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Now He Tells Me
The reality of everyday life is taken for granted as reality. It does not require additional verification and beyond its simple presence. It is simply there, as a self-evidentnt and compelling facticity. I know that it is real. While I can engage in doubt, as I routinely exist in everyday life. This suspension of doubt is so firm that to abandon it, as I might want to do, say, in theoretical or religious contemplation, I must make an extreme transition. The world of everyday life proclaims itself and, when I want to challenge the proclamation, I must engage deliberate, by no means easy effort. The transition from the natural attitude to the theoretical attitude of the philosopher or scientist illustrates this point. However, not all aspects of this reality are equally unproblematic. Every day life is divided into sectors that are apprehended routinely, and others that present me with problems of one kind or another. Suppose that I am an automobile engineer for Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (BMW) who is highly knowledgeable about all German-made cars. Everything that pertains to the latter is a routine, unproblematic facet of my everyday life. However, one day someone appears in the garage and asks me to repair his Buick. I am now compelled to enter the problematic world of American-made cars. I may do so reluctantly or with problems that I have not yet routinized. At the same time, of course, I do not leave the reality of everyday life. #RandolphHarris 1 of 32
Indeed, the latter becomes enriched as I begin to incorporate into it the knowledge and skills required for the repair of American-made cars. If what appears as a problem does not pertain to a different reality altogether (say, the reality of theoretical physics, or of nightmares), the reality of everyday life encompasses both kinds of sectors. If the routine of everyday life continues without interruption, they are apprehended as unproblematic. However, even the unproblematic sector of everyday reality is so only until further notice, that is, until its continuity is interrupted by the appearance of a problem. When this happens, the reality of everyday life seeks to integrate the problematic sector into what is already unproblematic. Commonsense knowledge contains a variety of instructions as to how this is to be done. For instance, if they perform their familiar, taken-for-granted routines—say, typing away at desks next to mine in my office, the others with whom I work are unproblematic to me. If they interrupt these routines—say, huddling together in a corner and talking in whispers, then they become problematic. As I inquire about the meaning of this unusual activity, there is a variety of possibilities that my commonsense knowledge is capable of reintegrating into the unproblematic routines of everyday life: they may be consulting on how to fix a broken typewriter, or one of them may have some urgent instructions from the boss, and so on. #RandolphHarris 2 of 32
On the other hand, I may find that they are discussing a union directive to go on strike, something as yet outside my experience but still well within the range of problems with which my commonsense knowledge can deal. It will deal with it, though, as a problem, rather than simply reintegrating it into the unproblematic sector of everyday life. If, however, I conclude that my colleagues have gone collectively mad, the problem that presents itself is of yet another kind. I am now faced with a problem that transcends the boundaries of the reality of everyday life and points to an altogether different reality. Indeed, my conclusion that my colleagues have gone mad implies ipso facto that they have gone off into a world that is no longer the common world of everyday life. Any person living that way is bound to feel he is guilty. He is always on the lookout for somebody else to solve his problems instead of turning to himself and his own resources. There is profound wisdom in this analysis, and I certainly agree with the concept applied in it. However, I think it is incomplete. It does not consider the futility of the self-accusations, their merely condemnatory character. It leaves out the attitude towards his guilt and how it is, in its turn, unproductive. It is so because he deals with it in the spirit of self-hate. This too is unconscious; he does not feel that he accuses himself mercilessly. The whole process is externalized. #RandolphHarris 3 of 32
Finally, a person may accuse himself of actions or attitudes which, viewed objectively, seem harmless, legitimate, or even desirable. He may brand taking sensible care of himself as pampering; enjoying food as gluttony; considering his own wishes instead of blindly complying as hard-boiled selfishness; considering analytic treatment—which he needs and can afford—as self-indulgence; asserting an opinion as presumptuous. Here, too, we must ask which inner dictate or which pride is offended by a pursuit. Only a person taking pride in asceticism would accuse himself of “gluttony”; only a person proud of self-effacement would brand an assertive move as egotistical. However, the most important thing about this kind of self-accusation is that it often concerns the fight against the emerging real self. They mostly occur—or, more precisely, come into the foreground—in later phases of analysis, and are an attempt to discredit and discourage moves toward healthy growth. The viciousness of self-accusations (as in any form of self-hate) calls for self-protective measures. And we can observe these clearly in the analytic situation. As soon as the patient is faced with one of his difficulties, he may go on the defensive. He may respond with righteous indignation, with feeling misunderstood, or by becoming argumentative. #RandolphHarris 4 of 32
He points out that it was true in the past, but is already better; if his wife did not behave the way she does, the difficulty would not exist; if his parents had been different, it would not have developed in the first place. He may also develop counterattacks and find fault with the analyst, often in a threatening manner—or, on the contrary, become appeasing and ingratiating. In other words, he reacts as if we had hurled at him a severe accusation too frightening for him to be able to test it out quietly. He can fight it blindly, according to the means at his disposal: by wriggling out of it, by blaming somebody else, by pleading guilty, by going on the offensive. We have here one of the major delaying factors in psychoanalytic therapy. However, also, apart from analysis, it is one of the main causes preventing people from being objective toward their problems. The necessity to ward off any self-accusation stunts the capacity for constructive self-criticism and thereby mars the possibility of learning from mistakes. Through chronic lying to others and himself, a person may develop a self-structure radically estranged from the reality of spontaneous experiencing. He may believe that he is a devoted husband (self-concept), he may approve of his attitude toward his wife (conscience), and he strives to get his wife to see him as a devoted spouse by the way he speaks to her (public self). Yet his wife may act in ways that infuriate him, and he may be carrying on an affair. #RandolphHarris 5 of 32
If he acknowledged the anger that his wife’s actions engendered in him, it might threaten his sense of identity and undermine his self-esteem. If he evaluated the moral significance of his infidelity, it might make him feel guilty and embarrassed by repressing the unpleasant dimensions of his experience. To the extent that a person represses aspects of his experience, we can assert that he is alienated from his real self. He is pretending to be someone other than his real self; he can believe his own pretense only because he continuously represses his experience. The patient must find a spiritual solution, not without the well-timed help of a therapeutically clever superior in the Augustinian order. His solution must be roughly bridged with a political and psychological vacuum which history has created in a significant portion of Western Christendom. Such a coincidence, if further coinciding with the deployment of highly specific personal gifts, makes for historical “greatness.” We must follow the man through the crisis of his youth, and the unfolding of his gifts, to the first manifestation of his originality as a thinker, namely, to the emergence of his life philosophy, which was not perceived as a radical innovation either by him or his friends and family. What happened to him after he had acquired an identity is what we need to investigate to help him. #RandolphHarris 6 of 32
As clinicians, we have learned that we cannot lift a case history out of history. Human nature can best be studied in the state of conflict; and human conflict comes to the detailed attention of interested recorders mainly under special circumstances. One such circumstance is the clinical encounter, in which the suffering, for the sake of securing help, has no other choice than to become case histories; and another special circumstance is history, where extraordinary beings, by their own self-centered maneuvers and through the prodding of the charismatic hunger of mankind, become (auto) biographies. We have learned by going back and forth between a person’s present life and their history. This helps clinical as well as historical scholars develop a special awareness of their patients. For those who are more comfortable thinking that their patients have “weak egos,” at my very first encounter with a group of psychiatric in-patients, even very disturbed ones, after only a very short period of preparation and getting acquainted (say, thirty minutes), I would not doubt of the beneficial effects from getting to know a patient in the present, after reviewing his medical history. During the first interview, the therapist makes sure he gets the script background, unobtrusively as far as possible, swinging along with the patient’s conversation; but, later, if there are omissions, he makes a clear point of filling them in. #RandolphHarris 7 of 32
First, the clinician gets a medical and psychiatric history. During this, he asks for a dream—any dream, because that is the quickest way to get a picture of the patient’s script protocol and his worldview. Then, he asks about each of the previous therapists: why the patient went to him, how he selected him, what he learned from him, why he left, and under what circumstances. From these inquiries, the script analyst gets many clues. He follows some of them up by asking about other activities: how Jeff selects jobs or spouses, and why and how he quits or gets divorced. If this is done competently, the patient will not terminate therapy prematurely, as he often does if the therapist is apprehensive about the transference and hides his fear behind a poker face (a facial expression that is blank and hides his real emotions), a ritualistic courtesy, or a tape recorder. Nothing is as reassuring as competence. A common situation is where the patient is obviously collecting failures in therapy and elsewhere to justify a psychotic or suicidal script payoff, and quits with, “Now He Tells Me”; that is, by springing some major surprise without previous discussions, and quitting without notice. At the end of the thirtieth session, to further highlight this illustration, when everything appears to be going well and Jeff is making “progress,” he may say casually as he rises to leave: “By the way, this’ll be my last visit because I’m going to commit myself to the State Hospital this afternoon”—something he has not previously brought up. #RandolphHarris 8 of 32
If Dr. Harris has taken a careful history, he will abort this in the third session by saying: “Now what I think you are heading for is to come here for six months or a year, and then quit suddenly.” If Jeff objects, Dr. Harris responds: “But that is what you did on your two last jobs, and with three of your former therapists. If you want to go through with it, it is all right because I can always learn something meanwhile, but if you really want to get well, that is the first thing we must talk about. Otherwise, you will just waste six months or a year of your life. However, if we can thrash it out right now, you will save that much time, and we can go ahead.” Alcoholics who crave absolute control or complete surrender are most likely to take umbrage at this abortion of their games, while patients who want to get well will be grateful. If the patient nods or laughs, the prognosis is very good. Now, how did man’s need for individual identity evolve? Before Dr. Darwin, the answer was clear: because God created Adam in His own image, as a counterplayer of His Identity, and thus bequeathed to all man the glory and the despair of individuation and faith. I admit to not having come up with any better explanation. The Garden of Eden, of course, has had many utopian transformations since that expulsion from the unity of creation—an expulsion which tied man’s identity forever to the manner of his toil and of his co-operation with others, and with technical and communal pride. #RandolphHarris 9 of 32
A certain New Englander was once working in the garden of The Winchester Mystery House when a parson walked by and congratulated him on what God and he had wrought together as evidence in such a commendable yield. “Yep,” the man said, “and you should have seen it when God had it all to Himself.” In such a story, God is not dead, just put in His place. Each cultural consolidation around a state of technology has its way of creating familiarity with the Unfamiliar. Technological and enlightened man, however, seems to flatter himself more than any man before him that he has the universe to himself and that an experimentally inclined God, very much made in man’s image, is glad to step aside for him. At any rate, I have heard very clever men (but never a woman) claim that in principle there is nothing in nature that man cannot now learn to understand. “Death, too?” I heard a woman ask one of these metaphysical technocrats, and he nodded with an enigmatic smile. And man, he continued, therefore can, in principle, change anything in nature or in his own nature to fit my blueprint. “Whose blueprint?” the woman asked. Another smile. Thus, it is part of today’s consolidation that man reinteralized the eternal Identity whom he had projected on the (now, in principle, conquerable) heavens, and tries to remake himself in the blueprint of a manufactured identity. In conjunction with the fact that man also can now totally unmake himself, however, an all-human identity becomes an inescapable goal. #RandolphHarris 10 of 32
In this, however, revived forms of humanisms and libertarianisms will not do. Their original proponents, we must remember, did not know of the two objects already mentioned, the gigantic bomb and the tiny pill, which, if they do not give man power over life and death, certainly give him the decision as to whose life and death it shall be—decisions which will call for new “political” forms. For man’s need for a psychosocial identity is anchored in nothing less than his sociogenetic evolution. It has been said (by Dr. Waddington) that authority-accepting is what characterizes man is what characterizes man’s sociogenetic evolution. I would submit that identity formation is inseparable from this, for only within a defined group identity can true authority exist. Man, as a species, has survived by being divided into pseudospecies. First, each horde or tribe, class, and nation, but then also every religious association has become the human species, considering all the others a freakish and gratuitous invention of some irrelevant deity. To reinforce the illusion of being chosen, every tribe recognizes a creation of its own, a mythology and later a history: thus, loyalty to a particular ecology and morality was secured. One never quite knew how all the other tribes came to be, but since they did exist, they were at least useful as a screen of projection for the negative identities which were necessary, if most comfortable, counterpart of the positive ones. #RandolphHarris 11 of 32
This projection, in conjunction with their territoriality, gave men a reason to slaughter one another in majorem gloriam. If, then, identity can be said to be a “good thing” in human evolution—because good things are those which seem to have been necessary for what, indeed, has survived—we should not overlook the fact that this system of mortal divisions has been vastly overburdened with the function of reaffirming for each pseudospecies its superiority over all others. Maybe we and our youth are turning to thoughts of identity precisely because the world wars have shown that a glorification of the pseudospecies can now spell the end of the species, wherefore an all-inclusive human identity must be part of the anticipation of a universal technology. It is this anticipation, also, which will unite some of the majority and of the minority among our youths in one universe. However, this places all older identities in deadly danger. “Prejudiced” people, wherever they are, may therefore fight a murderous rear-guard battle; and ascending nations and even ancient ones endangered in their “young” national identities may well delay and endanger a worldwide identity. The pseudospecies, then, is one of the more sinister aspects of all group identity. However, there are also “pseudo” aspects in all identity which endanger the individual. For man’s development does not begin or end with identity; and identity, too, must become relative for the mature person. #RandolphHarris 12 of 32
