because they can feel a sensation like bee stings on their skin through all the protective gear that they are wearing. In the early days of firefighting, the men did not have the advantages of technology to protect them from the heat. Burns were a common occurrence because most of the time, protection consisted of a leather helmet and a rubber coat, and boots. More recently, a two-story structure was engulfed in flames. Numerous attempts were made to rescue a pair of children trapped in a bedroom, but the men were driven back by the intense heat. The house next door was rapidly scorching. The department set up between the two buildings and battled to save them. This is where three men were burned in the intense heart. Two firemen were seriously burned about the faces, hands, and arms, and another fireman was less seriously burned by the heat. At the height of the blaze, the flames and heat were being carried over 100 feet by the wind. The heat ignited the roof of a house across the street, but that blaze was quickly extinguished. The two children perished in the blaze, but in a twist of fate, two of the other children and their parents were at the doctor’s and had been away all morning. All three firemen eventually returned to work. #RandolphHarris 18 of 27

State Farm has grants available for fire prevention, and so do other larger companies in your response area, such as utilities, factories, and universities. Consider setting u a meeting with an official to discuss what your organization can do for them, and what they expect from you. Sometimes the discussion can expose needs that they may be able to help with. For instance, a factory may provide funding for specialized equipment or training that could benefit them in an emergency. A university might provide the facilities for a training seminar or conduct research for you. Finally, these companies have numerous resources and may direct you to unadvertised grant opportunities. The Heritage Program is one of the most beneficial programs to the fire service and has provided numerous types of equipment to fire departments. As of June 2013, the fund had distributed more than $30 million to the fire service, including more than $1 million for national efforts, such as the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), the National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF), the Everyone Goes Home (EGH) program, and the National Volunteer Fire Council’s (NVFC) Heart-Healthy Fire Fighter Program. FM Global Fire Prevention Grant is a great resource. FM Global believes that the majority of fires can be prevented and therefore offers funds to organizations that fight fire. Grants are available for fire prevention programs, such as smoke detector installations or fire safety education, as well as prefire planning software and computers. Help the award-winning Sacramento Fire Department stay fully equipped and ready to protect our community. Your donation directly supports public safety and national security. #RandolphHarris 19 of 27

If you see a fire truck stopped in the street without the lights on, be very careful. Sometimes there is an emergency, and you should not pass the fire truck. It might be a good idea to safely turn around and go another way because if you hit someone and they happen to die, you could be charged with manslaughter. Sometimes fire firefighters are getting back into their vehicle, and if you pass the apparatus, you may collide with a firefighter who is on foot. Also, be sure to look at their signals; sometimes emergency vehicles are in motion, albeit slowly, and drivers try to pass them, and this could lead to a dangerous situation. Also, if you are in an intersection when you see an emergency vehicle, continue through the intersection. Drive to the right as soon as it is safe and stop. Obey any direction, order, or signal given by a law enforcement officer or a firefighter. Even if they conflict with existing signs, signals, or laws, follow their orders. When their siren or flashing lights are on, it is against the law to follow within 300 feet of any fire engine, law enforcement vehicle, ambulance, or other emergency vehicle. If you drive to the scene of a fire, collision, or other disaster, you can be arrested. When you do this, you are getting in the way of firefighters, ambulance crews, or other rescue and emergency personnel. The concept of professional courage does not always mean being as tough as nails, either. It also suggests a willingness to listen to other people’s problems, to go to bat for them in a tough situation, and it means knowing just how far they can go. It also means being willing to tell the boss when he or she is wrong. #RandolphHarris 20 of 27

According to the U.S. State Department, the number of American citizens living in Mexico increased by 75 percent between 2019 and 2025, reaching an estimated 1.8 million people. Many of these individuals work remotely for U.S. companies while taking advantage of Mexico’s lower cost of living, natural beauty, and vibrant culture—and they are thriving. California illustrates the severity of the affordability crisis anc corruption. Under Gavin Newsom’s controll, nearly $80 billion has been wasted and/or stolen. Also, California is now the third most expensive state in the nation and is facing a $20 billion budget deficit, reflecting the financial strain on its residents. In 37 percent of California counties, a family of four earning a six‑figure income is considered low‑income. The average home price in the state is approaching $1 million, while the average salary is just over $96,000—making homeownership unattainable for most Californians. The situation is even more stark for individuals. In five counties—Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin—a single person earning more than $100,000 a year is now classified as low‑income. Traditional mortgage guidelines recommend spending no more than 28 percent of gross income on a mortgage payment and no more than 36 percent on total debt. Based on the median household income in Sacramento County, a homeowner can afford a mortgage payment of about $2,070 per month, or up to $2,661 for all debts combined. Yet home prices in Sacramento County require far higher incomes. To purchase a typical home using standard lending guidelines, a household would need to earn roughly $135,000 per year. In reality, the median household income in Sacramento County is about $88,724—often with two to four people working to support the mortgage. This mismatch raises serious questions about how lenders are qualifying buyers for such expensive homes. #RandolphHarris 21 of 27

Home prices in Sacramento County are now rivaling those in the Bay Area, and in some cases, Bay Area homes are actually more affordable. Historically, the Bay Area has commanded higher prices due to higher‑paying jobs, a larger population, and its status as a major tourist destination. Sacramento’s rapid price escalation signals a deepening affordability crisis. According to this viewpoint, state leadership has contributed to the problem. Governor Gavin Newsom has directed taxpayer‑funded resources and cash aid toward individuals in the country illegally, while state workers—who keep California running—are overdue for a 25 percent wage increase. This prioritization, critics argue, worsens the affordability crisis and leaves California residents struggling to keep up with rising costs. Additionally, while California is facing one of the most severe affordable‑housing crises in the nation, yet at the same time the state has embarked on an extraordinarily expensive renovation of the Capitol building—known as “The Castle”—in Sacramento. According to public reports, the project has already cost taxpayers more than $1.2 billion, and some analysts estimate the final price could reach as high as $5 billion before completion. Classical buildings rely on stone or stone-like finishes. Modern additions often use concrete, glass, steel, or flat stucco, which can feel cheap or abrupt next to marble-like surfaces. Because the addition is bulkier, taller, or visually heavier, it overpowers the original architecture of the Ancient Greek and Roman design. Critics argue that Capitol buildings are not just architecture — they are civic symbols. When an addition does not “speak the same language,” people feel like the symbolism has been diluted, such unnecessary spending reflects deeper structural problems in the state’s governance. They point to decades‑old laws that restrict housing supply and discourage home sales, as well as concerns about bureaucratic inefficiency, corruption, and wasteful government spending. These factors, they contend, have contributed to soaring rents, limited housing availability, and a growing sense that state priorities are misaligned with the needs of ordinary Californians. The consequences of these policies are increasingly visible. #RandolphHarris 22 of 27

Between 2018 and 2023, California received $24 billion to fund 30 homeless and housing programs. These programs produced 100,000 housing units—an average cost of $240,000 per unit. For comparison, Roger Lucas, owner of Grand Castle, LLC, spent $50 million to build The Grand Castle, a 522‑unit residential community in Grandville, Michigan. The development includes studios, one‑bedroom, two‑bedroom, and three‑bedroom units, as well as a multi‑level penthouse. Rents range from $1,000 to $2,500. Built on a 23.6‑acre site, the community features 750 covered parking spaces, a clubhouse, and a resort‑style pool, and was completed in just 12 to 18 months. The average cost per unit was approximately $95,785—about $144,000 less per unit than California’s publicly funded projects. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the nation at 5.4 percent, compared to the national average of 4.5 percent. As household bills surge and the minimum wage rises to $20 an hour, people living on Social Security retirement benefits are especially strained, with monthly checks effectively equating to $5 to $7 an hour. Meanwhile, as Americans struggle to find and afford housing, Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills on February 7, 2025—SBX1 1 and SBX1 2, both part of the Budget Act of 2024—allocating $50 million to protect individuals in the country illegally from deportation. Additionally, the governor extended free health care to 700,000 undocumented immigrants, costing taxpayers $3 billion annually. At the same time, funding was reduced for programs serving veterans, schoolchildren, people with disabilities, and the homeless. Given these circumstances, it is understandable that many people who are legally in the United States—and paying between 30 and 90 percent of their income in taxes—are deeply frustrated. #RandolphHarris 23 of 27

Advocates argue that the crisis unfolding in California—driven by Democratic policies—is pushing home prices, mortgages, and rents higher not only across the United States but around the world, making everyday life increasingly unaffordable. Many believe the situation is far from stabilizing. At the same time, China—where the United States has outsourced significant jobs and capital—has more than 50 ghost cities containing an estimated 65 million vacant homes. These ghost cities are the result of massive overdevelopment in areas where few or no people live. By contrast, if all categories of homelessness are counted, California is estimated to have as many as 4 million homeless individuals. The state also has the highest home prices in the nation, the highest taxes, and some of the most restrictive business regulations anywhere. Because of what critics describe as a hostile environment for both residents and employers, more than 360 companies have left California since 2020. Additionally, more than 500,000 residents leave the state each year because it has become too expensive to live in. Critics also point to Governor Gavin Newsom’s policies, including the criminalization of homelessness and the arrest of individuals without housing, rising crime, and widespread job losses as companies continue to move operations elsewhere. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, compared to the national average of 4.1 percent. Advocates argue that the crisis created by Democratic leadership is driving up housing costs nationwide and globally, and that the situation is far from resolved. California is also home to more than 3.5 million undocumented immigrants. #RandolphHarris 24 of 27

America is facing a slow‑moving crisis that too few people are willing to confront: we are losing farmland at a pace that threatens our long‑term ability to feed ourselves. Much like the land shortage unfolding in Las Vegas—where rapid development has pushed the city to the edge of its buildable limits—we risk running out of the agricultural land that sustains our food supply. Once farmland is paved over, it is gone forever. And if we continue down this path, the consequences could be severe. Food security is national security. A nation that cannot grow its own food is a nation that must rely on others for survival. In a world already strained by geopolitical tensions, climate pressures, and supply‑chain disruptions, the idea of future “food wars” is not far‑fetched. Protecting American farmland today is an investment in tomorrow’s stability. One of the most effective ways to safeguard our agricultural base is to support the farmers and ranchers who keep it productive. That starts with buying American‑made beef, poultry, dairy, and produce. When consumers choose domestic products, they strengthen the economic foundation of rural communities. They also send a clear signal to investors: American agriculture is worth backing. The imbalances we saw in the past are exactly why President Trump implemented traffis: to protect American industries, reduce trade deficits, and prevent the United States from being taken advantage of economically. The goal, in this view, is to return America to the status of a creditor nation rather than one borrowing money to support other countries. According to this perspective, President Trump’s tariff policies generate approximately $400 billion in annual revenue and help create hundreds of thousands of jobs. #RandolphHarris 25 of 27

When Americans shop locally, they do more than support their neighbors—they strengthen the national economy. Every dollar spent on American‑made goods circulates back into our communities, generating tax revenue that funds schools, infrastructure, and public services. It keeps jobs here at home, ensures wages rise naturally, and reduces the burden on taxpayers. In contrast, buying foreign goods often means lighter tax loads for overseas companies and money flowing out of our economy, strengthening other nations at our expense. There are environmental benefits too. American‑made products travel shorter distances, reducing carbon emissions. And unlike many foreign manufacturers, American companies are held to higher standards for pollution control. They must dispose of waste responsibly and protect our air, land, and water. Supporting them is not only patriotic—it’s environmentally responsible. Under President Trump’s administration, policies have emphasized prioritizing American workers and industries. Efforts to secure the border, reduce illegal crossings, and crack down on drug trafficking have been paired with significant investment in U.S. manufacturing, production, and innovation. These measures have helped channel trillions of dollars back into American industry, reinforcing the pledge to “Make America Great Again.” The lesson is clear: when we buy American, we invest in ourselves. We protect farmland, preserve jobs, reduce pollution, and strengthen our economy. We also reduce reliance on foreign nations and help lower the national debt by keeping tax revenue at home. The human intellect we possess today, so rich and capable, did not appear suddenly. It evolved through countless stages, shaped by experience, struggle, and the gradual awakening of self‑awareness.  And yet, for all our progress, something essential is missing. We have had scientific thinking, business thinking, and political thinking in abundance. #RandolphHarris 26 of 27

What the world needs now is inspired thinking—thinking that rises above self‑interest and moves toward wisdom. The intellect may begin in selfishness, but its natural evolution leads toward reason, and ultimately toward selflessness. This is where parents play a vital role. Teach your children to love America, to appreciate the freedoms and opportunities they inherit, and to support the workers and businesses that keep this nation strong. Teach them to respect law and order, to honor their elders, and to understand that good character is the foundation of a meaningful life. It is inborn in the human mind to want to know. Curiosity begins with a child’s endless questions, deepens through a scientist’s investigations, and eventually reaches toward something higher—a union of reflective thought and intuitive insight. This is the beginning of true intelligence, the kind that seeks a view of the whole, not just the parts. When the mind reaches this stage, it enters the realm of philosophy. But too many children today are struggling in school, not because they lack ability, but because they are not reading. Reading is the gateway to thought. When you read books, you absorb the rhythm of language, the structure of ideas, and the example of how to express yourself. You learn to write, to think, and to understand the world beyond your immediate experience. So to every young person: take your education seriously. Read your books. Ask questions. Think deeply. The effort you put in now will shape the opportunities you have later. Your success will not only make your family proud—it will give you the tools to contribute meaningfully to your community and your country. The evolution of the mind is a lifelong journey. But it begins with simple habits: curiosity, discipline, respect, and a willingness to learn. These are the qualities that build strong individuals—and a strong nation. “Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand between their loved home and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, and this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’ And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” #RandolphHarris 27 of 27

The Winchester Mystery House

Ladies and gentlemen, gather close… and welcome to the Winchester Mansion. Before we step inside, let me tell you a story—one that locals have whispered for more than a century. You see, long before this mansion stood here, this land was nothing but open fields. Empty. Silent. Undisturbed. And then, on the afternoon of Saturday, March 13, 1886, something extraordinary happened. Sheriff Angel Camilio began receiving frantic reports from townsfolk. They claimed a massive wooden castle had magically appeared. Gables rose like jagged mountains. Towers pierced the sky. Some swore that the sprawling labyrinth rose from the earth like a mushroom after rain. Others insisted it materialized out of thin air. No blueprints. No permits. No records of construction. Just… a house that wasn’t there the day before.

The house’s sudden manifestation had been both disconcerting and fascinating to the community. To some, it looked like a fairytale palace shimmering in the spring sunlight. To others, it radiated something darker—shadows that moved on their own, cold drafts on warm days, and a feeling that something unseen was watching from the windows. And then came the hearse. One morning, without warning, a black carriage barreled through these very gates. Inside was a coffin. Some believed it held Mrs. Sarah Winchester herself. Others whispered it was a decoy, or perhaps a warning from whatever spirits lingered here.

Now, legend says Sarah Winchester—widow of William Wirt Winchester, heir to the Winchester rifle fortune—was haunted by tragedy. After losing her husband and infant daughter, she sought answers from a spiritual medium. And the medium told her something chilling: “The spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles are angry. They will take your life too… unless you flee west and build them a house. A house that must never be finished.”

And so, in 1886, Sarah Winchester came here to the Santa Clara Valley. She bought an 18‑room farmhouse and began to build. And she never stopped. Day and night, for decades, hammers rang, saws screeched, and workers added room after room after room. At its peak, the mansion rose nine stories high and held as many as 600 rooms. Staircases that lead straight into ceilings. Doors that open into thin air. Windows built into the floor. Hallways that twist like a maze. Some say Sarah designed it this way to confuse the spirits that followed her.

Today, the mansion stands four stories tall, but it still stretches over 100,000 square feet. And many believe the spirits never left. Some visitors report footsteps behind them when no one is there. Others hear whispers drifting through the walls. A few have seen a woman in black wandering the corridors late at night, searching for something—or someone. Now, if you’re ready… we’re about to step inside. Stay close. Watch your step. And if you feel a tap on your shoulder or a cold breath on your neck, don’t worry. It’s probably just one of the house’s… permanent residents. Shall we begin?

And before you leave this place—whether you walk out with a shiver down your spine or a spark of wonder in your eyes—I’d like to extend a special invitation. After your journey through the mansion’s twisting corridors and secretive rooms, it would be a pleasure to have you join us for a delicious meal at Sarah’s Café. Once you’ve eaten, feel free to stroll along the paths of the Victorian gardens, which long ago stretched across 740 acres, all the way down to Stevens Creek Boulevard. Imagine the carriages, the orchards, the rolling lawns… and perhaps the quiet footsteps of someone who walked here long before you. And if you’re feeling brave, you’re welcome to wander once more through the miles of hallways inside the world’s most mysterious mansion. Every corner has a story. Every window has a whisper. And every room—well, you’ll see for yourself. Welcome to the Winchester Mansion. Enjoy your stay… for however long you choose to remain.

For further information about tours—including group tours, weddings, school events, birthday party packages, facility rentals, and our many special events—please visit our website for all the details you’ll need to plan your next unforgettable experience: https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/

Before you head out into the sunlight again, don’t forget to stop by our online gift shop. It’s the perfect place to find something special for friends and relatives—and perhaps a memento for yourself to remember your time inside the world’s most mysterious mansion. From classic souvenirs to unique collectibles inspired by the Winchester legend, you’ll find a wide variety of gifts waiting for you. Take a look, explore, and bring home a little piece of the mystery. Before you head out into the sunlight again, don’t forget to stop by our online gift shop. It’s the perfect place to find something special for friends and relatives—and perhaps a memento for yourself to remember your time inside the world’s most mysterious mansion. From classic souvenirs to unique collectibles inspired by the Winchester legend, you’ll find a wide variety of gifts waiting for you.
Take a look, explore, and bring home a little piece of the mystery.  https://shopwinchestermysteryhouse.com/

Father, I declare that You are my source. Every good and perfect gift comes from You. Let financial breakthroughs and opportunities come my way. Amen.

Why Choose Harris?

For more than 30 years, Harris Plumbing, Heating, Air, & Electric has been a name homeowners can trust. Not many businesses can say they’ve served their community for three decades—and we take that legacy to heart. Every job we take on, whether it’s a quick repair or a major installation, is handled with the same level of care, pride, and professionalism. Our mission is simple: to keep your home safe, comfortable, and running smoothly for you and your family. And we take that responsibility seriously. At Harris, you’re not just another service call. You’re a neighbor—and we’re here to help.

At Harris, we make sure you have all the information you need to make the right decision for your home. Whatever issue you’re facing, our team begins with a thorough diagnosis so we can clearly explain what’s going on before any work begins. That means you receive a personalized quote and a service plan tailored specifically to your home—not a generic estimate or guess. We believe the only way to deliver our best work is to fully understand the problem and address it with precision, care, and expertise. Your home deserves nothing less. https://www.callharrisnow.com/about-us/

Brian Harris BMW

With its top placement in Consumer Reports’ Auto Brand Report Card, BMW continues to prove why it remains one of the most respected names in the automotive world. In the most recent rankings, BMW earned one of the highest overall scores—finishing as the top luxury brand. This performance reflects BMW’s consistent ability to deliver vehicles that excel in reliability, performance, and owner satisfaction. BMW’s market strength is no accident. The brand has built its reputation on engineering precision and driving dynamics that set it apart from competitors. While many luxury manufacturers emphasize plush interiors and opulent comfort, BMW has always prioritized the connection between driver and machine. The result is a lineup of vehicles that are not only refined, but genuinely fun to drive—a quality that continues to resonate with consumers and automotive testers alike. This commitment to performance is why BMW has earned its iconic title: The Ultimate Driving Machine. Its vehicles consistently score high in road‑test evaluations, thanks to responsive handling, balanced chassis design, and powertrains engineered for both excitement and everyday usability. For drivers seeking a blend of luxury, reliability, and exhilarating performance, BMW remains a standout choice—supported not just by reputation, but by data. To explore the latest models, offers, and certified pre‑owned inventory, visit Brian Harris BMW:
https://www.brianharrisbmw.com/

Randolph Harris San Francisco Taxation & Mergers

Building strong and lasting client relationships is essential to a successful legal career. Many attorneys assume that mastering technical legal skills is enough, but law is fundamentally a service profession—our work is measured not only by the quality of our analysis, but by the trust we build and the problems we solve through the time and expertise we provide.
Long‑term client relationships rest on three pillars:

1. Truly knowing your clients, their businesses, and their goals.
2. Understanding how each legal issue fits into a broader strategic context.
3. Delivering exceptional service with consistency, clarity, and integrity.
   This philosophy guides my practice. I advise clients on business transitions, taxable and tax‑deferred mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructuring, integrated tax planning, federal and state tax controversy resolution, and real estate transactions. My work spans mature companies navigating complex operational issues as well as emerging and growth‑stage businesses seeking guidance on organization, financing, and long‑term planning.
   Trust is the cornerstone of every client relationship. Clients rely on me not only for technical expertise, but for judgment, perspective, and a genuine understanding of their challenges. My goal is always the same: to ensure that each client feels they are in capable hands with someone who understands their problems, their objectives, and the path forward.

Trust is the cornerstone of every client relationship. Clients rely on me not only for technical expertise, but for judgment, perspective, and a genuine understanding of their challenges. My goal is always the same: to ensure that each client feels they are in capable hands with someone who understands their problems, their objectives, and the path forward. https://www.jmbm.com/l-randolph-harris.html

Cresleigh Bluffs at Plumas Ranch

Plumas Lake, CA | from the mid $400’s

Now Selling!

Welcome to Homesite 132, where Residence Four stands as one of the most coveted two‑story offerings within the distinguished Cresleigh Bluffs enclave.

Crafted with an elevated sensibility and an unwavering commitment to quality, this exceptional residence delivers a level of refinement and comfort reserved for those who expect the extraordinary.

The first floor introduces a beautifully secluded bedroom suite accompanied by a full bath — an elegant accommodation for guests, extended family, or private work‑from‑home living.

Beyond the foyer, the home opens into a grand, light‑filled expanse where the gourmet kitchen, sophisticated dining area, and impressive great room converge.

This seamless layout creates a luxurious environment for curated entertaining, intimate gatherings, and the effortless flow of daily life.

Ascending the staircase, you’ll discover a spacious loft — a versatile retreat ideal for relaxation, creativity, or elevated leisure.

Three additional bedrooms and a thoughtfully positioned laundry room complete the upper level, each space reflecting Cresleigh’s signature craftsmanship and attention to detail.

With its refined finishes, intelligent spatial design, and an ambiance that speaks to modern luxury, Residence Four at Cresleigh Bluffs offers a rare opportunity to experience elevated living at its finest — a home where every moment feels intentional, elegant, and beautifully lived.

“I love my new Cresleigh home because it gives me a sense of peace the moment I walk through the door.” https://cresleigh.com/cresleigh-bluffs-at-plumas-ranch/move-in-ready-homesite-132/

Roman law overwhelmingly is private law. It is a secular form of law that encompasses the legal system of ancient Rome, spanning centuries from its founding in 753 BCE, and it remains a comprehensive framework that continues to shape legal practices to this day. However, under Roman law, families were formed and property transmitted in the Roman world in the context of biological events patterned in substantially different ways from modern experience. Fatherhood took on the connotation of ownership of wife and children. The double role of the mother as one of the powerless victims of the father’s brutality and as one of his dutiful assistants in meting out punishment to the children may well account for a peculiar split in the mother image. The mother was perhaps cruel only because she had to be, but the father was cruel because he wanted to be. For many, the fears of judgment day and their doubts about the justice administered were caused by their fathers’ great viciousness and/or their own greater sensitivities from childhood, which makes the youth the victims not only of overt cruelty, but also of all kinds of covert emotional relief, of devious vengefulness, or sensual self-indulgence, and of sly righteousness—all on the part of those on whom they are physically and morally dependent. Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well-considered, and yet fervent public conviction that the deadliest of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the life principle of trust, without which every human act, may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right, is prone to perversion by destructive forms of conscientiousness. #RandolphHarris 1 of 30

It is believed that some brutal fathers beat their sickly or unstable sons into such a state of anxiety and rebellion that God and even Christ became for them revengers only—Stockmeister und Henker—and not redeemers. From childhood on, some boys knew they had to turn pale and terror-stricken when they heard the name Christ; for they were taught to perceive him as a strict and wrathful judge. However, the psychiatrist and the priest—each for reasons of his own approach—consider this statement the quirk of an excessively gifted but unstable individual; and they bolster their contention with references to dozens of theologians of the time, none of whom exclusively emphasizes Christ’s role as a revenger. To further highlight this illustration, Ephesians 5.2 states, “And walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” That is just one example of Christ’s love amongst the many in the Christian Bible. However, many parents say that since people have stopped spanking their kids that they no longer fear their parents, nor do they fear God. Although corporal punishment may almost crush most children, and which they feel is enslaving, it kept them in line. Corporal punishment has been outlawed because it was brutal and led to children being abused and sent to the hospital for injuries that are sometimes life-threatening. It is recommended that parents try approaches like: clear boundaries, consistent consequences, positive reinforcement, and teaching emotional regulation. It is also recommended that children are reminded to love but fear the vengeance of God’s anger, but look to the saints in heaven who are the mediators between Christ and themselves; pray to the dear mother of Christ and be reminded of the nourishment she has given to her son so that she might ask him to go easy with his wrath towards them, and make sure of his grace. For those who are not Catholic, they should be reminded that they can speak directly to Jesus Christ. #RandolphHarris 2 of 30

Religious beliefs help understand the world and can reduce anxiety as people learn that God can help with difficult situations. Also, religion is based on reward or punishment for good and bad behavior, respectively. By enabling good behavior, religious beliefs and religious organizations may also enable others to signal their ethics and religiosity to others. Adam Smith observed that religions tend to produce and distribute moral information about their members which allows traders to assess the risk involved in conducting business with them. Strong beliefs can indicate to others that an individual will be cooperative in the social sphere and thus to facilitate cooperation, enabling societies to achieve better economic outcomes. Indeed, there is a link between religious beliefs and religious practices and how such beliefs and practices affect various parameters ranging from micro date such as individuals’ well-being and individual behavior, to marco parameters such as growth and the public provision of social insurance. Thus, features of religious organizations—beliefs as well as public rituals—enable individuals to increase cooperation in society. The future we seek is a life motivated by good thoughts, expressed in good works, and sustained by an inner peace and determination of righteous doing. The destiny we desire is an inheritance in the celestial mansions prepared by our Savio for the faithful of God’s children. We are not born into this world with fixed habits. Neither do we inherit a noble character. Instead, as children of God, we are given the privilege and opportunity of choosing which way of life we will follow—which habits we will form. #RandolphHarris 3 of 30

Good habits are not acquired simply by making good resolves, though the thought must precede the action. Good habits are developed in the workshop of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life. They are acquired by practice. Solomon the wise taught, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it,” reports Proverbs 22.6. The good habits of a child’s early training form the foundation for his future and sustain him in his later life. Parents, remember the Lord by revelation has given assurance that little children are incapable of committing sin, that they are alive in Christ, and that the devil has no power over them until they reach the age of accountability. The first eight years of a child’s life are golden years the Lord has given parents to teach and train their children to form good habits and develop noble characters. The construction of this background of routine in turn makes possible the division of labor between, opening the way for innovations, which demand a higher level of attention. The division of labor and the innovations will lead to new habitualizations, further widening the background common to individuals and hopefully their peer group. In other words, a social world will be in the process of construction, containing within it the roots of an expanding institutional order. #RandolphHarris 4 of 30

Generally, all actions repeated once or more tend to be habitualized to some degree, just as all actions observed by another necessarily involve some typification on his part. However, for the kind of reciprocal typification just described to occur, there must be a continuing social situation in which the habitualized actions of two or more individuals interlock. Which actions are likely to be reciprocally typified in this matter? We do not always know what lies ahead, but there is strength and safety in righteous conduct. We need to organize our lives according to gospel principles and chart a right course as we journey toward eternal life. In the conduct of our lives, we learn that good character-building habits mean everything. It is by such behavior that we harvest the real substance and value of life. The way we live outweighs any words we may profess to follow. Only boys with a precocious, sensitive, and intense conscience care about pleasing their fathers. For their conscience, like the medieval God, knows everything and registers and counts everything. What is more, since they themselves have shaped this world in the course of a shared biography which they can remember, the world this shaped appears fully transparent to them. They understand the world that they themselves have made. All this changes in the process of transmission to the new generation. The objectivity of the institutional world “thickens” and “hardens,” not only for the children, but (by a mirror effect) for the parents as well. “The “There we go again” now becomes “This is how these things are done.” #RandolphHarris 5 of 30

 A world so regarded attains a firmness in consciousness; it becomes real in an ever more massive way, and it can no longer be changed so readily. For the children, especially in the early phase of their socialization into it, becomes the world. For the parents, it loses its playful quality and becomes “serious.” For the children, the parentally transmitted world is not fully transparent. Since they had no part in shaping it, it confronts them as a given reality that, like nature, is opaque in places at least. Only at this point does it become possible to speak of a social world at all, in the sense of a comprehensive and given reality of the natural world. Only in this way, as an objective world, can the social formations be transmitted to a new generation. In the early phases of socialization, the child is quite incapable of distinguishing between the objectivity of natural phenomena and the objectivity of the social formations. To take the most important item of socialization, language appears to the child as inherent in the nature of things, and he cannot grasp the notion of its conventionality. A thing is what it is called, and it could not be called anything else. All institutions appear in the same way, as given, unalterable, and self-evident. We should conduct ourselves wisely before God and sin not. We should not yield to the persuasion of men with evil intent. Bad habits are a reflection of our thoughts and personalities, our behavior, and conduct. They are degrading to the choice qualities which are our God-given spiritual endowments of faith, honesty, integrity, and uprightness. #RandolphHarris 6 of 30

Someone has observed, “When a man boasts of his bad habits, you may rest assured they are the best he has.” Lehi, an early American prophet, speaking to his people, said, “Men are instructed sufficiently that they know good from evil,” reports 2 Nelhi 2.5. The process of transmission simply strengthens the parents’ sense of reality, if only because, to put it crudely, if one says, “This is how these things are done,” often enough one believes it oneself. In this mortal life, we have two choices: the good, which is the desire of our Heavenly Father; or the evil, which is Satan’s plan and constant persuasion. Evil tendencies destroy character and ruin lives. When first yielding to sin, one’s resistance, self-control, and character are weakened, and further transgression usually results. With the violation of spiritual laws and rejection of spiritual qualities, our powers of resistance are reduced. Eventually, we seem to lose complete control of our ability to resist evil. Imagine the great misery suffered by a person who has practiced a vice for so long that he curses it, yet at the same time holds on to it. Our great challenge is to learn how to control ourselves. We must learn for ourselves and act for ourselves, being careful not to follow those who are not divinely led. We have a responsibility to thwart the work of the evil one—not to aid or perpetuate his cause by yielding to his enticements to sin. #RandolphHarris 7 of 30

Habits are subject to change and improvement, for the Lord has said, “For the power is in them [meaning people], wherein they are agents unto themselves,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 58.28. One cannot truthfully say he is conformed in his bad habits, sins, or weaknesses to the point that they cannot be thrown off and repented of. The human will is naturally inclined toward the right. We are spirit children of God and have born within us the power to overcome all evil practices. An institutional world, then, is experienced as an objective reality. It has a history that antedates the individual’s birth and is not accessible to his biographical recollection. It was there before he was born, and it will be there after his death. This history itself, as the tradition of the existing institutions, has the character of objectivity. The individual’s biography is apprehended as an episode located within the objective history of the society. The institutions, as historical and objective history of society. The institutions, as historical and objective facticites, confront the individual as undeniable facts. The institutions are there, external to him, persistent in their reality, whether he likes it or not. He cannot wish them away. They resist his attempts to change or evade them. They have coercive power over him, both in themselves, by sheer force of their facticity, and through the control mechanisms that are usually attached to the most important of them. If the individual does not understand their purpose or their mode of operation, the objective reality of the institution is not diminished. He may experience large sectors of the social world as incomprehensible, perhaps oppressive in their opaqueness, but real nonetheless. #RandolphHarris 8 of 30

Since institutions exist as external reality, the individual cannot understand them by introspection. He must “go out” and learn about them, just as he must to learn about nature. This remains true even though the social world, as a humanly produced reality, is potentially understandable in a way not possible in the case of the natural world. We draw ourselves close to the Savior when we faithfully keep his laws and commandments. We have a gracious, kind, and loving Father in heaven who stands ready to help us. Self-mastery, self-control, and self-discipline are required strengths that enable us to set aside temptations to do wrong. It is a wonderful feeling to conquer wrong practices and to be free and unencumbered from their detrimental effects, both physically and spiritually. When we have conquered our bad habits and replaced them with good ones, living as we should, obedient and faithful, then we are on our way to the presence of God. We should become so involved in acquiring good quality traits and participating in character-building activities that there is no time to engage in anything worthless or harmful. Our habits should be those that make us susceptible to faith and testimony. It is important to keep in mind that the objectivity of the institutional world, however massive it may appear to the individual, is a humanly produced, constructed objectivity. People of the church are messengers of God, but not God. Most of them mean well, but sometimes they will make mistakes. The process by which the externalized products of human activity attain the character of objectivity is objectivation. The institutional world is objectivated human activity, and so is every single institution. In other words, despite the objectivity that marks the social world in human experience, it does not thereby acquire an ontological status apart from the human activity that it produced. #RandolphHarris 9 of 30

The paradox that man can produce a world that he then experiences as something other than a human product will concern us later. Now, it is important to emphasize that the relationship between man, the producer, and the social world, his product, is and remains a dialectical one. That is, man (not, of course, in isolation but in his collectives) and his social world interact with each other. The products act back upon the producer. Externalization and objectivation are moments in a continuing dialectical process. The third moment in this process, which is internalization (by which the objectivated social world is retrojected into consciousness in the course of socialization), will occupy us in considerable detail later on. It is already possible, however, to see the fundamental relationship of three dialectical moments in social reality. Each of them corresponds to an essential characterization of the social world. Society is a human product. Society is an objective reality. Man is a social product. It may also already be evident than an analysis of the social world that leaves out any one of these three moments will be distortive. One may further add that only with the transmission of the social world to a new generation (that is, internalization as effectuated in socialization) does the fundamental social dialectic appear in its totality. To repeat, only with the appearance of a new generation can one properly speak of a social world. The Lord has counseled us to repent and walk uprightly before Him. Uprightly implies a strict adherence to moral principles and honesty of purpose. We are instructed to make our home an abode of righteousness and honor. #RandolphHarris 10 of 30

Honor is almost an old-fashioned word in today’s world. It encompasses duty, responsibility, and respect for the eternal values. It also suggests a firm holding to codes of right behavior and the guidance of a high sense of stewardship. Let us dare to be different from the ways of the world when its ways are not the ways of God. In a world troubled with selfish greed, dishonesty, and dishonor, let us set ourselves on a higher path, striving to develop and strengthen the qualities of unselfish service with wholehearted effort, dependability, honesty, morality, and every other good attribute that would lead us to integrity of character. We begin, then, with our thoughts and end with our eternal destiny. Our destiny is determined by our character, and our character is the sum of the expression of our habits. Character is won by hard work. However, the need for vindictive triumph is a regular ingredient in any search for glory. Our interests, therefore, are not so much concerned with the existence of this need but with its overwhelming intensity. How can the idea of triumph get such a hold on an individual that he spends all his life chasing after it? Surely, it must be fed by a multitude of powerful sources. However, the knowledge of these sources alone does not sufficiently elucidate its formidable power. In order to arrive at a fuller understanding, we must approach the problem from still another vantage point. Even though in others, the impact of the need for vengeance and triumph. And in the type to be discussed, it is the combination of these two processes—powerful impulse and insufficient checks—that accounts for the magnitude of vindictiveness. #RandolphHarris 11 of 30

Great writers have intuitively grasped this combination of the need for vengeance and triumph and have presented it in more impressive forms than a psychiatrist can hope to do. I am thinking, for instance, of Prince Lestat in The Queen of the Damned, of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, and of Julien in The Red and the Black. An impelling need for triumph makes this type extremely competitive. As a matter of fact, he cannot tolerate anybody who knows or achieves more than he does, wields more power, or in any way questions his superiority. Compulsively, he must drag his rival down or defeat him. Even if he subordinates himself for the sake of his career, he is scheming for ultimate triumph. Not being tied by feelings of loyalty, he easily can become treacherous. What he actually achieves with his often-indefatigable work depends on his gifts. However, with all his planning and scheming, he will often achieve nothing worthwhile, not only because he is unproductive but because he is too self-destructive, as we shall see presently. The most conspicuous manifestations of his vindictiveness are violent rages. These spells of vindictive fury can be so formidable that he himself may become frightened lest he do something irreparable when out of control. Patients may, for instance, actually be scared of killing somebody when under the influence of alcohol—id est, when their usual controls do not operate. The impulse for revengeful actions can be strong enough to override the cautious prudence which usually governs their behavior. When seized by vindictive wrath, they may indeed jeopardize their lives, their security, their jobs, their social positions. An example from literature is Stendhal’s The Red and the Black, where Julien shoots Madame de Renal after having read the letter slandering him. We shall understand the recklessness involved later. #RandolphHarris 12 of 30

Even more important than these, after all, rare eruptions of vindictive passion is the permanent vindictiveness which pervades the attitude of this type toward people. He is convinced that everybody at bottom is malevolent and crooked, that friendly gestures are hypocritical, that it is only wisdom to regard everyone with distrust unless he has proved honest. However, even such proof will readily make room for suspicion at the slightest provocation. In his behavior toward others, he is openly arrogant, often rude and offensive, although sometimes this is covered up by a thin veneer of civil politeness. In subtle and gross ways, with or without realizing it, he humiliates others and exploits them. He may use women for the satisfaction of his pleasures of the flesh with utter disregard for their feelings. With seemingly “naïve” egocentricity, he will use people as a means to an end. He frequently makes and maintains contacts exclusively on the basis of their serving his need for triumph: people he can use as stepping stones in his career, influential women he can conquer and subdue, and followers who give him blind recognition and augment his power. He is a past master in frustrating others—frustrating their small and big hopes, their needs for attention, reassurance, time, company, enjoyment. Most expressions of vindictiveness have been described by others, and by myself, as sadistic trends. The term “sadistic” focuses on the satisfaction to be gained from the power to subject others to pain or indignity. When others remonstrate against such treatment, it is their neurotic sensitivity that makes them react this way. #RandolphHarris 13 of 30

When these trends come into clear relief during analysis, he may regard them as legitimate weapons in the struggle of all against all. He would be a fool not to be on guard, not to muster his energies for a defensive warfare. He must always be prepared to strike back. He must always and under all conditions be the invincible master of the situation. The most important expression of his vindictiveness toward others is in the kind of claims he makes and the way he asserts them. He may not be openly demanding and not at all aware of having or making any claims, but in fact he feels entitled both to having his neurotic needs implicitly respected and to being permitted his utter disregard of others’ needs or wishes. He feels entitled, for instance, to the unabridged expression of his unfavorable observations and criticisms, but feels equally entitled to criticize himself. He is entitled to decide how often or seldom to see a friend and what to do with the time spent together. Conversely, he also is entitled not to have others express any expectations or objections on this score. Whatever accounts for the inner necessity of such claims, they certainly express a contemptuous disregard for others. When they are not fulfilled, there ensures a punitive vindictiveness which may run the whole gamut from irritability to sulking, to making others feel guilty, to open rages. In part, these are his responses of indignation to feeling frustrated. However, the undiluted expression of these feelings also serves as a measure to assert his claims by intimidating others into a subdued appeasement. Conversely, when not insisting upon his “rights” or when not being punitive, he becomes furious at himself and scolds himself for “getting soft.” When in analysis, he complains about his inhibitions or “compliance,” in part, he means to convey, without knowing it, his dissatisfaction with the imperfection of these techniques. And their improvement is one of the things he secretly expects from analysis. In other words, he does not want to overcome his hostility but rather to become less inhibited or more skillful in expressing it. Then he would be so awe-inspiring that everybody would rush to fulfill his claims. #RandolphHarris 14 of 30

Both of these factors put a kind of premium on being discontented. And he is indeed the chronically discontented person. He has, in his mind, reasons to be so, and he certainly has an interest in letting it be known—all of which, including the fact of his discontent, may be unconscious. Partly, he justifies his claims by his superior qualities, which in his mind are his better knowledge, “wisdom,” and foresight. More specifically, his claims are demands for retribution for injury done. In order to solidify this basis for claims he must, as it were, treasure and keep alive injuries received, whether ancient or recent. He may compare himself to the elephant who never forgets. What he does not realize is his vital interest in not forgetting slights, since in his imagination, they are the bill to present to the world. Both the need to justify his claims and his responses to their frustration work life vicious circles, supplying a constant fuel to his vindictiveness. So, then, repentance should not merely have its time, but even its time of preparation. Although it should be a silent daily concern, it should also be able to collect itself and be well prepared for the solemn occasion. One such an occasion is the office of Confession, the holy act for which preparation should be made in advance. As a man changes his raiment for a feast, so is a man changed in his heart who prepares himself for the holy act of confession. It is indeed like a changing of raiment to lay off manyness, in order rightly to center down upon one thing; to interrupt the busy course of activity, in order to put on the quiet contemplation and to be at one with oneself. And this being at one with oneself is the simple festival garment of the feast that is the condition of admittance. #RandolphHarris 15 of 30

The manyness, one may see with a dispersed mind, see something of it, see it in passing, see it with half-closed eyes, with a divided mind, see it and indeed not see it. In the rush of busyness, one may be anxious over many things, begin many things, do many things at once, and only half do them all. However, that is not truly at one with himself during the hour of the office of Confession is merely dispersed. If he remains silent, he is not collected; if he speaks, it is only in a chatty vein, not in confession. However, he who, in truth, becomes one with himself, is in the silence. And this is indeed like a changing of raiment: to strip oneself of all that is as full of noise as it is empty, in order to be hidden in the silence, to become open. This silence is the simple festivity of the holy act of confession. For at dancing and festive occasions, worldly judgment holds that the more musicians, the better. However, when we are thinking of divine things, the deeper the stillness, the better. When the wanderer comes away from the much-traveled, noisy highway into places of quiet, then it seems to him (for stillness is impressive) as if he must examine himself, as if he must speak out what lies hidden in the depths of his soul. It seems to him, according to the poets’ explanation, as if something inexpressible thrusts itself forward from his innermost being, the unspeakable, for which indeed language has no vessel of expression. Even the longing is not the unspeakable itself. It is only a hastening after it. However, what silence means, what the surroundings will say in this stillness, is just the unspeakable. #RandolphHarris 16 of 28

In this self-examination, therefore, the Christian’s gaze is not directed away from Jesus Christ and towards his own self; it remains fixed entirely on Jesus Christ since Jesus Christ is already present and active within us; since He belongs to us, the question can and must certainly now arise, whether and how in our daily lives we belong to Him, believe in Him, and obey Him. However, the answer to this question cannot be given by us ourselves; in the nature of the case, it can be given to us only by Jesus Christ Himself. No particular sign of our own steadfastness and loyalty can answer to this question can be given to us only by Jesus Christ Himself. No particular sign of our own steadfastness and loyalty can answer the question which we ask when we prove ourselves, for we no longer have at our disposal any criterion by which to judge ourselves, or rather our only criterion is the living Jesus Christ Himself. Consequently, our self-examination will always consist precisely in our delivering ourselves up entirely to the judgment of Jesus Christ, not computing the reckoning ourselves but committing it to Him of whom we know and acknowledge that He is within ourselves. This process of self-proving is not superfluous, because indeed Jesus Christ really is and desires to be in us and because Jesus Christ’s being in us is not simply a mechanical operation but is an event which occurs and is verified ever anew precisely in this self-proving. “I judge not mine own self. For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord,” reports I Corinthians 4.3 and 4. #RandolphHarris 17 of 30

The will of God requires to be proved ever anew just because it is the will of the living God; and it is in this proving that it takes effect. So, too, Jesus Christ is in us precisely by virtue of the fact that we ourselves prove ourselves ever anew in Him. Thus, the Christian’s proving of the will of God is to a certain extent part of the will of God, just as the Christian’s self-proving is part of the will of Jesus Christ in us. However, this will in no case disrupt or even disturb the new unity with the will of God and the simplicity of doing. To understand this, we must make clear to ourselves what is really meant by “doing” in the sense of the gospel. Openness to experience is a key factor in developing a healthy personality. As a matter of fact, almost all positions concerning high-level functioning, the optimal self, self-actualization, and the beautiful and noble personality include the concept in one form or another. In the one sense, the concept of the transparent self implies that the person is open to those who wish to know him, to see the person truly—the person’s public self is essentially the same as the real self. However, openness in this position suggests that the person is first of all passively open or transparent, in that no blocks are placed before the one who seeks to know the person—more than that, he welcomes the other’s search, gaze, and discovery of the open self. The person has nothing to hide. In addition, when new experiences present themselves as opportunities, the person readily accepts them, takes them, uses them, experiences them—with no denial, blocking, or suspicion. Thus, as a new flower appears as this person does every day errands, he notices the flower, passively takes in its beauty, its message of a new season.  Encountering a new idea while reading, listening to the radio, or watching television, the person can accept the new idea, experience it, as part of the self. The individual’s passive openness is seen as he or she meets a new person, largely by chance, standing on a street corner. A conversation is initiated by the other person. The individual responds, accepts the new person, and does not close themselves off from this new experience.  #RandolphHarris 18 of 30

America has become so expensive that record numbers of Americans are relocating to Mexico. According to the U.S. State Department, the number of American citizens living in Mexico increased by 75 percent between 2019 and 2025, reaching an estimated 1.8 million people. Many of these individuals work remotely for U.S. companies while taking advantage of Mexico’s lower cost of living, natural beauty, and vibrant culture—and they are thriving. California illustrates the severity of the affordability crisis anc corruption. It is now the third most expensive state in the nation and is facing a $20 billion budget deficit, reflecting the financial strain on its residents. In 37 percent of California counties, a family of four earning a six‑figure income is considered low‑income. The average home price in the state is approaching $1 million, while the average salary is just over $96,000—making homeownership unattainable for most Californians. The situation is even more stark for individuals. In five counties—Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin—a single person earning more than $100,000 a year is now classified as low‑income. Traditional mortgage guidelines recommend spending no more than 28 percent of gross income on a mortgage payment and no more than 36 percent on total debt. Based on the median household income in Sacramento County, a homeowner can afford a mortgage payment of about $2,070 per month, or up to $2,661 for all debts combined. Yet home prices in Sacramento County require far higher incomes. To purchase a typical home using standard lending guidelines, a household would need to earn roughly $135,000 per year. In reality, the median household income in Sacramento County is about $88,724—often with two to four people working to support the mortgage. This mismatch raises serious questions about how lenders are qualifying buyers for such expensive homes. Home prices in Sacramento County are now rivaling those in the Bay Area, and in some cases, Bay Area homes are actually more affordable. Historically, the Bay Area has commanded higher prices due to higher‑paying jobs, a larger population, and its status as a major tourist destination. Sacramento’s rapid price escalation signals a deepening affordability crisis. According to this viewpoint, state leadership has contributed to the problem. Governor Gavin Newsom has directed taxpayer‑funded resources and cash aid toward individuals in the country illegally, while state workers—who keep California running—are overdue for a 25 percent wage increase. This prioritization, critics argue, worsens the affordability crisis and leaves California residents struggling to keep up with rising costs. #RandolphHarris 19 of 30

California is facing one of the most severe affordable‑housing crises in the nation, yet at the same time the state has embarked on an extraordinarily expensive renovation of the Capitol building—known as “The Castle”—in Sacramento. According to public reports, the project has already cost taxpayers more than $1.2 billion, and some analysts estimate the final price could reach as high as $5 billion before completion. Critics argue that such spending reflects deeper structural problems in the state’s governance. They point to decades‑old laws that restrict housing supply and discourage home sales, as well as concerns about bureaucratic inefficiency, corruption, and wasteful government spending. These factors, they contend, have contributed to soaring rents, limited housing availability, and a growing sense that state priorities are misaligned with the needs of ordinary Californians. The consequences of these policies are increasingly visible. Between 2018 and 2023, California received $24 billion to fund 30 homeless and housing programs. These programs produced 100,000 housing units—an average cost of $240,000 per unit. For comparison, Roger Lucas, owner of Grand Castle, LLC, spent $50 million to build The Grand Castle, a 522‑unit residential community in Grandville, Michigan. The development includes studios, one‑bedroom, two‑bedroom, and three‑bedroom units, as well as a multi‑level penthouse. Rents range from $1,000 to $2,500. Built on a 23.6‑acre site, the community features 750 covered parking spaces, a clubhouse, and a resort‑style pool, and was completed in just 12 to 18 months. The average cost per unit was approximately $95,785—about $144,000 less per unit than California’s publicly funded projects. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the nation at 5.4 percent, compared to the national average of 4.5 percent. As household bills surge and the minimum wage rises to $20 an hour, people living on Social Security retirement benefits are especially strained, with monthly checks effectively equating to $5 to $7 an hour. Meanwhile, as Americans struggle to find and afford housing, Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills on February 7, 2025—SBX1 1 and SBX1 2, both part of the Budget Act of 2024—allocating $50 million to protect individuals in the country illegally from deportation. Additionally, the governor extended free health care to 700,000 undocumented immigrants, costing taxpayers $3 billion annually. At the same time, funding was reduced for programs serving veterans, schoolchildren, people with disabilities, and the homeless. Given these circumstances, it is understandable that many people who are legally in the United States—and paying between 30 and 90 percent of their income in taxes—are deeply frustrated. #RandolphHarris 20 of 30

Advocates argue that the crisis unfolding in California—driven by Democratic policies—is pushing home prices, mortgages, and rents higher not only across the United States but around the world, making everyday life increasingly unaffordable. Many believe the situation is far from stabilizing. At the same time, China—where the United States has outsourced significant jobs and capital—has more than 50 ghost cities containing an estimated 65 million vacant homes. These ghost cities are the result of massive overdevelopment in areas where few or no people live. By contrast, if all categories of homelessness are counted, California is estimated to have as many as 4 million homeless individuals. The state also has the highest home prices in the nation, the highest taxes, and some of the most restrictive business regulations anywhere. Because of what critics describe as a hostile environment for both residents and employers, more than 360 companies have left California since 2020. Major corporations such as Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, and Hewlett‑Packard are among those that have relocated. Additionally, more than 500,000 residents leave the state each year because it has become too expensive to live in. Critics also point to Governor Gavin Newsom’s policies, including the criminalization of homelessness and the arrest of individuals without housing, rising crime, and widespread job losses as companies continue to move operations elsewhere. More than 100 companies have already announced layoffs in California for 2025. Intel plans to cut 15,000 jobs, PayPal is eliminating 2,500 positions, and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, compared to the national average of 4.1 percent. Advocates argue that the crisis created by Democratic leadership is driving up housing costs nationwide and globally, and that the situation is far from resolved. California is also home to more than 3.5 million undocumented immigrants. Combined with an open southern border, insufficient protection of American farmland, and declining domestic production of beef, poultry, fish, fruits, vegetables, and dairy, critics warn that the United States is exposing itself to serious risks. Without prioritizing American‑made goods and services, they argue, the nation faces elevated threats to national security, economic stability, and public health. Some may believe these concerns are overstated. However, supporters of this viewpoint point to past failures—such as the 2017 Oroville Dam crisis—as examples of what can happen when governments fail to monitor Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) or other critical alerts, including the end‑of‑life status of essential infrastructure. #RandolphHarris 21 of 30

