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This is a kind of Spiritual Adultery that is Spearing Across the Earth
By withdrawing oneself from society and into contemplation, the social nature of human beings and one’s ability to perform good works becomes insignificant, unimportant, and irrelevant. How can we then uphold the requirement of performing good works found in the scriptures? The mysterious process by which our Earthly life instructs us for another state of being tells of that our action obey an unknow law, implicit in ourselves, but which does not conform to our logic. We know that every creature has a private good and interest of one’s own, which nature has compelled one to seek. We know that there is in reality a right and a wrong state of every creature; and that one’s right state is forward by nature and affectionately sought by oneself. And because every creature has a certain interest or good, there must be also a certain end or purpose to which everything in one’s constitution must naturally be related. If anything in one’s appetites, passions, or affections runs contrary to this end, we must count it as being bad for one. In this way, one can be bad with respects to oneself; just as one is certainly bad with respects to other of one’s kind when any of one’s appetites or passions make one any way injurious to them. Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into still subtler form. #RandolphHarris 1 of 9
When first formed visionary schemes, we know them to be absurd, but familiarize them by degrees, and in time lose sight of their folly. This is unacceptable because any interpretation that disallows humans their ability to understand the scriptures produces moral ramifications. Religion undoubtedly contains some perfect daemonists, people who believe that the governing mind or minds are not absolutely and necessarily good—are not confined to what is best, but are capable of acting according to mere will or fancy, because we know whole nations who worship the devil or fiend to who they sacrifice and offer prayers and supplications, really just because they fear him. And we know very well that in some religious there people who do not proclaim any idea of God except that of a being who is arbitrary, violent, a cause of bad, and condemning people to misery—which amounts to substituting a daemon or devil in place of God. One who has nothing external that can divert one must find pleasure in one’s own thoughts, and must conceive oneself what one is not, for who is pleased with what one is? A person can be more an atheist than a theist, or more a daemonist than a theist, depending on which of the relevant opinions predominates thought. Moral standards are to be severe and rigorous in order to prevent condemning the masses to Hell. #RandolphHarris 2 of 9
This globe, the Earth, appears to have a real dependence on something beyond it (e.g. the Sun, the Galaxy, or its fellow planets), then it—the Earth—really is only a part of some other system. And if there is similarly a system of all things, and a Universal nature, every particular being or system must be either good or bad in that general system of the Universe. What about something insignificant and useless? That would be an imperfection, and so would be bad in the general system. Therefore, a being cannot be wholly and really bad except by being bad with respect to the Universal system; and in that case the system of the Universe is bad or imperfect. However, if the evil of one private system is the good of others, if it contributes still to the good of the general system (as when one creatures lives by the destruction of another, one thing is generated from the corruption [= ‘rotting’] of another, or one planetary system or vortex swallows up another) then the evil of that private system is not really bad in itself; any more than the pain of cutting new teeth is bad in a system or body which is so constituted that without this episode of pain it would suffer worse by being defective. The Bible is for everyone to understand and practice, including the poor and uneducated. #RandolphHarris 3 of 9
So we cannot say of any being that it is wholly and absolutely bad unless we can show for certain that what we are calling bad is not also good in some other system or in relation to some other order or economy. However, if the World contained one species of animals that were destructive to every other species, that could rightly be called a bad species, because it is bad in the animal system. And if in any species of animals (for example the human species) one person has a nature that makes one pernicious to the rest, then one can in this respect rightly be called a bad person. Prediction is vague. The notion of prediction is unquestionably an essential part of the subject matter of logic, but the predicates might be extralinguistic and even extramental entities. Thus crucial vagueness, which was to some extend also the source of the medievals’ concer with universals, left open to the possibility that logic might be essentially a science of reality, resembling or subsumed under metaphysics. Prediction occurs only in a proposition, and the only constituents of propositions are utterances; thus, only utterances may be predicated. Some utterances are significant; some are not. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and will all thy mind. You do not need me to go through envy, malice, ill-temperament, or other such hateful passions to show how each is bad and makes the creatures that has them bad. However, perhaps I should point out that even kindness and love of the most natural sort (e.g. a creature’s love for its offspring) is vicious if it is immoderate and beyond a certain degree of intensity. Why? Because excessive tenderness destroys the effect of love, and excessive pity makes us incapable of giving help. Thus, excessive motherly love is a vicious fondness; excessive pity is effeminacy and weakness; undue concern for self-preservation is meanness and cowardice; having too little concern for self-preservation, or none at all, is rashness; and the opposite concern (namely a passion leading to self-destruction) is a mad and desperate depravity. God was manifest in flesh, justified by the Spirit, seen of angels, preached to the Gentiles, believed on in the World, and received up into glory. With God all things are possible, but oftentimes he does his work with awful instruments, there is a peacemaker called Death. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9