Psychosocial identity is necessary as the anchoring of man’s transient existence in the here and the now. That it is transient does not make it expendable. If, to those who seek an identity, Norman Brown advocates “Get lost” and Timothy Leary “Drop out,” I would suggest that to get lost one must have found oneself, and to drop out, one must have been in. The danger of all existentialism which chooses to remain juvenile, is that it shirks the responsibility for the generational process, and thus advocates an abortive human identity. We have learned from the study of lives that beyond childhood, which provides the moral basis of our identity, and beyond the ideology of youth, only an adult ethics can guarantee to the next generation an equal chance to experience the full cycle of humanness. And this alone permits the individual to transcend his identity—to become as truly individual as he will ever be, and as truly beyond all individuality. We realize, then, the widening context of the problem of identity. Beginning with veterans of war and severely disturbed young people, we have come to formulate a normative crisis in individual development. From that of delinquent and violent upheavals, we have come to suspect a significance of identity in the whole scheme of sociogenetic evolution. And from the social boundness of identity, we have come to envisage its own transcendence. #RandolphHarris 13 of 32
When it comes to central aspects of man’s existence, we can only conceptualize at a given time what is relevant to us for personal, for conceptual, and for historical reasons. And even as we do so, the data and the conclusions change before our eyes. Especially at a time when our conceptualizations and interpretations become part of a historically self-conscious scene, and when insight and conduct influence each other with an immediacy that hardly leaves a pause for any new “tradition” to form—in such a time all thinking about man becomes an experiment in living. The newness of man’s self-awareness and of his attention to his awareness has, at first, led to a scientific mythology of the mind or to a mythological use of scientific terms and methods, as if social science could and would repeat in a short time, and in view of immediate practical goals, the whole long progress of natural science from nature philosophy to pure and applied science. However, man, the subject of psychosocial science, will not hold still enough to be divided into categories both measurable and relevant. When we look at human nature during the Russian Revolution of 1905, the rebels at the frontier on which they stand united, teach us, to the sound of exploding bombs, that rebellion cannot lead, without ceasing to be rebellion, to consolation and to the comfort of strict and rigid doctrines. Their only evident victory is to triumph at least over solitude and negation. #RandolphHarris 14 of 32
In the midst of a world which they deny and which rejects them, they try, man after man, like all the great-hearted ones, to reconstruct a brotherhood of man. The love they bear for one another, which brings them happiness even in the desert of a prison, which extends to the great mass of their enslaved and silent fellow men, gives the measure of their distress and of their hopes. To serve this love, they must first kill; to inaugurate the reign of innocence, they must accept a certain culpability. This contradiction will be resolved for them only at the very last moment. Solitude and chivalry, renunciation and hope will only be surmounted by the willing acceptance of death. Jeliabov, who organized the attempt on Alexander II in 1881 and was arrested forty-eight hours before the murder, had asked to be executed at the same time as the real perpetrator of the attempt. “Only the cowardice of the government,” he said, “could account for the erection of one gallows instead of two.” Five were erected, one of which was for the woman he loved. However, Jeliabov died smiling, while Ryssakov, who had broken down during his interrogations, was dragged to the scaffold, half-mad with fear. Jeliabov did this because of a sort of guilt which he did not want to accept and from which he knew he would suffer, like Ryssakov, if he remained alone after having committed or been the cause of a murder. #RandolphHarris 15 of 32
At the foot of the gallows, Sofia Perovskaia kissed the man she loved and her two other friends, but turned away from Ryssakov, who died solitary and damned by the new religion. For Jeliabov, death in the midst of his comrades coincided with his justification. He who kills is guilty only if he consents to go on living or if, to remain alive, he betrays his comrades. To die, on the other hand, cancels out both the guilt and the crime itself. Thus, Charlotte Corday shouts at Fouquier-Tinville: “Oh, the monster, he takes me for a human value that stands halfway between innocence and guilt, between reason and irrationality, between history and eternity. At the moment of this discovery, but only then, these desperate people experience a strange feeling of peace, the peace of definitive victory. In his cell, Polivanov says that it would have been “easy and sweet” for him to die. Voinarovsky writes that he has conquered the fear of death. “Without a single muscle in my face twitching, without saying a word, I shall climb on the scaffold. And this will not be an act of violence perpetrated on myself, it will be the perfectly natural result of all that I have lived through.” Very much later, Lieutenant Schmidt will write before being shot: “My death will consummate everything, and my cause, crowned by my death, will emerge irreproachable and perfect.” #RandolphHarris 16 of 32
Kaliayev, condemned to the gallows after having stood as prosecutor before the tribunal, declares firmly: “I consider my death as supreme protest against a world of blood and tears,” and again writes: “From the moment when I found myself behind bars, I never for one moment wanted to stay alive in any way whatsoever.” His wish is granted. On May 10, at two o’clock in the morning, he walks towards the only justification he recognizes. Entirely dressed in black, without an overcoat, and wearing a felt hat, he climbs the scaffold. To Father Florinsky, who offers him the crucifix, the condemned man, turning from the figure of Christ, only answers: “I have already told you that I have finished with life and that I am prepared for death.” Yes, the ancient value lives once more, at the culmination of nihilism, at the very foot of the gallows. It is the reflection, historic on this occasion, of the “we are” which we found at the termination of our analysis of the rebel mind. It is privation and at the same time enlightened conviction. It is this that shone with such mortal radiance on the agonized countenance of Dora Brilliant at the thought of him who died for himself and for tireless friendship; it is this that drives Sazonov to suicide in prison as a protest and “to earn respect for his comrades”; and this, again, which exonerates even Nechaiev on the day when he is asked to denounce his comrades by a general, whom he knocks to the ground with a single blow. #RandolphHarris 17 of 32
By means of this, the terrorists, while simultaneously affirming the world of men, place themselves above the world, thus demonstrating for the last time in our history that real rebellion is a creator of value. Thanks to them, 1905 marks the highest peak of revolutionary momentum. However, from then on, a decline sets in. Martyrs do not build Churches; they are the mortar, or the alibi. Then come the priests and the bigots. The revolutionaries who follow will not demand an exchange of lives. They accept the risk of death, but will also agree to preserve themselves as far as they can for the sake of serving the revolution. Thus, they will accept complete culpability for themselves. Acquiescence in humiliation—that is the true characteristic of twentieth-century revolutionaries, who place the revolution and the Church of man above themselves. Kaliayev proves, on the contrary, that though the revolution is a necessary means, it is not a sufficient end. In this way, he elevates man instead of degrading him. It is Kaliayev and his Russian and German comrades who, in the history of the world, really oppose Hegel, who first recognize universal recognition as necessary and then as insufficient. Appearances did not suffice for him. When the whole world would have been willing to recognize him, a doubt would still have remained in Kaliayev’s mind: he needed his own form of acquiescence, and the approbation of the whole world would not have sufficed to silence the doubt that a hundred enthusiastic acclamations give rise to in the mind of any honest man. #RandolphHarris 18 of 32
Kaliayev doubted to the end, but this doubt did not prevent him from acting; it is for that reason that he is the purest image of rebellion. He who accepts death, to pay for a life with a life, no matter what his negations may be, affirms, by doing so, a value that surpasses him in his aspect of an individual in the historical sense. Kaliayev dedicates himself to history until death and, at the moment of dying, places himself above history. In a certain way, it is true, he prefers himself to history. However, what should his preference be? Himself, who he kills without hesitation, or the value he incarnates and makes immortal? The answer is not difficult to guess. Kaliayev and his comrades triumphed over nihilism. Even men of much experience find it hard, at times, to arrive at beneficial decisions on worldly matters, especially without a belief in God, when these offer as many arguments for one conclusion as for a different one. Even their matured minds may sway back and forth, unsettled and uncertain at such a time, until they decide to wait for the turn of events to give them a beneficial direction what to do. If judgment is withheld on what appears to be fantastic claims, it bespeaks a well-matured, well-balanced mentality to wait until they have been investigated. A statement which holds a half-truth because it is based on a selected half-fact removed from a contradictory context, can neither be accepted nor denied. It must be analyzed and its parts carefully measured, until it is truth and its falsity are likewise properly revealed. Time will either develop or deform this idea. #RandolphHarris 19 of 32
That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, indeed, without a doubt, is a real superhero. Researchers from a variety of fields continue to explore the causes and limits of altruism. Extraordinary altruists have different beliefs about humanity. Altruists score lower on the Belief in Pure Evil scale compared to others. This includes items such as, “Some people are just pure evil” and “Evil people harm others for the joy of it.” The researchers found that even after “controlling for empathy and religiosity, for every one-unit decrease in belief in pure evil, the odds of classification as an altruistic organ donor increased by 31 percent.” Pure altruism is a genuine form of ethical commitment. Many of the superheroes who work with the award-winning Sacramento Fire Department are purely altruistic. Many of their behaviors are driven by genuine concern for the well-being of others, without any expectation of anything in return. In the winter, oftentimes, water-soaked and half-frozen, firefighters return to the station, where they do not stay long before the alarm sounds again. On one particular morning, at 6 a.m., a fire had broken out in the basement of a home. The family escaped with only the clothes on their backs as they rushed out into the icy night. #RandolphHarris 20 of 32
The fire department arrived to find the fire burning in the basement and spreading to the first floor and kitchen near the rear of the home. When the water at the hydrant was turned on, firemen found that the pressure was not enough to get the stream to the roof. While a fireman was in the building, he had succeeded in making his way to the back of the first floor near the kitchen. Suddenly, the fire burst through the ceiling, and the firefighter did not have enough pressure to spray the ceiling. He then jumped out of a window as conditions had deteriorated rapidly around him, making it impossible to stay in the house. A strong wind had begun to blow, and the fire spread rapidly as the ice-coated firemen fought the flames from the outside of the house. Their efforts were futile, and only the four outside walls remained after the fire was finally extinguished. The fire department was brought under intense scrutiny after the blaze because of the low pressure in the mains, but they countered by saying the engineer had been called and had increased the pressure. City aldermen were asked to investigate the matter, but no further findings were offered. The Sacramento Fire Department depends on an adequate water supply to fight fires. Low water pressure during a fire is primarily caused by municipal water systems being overwhelmed by unprecedented demand from large-scale wildfires, leading to the depletion of water tanks and stretching the infrastructure beyond its limits. This insufficient water supply and distribution capability cannot meet the high flow rates needed for extensive firefighting, especially compared to the demands of fighting a structural fire. #RandolphHarris 21 of 32
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 22 of 32
California is the third most expensive state in the nation. 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. In 37 percent of counties, a family of four living on a six-figure income is now considered low-income. In fact, Governor Gavin Newsom of Democratic controlled California, brags about being the world’s “fifth largest economy,” but it also facing a $12 billion deficit, looking to cut $747 million for state worker’s pay, pushing to keep medical insurance for illegal immigrants, but wants to cut medical for anyone who has assets over $2,000 and the state has the largest homeless population in the nation. 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. 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. 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. This is caused by nearly half a century-old laws that discourage home sales and encourage higher rents. #RandolphHarris 23 of 32
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 will housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. 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 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 risks 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 32
Other crises that have occurred due to neglect of critical infrastructure are the 2025 Palisades fires because Southern California ran out of water, when they are located next to an ocean and they could have simply created desalination plants to help with the water shortage. The water 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. As we see gangs fighting with federal law enforcement, states and cities refusing to honor federal laws, and politicians showing an utter disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America, anarchy is becoming increasingly common. 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. #RandolphHarris 25 of 32
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 32
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. 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. #RandolphHarris 27 of 32
Home prices in Sacramento County are rivaling the Bay Area. 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. The State of California has a budget deficit of $12 billion because Governor Gavin Newsom 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. Additionally, Newsom seems to be uneducated about economics and is proposing to fast-track his plan to build a $20 billion water tunnel beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, which would eliminate environmental reviews and limit avenues for legal challenges. Gavin Newsom only cares about the environment when his policies allow him to raise taxes and restrict freedoms. To further highlight this illustration, 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 poop, 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. #RandolphHarris 28 of 32
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 29 of 32
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 30 of 32
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. Moreover, please remember to respect law and order and treat your elders with the utmost dignity and kindness possible. And take your education seriously so that you will be successful in life and make your family proud. 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. #RandolphHarris 31 of 32
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. As of 31 August 2025, President Trump has brought $8 Billion in Tariff revenue into America and hundreds of thousands of new jobs. 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. 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. 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 32 of 32
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. Come and see what secrets this so-called, “Winchester Mystery House” may hold.