China—where the United States has outsourced vast numbers of jobs and significant amounts of capital—currently has more than 50 ghost cities containing an estimated 65 million vacant homes. These ghost cities are the result of extreme overdevelopment in areas where few or no people live. By contrast, if all categories of homelessness are counted, California is estimated to have as many as 4 million homeless individuals. The state also has the highest home prices in the nation, the highest taxes, and some of the most restrictive business regulations anywhere. Critics argue that these conditions have made California deeply hostile to both residents and employers. Since 2020, more than 360 companies have left California, including major corporations such as Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, and Hewlett‑Packard. Additionally, more than 500,000 residents leave the state each year because it has become too expensive to live in. Critics also point to Governor Gavin Newsom’s policies—such as criminalizing homelessness and arresting individuals without housing—alongside rising crime and widespread job losses as companies continue to relocate. More than 100 companies have already announced layoffs in California for 2025. Intel plans to cut 15,000 jobs, PayPal is eliminating 2,500 positions, and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, compared to the national average of 4.1 percent. Advocates argue that the crisis created by Democratic leadership is driving up home prices, mortgages, and rents nationwide and even globally, making life increasingly unaffordable. They also note that California is home to more than 3.5 million undocumented immigrants. Combined with an open southern border, insufficient protection of American farmland, and declining domestic production of beef, poultry, fish, fruits, vegetables, and dairy, critics warn that the United States is exposing itself to serious risks. Without prioritizing American‑made goods and services, they argue, the nation faces elevated threats to national security, economic stability, and public health. Some may believe these concerns are overstated. However, supporters of this viewpoint point to past failures—such as the 2017 Oroville Dam crisis—as examples of what can happen when governments fail to monitor Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) or other critical alerts, including the end‑of‑life status of essential infrastructure. #RandolphHarris 22 of 30

America needs a comprehensive strategy to eliminate safety vulnerabilities in its cities. By the end of 2025, the nation should have a clear road map that prioritizes how to reduce crisis situations and strengthen public safety. Many argue that while the United States sends substantial aid to foreign nations, it struggles to fund its own infrastructure, provide adequate resources, address the affordable housing crisis, and support other national critical functions (NCFs). These practices—seen as placing America and Americans last—are viewed by some as serious risks to national security, economic stability, and public health. In 2024, Americans spent $100 billion on Japanese automobiles, contributing to a $39 billion trade deficit with Japan. Japan exported 1.4 million vehicles to the United States but imported only 16,000 American-built cars. By contrast, Japan imported roughly 143,000 motor vehicles from the European Union. Supporters of tariffs argue that these imbalances are exactly why President Trump implemented them: to protect American industries, reduce trade deficits, and prevent the United States from being taken advantage of economically. The goal, in this view, is to return America to the status of a creditor nation rather than one borrowing money to support other countries. According to this perspective, President Trump’s tariff policies generate approximately $400 billion in annual revenue and help create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Advocates say this revenue is being used to pay down national debt, and that a portion may be directed toward stimulus checks for Americans, potentially ranging from $1,000 to $2,000. However, if the Supreme Court were to rule these tariffs illegal, taxpayers could be responsible for repaying trillions of dollars. At the same time, some observers believe the nation is witnessing increasing conflict between federal and state authorities—citing examples such as gangs, federal judges, and Governor Gavin Newsom clashing with federal law enforcement and the President. They argue that certain states and cities are refusing to honor federal laws, and that some politicians are disregarding the Constitution. From this viewpoint, these trends contribute to a growing sense of disorder and the perception that anarchy is becoming more common.#RandolphHarris 23 of 30

Anarchism is a collection of doctrines and attitudes built around the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary. The term comes from the Greek word anarchos, meaning “without authority.” Throughout history, the words anarchism, anarchist, and anarchy have been used to express both approval and disapproval. Anarchists reject man‑made laws, view property as a tool of tyranny, and argue that crime is a product of property and authority. They maintain that rejecting constitutions and governments does not lead to “no justice,” but instead allows for the emergence of genuine justice through the natural development of human social cooperation—what they see as an innate tendency toward mutual aid when people are not constrained by formal laws. Some critics argue that anarchism also constitutes a form of treason. Treason is traditionally defined as betraying a nation or sovereign through acts that endanger its security. Under English law, treason includes levying war against the government or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. In the United States, the framers of the Constitution defined treason narrowly: it “shall consist only in levying war against [the United States], or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.” From this viewpoint, some argue that certain contemporary political actions may fall within this definition, though such claims remain matters of political interpretation rather than legal judgment. From a national‑security perspective, the argument continues that the American government must identify all exploitable vulnerabilities and address them before they escalate into crises. Failing to take preventive action, in this view, creates significant risks to national security, economic stability, and public health and safety. Supporters of this position contend that the United States must invest substantial time and resources into strengthening its own infrastructure and resilience. They also argue that corporations should be encouraged to participate in this effort by planning for both short‑term mitigation of safety vulnerabilities and long‑term elimination of them. For example, a company might partner with federal, state, or local governments to request tax incentives in exchange for improving security in high‑risk communities or assisting with infrastructure repairs such as bridges and potholes. #RandolphHarris 24 of 30

Across the United States, a quiet emergency is unfolding—one that threatens not only public health, but the survival of the first peoples of this land. Native American communities, already burdened by generations of broken promises and chronic underfunding, are now facing a surge of drug trafficking and overdose deaths that is tearing families apart and destabilizing entire nations. This crisis is not receiving the national attention it deserves. It should. Recent events on the Blackfeet Nation in Montana illustrate the scale of the problem. In what became the largest drug bust in state history, authorities seized more than 700,000 fentanyl pills on tribal land. Shortly afterward, the community suffered 17 overdoses in a single week, forcing tribal leaders to declare a state of emergency. These are not isolated incidents—they are symptoms of a growing pattern. Indigenous people now experience overdose rates 42 percent higher than the national average. When you consider that only 6.8 million Native Americans remain in the United States, the stakes become painfully clear. A population this small cannot absorb losses at this rate. Every life lost is not only a personal tragedy—it is a blow to a culture, a language, a lineage, a nation. And yet, the federal response remains tepid. Drug cartels have learned to exploit the vulnerabilities of tribal lands: remote geography, understaffed police departments, and legal systems that lack the authority to prosecute non‑tribal offenders. These criminal networks know exactly where enforcement is weakest. They know where communities have been historically neglected. And they take full advantage. The United States has a legal and moral obligation to protect tribal nations. That obligation is rooted in treaties, trust responsibilities, and basic human decency. #RandolphHarris 25 of 30

But for decades, tribal governments have been forced to operate with a fraction of the resources available to comparable non‑tribal jurisdictions. Their police forces are underfunded. Their healthcare systems are overstretched. Their courts lack the authority to hold many offenders accountable. This is not just a failure of policy—it is a failure of national character. Some Americans express frustration that resources seem to flow quickly to other groups while Native communities continue to wait. Whether or not one agrees with that perception, the underlying truth is undeniable: Indigenous nations have been consistently overlooked, even as they face existential threats. Correcting that imbalance is not about taking from one group to give to another. It is about honoring commitments that have been ignored for far too long. So what should be done? First, the federal government must strengthen its ability to stop the flow of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids into the country. That includes better interdiction, intelligence-sharing, and targeting of trafficking networks that specifically exploit tribal lands. Second, tribal governments need substantial, sustained investment—not symbolic gestures. Funding for law enforcement, addiction treatment, mental‑health services, and infrastructure must reflect the scale of the crisis. Third, Congress should expand tribal jurisdiction so that tribal courts can prosecute non‑tribal offenders who commit crimes on their lands. Criminals should not be able to hide behind legal loopholes. Finally, Indigenous voices must be central in shaping the policies that affect their communities. Too often, decisions are made about tribal nations without meaningful tribal input. That approach has failed for centuries. It will not work now. The survival of Native American communities should not be a partisan issue. It should not be a regional issue. It should not be an afterthought. It is a test of whether the United States is willing to protect the people to whom it owes its deepest historical obligations. If we allow drug cartels to devastate these communities while the nation looks away, we will be complicit in a tragedy that future generations will judge harshly. The time for action is now. The cost of inaction is measured in lives—and in the slow erosion of cultures that have shaped this continent for thousands of years. #RandolphHarris 26 of 30

America is facing a slow‑moving crisis that too few people are willing to confront: we are losing farmland at a pace that threatens our long‑term ability to feed ourselves. Much like the land shortage unfolding in Las Vegas—where rapid development has pushed the city to the edge of its buildable limits—we risk running out of the agricultural land that sustains our food supply. Once farmland is paved over, it is gone forever. And if we continue down this path, the consequences could be severe. Food security is national security. A nation that cannot grow its own food is a nation that must rely on others for survival. In a world already strained by geopolitical tensions, climate pressures, and supply‑chain disruptions, the idea of future “food wars” is not far‑fetched. Protecting American farmland today is an investment in tomorrow’s stability. One of the most effective ways to safeguard our agricultural base is to support the farmers and ranchers who keep it productive. That starts with buying American‑made beef, poultry, dairy, and produce. When consumers choose domestic products, they strengthen the economic foundation of rural communities. They also send a clear signal to investors: American agriculture is worth backing. Money flows where demand exists, and when investors see strong sales of American goods, they are more likely to reinvest in American businesses, land, and jobs. Country‑of‑origin labeling is essential to this process. Americans deserve to know where their food comes from so they can make informed choices. Transparent labeling empowers consumers to support domestic producers and ensures that foreign imports do not masquerade as American-grown products. It is a simple policy with enormous implications for economic resilience. But protecting farmland is not only an economic issue—it is also a demographic one. The United States has a finite amount of land, and as the population grows, the pressure to convert farmland into housing and commercial development intensifies. #RandolphHarris 27 of 30

If we want to preserve enough agricultural and buildable land for future generations, we must have an honest conversation about immigration levels and population growth. A sustainable future requires sustainable numbers. Some argue that if immigration continues, it should be guided by a system that ensures broad representation and diversity. Others emphasize the need to balance population growth with resource availability. Regardless of the approach, the underlying point remains: land is limited, and policy must reflect that reality. Supporting American businesses is another critical piece of the puzzle. When Americans buy American-made goods, they keep money circulating within our own economy. That strengthens local industries, preserves jobs, and reduces dependence on foreign manufacturing. As domestic companies grow, wages rise naturally, and communities become more economically stable. This reduces the burden on taxpayers, who otherwise shoulder the cost of unemployment, social services, and economic instability. There is also a direct connection between consumer behavior and the national debt. When the government spends more than it collects in revenue, it borrows—from private businesses or foreign countries. But when Americans support domestic industries, those industries grow, tax revenue increases, and the government becomes less reliant on borrowing. A strong internal economy is one of the most effective tools we must reduce the national debt. The path forward is clear: protect our farmland, support our farmers, strengthen our domestic industries, and adopt policies that reflect the limits of our land and resources. If we fail to act, we risk losing not only our agricultural independence but our economic and national security as well. America’s future depends on the choices we make today. Let us choose to preserve the land that feeds us, the businesses that employ us, and the economic foundation that sustains us. #RandolphHarris 28 of 30

When Americans shop locally, they do more than support their neighbors—they strengthen the national economy. Every dollar spent on American‑made goods circulates back into our communities, generating tax revenue that funds schools, infrastructure, and public services. It keeps jobs here at home, ensures wages rise naturally, and reduces the burden on taxpayers. In contrast, buying foreign goods often means lighter tax loads for overseas companies and money flowing out of our economy, strengthening other nations at our expense. There are environmental benefits too. American‑made products travel shorter distances, reducing carbon emissions. And unlike many foreign manufacturers, American companies are held to higher standards for pollution control. They must dispose of waste responsibly and protect our air, land, and water. Supporting them is not only patriotic—it’s environmentally responsible. Under President Trump’s administration, policies have emphasized prioritizing American workers and industries. Efforts to secure the border, reduce illegal crossings, and crack down on drug trafficking have been paired with significant investment in U.S. manufacturing, production, and innovation. These measures have helped channel trillions of dollars back into American industry, reinforcing the pledge to “Make America Great Again.” The lesson is clear: when we buy American, we invest in ourselves. We protect farmland, preserve jobs, reduce pollution, and strengthen our economy. We also reduce reliance on foreign nations and help lower the national debt by keeping tax revenue at home. Supporting American businesses is not just about pride—it’s about survival. It ensures that the land, the jobs, and the future remain in American hands. As our nation continues to grow through immigration, we should ensure that all communities—long‑standing and newly arrived—have the opportunity to thrive. It is rare, in many communities, to see a person with blonde hair and blue eyes; they are becoming outnumbered by the influx of immigrants. We also need to keep the nation in balance by allowing people with Caucasian features to have the chance to grow and contribute to the nation.Diversity includes everyone, and preserving cultural heritage should never come at the expense of excluding others. A healthy society makes room for its historic communities while welcoming new ones. #RandolphHarris 29 of 30

Human understanding does not arrive fully formed. We must think before we can understand the soul’s existence, and we must understand before we can truly realize it. The earliest beginnings of thought—distinct from instinct—reach back into primeval time, when consciousness was still only a faint spark. The human intellect we possess today, so rich and capable, did not appear suddenly. It evolved through countless stages, shaped by experience, struggle, and the gradual awakening of self‑awareness.  And yet, for all our progress, something essential is missing. We have had scientific thinking, business thinking, and political thinking in abundance. What the world needs now is inspired thinking—thinking that rises above self‑interest and moves toward wisdom. The intellect may begin in selfishness, but its natural evolution leads toward reason, and ultimately toward selflessness. This is where parents play a vital role. Teach your children to love America, to appreciate the freedoms and opportunities they inherit, and to support the workers and businesses that keep this nation strong. Teach them to respect law and order, to honor their elders, and to understand that good character is the foundation of a meaningful life. It is inborn in the human mind to want to know. Curiosity begins with a child’s endless questions, deepens through a scientist’s investigations, and eventually reaches toward something higher—a union of reflective thought and intuitive insight. This is the beginning of true intelligence, the kind that seeks a view of the whole, not just the parts. When the mind reaches this stage, it enters the realm of philosophy. But too many children today are struggling in school, not because they lack ability, but because they are not reading. Reading is the gateway to thought. When you read books, you absorb the rhythm of language, the structure of ideas, and the example of how to express yourself. You learn to write, to think, and to understand the world beyond your immediate experience. So to every young person: take your education seriously. Read your books. Ask questions. Think deeply. The effort you put in now will shape the opportunities you have later. Your success will not only make your family proud—it will give you the tools to contribute meaningfully to your community and your country. The evolution of the mind is a lifelong journey. But it begins with simple habits: curiosity, discipline, respect, and a willingness to learn. These are the qualities that build strong individuals—and a strong nation. “Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand between their loved home and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, and this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’ And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” #RandolphHarris 30 of 30

The Winchester Mystery House

Ladies and gentlemen, gather close… and welcome to the Winchester Mansion. Before we step inside, let me tell you a story—one that locals have whispered for more than a century. You see, long before this mansion stood here, this land was nothing but open fields. Empty. Silent. Undisturbed. And then, on the afternoon of Saturday, March 13, 1886, something extraordinary happened. Sheriff Angel Camilio began receiving frantic reports from townsfolk. They claimed a massive wooden castle had magically appeared. Gables rose like jagged mountains. Towers pierced the sky. Some swore that the sprawling labyrinth rose from the earth like a mushroom after rain. Others insisted it materialized out of thin air. No blueprints. No permits. No records of construction. Just… a house that wasn’t there the day before.

The house’s sudden manifestation had been both disconcerting and fascinating to the community. To some, it looked like a fairytale palace shimmering in the spring sunlight. To others, it radiated something darker—shadows that moved on their own, cold drafts on warm days, and a feeling that something unseen was watching from the windows. And then came the hearse. One morning, without warning, a black carriage barreled through these very gates. Inside was a coffin. Some believed it held Mrs. Sarah Winchester herself. Others whispered it was a decoy, or perhaps a warning from whatever spirits lingered here.

Now, legend says Sarah Winchester—widow of William Wirt Winchester, heir to the Winchester rifle fortune—was haunted by tragedy. After losing her husband and infant daughter, she sought answers from a spiritual medium. And the medium told her something chilling: “The spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles are angry. They will take your life too… unless you flee west and build them a house. A house that must never be finished.”

And so, in 1886, Sarah Winchester came here to the Santa Clara Valley. She bought an 18‑room farmhouse and began to build. And she never stopped. Day and night, for decades, hammers rang, saws screeched, and workers added room after room after room. At its peak, the mansion rose nine stories high and held as many as 600 rooms. Staircases that lead straight into ceilings. Doors that open into thin air. Windows built into the floor. Hallways that twist like a maze. Some say Sarah designed it this way to confuse the spirits that followed her. Today, the mansion stands four stories tall, but it still stretches over 100,000 square feet. And many believe the spirits never left. Some visitors report footsteps behind them when no one is there. Others hear whispers drifting through the walls. A few have seen a woman in black wandering the corridors late at night, searching for something—or someone. Now, if you’re ready… we’re about to step inside. Stay close. Watch your step. And if you feel a tap on your shoulder or a cold breath on your neck, don’t worry. It’s probably just one of the house’s… permanent residents. Shall we begin?

And before you leave this place—whether you walk out with a shiver down your spine or a spark of wonder in your eyes—I’d like to extend a special invitation. After your journey through the mansion’s twisting corridors and secretive rooms, it would be a pleasure to have you join us for a delicious meal at Sarah’s Café. Once you’ve eaten, feel free to stroll along the paths of the Victorian gardens, which long ago stretched across 740 acres, all the way down to Stevens Creek Boulevard. Imagine the carriages, the orchards, the rolling lawns… and perhaps the quiet footsteps of someone who walked here long before you. And if you’re feeling brave, you’re welcome to wander once more through the miles of hallways inside the world’s most mysterious mansion. Every corner has a story. Every window has a whisper. And every room—well, you’ll see for yourself. Welcome to the Winchester Mansion. Enjoy your stay… for however long you choose to remain.

For further information about tours—including group tours, weddings, school events, birthday party packages, facility rentals, and our many special events—please visit our website for all the details you’ll need to plan your next unforgettable experience: https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/

Before you head out into the sunlight again, don’t forget to stop by our online gift shop. It’s the perfect place to find something special for friends and relatives—and perhaps a memento for yourself to remember your time inside the world’s most mysterious mansion. From classic souvenirs to unique collectibles inspired by the Winchester legend, you’ll find a wide variety of gifts waiting for you. Take a look, explore, and bring home a little piece of the mystery. Before you head out into the sunlight again, don’t forget to stop by our online gift shop. It’s the perfect place to find something special for friends and relatives—and perhaps a memento for yourself to remember your time inside the world’s most mysterious mansion. From classic souvenirs to unique collectibles inspired by the Winchester legend, you’ll find a wide variety of gifts waiting for you.
Take a look, explore, and bring home a little piece of the mystery.  https://shopwinchestermysteryhouse.com/

Heavenly Father, On this holy night, I come before You with a heart full of awe and gratitude. As I reflect on the gift of Jesus, born so humbly in a manger, I am reminded of Your deep and unending love for me. Thank You for sending Your Son into this world to bring hope, joy, and salvation.

Tonight, as I sit in the stillness, I ask for Your peace to fill my heart. Quiet my worries, calm my mind, and help me to focus on the true meaning of this night. I lay my burdens at Your feet and trust in Your goodness, knowing that You are with me. Lord, I celebrate the light of Jesus that shines into even the darkest corners of my life. Let His presence bring me comfort and guide me through the days ahead. I ask for Your strength where I feel weak, Your wisdom where I feel uncertain, and Your love where I feel empty.

Thank You for loving me so deeply, for the joy of this season, and for the promise that I am never alone.  In the name of Jesus, my Savior and King, I pray. Amen.

Why Choose Harris?

For more than 30 years, Harris Plumbing, Heating, Air, & Electric has been a name homeowners can trust. Not many businesses can say they’ve served their community for three decades—and we take that legacy to heart. Every job we take on, whether it’s a quick repair or a major installation, is handled with the same level of care, pride, and professionalism. Our mission is simple: to keep your home safe, comfortable, and running smoothly for you and your family. And we take that responsibility seriously. At Harris, you’re not just another service call. You’re a neighbor—and we’re here to help.

At Harris, we make sure you have all the information you need to make the right decision for your home. Whatever issue you’re facing, our team begins with a thorough diagnosis so we can clearly explain what’s going on before any work begins. That means you receive a personalized quote and a service plan tailored specifically to your home—not a generic estimate or guess. We believe the only way to deliver our best work is to fully understand the problem and address it with precision, care, and expertise. Your home deserves nothing less. https://www.callharrisnow.com/about-us/

Brian Harris BMW

With its top placement in Consumer Reports’ Auto Brand Report Card, BMW continues to prove why it remains one of the most respected names in the automotive world. In the most recent rankings, BMW earned one of the highest overall scores—finishing as the top luxury brand. This performance reflects BMW’s consistent ability to deliver vehicles that excel in reliability, performance, and owner satisfaction. BMW’s market strength is no accident. The brand has built its reputation on engineering precision and driving dynamics that set it apart from competitors. While many luxury manufacturers emphasize plush interiors and opulent comfort, BMW has always prioritized the connection between driver and machine. The result is a lineup of vehicles that are not only refined, but genuinely fun to drive—a quality that continues to resonate with consumers and automotive testers alike. This commitment to performance is why BMW has earned its iconic title: The Ultimate Driving Machine. Its vehicles consistently score high in road‑test evaluations, thanks to responsive handling, balanced chassis design, and powertrains engineered for both excitement and everyday usability. For drivers seeking a blend of luxury, reliability, and exhilarating performance, BMW remains a standout choice—supported not just by reputation, but by data. To explore the latest models, offers, and certified pre‑owned inventory, visit Brian Harris BMW:
https://www.brianharrisbmw.com/

Randolph Harris San Francisco Taxation & Mergers

Building strong and lasting client relationships is essential to a successful legal career. Many attorneys assume that mastering technical legal skills is enough, but law is fundamentally a service profession—our work is measured not only by the quality of our analysis, but by the trust we build and the problems we solve through the time and expertise we provide.
Long‑term client relationships rest on three pillars:

1. Truly knowing your clients, their businesses, and their goals.
2. Understanding how each legal issue fits into a broader strategic context.
3. Delivering exceptional service with consistency, clarity, and integrity.
   This philosophy guides my practice. I advise clients on business transitions, taxable and tax‑deferred mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructuring, integrated tax planning, federal and state tax controversy resolution, and real estate transactions. My work spans mature companies navigating complex operational issues as well as emerging and growth‑stage businesses seeking guidance on organization, financing, and long‑term planning.
   Trust is the cornerstone of every client relationship. Clients rely on me not only for technical expertise, but for judgment, perspective, and a genuine understanding of their challenges. My goal is always the same: to ensure that each client feels they are in capable hands with someone who understands their problems, their objectives, and the path forward.

Trust is the cornerstone of every client relationship. Clients rely on me not only for technical expertise, but for judgment, perspective, and a genuine understanding of their challenges. My goal is always the same: to ensure that each client feels they are in capable hands with someone who understands their problems, their objectives, and the path forward. https://www.jmbm.com/l-randolph-harris.html

Magnolia Station at Cresleigh Ranch

Rancho Cordova, CA | High $600’s

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Homesite 1 unveils Residence Three, an exceptional single‑story estate and the most expansive offering within Magnolia Station.

Encompassing 2,827 square feet of masterfully designed living space, this move‑in‑ready residence embodies the quiet grandeur and effortless sophistication reserved for the finest homes.

A gracious layout includes four generously proportioned bedrooms, two‑and‑a‑half luxuriously appointed baths, and a three‑car garage, along with an elegant private den—a space equally suited to a refined study, intimate library, or optional fifth bedroom. Every room has been curated to elevate daily living into an experience of comfort and distinction.

At the heart of the home, an expansive open‑concept great room blends seamlessly with a chef‑inspired kitchen and formal dining area, creating a setting ideal for both intimate gatherings and grand entertaining. The Owner’s Suite, thoughtfully secluded from the main living spaces, offers a sanctuary of serenity—an indulgent retreat designed for rest, restoration, and privacy.

This residence is further enhanced by 100% owned solar, ensuring long‑term energy efficiency without the encumbrance of lease obligations. Additional premium amenities include a covered outdoor lounge, EV‑charger pre‑wire, and quartz surfaces throughout the kitchen and baths.

The design palette—white shaker cabinetry, a walnut‑accented island, and bronze architectural finishes—strikes a perfect balance between modern refinement and timeless elegance, creating an ambiance that is warm, inviting, and unmistakably luxurious. https://cresleigh.com/magnolia-station/residence-1-2/

A Cresleigh Home isn’t just where you live—it’s where you fall in love, every single day. #CresleighHomes

Lying rarely just about the words spoken in a single moment. It is often the visible tip of a much deeper structure—patterns of fear, shame, insecurity, or learned survival strategies that have been reinforced over the years. When someone lies, especially someone we care about, it is tempting to interpret the act as a personal betrayal. But often, the lie reveals something about the liar’s internal world: their belief that the truth will lead to rejection, punishment, or loss. In this sense, deception is less an act of aggression than an act of self‑protection, even if it still causes harm. Yet understanding the roots of lying does not excuse it. Trust is the invisible architecture of every relationship, and once damaged, it is painstaking to rebuild. A single deception may seem small, but its impact can ripple outward, creating doubt, suspicion, and emotional distance. When truth becomes negotiable, intimacy becomes impossible. People begin to relate not to one another’s real selves, but to curated versions designed to avoid conflict or judgment. The challenge, then, is twofold: to cultivate the courage to tell the truth, and to create environments—familial, professional, communal—where truth is not punished. Honesty requires vulnerability, and vulnerability requires a sense of safety. When people feel secure enough to be transparent, the need for deception diminishes. When they feel chronically unsafe, lying becomes a reflex. #RandolphHarris 1 of 28

When trauma buries itself in the psyche, dishonesty can become less a deliberate choice and more a survival reflex. The mind learns to hide what it cannot bear to face. In such cases, the lie is not merely a statement—it is a shield. People who have endured chronic childhood abuse often develop patterns of dissociation, compartmentalization, or emotional numbing. These adaptations once kept them safe, but in adulthood, they can distort perception, memory, and self‑awareness. What looks like deceit from the outside may, on the inside, feel like confusion, blankness, or a desperate attempt to avoid re‑experiencing old terror. This does not mean that the consequences of dishonesty disappear. Even unconscious or trauma‑driven deception can fracture relationships and erode trust. But it does mean that the moral landscape is more complex than simple categories of “good” and “bad,” “honest” and “dishonest.” Many people are not lying to manipulate—they are lying because the truth feels unbearable, or because they have never learned how to hold their own pain without hiding it. Understanding this complexity invites a different kind of accountability. It asks us to confront dishonesty without cruelty, to set boundaries without shaming, and to recognize that healing often requires both truth‑telling and compassion. Trust cannot be rebuilt through punishment alone; it grows when people feel safe enough to be seen as they are, wounds and all. In the end, honesty is not merely a moral duty—it is a form of liberation. When people begin to face the truths they once hid from themselves, the need for deception diminishes. And as truth emerges, even haltingly, relationships gain the possibility of becoming places of repair rather than reenactments of old fear. #RandolphHarris 2 of 28

Once we understand how the brain hides traumatic memories, the question becomes what this means for honesty, trust, and moral responsibility. At first, hidden memories that cannot be consciously accessed may protect the individual from the emotional pain of recalling the event. However, eventually, those suppressed memories can cause debilitating psychological problems, such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or dissociative disorders. A process known as state-dependent learning is believed to contribute to the formation of memories that are inaccessible to normal consciousness. Thus, memories formed in a particular mood, arousal, or drug-induced state can best be retrieved when the brain is back in that state. The best way to access the memories in this system is to return the brain to the same state of consciousness as when the memory was encoded. Two amino acids, glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), balance the brain, directing its emotional tides and controlling whether nerve cells are excited or inhibited (calm). Under normal conditions, the system is in equilibrium. However, when we are hyper-aroused and vigilant, glutamate surges. Glutamate is also the primary chemical that helps store memories in our neuronal networks in a way that they are easy to remember. GABA calms us and helps us sleep, blocking the action of the excitable glutamate. The most commonly used tranquilizing drug, benzodiazepine, activates GABA receptors in our brains. #RandolphHarris 3 of 28

There are two kinds of GABA receptors. One kind, synaptic GABA receptors, works in tandem with glutamate receptors to balance the excitation of the brain in response to external events such as stress. The other population, extra-synaptic GABA receptors, are independent agents. They ignore the peppy glutamate. Instead, their job is internally focused, adjusting brain waves and mental states according to the levels of internal chemicals, such as GABA, sex hormones, and micro RNAs. Extra-synaptic GABA receptors change the brain’s state to make us aroused, sleepy, alert, sedated, inebriated or even psychotic. However, Northwestern scientists discovered another crucial role; these receptors also help encode memories of fear-inducing event and then store them away, hidden from consciousness. If a traumatic event occurs when these extra-synaptic GABA receptors are activated, the memory of this event cannot be accessed unless these receptors are activated once again. Moving in the direction of perfectionism, some people identify themselves with their standards. This type feels superior because his high standards, more and intellectual, and on this basis looks down on others. His arrogant contempt for others, though, is hidden—from himself as well—behind polished friendliness, because his very standards prohibit such “irregular” feelings. His ways of beclouding the issue of unfulfilled shoulds are twofold. In contrast to the narcissistic type, he does make strenuous efforts to measure up to his shoulds by fulfilling duties and obligations, by polite and orderly manners, by now telling obvious lies, et cetera. When speaking of perfectionistic people, we often think merely of those who keep meticulous order, are overly punctilious and punctual, must find just the right word, or must wear just the right necktie or hat. #RandolphHarris 4 of 28

However, since all he can achieve is behaviouristic perfection, another device is necessary. This is to equate, in his mind, standards and actualities—knowing about moral values and being a good person. The self-deception involved is all the more hidden from him since, in reference to others, he may insist upon their actually living up to his standards of perfection and despise them for failing to do so. His own self-condemnation is thus externalized. As confirmation of his opinion of himself, he needs respect from others rather than glowing admiration (which he tends to scorn). Accordingly, his claims are based less on a “naïve” belief in his greatness than on a “deal” he had secretly made with life. Because he is fair, just, and dutiful, he is entitled to fair treatment by others and by life in general. This conviction of an infallible justice operating in life gives him a feeling of mastery. His own perfection, therefore, is not only a means to superiority but also one to control his life. The idea of the underserved fortunate, whether good or bad, is alien to him. His own success, prosperity, or good health is therefore less something to be enjoyed than a proof of his virtue. Conversely, a misfortune befalling him—such as the loss of a child, an accident, the infidelity of his wife, the loss of a job—may bring this seemingly well-balanced person to the verge of collapse. He not only resents ill ill-fortunate as unfair, but over and beyond this, is shaken by it to the foundations of his psychic existence. It invalidates his whole accounting system and conjures up the ghastly prospect of helplessness. #RandolphHarris 5 of 28

His other breaking points have to deal with the tyranny of the shoulds: his recognition of an error or failure of his own making, and his finding himself caught between contradictory shoulds. Just as a misfortune pulls the ground away from under him, so does a realization of his own fallibility. Self-effacing trends and undiluted self-hate, kept in check successfully hitherto, then may come to the fore. The world is always “disclosing” itself to people, but each person “receives”—that is, pays attention to—only a tiny fraction of all there is to be perceived. Each person perceives, remembers, thinks, and imagines only what is relevant for individual needs and projects and what is “appropriate” for a person with that identity to be conscious of. The rest of the world of possible experiencing is closed off. This possible world is the “unconscious” mentioned by Dr. Freud, the “shadow” side of existence of which Dr. Jung wrote; it is the “ground,” as opposed to “figure,” which Dr. Fritz Perls and the earlier Gestalt psychologist spoke of. The myth of Pandora’s box; the knowing that came from eating of the “tree of knowledge”; the Medusa myth; and the myth of Queen Akasha and Prince Lestat, who knew too much, all attest the awareness of humans throughout history that there is more possibility for experiencing them than we customarily are aware of. All the mystical traditions, such as Sufism, alchemy, kabbala, and shamanism, are recognitions of larger realms of awareness and ways to achieve contact with them. #RandolphHarris 6 of 28

Today, no derision on the part of the careless unbeliever and no punitive fervor on the part of the dogmatist can deny the staggering fact that much of mankind finds itself without a living religion such as gave wholeness of existence to the tool man in his productive dealings with nature, and to the trading man in his gainful exchange of goods in an expanding world market. How deeply worried the self-made man is in his need to feel safe in his man-made world can be seen from the deep inroad which an unconscious identification with the machine—comparable to the magic identification of primitive man with his principal prey—has made on the Western concept of human nature in general and on a kind of automatized and depersonalized child training in particular. The desperate need to function smoothly and cleanly, without friction, sputtering, or smoke, has attached itself to the ideas of personal happiness, of governmental perfection, and even of salvation. Sometimes one feels a strange totalism creeping up in those naive initiators who expect a new wholeness to come from the process of technological development in and by itself, just as in times not so distant, the millennium was to emerge from the unfailing wisdom of nature, from the mysterious self-balance of the market, or from the inner sanctity of wealth. Machines, of course, can be made more attractive and more comfortable as they become more practical; the question is where that deep sense of specific goodness will come from, which man needs in his relation to his principal source and technique of production to permit himself to be human in a reasonably familiar universe. #RandolphHarris 7 of 28

Unanswered, this need will continue to increase a deep and widespread basic mistrust which, in areas overcome with all too sudden changes in historical and economic perspective, contributes to a willingness to accept a totalitarian and authoritarian delusion of wholeness, ready-made with one leader at the head of one party, one ideology giving a simple rationale to all nature and all history, one categorical enemy of production to be destroyed by one centralized agency of justice—and the steady diversion to outer enemies of the important rage stored up within. It must be remembered here, however, that at least of one these systems was called totalitarianism, Soviet communism, was born from an ideology which envisages beyond all revolutions a final wholeness of society, freed from the interference of an armed state and of the class structure which necessitated it. In this vision, the total revolution and the totalitarian superstate is only a state-to-end-all states: it will abolish itself by “becoming dormant,” leaving in the final wholeness of a stateless democracy nothing to be administered except “things…and processes of production.” The degree to which totalitarian means and methods are being implemented in society, through artificial intelligence (AI), is so powerful that these methods may become irreversible in the utopian undertaking. In the meantime, however, we must not lose sight of those newly emerging peoples (and their young people) on the periphery as we are watching the emergence of a technocratic order that echoes the centralizing instincts of Soviet‑era systems—an environment where conformity is rewarded, dissent is marginalized, and technology is elevated to the status of a secular deity.  In this new worldview, algorithms become arbiters of truth, data replaces discernment, and efficiency is valued above human judgment. #RandolphHarris 8 of 28

Institutionalization is incipient in every social situation, continuing in time. The very core of Marxism is one that rebels against the degradation of work to the level of a commodity and of the worker to the level of an object. Karl Marx reminded the privileged that their privileges were not divine and that property was not an eternal right. He gave a bad conscience to those who had no right to a clear conscience, and denounced with unparalleled profundity a class whose crime is not so much having had power as having used it to advance the ends of a mediocre society and deprived of any real nobility. To him, we owe the idea which is the despair of our times—but here despair is worth more than any hope—that when work is a degradation, it is not life, even though it occupies every moment of life. Who, despite the pretensions of this society, can sleep in it in peace when they know that it derives its mediocre pleasures from the work of millions of dead souls? By demanding from the worker real riches, which are not the riches of money but of leisure and creation, he has reclaimed, despite all appearances to the contrary, the dignity of man. In doing so, and this can be said with conviction, he never wanted the additional degradation that has been imposed on man in his name. One of his phrases, which for once is clear and trenchant, forever withholds from his triumphant disciples the greatness of the humanity which once were his: “An end that requires unjust means is not a just end.” It is a rebuke not only to his misguided disciples but to every system, left or right, that sacrifices the individual on the altar of abstraction. It reminds us that no vision of society, however noble in theory, can justify the degradation of the human person in practice. The dignity of work, the freedom of creation, the right to leisure and self‑expression—these are not luxuries but the very conditions of a life worthy of the name. #RandolphHarris 9 of 28

Human beings are indeed more than the roles imposed on them by institutions, but we are also more than the functions assigned to us by machines. A society in which work truly serves humanity cannot simply outsource its purpose to technology. If we allow efficiency to become the highest value, we risk creating a world where human beings are measured only by their economic utility—and in such a world, AI will always outperform us. That is the path toward obsolescence. The challenge, then, is not to reject technology but to refuse its elevation into a new form of determinism. We need a balance in which technological tools expand human possibility rather than replace it; where innovation supports the flourishing of communities rather than rendering them dependent on state assistance; where people can afford to live not because the government sustains them, but because the economy still recognizes the irreplaceable value of human creativity, judgment, and presence. A humane society must ensure that work remains a site of meaning, not merely a competition with machines. It must protect the space where human beings can contribute, create, and support themselves with dignity. Without that balance, we risk drifting toward a future in which both the market and the state treat people as passive recipients rather than active participants in their own lives. It is told that there was once a man who, through his misdeeds, deserved the punishment which the law meted out to him. After he had suffered for his wrong acts, he went back into ordinary society, and improved. Then, he went to a strange land, where he was not known, and where he became known for his worthy conduct. All was forgotten. #RandolphHarris 10 of 28

Then one day, there appeared a fugitive who recognized the distinguished person as his equal back in those miserable days. This was a terrifying memory to meet. A deathlike death shook him each time this man passed. Although silent, this memory shouted in a high voice until, through the voice of this vile fugitive, it took on words. Then, suddenly, despair seized this man, who seemed to have been saved. And it seized him just because repentance was forgotten, because the improvement toward society was not the resigning of himself to God, so that in the humility of repentance, he might remember what he had been. For in the temporal, and sensual, and social sense, repentance is in fact something that comes and goes during the years. However, in the eternal sense, it is a silent daily anxiety. It is eternally false that guilt is changed by the passage of a century. To assert anything of this sort is to confuse the Eternal with what the Eternal is least like—with human forgetfulness. If anyone in a brazen and impious mood should pronounce absolution from the Good, on the ground that all is lost, then this is sacrilege, and this will only add to the guilt by piling up more and more fresh guilt. Now, let us indeed consider this. Guilt is not increased for the reason that it seems more and more tragic to the improved individual. It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. However, it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt. It is not a gain to notice, because of man’s forgetfulness, that he is growing older. However, it is a gain to notice that a man grown older by the deeper and deeper penetration into his heart of the transformation wrought by remorse. #RandolphHarris 11 of 28

One should be able to tell the age of a tree from its bark; in truth, one can also tell a man’s age in the Good by the intensity of his repentance. There is a battle of despair that struggles—with the consequence. The enemy attacks constantly from behind, and yet the fighter shall continue to advance. When it is so, the repentance is still young and weak. There is a suffering of repentance, that is not impatient in bearing the punishment, but yet each moment cringes under it. When this is so, the repentance is still young and weak. There is a silent, sleepless sorrow at the picturing of what has been wasted. It does not despair, but in its daily grieving, it is always restless. When this is so, the repentance is still young and weak. There is a laborious moving forward in the Good that is like the gait of one whose feet are without sink. He is willing enough, he will gladly walk swiftly, but he has suffered a loss of courage. The pains make his going uncertain and agonizing. When this is so, the repentance is still young and weak. However, in spite of this, more confident steps are made along the way, when punishment itself becomes a blessing, when consequences even become a blessings, when consequence even become redemptive, when progress in Good is apparent; then is there a milder but deep sorrow that remembers the guilt. It has wearied out and overcome what could deceive and confuse wearied out and overcome what could deceive and confuse the sight. Therefore, it does not see falsely, but sees only the one sorrowful thing. This is the older, the strong and the powerful repentance. #RandolphHarris 12 of 28

When it is a matter of the senses, it is true that they deteriorate and decline in the course of the years. Of a dancer, one must say that her time is past when her youth is gone. However, it is otherwise with a penitent. And it must be said of repentance that, if it is forgotten, then its strength was only an immaturity; but the longer and the more deeply one treasures it, the better it becomes. For guilt looks most terrifying the nearer at hand one sees it. However, repentance is most acceptable to God, the further away repentance views the guilt, along the way of Good. Union with the will of God does not exclude the proving of what is the will of God on each particular occasion, but rather demands it, and in the same way, side by side with Jesus’s saying about not letting the left hand know what the right hand is doing, there is St. Paul’s admonition to prove oneself with regard to one’s faith; prove your own selves. “Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you?” (II Corinthians 13.5; Galatians 6.4). The simplicity of not knowing of one’s own goodness, because one is entirely taken up with one’s deed and looks only to Jesus Christ, does not mean frivolousness or heedlessness with regard to one’s own self. There is a Christian as well as a pharisaical self-proving; that is to say, a self-proving which is not directed towards one’s own knowledge of good and evil and towards its realization in practical life but which every day afresh renews the knowledge that “Jesus Christ is in us.” The Christian cannot now indeed examine himself in any other way than on the basis of this possibility which is decisive for him, the possibility that Jesus Christ has entered into his life, nay more than that, that Jesus Christ lives for him and in him, and that Jesus Christ occupies within him exactly the space which was previously occupied within him exactly the space which was previously occupied by his own knowledge of good and evil. #RandolphHarris 13 of 28

Christian self‑proving is possible only through the foreknowledge that Christ is within us. That statement is the heart of Christian anthropology. Faith is not an abstract idea or a neutral symbol; it is rooted in the living presence of a historical person. The name “Jesus Christ” is not a metaphor for moral ideals—it is the confession that God has entered human history and now dwells in the believer. This means that the authenticity of Christian life is not measured by external compliance but by inward transformation. The proof of faith is not fear, force, or conformity; it is the quiet, steady work of Christ reshaping the person from the inside out. However, corporal punishment does not work for everyone because it operates entirely on the level of external control. It can compel behavior, but it cannot awaken conscience. It can enforce silence, but it cannot cultivate understanding. It can restrain the body, but it cannot reach the heart. Some people respond to physical discipline with fear, resentment, or numbness rather than growth. Others may comply outwardly while remaining unchanged inwardly. In that sense, corporal punishment mirrors the very problem your theological reflection identifies: the limits of external force in producing genuine moral or spiritual transformation. True change—whether spiritual, moral, or behavioral—cannot be imposed. It must be invited, awakened, and nurtured from within. Christian self‑proving arises from the indwelling Christ, not from external pressure. Likewise, the formation of character, especially in children or vulnerable individuals, requires guidance that speaks to the heart, not merely the body. In both cases, the human person is treated not as an object to be controlled but as a soul capable of growth, dignity, and freedom. Martin Luther alleges that he received maltreatment at the hands of his mother, and the anger he felt against her dramatically created a burning doubt of divine righteousness. #RandolphHarris 14 of 28

He says, “My mother beat me until the blood came;” that was presumably for stealing “one nut.” This corporal punishment drove him into monkery. The treatment was responsible for the excessive, neurotic side of the religionism of his early twenties. Such discipline, however, also refers to the general disciplinary methods of his time, not just to those of his mother; while “for one nut” may well cover, although we must not make too much of it, a complaint with many ramifications: it is one of a whole series of incidents which he cited even into old age to support a certain undertone of grievance in his self-justification. However, if he were being punished for a breach of property rights, he may well have found the severity puzzling. If not pounced upon with the whole weight of society’s wrath, many children through the ages, like the juvenile delinquents of today, have found incomprehensible the absolutism of an adult conscience that insists that a little theft will breed many big ones. Criminals are thus often made; since the world treats such small matters as a sure sign of potential criminality, the children may feel confirmed in one of those negative identity fragments which under adverse circumstances can become the dominant identity element. Martin Luther, all his life, felt like some sort of criminal, and had to keep on justifying himself even after his revelation of the universal justification through faith had led him to strength, peace, and leadership. “Until the blood came” (often translated as “flowed”) has become a biographical stereotype which, in reading, one passes over lightly as news about a widespread homelessness crisis in America, or the casual ties of COVID. #RandolphHarris 15 of 28

However, in regard to these larger news items, one would, if one stopped to think, detect some subliminal horror in oneself; but in regard to the blood thus exacted from children, there seems to exist a widespread ambivalence. Some reader feel a slight revulsion in reading about it, others think it is what made the person more godly. While corporal punishment is not always effective, in some cases it can draw people closer to God and cause them to question their bad behaviour. However, keep in mind that corporal punishment is illegal and could be dangerous or deadly. This whole disciplinary issue calls for a more general discussion about school and beatings. The caning and whipping of children were common in the 15^th and 16^th centuries, as was the public torture of criminals. Hardly souls looking at us straight in the eye may assure us that a good caning never did them any harm, quite the contrary. Since they could not escape the punishment when they were children, and can not undo it now, their statement only indicates their capacity to make the best of what cannot be helped. Whether or not it did them any harm is another question, to answer which may call for more information about the role they have come to play in adult human affairs. It is well to remember that the majority of men invented the device of beating children into submission. Some of the American Plains Indian tribes were deeply shocked when they first saw white people beat their children. In their bewilderment, they could only explain such behaviour as part of an over-all missionary scheme—an explanation also supported the white people’s method of letting their babies cry themselves blue in the face. #RandolphHarris 16 of 28

It all must mean, so they thought, a well-calculated wish to impress white children with the idea that this world is not a good place to linger in, and that it is better to look to the other world where perfect happiness is to be had at the price of having sacrificed this world. This is an ideological interpretation, and a shrewd one: it interprets a single typical act not on the basis of its being a possible cause of a limited effect, but as part of a world view. And indeed, we now beat our children less, but we are still hurrying them through this imperfect world, not so much to get them to the next one as to make them hurry from one good moment to better ones, to climb, improve, advance, progress. It takes a particular view of man’s place on this earth, and the place of childhood within man’s total scheme, to invent devices for terrifying children into submission, either by magic, or by mental and corporeal terror. When these terrors are associated with collective and ritual observances, they can be assumed to contain some inner corrective which keeps the individual child from facing life all by himself; they may even offer some compensation of belongingness and identification. Special concepts of property (including the idea that a man can ruin his own property if he wishes) underlie the idea that it is entirely up to the discretion of an individual father when he should raise the morality of his children by beating their bodies. It is clear that the concept of children as property opens the door to those misalliances of impulsivity and compulsivity, of arbitrariness and moral logic, of brutality and haughtiness, which make men crueler and more licentious than creatures not fired with the divine spark. #RandolphHarris 17 of 28

The device of beating children down—by superior force, by contrived logic, or by vicious sweetness—makes it unnecessary for the adult to become adult. He need not develop that true inner superiority which is naturally persuasive. Instead, he is authorized to remain significantly inconsistent and arbitrary, or in other words, childish, while beating into the child the desirability of growing up. The child, forced out of fear to pretend that he is better when seen than when unseen, is left to anticipate the day when he will have the brute power to make others more moral than he ever intends to be himself. However, keep in mind, that God our Father—He needs to speak only once on the issue of morality, and that one declaration trumps all the opinions of the lower courts, whether uttered by psychologists, counselors, politicians, friends, parents, or would-be moralists of the day. It is almost unbelievable to think that God has given to His children the power that is most prized and sacred to Him—the power to create life. Because God gave us this power, He, and He alone, has the right to prescribe how it should be used. Contrary to much public sentiment, there is nothing negative or restraining about God’s moral standards. Rather, they are beneficial, uplifting, and liberating. They build relationships of trust, they enhance self-esteem, they foster a clear conscience, and they invite the Spirit of the Lord to bless individual and married lives. They are the proven standards for happy marriages and stable communities. Do not be guilty of tampering or playing with this sacred power of creation. It is not pleasing to the Lord, nor is it pleasing to you. It does not make you feel worthy or clean. #RandolphHarris 18 of 28

America has become so expensive that record numbers of Americans are relocating to Mexico. According to the U.S. State Department, the number of American citizens living in Mexico increased by 75 percent between 2019 and 2025, reaching an estimated 1.8 million people. Many of these individuals work remotely for U.S. companies while taking advantage of Mexico’s lower cost of living, natural beauty, and vibrant culture—and they are thriving. California illustrates the severity of the affordability crisis anc corruption. It is now the third most expensive state in the nation and is facing a $20 billion budget deficit, reflecting the financial strain on its residents. In 37 percent of California counties, a family of four earning a six‑figure income is considered low‑income. The average home price in the state is approaching $1 million, while the average salary is just over $96,000—making homeownership unattainable for most Californians. The situation is even more stark for individuals. In five counties—Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin—a single person earning more than $100,000 a year is now classified as low‑income. Traditional mortgage guidelines recommend spending no more than 28 percent of gross income on a mortgage payment and no more than 36 percent on total debt. Based on the median household income in Sacramento County, a homeowner can afford a mortgage payment of about $2,070 per month, or up to $2,661 for all debts combined. Yet home prices in Sacramento County require far higher incomes. To purchase a typical home using standard lending guidelines, a household would need to earn roughly $135,000 per year. In reality, the median household income in Sacramento County is about $88,724—often with two to four people working to support the mortgage. This mismatch raises serious questions about how lenders are qualifying buyers for such expensive homes. Home prices in Sacramento County are now rivaling those in the Bay Area, and in some cases, Bay Area homes are actually more affordable. Historically, the Bay Area has commanded higher prices due to higher‑paying jobs, a larger population, and its status as a major tourist destination. Sacramento’s rapid price escalation signals a deepening affordability crisis. According to this viewpoint, state leadership has contributed to the problem. Governor Gavin Newsom has directed taxpayer‑funded resources and cash aid toward individuals in the country illegally, while state workers—who keep California running—are overdue for a 25 percent wage increase. This prioritization, critics argue, worsens the affordability crisis and leaves California residents struggling to keep up with rising costs. #RandolphHarris 19 of 28