To be sure, proof in existence of the ineligible World, also known as the mind of God, the environmental movement protested the consequences of abundant consumption. Yet, it did not therefore, rethink the practices and aims of living itself, but only those of living too extravagantly. Air, water, space, nature: these are the subject of scarcity. Economics focuses on the scarcity of time in which to enjoy abundance. Thus, for the first time ever, humans are faced with this real, permanent problem—the World being overpopulated and there not being enough money nor resources to take care of the rapidly expanding population. While people demand letting illegal immigrants inhabit America, they are not paying attention to the fact that we are losing jobs, for instance, Sears is closing 149 stores this year. Also, new houses, which are 300 square feet, and would not uphold in a storm and have no foundation, are being built in parking lots because people with jobs can no longer afford food and a traditional house or an apartment, but yet Americans want to keep adding more of a strain on their resources. #RandolphHarris 6 of 9
The permanent problem on Earth—how to use this freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy leisure which science and compound interest will have won for them, to live wisely and agreeably and well. A builder of larger social whole, the instinct for peace and quiet, for respite for respite from stimulation and disturbances, in short, for death (not in death as destruction, but death as peace) is an expression that has emerged out of the experiences of immature minds as mediator between this pleasure-seeking mass of instinct and of the reality principle. You cannot always get what you want, but if you try some time, you might just find what you need. We must turn work into something enjoyable. We must treat the World as a garden to cultivate, not as a storehouse to pillage. For as by the existence of the creatures, we come to know there is a creator, so by their loveliness is that we come to know that their Author, and come to love him. We must first experience and come to know the things on Earth before we can come to know and love God. Experience is not only critical to general knowledge, but it is absolutely necessary to our ability to know God and to know the duties of a good life. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9
Love is to be inherently centered upon God. Love is the movement of the soul towards good, or God. Love is a disposition or act of the mind as a reaction to anything which we find pleasure. When we love the creature, we are then wishing something good for it, that is be improved or endure; this love is referred to as benevolence and charity. This love cannot apply to God because we cannot wish upon God anything more since he is absolute. Thus, our love for creatures is the love of benevolence (since we wish them well), but this is not equivalent to what we might call real live, these are only acts of charity. Therefore, we must love God with the love of desire. For our love of God brings no additional goodness to God, but benefits only us; to love creatures would be sinful. Love of desire is a complete love, while benevolence is only partial love. We cannot love something fully if it is not completely loveable. Our heart is so much God’s property and peculiar, and out so entirely to be devoted to him, that this is a kind of Spiritual Adultery to admit any creature in a partnership with one in our love. It is in loving something partially that is completely loveable that we are depriving it of our love and committing ourselves to sin. #RandolphHarris 8 of 9
This World and this life matters. God created our sense organs and real flowers. This World is not just an illusion. The material World is important. If none of this matter, if Earth was not our home, then there would be no reason at all for God to have created our sense organs or any real flowers to begin with. God could easily produce in us the ideas and sensations of flowers with or without there being actual flowers. Likewise, God would have worked in vain in creating our sense organs since these would have nothing to contribute in our experience of the World. For if we must love nothing but what is lovely, and nothing is lovely but what is our good, and nothing is our good but what does us good, and nothing does us good but what causes pleasure in us. I fear so many people live and die as idolaters, and the greatest part of the future will do so; since I guess not one in a million will be found capable of apprehending, and being convinced of this new hypothesis of seeing all things in God. The purpose of Christian doctrine is to enable its subscribers the opportunity for a good life entailing the need for good actions. Turn your heart over to God and know that he is the creator of all that is good and pleasurable and the rest of your life will be the best of your life. #RandolphHarris 9 of 9
Great Nations Eat
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Ryan Phillippe tries to be neutral, he wants to stay out of the political minutia between the government and the TV news reporters, he did not want to be a savior, nor did he want to be part of the problem. However, Ryan makes a decision that his family and others need him most, he shows that is a righteous guy. Many others would have just ignored the call for help or would have decided to be a bad guy. Others stand by idly while the Mayor attacks Ryan’s son. Where do the good qualities in Ryan come from? Outward ceremonies will not compensate for the want of virtue. The impulse of love are so subtle, and the influence of false reasoning, when enforced by eloquence and passion, so unbounded, that no human virtue is secure from degeneracy. Like the rainbow, Peace rests upon the Earth, but its arch is lost in Heaven. It is amazing what war will do for commerce, as well as what it does against it!
Virtue is the only nobility. Virtue alone is true honor, true freedom, and solid, durable happiness. People should not neglect their virtue. We already know that trauma and learned helplessness is potentially debilitating. However, we want to look at something better. Others also are required to see that the World is still beautiful and we can help save it and others. Currently, we are seeing how our currently leaders are acting cruelly and turning the World into a prison. Where is something with true authority to clean this up and make a change for the better? I am for war, if to give you a chance to find out who your friends are. An officer may resign when an unjust war is declared; and ought to resign, and refuse to be accessary to the homicide which it occasions. Prejudice or not, confidence is not a bad thing when a conflict is unavoidable.