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. 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.
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/
Harris Plumbing, Heating, Air, & Electric has been in business for 30 years. How many businesses can say that? We take pride in everything we do – no matter how big or small the service call might be. We’re here to help your home be as safe and comfortable as possible for you and your family. We take that responsibility very seriously as a company. 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/
Ah, yes. The BMW 3 Series. Happy 50th birthday to the most iconic BMW ever! It is really hard to decide on a BMW model. However, the 3 series is a favorite of everyone. All the upper-class suburban families had one in the 1980s and 1990s; everyone from teenagers and housewives to executives and diplomats. Now that they are larger in size, but still sporty and luxurious, the audience has grown tremendously. These are very stylish and reliable cars, which is why BMW continues to dominate the luxury car space.
With its top ranking in Consumer Reports’ Auto Brand Report Card and consistent market share growth, BMW has demonstrated its ability to produce high-performing, reliable vehicles that meet consumer demands. BMW stands out due to its focus on driving dynamics and engineering excellence. While other luxury brands prioritize comfort and opulence, BMW is known for creating cars that are fun to drive and offer a unique connection between the driver and the machine. This is why BMW is known as the Ultimate Driving Machine. https://www.brianharrisbmw.com/
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Welcome to Cresleigh Park Haven; the newest home community in Rancho Cordova.
Nestled in the heart of Rancho Cordova, Park Haven is a thoughtfully planned community offering 71 homes —perfect for those seeking comfort, convenience, and more time to enjoy life. Located adjacent to the beloved Exploration Park, this neighborhood blends modern living with outdoor adventure right at your doorstep.
Choose from five beautifully crafted floor plans ranging from approximately 1,342 to 2,547 square feet, with options for 3 to 5 bedrooms, flexible living spaces, and open-concept layouts designed for today’s lifestyles.
Whether you’re a first-time buyer, growing family, or looking to simplify without sacrificing style, Park Haven offers a home that fits your needs.
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Our team of experienced professionals at Cresleigh Homes can help you select the perfect location for your dream home, guide you through the site planning, design and construction process.
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People Who Confront Prejudice Experience a Sense of Empowerment
In some young people, in some classes, at some periods in history, this crisis will be minimal; in other people, classes, and periods, the crisis will be clearly marked off as a critical period, a kind of “second birth,” apt to be aggravated either by widespread neuroticisms of by pervasive ideological unrest. Adolescence is the identity crisis; it occurs in that period of life cycle when each youth must forge for himself some central perspective and direction, some working unity, out of the effective remnants of his childhood and the hopes of his anticipated adulthood; he must detect some meaningful resemblance between what he has come to see in himself and what his sharpened awareness tells him others judge and expect him to be. This sounds dangerously like common sense; like all health, however, it is a matter of course only to those who possess it, and appears as a most complex achievement to those who have tasted its absence. Only in ill health does one realize the intricacy of the body; and only in a crisis, individual or historical, does it become obvious what a sensitive combination of interrelated factors the human personality is—a combination of capacities created in the distant past and of opportunities divined in the present; a combination of totally unconscious preconditions developed in individual growth and of social conditions created and recreated in the precarious interplay of generations. #RandolphHarris 1 of 28
Some young individuals will succumb to this crisis in all manners of neurotic, psychotic, or delinquent behavior; others will resolve it through participation in ideological movements passionately concerned with religion or politics, nature, or art. Still others, through suffering and deviating dangerously through what appears to be a prolonged adolescence, eventually come to contribute an original bit to an emerging style of life: the very danger which they have sensed has forced them to mobilize capacities to see and say, to dream and plan, to design and construct, in new ways. Some men are rather endangered young men, beset with syndromes of conflict whose outline we have learned to recognize, and whose components we can analyze. We will undoubtedly see a tragic re-evaluation of the first attempts by youth to ritualize life for themselves, against us, and by themselves, and of the way in which, in the face of such provocation and challenge, the elder generation abdicates too willingly and too quickly its vital role as sanctioners and critics. For without some leadership—and, if need be, leadership that can lustily resisted—the young humanists are in danger of becoming irrelevant and ending up, each individual and each clique, stewing in strictly episodical “consciousness expansions.” And now from speculation to utopia. The possibility of a true polarization of the new specialized-technological identity and the universalist-humanist one must be allowed for the simple reason that such a polarization is the mark of the over-all identity of any period. #RandolphHarris 2 of 28
A new generation growing up with and in technological and scientific progress as a matter of course will be prepared by the daily confrontation with radically new practical possibilities to entertain radically new modes of thought. This may form a link between a new culture and new forms of society, allowing for ways of balancing specialization with new inner freedom. And neohumanist youth will find some accommodation with the machine age in which they already fully participate in their daily habits. Thus, each group may reach into the other that sensitivity or sturdiness which may be ready for activation. Polarization, however, is continued tension and dynamic interplay. I do not mean, then, to predict or even to wish that the clarity of opposition of the technological and the neohumansit identity be blurred, for dynamic interplay needs clear poles. What I mean to suggest is that youth, in all its diversities, will share a common fate, namely, a change in the generational process itself. I am not, however, abandoning my conception of the human life cycle or the place of identity in it. Yet, I will submit that subdivisions in the stages of greatest importance for identity will distribute generational functions somewhat differently. Already today, the mere division into an older, id est, parent, generation and a younger, id est, pre-parent, generation is becoming rather superannuated. #RandolphHarris 3 of
Rapid technological changes make it impossible for any traditional way of being older to become so institutionalized that the younger generation can step into it or, indeed, resist it in revolutionary fashion. Aging, for example, will be (or already is) a quite different experience for those who have something somewhat more lasting to offer. By the same token, young adulthood will be divided into older and younger adults, the not-too-young and not too old specialists, probably moving into the position of principal arbiters—each for the limited period of the ascendance of a particular stage of his specialty. His power, in many ways, will replace tradition as the sanction of parenthood. However, this also means that the, “younger generation” will be (or already is, as I will testify from my observations as college professor) divided more clearly into the older and the younger young generation, where the former will have to take (and is eager to take) much of the direction of the conduct of the latter. Thus, the relative waning of the parents and the emergence of the young adult specialist as the permanent and permanently changing authority is bringing about a shift by which older youth guided by such young authority will have to take increasing responsibility for the conduct of younger youth—and we for the orientation of the specialists and of older youth. #RandolphHarris 4 of 28
This, however, we can only do by recognizing and cultivating an age-specific ethical capacity in older youth—which is the true criterion of identity. That we consistently neglect this potential and even deny it in good paternalistic fashion is probably resented much more by youth than our dutiful and feeble attempts to keep order by prohibition. At any rate, the ethics of the future will be less concerned with the relationship of generations to each other than with the interplay of individuals in a scheme in which the whole life span is extended; in which new roles for both genders will emerge in all life stages; and in which a certain measure of choice and identity must be the common value, to be guaranteed in principle to every child planned to be born anywhere. As this can never again become a matter of fixed tradition, it probably cannot be the concern of old-fashioned “movements.” New social inventions will replace both, but they can emerge only from a new and young sense of ethics which values the vital moment in relentless change. When it comes to self-accusations, a person may feel haunted by guilt-feelings without being able to attach them to anything definite. In his desperate search for a reason, he may finally resort to the idea that perhaps they concern a guilt incurred in some previous incarnation. Sometimes, through a more concrete self-accusation will emerge and he will believe that now he had found the reason that he hates himself. #RandolphHarris 5 of 28
Let us assume for instance that he has realized that he is not interested in other people and does not do enough for them. He tries hard to change this attitude and hopes, by doing so, to get rid of his self-hate. However, if he has really turned against himself, such efforts—though all to his credit—will not rid him of the enemy because he has put the cart before the horse. He does not hate himself because his self-reproach is in part valid, but rather accuses himself because he hates himself. And one self-accusation will follow another. He does not take revenge; therefore, he is a weakling. He is vindictive; therefore, he is a brute. He is helpful; therefore, he is a sucker. He is not helpful; therefore, he is a selfish pig; and so on. If he externalizes the self-accusations, he may feel that everybody is imputing ulterior motives to everything he does. This may be so real to him that he resents others as unfair. In defense, he may wear a rigid mask so that nobody will guess from his facial expressions, his tone of voice, or his gestures what is going on within him. Or he may even be unaware of such externalizations. In his conscious mind, then, everybody is very nice. And only during the analytic process will he realize that he actually feels under constant suspicion. Like Damocles, he may live in terror lest the sword of some severe accusation fall on him at any moment. #RandolphHarris 6 of 28
In general, the reality of everyday life is organized around the “here” of my body and the “now” of my present. This “here and now” is the focus of my attention to the reality of everyday life. What is “here and now” presented to me in everyday life the realissimum of my consciousness. The reality of everyday life is not, however, exhausted by these immediate presences, but embraces phenomena that are not present “here and now.” This means that I experience everyday life in terms of differing degrees of closeness and remoteness, both spatially and temporally. Closest to me is the zone of everyday life that is directly accessible to my bodily manipulation. This zone contains the world within my reach, the world in which I act to modify its reality, or the world in which I work. In this world of working, my consciousness is dominated by the pragmatic motive, that is, my attention to this world is mainly determined by what I am doing, have done, or plan to do in it. In this way, it is my world par excellence. I know, of course, that the reality of everyday life contains zones that are not accessible to me in this manner. However, either I have no pragmatic interest in these zones or my interest in them is indirect insofar as they may be, potentially, manipulative zones for me. Typically, my interest in the far zones is less intense and certainly less urgent. I am intensely interested in the cluster of objects involved in my daily occupation—say, the world of the garage, if I am a mechanic. #RandolphHarris 7 of 28
I am interested, though less directly, in what goes on in the testing laboratories of the automobile industry in Detroit—I am unlikely ever to be in one of these laboratories, but the work done there will eventually affect my everyday life. I am also interested in what goes on at The Winchester Mystery House or in outer space, but this interest is a matter of private, “leisure-time” choice rather than an urgent necessity of my everyday life. The reality of everyday life further presents itself to me as an intersubjective world, a world that I share with others. This intersubjectivity sharply differentiates everyday life from other realities of which I am conscious. I am alone in the world of my dreams, but I know that the world of everyday life is as real to others as it is to myself. Indeed, I cannot exist in everyday life without continually interacting and communicating with others. I know that my natural attitude to this world corresponds to the natural attitude of others, that they also comprehend the objectifications by which this world is ordered, that they also organize this world around the “here and now” of their being in it, and have projects for working in it. I also know, of course, that the others have a perspective on this common world that is not identical with mine. My “here” is their “there.” My “now” does not fully overlap with theirs. My projects differ from and may even conflict with theirs. All the same, I know that there is an ongoing correspondence between my meanings and their meanings in this world, that we share a common sense about its reality. The natural attitude is the attitude of commonsense consciousness precisely because it refers to a world that is common to many men. Commonsense knowledge is the knowledge I share with others in the normal, self-evident routines of everyday life. #RandolphHarris 8 of 28
In his preliminary ventures into therapy, the patient gets “couch-broken,” which means that he learns to play his own games lying down, literally, or figuratively, and he also learns to play the therapist’s games well enough to keep the doctor happy. This is best seen on psychiatric in-patient wards, where the patient is taught the rules of mental illness well enough so that he can choose at will between staying on indefinitely (or as long as the family finances hold out), being transferred to a less demanding environment such as a state hospital, or going wherever he is ready. He also learns how to behave to be readmitted. After several stays in the hospital, such patients become adept at “training” younger therapists and psychiatric residents. They know how to cater to the doctor’s hobbies, such as dream interpretation, and how to indulge in their own particular hobbies, such as “producing interesting material.” All of this confirms the basic assumption that patients are good sports. There are a few exceptions, however. Some refuse to play the ward games or the doctor’s games by maintaining that they are innocent of mental illness. Others stubbornly or sulkily refuse to get well, even though they admit that there is something wrong or actively complain about it. Some of these can be placated by allowing them to rest up for a week or two before demanding that they get better. #RandolphHarris 9 of 28