California is facing one of the most severe affordable‑housing crises in the nation, yet at the same time the state has embarked on an extraordinarily expensive renovation of the Capitol building—known as “The Castle”—in Sacramento. According to public reports, the project has already cost taxpayers more than $1.2 billion, and some analysts estimate the final price could reach as high as $5 billion before completion. Critics argue that such spending reflects deeper structural problems in the state’s governance. They point to decades‑old laws that restrict housing supply and discourage home sales, as well as concerns about bureaucratic inefficiency, corruption, and wasteful government spending. These factors, they contend, have contributed to soaring rents, limited housing availability, and a growing sense that state priorities are misaligned with the needs of ordinary Californians. The consequences of these policies are increasingly visible. Between 2018 and 2023, California received $24 billion to fund 30 homeless and housing programs. These programs produced 100,000 housing units—an average cost of $240,000 per unit. For comparison, Roger Lucas, owner of Grand Castle, LLC, spent $50 million to build The Grand Castle, a 522‑unit residential community in Grandville, Michigan. The development includes studios, one‑bedroom, two‑bedroom, and three‑bedroom units, as well as a multi‑level penthouse. Rents range from $1,000 to $2,500. Built on a 23.6‑acre site, the community features 750 covered parking spaces, a clubhouse, and a resort‑style pool, and was completed in just 12 to 18 months. The average cost per unit was approximately $95,785—about $144,000 less per unit than California’s publicly funded projects. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the nation at 5.4 percent, compared to the national average of 4.5 percent. As household bills surge and the minimum wage rises to $20 an hour, people living on Social Security retirement benefits are especially strained, with monthly checks effectively equating to $5 to $7 an hour. Meanwhile, as Americans struggle to find and afford housing, Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills on February 7, 2025—SBX1 1 and SBX1 2, both part of the Budget Act of 2024—allocating $50 million to protect individuals in the country illegally from deportation. Additionally, the governor extended free health care to 700,000 undocumented immigrants, costing taxpayers $3 billion annually. At the same time, funding was reduced for programs serving veterans, schoolchildren, people with disabilities, and the homeless. Given these circumstances, it is understandable that many people who are legally in the United States—and paying between 30 and 90 percent of their income in taxes—are deeply frustrated. #RandolphHarris 20 of 28

Advocates argue that the crisis unfolding in California—driven by Democratic policies—is pushing home prices, mortgages, and rents higher not only across the United States but around the world, making everyday life increasingly unaffordable. Many believe the situation is far from stabilizing. At the same time, China—where the United States has outsourced significant jobs and capital—has more than 50 ghost cities containing an estimated 65 million vacant homes. These ghost cities are the result of massive overdevelopment in areas where few or no people live. By contrast, if all categories of homelessness are counted, California is estimated to have as many as 4 million homeless individuals. The state also has the highest home prices in the nation, the highest taxes, and some of the most restrictive business regulations anywhere. Because of what critics describe as a hostile environment for both residents and employers, more than 360 companies have left California since 2020. Major corporations such as Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, and Hewlett‑Packard are among those that have relocated. Additionally, more than 500,000 residents leave the state each year because it has become too expensive to live in. Critics also point to Governor Gavin Newsom’s policies, including the criminalization of homelessness and the arrest of individuals without housing, rising crime, and widespread job losses as companies continue to move operations elsewhere. More than 100 companies have already announced layoffs in California for 2025. Intel plans to cut 15,000 jobs, PayPal is eliminating 2,500 positions, and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, compared to the national average of 4.1 percent. Advocates argue that the crisis created by Democratic leadership is driving up housing costs nationwide and globally, and that the situation is far from resolved. California is also home to more than 3.5 million undocumented immigrants. Combined with an open southern border, insufficient protection of American farmland, and declining domestic production of beef, poultry, fish, fruits, vegetables, and dairy, critics warn that the United States is exposing itself to serious risks. Without prioritizing American‑made goods and services, they argue, the nation faces elevated threats to national security, economic stability, and public health. Some may believe these concerns are overstated. However, supporters of this viewpoint point to past failures—such as the 2017 Oroville Dam crisis—as examples of what can happen when governments fail to monitor Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) or other critical alerts, including the end‑of‑life status of essential infrastructure. #RandolphHarris 21 of 28

China—where the United States has outsourced vast numbers of jobs and significant amounts of capital—currently has more than 50 ghost cities containing an estimated 65 million vacant homes. These ghost cities are the result of extreme overdevelopment in areas where few or no people live. By contrast, if all categories of homelessness are counted, California is estimated to have as many as 4 million homeless individuals. The state also has the highest home prices in the nation, the highest taxes, and some of the most restrictive business regulations anywhere. Critics argue that these conditions have made California deeply hostile to both residents and employers. Since 2020, more than 360 companies have left California, including major corporations such as Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, and Hewlett‑Packard. Additionally, more than 500,000 residents leave the state each year because it has become too expensive to live in. Critics also point to Governor Gavin Newsom’s policies—such as criminalizing homelessness and arresting individuals without housing—alongside rising crime and widespread job losses as companies continue to relocate. More than 100 companies have already announced layoffs in California for 2025. Intel plans to cut 15,000 jobs, PayPal is eliminating 2,500 positions, and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, compared to the national average of 4.1 percent. Advocates argue that the crisis created by Democratic leadership is driving up home prices, mortgages, and rents nationwide and even globally, making life increasingly unaffordable. They also note that California is home to more than 3.5 million undocumented immigrants. Combined with an open southern border, insufficient protection of American farmland, and declining domestic production of beef, poultry, fish, fruits, vegetables, and dairy, critics warn that the United States is exposing itself to serious risks. Without prioritizing American‑made goods and services, they argue, the nation faces elevated threats to national security, economic stability, and public health. Some may believe these concerns are overstated. However, supporters of this viewpoint point to past failures—such as the 2017 Oroville Dam crisis—as examples of what can happen when governments fail to monitor Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) or other critical alerts, including the end‑of‑life status of essential infrastructure. #RandolphHarris 22 of 28

America needs a comprehensive strategy to eliminate safety vulnerabilities in its cities. By the end of 2025, the nation should have a clear road map that prioritizes how to reduce crisis situations and strengthen public safety. Many argue that while the United States sends substantial aid to foreign nations, it struggles to fund its own infrastructure, provide adequate resources, address the affordable housing crisis, and support other national critical functions (NCFs). These practices—seen as placing America and Americans last—are viewed by some as serious risks to national security, economic stability, and public health. In 2024, Americans spent $100 billion on Japanese automobiles, contributing to a $39 billion trade deficit with Japan. Japan exported 1.4 million vehicles to the United States but imported only 16,000 American-built cars. By contrast, Japan imported roughly 143,000 motor vehicles from the European Union. Supporters of tariffs argue that these imbalances are exactly why President Trump implemented them: to protect American industries, reduce trade deficits, and prevent the United States from being taken advantage of economically. The goal, in this view, is to return America to the status of a creditor nation rather than one borrowing money to support other countries. According to this perspective, President Trump’s tariff policies generate approximately $400 billion in annual revenue and help create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Advocates say this revenue is being used to pay down national debt, and that a portion may be directed toward stimulus checks for Americans, potentially ranging from $1,000 to $2,000. However, if the Supreme Court were to rule these tariffs illegal, taxpayers could be responsible for repaying trillions of dollars. At the same time, some observers believe the nation is witnessing increasing conflict between federal and state authorities—citing examples such as gangs, federal judges, and Governor Gavin Newsom clashing with federal law enforcement and the President. They argue that certain states and cities are refusing to honor federal laws, and that some politicians are disregarding the Constitution. From this viewpoint, these trends contribute to a growing sense of disorder and the perception that anarchy is becoming more common.#RandolphHarris 23 of 28

Anarchism is a collection of doctrines and attitudes built around the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary. The term comes from the Greek word anarchos, meaning “without authority.” Throughout history, the words anarchism, anarchist, and anarchy have been used to express both approval and disapproval. Anarchists reject man‑made laws, view property as a tool of tyranny, and argue that crime is a product of property and authority. They maintain that rejecting constitutions and governments does not lead to “no justice,” but instead allows for the emergence of genuine justice through the natural development of human social cooperation—what they see as an innate tendency toward mutual aid when people are not constrained by formal laws. Some critics argue that anarchism also constitutes a form of treason. Treason is traditionally defined as betraying a nation or sovereign through acts that endanger its security. Under English law, treason includes levying war against the government or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. In the United States, the framers of the Constitution defined treason narrowly: it “shall consist only in levying war against [the United States], or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.” From this viewpoint, some argue that certain contemporary political actions may fall within this definition, though such claims remain matters of political interpretation rather than legal judgment. From a national‑security perspective, the argument continues that the American government must identify all exploitable vulnerabilities and address them before they escalate into crises. Failing to take preventive action, in this view, creates significant risks to national security, economic stability, and public health and safety. Supporters of this position contend that the United States must invest substantial time and resources into strengthening its own infrastructure and resilience. They also argue that corporations should be encouraged to participate in this effort by planning for both short‑term mitigation of safety vulnerabilities and long‑term elimination of them. For example, a company might partner with federal, state, or local governments to request tax incentives in exchange for improving security in high‑risk communities or assisting with infrastructure repairs such as bridges and potholes. #RandolphHarris 24 of 28

Across the United States, a quiet emergency is unfolding—one that threatens not only public health, but the survival of the first peoples of this land. Native American communities, already burdened by generations of broken promises and chronic underfunding, are now facing a surge of drug trafficking and overdose deaths that is tearing families apart and destabilizing entire nations. This crisis is not receiving the national attention it deserves. It should. Recent events on the Blackfeet Nation in Montana illustrate the scale of the problem. In what became the largest drug bust in state history, authorities seized more than 700,000 fentanyl pills on tribal land. Shortly afterward, the community suffered 17 overdoses in a single week, forcing tribal leaders to declare a state of emergency. These are not isolated incidents—they are symptoms of a growing pattern. Indigenous people now experience overdose rates 42 percent higher than the national average. When you consider that only 6.8 million Native Americans remain in the United States, the stakes become painfully clear. A population this small cannot absorb losses at this rate. Every life lost is not only a personal tragedy—it is a blow to a culture, a language, a lineage, a nation. And yet, the federal response remains tepid. Drug cartels have learned to exploit the vulnerabilities of tribal lands: remote geography, understaffed police departments, and legal systems that lack the authority to prosecute non‑tribal offenders. These criminal networks know exactly where enforcement is weakest. They know where communities have been historically neglected. And they take full advantage. The United States has a legal and moral obligation to protect tribal nations. That obligation is rooted in treaties, trust responsibilities, and basic human decency. But for decades, tribal governments have been forced to operate with a fraction of the resources available to comparable non‑tribal jurisdictions. Their police forces are underfunded. Their healthcare systems are overstretched. Their courts lack the authority to hold many offenders accountable. This is not just a failure of policy—it is a failure of national character. Some Americans express frustration that resources seem to flow quickly to other groups while Native communities continue to wait. Whether or not one agrees with that perception, the underlying truth is undeniable: Indigenous nations have been consistently overlooked, even as they face existential threats. Correcting that imbalance is not about taking from one group to give to another. It is about honoring commitments that have been ignored for far too long. So what should be done? First, the federal government must strengthen its ability to stop the flow of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids into the country. That includes better interdiction, intelligence-sharing, and targeting of trafficking networks that specifically exploit tribal lands. Second, tribal governments need substantial, sustained investment—not symbolic gestures. Funding for law enforcement, addiction treatment, mental‑health services, and infrastructure must reflect the scale of the crisis. Third, Congress should expand tribal jurisdiction so that tribal courts can prosecute non‑tribal offenders who commit crimes on their lands. Criminals should not be able to hide behind legal loopholes. Finally, Indigenous voices must be central in shaping the policies that affect their communities. Too often, decisions are made about tribal nations without meaningful tribal input. That approach has failed for centuries. It will not work now. The survival of Native American communities should not be a partisan issue. It should not be a regional issue. It should not be an afterthought. It is a test of whether the United States is willing to protect the people to whom it owes its deepest historical obligations. If we allow drug cartels to devastate these communities while the nation looks away, we will be complicit in a tragedy that future generations will judge harshly. The time for action is now. The cost of inaction is measured in lives—and in the slow erosion of cultures that have shaped this continent for thousands of years. #RandolphHarris 25 of 28

America is facing a slow‑moving crisis that too few people are willing to confront: we are losing farmland at a pace that threatens our long‑term ability to feed ourselves. Much like the land shortage unfolding in Las Vegas—where rapid development has pushed the city to the edge of its buildable limits—we risk running out of the agricultural land that sustains our food supply. Once farmland is paved over, it is gone forever. And if we continue down this path, the consequences could be severe. Food security is national security. A nation that cannot grow its own food is a nation that must rely on others for survival. In a world already strained by geopolitical tensions, climate pressures, and supply‑chain disruptions, the idea of future “food wars” is not far‑fetched. Protecting American farmland today is an investment in tomorrow’s stability. One of the most effective ways to safeguard our agricultural base is to support the farmers and ranchers who keep it productive. That starts with buying American‑made beef, poultry, dairy, and produce. When consumers choose domestic products, they strengthen the economic foundation of rural communities. They also send a clear signal to investors: American agriculture is worth backing. Money flows where demand exists, and when investors see strong sales of American goods, they are more likely to reinvest in American businesses, land, and jobs. Country‑of‑origin labeling is essential to this process. Americans deserve to know where their food comes from so they can make informed choices. Transparent labeling empowers consumers to support domestic producers and ensures that foreign imports do not masquerade as American-grown products. It is a simple policy with enormous implications for economic resilience. But protecting farmland is not only an economic issue—it is also a demographic one. The United States has a finite amount of land, and as the population grows, the pressure to convert farmland into housing and commercial development intensifies. If we want to preserve enough agricultural and buildable land for future generations, we must have an honest conversation about immigration levels and population growth. A sustainable future requires sustainable numbers. Some argue that if immigration continues, it should be guided by a system that ensures broad representation and diversity. Others emphasize the need to balance population growth with resource availability. Regardless of the approach, the underlying point remains: land is limited, and policy must reflect that reality. Supporting American businesses is another critical piece of the puzzle. When Americans buy American-made goods, they keep money circulating within our own economy. That strengthens local industries, preserves jobs, and reduces dependence on foreign manufacturing. As domestic companies grow, wages rise naturally, and communities become more economically stable. This reduces the burden on taxpayers, who otherwise shoulder the cost of unemployment, social services, and economic instability. There is also a direct connection between consumer behavior and the national debt. When the government spends more than it collects in revenue, it borrows—from private businesses or foreign countries. But when Americans support domestic industries, those industries grow, tax revenue increases, and the government becomes less reliant on borrowing. A strong internal economy is one of the most effective tools we must reduce the national debt. The path forward is clear: protect our farmland, support our farmers, strengthen our domestic industries, and adopt policies that reflect the limits of our land and resources. If we fail to act, we risk losing not only our agricultural independence but our economic and national security as well. America’s future depends on the choices we make today. Let us choose to preserve the land that feeds us, the businesses that employ us, and the economic foundation that sustains us. #RandolphHarris 26 of 28

When Americans shop locally, they do more than support their neighbors—they strengthen the national economy. Every dollar spent on American‑made goods circulates back into our communities, generating tax revenue that funds schools, infrastructure, and public services. It keeps jobs here at home, ensures wages rise naturally, and reduces the burden on taxpayers. In contrast, buying foreign goods often means lighter tax loads for overseas companies and money flowing out of our economy, strengthening other nations at our expense. There are environmental benefits too. American‑made products travel shorter distances, reducing carbon emissions. And unlike many foreign manufacturers, American companies are held to higher standards for pollution control. They must dispose of waste responsibly and protect our air, land, and water. Supporting them is not only patriotic—it’s environmentally responsible. Under President Trump’s administration, policies have emphasized prioritizing American workers and industries. Efforts to secure the border, reduce illegal crossings, and crack down on drug trafficking have been paired with significant investment in U.S. manufacturing, production, and innovation. These measures have helped channel trillions of dollars back into American industry, reinforcing the pledge to “Make America Great Again.” The lesson is clear: when we buy American, we invest in ourselves. We protect farmland, preserve jobs, reduce pollution, and strengthen our economy. We also reduce reliance on foreign nations and help lower the national debt by keeping tax revenue at home. Supporting American businesses is not just about pride—it’s about survival. It ensures that the land, the jobs, and the future remain in American hands. As our nation continues to grow through immigration, we should ensure that all communities—long‑standing and newly arrived—have the opportunity to thrive. It is rare, in many communities, to see a person with blonde hair and blue eyes; they are becoming outnumbered by the influx of immigrants. We also need to keep the nation in balance by allowing people with Caucasian features to have the chance to grow and contribute to the nation.Diversity includes everyone, and preserving cultural heritage should never come at the expense of excluding others. A healthy society makes room for its historic communities while welcoming new ones. #RandolphHarris 27 of 28

Human understanding does not arrive fully formed. We must think before we can understand the soul’s existence, and we must understand before we can truly realize it. The earliest beginnings of thought—distinct from instinct—reach back into primeval time, when consciousness was still only a faint spark. The human intellect we possess today, so rich and capable, did not appear suddenly. It evolved through countless stages, shaped by experience, struggle, and the gradual awakening of self‑awareness.  And yet, for all our progress, something essential is missing. We have had scientific thinking, business thinking, and political thinking in abundance. What the world needs now is inspired thinking—thinking that rises above self‑interest and moves toward wisdom. The intellect may begin in selfishness, but its natural evolution leads toward reason, and ultimately toward selflessness. This is where parents play a vital role. Teach your children to love America, to appreciate the freedoms and opportunities they inherit, and to support the workers and businesses that keep this nation strong. Teach them to respect law and order, to honor their elders, and to understand that good character is the foundation of a meaningful life. It is inborn in the human mind to want to know. Curiosity begins with a child’s endless questions, deepens through a scientist’s investigations, and eventually reaches toward something higher—a union of reflective thought and intuitive insight. This is the beginning of true intelligence, the kind that seeks a view of the whole, not just the parts. When the mind reaches this stage, it enters the realm of philosophy. But too many children today are struggling in school, not because they lack ability, but because they are not reading. Reading is the gateway to thought. When you read books, you absorb the rhythm of language, the structure of ideas, and the example of how to express yourself. You learn to write, to think, and to understand the world beyond your immediate experience. So to every young person: take your education seriously. Read your books. Ask questions. Think deeply. The effort you put in now will shape the opportunities you have later. Your success will not only make your family proud—it will give you the tools to contribute meaningfully to your community and your country. The evolution of the mind is a lifelong journey. But it begins with simple habits: curiosity, discipline, respect, and a willingness to learn. These are the qualities that build strong individuals—and a strong nation. “Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand between their loved home and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, and this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’ And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” #RandolphHarris 27 of 27

The Winchester Mystery House

Ladies and gentlemen, gather close… and welcome to the Winchester Mansion. Before we step inside, let me tell you a story—one that locals have whispered for more than a century. You see, long before this mansion stood here, this land was nothing but open fields. Empty. Silent. Undisturbed. And then, on the afternoon of Saturday, March 13, 1886, something extraordinary happened. Sheriff Angel Camilio began receiving frantic reports from townsfolk. They claimed a massive wooden castle had magically appeared. Gables rose like jagged mountains. Towers pierced the sky. Some swore that the sprawling labyrinth rose from the earth like a mushroom after rain. Others insisted it materialized out of thin air. No blueprints. No permits. No records of construction. Just… a house that wasn’t there the day before.

The house’s sudden manifestation had been both disconcerting and fascinating to the community. To some, it looked like a fairytale palace shimmering in the spring sunlight. To others, it radiated something darker—shadows that moved on their own, cold drafts on warm days, and a feeling that something unseen was watching from the windows. And then came the hearse. One morning, without warning, a black carriage barreled through these very gates. Inside was a coffin. Some believed it held Mrs. Sarah Winchester herself. Others whispered it was a decoy, or perhaps a warning from whatever spirits lingered here.

Now, legend says Sarah Winchester—widow of William Wirt Winchester, heir to the Winchester rifle fortune—was haunted by tragedy. After losing her husband and infant daughter, she sought answers from a spiritual medium. And the medium told her something chilling: “The spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles are angry. They will take your life too… unless you flee west and build them a house. A house that must never be finished.”

And so, in 1886, Sarah Winchester came here to the Santa Clara Valley. She bought an 18‑room farmhouse and began to build. And she never stopped. Day and night, for decades, hammers rang, saws screeched, and workers added room after room after room. At its peak, the mansion rose nine stories high and held as many as 600 rooms. Staircases that lead straight into ceilings. Doors that open into thin air. Windows built into the floor. Hallways that twist like a maze. Some say Sarah designed it this way to confuse the spirits that followed her. Today, the mansion stands four stories tall, but it still stretches over 100,000 square feet. And many believe the spirits never left. Some visitors report footsteps behind them when no one is there. Others hear whispers drifting through the walls. A few have seen a woman in black wandering the corridors late at night, searching for something—or someone. Now, if you’re ready… we’re about to step inside. Stay close. Watch your step. And if you feel a tap on your shoulder or a cold breath on your neck, don’t worry. It’s probably just one of the house’s… permanent residents. Shall we begin?

And before you leave this place—whether you walk out with a shiver down your spine or a spark of wonder in your eyes—I’d like to extend a special invitation. After your journey through the mansion’s twisting corridors and secretive rooms, it would be a pleasure to have you join us for a delicious meal at Sarah’s Café. Once you’ve eaten, feel free to stroll along the paths of the Victorian gardens, which long ago stretched across 740 acres, all the way down to Stevens Creek Boulevard. Imagine the carriages, the orchards, the rolling lawns… and perhaps the quiet footsteps of someone who walked here long before you. And if you’re feeling brave, you’re welcome to wander once more through the miles of hallways inside the world’s most mysterious mansion. Every corner has a story. Every window has a whisper. And every room—well, you’ll see for yourself. Welcome to the Winchester Mansion. Enjoy your stay… for however long you choose to remain.

For further information about tours—including group tours, weddings, school events, birthday party packages, facility rentals, and our many special events—please visit our website for all the details you’ll need to plan your next unforgettable experience: https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/

Before you head out into the sunlight again, don’t forget to stop by our online gift shop. It’s the perfect place to find something special for friends and relatives—and perhaps a memento for yourself to remember your time inside the world’s most mysterious mansion. From classic souvenirs to unique collectibles inspired by the Winchester legend, you’ll find a wide variety of gifts waiting for you. Take a look, explore, and bring home a little piece of the mystery. Before you head out into the sunlight again, don’t forget to stop by our online gift shop. It’s the perfect place to find something special for friends and relatives—and perhaps a memento for yourself to remember your time inside the world’s most mysterious mansion. From classic souvenirs to unique collectibles inspired by the Winchester legend, you’ll find a wide variety of gifts waiting for you.
Take a look, explore, and bring home a little piece of the mystery.  https://shopwinchestermysteryhouse.com/

Why Choose Harris?

For more than 30 years, Harris Plumbing, Heating, Air, & Electric has been a name homeowners can trust. Not many businesses can say they’ve served their community for three decades—and we take that legacy to heart. Every job we take on, whether it’s a quick repair or a major installation, is handled with the same level of care, pride, and professionalism. Our mission is simple: to keep your home safe, comfortable, and running smoothly for you and your family. And we take that responsibility seriously. At Harris, you’re not just another service call. You’re a neighbor—and we’re here to help.

At Harris, we make sure you have all the information you need to make the right decision for your home. Whatever issue you’re facing, our team begins with a thorough diagnosis so we can clearly explain what’s going on before any work begins. That means you receive a personalized quote and a service plan tailored specifically to your home—not a generic estimate or guess. We believe the only way to deliver our best work is to fully understand the problem and address it with precision, care, and expertise. Your home deserves nothing less. https://www.callharrisnow.com/about-us/

Brian Harris BMW

With its top placement in Consumer Reports’ Auto Brand Report Card, BMW continues to prove why it remains one of the most respected names in the automotive world. In the most recent rankings, BMW earned one of the highest overall scores—finishing as the top luxury brand. This performance reflects BMW’s consistent ability to deliver vehicles that excel in reliability, performance, and owner satisfaction. BMW’s market strength is no accident. The brand has built its reputation on engineering precision and driving dynamics that set it apart from competitors. While many luxury manufacturers emphasize plush interiors and opulent comfort, BMW has always prioritized the connection between driver and machine. The result is a lineup of vehicles that are not only refined, but genuinely fun to drive—a quality that continues to resonate with consumers and automotive testers alike. This commitment to performance is why BMW has earned its iconic title: The Ultimate Driving Machine. Its vehicles consistently score high in road‑test evaluations, thanks to responsive handling, balanced chassis design, and powertrains engineered for both excitement and everyday usability. For drivers seeking a blend of luxury, reliability, and exhilarating performance, BMW remains a standout choice—supported not just by reputation, but by data. To explore the latest models, offers, and certified pre‑owned inventory, visit Brian Harris BMW:
https://www.brianharrisbmw.com/

Randolph Harris San Francisco Taxation & Mergers

Building strong and lasting client relationships is essential to a successful legal career. Many attorneys assume that mastering technical legal skills is enough, but law is fundamentally a service profession—our work is measured not only by the quality of our analysis, but by the trust we build and the problems we solve through the time and expertise we provide.
Long‑term client relationships rest on three pillars:

1. Truly knowing your clients, their businesses, and their goals.
2. Understanding how each legal issue fits into a broader strategic context.
3. Delivering exceptional service with consistency, clarity, and integrity.
   This philosophy guides my practice. I advise clients on business transitions, taxable and tax‑deferred mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructuring, integrated tax planning, federal and state tax controversy resolution, and real estate transactions. My work spans mature companies navigating complex operational issues as well as emerging and growth‑stage businesses seeking guidance on organization, financing, and long‑term planning.
   Trust is the cornerstone of every client relationship. Clients rely on me not only for technical expertise, but for judgment, perspective, and a genuine understanding of their challenges. My goal is always the same: to ensure that each client feels they are in capable hands with someone who understands their problems, their objectives, and the path forward.

Trust is the cornerstone of every client relationship. Clients rely on me not only for technical expertise, but for judgment, perspective, and a genuine understanding of their challenges. My goal is always the same: to ensure that each client feels they are in capable hands with someone who understands their problems, their objectives, and the path forward. https://www.jmbm.com/l-randolph-harris.html

Magnolia Station at Cresleigh Ranch

Rancho Cordova, CA | High $600’s

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Homesite 1 unveils Residence Three, an exceptional single‑story estate and the most expansive offering within Magnolia Station.

Encompassing 2,827 square feet of masterfully designed living space, this move‑in‑ready residence embodies the quiet grandeur and effortless sophistication reserved for the finest homes.

A gracious layout includes four generously proportioned bedrooms, two‑and‑a‑half luxuriously appointed baths, and a three‑car garage, along with an elegant private den—a space equally suited to a refined study, intimate library, or optional fifth bedroom. Every room has been curated to elevate daily living into an experience of comfort and distinction.

At the heart of the home, an expansive open‑concept great room blends seamlessly with a chef‑inspired kitchen and formal dining area, creating a setting ideal for both intimate gatherings and grand entertaining. The Owner’s Suite, thoughtfully secluded from the main living spaces, offers a sanctuary of serenity—an indulgent retreat designed for rest, restoration, and privacy.

This residence is further enhanced by 100% owned solar, ensuring long‑term energy efficiency without the encumbrance of lease obligations. Additional premium amenities include a covered outdoor lounge, EV‑charger pre‑wire, and quartz surfaces throughout the kitchen and baths.

The design palette—white shaker cabinetry, a walnut‑accented island, and bronze architectural finishes—strikes a perfect balance between modern refinement and timeless elegance, creating an ambiance that is warm, inviting, and unmistakably luxurious. https://cresleigh.com/magnolia-station/residence-1-2/

A Cresleigh Home isn’t just where you live—it’s where you fall in love, every single day. #CresleighHomes

One day, you may lie down to sleep and feel the full weight of loneliness settle over you. You may realize, perhaps too late, how many people around you have endured tragedies that could have been prevented. And in that moment, you will understand that no possession—no Fabergé egg, no Persian rug, no Swarovski crystal—can shield the heart from guilt, alienation, or regret. For some, the past becomes a kind of haunting. Ghosts, spirits, and memories rise unbidden, carrying visions of what was lost and what might have been. The ache of heartbreak can feel like an earthquake inside the mind. The smiling faces at family reunions, the warmth of Christmas mornings in Aspen, even the solemn grief of funerals—these memories cannot be replaced, only remembered. Yet many people never allow themselves to feel the sadness beneath their anger. Instead, they build walls of resentment, bitterness, and denial to protect themselves from the truth. But Scripture calls us to something deeper. “Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the will of God,” says Romans 12:2.“I pray that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and discernment… that ye may prove what is right,” writes Paul in Philippians 1:9–10.“Walk as children of light… proving what is acceptable unto the Lord,” we read in Ephesians 5:8. These passages remind us that discerning the will of God is not a matter of blind intuition or the first feeling that stirs within us. It is not the naïve grasping of whatever emotion happens to rise to the surface. Instead, it requires reflection, humility, and a willingness to examine ourselves honestly. The new life that begins in Christ is not a psychological trick or a burst of sentiment. It is a transformation of the mind—a deliberate turning toward truth, compassion, and light. #RandolphHarris 1 of 28

It is not said anywhere that the will of God forces its way into the human heart without preparation, nor that it arrives with unmistakable clarity, identical with whatever the heart happens to feel. In truth, the will of God may lie deeply hidden beneath a multitude of possibilities. It is not a fixed system of rules established once and for all; rather, it is something living, something new, something particular to each situation we face. For this reason, a person must continually examine—ever anew—what the will of God may be. The heart alone is not enough. The understanding, observation, experience, and conscience must all work together in this task. It is no longer a matter of relying on our own knowledge of good and evil, but of seeking the living will of God, which is not something we possess or control. It depends entirely on grace—and that grace must be renewed every morning. This is why the proving of God’s will is such a serious matter. The voice of the heart is not to be confused with the voice of God. Nor can we rely on vague inspiration or general principles. The will of God reveals itself only to the one who continually seeks it, continually tests it, continually opens himself to it. But how does one begin this “proving what is the will of God”? The essential precondition is transformation—a metamorphosis of the inner person. Romans 12:2 speaks of a “renewing of the mind,” a complete inward transmutation of one’s previous form. Ephesians 5:8 calls us to “walk as children of light.” Only through this inward renewal can a person discern what is good, what is acceptable, and what is aligned with the will of God. Discerning God’s will is not passive. It is an active, reflective, grace‑filled process. It demands humility, openness, and a willingness to be changed. And it is in that continual renewal—day by day, moment by moment—that the will of God becomes clear. #RandolphHarris 2 of 28

The metamorphosis of man can only be understood as the overcoming of the form of the fallen Adam and the assumption of the form of the new man, Christ. Scripture consistently employs these concepts to show that the Christian life is not the rehabilitation of the old nature but its replacement. The new form—by which alone the proving of the will of God becomes possible—has left behind the man who, in his defection from God, seized for himself the knowledge of good and evil. It is instead the form of the child of God, living in unity with the Father’s will through conformity to the one true Son. St. Paul describes this same reality in Philippians when he teaches that living and increasing in love is the necessary precondition for discernment. To grow in love is to dwell in reconciliation with God and with one’s neighbor; it is to participate in the very life of Jesus Christ. Therefore, one cannot prove the will of God by relying on one’s own resources or by drawing upon one’s own autonomous knowledge of good and evil. Only the person who has relinquished such self-derived knowledge—who has abandoned the attempt to determine God’s will by his own means—can truly discern it. Such a person lives already in the unity of God’s will because that will has been accomplished in him through Christ. Thus, proving what is the will of God is possible only on the foundation of the knowledge of God’s will revealed in Jesus Christ. Only upon this foundation, only within the sphere defined by Christ, only in Christ Himself, can a human being discern what God desires. Outside of this Christ-shaped space, the will of God remains inaccessible; within it, discernment becomes not merely possible but the natural expression of a life transformed. #RandolphHarris 3 of 28

What, then, does this “proving” mean, and why is it necessary? At first glance, the question seems logically required, yet it is in fact wrongly framed. For the knowledge of Jesus Christ—whether we call it metamorphosis, renewal, or love—is not a static possession. It is not something given once for all, fixed and held like an object. It is a living reality. And because it is living, the question arises anew each day: How am I, here and now, in this concrete moment, to remain in this new life with God, in Jesus Christ? This daily question is precisely what is meant by proving the will of God. To know Jesus Christ is to relinquish one’s own knowledge of good and evil. It is to be referred wholly and entirely to Him. From this it follows that each day must bring a fresh, authentic proving—a renewed refusal to seek the will of God from any source other than Christ Himself. This proving arises from the awareness that one’s life is preserved, sustained, and guided by God’s will; that one has already been granted merciful union with that will. And it seeks, in the concrete circumstances of each day, to confirm this knowledge afresh. Such proving is not defiant, nor is it desperate. It is humble and trusting. It is a proving carried out in the freedom that listens for the ever-new word of God, yet rests in the simplicity of the one unchanging Word. It is a proving that no longer questions the unity with God that has been restored in Christ. It presupposes this unity—and yet, because life is lived moment by moment, it must continually recover it anew. #RandolphHarris 4 of 28

Yet even after all this has been said, it remains necessary to examine what the will of God actually requires in a given situation—what is rightful, what is fitting, what course of action is truly pleasing to Him. For the Christian life is not lived in abstraction; it must take shape in concrete decisions, real responsibilities, and actual deeds. In this work of discernment, the full range of human faculties comes into play. Intelligence, sober judgment, and attentive observation of the facts must all be set in motion, and all must be permeated by prayer. Experience will offer its own corrections and warnings. But direct inspirations are not to be sought or trusted, for they too easily become a doorway into self-deception. Given what is at stake, the Christian must cultivate a noble spirit of self-control, weighing possibilities and consequences with care. In other words, when proving the will of God, one must employ the whole apparatus of human powers—yet without falling into the illusion that these powers are sufficient in themselves. There is no place here for the torment of imagining oneself trapped in insoluble conflicts, nor for the arrogance that believes every conflict can be mastered by sheer will or cleverness. Neither is there room for the enthusiastic presumption that God will speak through sudden, unmediated impulses. Instead, there is the quiet conviction that the humble petitioner will indeed be granted clarity. The one who asks God sincerely will receive the knowledge needed for faithful action. And after this earnest proving, there comes the freedom to choose—a freedom grounded not in self-reliance but in the confidence that God Himself, through this very process of discernment, brings His will to fruition. It is one of the darker quirks of human nature to condemn in others the very faults one harbors within oneself. You must guard against this. Do not return to the quagmire of corruption you once saw in the valley. The Lord, in His mercy, lifted you out of it; do not burden the rest of your life by slipping back into what He has already delivered you from. #RandolphHarris 5 of 28

Anxiety about whether one has done the right thing no longer needs to harden into a desperate clinging to one’s own goodness, nor swing back into the false security of the autonomous knowledge of good and evil. Instead, such anxiety is quieted in the knowledge of Jesus Christ, who alone renders the true judgment. In this knowledge, a person’s own goodness can remain hidden until the proper time, entrusted to the mercy of the Judge. The Eternal—whose command is always “obey at once”—must not be allowed to strike the temporal realm like a sudden shock that only confuses it. Rather, the Eternal should serve as a steadying assistance to temporal life. Just as a superior, by pressing his authority too harshly upon a weaker mind, may unintentionally weaken it further, or as an adult may overwhelm a child by excessive demands, so too the Eternal, in the imagination of an excitable person, can seem to press upon the temporal in a way that threatens to drive it toward madness. This is not the work of God, but the distortion of a troubled mind. For this reason, the grief of repentance and the heartfelt anxiety that accompanies it must never be confused with impatience. Experience teaches that the right moment for repentance is not always the moment immediately at hand. Repentance undertaken in a hurried, agitated state—when thoughts are strained and passions are stirred—can easily misidentify what truly requires repentance. It can be mistaken for its opposite: a fleeting emotional contrition that is, in fact, impatience. It can be confused with a worldly sorrow that torments rather than heals—again, impatience. Or it can collapse into a desperate, self-consuming grief that is nothing more than impatience in disguise. True repentance waits for the moment when the heart is clear enough to see rightly. It is patient, sober, and grounded in the mercy of God—not driven by panic, self-reproach, or emotional tumult. #RandolphHarris 6 of 28

Impatience, no matter how long it rages, never becomes repentance. However clouded the mind may grow, the sobs of impatience—no matter how violent—never transform into the sobs of true contrition. The tears of impatience are barren; they lack the blessed fruitfulness of repentance. They are like empty clouds that promise rain but give none, or like sudden, convulsive gusts of wind that leave nothing changed. By contrast, if a person were to bear even heavier guilt yet steadily advance year after year in the good, it is certain that his repentance would deepen with time. As he grows in goodness, he would feel his guilt more intensely, even though in a temporal sense he is leaving it further behind. For genuine repentance requires that guilt remain alive within a person—not as a crushing weight, but as a truth honestly acknowledged before God. For this very reason, precipitate repentance is false and should never be sought. What appears to be guilt in the moment may be nothing more than a passing emotional agitation. Such repentance is selfish: it arises from the senses, powerful only for an instant, dramatic in expression, impatient in its exaggerations—and precisely for that reason, it is not true repentance. Sudden repentance attempts to swallow all the bitterness of sorrow in a single draught and then rush forward. It seeks escape from guilt, not reconciliation. It tries to banish every recollection of wrongdoing, persuading itself that this is necessary in order not to be hindered in the pursuit of the good. It wishes that guilt might soon be forgotten altogether. But this, too, is impatience. And it may well be that a later episode of sudden repentance will reveal the superficiality of the earlier one, exposing that the former contrition lacked true inwardness. #RandolphHarris 7 of 28

through some outward sound or movement. Each ego state, in principle, finds its own final pathway for such expression. In the classic illustration, Bridy is asked, “How is your marriage?” She answers with pompous precision, “My ma-ridge is perf-ict.” As she speaks, she grasps her wedding ring between the thumb and forefinger of her right hand, crosses her legs, and begins to swing her right foot. A group member then asks, “That’s what you say—but what is your foot saying?” Bridy looks down, startled. Another asks, “And what was your right hand saying to your wedding ring?” At this, Bridy begins to weep and eventually confesses that her husband drinks and beats her. Later, as Bridy becomes more skilled in transactional analysis, she can identify the origins of her three simultaneous responses. The spoken sentence—“My marriage is perfect”—was dictated by a pompous, rigid Mother Parent ego state, which commandeered her speech apparatus as its final common pathway. Her right hand, touching the ring, was directed by her Adult, seeking to verify the hard fact that she was indeed married to a scoundrel. Her crossed legs and swinging foot belonged to her Child, attempting to keep him away and offering a few tentative kicks. The passive voice in this description underscores the essential point: the various parts of her body were not acting independently but were instruments employed by different ego states, each using its own pathway to express itself. #RandolphHarris 8 of 28

There are three principal ways in which the final common pathway for expression is selected: through dissociation, through exclusion, or through integration. When ego states are dissociated—cut off from one another and unable to “communicate”—each state finds its own independent pathway for expression. In such cases, each ego state is effectively “unconscious” of what the others are doing. This was true for Bridy: her talking Parent was unaware of her fingering Adult or her kicking Child, and neither of the latter two was aware of the others. This mirrored her actual childhood experience. As a child, Bridy could not speak freely to her parents and often acted behind their backs. When caught, she attempted to evade responsibility by claiming that she (her Adult) did not know what she (her Child) was doing. Clinically, this is a hysterical pattern, in which the Child can carry out complex actions while the Adult disclaims all knowledge and the Parent remains absent or disengaged. Exclusion, by contrast, occurs when one ego state is far more highly cathected than the others and takes control at will, overriding their efforts. In group settings, this is most dramatically observed in religious or political fanatics, where the dominating Parent ego state commandeers all pathways of expression—save for the occasional unconscious lapse—and tramples over both Child and Adult, as well as over the other members of the group. A milder form of this appears in compensated schizophrenics, where the Parent takes over in order to suppress the “bad” or unreliable Child and the weak, poorly cathected Adult, all in an effort to avoid hospitalization or shock treatment. This pattern, too, reflects the individual’s childhood reality: a child left largely to his own devices, permitted to develop independently so long as he never took initiative in the presence of his parents. #RandolphHarris 9 of 28

A “normal” form of exclusion appears in well‑organized personalities, where one ego state takes over with the cooperation and consent of the others. For example, during working hours the Child and the Parent allow the Adult to assume control. In return, the Child is permitted to take over at parties, and the Parent at appropriate moments such as Parent‑Teacher Association meetings. This mutual accommodation reflects a healthy internal economy. Integration, by contrast, occurs when all three ego states express themselves simultaneously, as often happens in artistic creation or in skilled professional interactions. Voice and posture are especially revealing examples of these final common pathways. The voice, in particular, is a sensitive indicator of compromise among ego states. Many women, for instance, may articulate intelligent, Adult‑level thoughts in a little girl’s voice, delivered with striking confidence. Here the compromise is clear: the Parent says, “Do not grow up,” the Adult offers guidance, and the Child enjoys the protection that comes with sounding young. This configuration may be described as an “Adult‑programmed Child” or a “precocious Child.” Conversely, many men express intelligent ideas in a mature voice that nonetheless lacks assurance. In such cases, the Parent whispers, “Who do you think you are?” the Child insists, “I want to show off,” and the Adult says, “I have something worth trying.” This is a “Child‑programmed Adult.” Other combinations are common as well: a Parent‑programmed Child (“Mommy said to”) or an Adult‑programmed Parent (“Do it exactly this way”). Posture also reveals not only the dominant ego state but its specific aspect. The Critical Parent sits upright, finger pointed straight ahead in judgment. The Nurturing Parent opens her posture, forming a receptive, embracing circle with her body. The Adult’s posture is flexible, alert, and mobile—ready to respond to reality without rigidity or regression. #RandolphHarris 10 of 28

The Adapted Child withdraws by curling inward (emprosthotonos), often ending in a fetal position with as many muscles as possible drawn into flexion. The Expressive Child, by contrast, opens outward (opisthotonos), extending as many muscles as possible. Emprosthotonos typically accompanies weeping; opisthotonos appears with laughter. Even the simple act of curling a single finger—such as the forefinger—can evoke a sense of confidence and openness. Pointing that same finger stiffly forward conveys a Parental attitude, erecting an impenetrable barrier against the intrusion of another’s presence or ideas. Put differently, the Child retains primary control over the involuntary muscles; the Adult generally governs the voluntary muscles, especially the larger ones; and the Parent regulates attitudes—essentially the balance of tonus between flexor and extensor muscles. From this it becomes clear that final common pathways are selected or apportioned through a kind of internal dialogue. Among the simple ego states, four dialogues are possible: three duologues (Parent–Adult, Parent–Child, Adult–Child) and one triologue (Parent–Adult–Child). When the Parental voice divides into Father and Mother—as it usually does—and when additional Parental figures join in, the internal conversation becomes more complex. Each voice may be accompanied by its own characteristic gestures, expressed through particular muscle groups or specific parts of the body. Regardless of the complexity of the dialogue, its outcome is always expressed through final common pathways. More precisely, one pathway becomes dominant—by force, by agreement, or by compromise—while the frustrated ego states seek subsidiary routes for expression. I use the term narcissism here with some hesitation. In classical Freudian literature, it is applied rather indiscriminately to every form of self‑inflation, egocentricity, anxious self‑concern, or withdrawal from others. I employ it instead in its original descriptive sense: being in love with one’s own idealized image.#RandolphHarris 11 of 28

More precisely, this person is his idealized self and seems to adore that image. This fundamental attitude gives him a buoyancy and resilience entirely lacking in other personality types. It lends him a seemingly inexhaustible self‑confidence—an enviable quality to those who struggle with self‑doubt. Consciously, he entertains no doubts at all: he is the anointed one, the man of destiny, the prophet, the great giver, the benefactor of mankind. There is, to be sure, a grain of truth in this self‑assessment. He is often gifted beyond the average, early and easily distinguished, and may well have been the favored and admired child. His unquestioned belief in his own greatness and uniqueness is the key to understanding him. From this conviction arises his buoyancy, his perennial youthfulness, and his often‑captivating charm. Yet despite his gifts, he stands on precarious ground. He may speak incessantly of his exploits or his admirable qualities, and he requires continual confirmation of his self‑evaluation in the form of admiration and devotion. His sense of mastery rests on the conviction that there is nothing he cannot accomplish and no one he cannot win. He is indeed charming, especially when new people enter his orbit. Regardless of their actual importance to him, he must impress them. He gives the impression—to himself and to others—that he “loves” people. And he can be generous: lavish in feeling, flattering, helpful, and eager to bestow favors—either in anticipation of admiration or in return for devotion already received. He adorns his family, his friends, his work, and his plans with glowing attributes. He can be tolerant and does not demand perfection from others. He can even endure jokes at his own expense, provided they merely highlight an endearing peculiarity. But he must never be questioned seriously. That strikes at the core of his idealized self, and the idealized self must remain untouched. #RandolphHarris 12 of 28

His shoulds are no less inexorable than those found in other forms of neurosis, as analytic work readily reveals. Yet he deals with them in a characteristic way—by waving a kind of magic wand. His ability to overlook flaws, or even transform them into virtues, seems limitless. A sober observer might call him unscrupulous or at least unreliable. He appears untroubled by broken promises, infidelity, unpaid debts, or even outright deception (one might think of John Gabriel Borkman). He is not, however, a calculating exploiter. Rather, he feels that his needs and tasks are so important that they entitle him to every privilege. He never questions his rights and expects others to “love” him “unconditionally,” regardless of how much he trespasses upon theirs. His difficulties manifest both in his relationships and in his work. His fundamental lack of relatedness inevitably surfaces in close connections. The mere fact that others have wishes or opinions of their own—that they may look at him critically, object to his shortcomings, or expect something from him—feels to him like a poisonous humiliation. Such experiences ignite a smoldering resentment. He may erupt in sudden rage and flee to others who “understand” him better. Because this pattern repeats across most of his relationships, he is often lonely. His work life is equally troubled. His plans tend to be overly expansive. He does not reckon with limitations. He overrates his capacities. His pursuits may be too numerous and scattered, making failure almost inevitable. To a point, his buoyancy allows him to rebound. But repeated failures—whether in projects or in human relationships, whether through collapse or rejection—can eventually crush him altogether. #RandolphHarris 13 of 28

When his defenses collapse, the self‑hate and self‑contempt that were previously held in check may surge into full force. At such times, he may fall into deep depressions, experience psychotic episodes, or—at the extreme—attempt to end his life. More commonly, however, these self‑destructive impulses express themselves indirectly: through accidents, reckless behavior, or a susceptibility to illness. A final word must be said about his general attitude toward life. Outwardly, he appears optimistic, oriented toward the world, eager for joy and happiness. Yet beneath this surface lie strong undercurrents of despondency and pessimism. Measuring his life against the yardstick of infinitude—against the fantasy of perfect happiness—he cannot help but feel a painful discrepancy. As long as he rides the crest of a wave, he cannot admit failure in anything, least of all in mastering life. The discrepancy, he believes, lies not in himself but in life itself. Thus, he may attribute to life a tragic quality—not the tragedy that actually exists, but the one he projects onto it. For the persistence of the self‑ideal, success in work or study becomes essential. Such success is crucial not only for self‑esteem but also for securing one’s livelihood. When a person repeatedly fails at work, it may indicate not incapacity but a lack of wholehearted engagement—often misinterpreted in children as being “slow” or intellectually limited. This disengagement frequently arises when the individual has not chosen the vocation freely, and the tasks it requires fail to evoke genuine interest. For students, especially, academic failure often signifies self‑alienation rather than dullness. The failing student is out of touch with his real goals, his latent strengths, and his potential abilities. Failure, then, becomes a moment of truth—a summons to encounter one’s real self and to make changes that foster growth rather than further estrangement. #RandolphHarris 14 of 28

When a person is rejected by friends or divorced by a spouse against his wishes, it points to a fundamental interpersonal incompetence. The ability to relate to others in ways that evoke their affection, interest, and trust is essential for a healthy personality. If one cannot love others or allow oneself to be loved, loneliness becomes inevitable. Such an inability signals that the self‑structure is alienated—that many inner possibilities are being repressed. This kind of failure marks the moment for self‑study and change. Growth of the self is not the same as physical growth, though in children the two occur simultaneously. Growth of the self involves a transformation in how one experiences the world and one’s own being. Yet not every change in experience constitutes growth. Growth occurs only when the change enhances a person’s ability to meet the challenges of existence. Some alterations in experience—such as those seen in psychosis—make effective action impossible; these are regressions, not growth. The experience of growing is almost always confusing and at times frightening. But it need not be terrifying. Expanding into a larger perspective and a more authentic identity brings with it both excitement and uncertainty. Personal growth is often compared to a voyage: leaving home (one’s present identity or self‑concept), traveling to unfamiliar places (opening to new dimensions of experience), and returning home transformed—enlarging the home to fit the “bigger” person one has become. We outgrow our self‑structures just as we outgrow our clothing, our constricting family roles, and the narrow ways of life accepted in a small town. Growth demands that we shed what no longer fits and step into a broader, more authentic way of being. #RandolphHarris 15 of 28

Growing entails a kind of “leaving home”—a loosening of one’s grip on the familiar ways of being involved with others and with one’s projects. Our commitments and undertakings shape not only how we experience the world but also how we experience ourselves. When a person steps back from these projects and relationships, the world suddenly “opens up.” Suspending one’s usual patterns of involvement can feel like opening a hidden door in the Winchester Mystery House—an entrance into an unexpected room, or even an entirely new world. This “letting go” releases modes of experience that had been held in repression. While living within a prior identity—one that is now in the process of expanding—work and relationships required the person to ignore perceptions, memories, and imaginative possibilities that did not fit that identity. Once that identity is suspended, the person becomes open to a wider range of inner possibilities and to a richer sense of the world. The means of letting go—of suspending one’s present identity—are as numerous as the defenses by which one clings to it. Meditative disciplines such as intercessory prayer and fasting serve this purpose precisely: they disengage a person from habitual modes of experience and open new dimensions of consciousness. Certain psychedelic substances—marijuana, lysergic acid, mescaline, peyote, psilocybin mushrooms—also disrupt ordinary experience, though in ways that may be destabilizing or self‑destructive. In all these circumstances, whether through disciplined spiritual practice or through more hazardous means, the person is “leaving home.” He is opening himself to the free play of perception, thought, memory, imagination, and feeling—entering a space where the self can encounter its own latent possibilities. #RandolphHarris 16 of 28

Exposure to a perspective larger than one’s own can also loosen a person’s attachment to his present view of self and world. A genuine dialogue with a wise person—one who embodies a “higher” consciousness—can shatter the boundaries of one’s assumed possibilities. The same expansion can occur through reading authors who have attained broader horizons. Writers such as Kazantzakis, Henry Miller, Martin Buber, and Sartre have challenged me in precisely this way, revealing dimensions of experience I had not previously imagined. Encounters with death can have a similar effect. A narrow escape or the loss of a loved one may compel a person to suspend his current identity and the way of life built around it, opening space to consider new possibilities. The realization of one’s own mortality can free a person from attachment to trivial activities, confining relationships, and limiting environments. Across civilizations and throughout history, cultures have developed techniques for this kind of letting go—rituals designed to disengage individuals from their habitual identities so they might encounter the divine and receive guidance for living. Fasting, prayer, chanting, dancing, and deliberate solitude—whether in the wilderness of Alaska, the stark expanses of Antarctica, or the heights of a mountain—have all served to detach people from the reminders of who they have been, enabling them to become different, more viable selves. I see Ann Rice’s Queen of the Damned and the story of Queen Akasha leading the children of Egypt out of bondage—bondage that offered security as much as tyranny—into the light as allegories of this very process. They depict the movement from a constricted sense of life’s possibilities to a boundless vision, from a cramped identity to a larger, freer self. #RandolphHarris 17 of 28