There is a dignity in conscious virtue. Virtue consists of wisdom and knowledge, humanity, justice, courage, temperance, honesty, love, transcendence. Different strengths contribute to virtue. Virtue consists in actions, and not in words. Virtue is so dear to the human heart, that when her form forsakes us, we pursue her shadow. Did ever mortal hear of a man’s virtue. The human virtue humanity, for instance, includes the strengths understanding, integrity, bravery, persistence, and vitality. So what is goodness? By desiring what is perfectly good, even when we do not quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil—widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
Expressing virtuous actions, even when it presents an extreme risk or a potential cost to oneself, is a righteous because there is not guaranteed benefit for you, so you are being truly altruistic. Running out into the conflict to save his son, during the critics’ attack on the Capitol Castle is an ongoing situation, and shows that Ryan is a righteous guy. Ryan wants more power and control, he sees that his son is a good person because he sacrifices so to uplift and inspire others and show them beautiful holograms that they have probably never seen. Ryan’s son, Randolph, also makes people feel special by telling them about the good things they do and why people like them. Ryan sees that his son possesses courage, honor, intellect, and altruism to become a master.
Ryan’s son is trying to build his own corporation and news station because he wants to make people see the World is good and the true purpose of reporting is to provide a free education so because can give back to the World, and support the government, which will have us maintain a stable economic system, and eliminate poverty and war. Randolph’s intrinsic motivation shows that he has a desire to help the community establish peace and serenity. Randolph is able to meet his goals, although incomplete, but at least partially by displaying faith, love, loyalty, determination, and compassion. Prudence is a virtue, equally with generosity; and a man may be unjust to himself, no less than to another. Nothing, humanely speaking, can deserve higher respect than a profession in which a man devotes the labors of his life to the support of justice.
Unbelieving people can claim that there is no true altruism because every beneficent deed allegedly involves potential benefit to oneself, even if that benefit is merely the joy that comes from putting a smile, from ear to ear, on the face of another. Trust me, trying to debate with the critics is a waste of time. They will drag you into a feeble verbal war to try and stir up insecurities, hurt, anger, and pain. Altruism and good exists because people are putting their lives on the line to bring you education and they are using their own money out of their own pockets, nothing is free, yet they are not asking for money from anyone. If we count the act of helping others, despite personal risk or costs, it proves that there are good people in the World.
Comparing bids: Two contractors bid on a home remodeling project. The first, Ryan, bids $9,350.00 for the entire job. The second contractor, Rick, will work for $27.50 per hour, plus $4,500.00 for materials. He estimates that the job will take 150 hours. Which contractor has the lower bid? Well, this second bid, from contractor Rick, if done on schedule will cost $8,625.00, which is less than Ryan’s offer by $725.00. So Rick’s bid for the job seems to be the better deal, as you may save $725.00. However, if Rick has to put in more hours, the price of the project make increase, whereas Ryan is telling how much he will charge no matter how many hours he has to put in. Helping appears to go with the natural requirement to interact with others. Who shall put his finger on the work of justice and say, ‘It is there’? Justice is like the Kingdom of God—it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
So on this deal, you would need to understand that often times projects come in over budget, and if someone is giving you a set price, you may want to consider taking it so your project gets completed. Trying to save $725, with Rick’s deal, could cost more in the long run. Empathy, that deep emotional concern whose absence can indicate psychopathy, is one of the greatest predictions of altruistic behavior. Empathy is more complex than it may sound. Affective empathy involves feeling sympathy, compassion, or even distress in line with the way others feel, whether that means taking the perspective of real people or identifying with legendary characters. Feeling and knowing pave the way for the actions we call altruistic. Good people endeavor to go good things. Justice is certain and inflexible.
Proof must be built up stone by stone. The end crowns the work. It is not enough that Justice should be morally certain; she must be immorally certain—legally, that is. Denying oneself to benefit others, we call good. Exploiting others to benefit oneself, we call bad. Tormenting others to achieve self-important satisfaction, we call evil. The Mayor of the City of Sacramento, the city manager, and many of the TV reporters have been labeled as evil and extreme bullies. Empathy plays an important role in altruistic behavior and its absence features prominently in a psychopathic personality, but we tend to perceive the greatest evil when monsters such as Kevin Maurice Johnson (Mayor of Sacramento) and John F. Shirey (City Manager of Sacramento) actually enjoy their cruelty.
The leadership in Sacramento operates in its own methodical way—chaos and corruption. These rouges and criminals shake things up—disaster. Ryan and Randolph may be a threat to people who like chaos and corruption because they accomplish great things directly by caring, and evil people see them as cheating them out of their fuller lives. When men are about to commit, or to sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express misfortune at all. Ryan is for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. Kings are accountable for injustice permitted as well as done. Before spending billions on an arena, I would like to remind you, 20 percent of families are starving and cannot even afford Thanksgiving dinner.
Randolph Harris II International Institute 