There is a small number of unfortunantes who would like to be good sports, but are helpless in the grip of organic conditions such as Pick’s disease, or quasi-organic illnesses like “process” schizophrenia, agitated melancholia, or mania. Once the latter receive adequate doses of medication such as phenothiazines, dibenzazepines, or lithium, however, they usually become as tractable as needed. Some hospitals, deplorably, use shock treatment to whip headstrong patients into shape. In any case, the first stage in the hospital treatment of psychiatric patients should be to discuss the various aspects of tractability in ward meetings attended by patients, staff, and visiting clinicians. If they understand that the object of psychotherapy is not to get patients out of the hospital, but to get them well, any of these may offer valuable suggestions. If such meetings are conducted with the proper attitude, not only are numerous games short-circuited very quickly, but “making progress” may be given up in favor of getting well and staying well, with the exceptions mentioned above. Furthermore, almost all the patients are grateful for this frank approach. After the meeting, nearly always some of them come up to shake hands with the therapist and perhaps remark: “This is the first time a doctor has treated me like a real person and talked straight to me.” This happens because hospital games are by no means “unconscious.” The patient knows very well what he is doing and why he is doing it, and appreciates an understanding therapist who is not taken in by it. Even if he does not admit this on the first try, the patient is grateful because this approach relieves the tedium of conventional psychotherapy. #RandolphHarris 10 of 28
Self-disclosure refers to the act of communicating one’s experience to others through words and actions. If persons wish others to know them the way they know themselves, they will disclose themselves in truth. If they wish to present a false public self, they will lie, pretending to be someone else, as it were. Authentic self-disclosure is not merely a way to make oneself known to others; it is a way to develop relationships with others that are themselves conducive to a healthy personality. If a person feels it necessary to mislead others about the kind of person he or she is, that person will engage in false disclosure, like an actor trying to convince the audience of his or her authenticity. If person feels it necessary to mislead others about the kind of person he or she is, that person will engage in false disclosure, like an actor trying to convince the audience of his or her authenticity. However, such chronic misrepresentation of self leads to serious consequences. If persons lie chronically to others about their real feelings, wishes, memories, and plans, they will eventually lose touch with their authentic experiencing. They will not know who they really are, so lost are they in their assumed identities. This loss of self, or self-alienation, results from repression of one’s real experiencing, as one pretends to be the person projected as the public self. Self-alienation is the source of most psychological illness (neurosis and psychosis), and it also is a factor in the development of physical illness. Persons with high degrees of self-alienation are out of touch with reality, especially the reality of their own bodies and needs. Consequently, their actions do not serve their wellbeing and growth; it only protects their public selves. #RandolphHarris 11 of 28
Egotism is plain unhandy. Insofar as I am Somebody, I cut myself off from other-buddies. I am trapped in should/oughts, moment by moment weighed and evaluated in the eyes of others, a victim of opinion (mine and theirs), constrained to put on my best shopkeeper’s face and coat. This happens insofar as I am Nobody, too. It is the same whether I am looked up to or looked down on (mine and theirs. My only freedom is in being equal—not with the I cannot feel myself to be above someone else without putting someone else down. I cannot feel myself to be below someone else without putting someone else up. If only we will regard them so, all men are equal. When I live with equalness, the Nobodies usually like me but the Somebodies are not always so happy about it. I am not showing them due respect. When I was twelve, my mother told me that my first-grade teacher said, “I don’t know what to do with your son, Mrs. Winchester. He treats me as if he were Lord Mayor of London.” I was very sad to hear this, for I had loved and respected Miss Livingstone very much to learn from her, but still, she was my equal. I felt that way about Brad Pitt, too, when I was in my twenties. He liked this. To me, it is democracy. Equalness is with honesty, and accepting me as I am. Am I any different when I am a university press editor or when I am working as a cook in a boarding house? It is good for me to switch around this way in my living and notice the nonsense—that my views carry more weight as an editor than as a cook, when I am still the same person with the same views. #RandolphHarris 12 of 28
It was good for me to notice years ago that I was deferentially received by clerks when I was wearing a British wool suit, with my hair in place, and ignored by the same clerks when I was wearing Levi’s and a flannel shirt, with my hair blown about by riding in a convertible BMW. In both cases, I was not being met. And who—or what—was meeting me? If it denies itself, the open self is false, for then it is not open to its own needs. If it were not so easy to get mixed up, it would be nice. When I came to know my own need not to use force on others or myself, and that I must “let things happen,” and all would be well, I was so carefully guarding against imposing on others (looking outward) and so sure that what I needed would come about—and then it did not. It was a long time before I realized that I was making this non-happening happen by not permitting the happening of myself, that I was using force on me. We come upon those knowings in ourselves and misconstrue them, in terms of living by them, as I did. “I do not have to do anything—it will all come to me.” The words are all right when I read them in the right place in me. I should not do something intentionally to produce something. However, if I do not let myself happen, I cannot move into it, which is where the happenings take place. I still make this mistake sometimes, but I am quicker at noticing, now. When I knew that it was right for me to leave a place, I was waiting for circumstances or people to make this come about—to make it happen. I knew it was right: therefore, it should happen. Then I noticed that I was waiting for the decision to come from outside, forcing me. #RandolphHarris 13 of 28
At that point, I made the decision myself. In reality, it had already been made in me but I was not letting it act. When I did, then other happenings took place around me and they happened (on the whole) very well, not only for me but also for others—in ways that I could not have foreseen. True quiet means keeping still when the time has come to keep still, and going forward when the time has come to go forward. In this way, rest and movement are in agreement with the demands of the time, and then there is light in life. In general, of historical dynamics in terms of charisma and routinization is an attempt to answer the paradox of unintended consequences. For the charisma of the first hour may incite the followers of a warrior hero or prophet to forsake expediency for ultimate values. However, during the routinization of charisma, the material interests of an increased following are the compelling factor. A charismatic movement may be routinized into traditionalism or into bureaucratization. Which course is taken does not depend primarily upon the subjective intentional framework of the movement, and especially upon the economic order. “The routinization of charisma, in quite essential respects, is identical with adjustment to the conditions of the economy, that is, to the continuously effective routines of workaday life. In this, the economy leads and is not led.” Just as in this particular context leading role is given to the economy, and there is an appreciation of the determining weight of the economic bases. #RandolphHarris 14 of 28
Man’s spontaneity and freedom are placed on the side of heroic enthusiasm, and thus there is an aristocratic emphasis upon elites (“virtuosos”!). Man’s spontaneity and freedom are placed on the side of heroic enthusiasm, and thus there is an aristocratic emphasis upon elites (“virtuosos”!). This emphasis is intimately associated with the attitude of modern democracy. By skillfully selecting some facts but suppressing more facts, by emphasizing a few and ignoring many, by distortion and dishonesty, a case could be built up for evil as good and for good as evil. The futility of logic lies in this, that where facts please a man’s fancy, he will trot them forward in his oh-so-logical arguments, whereas where they are not to his taste, he will unblushingly suppress them. Those who take the trouble to form a rational opinion upon any matter by investigating the facts at first hand, have a stronger claim upon the attention of the thoughtful than those who receive ready-made opinions from books or hearsay. It should never be necessary for anyone to encircle the fine philosophy of the Spirit with the unworthy defenses of a refusal to face facts. We may measure the worth of a teaching by pressing it to its ultimate theoretical conclusion and by ascertaining clearly its ultimate practical destination. How factual is their teaching? So its tenets find confirmation in rigid observation in the factor of experiencing and the thoughts of reason? If his training of the intellect is to bear spiritual fruit, this is what he must ask himself. #RandolphHarris 15 of 28
Allyship benefits organizations, communities, and allies themselves. People who confront prejudice experience a sense of empowerment and confidence. However, allies need specific skills to effectively confront prejudice (such as the knowledge and ability to confront in an optimistic and calm tone). In light of this, an important direction of research is the development of allyship skills for the benefit of workers and organizations. Allyship for gender identity minorities could include one’s pronouns on written materials, such as name tags and email signatures. In doing this, the majority group members could confront prejudice and discrimination that would otherwise be directed at gender minorities. For many of the award-winning members of the Sacramento Fire Department, officers, EMTs, and paramedics, the certification and training offered is often complemented by an educational degree. Some departments give incentives to further one’s education or require it for promotion to administrative positions. Community colleges and universities offer associates, bachelors, masters, and even PhDs in subjects that are related to their field. The fire service also has higher education opportunities. The United States Fire Administration/National Fire Academy offers the Executive Fire Officer Program (EFOP). The EFOP is designed to provide senior fire officers with a broad perspective on various facets of fire and emergency services administration. Although the application process and prerequisites vary over time, interested students who have higher rank and higher education levels are generally given preference. #RandolphHarris 16 of 28
One summer, in the early mornings, a flash of lightning and a tremendous crash of what seemed to be thunder awakened the entire population of the city during a heavy rainstorm. Minutes later, a red glare appeared in the sky, and residents poured into the streets. What they found there was a scene of destruction never before witnessed in the history of the young city. Over 40 homes were destroyed, with another 100 homes sustaining serious damage from the concussion of the explosion. Witnesses could see the damage in the glare of the fire. Windows had been shattered, chimneys blown down, and siding stripped away from homes. Some roofs were blown off and complete destruction had ensued. Dazed and bloody people were wandering around what was left of their destroyed homes. Apparently, a bolt of lightning had struck a factory and caused the explosion. People were shaken awake by the crash of breaking glass. Windows had been blown out in several stores. The sound of the explosion was heard 15 miles to the north and to the south. The fire department and many doctors were immediately summoned to the scene. Despite the ferocity of the blast, there was only one fatality: a sleeping man who was struck by a brick. Many others reported injuries such as cuts and bruises from flying debris or being covered with plaster and debris while in their beds. Stories of near misses were abundant. Many said that bricks had been blown through the walls of their homes, bouncing off the headboards of their beds. Therefore, if you ever hear an unattended fire alarm or if there is a fire alarm going off, it is generally a good idea to call the fire department and evacuate a structure. Sometimes people have chemicals or other things that could cause an explosion. #RandolphHarris 17 of 28
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 18 of 28
California is the third most expensive state in the nation. 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. In 37 percent of counties, a family of four living on a six-figure income is now considered low-income. In fact, Governor Gavin Newsom of Democratic controlled California, brags about being the world’s “fifth largest economy,” but it also facing a $12 billion deficit, looking to cut $747 million for state worker’s pay, pushing to keep medical insurance for illegal immigrants, but wants to cut medical for anyone who has assets over $2,000 and the state has the largest homeless population in the nation. 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. 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. 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. This is caused by nearly half a century-old laws that discourage home sales and encourage higher rents. #RandolphHarris 19 of 28
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 will housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. 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 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 boarder 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 risks 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 28
Other crises that have occurred due to neglect of critical infrastructure are the 2025 Palisades fires because Southern California ran out of water, when they are located next to an ocean and they could have simply created desalination plants to help with the water shortage. The water 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. As we see gangs fighting with federal law enforcement, states and cities refusing to honor federal laws, and politicians showing an utter disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America, anarchy is becoming increasingly common. 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 is merely the product of property and authority. #RandolphHarris 21 of 26
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 22 of 26
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. 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 or $88,724.00, and that typically means two to four people in the home are working and contributing to the mortgage. #RandolphHarris 23 of 28
Home prices in Sacramento County are rivaling the Bay Area. 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. The State of California has a budget deficit of $12 billion because Governor Gavin Newsom 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. Additionally, Newsom seems to be uneducated about economics and is proposing to fast-track his plan to build a $20 billion water tunnel beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, which would eliminate environmental reviews and limit avenues for legal challenges. Gavin Newsom only cares about the environment when his policies allow him to raise taxes and restrict freedoms. To further highlight this illustration, 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 poop, 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. #RandolphHarris 24 of 28
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 25 of 28
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 26 of 28
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. Moreover, please remember to respect law and order and treat your elders with the utmost dignity and kindness possible. And take your education seriously so that you will be successful in life and make your family proud. 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. #RandolphHarris 27 of 28
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. As of 31 August 2025, President Trump has brought $8 Billion in Tariff revenue into America and hundreds of thousands of new jobs. 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. 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 fulness 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. 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 28 of 28
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. Come and see what secrets this so-called, “Winchester Mystery House” may hold.