To leave home in the literal sense is, of course, one way to begin an episode of growth. Yet doing so requires immense energy and, at times, real courage—to place one’s body in a car or an airplane and go elsewhere. Those one leaves behind may exert astonishing pressure to keep the voyager fixed in the old place, in the old identity. They may attempt to induce guilt by suffering in his presence or by invoking duties to “loved ones.” Growth—even the first steps toward it—confronts others with the challenge of change, and they do not always welcome that challenge. By contrast, the modern attitude, which has proved so fruitful in science, is safer. The age of mystery‑mongering is over. Knowledge that cannot be verified cannot be received with certainty. Excessive claims to secret powers open the door to imposture. Anyone unable to offer adequate evidence ought not seek the public ear. It is only the suspension of human reason that allowed error to be sustained for so many centuries. For more than two hundred years, the West has trained itself in the discipline of physical inquiry, and the abundance of its achievements has ensured that tangible, visible results command our greatest interest. The scientific outlook is its own reward. The practical benefits that accompany it have their value, but the deeper satisfaction lies in the ability to appraise life correctly, whatever one’s environment may be. Philosophy, therefore, must build her structure upon unimpeachable facts—meaning scientifically verified facts. How often has humanity been offered concepts and conclusions, ideas and imaginings, accompanied by the vehement assertion that they were directly observed truths! #RandolphHarris 18 of 28

America has become so expensive that record numbers of Americans are relocating to Mexico. According to the U.S. State Department, the number of American citizens living in Mexico increased by 75 percent between 2019 and 2025, reaching an estimated 1.8 million people. Many of these individuals work remotely for U.S. companies while taking advantage of Mexico’s lower cost of living, natural beauty, and vibrant culture—and they are thriving. California illustrates the severity of the affordability crisis anc corruption. It is now the third most expensive state in the nation and is facing a $20 billion budget deficit, reflecting the financial strain on its residents. In 37 percent of California counties, a family of four earning a six‑figure income is considered low‑income. The average home price in the state is approaching $1 million, while the average salary is just over $96,000—making homeownership unattainable for most Californians. The situation is even more stark for individuals. In five counties—Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin—a single person earning more than $100,000 a year is now classified as low‑income. Traditional mortgage guidelines recommend spending no more than 28 percent of gross income on a mortgage payment and no more than 36 percent on total debt. Based on the median household income in Sacramento County, a homeowner can afford a mortgage payment of about $2,070 per month, or up to $2,661 for all debts combined. Yet home prices in Sacramento County require far higher incomes. To purchase a typical home using standard lending guidelines, a household would need to earn roughly $135,000 per year. In reality, the median household income in Sacramento County is about $88,724—often with two to four people working to support the mortgage. This mismatch raises serious questions about how lenders are qualifying buyers for such expensive homes. Home prices in Sacramento County are now rivaling those in the Bay Area, and in some cases, Bay Area homes are actually more affordable. Historically, the Bay Area has commanded higher prices due to higher‑paying jobs, a larger population, and its status as a major tourist destination. Sacramento’s rapid price escalation signals a deepening affordability crisis. According to this viewpoint, state leadership has contributed to the problem. Governor Gavin Newsom has directed taxpayer‑funded resources and cash aid toward individuals in the country illegally, while state workers—who keep California running—are overdue for a 25 percent wage increase. This prioritization, critics argue, worsens the affordability crisis and leaves California residents struggling to keep up with rising costs. #RandolphHarris 19 of 28

California is facing one of the most severe affordable‑housing crises in the nation, yet at the same time the state has embarked on an extraordinarily expensive renovation of the Capitol building—known as “The Castle”—in Sacramento. According to public reports, the project has already cost taxpayers more than $1.2 billion, and some analysts estimate the final price could reach as high as $5 billion before completion. Critics argue that such spending reflects deeper structural problems in the state’s governance. They point to decades‑old laws that restrict housing supply and discourage home sales, as well as concerns about bureaucratic inefficiency, corruption, and wasteful government spending. These factors, they contend, have contributed to soaring rents, limited housing availability, and a growing sense that state priorities are misaligned with the needs of ordinary Californians. The consequences of these policies are increasingly visible. Between 2018 and 2023, California received $24 billion to fund 30 homeless and housing programs. These programs produced 100,000 housing units—an average cost of $240,000 per unit. For comparison, Roger Lucas, owner of Grand Castle, LLC, spent $50 million to build The Grand Castle, a 522‑unit residential community in Grandville, Michigan. The development includes studios, one‑bedroom, two‑bedroom, and three‑bedroom units, as well as a multi‑level penthouse. Rents range from $1,000 to $2,500. Built on a 23.6‑acre site, the community features 750 covered parking spaces, a clubhouse, and a resort‑style pool, and was completed in just 12 to 18 months. The average cost per unit was approximately $95,785—about $144,000 less per unit than California’s publicly funded projects. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the nation at 5.4 percent, compared to the national average of 4.5 percent. As household bills surge and the minimum wage rises to $20 an hour, people living on Social Security retirement benefits are especially strained, with monthly checks effectively equating to $5 to $7 an hour. Meanwhile, as Americans struggle to find and afford housing, Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills on February 7, 2025—SBX1 1 and SBX1 2, both part of the Budget Act of 2024—allocating $50 million to protect individuals in the country illegally from deportation. Additionally, the governor extended free health care to 700,000 undocumented immigrants, costing taxpayers $3 billion annually. At the same time, funding was reduced for programs serving veterans, schoolchildren, people with disabilities, and the homeless. Given these circumstances, it is understandable that many people who are legally in the United States—and paying between 30 and 90 percent of their income in taxes—are deeply frustrated. #RandolphHarris 20 of 28

Advocates argue that the crisis unfolding in California—driven by Democratic policies—is pushing home prices, mortgages, and rents higher not only across the United States but around the world, making everyday life increasingly unaffordable. Many believe the situation is far from stabilizing. At the same time, China—where the United States has outsourced significant jobs and capital—has more than 50 ghost cities containing an estimated 65 million vacant homes. These ghost cities are the result of massive overdevelopment in areas where few or no people live. By contrast, if all categories of homelessness are counted, California is estimated to have as many as 4 million homeless individuals. The state also has the highest home prices in the nation, the highest taxes, and some of the most restrictive business regulations anywhere. Because of what critics describe as a hostile environment for both residents and employers, more than 360 companies have left California since 2020. Major corporations such as Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, and Hewlett‑Packard are among those that have relocated. Additionally, more than 500,000 residents leave the state each year because it has become too expensive to live in. Critics also point to Governor Gavin Newsom’s policies, including the criminalization of homelessness and the arrest of individuals without housing, rising crime, and widespread job losses as companies continue to move operations elsewhere. More than 100 companies have already announced layoffs in California for 2025. Intel plans to cut 15,000 jobs, PayPal is eliminating 2,500 positions, and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, compared to the national average of 4.1 percent. Advocates argue that the crisis created by Democratic leadership is driving up housing costs nationwide and globally, and that the situation is far from resolved. California is also home to more than 3.5 million undocumented immigrants. Combined with an open southern border, insufficient protection of American farmland, and declining domestic production of beef, poultry, fish, fruits, vegetables, and dairy, critics warn that the United States is exposing itself to serious risks. Without prioritizing American‑made goods and services, they argue, the nation faces elevated threats to national security, economic stability, and public health. Some may believe these concerns are overstated. However, supporters of this viewpoint point to past failures—such as the 2017 Oroville Dam crisis—as examples of what can happen when governments fail to monitor Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) or other critical alerts, including the end‑of‑life status of essential infrastructure. #RandolphHarris 21 of 28

China—where the United States has outsourced vast numbers of jobs and significant amounts of capital—currently has more than 50 ghost cities containing an estimated 65 million vacant homes. These ghost cities are the result of extreme overdevelopment in areas where few or no people live. By contrast, if all categories of homelessness are counted, California is estimated to have as many as 4 million homeless individuals. The state also has the highest home prices in the nation, the highest taxes, and some of the most restrictive business regulations anywhere. Critics argue that these conditions have made California deeply hostile to both residents and employers. Since 2020, more than 360 companies have left California, including major corporations such as Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, and Hewlett‑Packard. Additionally, more than 500,000 residents leave the state each year because it has become too expensive to live in. Critics also point to Governor Gavin Newsom’s policies—such as criminalizing homelessness and arresting individuals without housing—alongside rising crime and widespread job losses as companies continue to relocate. More than 100 companies have already announced layoffs in California for 2025. Intel plans to cut 15,000 jobs, PayPal is eliminating 2,500 positions, and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, compared to the national average of 4.1 percent. Advocates argue that the crisis created by Democratic leadership is driving up home prices, mortgages, and rents nationwide and even globally, making life increasingly unaffordable. They also note that California is home to more than 3.5 million undocumented immigrants. Combined with an open southern border, insufficient protection of American farmland, and declining domestic production of beef, poultry, fish, fruits, vegetables, and dairy, critics warn that the United States is exposing itself to serious risks. Without prioritizing American‑made goods and services, they argue, the nation faces elevated threats to national security, economic stability, and public health. Some may believe these concerns are overstated. However, supporters of this viewpoint point to past failures—such as the 2017 Oroville Dam crisis—as examples of what can happen when governments fail to monitor Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) or other critical alerts, including the end‑of‑life status of essential infrastructure. #RandolphHarris 22 of 28

America needs a comprehensive strategy to eliminate safety vulnerabilities in its cities. By the end of 2025, the nation should have a clear road map that prioritizes how to reduce crisis situations and strengthen public safety. Many argue that while the United States sends substantial aid to foreign nations, it struggles to fund its own infrastructure, provide adequate resources, address the affordable housing crisis, and support other national critical functions (NCFs). These practices—seen as placing America and Americans last—are viewed by some as serious risks to national security, economic stability, and public health. In 2024, Americans spent $100 billion on Japanese automobiles, contributing to a $39 billion trade deficit with Japan. Japan exported 1.4 million vehicles to the United States but imported only 16,000 American-built cars. By contrast, Japan imported roughly 143,000 motor vehicles from the European Union. Supporters of tariffs argue that these imbalances are exactly why President Trump implemented them: to protect American industries, reduce trade deficits, and prevent the United States from being taken advantage of economically. The goal, in this view, is to return America to the status of a creditor nation rather than one borrowing money to support other countries. According to this perspective, President Trump’s tariff policies generate approximately $400 billion in annual revenue and help create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Advocates say this revenue is being used to pay down national debt, and that a portion may be directed toward stimulus checks for Americans, potentially ranging from $1,000 to $2,000. However, if the Supreme Court were to rule these tariffs illegal, taxpayers could be responsible for repaying trillions of dollars. At the same time, some observers believe the nation is witnessing increasing conflict between federal and state authorities—citing examples such as gangs, federal judges, and Governor Gavin Newsom clashing with federal law enforcement and the President. They argue that certain states and cities are refusing to honor federal laws, and that some politicians are disregarding the Constitution. From this viewpoint, these trends contribute to a growing sense of disorder and the perception that anarchy is becoming more common.#RandolphHarris 23 of 28

Anarchism is a collection of doctrines and attitudes built around the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary. The term comes from the Greek word anarchos, meaning “without authority.” Throughout history, the words anarchism, anarchist, and anarchy have been used to express both approval and disapproval. Anarchists reject man‑made laws, view property as a tool of tyranny, and argue that crime is a product of property and authority. They maintain that rejecting constitutions and governments does not lead to “no justice,” but instead allows for the emergence of genuine justice through the natural development of human social cooperation—what they see as an innate tendency toward mutual aid when people are not constrained by formal laws. Some critics argue that anarchism also constitutes a form of treason. Treason is traditionally defined as betraying a nation or sovereign through acts that endanger its security. Under English law, treason includes levying war against the government or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. In the United States, the framers of the Constitution defined treason narrowly: it “shall consist only in levying war against [the United States], or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.” From this viewpoint, some argue that certain contemporary political actions may fall within this definition, though such claims remain matters of political interpretation rather than legal judgment. From a national‑security perspective, the argument continues that the American government must identify all exploitable vulnerabilities and address them before they escalate into crises. Failing to take preventive action, in this view, creates significant risks to national security, economic stability, and public health and safety. Supporters of this position contend that the United States must invest substantial time and resources into strengthening its own infrastructure and resilience. They also argue that corporations should be encouraged to participate in this effort by planning for both short‑term mitigation of safety vulnerabilities and long‑term elimination of them. For example, a company might partner with federal, state, or local governments to request tax incentives in exchange for improving security in high‑risk communities or assisting with infrastructure repairs such as bridges and potholes. #RandolphHarris 24 of 28

Across the United States, a quiet emergency is unfolding—one that threatens not only public health, but the survival of the first peoples of this land. Native American communities, already burdened by generations of broken promises and chronic underfunding, are now facing a surge of drug trafficking and overdose deaths that is tearing families apart and destabilizing entire nations. This crisis is not receiving the national attention it deserves. It should. Recent events on the Blackfeet Nation in Montana illustrate the scale of the problem. In what became the largest drug bust in state history, authorities seized more than 700,000 fentanyl pills on tribal land. Shortly afterward, the community suffered 17 overdoses in a single week, forcing tribal leaders to declare a state of emergency. These are not isolated incidents—they are symptoms of a growing pattern. Indigenous people now experience overdose rates 42 percent higher than the national average. When you consider that only 6.8 million Native Americans remain in the United States, the stakes become painfully clear. A population this small cannot absorb losses at this rate. Every life lost is not only a personal tragedy—it is a blow to a culture, a language, a lineage, a nation. And yet, the federal response remains tepid. Drug cartels have learned to exploit the vulnerabilities of tribal lands: remote geography, understaffed police departments, and legal systems that lack the authority to prosecute non‑tribal offenders. These criminal networks know exactly where enforcement is weakest. They know where communities have been historically neglected. And they take full advantage. The United States has a legal and moral obligation to protect tribal nations. That obligation is rooted in treaties, trust responsibilities, and basic human decency. But for decades, tribal governments have been forced to operate with a fraction of the resources available to comparable non‑tribal jurisdictions. Their police forces are underfunded. Their healthcare systems are overstretched. Their courts lack the authority to hold many offenders accountable. This is not just a failure of policy—it is a failure of national character. Some Americans express frustration that resources seem to flow quickly to other groups while Native communities continue to wait. Whether or not one agrees with that perception, the underlying truth is undeniable: Indigenous nations have been consistently overlooked, even as they face existential threats. Correcting that imbalance is not about taking from one group to give to another. It is about honoring commitments that have been ignored for far too long. So what should be done? First, the federal government must strengthen its ability to stop the flow of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids into the country. That includes better interdiction, intelligence-sharing, and targeting of trafficking networks that specifically exploit tribal lands. Second, tribal governments need substantial, sustained investment—not symbolic gestures. Funding for law enforcement, addiction treatment, mental‑health services, and infrastructure must reflect the scale of the crisis. Third, Congress should expand tribal jurisdiction so that tribal courts can prosecute non‑tribal offenders who commit crimes on their lands. Criminals should not be able to hide behind legal loopholes. Finally, Indigenous voices must be central in shaping the policies that affect their communities. Too often, decisions are made about tribal nations without meaningful tribal input. That approach has failed for centuries. It will not work now. The survival of Native American communities should not be a partisan issue. It should not be a regional issue. It should not be an afterthought. It is a test of whether the United States is willing to protect the people to whom it owes its deepest historical obligations. If we allow drug cartels to devastate these communities while the nation looks away, we will be complicit in a tragedy that future generations will judge harshly. The time for action is now. The cost of inaction is measured in lives—and in the slow erosion of cultures that have shaped this continent for thousands of years. #RandolphHarris 25 of 28

America is facing a slow‑moving crisis that too few people are willing to confront: we are losing farmland at a pace that threatens our long‑term ability to feed ourselves. Much like the land shortage unfolding in Las Vegas—where rapid development has pushed the city to the edge of its buildable limits—we risk running out of the agricultural land that sustains our food supply. Once farmland is paved over, it is gone forever. And if we continue down this path, the consequences could be severe. Food security is national security. A nation that cannot grow its own food is a nation that must rely on others for survival. In a world already strained by geopolitical tensions, climate pressures, and supply‑chain disruptions, the idea of future “food wars” is not far‑fetched. Protecting American farmland today is an investment in tomorrow’s stability. One of the most effective ways to safeguard our agricultural base is to support the farmers and ranchers who keep it productive. That starts with buying American‑made beef, poultry, dairy, and produce. When consumers choose domestic products, they strengthen the economic foundation of rural communities. They also send a clear signal to investors: American agriculture is worth backing. Money flows where demand exists, and when investors see strong sales of American goods, they are more likely to reinvest in American businesses, land, and jobs. Country‑of‑origin labeling is essential to this process. Americans deserve to know where their food comes from so they can make informed choices. Transparent labeling empowers consumers to support domestic producers and ensures that foreign imports do not masquerade as American-grown products. It is a simple policy with enormous implications for economic resilience. But protecting farmland is not only an economic issue—it is also a demographic one. The United States has a finite amount of land, and as the population grows, the pressure to convert farmland into housing and commercial development intensifies. If we want to preserve enough agricultural and buildable land for future generations, we must have an honest conversation about immigration levels and population growth. A sustainable future requires sustainable numbers. Some argue that if immigration continues, it should be guided by a system that ensures broad representation and diversity. Others emphasize the need to balance population growth with resource availability. Regardless of the approach, the underlying point remains: land is limited, and policy must reflect that reality. Supporting American businesses is another critical piece of the puzzle. When Americans buy American-made goods, they keep money circulating within our own economy. That strengthens local industries, preserves jobs, and reduces dependence on foreign manufacturing. As domestic companies grow, wages rise naturally, and communities become more economically stable. This reduces the burden on taxpayers, who otherwise shoulder the cost of unemployment, social services, and economic instability. There is also a direct connection between consumer behavior and the national debt. When the government spends more than it collects in revenue, it borrows—from private businesses or foreign countries. But when Americans support domestic industries, those industries grow, tax revenue increases, and the government becomes less reliant on borrowing. A strong internal economy is one of the most effective tools we must reduce the national debt. The path forward is clear: protect our farmland, support our farmers, strengthen our domestic industries, and adopt policies that reflect the limits of our land and resources. If we fail to act, we risk losing not only our agricultural independence but our economic and national security as well. America’s future depends on the choices we make today. Let us choose to preserve the land that feeds us, the businesses that employ us, and the economic foundation that sustains us. #RandolphHarris 26 of 28

When Americans shop locally, they do more than support their neighbors—they strengthen the national economy. Every dollar spent on American‑made goods circulates back into our communities, generating tax revenue that funds schools, infrastructure, and public services. It keeps jobs here at home, ensures wages rise naturally, and reduces the burden on taxpayers. In contrast, buying foreign goods often means lighter tax loads for overseas companies and money flowing out of our economy, strengthening other nations at our expense. There are environmental benefits too. American‑made products travel shorter distances, reducing carbon emissions. And unlike many foreign manufacturers, American companies are held to higher standards for pollution control. They must dispose of waste responsibly and protect our air, land, and water. Supporting them is not only patriotic—it’s environmentally responsible. Under President Trump’s administration, policies have emphasized prioritizing American workers and industries. Efforts to secure the border, reduce illegal crossings, and crack down on drug trafficking have been paired with significant investment in U.S. manufacturing, production, and innovation. These measures have helped channel trillions of dollars back into American industry, reinforcing the pledge to “Make America Great Again.” The lesson is clear: when we buy American, we invest in ourselves. We protect farmland, preserve jobs, reduce pollution, and strengthen our economy. We also reduce reliance on foreign nations and help lower the national debt by keeping tax revenue at home. Supporting American businesses is not just about pride—it’s about survival. It ensures that the land, the jobs, and the future remain in American hands. As our nation continues to grow through immigration, we should ensure that all communities—long‑standing and newly arrived—have the opportunity to thrive. It is rare, in many communities, to see a person with blonde hair and blue eyes; they are becoming outnumbered by the influx of immigrants. We also need to keep the nation in balance by allowing people with Caucasian features to have the chance to grow and contribute to the nation.Diversity includes everyone, and preserving cultural heritage should never come at the expense of excluding others. A healthy society makes room for its historic communities while welcoming new ones. #RandolphHarris 27 of 28

Human understanding does not arrive fully formed. We must think before we can understand the soul’s existence, and we must understand before we can truly realize it. The earliest beginnings of thought—distinct from instinct—reach back into primeval time, when consciousness was still only a faint spark. The human intellect we possess today, so rich and capable, did not appear suddenly. It evolved through countless stages, shaped by experience, struggle, and the gradual awakening of self‑awareness.  And yet, for all our progress, something essential is missing. We have had scientific thinking, business thinking, and political thinking in abundance. What the world needs now is inspired thinking—thinking that rises above self‑interest and moves toward wisdom. The intellect may begin in selfishness, but its natural evolution leads toward reason, and ultimately toward selflessness. This is where parents play a vital role. Teach your children to love America, to appreciate the freedoms and opportunities they inherit, and to support the workers and businesses that keep this nation strong. Teach them to respect law and order, to honor their elders, and to understand that good character is the foundation of a meaningful life. It is inborn in the human mind to want to know. Curiosity begins with a child’s endless questions, deepens through a scientist’s investigations, and eventually reaches toward something higher—a union of reflective thought and intuitive insight. This is the beginning of true intelligence, the kind that seeks a view of the whole, not just the parts. When the mind reaches this stage, it enters the realm of philosophy. But too many children today are struggling in school, not because they lack ability, but because they are not reading. Reading is the gateway to thought. When you read books, you absorb the rhythm of language, the structure of ideas, and the example of how to express yourself. You learn to write, to think, and to understand the world beyond your immediate experience. So to every young person: take your education seriously. Read your books. Ask questions. Think deeply. The effort you put in now will shape the opportunities you have later. Your success will not only make your family proud—it will give you the tools to contribute meaningfully to your community and your country. The evolution of the mind is a lifelong journey. But it begins with simple habits: curiosity, discipline, respect, and a willingness to learn. These are the qualities that build strong individuals—and a strong nation. To ensure they have the resources they need, please consider donating to the Sacramento Fire Department, which plays an important role in supporting our community’s safety and resilience. “Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand between their loved home and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, and this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’ And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” #RandolphHarris 27 of 27

The Winchester Mystery House

Ladies and gentlemen, gather close… and welcome to the Winchester Mansion. Before we step inside, let me tell you a story—one that locals have whispered for more than a century. You see, long before this mansion stood here, this land was nothing but open fields. Empty. Silent. Undisturbed. And then, on the afternoon of Saturday, March 13, 1886, something extraordinary happened. Sheriff Angel Camilio began receiving frantic reports from townsfolk. They claimed a massive wooden castle had magically appeared. Gables rose like jagged mountains. Towers pierced the sky. Some swore that the sprawling labyrinth rose from the earth like a mushroom after rain. Others insisted it materialized out of thin air. No blueprints. No permits. No records of construction. Just… a house that wasn’t there the day before.

The house’s sudden manifestation had been both disconcerting and fascinating to the community. To some, it looked like a fairytale palace shimmering in the spring sunlight. To others, it radiated something darker—shadows that moved on their own, cold drafts on warm days, and a feeling that something unseen was watching from the windows. And then came the hearse. One morning, without warning, a black carriage barreled through these very gates. Inside was a coffin. Some believed it held Mrs. Sarah Winchester herself. Others whispered it was a decoy, or perhaps a warning from whatever spirits lingered here.

Now, legend says Sarah Winchester—widow of William Wirt Winchester, heir to the Winchester rifle fortune—was haunted by tragedy. After losing her husband and infant daughter, she sought answers from a spiritual medium. And the medium told her something chilling: “The spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles are angry. They will take your life too… unless you flee west and build them a house. A house that must never be finished.”

And so, in 1886, Sarah Winchester came here to the Santa Clara Valley. She bought an 18‑room farmhouse and began to build. And she never stopped. Day and night, for decades, hammers rang, saws screeched, and workers added room after room after room. At its peak, the mansion rose nine stories high and held as many as 600 rooms. Staircases that lead straight into ceilings. Doors that open into thin air. Windows built into the floor. Hallways that twist like a maze. Some say Sarah designed it this way to confuse the spirits that followed her. Today, the mansion stands four stories tall, but it still stretches over 100,000 square feet. And many believe the spirits never left. Some visitors report footsteps behind them when no one is there. Others hear whispers drifting through the walls. A few have seen a woman in black wandering the corridors late at night, searching for something—or someone. Now, if you’re ready… we’re about to step inside. Stay close. Watch your step. And if you feel a tap on your shoulder or a cold breath on your neck, don’t worry. It’s probably just one of the house’s… permanent residents. Shall we begin?

And before you leave this place—whether you walk out with a shiver down your spine or a spark of wonder in your eyes—I’d like to extend a special invitation. After your journey through the mansion’s twisting corridors and secretive rooms, it would be a pleasure to have you join us for a delicious meal at Sarah’s Café. Once you’ve eaten, feel free to stroll along the paths of the Victorian gardens, which long ago stretched across 740 acres, all the way down to Stevens Creek Boulevard. Imagine the carriages, the orchards, the rolling lawns… and perhaps the quiet footsteps of someone who walked here long before you. And if you’re feeling brave, you’re welcome to wander once more through the miles of hallways inside the world’s most mysterious mansion. Every corner has a story. Every window has a whisper. And every room—well, you’ll see for yourself. Welcome to the Winchester Mansion. Enjoy your stay… for however long you choose to remain.

For further information about tours—including group tours, weddings, school events, birthday party packages, facility rentals, and our many special events—please visit our website for all the details you’ll need to plan your next unforgettable experience: https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/

Before you head out into the sunlight again, don’t forget to stop by our online gift shop. It’s the perfect place to find something special for friends and relatives—and perhaps a memento for yourself to remember your time inside the world’s most mysterious mansion. From classic souvenirs to unique collectibles inspired by the Winchester legend, you’ll find a wide variety of gifts waiting for you. Take a look, explore, and bring home a little piece of the mystery. Before you head out into the sunlight again, don’t forget to stop by our online gift shop. It’s the perfect place to find something special for friends and relatives—and perhaps a memento for yourself to remember your time inside the world’s most mysterious mansion. From classic souvenirs to unique collectibles inspired by the Winchester legend, you’ll find a wide variety of gifts waiting for you.
Take a look, explore, and bring home a little piece of the mystery.  https://shopwinchestermysteryhouse.com/

Why Choose Harris?

For more than 30 years, Harris Plumbing, Heating, Air, & Electric has been a name homeowners can trust. Not many businesses can say they’ve served their community for three decades—and we take that legacy to heart. Every job we take on, whether it’s a quick repair or a major installation, is handled with the same level of care, pride, and professionalism. Our mission is simple: to keep your home safe, comfortable, and running smoothly for you and your family. And we take that responsibility seriously. At Harris, you’re not just another service call. You’re a neighbor—and we’re here to help.

At Harris, we make sure you have all the information you need to make the right decision for your home. Whatever issue you’re facing, our team begins with a thorough diagnosis so we can clearly explain what’s going on before any work begins. That means you receive a personalized quote and a service plan tailored specifically to your home—not a generic estimate or guess. We believe the only way to deliver our best work is to fully understand the problem and address it with precision, care, and expertise. Your home deserves nothing less. https://www.callharrisnow.com/about-us/

Brian Harris BMW

With its top placement in Consumer Reports’ Auto Brand Report Card, BMW continues to prove why it remains one of the most respected names in the automotive world. In the most recent rankings, BMW earned one of the highest overall scores—finishing as the top luxury brand. This performance reflects BMW’s consistent ability to deliver vehicles that excel in reliability, performance, and owner satisfaction. BMW’s market strength is no accident. The brand has built its reputation on engineering precision and driving dynamics that set it apart from competitors. While many luxury manufacturers emphasize plush interiors and opulent comfort, BMW has always prioritized the connection between driver and machine. The result is a lineup of vehicles that are not only refined, but genuinely fun to drive—a quality that continues to resonate with consumers and automotive testers alike. This commitment to performance is why BMW has earned its iconic title: The Ultimate Driving Machine. Its vehicles consistently score high in road‑test evaluations, thanks to responsive handling, balanced chassis design, and powertrains engineered for both excitement and everyday usability. For drivers seeking a blend of luxury, reliability, and exhilarating performance, BMW remains a standout choice—supported not just by reputation, but by data. To explore the latest models, offers, and certified pre‑owned inventory, visit Brian Harris BMW:
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Randolph Harris San Francisco Taxation & Mergers

Building strong and lasting client relationships is essential to a successful legal career. Many attorneys assume that mastering technical legal skills is enough, but law is fundamentally a service profession—our work is measured not only by the quality of our analysis, but by the trust we build and the problems we solve through the time and expertise we provide.
Long‑term client relationships rest on three pillars:

1. Truly knowing your clients, their businesses, and their goals.
2. Understanding how each legal issue fits into a broader strategic context.
3. Delivering exceptional service with consistency, clarity, and integrity.
   This philosophy guides my practice. I advise clients on business transitions, taxable and tax‑deferred mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructuring, integrated tax planning, federal and state tax controversy resolution, and real estate transactions. My work spans mature companies navigating complex operational issues as well as emerging and growth‑stage businesses seeking guidance on organization, financing, and long‑term planning.
   Trust is the cornerstone of every client relationship. Clients rely on me not only for technical expertise, but for judgment, perspective, and a genuine understanding of their challenges. My goal is always the same: to ensure that each client feels they are in capable hands with someone who understands their problems, their objectives, and the path forward.

Trust is the cornerstone of every client relationship. Clients rely on me not only for technical expertise, but for judgment, perspective, and a genuine understanding of their challenges. My goal is always the same: to ensure that each client feels they are in capable hands with someone who understands their problems, their objectives, and the path forward. https://www.jmbm.com/l-randolph-harris.html

Magnolia Station at Cresleigh Ranch

Rancho Cordova, CA | High $600’s

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Welcome to Magnolia Station, where your dream home awaits! With 81 select homesites featuring some of the largest lots in the area, Magnolia Station offers the perfect blend of spacious living and community charm.

Our versatile floorplans cater to every lifestyle, ensuring you find the perfect match for your needs. Explore the possibilities and find your forever home in our beautiful, serene neighborhood. Discover Magnolia Station today and experience the best in modern living.

Models now for sale! Located at the corner of Rancho Cordova Parkway and Douglas Road, residents of Cresleigh Ranch will benefit from a brand new neighborhood with convenient access to the new Raley’s Shopping Center, Sunrise Boulevard, and much more!

With five distinct plans ranging from 2,200 – 3,700 square feet; including three single story plans! Each plan has been thoughtfully designed to include features such as: Maisonette^® Suite, Optional Offices/Dens, Extended Great Rooms, and more!

These homes combine simplicity with sophistication, featuring top-of-the-line appliances, smart home technology, and upscale fixtures throughout. https://cresleigh.com/magnolia-station/

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God has tempered our spirits so we can walk together in wonderful ways. There is a spurious activity of man in which is itself a judgment, and there is also, astonishingly enough, a judgment which is true activity of man, that is to say, a “judging” which springs from the achievement of union with the origin, with Jesus Christ. There is a “knowing” which arises from the knowledge of Jesus Christ as the Reconciler. “He that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man” (I Corinthians 2.15), and again, “Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things: (I John 2.20). This judgment and this knowledge spring from unity, not from disunion. They therefore create not further disunion, but reconciliation. Jesus Christ’s judgment consisted precisely in His having come not to condemn but to save; “And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world” (John 3.19 cf. verses 17 and 18), and likewise men who are reconciled with God and man in Christ will judge all things, as men who do not judge, and will know all things as men who do not know good and evil. Their judgment will consist in brotherly help, in lifting up the falling and in showing the way to the straying, in exhortation and in consolation (Galatians 6; Matthew 18.15), and also, if the need arises, in a temporary suspension of fellowship, but in such a manner that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus (I Corinthians 5.5). It will be a judgment of reconciliation and not of disunion, a judgment by not judging, a judgment which is the act of reconciling. No longer knowing good and evil, but knowing Christ as origin and as reconciliation, man will know all. #RandolphHarris 1 of 27

For knowing Christ, man knows and acknowledges God’s choice which has fallen upon this man himself; he no longer stands as the chooser between good and evil, that is to say, in disunion; he is the chosen one, who can no longer choose, but has already made his choice in his being chosen in the freedom and unity of the deed and will of God. He thus has a new knowledge, in which the knowledge of good and evil is overcome. He has the knowledge of God, yet no longer as the man who has become like God, but as the man who bears the image of God. All he knows now is “Jesus Christ, and him crucified” (I Corinthians 2.2), and in Him he knows all. As one who is without knowledge, he has become the one who knows only God and all things in Him. Whoever knows God in His revelation in Jesus Christ, whoever knows the crucified and risen God, he knows all things that are in heaven, on earth and beneath the earth. He knows God as the ending of all disunion, all judgment and all condemnation, as the One who loves and as the One who lives. The knowledge of the Pharisees was dead and barren, but the knowledge of Jesus and of those who are allied with Him is alive and fruitful; the knowledge of the Pharisees is disruptive, but the new knowledge is redemptive and propitiatory; the knowledge of the Pharisees is the negation of all true action, but the knowledge of Jesus and of His own consists solely in action. “But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in secret” (Matthew 6.3). #RandolphHarris 2 of 27

The Pharisee, too knew that he was not to boast of his almsgiving, but that he owed thanks to God for all the good that he did. If Jesus had wanted to say no more than that, His saying would have been superfluous. However, what Jesus wished to express was not this reasonable and pious thought, but something quite different and indeed exactly the opposite. The Pharisee who rendered thanks to God for his own good deed (Luke 18) was still the man who lived in the knowledge of good and evil, who passed judgment upon himself and then indeed thanked God that he was able to do so. The Pharisee knows the good that he has done. Jesus’s saying is not directed against the boastfulness or the self-satisfaction of the man who has done good; but once again, He is striking at the heart of man who lives in disunion. He forbids the man who does not know of this good. The new knowledge of the reconciliation which is accomplished in Jesus, the knowledge of the voiding of the disunion, itself entirely voids man’s own knowledge of his goodness. The knowledge of Jesus is entirely transformed into action, without any reflection upon a man’s self. A man’s own goodness is now concealed from him. It is not merely that he is no longer obliged to be the judge of his own goodness; he must no longer desire to know of it at all; or rather he is no longer permitted to know of it at all, and indeed, he does no longer know of it. His deed has become entirely unquestioning; he is entirely devoted to his deed and filled with it; his deed is no longer one possibility among many, but the one thing, the important thing, the will of God. Knowledge can therefore no longer intervene and impede him, and now, quite literally, no time can be lost in delaying the deed, rendering it doubtful and judging it. #RandolphHarris 3 of 27

The judgment remains hidden not only from other men, but even from the forum of a man’s own knowledge. This situation is clear: knowing of Jesus, a man can no longer know of his own goodness, and knowing of his own goodness, he can no longer know of Jesus. Man cannot live simultaneously in reconciliation and in disunion, in freedom and under the law, in simplicity and in the discordancy. There are no transitions or intermediate stages here; it is one thing or the other. However, it is impossible for a man, by his own power, to avoid and to overcome his knowledge of his own goodness, though he may deceive himself and mistake the methodical repression of this knowledge for the actual overcoming of it. That is why when Jesus speaks of the right hand which must not know what the left hand is doing, in other words, of the concealment of a man’s own goodness, it is once again the summons to forsake disunion, apostasy and the knowledge of good and evil, and to return to unity and to the origin, to the new life which is in Jesus alone. It is the call of liberation, the call to simplicity and to conversion; it is the call which nullifies the old knowledge of Jesus, that knowledge which is entirely contained in the doing of the will of God. The deep impression which this saying of Jesus made upon His disciples is clearly shown by the fact that wherever the apostolic exhortation there is reference to giving, we already find the added requirement that it shall be done “with simplicity” (Romans 12.8; II Corinthians 8.2, 9.11, 9.13, et cetera). One cannot fail to see in this a reminiscence of the saying in the sermon on the mount. However, indeed, even God Himself gives “simply” (Jas. 1.5) to him who asks Him “without divided thoughts.” Though indeed the “double-minded man,” the opposite of the simple man, cannot expect to receive gifts from God (Jas. 1.7). And whoever receives simply will also give simply.  The parable of the last judgment (Matthew 25.31) completes and concludes what has so far been said. #RandolphHarris 4 of 27

When Jesus sits in judgment, His own will not know that they have given Him food and drink and clothing and comfort. They will not know their own goodness; Jesus will disclose it to them. Then the time will have come for which there was no time here on earth, the time which will lay bare what is concealed so that it may then receive its public reward, the time of judgment. However, even then, all judging and all knowing will be on the part of God and of Jesus Christ, and we ourselves shall be filled with wonder at what we receive. The Pharisee, who thought that through impartial and earnest judgment of himself, he could anticipate and prepare for the last judgment, cannot but regard as unintelligible and wrongful the message that he is to receive goodness solely from the knowledge, from the judgment, and from the hand of Jesus. If they were to be regarded as psychologically observable data, in other words, if one were to begin again to reflect upon the presence of these things in oneself or in other men, the overcoming of the knowledge of good and evil, which is accomplished in Jesus, as well as everything which has been said here concerning freedom and simplicity, would of course, be completely misunderstood. From the psychological point of view, it is, in fact, impossible for the left hand not to know what the right hand is doing and for simplicity always to do the one and only thing without knowing of any other possibilities. The reason for this is that the psychological view is itself always subject already to the law of disunion. Psychology, therefore, will never be able to discover the simplicity, the freedom, and the deed of which Jesus speaks; behind the supposed simplicity, freedom, and absence of reflexion, it will always find a final reflection, a final lack of freedom, and a final disunion. And precisely, this is to fail to grasp what Jesus means. #RandolphHarris 5 of 27

From the psychological standpoint, the man who has become simple and free in the discipleship of Jesus can still be a man of very complicated reflection, just as, conversely, there is a psychological simplicity which is reconciled with God. Thus, the Christian Holy Bible speaks of an entirely proper and necessary questioning with regard to the will of God and of an equally proper and necessary examination of oneself, without thereby coming into contradiction with the fact that those for whom the knowledge of good and evil is nullified are no longer confronted with a choice between many different possibilities, but always only with their own election to the simple performance of the one single will of God, and that for the disciples of Jesus there can no longer by any knowledge of their own goodness. However, repentance and remorse know how to make use of time in fear and trembling. When remorse awakens concern, whether it be in the youth or in the old man, it awakens it always at the eleventh hour. It does not have much time at its disposal, for it is at the eleventh hour. It is not deceived by a false notion of a long life, for it is at the eleventh hour. And in the eleventh hour, one understands life in a wholly different way than in the days of youth or in the busy time of manhood or in the final moment of old age. He who repents at any other hour of the day repents in the temporal sense. He fortifies himself by a false and hasty conception of the insignificance of his guilt. He braces himself with a false and hasty notion of life’s length. His remorse is not in true inwardness of spirit. Oh, the eleventh hour, wherever thou art present, how all is changed! As if it were the midnight hour, how still everything is; as if it were the hour of death, how sober; as if it were among the tombs, how solemn; as if it were within eternity. #RandolphHarris 6 of 27

Oh, heavy hour of labor (although labor is at rest), when the account is rendered, yet there is no accuser there; when all is called by its own name, yet there is nothing said; when each improper word must be repeated, in the light of eternity! Oh, costly bargain, where remorse must pay so dearly for what seemed in the eyes of lightheartedness and busyness and proud struggling and impatient passion and the judgment of the world to be reckoned as nothing! Oh, eleventh hour, how terrible if Thou shouldst remain, how much more terrible than if death should continue through a whole life! So, if all is not to be confused,  repentance must have its time, for there are two guides. The one beckons forward. The other calls back. However, repentance shall not have its time in a temporal sense. It will not belong to a certain section of life as fun and play belong to childhood, or as the excitement of love belongs to youth. It will not come and disappear as a whim or as a surprise. No, remorse should be an action with a collected mind, so that it may be spoken of to the edification of the hearer and so that the new life may be born of it, so that it does not become an event whose sorrowful heritage is a feeling of sadness. In a setting of freedom, bearing the impress of eternity, repentance should have its time, yes, even its time of preparation. For in proportion to what should be done there, the time of collection and preparation is not a drawn-out affair. On the contrary, there is a sense of reverence, a holy fear, a humility, that that which is to be done in the pure sincerity of this act of repentance may not become vain and overhasty. That a man wishes to prepare himself is no torpid delay. On the contrary, it is an intense agitation of the heart that is already in alliance with what is to be done there. From the point of view of the Eternal, repentance must come instantaneously; indeed, there is not even time to utter the words. However, man is in the temporal dimension and moves along in time. Thus, the Eternal and the temporal seek to make themselves intelligible to each other. Just as the temporal does not wish for delay simply in order to withdraw itself, but, conscious of its weakness, asks time to prepare itself; so the Eternal yields not because it gives up its claim, but in order by tender treatment to give frail man a little time.  #RandolphHarris 7 of 27

Even if it implies the abandonment of a much-desired wholeness, we must postulate, then, a psychological need for a totality without further choice or alteration. When the human being, because of accidental or development shifts, loses an essential wholeness, he restructures himself and the world by taking recourse to what we may call totalism. It would be wise to abstain from considering this a merely regressive or infantile mechanism. If more primitive, it is an alternate way of dealing with experience, and thus has, at least in transitory states, certain adjustment and survival value. It belongs to normal psychology. And possible psychiatric inquiry is restricted to these questions: Can the transient means of emergency adjustment be prevented from becoming fixed ends? Can totalism reverse itself when the emergency is over? Can its elements be resynthesized in a wholeness which was previously possible? In the individual, it is the ego’s task to promote the mastery of experience and the guidance of action in such a way that a certain wholeness synthesis is, ever again, created between the diverse and conflicting stages and aspects of life—between immediate impressions and associated memories, between impelling wishes and compelling demands, between the most private and the most public aspects of existence. To do its job, the ego develops modes of synthesis as well as screening methods and mechanisms of defense. As it matures through the constant interaction of maturational forces and environmental influences, a certain duality develops between higher levels of integration, which permit a greater tolerance of tension and of diversity, and lower levels of order where totalities and conformities must help to preserve a sense of security. The study of those funsions and defusions which—on the individual level—make for a successful wholeness or an attempted totality thus belongs to the realm of psychoanalytic ego psychology. #RandolphHarris 8 of 27

The ego’s beginnings are difficult to assess, but as far as we know, it emerges gradually out of a stage when “wholeness” is a matter of physiological equilibration, maintained through the mutuality between the baby’s need to receive and the mother’s need to give. The mother, of course, is not only a parturient creature but also a member of a family and society. She, in turn, must feel a certain wholesome relation between her biological role and the values of her community. Only thus can she communicate to the baby, in the unmistakable language of somatic interchange, that the baby may trust her, the world, and—himself. Only a relatively “whole” society can vouchsafe to the infant, through the mother, an inner conviction that all the diffuse somatic experiences and all the confusing social cues of early life can be accommodated in a sense of continuity and sameness which gradually unites the inner and outer world. The ontological source of faith and hope which thus emerges, I call a sense of basic trust: it is the first and basic wholeness, for it seems to imply that the inside and the outside can be experienced as an interrelated goodness. Basic mistrust, then, is the sum of all those diffuse experiences which are not somehow successfully balanced by the experience of integration. One cannot know what happens in a baby, but direct observation as well as overwhelming clinical evidence indicate that early mistrust is accompanied by an experience of “total” rage, with fantasies of the total domination or even destruction of the sources of pleasure and provision; and that such fantasies and rage live on in the individual and are revived in extreme states and situations. #RandolphHarris 9 of 27

In fact, every basic conflict of childhood lives on, in some form, in the adult. The earliest steps are preserved in the deepest layers. Every tired human being may regress temporarily to partial mistrust whenever the world of his expectations has been shaken to the core. Yet social institutions seem to provide the individual with continuing collective reassurances in regard to such anxieties as have accrued from his infantile past. There can be no question but that it is organized religion which systematizes and socializes the first and deepest conflict in life: it combines the dim images of each individual’s first providers into collective images of primeval superhuman protectors; it makes comprehensible the vague discomfort of basic mistrust by giving it a metaphysical reality in the form of defined Evil; and it offers to man by way of rituals a periodic collective restitution of trust which in mature adults ripens to a combination of faith and realism. In prayer, man assures a superhuman power that, despite everything, he has remained trustworthy, and asks for a sign that he may now also continue to trust his deity. In primitive life, which deals with one segment of nature and develops a collective magic, the Supernatural Providers of food and fortune are often treated as though they were angry if not malicious parents who needed to be appeased by prayer and self-torture. Higher forms of religion and ritual equally clearly address themselves to the nostalgic remnant in each individual of his expulsion from the paradise of wholeness which once gave liberal provision, but which, alas, was lost, leaving forever an undefinable sense of evil division, potential malevolence, and deep nostalgia. Religion restores, at regular intervals and through rituals significantly connected with the important crises of the life cycle, a new sense of wholeness, of things rebound. However, as is the case with all such endeavors, that which was to be banished beyond the periphery is apt to reappear in the center. Much cruel, cold, and exclusive totalness has dominated some phases of the history of organized religion. #RandolphHarris 10 of 27

One may well as in what way the idea of a universe punitively or charitably embraced by One God and his dogma prepared mankind for the idea of One Total State as well as for that of One Whole Man-Kind: for there can be no doubt but that, in periods of transition, a total realignment can ensure progress to greater wholeness, as well as to totalism. A child can feel ugly toward somebody for whom he does not specially care; but he feels sadly resentful toward somebody he loves. Similarly, a parent could be at pains to win back almost anybody, and for any number of reasons; but he would try to reaccustom somebody to himself only for the purpose of restoring an intimate daily association. Some children, even when mortally afraid, cannot really hate their fathers, one can only be sad; and a father, while he cannot always let his some come close, and might be murderously angry at times, cannot let him go for long. They have a mutual and deep investment in each other which neither of them can or will abandon, although neither of them can bring it to any kind of fruition. I know this kind of a parent-child relationship all too well from my young patients. In the America of today, it is usually the mother whose all-prevasive presence and brutal decisiveness of judgment—although her means may be the sweetest—precipitate the child into a fatal struggle for his own identity: the child wants to be blessed by the one important parent, not for what he does and accomplishes, but for what he is, and he often puts the parent to mortal tests. The parent, on the other hand, has selected this one child, because of an inner affinity paired with an insurmountable outer distance, as the particular child who must justify the parent. Thus, the parent asks only: What have you accomplished? And what have you done for me? #RandolphHarris 11 of 27

Though some boys cannot hate their fathers openly, it can be presumed that they may hate them underneath. Do we have any proof of this? Only the proof which lies in action delayed, and delayed so long that the final explosion hits nonparticipants. In later life, some young men display an extraordinary ability to hate quickly and persistently, justifiably and unjustifiably, with pungent dignity and with utter vulgarity. This ability to hate, as well as an inability to forgive those who, in his weaker years, have, to his mind, hindered him, he will share with other great men. However, as we follow his tortured obedience and erratic disobediences in later life, we cannot help asking what made it impossible for him to least evade this father, and even within the paternalistic system of those days, eventually leave him aside, make compromises, and get his way. Some men meet their crises in defying their father’s wills, but settle them somehow without making their rebellion the very center of their self-justification. With many father/son relationships, there are two trends: the father’s driving economic ambition, which is threated by something (maybe even murder) done in the past, and by a feeling close to murder which he always carries inside; and the concentration of the father’s ambition on his oldest son, whom he treats with alternate periods of violent harshness and habituating the son to himself in a manner which may well have been somewhat sentimental—a deadly combination. Also, fathers usually display righteousness. Some sons consider themselves the very conception, the inbegriff, of justice. After all, a father might not spare himself, and might be fraught with his own nature as ruthlessly as those of his children. However, parents are dangerous who thus take revenge on their child for what circumstances and inner compulsion have done to them; who misuse one of the strongest forces in life—true indignation in the service of vital values—to justify their own small selves. #RandolphHarris 12 of 27

A son can sometimes sense that the father, behind his disciplined public identity, is possessed by an angry, and often alcoholic, impulsiveness which he lets loose against his family (and will dare loose only against his family) under the pretense of being a hard taskmaster and righteous judge. The fear of the father’s anger is included in the absolute injunction against any back-talk, and Widerrede. Though only much later in life, after an attempt to screw down the lid with the rules of monastic silence, does a son become one of the biggest and most effective back-talkers in history, and this makes us wonder what might keep him silent for so long? We can deduce from what burst forth later that which must have been forced to lie dormant in childhood; this may well have included some communality of experience with the mother, whose spontaneity and imagination may suffer at the hands of their husband. There is often a childhood dilemma in many homes. Faced with a father who makes questionable use of his brute superiority; a father who has at his disposal the techniques of making others feel morally inferior without being quite able to justify his own moral superiority; a father to whom he cannot get close and whom he cannot get away—faced with such a father, how is a son going to submit without being emasculated, or rebel without emasculating the father? Millions of boys face these problems and solve them in some way or another—they live, as Prince Lestat did, with half of their heart and with only one of their lungs, and the world is worse for it now. Now and again, however, an individual is called upon (called by whom, only the theologians claim to know, and by what, only bad psychologists) to lift his individual patienthood to the level of a universal one and to try to solve for all what he could not solve for himself alone. #RandolphHarris 13 of 27

Although people tending toward the same main solution have characteristic similarities, they may differ widely with regard to the level of human qualities, gifts, or achievements involved. Moreover, what we regard as “types” are actually cross-sections of personalities in which the neurotic process has led to rather extreme developments with pronounced characteristics. However, there is always an indeterminate range of intermediate structures deriding any precise classification. These complexities are further enhanced by the fact that, owing to the process of psychic fragmentation, even in extreme instances, there is often more than one main solution. “Most cases are mixed,” says William James, “and we should not treat our classifications with too much respect.” Perhaps, it would be more nearly correct to speak of directions of development than of types. With these qualifications in mind, we can distinguish three major solutions from the aspect of the problems typically presented: the expansive solution, the self-effacing solution, and resignation. In the expansive solutions, the individual prevailingly identifies himself with his glorified self. When speaking of “himself,” he means, with Prince Lestat, his very grandiose self. Or as one patient put it, “I exist only as a superior being.”  The feeling of superiority that goes with this solution is not necessarily conscious but—whether conscious or not—largely determines behavior, strivings, and attitudes toward life in general. The appeal of life lies in its mastery. It chiefly entails his determination, conscious or unconscious, to overcome every obstacle—in or outside himself—and the belief that he should be able, and in fact is able, to do so. He should be able to master the adversities of fate, the difficulties of a situation, the intricacies of intellectual problems, the resistances of other people, and conflicts within himself. The reverse side of the necessity for mastery is his dread of anything connoting helplessness; this is the most poignant dread he has. #RandolphHarris 14 of 27

When looking superficially at the expansive types, we get a picture of people whom in a streamlined way, are bent on self-glorification, on ambitious pursuits, on vindictive triumph, with the mastery of life through intelligence and will power as the means to actualize their idealized self. And, barring all differences in premises, individual concepts, and terminology, this is the way Dr. Freud and Dr. Alder have seen these people (as driven by the need for narcissistic self-aggrandizement or for being on top). However, when we go far enough in the analysis of such patients, we discover self-effacing trends in all of them—trends which they have not only suppressed but which they hate and loathe. The first picture we get is the one-sided aspect of themselves which they pretend is their whole being in order to create a subjective feeling of unity. The rigidity with which they hang on to the expansive trends but also to the necessity to eliminate from awareness all traces of self-effacing trends and all traces of self-accusations, self-doubt, self-contempt. Only in this way can they maintain the subjective conviction of superiority and mastery. The point of danger on this scores is the realization of unfulfilled shoulds, because this would elicit feelings of guilt and unworthiness. Since nobody can in actual fact measure up to shoulds he has, it is indispensable for such a person to use all available means to deny his “failures” to himself. By dint of imagination, highlighting “good” qualities, blotting out others, behavioristic perfection, externalizations, he must try to maintain in his mind a picture of himself of which he can be proud. He must, as it were, put up an unconscious bluff and live with the pretense of being all knowing, all generous, all fair, et cetera. He must never, and under any condition, be aware that by comparison with his glorified self, he has feet of clay. #RandolphHarris 15 of 27

In relation to others, one of two feelings may prevail. He may be extremely proud, consciously or unconsciously, of his faculty of fooling everybody—and in his arrogance and contempt for others believes that he actually succeeds in this. Conversely, he is most afraid of being fooled himself and may feel it as a profound humiliation if he is. Or he may have a constant lurking fear of being just a bluff, more intensely so than other neurotic types. Even though, for instance, he may have gained success or honors through honest work, he will still feel that he has achieved them by putting something over on others. This makes him excessively sensitive to criticism and failure, or to the mere possibility of failure or of his “bluff” being called by criticism. This group, in turn, includes many heterogeneous types, as demonstrated by a brief survey anyone can make of patients, friends, or literary characters. Among the individual differences, the most crucial one concerns the capacity to enjoy life and to have beneficial feelings for others. Both Prince Lestat and Queen Akasha, for instance, are their aggrandized versions of themselves—but what a difference in emotional climate! Other relevant differences depend upon the ways in which the type eliminates from awareness the realization of “imperfections.” There are also variations in the nature of the claims made, their justifications, and the means of their assertion. We must consider at least three subdivisions of the “expansive type”: the narcissistic, the perfectionistic, and the arrogant-vindictive type. However, this is something we will have to explore further in the near future due to time constraints. Metaphysicians lost in the winding convolutions of their speculation, mystics whose works are pointless and incomprehensible as hieroglyphics—these belong to the old school. Tell us quickly what you mean, or keep silent, says the modern. An existence plagued by anxiety is hellish. The anxious person feels doom lurking everywhere, that the end of his world is at hand, and that he is helpless to avert it. This person may take tranquilizing drugs or engage in compulsive busywork in order never to have “idle thoughts,” but the terror is there, appearing in nightmares and obsessional worry about health or imminent failure. #RandolphHarris 16 of 27

Clinical experience with neurotic persons shows that such anxiety arises when life engenders feelings and impulses that the neurotic person dares not acknowledge. The anxiety “replaced” the rage, the pleasures of the flesh, or the affection that is being provoked in life, but that would devastate the person’s sense of identity if it were acknowledged and expressed. Such anxiety is a sign of the time to face personal reality and change the self. Chronic guilt and diminished self-esteem likewise show that the person is violating the self-ideal and is condemning himself for failing to live up to this vainglorious image. Such guilt indicates that it is time for the person to “straighten up” and live up to ideals—which is a form of growth; or it may rather be a time to change the self-ideal so that it falls more in the realm of human possibility. If persons have been disclosing themselves falsely, thereby showing other people a false self, then it is as if they have been living as spies in hostile territory or playing an ungenuine role on the stage of their lives. Under these circumstances, they will be obliged to repress all spontaneity in relationships with others and will remain chronically self-conscious. Such cramped and cramping self-scrutiny makes life hardly worth living, yet these persons continue, because they dread the reaction of others, should they ever come to know them as they really are. Such a false public self, with the suffering it produces, likewise indicates that it is time for authenticating change—that is, change for growth. The organism is dominated, and its behavior is organized only by unsatisfied needs. People who have lacked an effective parent in early life, people whose mothers or fathers died before they were ten, five, or two, or who were deserted, ignored, or cast out, must have the vacuum filled by someone who will “be there” before any other kind of treatment will be effective. There must be some intervention which will do the most to break up the script: the most effective script antithesis. #RandolphHarris 17 of 27

America is becoming so expensive that Americans are moving to Mexico in record numbers. The United States of America’s State Department reports that the number of American citizens living in Mexico has increased by 75 percent from 2019 to 2025 and has continued to grow to a total of 1.8 million. Many Americans are moving to Mexico and working at home for companies that are in the United States of America to take advantage of the lower cost of living, the natural beauty and the culture, and they are thriving. California is the third most expensive state in the nation, and is facing a $20 billion budget deficit, which is also illustrates the hardships its citizens are facing. In 37 percent of counties, in California, a family of four living on a six-figure income is now considered low-income. The average home price in California is nearly $1,000,000.00 USD, while the average salary is $96,036.00, meaning that most Californians cannot even afford to buy a home. California is having an affordability crisis. A single person making an income above $100,000 is now considered low-income in five counties in California. This distinction now applies to individuals living in Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin counties. The maximum percentage of your gross income that you should earmark for a monthly mortgage payment is calculated at 28 percent, and no more than 36 percent of your gross income to all debts, including mortgage. If you take 28 percent of the median household income per home in Sacramento County, homeowners can only afford a mortgage of $2,070.23 per month. And if you take 36 percent of their gross income to all debts, including mortgage, they should be devoting no more than $2,661.72 a month to these debts. The mortgage lenders must be using some kind of sorcery to get buyers into these expensive homes. To afford one of these homes using traditional guidelines, a household would need to gross $11,280.24 per month or $135,362.88 per year, but the median household in Sacramento County is grossing $7,393.67 a month or $88,724.00 annually, and that typically means two to four people in the home are working and contributing to the mortgage. Home prices in Sacramento County are rivaling the Bay Area, and in some cases, homes in the Bay Area are more affordable. Historically, homes in the Bay Area have been more expensive because they have higher-paying jobs, a larger population, and the Bay Area is a tourist destination. Contributing to the housing affordability crisis is Gavin Newsom, who has been lavishing illegal immigrants with taxpayer-funded resources and cash aid, when state workers should be receiving a 25 percent wage increase instead. #RandolphHarris 18 of 27

In 2025, many people in California saw their bills increase by an estimated $500 a month. This includes items such as food, automobile insurance, homeowners’ insurance, and electricity. In fact, more than 3 million people in California are facing household hardship, and more than 300,000 of them are facing eviction soon. This comes at a time when California is having a shortage of affordable housing. The crisis is caused by nearly half a century-old laws that discourage home sales and encourage higher rents. The incompetence in California is very easy to see. From 2018 to 2023, California received $24 billion, which they used to fund 30 homeless and housing programs. These programs created 100,000 units. That is an average cost of $240,000 per unit. In comparison, Roger Lucas, owner of Grand Castle, LLC, spent $50 million to build The Grand Castle, which is a 522-unit residential apartment community in Grandville, Michigan. The community includes studios, 1 bedroom, 2 bedrooms, 3 bedrooms, and even a multi-level penthouse. Rents generally range from $1,000 to $2,500. The community is a 23.6-acre site. It features 750 covered parking spaces, a clubhouse, a resort-style swimming pool, and was built over a period of 12 to 18 months. The average cost was about $95,785.45 per unit, which is $144,214.55 less per unit than California spent. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, while the national average is 4.5 percent. As people are seeing their bills skyrocket, and minimum wage has increased to $20 an hour, people on Social Security retirement are really bearing the burden with the checks the typically equate to $5-$7 an hour. Furthermore, while Americans are struggling to find and afford housing, Gavin Newsom, Democrat governor of California, signed two bills into law on February 7, 2025, to protect illegal immigrants. Bills SBX 1 1: Budget Act of 2024, and SBX 1 2: Budget Act of 2024, allocates $50 million to protect illegal immigrants from deportation. Governor Gavin Newsom also granted 700,000 illegal immigrants free health care, which costs taxpayers $3 billion annually. At the same time, Newsom cut vital programs for veterans, school children, the disabled, and the homeless. The California crisis created by Democrats is driving up home prices and mortgages, and rents all over the nation and the world, making living unaffordable for all, and advocates say the crisis is far from over. #RandolphHarris 19 of 27

Meanwhile, China, where we are sending all our jobs and money, has more than 50 ghost cities, with 65 million vacant homes. Ghost cities are regions where housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. If they are all officially counted, California has approximately 4 million homeless people. The highest home prices in the nation, the highest taxes, and the most unfriendly business regulations known to man.  Because California is so hostile towards people and businesses, more than 360 companies have fled the state since 2020. Businesses like Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard are among the names on that list. Also, more than 500,000 people a year are abandoning California because it is too expensive to live in, Gavin Newsom has criminalized homelessness and actually started arresting people without homes, crime is out of control, and they are losing their jobs due to companies relocating. More than 100 companies have announced layoffs in California for 2025. Intel is cutting 15,000 jobs, PayPal is cutting 2,500, and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, while the national average is 4.1 percent. The California crisis created by Democrats is driving up home prices and mortgages, and rents all over the nation and the world, making living unaffordable for all, and advocates say the crisis is far from over. Accordingly, California has more than 3.5 million illegal immigrants. Having the Southern American border open and not having American farmland protected, not producing beef, poultry, fish, fruit, produce, and dairy in America, and without American goods and services being our number one manufactured and selling items, America has created a dangerous and significantly elevated risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health. Some people may believe that these claims are overstated, but by not routinely monitoring Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CEVs) or other security-relevant alerts, such as the end-of-life of machinery is how the Oroville Dam Crisis occurred in 2017. #RandolphHarris 20 of 27

Meanwhile, China, where we are sending all our jobs and money, has more than 50 ghost cities, with 65 million vacant homes. Ghost cities are regions where housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. If they are all officially counted, California has approximately 4 million homeless people. The highest home prices in the nation, the highest taxes, and the most unfriendly business regulations known to man.  Because California is so hostile towards people and businesses, more than 360 companies have fled the state since 2020. Businesses like Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard are among the names on that list. Also, more than 500,000 people a year are abandoning California because it is too expensive to live in, Gavin Newsom has criminalized homelessness and actually started arresting people without homes, crime is out of control, and they are losing their jobs due to companies relocating. More than 100 companies have announced layoffs in California for 2025. Intel is cutting 15,000 jobs, PayPal is cutting 2,500, and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, while the national average is 4.1 percent. The California crisis created by Democrats is driving up home prices and mortgages, and rents all over the nation and the world, making living unaffordable for all, and advocates say the crisis is far from over. Accordingly, California has more than 3.5 million illegal immigrants. Having the Southern American border open and not having American farmland protected, not producing beef, poultry, fish, fruit, produce, and dairy in America, and without American goods and services being our number one manufactured and selling items, America has created a dangerous and significantly elevated risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health. Some people may believe that these claims are overstated, but by not routinely monitoring Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CEVs) or other security-relevant alerts, such as the end-of-life of machinery is how the Oroville Dam Crisis occurred in 2017. #RandolphHarris 21 of 27

America needs an approach to eliminate safety vulnerabilities in American cities. There needs to be a road map by the end of 2025, outlining a prioritized approach to eliminate crisis situations in America. There is enough money to send aid to foreign nations, but the American government does not have enough money to care for its infrastructure, provide adequate resources, or end the affordable housing crisis. Nor is there enough money to fund other national critical functions (NCFs). These bad practices of putting America and Americans last are considered exceptionally risky, particularly to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety. In 2024, Americans spent $100 billion on Japanese cars. As a result, the American automobile trade deficit with Japan was $39 billion. Additionally, Japan exported 1.4 million cars to the United States of America, but only imported 16,000 American-built automobiles. However, Japan imported approximately 143 thousand motor vehicles from the European Union. This is why President Trump created tariffs. We need to balance the trade deficit that America faces with other nations so we are not taken advantage of and so America can go bank to being a creditor nation, instead of borrowing money for other countries. Each year, President Trump is bringing $400 Billion in Tariff revenue into America and hundreds of thousands of new jobs. With this money, America is paying down debt, and with a portion of it, President  Trump plans to send Americans a stimulus check anywhere in the range of $1,000 to $2,000. However, if President Trump’s Tariffs are deemed illegal by the Supreme Court, taxpayers will have to pay back trillions and trillions of dollars. As we literally and /or figuratively see gangs, federal judges, and Governor Gavin Newsom fighting with federal law enforcement and President Trump– states and cities refusing to honor federal laws. Politicians are also showing an utter disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America, and anarchy is becoming increasingly common. #RandolphHarris 22 of 27

Anarchism is a cluster of doctrines and attitudes centered on the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary. Derived from the Greek root anarchos, meaning “without authority,” anarchism, anarchist, and anarchy are used to express both approval and disapproval. The anarchist denies man-made laws, regards property as a means of tyranny, and believes that crimes are merely the product of property and authority. However, the anarchist would argue that their denial of constitutions and governments leads not to “no justice” but to the real justice inherent in the free development of human sociality—the natural inclination, when unfettered by laws, to live according to the principles and practice of mutual aid. Anarchism is also a form of treason. Treason, the crime of betraying a nation or a sovereign by acts considered dangerous to security. In English law, treason includes the levying of war against the government and the giving of aid and comfort to the monarch’s enemies. In the United States of America, treason was defined restrictively by the framers of the Constitution. Treason against the United States of America “shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them aid and comfort,” which is something that many politicians are currently guilty of.  The American government should know all exploitable vulnerabilities and fix them before the situation becomes a crisis. Failure to take such mitigating actions is dangerous and significantly elevates risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety. The American government must understand that significant time and resources must be invested in America. They must also encourage corporations to plan for both mitigating safety vulnerabilities in the short term and eliminating them in the long term. For instance, a company might begin by reaching out to the federal, state, or local government and requesting tax incentives to provide security to dangerous communities, to help the government repair bridges and potholes. #RandolphHarris 23 of 27

Drug cartels have been threatening the health and safety of Native American communities. The trafficking of dangerous and illegal drugs into their territories is leading to a second genocide. The overdose rate for Indigenous people is 42 percent higher than the national average. A recent bust on Montana’s Blackfeet Nation’s Tribal Reservation resulted in the seizure of more than 700,000 fentanyl pills, which was the largest bust in Montana history. Recently, the Blackfeet Nation had to declare a state of emergency after facing 17 overdoses in just one week. There are only 6.8 million Native Americans left in the world, which is 2 percent of the American population. We should be doing more to protect these proud and honorable people; they should not want for anything. People rush and give away resources to illegal immigrants, but totally disregard the Indigenous people of this land, as their race silently fades away into extinction. We must secure our borders and increase federal funding to Native American tribes so we can save this precious population. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom has given billions of taxpayer dollars away to illegal immigrants and protected them from law enforcement, while arresting law-abiding Americans because they cannot afford to pay rent or mortgage, and the homeless shelters are unsafe, overcrowded, and have restrictions on who is allowed inside. He has also totally ignored the cartel problems on American lands. Clean air, water, land, and preserving our heritage are extremely important. We cannot just allow criminals to kill off the people who are native to this land and do nothing about it. Wars have been started over governments that tax citizens without representation. Taxation without representation is what led to the American Revolution. #RandolphHarris 24 of 27

Much like the land crisis in Las Vegas, we could also run out of land to farm and will not be able to grow or cultivate our own food. We can protect American farmland and support American farmers by buying American made beef, poultry, dairy, and produce. Also, country of origin labeling is very important so Americans can know where their food is coming from and can support American farmers and ranchers. As money flows, it influences further investment. Save the land that sustains us by protecting American farmland. Once the land is built on, we lose it forever.  And in the future, there may be food wars. Also, to ensure that we have farmland and buildable land for future use, we need to start limiting the number of people allowed to immigrate to America. Perhaps with the immigrants we do allow into America, there needs to be a diversity program to make sure we have a population that equally represents all races of people. If Americans continue to spend money on American products, then more need to be made to keep up the inventory. When investors notice these goods are selling, it gives them the confidence to pour more money into that local business. It shows that people want these goods made in America and pressures investors to keep these goods and services in America. The jobs stay here, the business stays in America, wages naturally increase, and more money is invested to keep up with demand. This reduces the burden on the taxpayer. When you support American businesses, that money stays in our economy and can help to reduce the national debt. The government creates debt by borrowing from businesses in the private sector or from foreign countries. It also increases the national debt by spending more than it gains in tax revenue in a fiscal year. #RandolphHarris 25 of 27

When people shop locally, more tax money stays in the economy and goes to the government. This way, it keeps more money in our national economy and keeps more jobs located in America which also sends more taxes to the government, which can again help to reduce the national debt. When you buy foreign goods, these companies usually have lighter tax loads or exemptions, meaning less money for the national debt, plus you are helping to strengthen these foreign nations by sending more money overseas. Buying American-made products is also better for the environment and helps to reduce the carbon footprint because these products do not have to travel nearly as far. Furthermore, American companies and manufacturers are held to much higher standards on pollution. American companies must be more careful about air, land, and water pollution and have proper ways to dispose of waste. Under President Trump’s administration, he has make America a priority. President Trump has closed the southern border, illegal crossings have fallen to an all time low, and are 90 percent lower than under the previous administration. Since President Trump’s crack down on crime, violent crimes in Washington D.C. have dropped by approximately 80 percent. He has stopped thousands of pounds of drugs from entering America and killing citizens. And since President Trump took office, investments in America have increased by trillions of dollars in U.S.A. manufacturing, production, and innovation. As you can see, President Donald Trump and his pledge to “Make America Great Again” is exactly what America needs to save the country and the American people. And yes, diversity is important, so you can see why it is also important to preserve blonde hair and blue eyes, as the people with these characteristics are becoming a minority in America. #RandolphHarris 26 of 27

We must think before we can understand the soul’s existence; we must understand before we can realize it. The earliest beginnings of thought, as apart from instinct, when it was itself still but a lurking tendency, belong far back in primeval time. The human intellect as we find it today, so rich and developed an instrument for the consciousness of the ego, did not arrive at this fullness without a series of graduated stages. We have had plenty of scientific thinking, business thinking, and political thinking long enough, but we have had very little inspired thinking. That is the world’s need. The intellect is cradled in selfishness but runs the evolutionary track into reason, where it will one day finish at the winning-post of selflessness. As a reminder, parents, please teach your children to love America and be patriotic citizens, and to buy goods and services made in America. It is also important to respect law and order and treat your elders with respect. It is inborn in the human mind to wish to know. If this begins with the endless surface questions of a child’s curiosity, if it continues into deeper questions of a scientist’s probing investigation, it cannot and does not stop there. For the higher part of the mind will eventually come into unfoldment, that union of abstract reflective thought with mystical intuition, which is true intelligence, which needs and sees a view of the whole of things. And so, the knowing faculty enters the realm of philosophy. A lot of children are having problems in school and cannot even write a paragraph because they are not reading their books. When you actually read books, you get an example of how to write and will become a better student. Therefore, remember to take your education seriously so that you will be successful in life and make your family proud. Also, to make sure they have all the resources required, please donate to the Sacramento Fire Department to help improve our national security. “Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand between their loved home and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, and this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’ And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” #RandolphHarris 27 of 27

The Winchester Mystery House

According to locals, over a century ago, the land that houses The Winchester Mansion had been vacant forever. Then, sometime in the early afternoon of Saturday, March 13, 1886, Sheriff Angel Camilio began getting reports that a massive castle made of wood had suddenly appeared. Gables rose, towers peaked into the sky as the mansion mushroomed into a labyrinth overnight.

The house’s sudden manifestation had been both disconcerting and fascinating to the community. Some felt dark curses flowing from the estate, and things moving around in the darkness. Others saw a fairytale castle glimmering in the spring sunlight. Perhaps this is why there are no records of construction, no blueprints, and no permits filed with the county. And then one day, a hearse came tearing through the gates, and in that hearse was a coffin, some believed it contained Mrs. Winchester.

Legend also says, when Sarah Lockwood Pardee (Winchester) married William Wirt Winchester in 1862, she enjoyed a life of extravagant luxury. William Winchester, President of the Winchester repeating rifle, became a very wealthy man through the sale of his guns, and the couple were among the elite New England society. She also told Mrs. Winchester they would kill her too, unless she moved out West and built a great house for the spirits.

In addition, Mrs. Winchester was told construction on the house must never end in order to appease the spirits and keep her alive, perhaps even give her eternal life. Mrs. Winchester followed the medium’s suggestions, and in 1886, she moved to the Santa Clara valley just outside San Jose, where she bought an 18-room farmhouse and property to build her mansion. At its peak, the Mansion once stood 9-stories tall and had as many as 600-rooms. Today, the stately mansion is 4-storys, and over 100,000 square feet.

It would be a pleasure to have you come and enjoy a delicious meal at Sarah’s Café, stroll along the paths of the beautiful Victorian gardens, which once spanned 740 acres, all the way down to Stevens Creek Boulevard; wander through the miles of hallways in the world’s most mysterious mansion.

For further information about tours, including group tours, weddings, school events, birthday party packages, facility rentals, and special events please visit the website: https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/

Please visit the online giftshop, and purchase a gift for friends and relatives as well as a special memento of The Winchester Mystery House. A variety of souvenirs and gifts are available for purchase. https://shopwinchestermysteryhouse.com/

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Harris will ensure you have the information you need to decide what to do next, whatever your home is facing. We’ll perform a diagnosis and detail what issues are present before starting any work. This gives you a personalized quote and service plan specific to your home’s needs, not some random quote based on the best guess. The only way we can do our best work is to make sure we handle the issues at hand. https://www.callharrisnow.com/about-us/

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Randy advises clients with regard to business transition, taxable and tax-deferred mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructuring, integrated tax planning, federal and state tax controversy resolution, and real estate transactions. Trust is the cornerstone of any client relationship. Ultimately, my clients feel they are in capable hands with someone who genuinely understands their problems and goals. https://www.jmbm.com/l-randolph-harris.html

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Inviting and expansive living spaces set the tone here. Residence Three is the largest of the single story homes offered in Cresleigh Havenwood. At 2,827 square feet you’ll be hard pressed to a contemporary floorplan that offers this much space.

There are four bedrooms, two and one half bathrooms, and a three car garage. Utilize the den as your own private study. If needed, convert the den into an optional fifth bedroom.

The Dining Room and Kitchen are well situated to make entertaining a breeze. The location of the Owner’s Suite makes it feel like a separate wing from the rest of the home allowing for maximum privacy and retreat.

Best of all, each Cresleigh home comes fully equipped with an All Ready connected home! This smart home package comes included with your home and features great tools including: video door bell and digital deadbolt for the front door, connect home hub so you can set scenes and routines to make life just a little easier. Two smart switches and USB outlets are also included, plus we’ll gift you a Google Home Hub and Google Home Mini!

Is it time for a change of pace? Or maybe just a change of place. When you imagine a community being built in perfect harmony with its surroundings, you have imagined Cresleigh Havenwood. From functional flow to fresh finishes, these homes are made to work hard, feel calm, and make every square foot count.

This single-story Residence 3 has something for everyone. Boasting 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms with a walk-in laundry room, this floorplan is ideal for a variety of homebuyers. https://cresleigh.com/havenwood/residence-three/

We perceive things because we distinguish the form, color, et cetera of a particular one from others. After having done this, we affix a name to the thing so distinguished. The fact that we have perceived, distinguished, and named the thing makes us sit complacently back with the feeling that we have understood it. When we use this word that is a name, we deceive ourselves, for we have perceived only an appearance, namely, only as much as the five senses can comprehend. The reality behind this appearance has escaped us. There are numerous “Gods” existing in the minds of different people, although this single term denotes all. Now, if the primal instrument in this question of truth is thinking, and if every thought must find words in which to express itself, we need to begin by defining every important term which we use, as and when we first use it. Definition must precede explanation; otherwise, confusion will reign in the mental relationship between the reader and the writer. No instruction can be given, no discussion can take place effectively, unless both first combine to define their terms and to state their positions. I cannot incur the danger of using a word with one significance given to it by my own mind and another given to it by a reader. We must both beware of the habit of inexact expression. Clear concepts and lucid statements are not less needed by the metaphysical and mystical than by the scientifical. The average man has not the patience to, and does not want to, inquire into the meanings of words. He says, “My meaning is the right one and good enough for me.” This implies that he knows, but in fact he does not, because he has not examined it. #RandolphHarris 1 of 27

 The intellect cannot work accurately with blurred concepts. Pitfalls await receiving it under such conditions. This is one reason why the process of discovering and clarifying meanings leads to its advance into truth. Many think it is useless to discuss the meaning of a term. This is often correct in the case of a logician who seeks merely to score a cheap intellectual triumph over an opponent, however dishonestly, but in the case of a true metaphysician who seeks truth in its genuine sense, such a procedure may be most helpful to him. At the least, it may point out pitfalls. However approximate all meanings may be in view of the incessant development of language, we must pin down the words used in philosophy to workable definitions. The sort of self-training is highly valuable and constitutes the beginning of philosophical wisdom. However, where this quest is concerned, we ought to avoid such simplicity of mind and not fall into fallacies as readily as the unthinking masses. According to Proverbs 18.21 in the Christian Bible, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” Word came to possess a power to influence man which, in primitive times, was widely recognized and raised by priestly society to the pedestal of magic. Sacred words or secret ones were embodied in all the primitive systems of magic and religion. Contrariwise, men even made scapegoats of mere words, so that evil spirits and gibbering devils had their evocatory names. The mere use of a phrase—and especially its printed use—carries the suggestion that the thing for which the phrase stands is really what it is desired to be. Naturally, if we had no communication in words—words are very much needed—we would not know what the teaching of Jesus Christ was. However, when there is no correspondence between words and meaning, the teaching itself will lose its sense. #RandolphHarris 2 of 27

Put this word on the torture rack and make it confess its meaning. This is not a plea for the abolition of all abstract terms and universal ones; they are immensely useful and necessary in the everyday affairs of practical life. It is a plea for the realization that the moment we drop the practical affairs from consideration and take up the philosophical quest of truth, we must shift to a higher and stricter standpoint; we must reject, for the time being, all such terms as are temporary counters that have no value in exchange and no corresponding significance. Propaganda knows only two shades—black and white. Truth knows all the range of colors in between. He will exhibit caution in language suggested by experience and enforced by knowledge. The nominalists of medieval times were realists, whereas the conceptualists were idealists. The former abhorred abstract words as unnecessary mystifications and declared there was no such entity as India, but only individual Indians, for instance, that society is only the men who compose it. In a list of abstract universals which would be non-existent and which may be unveiled by semantic analysis, their definition would include: God, Time, Space, Matter, Eternal and absolute Existence, Happiness, Motion, Justice, Evil, Spirit, Truth, Reality, First Cause, and even “I.” We must keep things in their proper places to characterize them correctly and to use names with more precision. Theology should not be dressed in philosophic pretensions, as magic should not be dressed in mystical pretensions. The philosopher must demand as perfect an integrity in speech as possible. For him, a word must be used rightly or not at all. #RandolphHarris 3 of 27

If we attribute meaning where there is none, we are telling lies to ourselves. There is a profound difference between using words because they have been understood and merely repeating them because somebody else has used them. If a man has arrived at some vital and powerful thought, the addition of a group of words can only stifle the newborn life; it can never render a faithful copy of the throbbing image which palpitated within the man’s self. I learnt from Locke to get my meanings clear in thought, then the expression could well take care of itself. Those who are discerning enough can taste the elixir in true words. All human activity is subject to habitualization. Any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern, which can then be reproduced with an economy of effort and which, ipso facto, is apprehended by its performer as that pattern. Habitualization further implies that the action in question may be performed again in the future in the same manner and with the same economical effort. This is true of non-social as well as of social activity. Even the solitary individual on the proverbial desert island habitualizes his activity. When he wakes up in the morning and resumes his attempts to construct a canoe out of matchsticks, he may mumble to himself, “There I go again,” as he starts on step one of an operating procedure consisting of, say, then steps. In other words, even a solitary man has at least the company of his operating procedures. #RandolphHarris 4 of 27

Habitualized actions, of course, retain their meaningful character for the individual, although the meanings involved become embedded as routines in his general stock of knowledge, taken for granted by him and at hand for his projects into the future. Habitualization carries with it the important psychological gain that choices are narrowed. While in theory, there may be a hundred ways to go about the project of building a canoe out of matchsticks, habitualzation narrows these down to one. This frees the individual from the burden of “all those decisions,” providing a psychological relief that has its basis in man’s undirected instinctual structure. Habitualization provides the direction and the specialization of activity that is lacking in man’s biological equipment, thus relieving the accumulation of tensions that result from undirected drives. And by providing a stable background in which human activity may proceed with a minimum of decision-making most of the time, it frees energy for such decisions as may be necessary on certain occasions. In other words, the background of habitualized activity opens a foreground for deliberation and innovation. In terms of the meanings bestowed by man upon his activity, habitualization makes it unnecessary for each situation to be defined anew, step by step. A large variety of situations may be subsumed under its predefinitions. The activity to be undertaken in these situations can then be anticipated. Even alternatives of conduct can be assigned standard weights. #RandolphHarris 5 of 27

These processes of habitualization precede any institutionalization, indeed can be made to apply to a hypothetical solitary individual detached from any social interaction. The fact that even such a solitary individual, assuming that he has been formed as a self (as we would have to assume in the case of our matchstick-canoe builder), will habitualize his activity in accordance with biographical experience of a world of social institutions preceding his solitude, need not concern us now. Empirically, the more important part of the habitualization of human activity is coextensive with the latter’s institutionalization. The question then becomes: how do institutions arise? Institutions occur whenever there is a reciprocal typification of habitualized actions by types of actors. Put differently, any such typification is in an institution. What must be stressed is the reciprocity of institutional typifications and the typically of not only the actions but also the actors in institutions. The typifications of habitualized actions that constitute institutions are always shared ones. They are available to all the members of the particular social group in question, and the institution itself typifies individual actors as well as individual actions. The institution posits that the actions of type X will be performed by actors of type X. For example, the institution of the law posits that heads shall be chopped off in specific ways under specific circumstances, and that specific types of individuals shall do the chopping (executioners, say, or members of an impure caste, or virgins under a certain age, or those who have been designated by an oracle). #RandolphHarris 6 of 27

Institutions further imply historicity and control. Reciprocal typifications of actions are built up in the course of a shared history. They cannot be created instantaneously. Institutions always have a history, of which they are the products. It is impossible to understand an institution adequately without an understanding of the historical process in which it was produced. Institutions also, by the very fact of their existence, control human conduct by setting up predefined patterns of conduct, which channel it in one direction, as against the many other directions that would theoretically be possible. It is important to stress that this controlling character is inherent in institutionalization as such, before or apart from any mechanisms of sanctions specifically set up to support an institution. These mechanisms (the sum of which constitute what is generally called a system of social control) do, of course, exist in many institutions and in all the agglomerations of institutions that we call societies. Their controlling efficacy, however, is of a secondary or supplementary kind. The primary social control is given in the existence of an institution as such. To say that a segment of human activity has been institutionalized is already to say that this segment of human activity has been subsumed under social control. Additional control mechanisms are required only insofar as the process of institutionalization is less than completely successful. Thus, for instance, the law may provide that anyone who breaks an incest taboo will have his head chopped off. This provision may be necessary because there have been cases when individuals have offended against the taboo. #RandolphHarris 7 of 27

It is unlikely in the United States of America that this harsh sanction will have to be invoked continuously (unless the institution delineated by the incest taboo is itself, during disintegration, a special case that we need not elaborate here). It makes little sense, therefore, to say that human sexuality is socially controlled by beheading certain individuals. Rather, human sexuality is socially controlled by its institutionalization in the course of the particular history in question. One may add, of course, that the incest taboo itself is nothing but the negative side of an assemblage of typifications, which define in the first place which sexual conduct is incestuous and which is not. In actual experience, institutions generally manifest themselves in collectivities containing considerable numbers of people. It is theoretically important, however, to emphasize that the institutionalization process of reciprocal typificiation would occur even if two individuals begin to interact de novo. In the nature of childhood, we are concerned with something that may throw light on man’s inclination, under certain conditions, to be available for what the Germans call Umschaltung and Gleichschaltung, that sudden total realignment and, as it were, coalignment which accompany a conversionlike conviction that the state may and must have absolute power over the minds as well as the fortunes of its citizens. As a clinician, however, I must start elsewhere: from examples of total inner change. We discern in normal and abnormal individual histories, and in occasional transitory states not commonly considered psychopathological, sudden transitions from a balanced “wholeness” of experience and judgment to states of feeling, thinking, and acting “totally.” #RandolphHarris 8 of 27

The most dramatic clinical examples of such total restructuring of experience are to be found on the borderline of severe pathology. As one young man said to me, smilingly, in looking back on his tendency to withdraw: “I was a majority of One”—by which he meant that, having chosen to be totally alone, he was the universe. A young woman spoke, in the same vein, of her “right to oneliness.” Yet such solipsism is neither restricted to pathology nor to adult life. Already early in childhood, a child’s healthy alternation between waking or sleeping, for example, may suddenly turn into a total avoidance of sleep or an overall sleepiness; a child’s happy alternation between sociability and aloneness may turn into an anxious or furious insistence on his mother’s total presence or a black refusal to show awareness of her proximity. Many a mother is deeply disturbed when she notices, at her return from a sudden but not so lengthy absence, that her small child has blandly “forgotten” her. Total dependence or total independence may, temporarily or lastingly, become states which are not amenable to normal degrees of alternation; or total goodness or badness may suddenly appear as states seemingly beyond the reach of parents who may actually prefer a child who is reasonably good but by all means also a little bad. Such total restructuring may occur as a transitory phase at significant stages of infantile development; it may accompany the outbreak of a mental disturbance; or it may remain a latent potentiality in the adult. As for the total dependence on an object or another person, we are all familiar with the small child’s fetishes which, sometimes in the form of unhygienically bedraggled dolls, become the subject of parental disdain or worry and yet remain the child’s total and exclusive token of security and comfort. #RandolphHarris 9 of 27

 Later, violent loves and hates and sudden conversions and aversions share with the child’s fetishism and fears such factors as the exclusive focusing of a set of friendly or unfriendly affects on one person or idea; the primitivization of all affects thus focused; and a utopian or cataclysmic expectation of a total gain or a total loss to come form this source. Finally, we may point to a well-known example of a sudden total split of what was once wholly united: the change that comes over married couples who have decided on a divorce. The sudden transformation of what seemed a wholesome twoness into two exclusive totalities can be rather awesome, as one soon finds out if he tries to remain on friendly terms with both. While such realignments may seem to appear suddenly, they develop slowly. Only uncommonly aware and brave people know about themselves what psychoanalysis reveals in others, and particularly in patients—namely, how strong and systematic are man’s proclivities and potentialities for total realignments, often barely hidden behind exaggerated likes, predilections, and convictions, and how much energy is employed in in inner defenses against a threatening total reorientation in which white may turn into black and vice versa. Only the affect released in sudden commitments and conversaions and in sudden aversions testifies to the quantity of energy “bound” in such defenses. Equally revealing is the much described and much deplored, yet therapeutically useful, tendency of even the most enlightened and best-informed patients of psychiatry to develop a “transference” and to become, as it were, violently dependent on therapists—and this with alternately positive or negative feelings: a sobering demonstration of the universal inner tendency for totalization which ill fits the contempt of many intellectuals for fellow humans dependent on cosmologies and deities, monarchies and ideologies. #RandolphHarris 10 of 27

At any rate, we have learned to understand such realignments as readjustments on a more primitive level, made necessary by increased anxieties, especially of infantile origin, and called forth by actual life crises. To mark them as pathological or as “bad” helps neither to understand nor to overcome them: to chart a purposeful course of action toward them, one must understand their inner rationale, their psycho-logic. Nonetheless, usually, as in any conflict of great intensity, attempts at solution set in automatically. There are three main ways at solving such a solution. One of them is presented in literature as the story of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll recognizes that there are two sides of him (roughly presented as the sinner and the saint, with neither of them being himself) at perennial war with each other. “If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable.” And he compounds a medicine by dint of which he can dissociate those two selves. If the story is divested of its fantastic garb, it represents the attempt to solve the conflict by compartmentalizing. Many patients veer in this direction. They experience themselves successively as extremely self-effacing and as grandiose and expansive without feeling disquieted by this contradiction, because in their minds the two selves are disconnected. However, as Mr. Stevenson’s story indicates, this attempt cannot be successful. It is too partial a solution. #RandolphHarris 11 of 27

A more radical one follows the pattern of streamlining, which is typical of so many neurotic patients. This is the attempt to suppress permanently and rigidly one self and be exclusively the other. A third way of solving the conflict is by withdrawing interest from the inner battle and resigning from active psychic living. There are then, to recapitulate, two major intrapsychic conflict brought about by the pride system: the central inner conflict and the one between the proud and the despised self. In the analyzed person, or in the patient at the beginning of analysis, these do not, however, appear as two separate conflicts. This is partly because the real self is a potential force but not yet an actual one. Also, however, the patient tends to despise summarily in himself all that is not invested with pride—which would include his real self. For these reasons, the two conflicts seem to be the most appropriate basis for establishing types of neuroses. We must keep in mind, through, that our desire for neat classification better satisfies our need for order and guidance than it does justice to the multifariousness of human life. To speak of human types—or, as we do here, of neurotic types—is, after all, merely a means of looking at personalities from certain vantage points. And what we use as criteria will be those factors which appear crucial in the framework of the particular psychological system. In this restricted sense, every attempt to establish types has certain merits and also definite limitations. In the framework of my psychological theories, the neurotic character cannot be this or that symptomatic picture, or this or that individual trend. It can be only the peculiarities of a whole neurotic structure. These in turn are largely determined by the major solutions a person has found for his inner conflicts. #RandolphHarris 12 of 27

There is, then, something which should at all times be done. There is something which in no temporal sense shall have its time. Alas, and when this is not done, when it is omitted, or when just the opposite is done, then, once again, there is something (or more correctly it is the same thing, that reappears, changed, but not changed in its essence) which should at all times be done. There is something which in no temporal sense shall have its time. There must be repentance and remorse. One dare not say of repentance and remorse that it has its time; that there is a time to be carefree and a time to be prostrated in repentance. Such talk would be: to the anxious urgency of repentance—unpardonably slow; to the grieving after God—sacrilege; to what should be done this very day, in this instant, in this moment of danger—senseless delay. For there is indeed danger. There is danger that is called delusion. It is unable to check itself. It goes on and on: then it is called perdition. However, there is a concerned guide, a knowing one, who attracts the attention of the wanderer, who calls out to him that he should take care. That guide is remorse. He is not so quick of foot as the indulgent imagination, which is the servant of desire. He is not so strongly built as the victorious intention. He comes on slowly afterwards. He grieves. However, he is a sincere and faithful friend. If that guide’s voice is never heard, then it is just because one is wandering along the way of perdition. For when the sick man who is wasting away from consumption believes himself to be in the best of health, his disease is at the most terrible point. #RandolphHarris 13 of 27

If there were someone who, early in life, steeled his mind against all remorse and who actually carried it out, nevertheless, remorse would come against him if he were willing to repent even of this decision. So wonderful a power is remorse, so sincere is its friendship that to escape it entirely is the most terrible thing of all. A man can wish to slink away from many things in life, and he may even succeed, so that life’s favored one can say in the moment, “I slipped away from all the cares under which other men suffered.” However, if such a person wishes to bluster out of, to defy, or to slink away from remorse, alas, which is indeed the most terrible to say of him, that he failed, or—that he succeeded? A Providence watches over each man’s wandering through life. It provides him with two guides. The one calls him forward. The other calls him back. They are, however, not in opposition to each other, these two guides, nor do they leave the wanderer standing there in doubt, confused by the double call. Rather, the two are in eternal understanding with each other. For the one beckons forward to the Good, the other calls man back from evil. Nor are they blind guides. Just for that reason, there are two of them. For in order to make the journey secure, they must look both forward and backward. Alas, there was perhaps many a one who went astray through not understanding how to continue a good beginning. For his course was along a false way, and he pressed on so continuously that remorse could not call him back onto the old way. There was perhaps someone who went astray because, in the exhaustion of repentance, he could go no further, so that the guide could not help him to find the way forward. #RandolphHarris 14 of 27

When a long procession is about to move, a call is heard first from the one who is furthest forward. However, he waits until the last has answered. The two guides call out to a man early and late, and when he listens to their call, then he finds his way, then he can know where he is, on the way. Because these two calls designate the place and show the way. Of these two, the call of remorse is perhaps the best. For the eager traveler who travels lightly, along the way does not, in this fashion, learn to know it as well as a wayfarer with a heavy burden. The one who merely strives to get on does not learn to know the way as well as the remorseful man. The eager traveler hurries forward to the new, to the novel, and, indeed, away from experience. However, the remorseful one, who comes behind, laboriously gathers up experience. The two guides call out to a man early and late. And yet, no, for when remorse calls to a man, it is always late. The call to find the way again by seeking out God in the confession of sin is always at the eleventh hour. Whether you are young or old, whether you have sinned much or little, whether you have offered much or neglected much, the guilt makes this call come at the eleventh hour. The inner agitation of the heart understands what remorse insists upon, that the eleventh hour has come. For in the sense of time, the old man’s age is the eleventh hour; and the instant of death, the final moment in the eleventh hour. The indolent old man hopes that his death is still a long way off. However, repentance and remorse belong to the eternal in man. #RandolphHarris 15 of 27

And in this way, each time that repentance comprehends guilt, it understands that the eleventh hour has come: that hour which human indolence knows well enough exists and will come, when it is talked about in generalities, but not when it actually applies to the indolent one himself. For even the old man thinks that there is some time left, and the indolent youth deceives himself when he thinks that the difference in age is the determining factor in regard to the nearness of the eleventh hour. See, then, how good and how necessary it is that there are two guides. For whether it be the lightly armed desire of youth which it is presumed will press forward to victory, or whether it be the mature man’s determination that will fight its way through life, they both count on having a long time at their disposal. They presupposed, in the plans for their efforts, a generation or at least a number of years, and therefore they waste a great deal of time, and on that account the whole thing so readily ends in delusion. “Judging” is not a special vice or wickedness of the disunited man; it is his essence, manifesting itself in his speech, his action, and his sentiment. The Pharisee is indeed seen in this light only from the standpoint of unity already recovered, from the standpoint of Jesus. The Pharisee himself can know himself only in his virtues and vices, but not in his essence, in his apostasy from the origin. Only the overcoming of the knowledge of good and evil can bring about the conversion of the entire existence of the Pharisee; only Jesus can overthrow the authority of the Pharisee which is founded upon the knowledge of good and evil. In the mouth of Jesus, “judge not” is the summons addressed to disunited man by Him who is reconciliation; it is the call to reconciliation. #RandolphHarris 16 of 27

If the different aspects of the self are in reasonable harmony, and the person can cope with the challenges of work, leisure, and personal relationships, a stable self-structure is compatible with a healthy personality. However, there are times when a healthy personality can be achieved only by changes in the self. There are various indicators of the time for change. These include boredom, sickness, chronic anxiety and guilt, failure in work, and failure in personal relationships. In all these instances, the person’s self-structure may have gotten out of touch with the real self, and the person is out of touch with external reality. Something has changed, and he or she has not acknowledged or recognized it. The experience of boredom signifies the person’s action is not serving his or her true needs and interests. Boredom also arises from prolonged exposure to monotonous surroundings, unchanging relationships, and repetitive work and leisure activities. Boredom is evidence of unperceived change in the self; the person whom one takes oneself to be used to be satisfied by those ways of being. Boredom means that one no longer is that person, and it is time to discover new dimensions of the self. Illness may signify that the person was not living in health-engendering ways. If a person is recurrently sick, it means, among other things, that the person does not know what he or she needs to do, or to stop doing, to achieve buoyant health; something must be done besides taking medicines. So-called nervous breakdowns—a radical inability to cope with conflict and responsibility in life—likewise indicate that a change in the structure of the self is overdue. Physical and psychological breakdown are the ultimate price one pays for resisting change in the self when life calls for it. If a person “worships” the present self-concept, public image, or self-ideal and is willing to sicken rather than change, then that person truly is guilty of the sin of idolatry so strongly condemned in the Old Testament. Self-idolatry in this sense is sickening. #RandolphHarris 17 of 27

America is becoming so expensive that Americans are moving to Mexico in record numbers. The United States of America’s State Department reports that the number of American citizens living in Mexico has increased by 75 percent from 2019 to 2025 and has continued to grow to a total of 1.8 million. Many Americans are moving to Mexico and working at home for companies that are in the United States of America to take advantage of the lower cost of living, the natural beauty and the culture, and they are thriving. California is the third most expensive state in the nation, and is facing a $20 billion budget deficit, which is also illustrates the hardships its citizens are facing. In 37 percent of counties, in California, a family of four living on a six-figure income is now considered low-income. The average home price in California is nearly $1,000,000.00 USD, while the average salary is $96,036.00, meaning that most Californians cannot even afford to buy a home. California is having an affordability crisis. A single person making an income above $100,000 is now considered low-income in five counties in California. This distinction now applies to individuals living in Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin counties. The maximum percentage of your gross income that you should earmark for a monthly mortgage payment is calculated at 28 percent, and no more than 36 percent of your gross income to all debts, including mortgage. If you take 28 percent of the median household income per home in Sacramento County, homeowners can only afford a mortgage of $2,070.23 per month. And if you take 36 percent of their gross income to all debts, including mortgage, they should be devoting no more than $2,661.72 a month to these debts. The mortgage lenders must be using some kind of sorcery to get buyers into these expensive homes. To afford one of these homes using traditional guidelines, a household would need to gross $11,280.24 per month or $135,362.88 per year, but the median household in Sacramento County is grossing $7,393.67 a month or $88,724.00 annually, and that typically means two to four people in the home are working and contributing to the mortgage. Home prices in Sacramento County are rivaling the Bay Area, and in some cases, homes in the Bay Area are more affordable. Historically, homes in the Bay Area have been more expensive because they have higher-paying jobs, a larger population, and the Bay Area is a tourist destination. Contributing to the housing affordability crisis is Gavin Newsom, who has been lavishing illegal immigrants with taxpayer-funded resources and cash aid, when state workers should be receiving a 25 percent wage increase instead. #RandolphHarris 18 of 27

In 2025, many people in California saw their bills increase by an estimated $500 a month. This includes items such as food, automobile insurance, homeowners’ insurance, and electricity. In fact, more than 3 million people in California are facing household hardship, and more than 300,000 of them are facing eviction soon. This comes at a time when California is having a shortage of affordable housing. The crisis is caused by nearly half a century-old laws that discourage home sales and encourage higher rents. The incompetence in California is very easy to see. From 2018 to 2023, California received $24 billion, which they used to fund 30 homeless and housing programs. These programs created 100,000 units. That is an average cost of $240,000 per unit. In comparison, Roger Lucas, owner of Grand Castle, LLC, spent $50 million to build The Grand Castle, which is a 522-unit residential apartment community in Grandville, Michigan. The community includes studios, 1 bedroom, 2 bedrooms, 3 bedrooms, and even a multi-level penthouse. Rents generally range from $1,000 to $2,500. The community is a 23.6-acre site. It features 750 covered parking spaces, a clubhouse, a resort-style swimming pool, and was built over a period of 12 to 18 months. The average cost was about $95,785.45 per unit, which is $144,214.55 less per unit than California spent. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, while the national average is 4.5 percent. As people are seeing their bills skyrocket, and minimum wage has increased to $20 an hour, people on Social Security retirement are really bearing the burden with the checks the typically equate to $5-$7 an hour. Furthermore, while Americans are struggling to find and afford housing, Gavin Newsom, Democrat governor of California, signed two bills into law on February 7, 2025, to protect illegal immigrants. Bills SBX 1 1: Budget Act of 2024, and SBX 1 2: Budget Act of 2024, allocates $50 million to protect illegal immigrants from deportation. Governor Gavin Newsom also granted 700,000 illegal immigrants free health care, which costs taxpayers $3 billion annually. At the same time, Newsom cut vital programs for veterans, school children, the disabled, and the homeless. The California crisis created by Democrats is driving up home prices and mortgages, and rents all over the nation and the world, making living unaffordable for all, and advocates say the crisis is far from over. #RandolphHarris 19 of 27

Meanwhile, China, where we are sending all our jobs and money, has more than 50 ghost cities, with 65 million vacant homes. Ghost cities are regions where housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. If they are all officially counted, California has approximately 4 million homeless people. The highest home prices in the nation, the highest taxes, and the most unfriendly business regulations known to man.  Because California is so hostile towards people and businesses, more than 360 companies have fled the state since 2020. Businesses like Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard are among the names on that list. Also, more than 500,000 people a year are abandoning California because it is too expensive to live in, Gavin Newsom has criminalized homelessness and actually started arresting people without homes, crime is out of control, and they are losing their jobs due to companies relocating. More than 100 companies have announced layoffs in California for 2025. Intel is cutting 15,000 jobs, PayPal is cutting 2,500, and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, while the national average is 4.1 percent. The California crisis created by Democrats is driving up home prices and mortgages, and rents all over the nation and the world, making living unaffordable for all, and advocates say the crisis is far from over. Accordingly, California has more than 3.5 million illegal immigrants. Having the Southern American border open and not having American farmland protected, not producing beef, poultry, fish, fruit, produce, and dairy in America, and without American goods and services being our number one manufactured and selling items, America has created a dangerous and significantly elevated risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health. Some people may believe that these claims are overstated, but by not routinely monitoring Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CEVs) or other security-relevant alerts, such as the end-of-life of machinery is how the Oroville Dam Crisis occurred in 2017. #RandolphHarris 20 of 27

Meanwhile, China, where we are sending all our jobs and money, has more than 50 ghost cities, with 65 million vacant homes. Ghost cities are regions where housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. If they are all officially counted, California has approximately 4 million homeless people. The highest home prices in the nation, the highest taxes, and the most unfriendly business regulations known to man.  Because California is so hostile towards people and businesses, more than 360 companies have fled the state since 2020. Businesses like Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard are among the names on that list. Also, more than 500,000 people a year are abandoning California because it is too expensive to live in, Gavin Newsom has criminalized homelessness and actually started arresting people without homes, crime is out of control, and they are losing their jobs due to companies relocating. More than 100 companies have announced layoffs in California for 2025. Intel is cutting 15,000 jobs, PayPal is cutting 2,500, and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, while the national average is 4.1 percent. The California crisis created by Democrats is driving up home prices and mortgages, and rents all over the nation and the world, making living unaffordable for all, and advocates say the crisis is far from over. Accordingly, California has more than 3.5 million illegal immigrants. Having the Southern American border open and not having American farmland protected, not producing beef, poultry, fish, fruit, produce, and dairy in America, and without American goods and services being our number one manufactured and selling items, America has created a dangerous and significantly elevated risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health. Some people may believe that these claims are overstated, but by not routinely monitoring Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CEVs) or other security-relevant alerts, such as the end-of-life of machinery is how the Oroville Dam Crisis occurred in 2017. #RandolphHarris 21 of 27