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. 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.
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/
Harris Plumbing, Heating, Air, & Electric has been in business for 30 years. How many businesses can say that? We take pride in everything we do – no matter how big or small the service call might be. We’re here to help your home be as safe and comfortable as possible for you and your family. We take that responsibility very seriously as a company. 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/
Ah, yes. The BMW 3 Series. Happy 50th birthday to the most iconic BMW ever! It is really hard to decide on a BMW model. However, the 3 series is a favorite of everyone. All the upper-class suburban families had one in the 1980s and 1990s; everyone from teenagers and housewives to executives and diplomats. Now that they are larger in size, but still sporty and luxurious, the audience has grown tremendously. These are very stylish and reliable cars, which is why BMW continues to dominate the luxury car space.
With its top ranking in Consumer Reports’ Auto Brand Report Card and consistent market share growth, BMW has demonstrated its ability to produce high-performing, reliable vehicles that meet consumer demands. BMW stands out due to its focus on driving dynamics and engineering excellence. While other luxury brands prioritize comfort and opulence, BMW is known for creating cars that are fun to drive and offer a unique connection between the driver and the machine. This is why BMW is known as the Ultimate Driving Machine. https://www.brianharrisbmw.com/
Randolph Harris San Francisco Taxation & Mergers
Building strong and lasting client relationships is crucial for a successful legal career. Many lawyers mistakenly believe that mastering legal skills alone ensures success, but law is fundamentally a service industry—our job is to solve problems through the time we sell. To build long-term relationships, attorneys must focus on three core elements: knowing their clients, understanding how their legal issues fit into a larger context, and consistently delivering exceptional service.
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I am confident that we will literally be called upon to make an account before God concerning how we have used [our resources] to bless lives and build the kingdom. Accepting responsibility is not always easy. It can be tempting to try to shift blame or make excuses. However, doing so will only prevent us from learning from our mistakes and growing as individuals. When we accept responsibility for our actions, we take ownership of our mistakes and commit to doing better in the future. There are many benefits to accepting responsibility. First, it allows us to learn from our mistakes. When we take ownership of our mistakes, we can begin to understand what went wrong and how we can avoid making the same mistakes in the future. Second, accepting responsibility builds trust. When others see that we are willing to take responsibility for our actions, they are more likely to trust us and believe that we are genuine. Third, accepting responsibility can help us to feel better about ourselves. When we know that we have done wrong, it can weigh heavily on our conscience. However, when we accept responsibility and take steps to make things right, we can start to feel better about ourselves and move on from our mistakes. However, Ordinary blameworthiness is robust; it is not undermined by consideration of formative circumstances. It is only the realm of detached blame that is shrinking as we conceptualize more things as illness, and perhaps that is no bad thing: our talk of evil usually does not bring much of value to anything. #RandolphHarris 1 of 30
Ordinary blame depends on a shared moral community. Once we enter the realm of detached blame, we have already taken a step away from genuine interpersonal engagement. Someone who is not part of our moral community is not eligible for ordinary blame; our attitude towards them can only be a sort of detached blame: it cannot involve normative expectations, gratitude, or resentment. In detached blame, we stand back and disapprove, disdain, despise, disavow; we do not engage, or at least, not with the aim of reciprocity. Detached blame can involve a modification of the relationship, but in a one-sided way: we avoid such people, and not just for prudential reasons, it is done for its own sake. Detached blame can be fierce, but it can also be undermined. Reflecting on the way that an agent was caused to be the way they are draws us towards the truly objective stance. When we see people from a truly objective stance, we cease to see them as agents at all, and the notion of blame becomes inapplicable. There are many ways to make amends. Sometimes, the best way to make amends is to simply apologize. A sincere apology can go a long way in healing relationships and restoring trust. In other cases, we may need to do more than just apologize. We may need to make amends by offering to fix the damage that we have caused, or by providing support to the person we have wronged. #RandolphHarris 2 of 30
Making amends can be a difficult and humbling experience. However, it is also an incredibly rewarding one. When we make amends, we not only restore harmony in our relationships, but we also heal ourselves. By taking responsibility for our actions and making amends, we can move on from our mistakes and create a more positive and fulfilling life. Therefore, be honest with yourself. The first step to accepting responsibility is to be honest with yourself about your mistakes. This means acknowledging that you made a mistake and understanding the impact of your actions. Apologize sincerely. Once you have accepted responsibility for your actions, the next step is to apologize sincerely to the person you have wronged. Your apology should be genuine and heartfelt. It should not be conditional or full of excuses. Many say that the gospel is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comforted. However, the rich, the poor, and all of us in between have things that we need to overcome. When it comes to overcoming being greedy, selfish, and overly indulgent, we all need a lot more help. President Trump said: “The worst fear I have about these people is that they will get rich in this country, forget God and Hos people, wax fat, and kick themselves out of the Church. My greater fear is that they cannot stand wealth.” Our prosperity brings some real challenges because many are getting rich, more of us are waxing fat, and because of greed, selfishness, and overindulgence, we could lose the Spirit and literally lose our souls. #RandolphHarris 3 of 30
Money and material things are on the minds of almost everyone. The great question of the twenty-first century is, “How can I acquire wealth?” No question occupies a larger place in the minds and hearts of people today than this. This is true of men in every situation in every walk of life. Money, in and of itself, is not an evil. However, as Pau taught Timothy, it is the love of money that is the root of all evil. There are some of the wealthy who deal with their prosperity very well, using their resources to bless others and build the kingdom. For many, however, wealth presents major difficulties. As we deal with the materialism that threatens us, there are some things we need to consider. Belonging to a perpetrator group can induce a distressing threat to the collective moral identity of the community. A victim sees the group that they belong to as being in a disadvantaged position of the self or the ingroup, and the perception of the disadvantage as unfair, and believes that better conditions are deserved (for the self or the ingroup), thereby provoking anger and resentment because there were no cries of alarm, no disapproval and virtually no support. Nonetheless, as humanitarian witnesses, we expect victims to feel bad. In fact, that is sometimes why people are victimized. When people are viewed as superior, having an advantage, being successful and virtuous, those without power or authority want these individuals to suffer. Victims, as a result, feel the same kind of rancor appropriate to those who are unjustly punished. #RandolphHarris 4 of 30
However, many victims of injustice continue to see themselves as unlucky, compared to other potential victims, without feeling any resentment toward perpetrators and beneficiaries. Some victims feel lost. Being lost, having losses, losing—as negative states, these are all ways of feeling bad. So, too, are forms of trauma associated with the infliction of violence, pain, or both, of which the victim seems presently unaware. Victims who do not yet feel bad are often said to be traumatized. When trauma is present, the mind becomes split or dissociated and is unable to register the memory of the event. As a result, the traumatized individual is unable to consciously recollect and integrate the traumatic experience and is haunted by intrusive memories. The experience of trauma becomes frozen in time: it is not represented as past, but rather reexperience repeatedly as a traumatic event in the present. High levels of emotional activation can lead to strong conditioned responses while also impairing the memory processes. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a timeless phenomenon that interrupts the ordinary continuum of the past, present, and future. In PTSD patients, intense memories of the trauma coexist with disorganized and incomplete narrative memory. The most common kind of recall of traumatic memories consists of flashbacks, which are usually vivid and yet involve a disruption of the sense of time. They are usually triggered involuntarily and imply the person’s avoidance of stimuli that can be reminders of the trauma. Trauma is timelessly preserved in memory—a fact that might account for the long-term effects of PTSD. Trauma is not part of a declarative or narrative memory, but remains implicit and non-declarative, encoded in bodily memories and conditioned responses lying outside the verbal domain of cognitive function. #RandolphHarris 5 of 30
By far, the most common contributor to suicide is the strain in social relationships. There can be no question that life insurance to the would-be suicide victim’s beneficiaries may be an advantage rather than a loss. The Metropolitan Life, during 1923, paid out $24,738,900.47 (2025 inflation-adjusted) on account of suicide claims against $9,001,439.60 (2025 inflation-adjusted). In four years, the company had paid out $15,737,406.87 million, suggestive of the pecuniary interests that some people have in not supporting victims of crime. Suicide is quite profitable for some people. What is fueling the culture of victimizing and terrorizing people is not only to make oneself feel superior, but also avarice or greed. Avarice is defined as an excessive, unsatisfying, and insatiable desire for wealth or gain. If you have hundreds, you are not satisfied until you get thousands, and when you get thousands, you are not satisfied until you get millions, and as soon as you get millions, of course, now you want billions. And so not only is it greed that is the driving force behind the notorious victimization of strangers, our friends, and even our families, but it is also the driving force of the American economy. Our banks and investment firms are all driven by greed, and when their greed gets them in trouble and their profits are marginalized, the federal government rides in on a $700 billion bailout horse to rescue these greedy corporations. For greedy families, they can simply hope and pray for one to get sick and capitalize on a life insurance policy, or they can try to kill a family member off or push that person to suicide. And that is why some families sit back and watch their relatives suffer, while offering no assistance. #RandolphHarris 6 of 30
Nearly every therapist likes to think that the patient chose him and his profession because, in this choice at least, he was rational, intelligent, and discriminating, no matter how confused he might be about everything else. This feeling of being chosen on merit—the merit of one’s profession and personal merit as well—is a healthy one, and is one of the rewards of our vocation. Every therapist, therefore, is entitled to bask in it and to enjoy it to the utmost—for about five or seven minutes. After that, if he wants the patient to get well, he should put it on the shelf with his other trophies and his diplomas and forget it permanently. Dr. Q may be a very good therapist, and he may have the diplomas and the reputation and the patients to confirm it. He may think that is the reason the patients come to him, or the patient may tell him so. He should be sobered, however, by the thought of all the patients who do not choose him. According to the available statistics, forty-two percent of troubled people go first to their clergyman, and not to a psychiatrist, and nearly all the rest go to their family doctors. And only about one patient out of five disturbed people do not choose psychiatry as their treatment, even though in almost all cases it is available at the state hospital, if nowhere else. In addition, a very large percentage of patients who have a choice deliberately choose the second-best therapist rather than the best, and a quite large percentage choose the worst. #RandolphHarris 7 of 30
The same thing happens in other branches of medicine. It is also well known that many people spend more money destroying themselves with liquor, drugs, and gambling than they would on the psychotherapy that might save them. Given a free choice, the patient will choose a therapist according to the needs of his script. In some places, he has no choice but must go to the local witch doctor, shaman, warlock, sorcerer, or angakok. In other places, he has a choice between a traditional doctor and a modern one, and will choose the magic of tradition or the magic of science according to local custom and political pressure. In China and India, traditional and modern approaches are often combined, as in the mental hospitals in Madras where Ayur-Vedic medicine and Yoga exercises were used in conjunction with modern treatments for psychoses. In many cases, his choice is forced by financial considerations. In America, most patients do not have a free choice of therapists, but are referred or assigned by various “authorities” to one type or another: psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric social workers, psychiatric nurses, counselors, and even sociologists. A patient in a clinic, social agency, mental hospital, or government hospital may be assigned to any of these professions. A schoolboy is sent to the school counselor, and a person on probation is sent to a probation officer who may have no therapeutic training at all. If the patient has no prior knowledge or fantasies about psychotherapy and he likes his first therapist, he will often favor that therapist’s profession if he seeks treatment elsewhere. #RandolphHarris 8 of 30
It is in private practice where free choice does exist that the “scripty” selections begin to emerge, particularly in the choice between psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, psychologists, and psychiatric social workers, and between the competent and the incompetent members of these professions. Christian Scientists, for example, if they do go to a medical therapist, often choose a less competent one, since their scripts prohibit them from being cured by a medical person. There are also subdivisions and schools in these professions to choose from. Among psychiatrists, for example, there are types colloquially called “shock treaters,” “drug-givers,” “shrinks,” and hypnotists, and if the patient makes his own choice among these, as he often does, he will choose the one that suits his script. If he is referred by the family doctor, the doctor may well choose the one that fits in with his own script. This is most clearly seen when the patient seeks or is referred to a hypnotist. If he calls a psychiatrist to request hypnosis and that psychiatrist does not use hypnosis, the ensuing conversation becomes very scripty as the patient insists that he must be put to sleep before he can get better. Some people automatically (id est, by script directive) go to the Mayo Clinic and others to the Menninger Clinic. Similarly, in choosing a psychoanalyst, some, for script reasons, select the most orthodox one possible, others prefer more flexibility, and still others go to “analysts” belonging to splinter schools. #RandolphHarris 9 of 30
Sometimes the age of gender of the therapist is important for scripty reasons, such as a need to seduce or a fear of seduction. Rebels often go to rebellious therapists. People with failure scripts pick the worst possible therapists, such as chiropractors or outright quacks. The only relics of Dr. Darwinian natural selection left in America, where everyone is “take care of,” are chiropractors, because the more widely they are allowed to practice, the more quickly will unfit members of humanity be eliminated by their treatment. There are clear indicators that three factors are determined by the patient’s script directives. Whether he seeks help at all, or just lets things run their course; the choice of the therapist, where there is a choice; whether the therapy is destined to be successful. Thus, a person with a loser’s script will either not go to a therapist, or may choose an incompetent one. In the latter case, when the treatment fails, he not only remains a loser, as his script calls for, but also has various other satisfactions from his misadventure; for example, he can blame the therapist, or obtain a Hemostatic satisfaction from being the “worst” patient, or boast that he had ten years of therapy with Dr. X at a cost of Y thousands of dollars with no benefit. Yet, if the major part is gold, we may still call it gold. If, in advising a friend, the major motivation is a friendly intention of constructive help, we may well be satisfied. Not so the person in the clutches of faultfinding. This is deceptive just because there are grains of truth in such reasoning. #RandolphHarris 10 of 30
It is hard to shake the neurotic loose from his self-hate. His error in judging the entirety of a situation is clearly shown. He may see that he overfocuses on certain aspects and ignores others. Nevertheless, he sticks to his verdict. The reason is that his logic operates on different premises from those of a healthy person. Since the advice he gave was not the absolute of helpfulness, the whole action was morally objectionable, and so he starts to beat himself down and refuses to let himself be dissuaded from his self-accusations. These observations refute the assumption sometimes made by the psychiatrists that self-blame is merely a clever device to elicit reassurance or to escape blame and punishment. That, of course, does occur. On the part of children, or of grownups, toward intimidating authorities, it may be nothing but a strategy. Even so, we must be careful with our judgment and should examine the need for so much reassurance. To generalize about these instances and to regard self-accusations as such as serving only strategic ends means a total failure to appreciate their destructive power. Self-accusations, furthermore, may focus on adversities that are outside the individual’s control. These are most conspicuous in psychotics, who may accuse themselves, for instance, of a murder they read about, of responsibility for a flood in the Middle West six hundred miles away. Seemingly absurd self-accusations often are the outstanding symptoms in melancholic conditions. However, the self-accusation in neurosis, while less grotesque, may be no less unrealistic. #RandolphHarris 11 of 30
Why do people manipulate? Many do so because they are beset by fear, fear of others, and fear of expressing the truth of their feelings and desires. They are afraid that if others know the truth of their feelings and desires, they will be at the mercy of others. However, manipulators are often selective about what they fear. Some who fear anger avoid conflict and confrontation with others. Others who fear love avoid closeness with others. And some fear being weak, while others fear being strong. It is the denial of what we fear that defines our manipulative style or pattern. If you are afraid of love, you may be avoiding it with phony expressions of anger. You are predominantly aggressive in your dealings with others and play the role of the blamer and attacker. In doing so, you avoid closeness with others, but you also lose touch with your authentic anger. If you are afraid of anger, you may be avoiding it with phony expressions of love. You play the role of pleaser and placater in the belief that you can get what you want from others without confrontation and conflict. This allows you to avoid feeling and expressing genuine anger, but you also lose touch with your authentic love. If you are afraid of being weak, you may avoid any hint that you are “just a human being” with phony expressions of superiority. You play the role of controller and dictator. By refusing to allow others to be strong, you enhance only the appearance of your own strength. You thereby lose both the power of genuine strength and the opportunities for closeness with others that authentic vulnerability (weakness) brings. #RandolphHarris 12 of 30
If you are afraid of being too strong, you avoid responsibility with phony expressions of incompetence, weakness, and humility. You play the role of avoider and withdrawer, avoiding opportunities to display adequacy and withdrawing from participation with others. You fear that someone might expect more from you than you are willing to give. In doing so, you never have to perform (be strong). You are also seldom able to achieve, and you often overlook your genuine feelings of weakness. Examples of manipulation: Fear and Denial of Lead to Phony Expressions of Lead to Phony Expressions of: Genuine Love….Blaming and Attacking. Genuine Anger….Pleasing and Placating. Genuine Weakness….Controlling and Dictating. Genuine Strength….Withdrawing and Avoiding. Since manipulation is learned by experience in actual encounter with the world, it is important to overcome manipulation by similar methods. The methods cannot be simply intellectual, but must be experiential as well. Self-affirmation. A healthy conscience is not experienced as an “alien power” within the total personality structure, a power compulsively obeyed out of dread. Rather, it is composed of a set of ideals and taboos, each of which has been examined by the person and affirmed so that it became a true part of the real self. A self-affirmed conscience is one to which the person conforms because he or she wants to, not through fear of disobeying. Another way of saying this is to assert that the person feels he or she owns the conscience. The individual has had a voice in determining the rules by which he or she will live, like the citizen in a democracy who does not mind conforming with the rules that the person has helped formulate. #RandolphHarris 13 of 30
A healthy conscience is based upon general values and ideals that remain fixed throughout life or that change only with difficulty. However, the specific behavior that these values call for is not rigidly defined. The person can challenge these self-demands when they are no longer relevant to his or her present life circumstances. For example, a student may have been trained to believe that premarital pleasures of the flesh relationships are evil and destructive of love. In his college career, he may live with a girl and enjoy intimacies involving pleasures of the flesh within the context of a loving relationship. He discovers that no harm befalls the young lady or himself. He may change one of the taboos that is at the root of his conscience. Another student who once believed that premarital pleasures of the flesh were permissible may change and accept a taboo against the practice. If the conscience is not authoritarian, this openness to change is most possible. Persons with a healthy conscience are living among other people, and so they will be obliged to share at least some of the other people’s ideals and taboos. This is not to say that their conscience must be congruent with social mores. These persons may find their values more ethical than the prevailing mores, and so they will follow their conscience rather than the moral expectations of their peers. It may be necessary for persons with a healthy conscience to resist the efforts of others to make them conform to their moral precepts. They may even have to leave home because of moral-ethical differences and seek a group more congenial to their outlooks. #RandolphHarris 14 of 30
It is not implied that a healthy conscience will be highly lenient, permitting any antisocial behavior. Indeed, it may be difficult to conform to the precepts of a healthy conscience. Dr. Fromm has stated that the voice of a humanistic conscience may be only dimly heard because it is readily masked by the authoritarian elements of the conscience. As Dr. Fromm puts it, conscience “is the voice of our true ‘selves’ which summons us back to ourselves, to live productively, to develop fully and harmoniously—that is, to become what we potentially are.” He points out further that guilt arising from violation of a healthy conscience may be difficult to identify; we might feel guilt arising from our authoritarian conscience when we ignore its demands to pursue the requirements of a healthy conscience. There have been several theories to explain why humans exhibit altruistic behavior. These include: evolutionary perspectives involving kin selection and reciprocal altruism; social exchange theory; and the empathy-altruism hypothesis. In Dr. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, he postulated that traits that aided humans to survive and reproduce were more likely to be passed on from one generation to the next. It would appear at first glance that genes promoting selfish behavior would likely be passed on. One way that evolutionary psychologists attempt to explain how a trait such as altruism could be passed on through kin selection. #RandolphHarris 15 of 30
Kin selection is the idea that behaviors that help a blood relative would be favored by natural selection. Not only can one pass on their genes by having children, but also by ensuring that their relatives have children. Evolutionary theorists also use the norm of natural selection to help explain altruism. This is the expectation that helping others will increase the likelihood that they will help us in the future. It is posited that groups that learned to cooperate were more likely to survive than selfish and isolated individuals. The emotion of gratitude may have evolved to facilitate reciprocity. That is, if someone is helped, they feel grateful, which motivates them to return the favor in the future. For the people of the award-winning Sacramento Fire Department, helping others is rewarding. It is an investment in the future, not unlike reciprocal altruism. It can feel distressing just to observe someone in pain. Helping that person can then relieve our own discomfort. This, in turn, can help us gain social rewards like approval from others and greater feelings of self-worth. From this perspective, altruistic acts only occur when the perceived gains of helping outweigh the perceived risks. One morning, at nearly 1 o’clock, a saloon was discovered to be on fire. By the time the fire department arrived, the entire structure was ablaze. The nearest building on the east, a carpenter shop, was quickly set ablaze as well from the intense heat and flames. A small dwelling house was also set ablaze. #RandolphHarris 16 of 30
The winds then changed to a westerly direction, spreading flames to another home. Another carpentry shop was thought to be next to succumb to the heat, but the Sacramento Fire Department managed to save the building through hard work. It must have been an incredible feat, for the building was only two feet from the previous home that had just caught fire. The losses on all the buildings added up to between $4 million and $6 million. The newspaper stated that “the fire department did as good a job as could be expected under the circumstances.” New firefighters are trained to take orders from their first day at the academy. They learn to trust their officer’s judgment and follow his or her lead the first time they enter a burning building. Providing them with the latest protective gear on their back and having an officer with years of experience escorting them, the sense of security the Sacramento Fire Department gives trainees far outweighs their worries of self-preservation. They are taught that what they had previously perceived as fear is both normal and exciting, and they cannot wait to impress their peers and instructors. The Sacramento Fire Department pushes firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics through dangerous scenarios repeatedly, and they emerge unscathed each time. As they gain more experience, their armor grows thicker and their confidence builds through recognition-primed decision making. Sure, the Sacramento Fire Department teaches them building construction and lightweight trusses and the dangers of collapse in the classroom, but then it is back to the burn building where they are victorious again, and nothing falls down. Eventually, they become firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics. During their career, they learn to pick up on the visual clues that allow them to make decisions for themselves. #RandolphHarris 17 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 18 of 30
California is the third most expensive state in the nation. 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. In 37 percent of counties, a family of four living on a six-figure income is now considered low-income. In fact, Governor Gavin Newsom of Democratic controlled California, brags about being the world’s “fifth largest economy,” but it also facing a $12 billion deficit, looking to cut $747 million for state worker’s pay, pushing to keep medical insurance for illegal immigrants, but wants to cut medical for anyone who has assets over $2,000 and the state has the largest homeless population in the nation. 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. 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. 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. This is caused by nearly half a century-old laws that discourage home sales and encourage higher rents. #RandolphHarris 19 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 will housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. 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 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 boarder 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 risks 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 30
Other crises that have occurred due to neglect of critical infrastructure are the 2025 Palisades fires because Southern California ran out of water, when they are located next to an ocean and they could have simply created desalination plants to help with the water shortage. The water 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. As we see gangs fighting with federal law enforcement, states and cities refusing to honor federal laws, and politicians showing an utter disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America, anarchy is becoming increasingly common. 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 is merely the product of property and authority. #RandolphHarris 21 of 30