America needs an approach to eliminate safety vulnerabilities in American cities. There needs to be a road map by the end of 2025, outlining a prioritized approach to eliminate crisis situations in America. There is enough money to send aid to foreign nations, but the American government does not have enough money to care for its infrastructure, provide adequate resources, or end the affordable housing crisis. Nor is there enough money to fund other national critical functions (NCFs). These bad practices of putting America and Americans last are considered exceptionally risky, particularly to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety. In 2024, Americans spent $100 billion on Japanese cars. As a result, the American automobile trade deficit with Japan was $39 billion. Additionally, Japan exported 1.4 million cars to the United States of America, but only imported 16,000 American-built automobiles. However, Japan imported approximately 143 thousand motor vehicles from the European Union. This is why President Trump created tariffs. We need to balance the trade deficit that America faces with other nations so we are not taken advantage of and so America can go bank to being a creditor nation, instead of borrowing money for other countries. Each year, President Trump is bringing $400 Billion in Tariff revenue into America and hundreds of thousands of new jobs. With this money, America is paying down debt, and with a portion of it, President  Trump plans to send Americans a stimulus check anywhere in the range of $1,000 to $2,000. However, if President Trump’s Tariffs are deemed illegal by the Supreme Court, taxpayers will have to pay back trillions and trillions of dollars. As we literally and /or figuratively see gangs, federal judges, and Governor Gavin Newsom fighting with federal law enforcement and President Trump– states and cities refusing to honor federal laws. Politicians are also showing an utter disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America, and anarchy is becoming increasingly common. #RandolphHarris 22 of 27

Anarchism is a cluster of doctrines and attitudes centered on the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary. Derived from the Greek root anarchos, meaning “without authority,” anarchism, anarchist, and anarchy are used to express both approval and disapproval. The anarchist denies man-made laws, regards property as a means of tyranny, and believes that crimes are merely the product of property and authority. However, the anarchist would argue that their denial of constitutions and governments leads not to “no justice” but to the real justice inherent in the free development of human sociality—the natural inclination, when unfettered by laws, to live according to the principles and practice of mutual aid. Anarchism is also a form of treason. Treason, the crime of betraying a nation or a sovereign by acts considered dangerous to security. In English law, treason includes the levying of war against the government and the giving of aid and comfort to the monarch’s enemies. In the United States of America, treason was defined restrictively by the framers of the Constitution. Treason against the United States of America “shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them aid and comfort,” which is something that many politicians are currently guilty of.  The American government should know all exploitable vulnerabilities and fix them before the situation becomes a crisis. Failure to take such mitigating actions is dangerous and significantly elevates risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety. The American government must understand that significant time and resources must be invested in America. They must also encourage corporations to plan for both mitigating safety vulnerabilities in the short term and eliminating them in the long term. For instance, a company might begin by reaching out to the federal, state, or local government and requesting tax incentives to provide security to dangerous communities, to help the government repair bridges and potholes. #RandolphHarris 23 of 27

Drug cartels have been threatening the health and safety of Native American communities. The trafficking of dangerous and illegal drugs into their territories is leading to a second genocide. The overdose rate for Indigenous people is 42 percent higher than the national average. A recent bust on Montana’s Blackfeet Nation’s Tribal Reservation resulted in the seizure of more than 700,000 fentanyl pills, which was the largest bust in Montana history. Recently, the Blackfeet Nation had to declare a state of emergency after facing 17 overdoses in just one week. There are only 6.8 million Native Americans left in the world, which is 2 percent of the American population. We should be doing more to protect these proud and honorable people; they should not want for anything. People rush and give away resources to illegal immigrants, but totally disregard the Indigenous people of this land, as their race silently fades away into extinction. We must secure our borders and increase federal funding to Native American tribes so we can save this precious population. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom has given billions of taxpayer dollars away to illegal immigrants and protected them from law enforcement, while arresting law-abiding Americans because they cannot afford to pay rent or mortgage, and the homeless shelters are unsafe, overcrowded, and have restrictions on who is allowed inside. He has also totally ignored the cartel problems on American lands. Clean air, water, land, and preserving our heritage are extremely important. We cannot just allow criminals to kill off the people who are native to this land and do nothing about it. Wars have been started over governments that tax citizens without representation. Taxation without representation is what led to the American Revolution. #RandolphHarris 24 of 27

Much like the land crisis in Las Vegas, we could also run out of land to farm and will not be able to grow or cultivate our own food. We can protect American farmland and support American farmers by buying American made beef, poultry, dairy, and produce. Also, country of origin labeling is very important so Americans can know where their food is coming from and can support American farmers and ranchers. As money flows, it influences further investment. Save the land that sustains us by protecting American farmland. Once the land is built on, we lose it forever.  And in the future, there may be food wars. Also, to ensure that we have farmland and buildable land for future use, we need to start limiting the number of people allowed to immigrate to America. Perhaps with the immigrants we do allow into America, there needs to be a diversity program to make sure we have a population that equally represents all races of people. If Americans continue to spend money on American products, then more need to be made to keep up the inventory. When investors notice these goods are selling, it gives them the confidence to pour more money into that local business. It shows that people want these goods made in America and pressures investors to keep these goods and services in America. The jobs stay here, the business stays in America, wages naturally increase, and more money is invested to keep up with demand. This reduces the burden on the taxpayer. When you support American businesses, that money stays in our economy and can help to reduce the national debt. The government creates debt by borrowing from businesses in the private sector or from foreign countries. It also increases the national debt by spending more than it gains in tax revenue in a fiscal year. #RandolphHarris 25 of 27

When people shop locally, more tax money stays in the economy and goes to the government. This way, it keeps more money in our national economy and keeps more jobs located in America which also sends more taxes to the government, which can again help to reduce the national debt. When you buy foreign goods, these companies usually have lighter tax loads or exemptions, meaning less money for the national debt, plus you are helping to strengthen these foreign nations by sending more money overseas. Buying American-made products is also better for the environment and helps to reduce the carbon footprint because these products do not have to travel nearly as far. Furthermore, American companies and manufacturers are held to much higher standards on pollution. American companies must be more careful about air, land, and water pollution and have proper ways to dispose of waste. Under President Trump’s administration, he has make America a priority. President Trump has closed the southern border, illegal crossings have fallen to an all time low, and are 90 percent lower than under the previous administration. Since President Trump’s crack down on crime, violent crimes in Washington D.C. have dropped by approximately 80 percent. He has stopped thousands of pounds of drugs from entering America and killing citizens. And since President Trump took office, investments in America have increased by trillions of dollars in U.S.A. manufacturing, production, and innovation. As you can see, President Donald Trump and his pledge to “Make America Great Again” is exactly what America needs to save the country and the American people. And yes, diversity is important, so you can see why it is also important to preserve blonde hair and blue eyes, as the people with these characteristics are becoming a minority in America. #RandolphHarris 26 of 27

We must think before we can understand the soul’s existence; we must understand before we can realize it. The earliest beginnings of thought, as apart from instinct, when it was itself still but a lurking tendency, belong far back in primeval time. The human intellect as we find it today, so rich and developed an instrument for the consciousness of the ego, did not arrive at this fullness without a series of graduated stages. We have had plenty of scientific thinking, business thinking, and political thinking long enough, but we have had very little inspired thinking. That is the world’s need. The intellect is cradled in selfishness but runs the evolutionary track into reason, where it will one day finish at the winning-post of selflessness. As a reminder, parents, please teach your children to love America and be patriotic citizens, and to buy goods and services made in America. It is also important to respect law and order and treat your elders with respect. It is inborn in the human mind to wish to know. If this begins with the endless surface questions of a child’s curiosity, if it continues into deeper questions of a scientist’s probing investigation, it cannot and does not stop there. For the higher part of the mind will eventually come into unfoldment, that union of abstract reflective thought with mystical intuition, which is true intelligence, which needs and sees a view of the whole of things. And so, the knowing faculty enters the realm of philosophy. A lot of children are having problems in school and cannot even write a paragraph because they are not reading their books. When you actually read books, you get an example of how to write and will become a better student. Therefore, remember to take your education seriously so that you will be successful in life and make your family proud. Also, to make sure they have all the resources required, please donate to the Sacramento Fire Department to help improve our national security. “Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand between their loved home and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, and this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’ And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” #RandolphHarris 27 of 27

The Winchester Mystery House

According to locals, over a century ago, the land that houses The Winchester Mansion had been vacant forever. Then, sometime in the early afternoon of Saturday, March 13, 1886, Sheriff Angel Camilio began getting reports that a massive castle made of wood had suddenly appeared. Gables rose, towers peaked into the sky as the mansion mushroomed into a labyrinth overnight.

The house’s sudden manifestation had been both disconcerting and fascinating to the community. Some felt dark curses flowing from the estate, and things moving around in the darkness. Others saw a fairytale castle glimmering in the spring sunlight. Perhaps this is why there are no records of construction, no blueprints, and no permits filed with the county. And then one day, a hearse came tearing through the gates, and in that hearse was a coffin, some believed it contained Mrs. Winchester.

Legend also says, when Sarah Lockwood Pardee (Winchester) married William Wirt Winchester in 1862, she enjoyed a life of extravagant luxury. William Winchester, President of the Winchester repeating rifle, became a very wealthy man through the sale of his guns, and the couple were among the elite New England society. She also told Mrs. Winchester they would kill her too, unless she moved out West and built a great house for the spirits.

In addition, Mrs. Winchester was told construction on the house must never end in order to appease the spirits and keep her alive, perhaps even give her eternal life. Mrs. Winchester followed the medium’s suggestions, and in 1886, she moved to the Santa Clara valley just outside San Jose, where she bought an 18-room farmhouse and property to build her mansion. At its peak, the Mansion once stood 9-stories tall and had as many as 600-rooms. Today, the stately mansion is 4-storys, and over 100,000 square feet.

It would be a pleasure to have you come and enjoy a delicious meal at Sarah’s Café, stroll along the paths of the beautiful Victorian gardens, which once spanned 740 acres, all the way down to Stevens Creek Boulevard; wander through the miles of hallways in the world’s most mysterious mansion.

For further information about tours, including group tours, weddings, school events, birthday party packages, facility rentals, and special events please visit the website: https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/

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Thank you, Lord, for the blessings you have bestowed on my life. You have provided me with more than I could ever have imagined. You have surrounded me with people who always look out for me. You have given me family and friends who bless me every day with kind words and actions.

In America, many people think that the politicians are impotent because no one with the qualities of a leader has been entering the political race. If one enters one of the two major political parties, many of them are there for status, money, and success. There is, however, tremendous importance in having trained expert officialdom in America. Our officialdom was once second to none in the world. The Republican Party was once known for only supporting the rich and being patriotic Americans, and the Democratic Party has always been known for creating taxes and supporting less affluent Americans. However, some people are now saying that the Republicans are a pitifully small group of American pygmies in comparison to the Democrats. And that it is nauseating when these disrespectful, conceited zeroes dare to criticize the man who is a thousand times greater. Some Republicans in Congress are upset at the way the President is handling foreign policy. Although President Trump has been focused on deals to resolve conflicts abroad, Senators such as Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Roger Wicker, and Marjorie Taylor Greene are having some rumblings about the way he is handling his business. Senator McConnell is quoted as saying, “If Administration officials are more concerned with appeasing Putin than securing real peace, then the President ought to find new advisors.” Marjorie Taylor Greene has been very upset by the way the President is handling the Middle East and plans to resign from Congress in January. #RandolphHarris 1 of 31

Also, Senator Ron Johnson is vehemently against the Trump administration’s plan for the $2,000 tariff dividend proposal, even while Americans are struggling to make ends meet. Senator Johnson said, “We have to address the deficit problem. We are on borrowed time. If we’re bringing in revenue through the tariffs that ought to be applied to reduce the deficit, not just to make cash payments to Americans. We can’t afford it.” Yet, the House Republicans seem to always favor the wealthy and leave the working families behind. The 2025 reconciliation bill gave huge tax breaks to wealthy individuals, businesses, and large corporations. The average family earning less than $50,000 gets $300 in tax cuts in 2027, while the average tax filer earning $1million or more a year would receive about $90,000 in tax breaks. As President Trump explained, the revenue from the tariff dividends comes from other countries, so it is not costing taxpayers anything. Now, the problem with the Democratic Party is that they used to be for working-class people and the less affluent, but they are now using their resources and power to support illegal immigrants more than they have ever supported Americans. For instance, Maxine Waters, Jimmy Gomez, Norma Torres, Adriano Espaillat, and Nydia Velázquez were not allowed to enter a federal detention center to check on people who were detained in immigration raids or in protests against the raids, but believed they should have been allowed to enter the building as members of Congress. Ms. Waters was specifically there to see David Huerta. When was the last time you heard of Democrats advocating for Americans accused of crimes or visiting jails or prisons to check on the conditions or see how specific prisoners are doing? Furthermore, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has done a study that suggests the financial burden that illegal immigrants have cost taxpayers is upwards of $400 billion annually, and since state and local governments cannot borrow or print money like the federal government, they have to balance their budgets by either absorbing this cost through raising taxes or they have to cut services to their citizens, which they have been doing. Imagine how spending $400 billion on modernizing public facilities would benefit communities. #RandolphHarris 2 of 31

For many Americans, politicians have become enzymes of decomposition. First, this is because they lack the strength to move their ideas from the haze of nightclubs into reality. Also, the Democratic Party was a principled minority party and a handicap to the government because the party did not wish to sustain itself by participating in the existing political order. They dissociated themselves from the traditional system by importing illegal immigrants and giving them cash aid and government assistance, so they or their children will become future voters for the Democratic Party, which will help them to stay in office. The Democratic Party, of course, was not excepted, and that spells tragedies for their political careers because they have leadership qualities, but not the type of qualities that law-abiding citizens tolerate. Many people feel that the Democratic Party has soullessness and that their representation could eventually preclude their ascendancy because it is essentially a mob dictatorship, and the power and assistance are vanishing from the Americans who support them. Being seen as a strong country depends on our nation receiving the necessary amount of respect from other countries. This respect depends on the existence of a powerful government that refuses to allow crime and disorder in its country and prioritizes the needs of its people over those of foreigners. A respected country does not find it unpleasant to manage its own strength. #RandolphHarris 3 of 31

 President Trump is seen as a martyr. He has never betrayed confidence in the eyes of the masses, and this has resulted in his having the masses absolutely behind him. No power in the political system can seriously challenge him. He has caused the officialdom to be highly respectable, of rare respectability, one may say. However, the Democratic Party leaves the future of the nation completely in the dark. Karl Marx condemned the State in no uncertain terms, saying that its existence and the existence of servitude are inseparable. Marx thought, it is true, that the dialectical truths were superior to psychological truths. What does the dialectic say? That, “the abolition of the State has no meaning except among communists, where it is an inevitable result of the suppression of classes, the disappearance of which necessarily leads to the disappearance of the need for a power organized by one class for the oppression of another.” So, many people currently see the Republican Party and the Democratic Party as forces that are suppressing the classes and only supporting the wealthy and foreigners. The Christian prophecy that Jesus Christ will come and end all suffering is something that people on Earth have been praying for because the political system does not represent them. However, if people lose faith and keep experiencing hardships, this could be very dangerous and lead to fatalism becoming more popular. Then, if it is certain that the kingdom will come, what does it matter? Suffering is never provisional for the man who does not believe in the future. #RandolphHarris 4 of 31

In the perspective of the Marxist prophecy, nothing matters. In any event, when the bourgeois class has disappeared, the proletariat will establish the rule of the universal man at the summit of production, by the very logic of productive development. What does it matter that this should be accomplished by dictatorship and violence? In this New Jerusalem, echoing with the roar of miraculous machinery, who will still remember the cry of the victim? The golden age, postponed until the end of history and coincident, to add to its attractions, with an apocalypse, therefore justifies everything. The prodigious ambitions of Marxism must be considered and its inordinate doctrine evaluated, to understand that hope on such a scale lead to the inevitable neglect of problems that therefore appear to be secondary. “Communism insofar as it is the real appropriation of the real appropriation of the human essence by man and for man, in so far as it is the return of man to himself as a social being—in other words, as a human being—a complete conscious return which preserves the values of the inner movement, this communism, being absolute naturalism, coincides with humanism: it is the real end of the quarrel between man and nature, between man and man, between essence and existence, between externalization and the affirmation of self, between liberty and necessity, between the individual and the species. It solves the mystery of history and is aware of having solved it.” It is only the language here that attempts to be scientific. Basically, where is the difference from Fourier, who announces “fertile deserts, sea water made drinkable and tasting of violets, eternal spring…”? #RandolphHarris 5 of 31

The eternal springtime of mankind is foretold to us in the language of an encyclical. If not the kingdom of man, what can man without God want and hope for? This explains the exaltation of Marxist disciples. In a society without anguish, it is easy to ignore death,” says one of them. However, and this is the real condemnation of our society, the anguish of death is a luxury that is felt far more by the idler than by the worker, who is stifled by his own occupation. However, every kind of socialism is Utopian, most of all scientific socialism. Utopia replaces God by the future. Then it proceeds to identify the future with ethics; the only values are those which serve this particular future. For that reason, Utopias have almost always been coercive and authoritarian. Marx, insofar as he is a Utopian, does not differ from his frightening predecessors, and one part of his teaching more than justifies his successors. Communist systems frequently lead to the denial or severe restriction of fundamental individual rights and liberties. The concept of the collective often takes precedence over the individual, meaning personal freedoms are subordinated to the perceived greater good of the state and society. This prioritization can result in the suppression of various freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly. The right to private property is abolished or severely curtailed under communist governance. Freedom of religion is also commonly restricted, with states enforcing official atheism or tightly controlling religious practices. These suppressions occur to maintain state control, eliminate dissent, and enforce ideological conformity, viewing any challenge to the ruling party’s authority or doctrines as a threat. #RandolphHarris 6 of 31

Within communist systems, independent political activities are not tolerated, and citizens’ freedom of movement can be limited both domestically and internationally. The absence of legal protections and due process means individuals lack recourse against state actions, with state organs having extrajudicial powers. This framework allows for the systematic curtailment of civil liberties and the protection of the law. The ideological distortion is often fraught with unfathomable danger; this, plus the constant fear of catastrophe, gives people in communist systems an orientation toward sudden death, and thus a constant alertness toward the judgment which might have to be faced at any moment. People in communist systems often speak as if lightning is about to strike behind them the next moment. This is in reference to the mysterious thunderstorm when the government has total control and can eliminate due process. An excessive expectation of catastrophe, an all-too-anxious wish to be ready for the judgment, is part of a godless world. Now, anyone who reads the New Testament, even superficially, cannot help but notice the complete absence of this world of disunion, conflict, and ethical problems. Not man’s falling apart from God, from men, from things, and from himself, but rather the rediscovered unity, reconciliation, is now the basis of the discussion and the “point of decision of the specifically ethical experience.” The life and activity of men is not at all problematic or tormented or dark: it is self-evident, joyful, sure, and clear. The freedom of Jesus is not the arbitrary choice of one among innumerable possibilities; it consists, on the contrary, precisely in the complete simplicity of His action, which is never confronted by a plurality of possibilities, conflicts or alternatives, but always only by one thing. This one thing Jesus calls the will of God. He says that to do this will is His meant. This will of God is His life. He lives and acts not by the knowledge of good and evil but by the will of God. There is only one will of God. In it, the origin is recovered; in it, there is established the freedom and the simplicity of all action. #RandolphHarris 7 of 31

In interpreting some of Jesus’s sayings, we will try to show you what is new in that which He has brought with Him. “Judge not, that ye be not judged” (Matt. 7.1). This is not an exhortation to prudence and forbearance in passing judgment on one’s fellow-men, such as was also recognized by the Pharisees. It is the word of Him who speaks by virtue of his unity with God, who came not to condemn but to save (John 3.17). For man in the state of disunion good consists in passing judgment, and the ultimate criterion is man himself. Knowing good and evil, man is essentially a judge. As a judge, he is like God, except that every judgment he delivers falls back upon himself. In attacking man as a judge, Jesus is demanding the conversion of his entire being, and He shows that precisely in the extreme realization of his good, he is ungodly and a sinner. Jesus demands that the knowledge of good and evil be overcome; He demands unity with God. Judgment passed on another man always presupposes disunion with him; it is an obstacle to action. However, the good of which Jesus speaks consists entirely in action and not in judgment. Judging the other man always means a break in one’s own activity. The man who judges never acts himself; or, alternatively, whatever action of his own he may be able to show, and sometimes indeed there is plenty of it, is never more than judgment, condemnation, reproaches, and accusations against other men. The actions of the Pharisees are clearly a judgment of the other man; it seeks for a public judgment, even though it by only in the sight of his own self; it desires to be seen, to be judged, and, if only in the sight of his own self, to be acknowledged as good. “All their works they do for to be seen of men” (Matt. 23.5). #RandolphHarris 8 of 31

The Pharisee’s action is only a particular form of expression of his knowledge of good and evil, of his disunion with other men and with himself. It is consequently the gravest impediment to the achievement of that real action which arises from the rediscovered unity of man with other men and with himself. In this sense, therefore, in the sense in which it arises from his disunited existence and not in the sense of conscious malevolence, the action of the Pharisee, that is to say, of the man who realized his knowledge of good and evil to the very extreme, is false action or hypocrisy. To this extent, there is now indeed a profound contradiction between the speech and the action of the Pharisee. “They say, and do not” (Matt. 23.3). It is not as though the Pharisees did nothing, or as though they were backward in the performance of good works. The opposite is the case. However, their action is not genuine action; for indeed the action which is intended to overcome the disunion of man in good and evil does not achieve this aim but only aggravates the disunion still further. And in this way, for the Pharisee, the doing of the good which is intended to heal the inner disunion of man and his disunion with other men leads only to still greater disunion and to persistence in the defection from the origin. Finally, this same disunion of the man who sits in judgment over other men reveals itself in forms which can be understood in terms of psychology. The serious man, for example, in this way abreacts his instincts of revenge against the frivolous man, whom he secretly envies; it is precisely when a man discerns his own foible in another man that he is impelled to condemn him with particular severity; in other words, the spirit of judgment brings forth the particularly poisonous fruit when it springs from the soil of inward mendacity, desperate indignation and resigned laxness with regard to a man’s own weakness. #RandolphHarris 9 of 31

All these facts must not, however, be allowed to distort the true picture; the passing of judgment does not spring from these vices of the human heart or from its wickedness, be they never so rebellious; on the contrary, the passing of judgment is the origin of all these psychologically intelligible phenomena. Even in his conscious way of experiencing himself, a neurotic may shuttle between a feeling of arrogant omnipotence and of being the scum of the earth. This is particularly obvious in (but by no means restricted to) alcoholics, who at one moment may be up in the clouds, making great gestures and grandiose promises, and at the next be abject and cringing. These multiple ways of experiencing self correspond to the existing inner configuration. Leaving out more complex possibilities, the neurotic can feel himself as his glorified self, as his despised self, and at times (although this is mostly blocked out) as his true self. He thus, in fact, must feel uncertain about his identity. And as long as the inner constellation obtains, the question “who am I?” is unanswerable indeed. What interests us more at this juncture is the fact that these different experiences of self are by necessity conflicting. To be more exact, a conflict is bound to arise because the neurotic identifies himself in toto with his superior proud self and with his despised self. If he experiences himself as a superior being, he tends to be expansive in his strivings and his beliefs about what he can achieve; he tends to be more or less openly arrogant, ambitious, aggressive, and demanding; he feels self-sufficient; he is disdainful of others; he requires admiration or blind obedience. Conversely, if in his mind he is his subdued self, he tends to feel helpless, is compliant and appeasing, and depends upon others and craves their affection. In other words, the identification in toto with one or the other self entails not only opposite kinds of self-evaluation but also opposite attitudes toward others, opposite kinds of behaviour, opposite sets of values, opposite drives, and opposite kinds of satisfaction. #RandolphHarris 10 of 31

If these two ways of experiencing himself operate at the same time, he must feel like two people pulling in opposite directions. And this indeed is the significance of the identification in toto with the two existing selves. There is not only a conflict, but a conflict of sufficient impact to tear him apart. If he does not succeed in diminishing the resulting tension, anxiety is bound to arise. He may then, if so disposed for other reasons, take to drinking to allay his anxiety. According to the Mormon Church, prophets are still prophesying to this day. President Benson is a prophet, and tears come easily to his eyes when he receives letters written by children in which they express their greetings and send their love to him.  President Benson has urged: “If we would advance in holiness—increase in favor with God—nothing can take the place of prayer. Give prayer—daily prayer, secret prayer—a foremost place in your lives. Let no day pass without it. Communion with the Almighty has been a source of strength, inspiration, and enlightenment through the world’s history to men and women who have shaped the destinies of individuals and nations for good.” I personally believe in prayer, and I believe that it can be a catalyst to bring things you need and desire. Of course, life takes work, but as any business owner can tell you, sometimes work does not produce revenue. Therefore, people who work hard may also still go without the things they need. When you pray, it can open doorways and gateways that you never knew existed. For instance, your prayer for a windfall of cash could be the catalyst that causes God to convince your boss to give you an unexpected raise or Christmas bonus. A child praying for a new home for Christmas could be the catalyst that causes God to influence the loan officer at the bank to give his parents a mortgage loan. An orphan praying for food, God could use a generous stranger to be the catalyst to fulfill this blessing. Stop putting limits on God. #RandolphHarris 11 of 31

Religious practices have been associated with healing for millennia. People pray for good health and for relief from illness. Prayer may result in health and healing through one or more of several mechanisms. Prayer is a special form of meditation and may therefore convey all the health benefits that have been associated with meditation. Different types of meditation have been shown to result in psychological and biological changes that are actually or potentially associated with improved health. Meditation has been found to produce a clinically significant reduction in resting as well as ambulatory blood pressure, to reduce heart rate, to result in cardiorespiratory synchronization, to alter levels of melatonin and serotonin, to suppress corticostriatal glutamatergic neurotransmission, to boost the immune response, to decrease the levels of reactive oxygen species as measured by ultraweak photon emission, to reduce stress and promote positive mood states, to reduce anxiety and pain and enhance self-esteem, and to have a favoruable influence on overall and spiritual quality of life in late-stage disease. Interestingly, spiritual meditation has been found to be superior to secular meditation and relaxation in terms of decrease in anxiety and improvement in optimistic mood, spiritual health, spiritual experiences and tolerance to pain. Prayer may be supported by varying degrees of faith. Therefore, the more faith you have in God, the more likely your prayers are to be answered. People are willing to believe that wireless, invisible energy or particles exist, which connect their computers to the Internet, but they dare to question the impacts of prayer. Prayer may be associated with improvements that result from spontaneous remission, regression to mean, nonspecific psychosocial support, the Hawthorne effect, and the Pygmalion effect. #RandolphHarris 12 of 31

Spontaneous remission is well-known to occur in conditions that range from medical disorders (exempli gratia, coryza and pharyngitis) to psychiatric stages (exempli gratia, depression and mania). Regression to the mean describes improvement that occurs as a result of random fluctuations in the severity of illness; in clinical trials, because patients are usually preselected for greater severity of illness, such fluctuations usually occur in only one direction (id est, toward improvement). Nonspecific emotional support provides psychological benefits through interpersonal contact, such as during diagnostic and rating exercises. Nonspecific support can reduce anxiety, depression, pain, and similar. Spontaneous remission and regression to the mean may occur coincidentally to prayer. Nonspecific psychosocial support related to prayer may arise in group prayer settings. Improvements in all these contexts are true improvements. The Hawthrone effect refers to a change that occurs as a result of the act of observation or measurement. People who believe in God and believe God is watching them may be more well-behaved and may perform better at work or school. The Pygmalion effect proves that higher expectations alone can produce measurably better performance, even when talent is identical. Knowing that God expects more from His children and that he wants them to be good can cause them to perform better. Prayer may also result in benefits that are due to divine intervention. Although the very consideration of such a possibility may appear scientifically bizarre, it cannot be denied that, across the planet, people pray for health and for relief of symptoms in times of sickness. Healing through prayer, healing through religious rituals, healing at places of pilgrimage, and healing through related forms of intervention are well-established traditions in many religions. Our Heavenly Father is always near. Thank God we can reach out and tap that unseen power, without which no man can do his best. #RandolphHarris 13 of 31

If there is, then, something eternal in a man, the discussion of it must have a different ring. It must be said that there is something that shall always have its time, something that a man shall always do, just as one Apostle says that we should always give thanks to God. For that which has its time must properly be looked upon as an associate and an equal with other temporal things that in their turn shall pass away. However, the Eternal that is which is set over all. The Eternal will not have its time, but will fashion time to its own desire, and then give its consent that the temporal should also be given its time. So the Scripture says, “The one shall be done, the other shall not be neglected.” However, that which shall not be neglected is just that which cannot come into consideration until that is done which ought to be done. In like fashion with the Eternal. If the wisdom of life should ever alter that which concerns the eternal in a man to the point of changing it into something temporal, then this would be folly, whether it be spoken by an old man or by a youth. For in relation to the Eternal, age gives no justification for speaking absurdly, and youth does not exclude one from being able to grasp what is true. Should someone explain that the fear of God, in the sense of that felt in this world of time, should belong to childhood and therefore disappear with the years as does childhood itself, or should be like a happy state of mind that cannot be maintained, but only remembered; should someone explain that penitence comes like the weakness of old age, with the wasting away of strength, when the senses are blunted, when sleep no longer strengthens but weakens; then this would be impiety and folly. Yes, to be sure, it is a fact that there was a man who with the years forgot his childish fear of God, was swindled out of the best, and was taken in by that which was most insolent. #RandolphHarris 14 of 31

 Yes, to be sure, it is a fact that there was a man whom repentance first overtook in the painfulness of old age, when he no longer had the strength to sin, so that the repentance first overtook in the painfulness of old age, when he no longer had the strength to sin, so that the repentance not only came late, but the despair of late repentance became the final stage. However, this is no story of an event that calls for an ingenious explanation or that would even of itself explain life. When it happens, it is a horrible thing. And even if a man should become a thousand years old, he would not have become so old that he dares speak otherwise of it than the youth—with fear and trembling. For in relation to the Eternal, a man ages neither in the sense of time nor in the sense of an accumulation of past events. No, when an old person has outgrown the childish and the youthful, ordinary language calls this, maturity and a gain. However, willfully ever to have outgrown the Eternal is spoken of as falling away from God and as perdition; and only the life of the ungodly “shall be as the snail that melts, as it goes” (Psalm 58.8). The human organism lacks the necessary biological means to provide stability for human conduct. Human existence, if it were thrown back on its organismic resources by themselves, would be existence in some sort of chaos. Such chaos is, however, empirically unavailable, even though one may theoretically conceive of it. Empirically, human existence takes place in a context of order, direction, and stability. The question then arises: From what does the empirically existing stability of human order derive? One may first point to the obvious fact that a given social order precedes any individual organismic development. That is, world-openness, while intrinsic to man’s biological make-up, is always pre-empted by social order. One may say that the biologically intrinsic world-openness of human existence is always, and indeed must be, transformed by social order into a relative world-closedness. #RandolphHarris 15 of 31

If only because of its humanly produced and thus “artificial” character, while this reclosure can never approximate the closedness of animal existence, it is nevertheless capable, most of the time, of providing direction and stability for the greater part of human conduct. One may ask in what manner social order itself arises. Social order is a human product, or, more precisely, an ongoing externalization. Social order is not biologically given or derived from any biological data in its empirical manifestations. Social order, needless to add, is also not given in man’s natural environment, though particular features of this may be factors in determining certain features of a social order (for example, its economic or technological arrangements). Social order is not part of the “nature of things,” and it cannot be derived from the “laws of nature.” Social order exists only as a product of human activity. No other ontological status may be ascribed to it without hopelessly obfuscating its empirical manifestations. Both in its genesis (social order is the result of past human activity) and its existence in any instant of time (social order exists only and insofar as human activity continues to produce it) it is a human product. While the social products of human externalization have a character sui generis as against both their organismic and their environmental context, it is important to stress that externalization as such is an anthropological necessity. Human being is impossible in a closed sphere of quiescent interiority. Human being must ongoingly externalize itself in activity. This anthropological necessity is grounded in man’s biological equipment. The inherent instability of the human organism makes it imperative that man himself provide a stable environment for his conduct. Man himself must specialize and direct his drives. These biological facts serve as a necessary presupposition for the production of social order. #RandolphHarris 16 of 31

In other words, although no existing social order can be derived from biological data, the necessity for social order as such stems from man’s biological equipment. Once a self-ideal has been constructed, the person finds it difficult to change it. Why is this so, especially when the conscience is inhumane and impossibly strict? Consider an individual with incredibly high standards of performance; this person never attains them and believes he or she is a failure. If only the person’s self-ideal could be altered, he or she could experience self-esteem, perhaps for the first time. Yet the person, when urged to relax the standards, will refuse, saying, “I wish I could, but I cannot.” The reason why persons find it difficult to alter self-ideal is because it came from sources they dare not question—parents, teachers, God, The Book of Mormon, or the Christian Holy Bible. Their values have been acquired in the context of an authoritarian relationship, and they are in dread of horrible consequences should they question the “commands.” Dr. Freud said, “As the child was once compelled to obey its parents, so the ego submits to the categorical imperative pronounced by its superego.” If one should change one’s conscience presents a powerful conserving force in the personality, this fear of obscure consequences. A person may anesthetize the conscience with alcohol, lull it with self-deceptive arguments and rationalizations, and may even repress it; but one rarely changes it. This refusal has disastrous consequences for one’s well-being and maturity. One of the most cunning aspects of the adversary’s efforts to thwart our Father in Heaven’s plan of happiness is his or her deceitful teachings that there is no evil influence or the devil and his or her attempt to redefine evil as good and good as evil, darkness as light and light as darkness, and bitter as sweet and sweet as bitter!  “And behold, others he flattereth away, and telleth them there is no hell; and he saith unto them: I am no devil, for there is none—and thus he whispereth in their ears, until he grasps them with his awful chains, from whence there is no deliverance. (2 Nephi 28.22). This is sometimes called a paradigm shift—when the usual way of thinking about or doing something is replaced by a new and different way, thus portraying things to be exactly the opposite of what they really are. “Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (2 Nephi 15.20). #RandolphHarris 17 of 31

One of the unique aspects of emergency services is making do with what is available. The award-winning Sacramento Fire Department is great at adapting to and overcoming difficulties in the present situation. There is nothing wrong with being creative as long as risk management and safe procedures are utilized. For instance, say you and your pump operator, Brandon, get dispatched to assist with a man trapped under a vehicle in his garage. On your arrival, you find that he was working under his car when it rolled backward off the ramps, pinning him under it. Worse yet, the garage is extremely cluttered and the car rolled up against the overhead garage door, preventing it from being opened. Access at the rear of the car by the entry and overhead door is limited, but the area at the front of the vehicle is unobstructed. The car is on the slope of the ramps, with the bowed-out garage door keeping it from rolling back any farther. The ambulance has been dispatched, but is still 15 minutes out. You call for additional resources, including a mutual aid rescue truck, while your driver checks the victim for injuries. He reports that the car is resting on the victim’s chest, but he is conscious and alert with rib pain and significant trouble breathing. The most appropriate tool to lift the car would be airbags, but they are not something your department can afford. You assign Brandon to get what little cribbing you carry on the engine while you grab the victim’s floor jack. He tells you it is low on oil and will not lift, which is why he was forced to use the ramps. The only other thing you see that looks capable of lifting some weight is a “cherry picker.” This hydraulic engine hoist is normally used to pull engines and transmissions and has a hydraulic jack attached to a long arm. You see that the hoist has a lift capacity of 3 tons, which is sufficient for the front end of the car, but you know that the farther out on the arm the load is, the less it can lift. #RandolphHarris 18 of 31

You decide that if you can chain it short, close to the jack, it should be able to lift the front of the vehicle. Brandon cribs the vehicle to prevent movement and puts the vehicle in park, setting the parking brake. You place the chain around the front bumper by the frame and begin to lift. Although Brandon’s out of cribbing, he finds several bundles of asphalt shingles and uses them to take up the slack on the frame as you lift. With each pump of the jack, he slides a couple more shingles between the floor and the bottom of the car to prevent it from dropping back down on the victim. The victim is freed just as you hear the approaching siren of the ambulance. In a perfect world, firefighters would not have to use shingles to crib a vehicle or an engine lift to free a victim. Unfortunately, many fire departments cannot afford every tool for every possible situation, and they cannot always wait around for someone to bring it. Looking back in the history of the fire service, you cannot help but question how they did it 200 years ago. The technology they have today allows the fire department to respond faster, respond more safely, and be better prepared than in the past. Unfortunately, technology comes with a price, and that affects who can use it. For example, the self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) has been used by firefighters in the United States of America since the late 1800s. In 1975, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) began work on a standard for SCBAs and ultimately released NFPA 1981, Standard on Open-Circuit Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) for Emergency Services. At the time, SCBAs were readily available from several manufacturers, but many departments did not have enough for all the firefighters on scene. Some departments may have only had one or two in suitcases, on standby for special situations such as basement fires or hazardous materials incidents. Departments that could provide enough for crews rarely had a breathing apparatus that was up to the current NFPA standards. Even if they desired the newest and safest models, many departments simply could not afford to upgrade. #RandolphHarris 19 of 31

 In January 2001, when fire equipment grants became a viable option for fire departments to improve safety through the Assistance to Fire Fighters Grant (AFG) program offered by the United States Fire Administration (USFA). Grants are a form of financial assistance used to promote a specific goal. They are not loans or financial aid, and organizations are not entitled to grants. Many times, grants are intended to support the operation of the organization applying for the grant (the grantee). Usually, these are for a one-time purchase, such as for high-pressure airbags or even a fire engine. Other grants have a goal of furthering the cause of the organization that is offering the grant (the grantor); such a grant would be intended to stimulate an organizational change in the grantee. For example, the Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) offers grants to states that increase injury prevention activities for at-risk children. These funds may then be passed on to fire departments that agree to add injury prevention, such as NFPA’s Risk Watch curriculum, to existing fire prevention activities. Although some of these types of grants are a one-time payment, some provide assistance over several years. Emergency responders who are interested in obtaining grants need to know who offers grants, what types of grants are available, and the guidelines for obtaining a grant. In the past several years, the federal government has been one of the leading agencies to offer grants to fire departments. In fact, the federal government has more than 1,000 grants available through federal agencies for many different needs. In October 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released the final report for its first year of the AFG program. For the first time in history, a federal grant program was available that was capable of replacing the complete SCBA inventories of numerous fire departments across the country. However, grants are not a new concept, and the grantors are not limited to the federal government. Many state governments offer grants to emergency services organizations within the state. Other common sources of support include community organizations, businesses, and private foundations. #RandolphHarris 20 of 31

If you see a fire truck stopped in the street without the lights on, be very careful. Sometimes there is an emergency, and you should not pass the fire truck. It might be a good idea to safely turn around and go another way because if you hit someone and they happen to die, you could be charged with manslaughter. Sometimes fire firefighters are getting back into their vehicle, and if you pass the apparatus, you may collide with a firefighter who is on foot. Also, be sure to look at their signals; sometimes emergency vehicles are in motion, albeit slowly, and drivers try to pass them, and this could lead to a dangerous situation. Also, if you are in an intersection when you see an emergency vehicle, continue through the intersection. Drive to the right as soon as it is safe and stop. Obey any direction, order, or signal given by a law enforcement officer or a firefighter. Even if they conflict with existing signs, signals, or laws, follow their orders. When their siren or flashing lights are on, it is against the law to follow within 300 feet of any fire engine, law enforcement vehicle, ambulance, or other emergency vehicle. If you drive to the scene of a fire, collision, or other disaster, you can be arrested. When you do this, you are getting in the way of firefighters, ambulance crews, or other rescue and emergency personnel. The concept of professional courage does not always mean being as tough as nails, either. It also suggests a willingness to listen to other people’s problems, to go to bat for them in a tough situation, and it means knowing just how far they can go. It also means being willing to tell the boss when he or she is wrong. #RandolphHarris 21 of 31

America is becoming so expensive that Americans are moving to Mexico in record numbers. The United States of America’s State Department reports that the number of American citizens living in Mexico has increased by 75 percent from 2019 to 2025 and has continued to grow to a total of 1.8 million. Many Americans are moving to Mexico and working at home for companies that are in the United States of America to take advantage of the lower cost of living, the natural beauty and the culture, and they are thriving. California is the third most expensive state in the nation, and is facing a $20 billion budget deficit, which is also illustrates the hardships its citizens are facing. In 37 percent of counties, in California, a family of four living on a six-figure income is now considered low-income. The average home price in California is nearly $1,000,000.00 USD, while the average salary is $96,036.00, meaning that most Californians cannot even afford to buy a home. California is having an affordability crisis. A single person making an income above $100,000 is now considered low-income in five counties in California. This distinction now applies to individuals living in Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin counties. The maximum percentage of your gross income that you should earmark for a monthly mortgage payment is calculated at 28 percent, and no more than 36 percent of your gross income to all debts, including mortgage. If you take 28 percent of the median household income per home in Sacramento County, homeowners can only afford a mortgage of $2,070.23 per month. And if you take 36 percent of their gross income to all debts, including mortgage, they should be devoting no more than $2,661.72 a month to these debts. The mortgage lenders must be using some kind of sorcery to get buyers into these expensive homes. To afford one of these homes using traditional guidelines, a household would need to gross $11,280.24 per month or $135,362.88 per year, but the median household in Sacramento County is grossing $7,393.67 a month or $88,724.00 annually, and that typically means two to four people in the home are working and contributing to the mortgage. Home prices in Sacramento County are rivaling the Bay Area, and in some cases, homes in the Bay Area are more affordable. Historically, homes in the Bay Area have been more expensive because they have higher-paying jobs, a larger population, and the Bay Area is a tourist destination. Contributing to the housing affordability crisis is Gavin Newsom, who has been lavishing illegal immigrants with taxpayer-funded resources and cash aid, when state workers should be receiving a 25 percent wage increase instead. #RandolphHarris 22 of 31

In 2025, many people in California saw their bills increase by an estimated $500 a month. This includes items such as food, automobile insurance, homeowners’ insurance, and electricity. In fact, more than 3 million people in California are facing household hardship, and more than 300,000 of them are facing eviction soon. This comes at a time when California is having a shortage of affordable housing. The crisis is caused by nearly half a century-old laws that discourage home sales and encourage higher rents. The incompetence in California is very easy to see. From 2018 to 2023, California received $24 billion, which they used to fund 30 homeless and housing programs. These programs created 100,000 units. That is an average cost of $240,000 per unit. In comparison, Roger Lucas, owner of Grand Castle, LLC, spent $50 million to build The Grand Castle, which is a 522-unit residential apartment community in Grandville, Michigan. The community includes studios, 1 bedroom, 2 bedrooms, 3 bedrooms, and even a multi-level penthouse. Rents generally range from $1,000 to $2,500. The community is a 23.6-acre site. It features 750 covered parking spaces, a clubhouse, a resort-style swimming pool, and was built over a period of 12 to 18 months. The average cost was about $95,785.45 per unit, which is $144,214.55 less per unit than California spent. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, while the national average is 4.5 percent. As people are seeing their bills skyrocket, and minimum wage has increased to $20 an hour, people on Social Security retirement are really bearing the burden with the checks the typically equate to $5-$7 an hour. Furthermore, while Americans are struggling to find and afford housing, Gavin Newsom, Democrat governor of California, signed two bills into law on February 7, 2025, to protect illegal immigrants. Bills SBX 1 1: Budget Act of 2024, and SBX 1 2: Budget Act of 2024, allocates $50 million to protect illegal immigrants from deportation. Governor Gavin Newsom also granted 700,000 illegal immigrants free health care, which costs taxpayers $3 billion annually. At the same time, Newsom cut vital programs for veterans, school children, the disabled, and the homeless. The California crisis created by Democrats is driving up home prices and mortgages, and rents all over the nation and the world, making living unaffordable for all, and advocates say the crisis is far from over. #RandolphHarris 23 of 31

Meanwhile, China, where we are sending all our jobs and money, has more than 50 ghost cities, with 65 million vacant homes. Ghost cities are regions where housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. If they are all officially counted, California has approximately 4 million homeless people. The highest home prices in the nation, the highest taxes, and the most unfriendly business regulations known to man.  Because California is so hostile towards people and businesses, more than 360 companies have fled the state since 2020. Businesses like Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard are among the names on that list. Also, more than 500,000 people a year are abandoning California because it is too expensive to live in, Gavin Newsom has criminalized homelessness and actually started arresting people without homes, crime is out of control, and they are losing their jobs due to companies relocating. More than 100 companies have announced layoffs in California for 2025. Intel is cutting 15,000 jobs, PayPal is cutting 2,500, and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, while the national average is 4.1 percent. The California crisis created by Democrats is driving up home prices and mortgages, and rents all over the nation and the world, making living unaffordable for all, and advocates say the crisis is far from over. Accordingly, California has more than 3.5 million illegal immigrants. Having the Southern American border open and not having American farmland protected, not producing beef, poultry, fish, fruit, produce, and dairy in America, and without American goods and services being our number one manufactured and selling items, America has created a dangerous and significantly elevated risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health. Some people may believe that these claims are overstated, but by not routinely monitoring Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CEVs) or other security-relevant alerts, such as the end-of-life of machinery is how the Oroville Dam Crisis occurred in 2017. #RandolphHarris 24 of 31

Meanwhile, China, where we are sending all our jobs and money, has more than 50 ghost cities, with 65 million vacant homes. Ghost cities are regions where housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. If they are all officially counted, California has approximately 4 million homeless people. The highest home prices in the nation, the highest taxes, and the most unfriendly business regulations known to man.  Because California is so hostile towards people and businesses, more than 360 companies have fled the state since 2020. Businesses like Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard are among the names on that list. Also, more than 500,000 people a year are abandoning California because it is too expensive to live in, Gavin Newsom has criminalized homelessness and actually started arresting people without homes, crime is out of control, and they are losing their jobs due to companies relocating. More than 100 companies have announced layoffs in California for 2025. Intel is cutting 15,000 jobs, PayPal is cutting 2,500, and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, while the national average is 4.1 percent. The California crisis created by Democrats is driving up home prices and mortgages, and rents all over the nation and the world, making living unaffordable for all, and advocates say the crisis is far from over. Accordingly, California has more than 3.5 million illegal immigrants. Having the Southern American border open and not having American farmland protected, not producing beef, poultry, fish, fruit, produce, and dairy in America, and without American goods and services being our number one manufactured and selling items, America has created a dangerous and significantly elevated risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health. Some people may believe that these claims are overstated, but by not routinely monitoring Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CEVs) or other security-relevant alerts, such as the end-of-life of machinery is how the Oroville Dam Crisis occurred in 2017. #RandolphHarris 25 of 31

America needs an approach to eliminate safety vulnerabilities in American cities. There needs to be a road map by the end of 2025, outlining a prioritized approach to eliminate crisis situations in America. There is enough money to send aid to foreign nations, but the American government does not have enough money to care for its infrastructure, provide adequate resources, or end the affordable housing crisis. Nor is there enough money to fund other national critical functions (NCFs). These bad practices of putting America and Americans last are considered exceptionally risky, particularly to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety. In 2024, Americans spent $100 billion on Japanese cars. As a result, the American automobile trade deficit with Japan was $39 billion. Additionally, Japan exported 1.4 million cars to the United States of America, but only imported 16,000 American-built automobiles. However, Japan imported approximately 143 thousand motor vehicles from the European Union. This is why President Trump created tariffs. We need to balance the trade deficit that America faces with other nations so we are not taken advantage of and so America can go bank to being a creditor nation, instead of borrowing money for other countries. Each year, President Trump is bringing $400 Billion in Tariff revenue into America and hundreds of thousands of new jobs. With this money, America is paying down debt, and with a portion of it, President  Trump plans to send Americans a stimulus check anywhere in the range of $1,000 to $2,000. However, if President Trump’s Tariffs are deemed illegal by the Supreme Court, taxpayers will have to pay back trillions and trillions of dollars. As we literally and /or figuratively see gangs, federal judges, and Governor Gavin Newsom fighting with federal law enforcement and President Trump– states and cities refusing to honor federal laws. Politicians are also showing an utter disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America, and anarchy is becoming increasingly common. #RandolphHarris 26 of 31

Anarchism is a cluster of doctrines and attitudes centered on the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary. Derived from the Greek root anarchos, meaning “without authority,” anarchism, anarchist, and anarchy are used to express both approval and disapproval. The anarchist denies man-made laws, regards property as a means of tyranny, and believes that crimes are merely the product of property and authority. However, the anarchist would argue that their denial of constitutions and governments leads not to “no justice” but to the real justice inherent in the free development of human sociality—the natural inclination, when unfettered by laws, to live according to the principles and practice of mutual aid. Anarchism is also a form of treason. Treason, the crime of betraying a nation or a sovereign by acts considered dangerous to security. In English law, treason includes the levying of war against the government and the giving of aid and comfort to the monarch’s enemies. In the United States of America, treason was defined restrictively by the framers of the Constitution. Treason against the United States of America “shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them aid and comfort,” which is something that many politicians are currently guilty of.  The American government should know all exploitable vulnerabilities and fix them before the situation becomes a crisis. Failure to take such mitigating actions is dangerous and significantly elevates risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety. The American government must understand that significant time and resources must be invested in America. They must also encourage corporations to plan for both mitigating safety vulnerabilities in the short term and eliminating them in the long term. For instance, a company might begin by reaching out to the federal, state, or local government and requesting tax incentives to provide security to dangerous communities, to help the government repair bridges and potholes. #RandolphHarris 27 of 31

Drug cartels have been threatening the health and safety of Native American communities. The trafficking of dangerous and illegal drugs into their territories is leading to a second genocide. The overdose rate for Indigenous people is 42 percent higher than the national average. A recent bust on Montana’s Blackfeet Nation’s Tribal Reservation resulted in the seizure of more than 700,000 fentanyl pills, which was the largest bust in Montana history. Recently, the Blackfeet Nation had to declare a state of emergency after facing 17 overdoses in just one week. There are only 6.8 million Native Americans left in the world, which is 2 percent of the American population. We should be doing more to protect these proud and honorable people; they should not want for anything. People rush and give away resources to illegal immigrants, but totally disregard the Indigenous people of this land, as their race silently fades away into extinction. We must secure our borders and increase federal funding to Native American tribes so we can save this precious population. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom has given billions of taxpayer dollars away to illegal immigrants and protected them from law enforcement, while arresting law-abiding Americans because they cannot afford to pay rent or mortgage, and the homeless shelters are unsafe, overcrowded, and have restrictions on who is allowed inside. He has also totally ignored the cartel problems on American lands. Clean air, water, land, and preserving our heritage are extremely important. We cannot just allow criminals to kill off the people who are native to this land and do nothing about it. Wars have been started over governments that tax citizens without representation. Taxation without representation is what led to the American Revolution. #RandolphHarris 28 of 31

Much like the land crisis in Las Vegas, we could also run out of land to farm and will not be able to grow or cultivate our own food. We can protect American farmland and support American farmers by buying American made beef, poultry, dairy, and produce. Also, country of origin labeling is very important so Americans can know where their food is coming from and can support American farmers and ranchers. As money flows, it influences further investment. Save the land that sustains us by protecting American farmland. Once the land is built on, we lose it forever.  And in the future, there may be food wars. Also, to ensure that we have farmland and buildable land for future use, we need to start limiting the number of people allowed to immigrate to America. Perhaps with the immigrants we do allow into America, there needs to be a diversity program to make sure we have a population that equally represents all races of people. If Americans continue to spend money on American products, then more need to be made to keep up the inventory. When investors notice these goods are selling, it gives them the confidence to pour more money into that local business. It shows that people want these goods made in America and pressures investors to keep these goods and services in America. The jobs stay here, the business stays in America, wages naturally increase, and more money is invested to keep up with demand. This reduces the burden on the taxpayer. When you support American businesses, that money stays in our economy and can help to reduce the national debt. The government creates debt by borrowing from businesses in the private sector or from foreign countries. It also increases the national debt by spending more than it gains in tax revenue in a fiscal year. #RandolphHarris 29 of 31

When people shop locally, more tax money stays in the economy and goes to the government. This way, it keeps more money in our national economy and keeps more jobs located in America which also sends more taxes to the government, which can again help to reduce the national debt. When you buy foreign goods, these companies usually have lighter tax loads or exemptions, meaning less money for the national debt, plus you are helping to strengthen these foreign nations by sending more money overseas. Buying American-made products is also better for the environment and helps to reduce the carbon footprint because these products do not have to travel nearly as far. Furthermore, American companies and manufacturers are held to much higher standards on pollution. American companies must be more careful about air, land, and water pollution and have proper ways to dispose of waste. Under President Trump’s administration, he has make America a priority. President Trump has closed the southern border, illegal crossings have fallen to an all time low, and are 90 percent lower than under the previous administration. Since President Trump’s crack down on crime, violent crimes in Washington D.C. have dropped by approximately 80 percent. He has stopped thousands of pounds of drugs from entering America and killing citizens. And since President Trump took office, investments in America have increased by trillions of dollars in U.S.A. manufacturing, production, and innovation. As you can see, President Donald Trump and his pledge to “Make America Great Again” is exactly what America needs to save the country and the American people. And yes, diversity is important, so you can see why it is also important to preserve blonde hair and blue eyes, as the people with these characteristics are becoming a minority in America. #RandolphHarris 30 of 31

We must think before we can understand the soul’s existence; we must understand before we can realize it. The earliest beginnings of thought, as apart from instinct, when it was itself still but a lurking tendency, belong far back in primeval time. The human intellect as we find it today, so rich and developed an instrument for the consciousness of the ego, did not arrive at this fullness without a series of graduated stages. We have had plenty of scientific thinking, business thinking, and political thinking long enough, but we have had very little inspired thinking. That is the world’s need. The intellect is cradled in selfishness but runs the evolutionary track into reason, where it will one day finish at the winning-post of selflessness. As a reminder, parents, please teach your children to love America and be patriotic citizens, and to buy goods and services made in America. It is also important to respect law and order and treat your elders with respect. It is inborn in the human mind to wish to know. If this begins with the endless surface questions of a child’s curiosity, if it continues into deeper questions of a scientist’s probing investigation, it cannot and does not stop there. For the higher part of the mind will eventually come into unfoldment, that union of abstract reflective thought with mystical intuition, which is true intelligence, which needs and sees a view of the whole of things. And so, the knowing faculty enters the realm of philosophy. A lot of children are having problems in school and cannot even write a paragraph because they are not reading their books. When you actually read books, you get an example of how to write and will become a better student. Therefore, remember to take your education seriously so that you will be successful in life and make your family proud. Also, to make sure they have all the resources required, please donate to the Sacramento Fire Department to help improve our national security. “Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand between their loved home and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, and this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’ And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” #RandolphHarris 31 of 31

The Winchester Mystery House

In Victorian times, strange noises made by wind and water, and strange sights seen in the traitorous twilight and in the dark, were as a matter of course taken as evidence of that population of demons sent by sorcerers and witches which were peaceable only as long and one kept an eye on them–that is, as long as one was cautious and suspicious enough. The belief in demons permitted a persistent externalization of one’s own unconscious thoughts and preconscious impulses of avarice and malice, as well as thoughts which one suspected one’s neighbour of having. The externalization of a neighbour’s thoughts probably more often than not involved a fusion of the subjective and the objective: if a neighbour, whose public personality and activities were known–although, of course, not his secret thoughts–seemed intent on being harmful, it meant that with the entirely unfair help of some spirits, he would find a way of doing things to one those things which which harmless an individual impotently wished to do to him. In all magic thinking, the unknow and the unconscious met at a common frontier: murderous, adulterous, or avaricious wishes, or sudden moods of melancholy or fiskiness were all forced upon an individual by evil-wishing neighbours. Phantasies of pleasures of the flesh, too, were treated as extraterritorial. Even pleasures of the flesh, such as an all-too-vivid dream, or a neighbour in one’s bed, could be blamed on the devil’s sneaky habit of lying underneath sleeping men, or on top of sleeping women.

All of this is quite handy if your conscience and your reason were primitive or foxy enough to let it pass. If they were too developed, the scruple appeared which came to bother Mrs. Winchester: how could you know (once you were incautious enough to want to know) whether you had desired and abetted what thus afflicted you when you were not conscious–well, not quite conscious? Or, on the other hand, in those rare moments when you were quite conscious, fervently alert and full of good conscience, how did you ever know that this very excess of goodness was not a Trubild, a mirage of the devil? It was tempting to treat these superstitions as primitive obsessions, and to pity the people who did not know any better and who must have felt haunted. However, we should not overlook the fact that within reason–that is, to the extent that the superstitious were not exploited by mass panic and neurotic anxiety–they were formed of collective mastery of the unknown. In a world full of dangers, they may even have served as a source of security, for they made the unfamiliar familiar, and permitted the individual to say one’s fears and conflicts, “I see you! I recognize you!” One could not even tell others what one saw and recognized while remaining reasonably free, by a contract between like-minded, of the aspersion that one imagined things out of depravity of despair, or that one was the only one to be haunted. What else do people do today when they share their complexes, their coronaries, and their communists?

Nor was the world entirely left to evil spirits by any means. Corresponding to the population of demonic middlemen between man and the worldly underground was an ever-increasing number of mediators between one and heaven: the angles and the saints, the heavenly aunts and uncles, more human, more accessible, and more understandable than the forbidding Trinity. As every person had one’s angel, so every disease and misfortune had its saint who, strangely enough, was often assumed to create the very disease which one could cure–maybe in order to maintain oneself in an increasingly competitive market, for all those saints had their separate altars where, for a price, their services could be solicited. During the gold rush, the miners had one major and several ancillary saints. St. Anne, the mother of God, was one. Abgott–an unusual term, for it means “idol,” and indicates the persistent trend in Catholic communities to focus florid idolatry on a saint and a solid image in a solid church, and leave the rest of religion to the professionals. St. Anne watched over the miner’s health, and protected them against sudden accidents; but she “is especially dear because she does not come with empty hands, brings mighty goods and money.”

Suspiciousness, obsessive scrupulosity, moral sadism, and a preoccupation with dirtying and infectious thoughts and substances went together.) A classic obsessive statement: “The more you cleanse yourself, the dirtier you get.” Anyone who had worked in mining areas or in coal and steel-minded communities like California must have been aware of the double evaluation of “smog” for instance; I am speaking of the honest productive black smog of concentrated industry, not the stuff thrown off by automobile exhausts. The older Californians were from the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy, and in their old country mud turned into ground, and ground into mud, and the process assured fertility. In this country smog, or at any rate, smoke meant productivity; not only employment, but also the continuous manufacture by which the nation’s steel was produced. They sky was blue and the rivers were clean only during shutdowns and strikes: the cleanliness was a reminder of a deadly vacuum and a possible final stoppage of production. Those modern Californians who undertook to make California clean had much support from applauding strangers who pitied California as a national Cinderella; they had little support from those immigrant families to whom smoke and grime had become an aspect of home.

Most families did not live in Victorian mansions, or even in proper Victorian homes. They had small and low rooms, badly lighted and badly aired, in which parents and children were huddled together. Some children were made sleepless by corporal punishment. A lot of children’s dreams were richly associated with the sinister dealings of demons and of the devil himself. The beatings some children faced forced into them a profound fear of authority and sometimes a pervading streak of stubbornness and rebelliousness which allegedly caused some to become sickly and anxious as a child, sad as a youth, scrupulous to fault in the monastery, and beset with doubts and depressions in later life; and this made some pursue the question of God’s justice to the point of unleashing a religious revolution. However, many families would have none of this. Prayer and work, discipline and the fear of God were the four pillars of wisdom; and while some fathers may have been a bit less discerning in the choice of means and a bit more hot-blooded than they might have otherwise been, their motives were those of Proverbs 13.24, “Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.” And the aim of these fathers’ was the child’s moral well-being, intellectual perfection, and civic advancement.

According to locals, over a century ago, the land that houses The Winchester Mansion had been vacant forever. Then, sometime in the early afternoon of Saturday, March 13, 1886, Sheriff Angel Camilio began getting reports that a massive castle made of wood had suddenly appeared. Gables rose, towers peaked into the sky as the mansion mushroomed into a labyrinth overnight. The house’s sudden manifestation had been both disconcerting and fascinating to the community. Some felt dark curses flowing from the estate, and things moving around in the darkness. Others saw a fairytale castle glimmering in the spring sunlight. Perhaps this is why there are no records of construction, no blueprints, and no permits filed with the county. And then one day, a hearse came tearing through the gates, and in that hearse was a coffin, some believed it contained Mrs. Winchester.

Legend also says, when Sarah Lockwood Pardee (Winchester) married William Wirt Winchester in 1862, she enjoyed a life of extravagant luxury. William Winchester, President of the Winchester repeating rifle, became a very wealthy man through the sale of his guns, and the couple were among the elite New England society. She also told Mrs. Winchester they would kill her too, unless she moved out West and built a great house for the spirits.

In addition, Mrs. Winchester was told construction on the house must never end in order to appease the spirits and keep her alive, perhaps even give her eternal life. Mrs. Winchester followed the medium’s suggestions, and in 1886, she moved to the Santa Clara valley just outside San Jose, where she bought an 18-room farmhouse and property to build her mansion. At its peak, the Mansion once stood 9-stories tall and had as many as 600-rooms. Today, the stately mansion is 4-storys, and over 100,000 square feet.

It would be a pleasure to have you come and enjoy a delicious meal at Sarah’s Café, stroll along the paths of the beautiful Victorian gardens, which once spanned 740 acres, all the way down to Stevens Creek Boulevard; wander through the miles of hallways in the world’s most mysterious mansion.

For further information about tours, including group tours, weddings, school events, birthday party packages, facility rentals, and special events please visit the website: https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/

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Thank you, Lord, for the blessings you have bestowed on my life. You have provided me with more than I could ever have imagined. You have surrounded me with people who always look out for me. You have given me family and friends who bless me every day with kind words and actions.

Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. However, the amazing growth of our techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas and habits they are creating, make it a certainty that profound changes are impending in the ancient craft of the Beautiful. In all the arts, there is a physical component which can no longer be considered or treated as it used to be, which cannot remain unaffected by our modern knowledge and power. For nearly a century, neither matter nor space nor time has been what it was from time immemorial. We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art. The transformation of the superstructure, which takes place far more slowly than that of the substructure, has taken more than a century to manifest in all areas of culture the change in the conditions of production. Only today it can be indicated what form this has taken. The range of experience of conscience does not extend to the fact that this unity itself presupposes disunion with God and with men, and that consequently, beyond the disobedience to the prohibition, the prohibition itself, as the call of conscience, arises from disunion with the origin. This means that conscience is concerned not with man’s relation to God and to other men but with man’s relation to himself. However, a relation of man to himself, in detachment from his relation to God and to other men, can arise only through man’s becoming like God in the disunion. #RandolphHarris 1 of 30

Conscience itself reverses this relation. It derives the relation to God and to men from the relation of man to himself. Conscience pretends to be the voice of God and the standard for the relation to other men. It is therefore from his right relation to himself that man is to recover the right relation to God and to other men. This reversal is the claim of the man who has become like God in his knowledge of good and evil. Man has become the origin of good and evil. He does not deny his evil; but in conscience, man summons himself, who has become evil, back to his proper, better self, to good. This good, which consists in the unity of man with himself, is now to be the origin of all good. it is the good of God, and it is the good for one’s neighbour. Bearing with himself the knowledge of good and evil, man has become judge over God and men, just as he is judge over himself. Knowing of good and evil in disunion with the origin, man begins to reflect upon himself. His life is not his understanding of himself, whereas at the origin, it was his knowledge of God. Self-knowledge is now the measure and the goal of life. This holds true even when man presses out beyond the bounds of his own self. Self-knowledge is man’s interminable striving to overcome his disunion with himself by thought; by unceasingly distinguishing himself from himself, he endeavours to achieve unity with himself. All knowledge is based upon self-knowledge. Instead of the original comprehension of God and of men and of things there is now a taking in vain of God and of men and of things. Everything now is drawn in into the process of disunion. Knowledge now means the establishment of the relationship to oneself; it means the recognition in all things of oneself and of oneself in all things. And thus, for man who is in disunion with God, all things are in disunion, what is and what should be, life and law, knowledge and action, idea and reality, reason and instinct, duty and inclination, conviction and advantage, necessity and freedom, exertion and genius, universal and concrete, individual and collective; even truth, justice, beauty and love come into opposition with one another, just as do pleasure and displeasure, happiness and sorrow. #RandolphHarris 2 of 30

One could prolong the list still further, and the course of human history adds to it constantly. All these disunions are varieties of the disunion in the knowledge of good and evil. “The point of decision of the specifically ethical experience is always conflict.” However, in conflict, the judge is invoked; and the judge is the knowledge of good and evil; he is man. Man’s art, though at its best, is ever feeble when compared with the majestic handiwork of God. No great architect or sculptor would allow subordination to his favorite art. According to many religious texts, humans are considered God’s most special creation because they are made in the “image of God,” which gives them a unique role and relationship with the divine. Genesis tells us that as God created the universe, He saw that each thing was good. Then, Genesis 1:27 reads, “God created mankind in His image; in the image of God, He created them; male and female He created them.” After that, God looked at creation and found that it was very good. Man and woman completed and crowned creation. Therefore, do not let your circumstances define you. You were sent here to do great things. Where you live, what do people expect you to achieve and to become? Sometimes the people around you form expectations of you based on your past, on what other people in your family have done, or on stereotypes for your community—not on who you really are. However, one thing we must always remember is that God is the great architect who created us, and He is not subordinate to us, His favorite creation. Because Heavenly Father knows you are amazing and can do extraordinary things, He has high expectations for you. #RandolphHarris 3 of 30

Heavenly Father wants us to be as good as we possibly can throughout our lives: compassionate, full of the Spirit, humble, loving—everything in the scriptures that He tells us to be. Even though it can be hard to live up to them, those high expectations should make you feel special. It can be difficult as you go through life, and people make mistakes. It can make one feel inadequate. However, know that God believes in you, and he expects it of you, which means nothing is impossible. Make the principles and ordinances of the gospel of Jesus Christ, such as faith, repentance, baptism, and confirmation part of your life, and this will bring you closer to the Lord and help you meet His expectations. God expects you to be a good person, a wonderful person. He expects you to do good things and be a leader to others. Therefore, choose to be strong every day. All of us can meet God’s high expectations, however great or small our capacity and talent may be. It is a diligent, devoted effort on our part that calls for His empowering and enabling grace. In principle, a work of art has always been reproducible. Men could always imitate man-made artifacts. Copies are made by pupils in practice of their craft, by masters for diffusing their works, and, finally, by third parties in the pursuit of gain. Mechanical reproduction of a work of art, however, represents something new. Historically, it advanced intermittently and in leaps at long intervals, but with accelerated intensity. The Greeks knew only two procedures of technically reproducing works of art: founding and stamping. Bronzes, terra cottas, and coins were the only art works which they could produce in quantity. All others were unique and could not be mechanically reproduced. With the woodcut graphic, art became mechanically reproducible for the first time, long before script became mechanically reproducible by print. The enormous changes which printing, the mechanical reproduction of writing, has brought about in literature are a familiar story. #RandolphHarris 4 of 30

However, within the phenomenon which we are examining from the perspective of world history, print is merely a special, though particularly important, case. During the Middle Ages, engraving and etching were added to the woodcut; at the beginning of the nineteenth century, lithography made its appearance. With lithography, the technique of reproduction reached an essentially new stage. This much more direct process was distinguished by the tracing of the design on a stone rather than its incision on a block of wood or its etching on a copperplate, and permitted graphic art for the first time to put its products on the market, not only in large numbers as hitherto, but also in daily changing forms. Lithography enabled graphic art to illustrate everyday life, and it began to keep pace with printing. However, only a few decades after its invention, lithography was surpassed by photography. For the first time in the process of pictorial reproduction, photography freed the hand of the most important artistic functions which henceforth devolved only upon the eye looking into a lens. Since the eye perceives more swiftly than the hand can draw, the process of pictorial reproduction was accelerated so enormously that it could keep pace with speech. A film operator shooting a scene in the studio captures the images at the speed of an actor’s speech. Just as lithography virtually implied the illustrated newspaper, so did photography foreshadow the sound film. The technical reproduction of sound was tackled at the end of the 19^th century. These convergent endeavours made predictable a situation which Paul Valery pointed up in this sentence: “Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.” Around 1900, technical reproduction had reached a standard that not only permitted it to reproduce all transmitted works of art and thus to cause the most profound change in their impact upon the public; it also had captured a place of its own among the artistic processes. For the study of this standard, nothing is more revealing than the nature of the repercussions that these two different manifestations—the reproduction of works of art and the art of the film—have had on art in its traditional form. #RandolphHarris 5 of 30

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be. This unique existence of the work of art determined the history of which it was subject throughout the time of existence. This includes the changes which it may have suffered in physical condition over the years, as well as the various changes in its ownership. The original has spirits, wisdom, and emotions attached to it, painful and beautiful memories. The traces of the first can be revealed only by chemical or physical analyses which it is impossible to perform on a reproduction: changes of ownership are subject to a tradition which must be traced from the situation to the original. Although far removed from the beginnings of mankind, the Victorian house, too, when it has lived its time, may speak the wisdom of the years and say with truth, “All has its time. There is a time to leap with joy, and a time to drag oneself along the earth; there is a time to run with the herd, and a time to go apart to die; there is a time to build nests with one’s beloved, and there is a time to sit alone on the roof; there is a time to soar freely among the clouds, and a time to sink heavily to the earth. All has its time; ‘what profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?’” And, in case you should say to the chandelier, “Is there, then, nothing left to tell?” then it will answer you, “No, when the chandelier is dead, the story is over.” Otherwise, the story must have been different from the beginning and been different as it went along, not merely becoming different at the end. Let us assume that the chandelier concluded its story in another fashion and added, “The story is not over, for when I am dead, I am immortal.” #RandolphHarris 6 of 30

Would this not be a strange story? If the chandelier were really immortal, then immortality must be just that which prevented it from dying, and therefore immortality must have been present in each instant of its life. And the story of its life must once again have been wholly different in order to express continually immortality’s difference from all the changeableness and the different kinds of variations of the perishable. Immortality cannot be a final alternation that crept in, so to speak, at the moment of death as the final stage. On the contrary, it is a changlessness that is not altered by the passage of the years. Therefore, to the old man’s words that, “all has its time,” the wise Solomon adds, “God made all things beautiful in this time; also He hath set eternity within man’s heart, (Ecclesiastes 3:11). Thus, says the self-actualized Christian. For the talk about change, and the varied ways of talking about change is indeed confusing, even when it comes from the mouth of an old man. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying. If there is, then, something eternal in a man, it must be able to exist and to be grasped within every change. Nor can it be wisdom to say, indiscriminately, that this something eternal has its time like the perishable, that it makes its circle like the wind that never gets further; that it has its course like the river that never fills up the sea. Nor can it be wisdom to talk of this eternal element in the same vein, as if one were speaking of the past and in the sense that it can never, not even in repentance, relate itself to a present person but only to an absent one. For repentance is precisely the relation between something past and someone that has his life in the present time. It was unwise of the youth to wish to talk in the same terms of the pleasure of dancing and of its opposite. For this clear act of folly betrayed that the youth, in his youth, would like to have outgrown youth. However, as for the Eternal, the time never comes when a man has grown away from it, or has become older—than the Eternal. #RandolphHarris 7 of 30

The period during which the human organism develops towards its completion in interrelationship with its environment is also the period during which the human self is formed. The formation of the self, then, must also be understood in relation to both the ongoing organismic development and the social process in which the natural and the human environment are mediated through the significant others. The genetic presupposition for the self are, of course, given at birth. However, the self, as it is experienced later as a subjectively and objectively recognizable identity, is not. The same social processes that determine the completion of the organism produce the self in its particular, culturally relative form. The character of the self as a social product is not limited to the particular configuration the individual identities as himself (for instance, as “a man,” in the particular way in which this identity is defined and formed in the culture in question), but to the comprehensive psychological equipment that serves as an appendage to the particular configuration (for instance, “manly” emotions, attitudes and even somatic reactions). It goes without saying, then, that the organism and, even more, the self cannot be adequately understood apart from the particular social context in which they were shaped. The common development of the human organism and the human self in a socially determined environment is related to the peculiarly human relationship between organism and self. This relationship is an eccentric one. On the one hand, man is in a body, but that, on the contrary, has that body at its disposal. In other words, man’s experience of himself always hovers in a balance between being and having a body, a balance that must be redressed again and again. This eccentricity of man’s experience of his own body has certain consequences for the analysis of human activity as conduct in the material environment and as externalization of subjective meanings. An adequate understanding of any human phenomenon will have to consider both these aspects, for reasons that are grounded in fundamental anthropological facts. #RandolphHarris 8 of 30

The statement that man produces himself in no way implies some sort of Promethean vision of the solitary individual. Man’s self-production is always, and of necessity, a social enterprise. Men together produce a human environment, with the totality of its sociocultural and psychological formations. None of these formations may be understood as products of man’s biological constitution, which, as indicated, provides only the outer limits for human productive activity. Just as man can’t develop as man in isolation, so it is impossible for man in isolation to produce a human environment. Solitary human being is being on the animal level (which, of course, man shares with other animals). As soon as one observes phenomena that are specifically human, one enters the realm of the social. Man’s specific humanity and his sociality are inextricably intertwined. Homo sapiens is always, and in the same measure, homo socius. Obviously, a good way to obscure the “higher” motivations, and to get a lopsided view of human capacities and human nature, is to make the organism extremely and chronically hungry or thirsty. Anyone who attempts to make an emergency picture into a typical one, and who will measure all of man’s goals and desires by his behaviour during extreme physiological deprivation, is certainly being blind to many things. It is quite true that man lives by bread alone—when there is no bread. However, what happens when there is plenty of bread and when his belly is chronically filled? At once other (and “higher”) needs emerge and these, rather than physiological hungers, dominate the organism. And when these in turn are satisfied, again new (and still “higher”) needs emerge and so on. This is what we mean by saying that the basic human needs are organized into a hierarchy of prepotency. #RandolphHarris 9 of 30

Truly new insights, however, are hard to formulate in a balanced way. It is probably a result of the long-undisputed existence of the universal blind spot discussed here that the sudden emergence in our time of insight into the importance of childhood have tended to develop another, compensatory loss of perspective: I mean the tendency on the part of the psychologists and psychopathologists to explain societal phenomena such as totalitarianism by equating them with particular infantile or juvenile stages (“adolescent”), with specific mental illness (“paranoid”), or with particular “character structures” “the “authoritarian personality”). From the personological approach, suggestive generalizations have emerged in regard to certain analogies between patterns of child rearing, ways of conceptualizing the world, and inclinations toward political creeds. This approach, however, has contributed little to the all-important question, namely, under what conditions does the energy invested in given patterns of thought and action (for example, authoritarian) become available for relevant political indoctrination and for effective mass action? The psychopathological approach, in turn, has weakened its case by diagnostic name-calling, designating peoples and people actively or passively involved in totalitarian revolutions as either pathological or immature human beings, and attempting by this means to explain their political behaviour. However, man can be many things, on many levels, and history rarely permits him that unification of defined creed, conscious attitude, and pragmatic action which we in the Protestant world have come to demand of a “mature” or, at any rate, a “logical” human being. #RandolphHarris 10 of 30

What follows, then, is not an attempt at fixing the origin or cause of totalitarianism in the fact of childhood, or in particular forms of childhood training. Nor shall I treat it as a transient affliction or localized epidemic; I begin with the assumption that totalitarianism is based on universal human potentialities and is thus related to all aspects of human nature, wholesome and pathological, adult and infantile, individual and societal. Totalitarianism has probably often been a near reality in history, but to wait for “its” historical moment. This moment is determined by the advance of technology in communication and organization and by the varieties of conditions which gave rise to the fanatic idea of the total state, favour its realization in well-timed revolutionary acts, and furthermore, maintain it through the realities of power and terror. Only such a historical perspective can give the proper measure of the different degrees and kinds of ideological involvement on the part of the many types that make up a totalitarian state: fanatic apostles and shrewd revolutionaries; lonely leaders and oligarchic cliques; sincere believers and sadistic explotiers; obedient bureaucrats and efficient managers, soldiers, engineers; willing followers, apathetic toilers, and paralyzed opponents; unnerved victims and bewilder would-be victims. My training and experience permit me to attempt a contribution to only one of the more basic and yet often less tangible factors in all these forms of participation, namely, the psychological prerequisites for an inspiring or paralyzing sense of the legitimacy of totalitarianism. In all neurotic developments, the alienation from self is the nuclear problem; in all of them, we find the search for glory, the shoulds, the claims, the self-hate, and the various measures to relieve tension. The inner constellation produces a fundamental uncertainty about the feeling of identity. Who am I? Am I the proud super-human being—or am I the subdued, guilty, and rather despicable creature? Unless he is a poet or a philosopher, the individual usually does not raise such questions consciously. However, the existing bewilderment does appear in dreams. In many ways, the loss of identity can there by expressed directly and succinctly. #RandolphHarris 11 of 30

The dreamer may have lost his passport, or when asked to identify himself, may be unable to do so. Or perhaps an old friend of his will appear in his dream, looking quite different from the way he remembers him. Or he may look at a portrait, but the picture frame encloses an empty canvas. For example, the miners of Thuringia were reported to have been even more superstitious than the peasants; and the Thuringian peasant to this day, remains the most superstitious in Germany. Into this kind of miner’s world Hans Luder was forced to go in his early twenties; the work-ideology and cosmology he acquired there his early years. The saying that all is not gold that glitters has a fateful meaning for the miner; it is his job to look for that which glitters, look for it with avaricious but disciplined attention which allows him to avoid wrong leads and recover quickly from disappointment. In those days, of course, the avarice which might make the miner look too eagerly and so doubly fail was attributed to the devil. “In the mines, the devil vexes and fools people, and makes apparitions before their eyes so that they are quite sure they see a big pile of ore and of solid silver where there is nothing.” The feeling that some glistening pile might turn out to be dirt or worse may have been such a basic and constant superstition that we may have to learn to recognize it in the father’s general suspiciousness, and even in his later admonitions to his ordained son that in the most resplendent manifestations of divinity, he had better be on the lookout for “ghosts.” And Martin Luther, having almost literally absorbed such superstitions with his mother’s milk (for the mother is said to have been the more superstitious parent, though she put greater emphasis on benevolent magic), may never have been able not to believe his father when he invoked the sinister wisdom of those who worked in the bowels of the earth. Even a few days before his death, Mr. Luther saw the devil sitting on a rainpipe outside of his window, exposing his behind to him. Such “reality” always existed for him alongside Aristotle and St. Augustine, St. Paul and the Scriptures. #RandolphHarris 12 of 30

It will not harm our spiritual affairs to being more clarity into them. It will not help them to keep our thinking about them muddled. Usually, the patient comes to therapy for two reasons, neither of which places the script in jeopardy. His Adult comes in order to find out how to be more comfortable living in his script. The most forthright example of this is the homosexual of either gender, who usually makes an honest declaration in this respect. The male homosexual, for example, does not want to leave his script world which is populated by women who are either dangerous and hateful schemers, or else innocent and occasionally amiable weirdos. All he wants is to love more comfortably in that world, and only rarely does he wish to see women as real people, which is why several men are trying to replace women, having their genitals removed, and playing on women’s sports teams. Other therapeutic goals of a similar nature are: “How to live more comfortably while bashing your head against a stone wall,” “How to live more comfortably while holding on to the sides of a tunnel,” “How to keep other people from making waves when you are up to your chin in Sh*t Creek,” and “How to outcrook the crooks when the whole world is Crooksville,” Any vigorous attempt to change the script world itself must be postponed until after the patient is firmly established in therapy and understands how it fits into his script. Besides the rational Adult desire to live more comfortably, there is a more urgent Child reason why the patient comes to therapy, and that is to advance his script through transactions with the therapist. He who can conquer language conquers men. Such semantic self-vigilance will have a chastening effect on his private thoughts, quite apart from his public talk or writing. We start by elucidating the information contained in a single word or in a sentence construction, and our procedure is to question not the word or sentence itself but the meaning assigned to it. #RandolphHarris 13 of 30

We have to get the meaning of certain words by going within, to find by internal experience the correct definition of Spirit, Thought, and Love. If this new scrupulousness requires him to reform his speech, he should do so. If a spiritualized semantics is needed for his thinking about truth, he should take it up. The philosopher must ask each word to yield thoroughly a definition which possesses an exactitude that may well terrify the ordinary man. He must become a hunter and wander through the forests of verbal meaning to track down real meaning. He will not rush prematurely into utterance. Words are cheap for the ordinary man, but dear to him. His studied hesitations lead, however, closer to the truth. This interpretational discipline must be vigorously applied until it leads to a thorough understanding of all concepts which are the essential counters in philosophical research. For when men go astray in the definitions of these highly important terms, they will surely go astray in their thinking, and thence be led astray altogether from truth. There are no words in human language in which Truth can find adequate expression. When a Christian came to Sacramento, CA, from Oakland, CA, he said to himself, “He has turned the shadows of death into morning. Looking back over the way he had come, he wondered how the Lord had gotten him through. He remembered the verse: “He discovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.” He was deeply moved when he saw all the dangers from which he had been delivered. Now the sun was shining, and this was indeed a great blessing because the worst part of the road was still ahead. Before him, to the end of the valley were snares, traps, pitfalls, slippery places, large gaping holes, and deep pits. No one could have ever avoided them all in the dark, and not to avoid them would have meant certain death. However, now, he could see his way, and he went on past them all, saying, “His candle shines on my head, and by His light I go through darkness.” In this light from above, he came to the end of the valley. #RandolphHarris 14 of 30

Now, in his dream, he saw these at the end of the valley: blood, ashes, bones, and thousands of mangled bodies of faithful pilgrims who had gone this way. While he was wondering what had caused this wholesale murdering of human beings, he saw a little before him a cave where two giants, Pope and Pagan, dwelt in old time. By their power and tyranny, the men and women whose bones and ashes lay before him were cruelly put to death. When Christian went by this place without danger, he wondered why he was not molested. Then he learned that Pagan had been dead many a day and that Pope was very old. He also learned that because of Pope’s many brushes with the government, in his younger days, he had grown so crazy and stiff in his joints that about all he could do now was sit in the mouth of his cave, grinning at pilgrims as they went by and biting his nails because he could not now get at them. At the sight of the old giant, Christian, he did not know what to think, until the giant said, “You will never mend your ways until more of you are burned.” However, Christian held his peace with an unperturbed face, and went by the Pope’s slaughter ground unhurt. Whatever our motivation, when we set out to turn our lives again toward God and God’s commandments, we are engaged in holy work. Perhaps this is why they insist that the gates of repentance are always open (Lamentations Rabbah 3.43). Repentance is always available—for those who are righteous and for those who are wicked, for those motivated by fear no less than those motivated by love. However, it does not follow that all forms of repentance are created equal, as it were. For those motivated by fear, remorse is a driving force. We see what we have done or gaze into the abyss that we are falling into, and we feel genuine regret for the mistakes we have made. For those of us motivated by love, on the other hand, serving God ever more fully is the driving force. We realize that each error presents us with an opportunity to grow morally and so redeem a part of ourselves that, until now, has sometimes led us astray. #RandolphHarris 15 of 30

So, it is that repentance of fear and repentance of love have different consequences. Once we truly regret our transgressions, the deliberate, willful quality of them can be set aside. We are left with a simple mistake, a lapse of judgment, something we now wish we had never done, and so our current intention to do good in effort replaced our former intention to do wrong. Repentance of love, however, has more far-reaching effects. By turning each transgression, we commit into a new opportunity to serve God more fully, we raise those transgressions, in effect, into new opportunities to serve God more fully, we raise those transgressions, in effect, into merits. Both types of repentance are transformative of the individual penitent. Both result in moral renewal and involve a turning from one course of action into another.  However, the repentance of fear, motivated as it is by the circumstances in which we find ourselves, can alter only the circumstances surrounding the transgression; what was deliberate now becomes unintentional. Only the repentance of love, motivated by the desire to grow ever closer to God, has the power to transform our transgression into merits, for the sin itself has now become the impetus to cleave to truth and righteousness. Persons’ various public selves are important to them. They can feel assured others will be like them only when they believe that other people see them as the kind of persons that they can like. It is important to be well-liked. Consequently, it is not enough simply to construct public selves; a person usually feels obliged to defend them. The most general means of defending the public self is by means of selective suppression of behaviour that is inconsistent with the public self, replacing authentic with false self-disclosure. #RandolphHarris 16 of 30

To further highlight the illustration, a mother may have heard reports about her son’s behaviour that conflict with her concept of him. She confronts him with the report, and he denies it flatly. He does not want her to believe that he behaves in such a way. Secrecy is more common than lying as a means of defending our public selves. In some cases, if no one discovers what we have done, we can do almost anything without fear (though not necessarily without guilt). The secret activities may be incredibly disparate with the public selves of the individual. If their family and neighbours hear reports of their conduct, people at conventions sometimes display behaviour markedly different from their usual hometown behavior and are quite disconcerted. A really intelligent person can construct public selves with ingenuity and finesse—sometimes fantastically diverse and contradictory selves. The more diverse they are, however, the greater the difficulty in maintaining them; persons who hold contrasting concepts of the individual may meet this person simultaneously, and then the individual is at a loss to know how to behave. Living up to the Lord’s expectations does take diligent devoted effort, but it is worth it. No matter what the world tells you you are expected to do or be, remember that you are a child of God and that He wants you to live with Him again. You can God’s expectations for you, because you were sent to this earth to do great things—and because God will help you do them. Like putting together a puzzle, each time you study the scriptures, you get a larger view of God’s truths. During His Sermon on the Mount, the Saviour taught, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect,” reports Matthew 5.48. Every accountable person on earth is tempted. Even the Saviour was tempted. However, was He capable of sinning? Had there been no possibility of His yielding to the enticement of Satan, there would have been no real test, no genuine victory in the result. Jesus Christ was perfect and sinless, not because He had to be, but rather because He clearly and determinedly wanted to be. Through the redeeming power of Jesus Christ and His Atonement, we can eventually become perfect. #RandolphHarris 17 of 30

Ensure that the firefighter is okay and has sufficient air. If not, remove his mask. If heat and smoke are beginning to vent around the firefighter, use positive-pressure ventilation (PPV) or a hose on fog stream at the window and vent on the other side or up the stairway into the house. Remove the cement block above the window to the still plate while protecting the victim from falling debris. Be aware of anchor bolts that could attach the top course of block to the still plate. If a bolt obscures the area, remove it with bolt cutters. If possible, remove one block on either side of the window. A sledgehammer works best, but a flathead axe can also be effective. If the firefighter is unable to climb out, place a ground ladder over the victim and attach more straps or ropes for lifting. Put one or two members on the ladder and members on either side to facilitate lifting a heavy victim out. Total extrication should be completed in less than five minutes. After practicing several times, you become proficient at it, taking pictures to document the technique. It is advisable to pick a magazine based on its format. Some are best suited for apparatus ideas, some are geared toward training, and others excel in procedures and management. A submission like this would probably be run by a “hands-on: magazine and practiced around the country. This is a great way to take near-miss results that hit close to home and disseminate the information quickly to a large audience. The overall responsibility for ensuring the safety of firefighters lies with the fire agency having jurisdiction for the area. Once a fire ignition occurs, it is too late to take the steps that are essential to ensure a safe and efficient fire suppression operation. Each fire agency must address several key areas as part of its preplanning effort for fires in the wildland-urban intermix. #RandolphHarris 19 of 30

If you see a fire truck stopped in the street without the lights on, be very careful. Sometimes there is an emergency, and you should not pass the fire truck. It might be a good idea to safely turn around and go another way because if you hit someone and they happen to die, you could be charged with manslaughter. Sometimes fire firefighters are getting back into their vehicle, and if you pass the apparatus, you may collide with a firefighter who is on foot. Also, be sure to look at their signals; sometimes emergency vehicles are in motion, albeit slowly, and drivers try to pass them, and this could lead to a dangerous situation. Also, if you are in an intersection when you see an emergency vehicle, continue through the intersection. Drive to the right as soon as it is safe and stop. Obey any direction, order, or signal given by a law enforcement officer or a firefighter. Even if they conflict with existing signs, signals, or laws, follow their orders. When their siren or flashing lights are on, it is against the law to follow within 300 feet of any fire engine, law enforcement vehicle, ambulance, or other emergency vehicle. If you drive to the scene of a fire, collision, or other disaster, you can be arrested. When you do this, you are getting in the way of firefighters, ambulance crews, or other rescue and emergency personnel. The concept of professional courage does not always mean being as tough as nails, either. It also suggests a willingness to listen to other people’s problems, to go to bat for them in a tough situation, and it means knowing just how far they can go. It also means being willing to tell the boss when he or she is wrong. #RandolphHarris 20 of 30

America is becoming so expensive that Americans are moving to Mexico in record numbers. The United States of America’s State Department reports that the number of American citizens living in Mexico has increased by 75 percent from 2019 to 2025 and has continued to grow to a total of 1.8 million. Many Americans are moving to Mexico and working at home for companies that are in the United States of America to take advantage of the lower cost of living, the natural beauty and the culture, and they are thriving. California is the third most expensive state in the nation, and is facing a $20 billion budget deficit, which is also illustrates the hardships its citizens are facing. In 37 percent of counties, in California, a family of four living on a six-figure income is now considered low-income. The average home price in California is nearly $1,000,000.00 USD, while the average salary is $96,036.00, meaning that most Californians cannot even afford to buy a home. California is having an affordability crisis. A single person making an income above $100,000 is now considered low-income in five counties in California. This distinction now applies to individuals living in Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin counties. The maximum percentage of your gross income that you should earmark for a monthly mortgage payment is calculated at 28 percent, and no more than 36 percent of your gross income to all debts, including mortgage. If you take 28 percent of the median household income per home in Sacramento County, homeowners can only afford a mortgage of $2,070.23 per month. And if you take 36 percent of their gross income to all debts, including mortgage, they should be devoting no more than $2,661.72 a month to these debts. The mortgage lenders must be using some kind of sorcery to get buyers into these expensive homes. To afford one of these homes using traditional guidelines, a household would need to gross $11,280.24 per month or $135,362.88 per year, but the median household in Sacramento County is grossing $7,393.67 a month or $88,724.00 annually, and that typically means two to four people in the home are working and contributing to the mortgage. Home prices in Sacramento County are rivaling the Bay Area, and in some cases, homes in the Bay Area are more affordable. Historically, homes in the Bay Area have been more expensive because they have higher-paying jobs, a larger population, and the Bay Area is a tourist destination. Contributing to the housing affordability crisis is Gavin Newsom, who has been lavishing illegal immigrants with taxpayer-funded resources and cash aid, when state workers should be receiving a 25 percent wage increase instead. #RandolphHarris 21 of 30

In 2025, many people in California saw their bills increase by an estimated $500 a month. This includes items such as food, automobile insurance, homeowners’ insurance, and electricity. In fact, more than 3 million people in California are facing household hardship, and more than 300,000 of them are facing eviction soon. This comes at a time when California is having a shortage of affordable housing. The crisis is caused by nearly half a century-old laws that discourage home sales and encourage higher rents. The incompetence in California is very easy to see. From 2018 to 2023, California received $24 billion, which they used to fund 30 homeless and housing programs. These programs created 100,000 units. That is an average cost of $240,000 per unit. In comparison, Roger Lucas, owner of Grand Castle, LLC, spent $50 million to build The Grand Castle, which is a 522-unit residential apartment community in Grandville, Michigan. The community includes studios, 1 bedroom, 2 bedrooms, 3 bedrooms, and even a multi-level penthouse. Rents generally range from $1,000 to $2,500. The community is a 23.6-acre site. It features 750 covered parking spaces, a clubhouse, a resort-style swimming pool, and was built over a period of 12 to 18 months. The average cost was about $95,785.45 per unit, which is $144,214.55 less per unit than California spent. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, while the national average is 4.5 percent. As people are seeing their bills skyrocket, and minimum wage has increased to $20 an hour, people on Social Security retirement are really bearing the burden with the checks the typically equate to $5-$7 an hour. Furthermore, while Americans are struggling to find and afford housing, Gavin Newsom, Democrat governor of California, signed two bills into law on February 7, 2025, to protect illegal immigrants. Bills SBX 1 1: Budget Act of 2024, and SBX 1 2: Budget Act of 2024, allocates $50 million to protect illegal immigrants from deportation. Governor Gavin Newsom also granted 700,000 illegal immigrants free health care, which costs taxpayers $3 billion annually. At the same time, Newsom cut vital programs for veterans, school children, the disabled, and the homeless. The California crisis created by Democrats is driving up home prices and mortgages, and rents all over the nation and the world, making living unaffordable for all, and advocates say the crisis is far from over. #RandolphHarris 22 of 30

Meanwhile, China, where we are sending all our jobs and money, has more than 50 ghost cities, with 65 million vacant homes. Ghost cities are regions where housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. If they are all officially counted, California has approximately 4 million homeless people. The highest home prices in the nation, the highest taxes, and the most unfriendly business regulations known to man.  Because California is so hostile towards people and businesses, more than 360 companies have fled the state since 2020. Businesses like Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard are among the names on that list. Also, more than 500,000 people a year are abandoning California because it is too expensive to live in, Gavin Newsom has criminalized homelessness and actually started arresting people without homes, crime is out of control, and they are losing their jobs due to companies relocating. More than 100 companies have announced layoffs in California for 2025. Intel is cutting 15,000 jobs, PayPal is cutting 2,500, and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, while the national average is 4.1 percent. The California crisis created by Democrats is driving up home prices and mortgages, and rents all over the nation and the world, making living unaffordable for all, and advocates say the crisis is far from over. Accordingly, California has more than 3.5 million illegal immigrants. Having the Southern American border open and not having American farmland protected, not producing beef, poultry, fish, fruit, produce, and dairy in America, and without American goods and services being our number one manufactured and selling items, America has created a dangerous and significantly elevated risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health. Some people may believe that these claims are overstated, but by not routinely monitoring Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CEVs) or other security-relevant alerts, such as the end-of-life of machinery is how the Oroville Dam Crisis occurred in 2017. #RandolphHarris 23 of 30

Additionally, Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom seems to be uneducated about economics. Newsom has spent $1.2 billion taxpayer dollars renovating the State Capitol building and $300 million to try to stop proposition 50. Proposition 50 would replace the maps drawn by the state’s independent commission with districts drawn by legislators solely to gain or protect Democratic seats. Newsom only cares about the environment when his policies allow him to raise taxes and restrict freedoms. To further highlight this illustration of incompetence by Governor Gavin Newsom, Mexico has been causing one of America’s worst environmental disasters. Fifty million gallons a day of industrial chemicals, untreated sewage, and trash flow from Tijuana, Mexico, into southern San Diego County daily. This toxic waste has been turning up on Imperial Beach and is causing the miles of white sands to become polluted and the ocean breeze to smell of feces, which has been sickening residents and wildlife and costing San Diego millions in the form of lost tourism and health problems. The problem has been going on for more than a century, and by 2030, Mexico plans to dump one hundred and twenty million gallons of sewage a day into Imperial Beach. Other crises that have occurred due to neglect of critical infrastructure such as the 2025 Palisades fire. Southern California ran out of water because Newsom is totally neglecting the state and the American people. And while the fire departments in California are critically understaffed and underfunded, Governor Newsom vetoed firefighter pay raise. The Palisades fire cost $275 billion, which is money that could have been used to insure the State of California had the resources it needed. Furthermore, when Southern California is located next to an ocean, Newsom should have invested in desalination plants to help with the water shortage in California. The water in the ocean is so plentiful that it is currently eroding land and causing homes to fall into the sea. Desalination has been identified as one technology that will help solve California’s water scarcity problem. Desalination is a cost-effective technology that can transform an abundance of salt water into a reliable supply of potable, fresh water, which is a great way to fight climate change and have enough water for our region’s water requirements. Ras Al Khair, Saudi Arabia, is producing 1,036,000 meters (273,682,192) per day of desalinated water. #RandolphHarris 24 of 30

America needs an approach to eliminate safety vulnerabilities in American cities. There needs to be a road map by the end of 2025, outlining a prioritized approach to eliminate crisis situations in America. There is enough money to send aid to foreign nations, but the American government does not have enough money to care for its infrastructure, provide adequate resources, or end the affordable housing crisis. Nor is there enough money to fund other national critical functions (NCFs). These bad practices of putting America and Americans last are considered exceptionally risky, particularly to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety. In 2024, Americans spent $100 billion on Japanese cars. As a result, the American automobile trade deficit with Japan was $39 billion. Additionally, Japan exported 1.4 million cars to the United States of America, but only imported 16,000 American-built automobiles. However, Japan imported approximately 143 thousand motor vehicles from the European Union. This is why President Trump created tariffs. We need to balance the trade deficit that America faces with other nations so we are not taken advantage of and so America can go bank to being a creditor nation, instead of borrowing money for other countries. Each year, President Trump is bringing $400 Billion in Tariff revenue into America and hundreds of thousands of new jobs. With this money, America is paying down debt, and with a portion of it, President  Trump plans to send Americans a stimulus check anywhere in the range of $1,000 to $2,000. However, if President Trump’s Tariffs are deemed illegal by the Supreme Court, taxpayers will have to pay back trillions and trillions of dollars. As we literally and /or figuratively see gangs, federal judges, and Governor Gavin Newsom fighting with federal law enforcement and President Trump– states and cities refusing to honor federal laws. Politicians are also showing an utter disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America, and anarchy is becoming increasingly common. #RandolphHarris 25 of 30

Anarchism is a cluster of doctrines and attitudes centered on the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary. Derived from the Greek root anarchos, meaning “without authority,” anarchism, anarchist, and anarchy are used to express both approval and disapproval. The anarchist denies man-made laws, regards property as a means of tyranny, and believes that crimes are merely the product of property and authority. However, the anarchist would argue that their denial of constitutions and governments leads not to “no justice” but to the real justice inherent in the free development of human sociality—the natural inclination, when unfettered by laws, to live according to the principles and practice of mutual aid. Anarchism is also a form of treason. Treason, the crime of betraying a nation or a sovereign by acts considered dangerous to security. In English law, treason includes the levying of war against the government and the giving of aid and comfort to the monarch’s enemies. In the United States of America, treason was defined restrictively by the framers of the Constitution. Treason against the United States of America “shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them aid and comfort,” which is something that many politicians are currently guilty of.  The American government should know all exploitable vulnerabilities and fix them before the situation becomes a crisis. Failure to take such mitigating actions is dangerous and significantly elevates risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety. The American government must understand that significant time and resources must be invested in America. They must also encourage corporations to plan for both mitigating safety vulnerabilities in the short term and eliminating them in the long term. For instance, a company might begin by reaching out to the federal, state, or local government and requesting tax incentives to provide security to dangerous communities, to help the government repair bridges and potholes. #RandolphHarris 26 of 30

Drug cartels have been threatening the health and safety of Native American communities. The trafficking of dangerous and illegal drugs into their territories is leading to a second genocide. The overdose rate for Indigenous people is 42 percent higher than the national average. A recent bust on Montana’s Blackfeet Nation’s Tribal Reservation resulted in the seizure of more than 700,000 fentanyl pills, which was the largest bust in Montana history. Recently, the Blackfeet Nation had to declare a state of emergency after facing 17 overdoses in just one week. There are only 6.8 million Native Americans left in the world, which is 2 percent of the American population. We should be doing more to protect these proud and honorable people; they should not want for anything. People rush and give away resources to illegal immigrants, but totally disregard the Indigenous people of this land, as their race silently fades away into extinction. We must secure our borders and increase federal funding to Native American tribes so we can save this precious population. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom has given billions of taxpayer dollars away to illegal immigrants and protected them from law enforcement, while arresting law-abiding Americans because they cannot afford to pay rent or mortgage, and the homeless shelters are unsafe, overcrowded, and have restrictions on who is allowed inside. He has also totally ignored the cartel problems on American lands. Clean air, water, land, and preserving our heritage are extremely important. We cannot just allow criminals to kill off the people who are native to this land and do nothing about it. Wars have been started over governments that tax citizens without representation. Taxation without representation is what led to the American Revolution. #RandolphHarris 27 of 30

Much like the land crisis in Las Vegas, we could also run out of land to farm and will not be able to grow or cultivate our own food. We can protect American farmland and support American farmers by buying American made beef, poultry, dairy, and produce. Also, country of origin labeling is very important so Americans can know where their food is coming from and can support American farmers and ranchers. As money flows, it influences further investment. Save the land that sustains us by protecting American farmland. Once the land is built on, we lose it forever.  And in the future, there may be food wars. Also, to ensure that we have farmland and buildable land for future use, we need to start limiting the number of people allowed to immigrate to America. Perhaps with the immigrants we do allow into America, there needs to be a diversity program to make sure we have a population that equally represents all races of people. If Americans continue to spend money on American products, then more need to be made to keep up the inventory. When investors notice these goods are selling, it gives them the confidence to pour more money into that local business. It shows that people want these goods made in America and pressures investors to keep these goods and services in America. The jobs stay here, the business stays in America, wages naturally increase, and more money is invested to keep up with demand. This reduces the burden on the taxpayer. When you support American businesses, that money stays in our economy and can help to reduce the national debt. The government creates debt by borrowing from businesses in the private sector or from foreign countries. It also increases the national debt by spending more than it gains in tax revenue in a fiscal year. #RandolphHarris 28 of 30

When people shop locally, more tax money stays in the economy and goes to the government. This way, it keeps more money in our national economy and keeps more jobs located in America which also sends more taxes to the government, which can again help to reduce the national debt. When you buy foreign goods, these companies usually have lighter tax loads or exemptions, meaning less money for the national debt, plus you are helping to strengthen these foreign nations by sending more money overseas. Buying American-made products is also better for the environment and helps to reduce the carbon footprint because these products do not have to travel nearly as far. Furthermore, American companies and manufacturers are held to much higher standards on pollution. American companies must be more careful about air, land, and water pollution and have proper ways to dispose of waste. Under President Trump’s administration, he has make America a priority. President Trump has closed the southern border, illegal crossings have fallen to an all time low, and are 90 percent lower than under the previous administration. Since President Trump’s crack down on crime, violent crimes in Washington D.C. have dropped by approximately 80 percent. He has stopped thousands of pounds of drugs from entering America and killing citizens. And since President Trump took office, investments in America have increased by trillions of dollars in U.S.A. manufacturing, production, and innovation. As you can see, President Donald Trump and his pledge to “Make America Great Again” is exactly what America needs to save the country and the American people. And yes, diversity is important, so you can see why it is also important to preserve blonde hair and blue eyes, as the people with these characteristics are becoming a minority in America. #RandolphHarris 29 of 30

We must think before we can understand the soul’s existence; we must understand before we can realize it. The earliest beginnings of thought, as apart from instinct, when it was itself still but a lurking tendency, belong far back in primeval time. The human intellect as we find it today, so rich and developed an instrument for the consciousness of the ego, did not arrive at this fullness without a series of graduated stages. We have had plenty of scientific thinking, business thinking, and political thinking long enough, but we have had very little inspired thinking. That is the world’s need. The intellect is cradled in selfishness but runs the evolutionary track into reason, where it will one day finish at the winning-post of selflessness. As a reminder, parents, please teach your children to love America and be patriotic citizens, and to buy goods and services made in America. It is also important to respect law and order and treat your elders with respect. It is inborn in the human mind to wish to know. If this begins with the endless surface questions of a child’s curiosity, if it continues into deeper questions of a scientist’s probing investigation, it cannot and does not stop there. For the higher part of the mind will eventually come into unfoldment, that union of abstract reflective thought with mystical intuition, which is true intelligence, which needs and sees a view of the whole of things. And so, the knowing faculty enters the realm of philosophy. A lot of children are having problems in school and cannot even write a paragraph because they are not reading their books. When you actually read books, you get an example of how to write and will become a better student. Therefore, remember to take your education seriously so that you will be successful in life and make your family proud. Also, to make sure they have all the resources required, please donate to the Sacramento Fire Department to help improve our national security. “Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand between their loved home and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, and this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’ And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” #RandolphHarris 30 of 30

The Winchester Mystery House

According to locals, over a century ago, the land that houses The Winchester Mansion had been vacant forever. Then, sometime in the early afternoon of Saturday, March 13, 1886, Sheriff Angel Camilio began getting reports that a massive castle made of wood had suddenly appeared. Gables rose, towers peaked into the sky as the mansion mushroomed into a labyrinth overnight. The house’s sudden manifestation had been both disconcerting and fascinating to the community.