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 22 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. 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 at Cresleigh Homes 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 or $88,724.00, and that typically means two to four people in the home are working and contributing to the mortgage. #RandolphHarris 23 of 30
Home prices in Sacramento County are rivaling the Bay Area. 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. The State of California has a budget deficit of $12 billion because Governor Gavin Newsom 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. Additionally, Newsom seems to be uneducated about economics and is proposing to fast-track his plan to build a $20 billion water tunnel beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, which would eliminate environmental reviews and limit avenues for legal challenges. Gavin Newsom only cares about the environment when his policies allow him to raise taxes and restrict freedoms. To further highlight this illustration, 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 poop, 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. #RandolphHarris 24 of 30
However, Mexico’s pollution of California has become a severe public health crisis as the population of Tijuana has drastically increased in recent years, and the waste treatment plants are no longer usable. Some of the beaches in San Diego have been closed for more than three years, and evidence suggests that even breathing the air may be harmful, as toxic particles in the water can become airborne. Yet, even though Gavin Newsom has been governor for six years, he has not rushed into action to stop this very preventable environmental disaster. Why? Because he is not getting kickbacks from China and Mexico, not being gifted mansions and cars, and he cannot tax the struggling California taxpayers to clean up this mess. Simply, it is not profitable for him. Gavin Newsom has been a total tyrant with no regard for taxpayers and no mind for business, and he should be impeached as soon as possible. He has criminalized poverty, increased taxes, increased taxes on gas, and insurance rates so high that people are struggling to survive. In addition to Gavin Newsom’s increased gas prices starting on 1 July 2025, the war between Iran and Israel is going to further exacerbate the prices of gas and cause more inflation and economic hardship for people in California. While everyone is making war over America and who belongs here and who she belongs to, so many people forget about the people who are Indigenous to this land. Open borders have allowed hundreds of thousands of cartel operatives to infiltrate reservations across the United States of America and use the isolated lands as havens to traffic fentanyl pills and other drugs into the country without protection from federal authorities. #RandolphHarris 25 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 26 of 30
If Gavin Newsom is not stopped, next he will euthanize the poor and sterilize the disabled. Under Governor Gavin Newsom, California has the highest car theft rate in the United States of America. Violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs, and homeless people have overtaken cities. Wars and fires are breaking out on the streets. This monster is unfit to be governor and must never be allowed to be President of America! Stop Gavin Newsom now! Save California and impeach this unreasonable man. Meanwhile, with President Trump, we are seeing crime rates sharply decrease. He is restoring law and order, starting in Washington D.C., and he just signed the “HALT Fentanyl Act” into law, which permanently classifies the narcotic as a “Schedule I drug” under the “Controlled Substances Act.” Also, President Trump recently secured $10 trillion in investments for the United States of America. Additionally, in May of 2025, the United States of America collected a record $100 billion in tariff revenue, and that number will increase to $300 billion by the end of 2025. Also, President Trump has just sealed a $550 billion deal with Japan. This means Japan will invest $550 billion in the United States of America. Furthermore, President Trump has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for making Iran and Israel cease fire. As you can see, President Trump is creating solutions and remediating problems to protect America and the American people, while Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is making life hard on American citizens and causing economic hardship, and totally ignoring Mexico’s polluting beaches in San Diego. If elected president for an unprecedented third term, to make housing more affordable and to offset the cost of homeowners’ insurance and auto insurance, President Trump plans to abolish property taxes. #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. Moreover, please remember to respect law and order and treat your elders with the utmost dignity and kindness possible. And take your education seriously so that you will be successful in life and make your family proud. 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. #RandolphHarris 29 of 30
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. 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 fulness 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. 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
On Friday, September 5th, we invite you to join us in honoring Sarah Winchester on the 103rd anniversary of her passing.
The gardens will be open with free admission that day, and guests are welcome to enter the Front Parlor to offer their respects to Sarah. The bell will ring at the 13th hour (1:00 PM) in remembrance of her life. We hope you will take this opportunity to honor the life and legacy of the woman behind the mansion. 🌹 🖤https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/
Harris Plumbing, Heating, Air, & Electric has been in business for 30 years. How many businesses can say that? We take pride in everything we do – no matter how big or small the service call might be. We’re here to help your home be as safe and comfortable as possible for you and your family. We take that responsibility very seriously as a company. 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/
Ah, yes. The BMW 3 Series. Happy 50th birthday to the most iconic BMW ever! It is really hard to decide on a BMW model. However, the 3 series is a favorite of everyone. All the upper-class suburban families had one in the 1980s and 1990s; everyone from teenagers and housewives to executives and diplomats. Now that they are larger in size, but still sporty and luxurious, the audience has grown tremendously. These are very stylish and reliable cars, which is why BMW continues to dominate the luxury car space.
With its top ranking in Consumer Reports’ Auto Brand Report Card and consistent market share growth, BMW has demonstrated its ability to produce high-performing, reliable vehicles that meet consumer demands. BMW stands out due to its focus on driving dynamics and engineering excellence. While other luxury brands prioritize comfort and opulence, BMW is known for creating cars that are fun to drive and offer a unique connection between the driver and the machine. This is why BMW is known as the Ultimate Driving Machine. https://www.brianharrisbmw.com/
Randolph Harris San Francisco Taxation & Mergers
Building strong and lasting client relationships is crucial for a successful legal career. Many lawyers mistakenly believe that mastering legal skills alone ensures success, but law is fundamentally a service industry—our job is to solve problems through the time we sell. To build long-term relationships, attorneys must focus on three core elements: knowing their clients, understanding how their legal issues fit into a larger context, and consistently delivering exceptional service.
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
Magnolia Station at Cresleigh Ranch
Rancho Cordova, CA | 4 Bedrooms – 3.5 Bathrooms – 3,377 sq. ft. – $796,485.
Homes built by Cresleigh Homes are made to last. Throughout each community you will find thoughtful design crafted with YOU in mind. We offer homes for any lifestyle and stand by our construction quality – it’s why we’ve been in the business for over 30 years.
Welcome to 770 Havenwood, where Residence Four, the largest floor plan offered in the community offers an impressive 3,377 square feet of thoughtfully designed living space. This expansive two-story home features four bedrooms, including a private suite on the first floor, three and one-half bathrooms, and a true three car garage to meet the needs of growing families or multigenerational living.
Inside, you’ll find four bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, and a generous three-car garage. A versatile den provides the flexibility to be used as a private study or converted into an optional fifth bedroom. The thoughtfully designed kitchen and dining area create a seamless flow, making entertaining effortless.
A covered porch welcomes you into a warm and inviting entry, where the dining room is thoughtfully placed just off the foyer. The gourmet kitchen connects seamlessly to the dining area through a convenient butler’s pantry, providing both elegance and additional storage.
Upstairs, the spacious loft and generous great room offer flexibility for entertainment, relaxation, or work from home needs, easily adapting to your lifestyle. With no HOA fees, complimentary solar, and up to $41,000 in Flex Cash to be used toward closing costs or interior upgrades on select homes, this residence presents a rare opportunity for exceptional value.
Every Cresleigh home includes the All Ready Connected smart home package, designed to simplify and enhance your daily life. Enjoy integrated features such as a video doorbell, digital deadbolt, smart switches, USB outlets, and a connected home hub that allows you to create personalized scenes and routines. As a bonus, your home also comes with a Google Home Hub and Google Home Mini to help you stay connected and in control. https://cresleigh.com/havenwood/move-in-ready-homesite-5/
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of Cresleigh Homes. There is a magic in that little world, of my Cresleigh Home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits.
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Heavenly Father, please guide our steps as a nation. With grace and great discernment, lead us in the direction that aligns with Your will. Grant America the strength to overcome challenges and persevere in our endeavors. Lord, let Your favor be upon us. Open doors of opportunity and bless the work of our hands. In Jesus’ name, Amen. Happy 250 Years, America.
When You Enter Town, Look as Repulsive as You Can
When people think of the youth, they envision a noisier and more obvious subrace of human beings. In the picturesque segment of the younger generation, we are witnessing an exacerbated “identity-consciousness” which seems to play havoc not only with our formulations of the positive and negative identity, but also with our assumptions concerning manifest and latent behavior and conscious and unconscious process. What appears to us to be profoundly relative is displayed by them as a relativistic “stance.” Sixty years ago, we gingerly suggested that some young people might be suffering from an unconscious identity conflict, a certain type today tells us in no uncertain terms, and with the dramatic outer display of what we once considered to be inner secrets, that yes, indeed, the youth of today is also suffering from gender identity confusion. Yes, indeed; sometimes when we see them walking down the street, it is impossible for us to tell, without indelicate scrutiny, what gender some people are. Negative identity? Oh yes, they seem to want to be everything that traditional “society,” tells them not to be: in this, at least, they “conform.” And as for such fancy terms as psychosocial moratorium, they will certainly take their time, and take it with a vengeance, until they are sure whether they want any of the identity offered in a conformist world. #RandolphHarris 1 of 29
However, is what they lay claim to exactly what we meant? And have we and what we meant not also changed in response to the same events that altered the status of the identity conflict? As we see, the establishment is going against the establishment, and the older generations are dropping their illusion of conformity and normalcy. They have become rogue, toxic, perverted, and scandalous, and they are influencing the youth to follow in their footsteps, while their minds are still underdeveloped and impressionable. The youth are becoming conflicted because they have part of society telling them to be mature, traditional, get an education, and follow their gender roles. On the other hand, they have important leaders, role models, and the media telling them that gender roles are outdated and they should consider alternative lifestyles and allow them media to groom them into being whatever they see fit. This is crucial because it is during adolescence that the ideological structure of the environment becomes essential for the ego. After all, without an ideological simplification of the universe, the adolescent ego cannot organize experience according to its specific capacities and its expanding involvement. Therefore, adolescence is becoming a stage of confusion in which the individual does not have a solid moral guideline or role model to help them form a healthy identity. #RandolphHarris 2 of 29
If bisexual and gender confusion has now become in some young people a posture and a blatant challenge, does that mean that they—as a generation—are less clear about essential gender differences, or are paralyzed, or, indeed, are without fidelities in their sexual lives? The traditional gender roles which they are being taught to object to are the glue that keeps the human race thriving. Some parents are no longer dismayed by their children choosing their gender, even if it is not what they were assigned at birth. Parents are even encouraging their children not to conform to the norms of society and to take part in the rebellious identity formation. There is, of course, a more dangerous display of truly negative and ugly possibilities when people flaunt the motto, “Smite God, and live out loud.” This is closer to the potentially criminal identity which feeds on rejection by others who are only too eager to confirm it. Maybe this is a new and more open form of an adaptation to psychiatric enlightenment which in the past has employed seemingly less dangerous because mostly verbal forms: for from Dr. Freud’s early days onward, enlightened people have adapted to his insights by mouthing the names of their neuroses—and keeping the neuroses, too. Presently, this hysteria is dominating the psychological market, becoming strenuously overt because of symptoms denoting a psychiatric condition of massive proportions. #RandolphHarris 3 of 29