Some felt dark curses flowing from the estate, and things moving around in the darkness. Others saw a fairytale castle glimmering in the spring sunlight. Perhaps this is why there are no records of construction, no blueprints, and no permits filed with the county. And then one day, a hearse came tearing through the gates, and in that hearse was a coffin, some believed it contained Mrs. Winchester.

Legend also says, when Sarah Lockwood Pardee (Winchester) married William Wirt Winchester in 1862, she enjoyed a life of extravagant luxury. William Winchester, President of the Winchester repeating rifle, became a very wealthy man through the sale of his guns, and the couple were among the elite New England society. She also told Mrs. Winchester they would kill her too, unless she moved out West and built a great house for the spirits.

In addition, Mrs. Winchester was told construction on the house must never end in order to appease the spirits and keep her alive, perhaps even give her eternal life. Mrs. Winchester followed the medium’s suggestions, and in 1886, she moved to the Santa Clara valley just outside San Jose, where she bought an 18-room farmhouse and property to build her mansion. At its peak, the Mansion once stood 9-stories tall and had as many as 600-rooms. Today, the stately mansion is 4-storys, and over 100,000 square feet.

It would be a pleasure to have you come and enjoy a delicious meal at Sarah’s Café, stroll along the paths of the beautiful Victorian gardens, which once spanned 740 acres, all the way down to Stevens Creek Boulevard; wander through the miles of hallways in the world’s most mysterious mansion.

For further information about tours, including group tours, weddings, school events, birthday party packages, facility rentals, and special events please visit the website: https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/

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Thank you, Lord, for the blessings you have bestowed on my life. You have provided me with more than I could ever have imagined. You have surrounded me with people who always look out for me. You have given me family and friends who bless me every day with kind words and actions.

People seem to forget that all individuals were once children. To most scholars, childhood seems to belong to the field of social work rather than to that of social science, to the solicitudes of do-gooders rather than to those of thinkers. Yet, among all creatures, man is characterized by a long biological childhood, and civilization tends to make psychological childhood ever longer, because man must have time to learn how to learn: all his high specialization and all his intricate capabilities of co-ordination and reflection are, in fact, contingent upon his prolonged dependence. And only as a dependent does man develop conscience, that dependence on himself which makes him, in turn, dependable; and only when thoroughly dependable with regard to several fundamental values can he become independent and teach and develop tradition. However, this dependability carries within it the ambiguity of its roots in a slow developmental process which leads from extreme helplessness to a high sense of freedom and mastery, and this within social systems, all of which restrict freedom drastically and permit some men to exploit others ruthlessly. Instead of seeing God, man sees himself. “Their eyes were opened,” reports Genesis 3.7. Man perceives himself in his disunion with God and with men, He perceives that he is naked. Lacking the protection and the covering, which God and his fellow man afforded him, he finds himself laid bare. Hence, there arises shame. Shame is man’s ineffaceable recollection of his estrangement from the origin; it is grief for this estrangement, and the powerless longing to return to unity with the origin. #RandolphHarris 1 of 33

Man is ashamed because he has lost something which is essential to his original character, to himself as a whole; he is ashamed of his nakedness. Just as in the fairy story, the tree is ashamed of its lack of adornment, so, too, man is ashamed of the loss of his unity with God and with other men. Modern anthropology, often following suggestions derived from psychiatry, is studying the ways in which societies “intuitively” develop child-training systems designed not only to keep the small individual alive and well but also to ensure, through him and in him, a continuation of tradition and a preservation of his society’s uniqueness. The contribution of man’s extended childhood to the development of his technical capabilities and to his capacity for sympathy and faith is well known, but often too exclusively known. For it is becoming equally clear that the polarity adult-child is the first in the inventory of existential oppositions (male-female being the second) which makes man exploitable and induces him to exploit. The child’s inborn proclivity for feeling powerless, deserted, ashamed, and guilty in relation to those on whom he depends is systematically utilized for his training, often to the point of exploitation. The result is that even rational man remains irrationally preoccupied with anxieties and suspicions which center in such questions as who is bigger or better and who can do what to whom. It is therefore necessary to acquire deeper insight into the earliest consequences of the psychological exploitation of childhood. In childhood, we see often see the misuse of a divided function in such a way that one of the partners is impaired in the development of his potentialities, with the result that impotent rage is stored up where energy should be free for productive development. #RandolphHarris 2 of 33

To those who accept all this, it must seem reasonable enough that childhood should be represented in a study of totalitarianism so that we may begin to do away with the “oversight” concerning the fateful importance of childhood. Yet, it must be said that this oversight does not seem to be an accidental one, and therefore cannot be so easily corrected. Shame and remorse are generally mistaken for one another. Man feels remorse when he has been at fault; and he feels shame because he lacks something. Shame is more original than remorse. The peculiar fact that we lower our eyes when a stranger’s eye meets our gaze is not a sign of remorse for a fault, but a sign of that shame which, when it knows that it is seen, is reminded of something that it lacks, namely, the lost wholeness of life, its own nakedness. To meet a stranger’s gaze directly, as is required, for example, in making a declaration of personal loyalty, is a kind of act of violence, and in love, when the gaze of the other is sought, it is a kind of yearning. In both cases, it is the painful endeavour to recover the lost unity by either a conscious and resolute or else a passionate and devoted inward overcoming of shame as the sign of disunion. Psychoanalysis has amply demonstrated that fact that all men develop an amnesia concerning crucial childhood experiences. There is good reason to suspect that this individual amnesia is paralleled by a universal blind spot in the interpretation of man’s condition, a tendency to overlook the fateful function of childhood in the fabric of society. #RandolphHarris 3 of 33

Maybe moral man and rational man, having fought so hard to make man’s civilized image absolute and irreversible, refuse to see how each man must begin with the beginning and thus, ever again, acquire the potential for undoing human accomplishments with infantile compulsions and irrational impulsions. If he ever turned back to meet the Medusa of childhood anxiety face to face again, it is as if this refusal reflected a deep-seated superstition that rational and practical man would lose his single-minded stamina. Here, a formidable “equation” imposes itself on all attempts to put the fact of childhood in its proper perspective. Yet if man would understand this fact, maybe he could manage to become less destructively childish in some respects and remain more creatively childlike in others. “They made themselves aprons.” Shame seeks a covering as a means of overcoming the disunion. However, the covering implies the confirmation of the disunion that has occurred, and it cannot therefore make good the damage. Man covers himself, conceals himself from men and from God. Covering is necessary because it keeps awake shame, and with it the memory of the disunion with the origin, and also because man, disunited as he is, must now withdraw himself and must live in concealment. Otherwise, he would betray himself, “Every profound mind requires a mask,” said Nietzsche. Yet this mask is not a disguise; it is not intended to deceive the other man, but it is a necessary sign of the actual situation of disunion. For that reason, it is to be respected. #RandolphHarris 4 of 33

Man occupies a peculiar position in the animal kingdom. Unlike the other higher mammals, he has no species-specific environment, no environment firmly structured by his own instinctual organization. There is no man-world in the sense that one may speak of a dog-world or horse-world. Despite an area of individual learning and accumulation, the individual dog or the individual horse has a largely fixed relationship to its environment, which it shares with all other members of its respective species. One obvious implication of that is that dogs and horses, as compared with man, are much more restricted to a specific geographical distribution. The specificity of these animals’ environment, however, is much more than a geographical delimitation. Even if geographical variation is introduced, it refers to the biologically fixed character of their relationship to the environment. In this sense, all non-human animals, as species and as individuals, live in closed worlds whose structures are predetermined by the biological equipment of the several animal species. By contrast, man’s relationship to his environment is characterized by world-openness. Not only has man succeeded in establishing himself over the greater part of the earth’s surface, his relationship to the surrounding environment is everywhere very imperfectly structured by his own biological constitution. The latter, to be sure, permits man to engage in different activities. However, the fact that he continued to live a nomadic existence in one place and turned to agriculture in another cannot be explained in terms of biological processes. #RandolphHarris 5 of 33

 This does not mean, of course, that there are no biologically determined limitations to man’s relations with his environment; his species-specific sensory and motor equipment imposes obvious limitations on his range of possibilities. The peculiarity of man’s biological constitution lies rather in its instinctual component. Man’s instinctual organization may be described as underdeveloped, compared with that of the other higher mammals. Man does have drivers, of course. However, these drives are highly unspecialized and undirected. This means that the human organism is capable of applying its constitutionally given equipment to a very wide and, in addition, constantly variable and varying range of activities. This peculiarity of the human organism is grounded in its ontogenetic development. Indeed, if one looks at the matter in terms of organismic development, it is possible to say that the fetal period in the human being extends through about the first year after birth. Important organismic developments, which in the animal are completed in the mother’s body, take place in the human infant after its separation from the womb. At this time, however, the human infant is not only in the outside world, but interrelating with it in a number of complex ways. The human organism is thus still developing biologically whole, already standing in a relationship to its environment. In other words, the process of becoming man takes place in an interrelationship with the environment. If one reflects that this environment is both a natural and a human one, this statement gains significance. #RandolphHarris 6 of 33

That is, the developing human being not only interrelates with a particular natural environment, but with a specific cultural and social order, which is mediated to him by the significant others who have charge of him. Not only is the survival of the human infant dependent upon certain social arrangements, the direction of his organismic development is socially determined. From the moment of birth, man’s organismic development, and indeed a large part of his biological being as such, are subjected to continuing socially determined interference. Despite the obvious physiological limits to the range of possible and different ways of becoming man in this double environmental interrelationship, the human organism manifests an immense plasticity in its response to the environmental forces at work on it. This is particularly clear when one observes the flexibility of man’s biological constitution as it is subjected to a variety of sociocultural determinations. It is an ethnological commonplace that the ways of becoming and being human are as numerous as man’s cultures. Humanness is socioculturally variable. In other words, there is no human nature in the sense of a biologically fixed substratum determining the variability of sociocultural formations. There is only human nature in the sense of anthropological constants (for example, world-openness and plasticity of instinctual structure) that delimit and permit man’s sociocultural formations. However, the specific shape into which this humanness is molded is determined by those sociocultural formations and is relative to their numerous variations. While it is possible to say that man has a nature, it is more significant to say that man constructs his own nature, or more simply, that man produces himself. #RandolphHarris 7 of 33

All the processes described so far bring about an inner situation that is replete with disruptive conflicts, unbearable tensions, and potential terrors. Nobody can function, or even live, under such conditions. The individual must make, and does make automatic attempts at solving these problems, attempts at removing conflicts, allaying tensions, and preventing terrors. The same integrating forces start working as in the process of self-idealization, which is itself the boldest and most radical neurotic attempt at solution: to do away with all conflicts and resulting difficulties by putting oneself above them. However, there is a difference between that endeavour and the ones to described presently. We cannot define this distinction accurately, for it is not a difference of quality but of “more of” or “less of.” The search for glory, while likewise born from compelling inner necessities, is more of a creative process. Although destructive in its consequences, it nevertheless stems from man’s best desires—to expand beyond his narrow confines. It is, in the last analysis, its colossal egocentricity that distinguishes it from healthy strivings. As for the difference between this solution and the others to follow, it is not caused by the exhaustion of the power of imagination. That keeps working—but to the impairment of the inner condition. This condition was already precarious when the individual took his original flight toward the sun: by now (under the rending impact of the conflicts and tensions mentioned) the danger of psychic destruction is imminent. #RandolphHarris 8 of 33

Alienation from self, seen from this aspect, is one of these measures and probably ranks first in importance. It is a mere consequence of the neurotic’s being driven by compulsive forces; in part, it results from active moves away from the real self and against it. One also has a definite interest in disavowing it in order to avoid an inner battle and to keep the inner tension at a minimum. The principle involved is the same as that operating in all attempts to solve inner conflicts. If one aspect of it is suppressed and the other made predominant, any conflict within or without can vanish from sight and actually be (artificially). Speaking in terms of two people or two groups with conflicting needs and interests, the open conflict disappears when one individual or group is subdued. Between a bullying father and subdued child, there is no visible conflict. The same holds true for inner conflicts. We may have a sharp conflict between our hostility toward people and our need to be liked. However, if we suppress the hostility—or the need to be liked—our relations tend to become streamlined. Similarly, if we exile our real self, the conflict between it and the psuedoself not only disappears from awareness but the distribution of forces is so changed that it actually abates. Naturally, this release of tension can be achieved only at the cost of an increased autonomy of the pride system. #RandolphHarris 9 of 33

The fact that the disavowing of the real self is dictated by self-protective interest becomes particularly clear in the last phase of analysis. We can actually observe the raging of an inner battle when the real self becomes stronger. Anybody who has experienced the fierceness of this battle, in self or others, can understand that the earlier withdrawing of the real self from the field of action has been dictated by the need for survival, by the desire not to be torn apart. This self-protective process manifests itself mainly in the patient’s interest in beclouding issues. No matter how co-ordinated he seems on the surface, he is at bottom a confused person. He has not only an astounding capacity to befog issues but is not easily dissuaded from doing so. This interest must operate, and in fact does operate, the same way as it functions on the conscious level in any fraudulent person: the spy who must hide his identity, the hypocrite who must present a front of honesty, the criminal who must create false alibis. The neurotic who, without knowing it, does lead a double life must similarly, unconsciously, blur the truth of what he is, wants, feels, and believes. And all his self-deception follows from this basic one. To bring the dynamics into clear focus: he is not merely intellectually confused about the meaning of freedom, independence, love, goodness, strength; as long as he is not ready to come to grips with himself, he has a stringent subjective interest in maintaining a confusion—which, in turn, he may cover up by false pride in his all-penetrating intellect. #RandolphHarris 10 of 33

Next in importance is the externalization of inner experiences. This means that the intrapsychic processes are not experienced as such but are perceived or felt as occurring between the self and the outside world. It is a rather radical means of relieving the inner system from tension and is always made at the expense of inward impoverishment and at that of increased disturbances in human relations. When it comes to externalization, a neurotic may, for instance, feel compassion for others when it would be utterly impossible to feel it for himself. His longing for his own inner salvation may be vigorously denied, but it expresses itself in an astute spotting of others being stuck in their growth, and in a sometimes astounding capacity to help them. His rebellion against the coercion of inner dictates may appear as defiance of conventions, laws, influences. Unaware of his own overbearing pride, he may hate it—or be fascinated by it—in others. He may despise in others his own cowering before the dictatorship of his pride system. Not knowing that he is smoothing over the ruthless cruelty of his self-hate, he may develop a Pollannalike attitude toward life in general, removing from it all harshness, cruelty, or even death. As if we were the sum total of disconnected parts, another general measure is the neurotic’s tendency to experience himself in a piecemeal way. This is known in psychiatric literature as compartmentalization, or psychic fragmentation, and seems to be merely a reiteration of the fact that he has no feelings for himself as a whole organism, one in which every part is related to the whole and interacts with every other part. #RandolphHarris 11 of 33

Certainly, only an individual who is alienated and divided can lack such a feeling of wholeness. The neurotic’s active interest in disconnecting is of primary focus. When it is presented to him, He can grasp a connection intellectually. However, it comes to him as a surprise; penetration is only skin deep and lost soon after. He has an unconscious interest, for example, in not seeing cause and effect: that one psychic factor follows from another, or reinforces another; that one attitude must by necessity be maintained because it protects some important illusions; that any compulsive trend has an effect on his human relations or on his life in general. He may not see even the simplest cause-and-effect connections. It may remain strange to him that his discontent has anything to do with his claims, or that his too great need of people—for whatever neurotic reasons—makes him dependent upon others. It may come to him as a startling discovery that his sleeping late has anything to do with his going to be late. He may have an equally strong interest in not perceiving contradictory values coexisting in him. Quite literally, he may utterly fail to see that he tolerates and even cherishes in himself two sets of values, both conscious, which are mutually contradictory. He may not, for instance, be disturbed by the fact that his honesty does not jibe with his passion to “get by.”  Even when he tries to examine himself, he merely arrives at a static picture, as if he saw disconnected parts of a jigsaw puzzle: of timidity, contempt for others, ambition, masochistic fantasies, the need to be liked, and so on. The individual pieces may be seen correctly, but nothing can change because they are seen out of context without any feeling for interconnection, for process, or for dynamics. #RandolphHarris 12 of 33

Although psychic fragmentation is essentially a disintegrating process, its function is to preserve that status quo, to protect the neurotic equilibrium from collapsing. By his refusal to be puzzled by inner contradictions, the neurotic keeps himself from facing the underlying conflicts, and thereby keeps the inner tensions at a low ebb. He does not have even a rudimentary interest in them, and so they remain remote from his awareness. The same result is attained, of course, by disconnecting cause and effect. Clipping the link between the two prevents him from becoming aware of the intensity and the relevance of certain inner forces. An important and common illustrative example is that of a person who may experience at times the full impact of a spell of vindictiveness. However, he may have the greatest difficulties in grasping, even intellectually, the fact that his hurt pride and the need to restore it are the motivating forces; and, even when clearly seen, the connection remains meaningless. Again, he may have gained a fairly clear impression of his practice of scathing self-berating. He may have seen in dozens of detailed instances that such expressions of crushing self-contempt follow his failure to measure up to the fantastic dictates of his pride. However, again, his mind imperceptibly disrupts the connection. Hence, both the intensity of his pride and its bearing on self-contempt remain, at best, vague theoretical considerations—which relieve him of the necessity to tackle his pride. It remains in power, and tensions are kept in a low key because no conflict emerges, and he can maintain a deceptive feeling of unity. The three attempts at preserving a semblance of inner peace described so far have in common the character of doing away with elements which carry the potential to disrupt the neurotic structure: eliminating the real self, removing all kinds of inner experiences, and doing away with connections which (if realized) would disrupt the equilibrium. #RandolphHarris 13 of 33

Another measure, automatic control, follows in part the same trend. Its main function is to put a check on feelings. In a structure that is on the verge of disintegration, feelings are a source of danger because they are, as it were, the untamed elementary forces within us. I am not speaking here of conscious self-control by dint of which we can check, if we choose, impulsive actions or an outburst of anger or enthusiasm. The automatic control system checks not only the acting on impulses or the expression of feelings, but the impulses and feelings themselves. It operates like an automatic burglar or fire alarm, giving an alarm signal (of fear) when unwanted feelings arise. However, in contrast to other attempts, this one is also, as the name implies, a control system. If, through alienation from self and psychic fragmentation, a feeling of organizational unity is lacking, some artificial control system is necessary to hold together the discrepant parts of ourselves. Such automatic control can encompass all impulses and feelings of fear, hurt, anger, joy, affection, and enthusiasm. The corresponding physical expression of a widespread control system are muscular tightness, showing in constipation, gait, posture, facial rigidity, difficulties in breathing, et cetera. The conscious attitude toward the control itself varies. Some people are still sufficiently alive to chafe under it and, at least at times, wish desperately they could let go, could laugh heartily, could fall in love, or could be carried away by some enthusiasm. Others have cemented the control by a more or less open pride which they may express in various ways. They may call it dignity, poise, stoicism, wearing a mask, showing a poker face, being “realistic,” “unsentimental,” “undemonstrative.” #RandolphHarris 14 of 33

Only the Eternal is always appropriate and always present, is always true. Only the Eternal applies to each human being, whatever his age may be. The changeable exists, and when its time has passed, it is changed. Therefore, any statement about it is subject to change. That which may be wisdom when spoken by an old man about past events may be folly in the mouth of a youth or of a grown man when spoken of the present. The youth would not be able to understand it, and the grown man would not want to understand it. As if it were all on the same level, a man is changed in the course of years, and each time some portion of life lies behind him, he tends to talk of its varied content. However, it does not follow from this that he has become any wiser. For by this, one has only said that he has changed. Perhaps, even now, there is something that makes him restless in the same way that the dance disturbs the youth, something that absorbs his attention in the same way that a toy absorbs a child. It is in this manner that a man changes over the years. Old age is the final change. The old man speaks in the same vein of it all, of the changeable that is not past. Although a healthy personality characteristically is free of frequent use of the defense mechanisms, they are, in actuality, a normal occurrence. Defense mechanisms have survived as concepts from the earliest days of Freudian psychoanalysis and still are useful as illuminators of some forms of behaviour. There seems to be some evidence concerning the relative value of various defense mechanisms. #RandolphHarris 15 of 33

To further highlight the illustration, all dramatic action can be summarized as switches between three main roles: Victim, Persecutor, and Rescuer. Those switches occur at varying speeds and may go in either direction. In the drama Rush and Stumble—and Quick Recovery, we have a very rapid set of switches. For many, the Father is seen as Persecutor, the mother as Rescuer, and oneself as Victim. That is the way the triangle stands in some people’s heads, the skull script. In a study by Barenbaum of people who had lost young sons or husbands in the Yom Kippur War in Israel, denial was one of the most often used defense mechanisms by the bereaved parents or wives. In another study by Jacobowitz, the brighter preadolescent children, facing problems in moral transgressions, would most likely use protection and displacement, where as less academically talented peers would use denial. And the value of some of the mechanisms may be seen in a third study by Viney and Manton, who found that university students who used some of the defense mechanisms had reduced anxiety, indicating the therapeutic purpose of the mechanisms. The “neurotic,” many clinicians have said, does not come for treatment in order to get better, but to learn how to be a better neurotic. The game analyst says something similar: the patient comes not to learn how to be straight, but to learn how to play his games better. Hence, he will quit if the therapist declines to play entirely, and also if the therapist is a pigeon and can be too easily conned. #RandolphHarris 16 of 33

In this respect, transactional games are like chess: an enthusiastic chess player is not interested in people who do not want to play at all, nor in people who do not offer any real opposition. In a treatment group, a confirmed “Alcoholic” player will get angry if no one offers to rescue or persecute him, or play the patsy or the connection, and will soon leave. He will also leave if the rescuers are too sentimental, or the persecutors are too vehement, because there is no fun if he hooks them too easily. Like other game players, he prefers a little finesse and some reticence on the part of his partners or opponents. If they come on very strong, like the Salvation Army, he may not stay long. He may also resign from Alcoholics Anonymous if he feels it does not offer any real challenge with its claims of “It is Not You, It is a Disease,” and its threats of “Wooden Liver.” Only if he stays on past that stage will he begin to appreciate its real value. Synanon does better by playing it tough and saying: “It is not a disease, it is your own responsibility that you are a dope fiend.” Hence, the “Alcoholic” player may move out of AA and try the family doctor, who is not so sure it is a disease. If he is a real sport, he will take on a psychotherapist, even one who says it is not a disease at all. If he is ready to get well, he may look for a script analyst, or stumble on one accidentally, and then, if things go right, he may find himself quitting the game. “If It Were Not For Them,” players, particularly the Arsisiety Type, behave similarly. A therapist who will not play at all and demands individual responsibility rather than Arsisiety will soon lose them. #RandolphHarris 18 of 33

If the therapist believes too strongly in Artistry, the treatment degenerates into a pastime of “Ain’t It Awful” between him and the patient. Most such patients become bored with this after a while and transfer to someone else who will put up at least a token argument for psychodynamics or self-appraisal. This often happened in the 1930s when young “Communists” went to “Communist” therapists, but soon broke off in favor of more conventional ones. If the therapist feels guilty about Arsisiety, he will form an alliance with the patient instead of treating him, which may be all to the good, but it should not be called treatment. The Board, The Establishment, and The Man really do exist, but Mr. Arsisiety, upon whom so much is blamed, is a myth. Each person has his own society, with friends as well as enemies. Psychiatry cannot fight The Board, The Establishment, or The Man, it can only fight what is in the patient’s head. The patient and the therapist both must face that sooner or later. Psychiatric treatment, like all medical treatment, can only be effective under reasonably decent conditions. In cases where “If It Were Not For Them” is an empty stomach, the chair or couch has no place, but where it is a game, it must be stopped sooner or later, and the skill of the therapist lies in doing that without driving the patient away. Dusay gives an excellent summary of the ways games can be handled in treatment. Thus, game dosage, properly chosen and timed for each patient, will decide whether or not he continues treatment. #RandolphHarris 19 of 33

When it comes to firefighting, no matter how large or small the fire is or how routine the call seems to be, there is always the potential for injury. Every fire teems with danger that every firefighter must face. How long has the fire been burning? How old is this building? Are there victims inside? Is the fire spreading to other structures? These are just a few of the questions that run through a firefighter’s mind as they enter a burning building. Floors could collapse, ceilings could collapse, walls could collapse, and they could lose their way in the building smoke. Any of these situations could mean serious injury or even sudden death. Oftentimes, these things occur without warning, leaving firefighters trapped under walls or dropped into flaming basements. One November, around 11 a.m., a tenant noticed a wisp of smoke coming from the floor near the front of the apartment building. Unknown to the tenant and other residents, the entire basement beneath their feet was a mass of flames. The award-winning Sacramento Fire Department arrived quickly and the firemen tried to make their way into the basement from the front of the building. They eventually made entrance through the back and attacked the fire. The conditions in the basement were hellish at best as blinding smoke and intense heat took its toll on the men. One firefighter collapsed and was carried out, but the other men made progress and pushed back the fire toward the front of the building. Then around 2 p.m., a second fireman collapsed and was taken out and revived. Shortly before 3 p.m., the gas pipes at the front of the basement melted and blew fire out over the men’s heads. Faced with an impossible situation, the firemen retreated to the rear and left the basement. #RandolphHarris 20 of 33

The decision was then made to drown the fire from the outside. The front windows of the building were now bulging from the smoke and pressure inside. Firemen broken them as some of the others shattered from the heat and began to pour water from six hoses into the building. Just minutes afterward, the first floor collapsed into the basement where the men had just left. The fire flared up for a moment, but the water from the hoses eventually took its toll and the flames were extinguished in a short time. The building had just been remodeled $1 million, but the price would have been much higher had the floor collapsed just minutes earlier, on top of the men battling the flames. Reporting to the firefighter near-miss database is achieved by completing a handwritten or online form. There are five specific components to submitting a close call: the reporter information, the incident information, the event description, the lessons learned, and contact information. The first section requires specific information about the reporter and the department where the incident occurred. These fields include department information, such as career or volunteer, what hours of staffing they provide, and in which Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) region it is located. Personal information includes the submitter’s job or rank, age, and experience. The next section identifies the contributing and environmental factors involved in the event. The weather, time of day, and how far into the shift the participants were at the time are all parts of this section. Also included is the reporter’s involvement in the incident and a broad classification of where it occurred (exempli gratia, on an emergency call, during training). Up to five contributing factors can be picked from a lost, along with the potential for loss. The submitter can also decide whether he or she thinks this incident will happen again.  Event description is an open narrative section that allows the reporter to put the event into his or her own words. Suggestions for a complete report include human factors, such as the decision-making involved, how sleep played a factor in the incident, and the communication process utilized. #RandolphHarris 21 of 33

The report also questions how the system played a role through equipment, incident command, and the policies in place. During the review process, identifying names or other department indicators are removed in an effort to keep the event confidential. Immediately following the event description, the person reporting it is encouraged to make suggestions to ensure that it will not happen again. It explores whether human factors, organizational factors, or just “bad luck” led to the event. One benefit of the lessons learned section is to force the submitter to look at contributing factors and consider ways to improve the system in his or her department. As explained earlier, confidentiality is vital to the system. However, the final component is an option for the reporting party to enter his or her name, telephone number, and email address. This section is voluntary, but it allows an avenue for staff to follow up if there are further questions. For example, a report may have stated, “My partner and I were removing the victim when she suddenly became entangled in debris from a collapsed drop ceiling.” In reading the story, it might be unclear whether the firefighter or the victim became stuck. At face value, it might not make a difference to the story, but when trying to establish contributing factors involved in a victim rescue and firefighter safety, it is vital. If research were being conducted on the number of near-misses reported that involved firefighter entanglement, more information would be needed. In order to improve the applicability of training materials, the project might include narrowing down specifically what was causing entanglement issues and what part of the body was entangled. Therefore, an obvious benefit of providing contact information exists. There are certain dangers that every fireman dreads. #RandolphHarris 22 of 33

If you see a fire truck stopped in the street without the lights on, be very careful. Sometimes there is an emergency, and you should not pass the fire truck. It might be a good idea to safely turn around and go another way because if you hit someone and they happen to die, you could be charged with manslaughter. Sometimes fire firefighters are getting back into their vehicle, and if you pass the apparatus, you may collide with a firefighter who is on foot. Also, be sure to look at their signals; sometimes emergency vehicles are in motion, albeit slowly, and drivers try to pass them, and this could lead to a dangerous situation. Also, if you are in an intersection when you see an emergency vehicle, continue through the intersection. Drive to the right as soon as it is safe and stop. Obey any direction, order, or signal given by a law enforcement officer or a firefighter. Even if they conflict with existing signs, signals, or laws, follow their orders. When their siren or flashing lights are on, it is against the law to follow within 300 feet of any fire engine, law enforcement vehicle, ambulance, or other emergency vehicle. If you drive to the scene of a fire, collision, or other disaster, you can be arrested. When you do this, you are getting in the way of firefighters, ambulance crews, or other rescue and emergency personnel. The concept of professional courage does not always mean being as tough as nails, either. It also suggests a willingness to listen to other people’s problems, to go to bat for them in a tough situation, and it means knowing just how far they can go. It also means being willing to tell the boss when he or she is wrong. #RandolphHarris 23 of 33

California is the third most expensive state in the nation. In 37 percent of counties, a family of four living on a six-figure income is now considered low-income. The average home price in California is nearly $1,000,000.00 USD, while the average salary is $96,036.00, meaning that most Californians cannot even afford to buy a home. California is having an affordability crisis. A single person making an income above $100,000 is now considered low-income in five counties in California. This distinction now applies to individuals living in Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin counties. The maximum percentage of your gross income that you should earmark for a monthly mortgage payment is calculated at 28 percent, and no more than 36 percent of your gross income to all debts, including mortgage. If you take 28 percent of the median household income per home in Sacramento County, homeowners can only afford a mortgage of $2,070.23 per month. And if you take 36 percent of their gross income to all debts, including mortgage, they should be devoting no more than $2,661.72 a month to these debts. The mortgage lenders must be using some kind of sorcery to get buyers into these expensive homes. To afford one of these homes using traditional guidelines, a household would need to gross $11,280.24 per month or $135,362.88 per year, but the median household in Sacramento County is grossing $7,393.67 a month or $88,724.00 annually, and that typically means two to four people in the home are working and contributing to the mortgage. Home prices in Sacramento County are rivaling the Bay Area, and in some cases, homes in the Bay Area are more affordable. Historically, homes in the Bay Area have been more expensive because they have higher-paying jobs, a larger population, and the Bay Area is a tourist destination. Contributing to the housing affordability crisis is Gavin Newsom, who has been lavishing illegal immigrants with taxpayer-funded resources and cash aid, when state workers should be receiving a 25 percent wage increase instead. #RandolphHarris 24 of 33

In 2025, many people in California saw their bills increase by an estimated $500 a month. This includes items such as food, automobile insurance, homeowners’ insurance, and electricity. In fact, more than 3 million people in California are facing household hardship, and more than 300,000 of them are facing eviction soon. This comes at a time when California is having a shortage of affordable housing. The crisis is caused by nearly half a century-old laws that discourage home sales and encourage higher rents. The incompetence in California is very easy to see. From 2018 to 2023, California received $24 billion, which they used to fund 30 homeless and housing programs. These programs created 100,000 units. That is an average cost of $240,000 per unit. In comparison, Roger Lucas, owner of Grand Castle, LLC, spent $50 million to build The Grand Castle, which is a 522-unit residential apartment community in Grandville, Michigan. The community includes studios, 1 bedroom, 2 bedrooms, 3 bedrooms, and even a multi-level penthouse. Rents generally range from $1,000 to $2,500. The community is a 23.6-acre site. It features 750 covered parking spaces, a clubhouse, a resort-style swimming pool, and was built over a period of 12 to 18 months. The average cost was about $95,785.45 per unit, which is $144,214.55 less per unit than California spent. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, while the national average is 4.5 percent. As people are seeing their bills skyrocket, and minimum wage has increased to $20 an hour, people on Social Security retirement are really bearing the burden with the checks the typically equate to $5-$7 an hour. Furthermore, while Americans are struggling to find and afford housing, Gavin Newsom, Democrat governor of California, signed two bills into law on February 7, 2025, to protect illegal immigrants. Bills SBX 1 1: Budget Act of 2024, and SBX 1 2: Budget Act of 2024, allocates $50 million to protect illegal immigrants from deportation. Governor Gavin Newsom also granted 700,000 illegal immigrants free health care, which costs taxpayers $3 billion annually. At the same time, Newsom cut vital programs for veterans, school children, the disabled, and the homeless. The California crisis created by Democrats is driving up home prices and mortgages, and rents all over the nation and the world, making living unaffordable for all, and advocates say the crisis is far from over. #RandolphHarris 25 of 33

Meanwhile, China, where we are sending all our jobs and money, has more than 50 ghost cities, with 65 million vacant homes. Ghost cities are regions where housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. If they are all officially counted, California has approximately 4 million homeless people. The highest home prices in the nation, the highest taxes, and the most unfriendly business regulations known to man.  Because California is so hostile towards people and businesses, more than 360 companies have fled the state since 2020. Businesses like Chevron, SpaceX, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard are among the names on that list. Also, more than 500,000 people a year are abandoning California because it is too expensive to live in, Gavin Newsom has criminalized homelessness and actually started arresting people without homes, crime is out of control, and they are losing their jobs due to companies relocating. More than 100 companies have announced layoffs in California for 2025. Intel is cutting 15,000 jobs, PayPal is cutting 2,500, and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. California also has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent, while the national average is 4.1 percent. The California crisis created by Democrats is driving up home prices and mortgages, and rents all over the nation and the world, making living unaffordable for all, and advocates say the crisis is far from over. Accordingly, California has more than 3.5 million illegal immigrants. Having the Southern American border open and not having American farmland protected, not producing beef, poultry, fish, fruit, produce, and dairy in America, and without American goods and services being our number one manufactured and selling items, America has created a dangerous and significantly elevated risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health. Some people may believe that these claims are overstated, but by not routinely monitoring Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CEVs) or other security-relevant alerts, such as the end-of-life of machinery is how the Oroville Dam Crisis occurred in 2017. #RandolphHarris 26 of 33

Additionally, Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom seems to be uneducated about economics. Newsom has spent $1.2 billion taxpayer dollars renovating the State Capitol building and $300 million to try to stop proposition 50. Proposition 50 would replace the maps drawn by the state’s independent commission with districts drawn by legislators solely to gain or protect Democratic seats. Newsom only cares about the environment when his policies allow him to raise taxes and restrict freedoms. To further highlight this illustration of incompetence by Governor Gavin Newsom, Mexico has been causing one of America’s worst environmental disasters. Fifty million gallons a day of industrial chemicals, untreated sewage, and trash flow from Tijuana, Mexico, into southern San Diego County daily. This toxic waste has been turning up on Imperial Beach and is causing the miles of white sands to become polluted and the ocean breeze to smell of feces, which has been sickening residents and wildlife and costing San Diego millions in the form of lost tourism and health problems. The problem has been going on for more than a century, and by 2030, Mexico plans to dump one hundred and twenty million gallons of sewage a day into Imperial Beach. Other crises that have occurred due to neglect of critical infrastructure such as the 2025 Palisades fire. Southern California ran out of water because Newsom is totally neglecting the state and the American people. And while the fire departments in California are critically understaffed and underfunded, Governor Newsom vetoed firefighter pay raise. The Palisades fire cost $275 billion, which is money that could have been used to insure the State of California had the resources it needed. Furthermore, when Southern California is located next to an ocean, Newsom should have invested in desalination plants to help with the water shortage in California. The water in the ocean is so plentiful that it is currently eroding land and causing homes to fall into the sea. Desalination has been identified as one technology that will help solve California’s water scarcity problem. Desalination is a cost-effective technology that can transform an abundance of salt water into a reliable supply of potable, fresh water, which is a great way to fight climate change and have enough water for our region’s water requirements. Ras Al Khair, Saudi Arabia, is producing 1,036,000 meters (273,682,192) per day of desalinated water. #RandolphHarris 27 of 33

America needs an approach to eliminate safety vulnerabilities in American cities. There needs to be a road map by the end of 2025, outlining a prioritized approach to eliminate crisis situations in America. There is enough money to send aid to foreign nations, but the American government does not have enough money to care for its infrastructure, provide adequate resources, or end the affordable housing crisis. Nor is there enough money to fund other national critical functions (NCFs). These bad practices of putting America and Americans last are considered exceptionally risky, particularly to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety. In 2024, Americans spent $100 billion on Japanese cars. As a result, the American automobile trade deficit with Japan was $39 billion. Additionally, Japan exported 1.4 million cars to the United States of America, but only imported 16,000 American-built automobiles. However, Japan imported approximately 143 thousand motor vehicles from the European Union. This is why President Trump created tariffs. We need to balance the trade deficit that America faces with other nations so we are not taken advantage of and so America can go bank to being a creditor nation, instead of borrowing money for other countries. Each year, President Trump is bringing $400 Billion in Tariff revenue into America and hundreds of thousands of new jobs. With this money, America is paying down debt, and with a portion of it, President  Trump plans to send Americans a stimulus check anywhere in the range of $1,000 to $2,000. However, if President Trump’s Tariffs are deemed illegal by the Supreme Court, taxpayers will have to pay back trillions and trillions of dollars. As we literally and /or figuratively see gangs, federal judges, and Governor Gavin Newsom fighting with federal law enforcement and President Trump– states and cities refusing to honor federal laws. Politicians are also showing an utter disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America, and anarchy is becoming increasingly common. #RandolphHarris 28 of 33

Anarchism is a cluster of doctrines and attitudes centered on the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary. Derived from the Greek root anarchos, meaning “without authority,” anarchism, anarchist, and anarchy are used to express both approval and disapproval. The anarchist denies man-made laws, regards property as a means of tyranny, and believes that crimes are merely the product of property and authority. However, the anarchist would argue that their denial of constitutions and governments leads not to “no justice” but to the real justice inherent in the free development of human sociality—the natural inclination, when unfettered by laws, to live according to the principles and practice of mutual aid. Anarchism is also a form of treason. Treason, the crime of betraying a nation or a sovereign by acts considered dangerous to security. In English law, treason includes the levying of war against the government and the giving of aid and comfort to the monarch’s enemies. In the United States of America, treason was defined restrictively by the framers of the Constitution. Treason against the United States of America “shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them aid and comfort,” which is something that many politicians are currently guilty of.  The American government should know all exploitable vulnerabilities and fix them before the situation becomes a crisis. Failure to take such mitigating actions is dangerous and significantly elevates risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety. The American government must understand that significant time and resources must be invested in America. They must also encourage corporations to plan for both mitigating safety vulnerabilities in the short term and eliminating them in the long term. For instance, a company might begin by reaching out to the federal, state, or local government and requesting tax incentives to provide security to dangerous communities, to help the government repair bridges and potholes. #RandolphHarris 29 of 33

Drug cartels have been threatening the health and safety of Native American communities. The trafficking of dangerous and illegal drugs into their territories is leading to a second genocide. The overdose rate for Indigenous people is 42 percent higher than the national average. A recent bust on Montana’s Blackfeet Nation’s Tribal Reservation resulted in the seizure of more than 700,000 fentanyl pills, which was the largest bust in Montana history. Recently, the Blackfeet Nation had to declare a state of emergency after facing 17 overdoses in just one week. There are only 6.8 million Native Americans left in the world, which is 2 percent of the American population. We should be doing more to protect these proud and honorable people; they should not want for anything. People rush and give away resources to illegal immigrants, but totally disregard the Indigenous people of this land, as their race silently fades away into extinction. We must secure our borders and increase federal funding to Native American tribes so we can save this precious population. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom has given billions of taxpayer dollars away to illegal immigrants and protected them from law enforcement, while arresting law-abiding Americans because they cannot afford to pay rent or mortgage, and the homeless shelters are unsafe, overcrowded, and have restrictions on who is allowed inside. He has also totally ignored the cartel problems on American lands. Clean air, water, land, and preserving our heritage are extremely important. We cannot just allow criminals to kill off the people who are native to this land and do nothing about it. Wars have been started over governments that tax citizens without representation. Taxation without representation is what led to the American Revolution. #RandolphHarris 30 of 33

Much like the land crisis in Las Vegas, we could also run out of land to farm and will not be able to grow or cultivate our own food. We can protect American farmland and support American farmers by buying American made beef, poultry, dairy, and produce. Also, country of origin labeling is very important so Americans can know where their food is coming from and can support American farmers and ranchers. As money flows, it influences further investment. Save the land that sustains us by protecting American farmland. Once the land is built on, we lose it forever.  And in the future, there may be food wars. Also, to ensure that we have farmland and buildable land for future use, we need to start limiting the number of people allowed to immigrate to America. Perhaps with the immigrants we do allow into America, there needs to be a diversity program to make sure we have a population that equally represents all races of people. If Americans continue to spend money on American products, then more need to be made to keep up the inventory. When investors notice these goods are selling, it gives them the confidence to pour more money into that local business. It shows that people want these goods made in America and pressures investors to keep these goods and services in America. The jobs stay here, the business stays in America, wages naturally increase, and more money is invested to keep up with demand. This reduces the burden on the taxpayer. When you support American businesses, that money stays in our economy and can help to reduce the national debt. The government creates debt by borrowing from businesses in the private sector or from foreign countries. It also increases the national debt by spending more than it gains in tax revenue in a fiscal year. #RandolphHarris 31 of 33

When people shop locally, more tax money stays in the economy and goes to the government. This way, it keeps more money in our national economy and keeps more jobs located in America which also sends more taxes to the government, which can again help to reduce the national debt. When you buy foreign goods, these companies usually have lighter tax loads or exemptions, meaning less money for the national debt, plus you are helping to strengthen these foreign nations by sending more money overseas. Buying American-made products is also better for the environment and helps to reduce the carbon footprint because these products do not have to travel nearly as far. Furthermore, American companies and manufacturers are held to much higher standards on pollution. American companies must be more careful about air, land, and water pollution and have proper ways to dispose of waste. Under President Trump’s administration, he has make America a priority. President Trump has closed the southern border, illegal crossings have fallen to an all time low, and are 90 percent lower than under the previous administration. Since President Trump’s crack down on crime, violent crimes in Washington D.C. have dropped by approximately 80 percent. He has stopped thousands of pounds of drugs from entering America and killing citizens. And since President Trump took office, investments in America have increased by trillions of dollars in U.S.A. manufacturing, production, and innovation. As you can see, President Donald Trump and his pledge to “Make America Great Again” is exactly what America needs to save the country and the American people. And yes, diversity is important, so you can see why it is also important to preserve blonde hair and blue eyes, as the people with these characteristics are becoming a minority in America. #RandolphHarris 32 of 33

We must think before we can understand the soul’s existence; we must understand before we can realize it. The earliest beginnings of thought, as apart from instinct, when it was itself still but a lurking tendency, belong far back in primeval time. The human intellect as we find it today, so rich and developed an instrument for the consciousness of the ego, did not arrive at this fullness without a series of graduated stages. We have had plenty of scientific thinking, business thinking, and political thinking long enough, but we have had very little inspired thinking. That is the world’s need. The intellect is cradled in selfishness but runs the evolutionary track into reason, where it will one day finish at the winning-post of selflessness. As a reminder, parents, please teach your children to love America and be patriotic citizens, and to buy goods and services made in America. It is also important to respect law and order and treat your elders with respect. It is inborn in the human mind to wish to know. If this begins with the endless surface questions of a child’s curiosity, if it continues into deeper questions of a scientist’s probing investigation, it cannot and does not stop there. For the higher part of the mind will eventually come into unfoldment, that union of abstract reflective thought with mystical intuition, which is true intelligence, which needs and sees a view of the whole of things. And so, the knowing faculty enters the realm of philosophy. A lot of children are having problems in school and cannot even write a paragraph because they are not reading their books. When you actually read books, you get an example of how to write and will become a better student. Therefore, remember to take your education seriously so that you will be successful in life and make your family proud. Also, to make sure they have all the resources required, please donate to the Sacramento Fire Department to help improve our national security. “Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand between their loved home and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, and this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’ And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” #RandolphHarris 33 of 33

The Winchester Mystery House

According to locals, over a century ago, the land that houses The Winchester Mansion had been vacant forever. Then, sometime in the early afternoon of Saturday, March 13, 1886, Sheriff Angel Camilio began getting reports that a massive castle made of wood had suddenly appeared. Gables rose, towers peaked into the sky as the mansion mushroomed into a labyrinth overnight. The house’s sudden manifestation had been both disconcerting and fascinating to the community. Some felt dark curses flowing from the estate, and things moving around in the darkness. Others saw a fairytale castle glimmering in the spring sunlight. Perhaps this is why there are no records of construction, no blueprints, and no permits filed with the county. And then one day, a hearse came tearing through the gates, and in that hearse was a coffin, some believed it contained Mrs. Winchester.

Legend also says, when Sarah Lockwood Pardee (Winchester) married William Wirt Winchester in 1862, she enjoyed a life of extravagant luxury. William Winchester, President of the Winchester repeating rifle, became a very wealthy man through the sale of his guns, and the couple were among the elite New England society. She also told Mrs. Winchester they would kill her too, unless she moved out West and built a great house for the spirits. In addition, Mrs. Winchester was told construction on the house must never end in order to appease the spirits and keep her alive, perhaps even give her eternal life. Mrs. Winchester followed the medium’s suggestions, and in 1886, she moved to the Santa Clara valley just outside San Jose, where she bought an 18-room farmhouse and property to build her mansion. At its peak, the Mansion once stood 9-stories tall and had as many as 600-rooms. Today, the stately mansion is 4-storys, and over 100,000 square feet.

Experience an unforgettable journey back to the time of kings and queens with this entry ticket for The Winchester Mansion in Santa Clara, California, which was the residence of Heiress Sarah L. Winchester. Come and see what secrets this so-called, “Winchester Mystery House” may hold. Take advantage of this fascinating experience. After the tour, there will be time to enjoy the mansion’s splendor at your own pace. You might even discover secret passages that lead to hidden chambers within the mansion. These chambers served as safe places for valuables, precious documents, and as private sanctuaries for Mrs. Winchester, and allowed her to move stealthily throughout her home. At one time, there were even secret tunnels that extended beyond the mansion, leading to nearby Victorian houses that were also on the property, and other structures, creating a network of escape routes or hidden pathways.

Please come and enjoy a delicious meal at Sarah’s Café, stroll along the paths of the beautiful Victorian gardens, which once spanned 740 acres, all the way down to Stevens Creek Boulevard; wander through the miles of hallways in the world’s most mysterious mansion.

For further information about tours, including group tours, weddings, school events, birthday party packages, facility rentals, and special events please visit the website: https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/

Please visit the online giftshop, and purchase a gift for friends and relatives as well as a special memento of The Winchester Mystery House. A variety of souvenirs and gifts are available for purchase. https://shopwinchestermysteryhouse.com/

Special Events: Ready to rock the holidays like never before? 🎄

Join the incredible Renegade Orchestra on December 6th in the gardens as they combine rock and roll with all your favorite holiday classics 🎶🎸 https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/holidays/

Your ticket also grants you access to the Yuletide Oddities Market and Holiday Open House! Do not miss this evening of music and merriment, get tickets now! https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/holidays/

Santa is squeezing his way through one of our 17 chimneys to make a special stop at the mansion 🎅✨

On December 20, guests with tickets to any tour or the Yuletide Oddities Market can enjoy complimentary photos with Santa! He’ll be here from 12-4pm and 5-8pm.

Hopefully the reindeer can navigate the confusing roofline 🦌https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/holidays/

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