This opens many hidden problems to scrutinize. How can undeveloped minds be allowed to be groomed by teachers, professionals, parents, and the media to adopt lifestyles that are not natural to them? It can happen then that a person who is otherwise reasonable and co-operative may become agitated and go, as it were, on a wild spree of feeling abused by everybody and everything: his relatives exploit him, his teacher is unfair, his doctor messed up his genitals, analysis does him no good, etcetera. He may be quite abusive toward others and may have violent fits of temper at home. In trying to understand his upset, the first factor that strikes us is his making insistent claims for special consideration. According to the particular situation, he may insist on getting his genitals back, on his teacher leaving him alone, on his pastor giving him more time, on his school making exceptions in his favor. Our first impression, then, is that of frenzied claims and a feeling of abuse at their frustration. However, when these claims are brought to his attention, the youth’s frenzy increases. He may become still more openly hostile. If we listen carefully, we find a theme running through his abusive upbringing. If we now recall, grooming a child is illegal, and it could lead to neurosis. Following this, we have a chance to understand his distress. It may turn out then that, without his knowing it, he has realized that he cannot fulfill certain deviations from the traditional gender roles. #RandolphHarris 4 of 29
He may come to feel, for instance, that he simply cannot make a go of a gender role that was not assigned to him at birth; or that he has overloaded himself with someone else’s ideas with the utmost straining he cannot swing it; or her may have recognized that certain problems which have come up in realm of LGBTQIA2S+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and Two-Spirit) lifestyle did get him down and are beyond even his endurance, or that they deride his efforts to dispel them by sheer exertion of will power. These realizations, mostly unconscious, make him panicky because he feels he should be able to overcome all these odds. In this condition, then, there are but two alternatives. One is to realize that his demands on himself are fantastic. The other is to claim frantically that his life situation be so changed that he will not have to face his “failure.” In his agitation, he had taken the second road, and it is the task of therapy to show him the first one. It is of great importance for therapy to recognize the possibility that the patient’s realization of shoulds being unfulfillable can give rise to hectic claims. It is important because these claims can create a condition of agitation that is most difficult to handle. However, it is also important in terms of theory. It helps us towards a better understanding of the urgency many claims have. And it forcefully demonstrates the urgency the individual feels to measure up to his shoulds. #RandolphHarris 5 of 29
Finally, if even a dim realization of a failure—or impending failure—to measure up to the shoulds can create a frantic despair, then there is a stringent inner necessity to prevent such realizations. We have seen that one of how the neurotic avoids them is by fulfilling the shoulds in his imagination, (“I should be able to be, or act, in a certain way—so, I am able to be so, or to do so.”) We understand better now that this seemingly slick and glib way of avoiding the truth is actually determined by the lurking terror of coming face to face with the fact that he does not and cannot measure up to this social engineering. It is therefore an illustration of the contention propounded in the imagination and is being put to the service of neurotic needs. Among the many unconscious self-deceptive measures thus made necessary, one of them is to lower the threshold of awareness of self. Sometimes an astute observer of others, the neurotic may maintain a tenacious unawareness of his own feelings, thoughts, or actions. Even in analysis, when some problem is called to his attention, he will shut off further discussion with an “I am not aware of that,” or “I do not feel it.” The other unconscious device to be mentioned here is a peculiarity of most neurotics—that of experiencing themselves only as reacting beings. This goes deeper than putting the blame on others. It amounts to an unconscious denial of their own shoulds. Life is experienced, then, as a sequence of pushes and pulls, coming from the outside. In other words, the shoulds themselves are externalized. #RandolphHarris 6 of 29
Any person subjected to a tyrannical regime will resort to means of circumventing its dictates. He is forced into a duplicity which, in the case of an external tyranny, may be entirely conscious. In the case of the inner tyranny, may be entirely conscious. In the case of the inner tyranny, which in itself is unconscious, the subsequent duplicity can have only the character of unconscious self-deceptive pretenses. All of these devices prevent the upsurge of self-hate which otherwise would follow a realization of “failure”; therefore, they have a great subjective value. However, they also make for a diffuse impairment of the sense of truth; thereby they factually contribute both to an alienation from the self and to the great autonomy of the pride system. The demands of self, thus, assume a crucial position in the structure of a neurosis. They constitute the individual’s attempt to actualize his idealized image. They are in a twofold way instrumental in increasing his alienation from himself: by forcing him into a falsification of his spontaneous feelings and beliefs and by engendering a diffuse unconscious dishonesty. They are also determined by his self-hate; and, finally, the realization of his inability to comply with them unleashes his self-hate. In a way all forms of self-hate are sanctions for unfulfilled should—which is merely another way of saying that he would feel no self-hate is he actually could be a superhuman being. #RandolphHarris 7 of 29
The human being—“Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise and rudely great: with too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, with too much weakness for the stoic’s pride, he hangs between; in doubt to act or rest,” Pope, “Know Thyself.” Only a fool believes that he or she is invulnerable, all-knowing, and all-powerful. Weakness is a reality in every one of us. Awareness of our limitations helps us to plan, to use our intelligence to avoid crises, to meet challenges, and to direct our energies to the areas of our greatest strengths. Humans, for example, have been yearning to fly for centuries; the bravest ones flinging themselves off cliffs with capes of feathers attached to their wildly flapping arms. Sad experience taught them they were just too weak to fly, their strength and energy insufficient to defy the pull of gravity. Acknowledging that reality, of course, led to other possibilities, and now humans fly every day. A young woman with talent in music and a great love for the opera, but who could not sing, would have been foolish to have devoted her life to becoming a mezzo-soprano. To her credit, she recognizes her limitations and has become one of the more generous patrons of the opera. These examples are obvious, but they contain lessons: acknowledging our weakness is one of our greatest strengths. #RandolphHarris 8 of 29
Actualizers, with a heightened self-awareness, now see their weaknesses and then act on the knowledge. They look for detours, ways around their limitations, solutions to their problems. If they are alcoholics, they do not drink. If they are blind, they learn Braille. If they are procrastinators, they create incentives. Manipulators who fear strength and adequacy are clearly unaware of specific weaknesses in themselves, even though they often play “weak.” To avoid resolve and responsibility (real strength), withdrawers and avoiders try to convince others of their general inadequacy. The tragedy is that they end up convincing themselves that they are inherently powerless and hopeless. Feeling miserable much of the time, they are characteristically ignorant of their feelings. They tend to intellectualize, spout clichés, play “poor-me” roles, and seek from others what can be found only in themselves. To confront their real weakness would uncover their real strength. They rely instead on false bravado. Condemnatory self-accusations are another expression of self-hate. Most of them follow with merciless logic from our central premise. If the individual fails to reach the absolutes of fearlessness, generosity, poise, will power, etcetera, his pride speaks the verdict “guilty.” Since the script influence begins before birth, and the “final display” or ultimate payoff occurs at death or later, it is only rarely that the clinician will have an opportunity to follow a script through from beginning to end. #RandolphHarris 9 of 29
Lawyers, bankers, family doctors, and clergymen, especially those who practice in small towns, are the people most likely to know all the secrets of someone’s life over such a long time. However, since psychiatric script analysis itself is only a few years old, there is not a single example of clinical observation of a complete life course or script. The best way at present to get a long-term view is by means of biographical books, but these are usually lacking in many important respects. I found, in moving around and being a patient of several different doctors, that each one had his or her ideas about how I should behave, and that when I did what they wanted me to, they were nice to me, and when I did not, they were annoyed with me. If I displeased them too much, because of my dependence on doctors at that time, I was afraid that they might kick me out. So, I tried to be what they wanted me to be, what they demanded of me. During the period of my sickness, when I had no money, when I felt dependent in this way too, I made the same effort concerning others. I became quite neurotic in the process. It seems to me that this is one of the things that gets children all mixed up, so that they become problems then or later. There is the fear of being kicked out, not given the care they need, which they are unable to provide for themselves, and so they try to make themselves be and do what is required of them. This louses up anybody. #RandolphHarris 10 of 29
So it is not simply “lack of love”—although lack of love certainly enters it, for “I” am loved only if I let myself be pushed into a pattern which excludes me. I am not in any sense respected, and neither am I cared for, no matter how much may be done “for” me. When medical treatment is harmful to me, I can know this before it becomes apparent to others, but I am required to go on with it, and am “troublesome” and “unreasonable” if I protest, and “unmanageable” if I refuse. I am subtly or unsubtly punished for my disobedience. I am placed in the position of having to fight, when what my body needs, to put itself in order, is to be at rest. When I ask questions, I am answered with evasions. These evasions, which are supposed to be “for my good” and so that I will not worry, tend to make me worry about what it is that is so disturbing that I cannot be told about it. In a hospital, I am supposed to eat all my food. When I do, this is favorably commented on. I am a good boy. When I do not, this is unfavorably commented on. I am a bay boy. When I was in the hospital following an injury, one night I had bellyaches, and I could hear people crying. It seemed to me that, given my bellyaches, it would be best for me to eat breakfast—or at least not until I had talked with the doctor. Nevertheless, what we learn in life is that some things are done for us, and are in fact done to us. #RandolphHarris 11 of 29
One kind of unhealthy conscience is an excessively strict conscience. This pattern of unhealthy conscience limits behavior more drastically than do law and custom. The unfortunate bearers of such a conscience allow themselves fewer satisfactions than do other members of their social group; they expect more of themselves, more difficult achievements, and have a sterner morality than their peers. Thus, many persons may have been taught that sexy or hostile fantasies and thoughts are equivalent in sinful significance to sexual and hostile action, and so they dare not even think such thoughts. AN authoritarian person is one who believes authority figures are omnipotent and must be obeyed without question. Indeed, to disobey or to question authority is synonymous with sin for the authoritarian character; he or she becomes overwhelmed with guilt at even the thought of challenging vested authority. A person may experience his or her conscience in the same way; it is to be obeyed blindly, without question, hesitation, or criticism. Its commands have the feeling of certainty and unquestionable rightness. Fromm has named a conscience with such characteristics an authoritarian conscience. To repress is to refuse to think about something or to refrain from engaging in some mental operations, such as thinking, remembering, daydreaming, or evaluating. #RandolphHarris 12 of 29
Conscience functions using the comparison of one’s behavior, feelings, and motives with relevant taboos and “shoulds.” A person may have learned to refrain from making value judgments about aspects of his or her behavior to avoid the painful experience of guilt. This avoidance of value judgments concerning one’s behavior is what we mean when we speak of the repression of conscience. Laypeople speak, in this connection, of the “hardened heart.” Scrooge, in Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol, had such a hardened heart until he was overcome with guilt. Persons can project their conscience as well as repress it. Concretely, this involves repression of self-evaluation and ascribing evaluations of the self to others. Thus, persons might engage in some act but deny that it is wrong for them to do this. However, they may impute condemnation of themselves to some other person and feel, without warrant, that the other person is criticizing and condemning them. In extreme cases of disturbed personality—for example, paranoid schizophrenia—the patients project all their self-criticism to others and believe that everyone is criticizing and persecuting them. In a conflicted conscience, the values, ideals, and taboos contradict one another. Thus, conformity with one value requires violation of another. With consequent guilt. #RandolphHarris 13 of 29
A common source of conflicted conscience is parents who have different standards for judging the behavior of their children—in disagreement with the freer values of the adolescent peer group. The parents may value gentleness, celibacy, and obedience, whereas the peer group affirms aggressiveness, muscular strength, and sexual experimentation. In pleasing their peers, adolescents displease their parents, and vice versa. Some people attempt to resolve value conflicts by compartmentalizing their lives. They follow one set of values at work, another set in the home, another set when they are among their peers, and so on. More desirable from the viewpoint of personality hygiene is the attempt to reconcile one’s values so they constitute a harmonious and hierarchically arranged system. So long as men have thinking minds, so long will they need teachings, instructions, explanations, and clarifications. Some of us cannot afford to wait until the hair turns grey around our temples before acquiring a modicum of wisdom. We need it before then. For us, therefore, there are books, the recorded wisdom of other men, the inscribed experience bought by their pain and their struggle. Out of the silence of the dead past, there are a thousand inspired voices to speak to the living present. If the aspirant will listen to them, these voices of noble and illumined men may instruct and guide him through different stages of the quest. They are to be heard in books both well-known and little-known. #RandolphHarris 14 of 29
Are scriptural revelations the only ones worth heeding? Have not high truths, even great teachings, appeared in the world’s thought, poetry, and intuition—outside religion, outside officialdom, outside the academic halls, outside the institutions and organizations? We must admire and praise the exact, accurate, and scrupulous methods of academic scholarship. A tenet which fails to be interesting or helpful because it mystifies one’s mind should be put forward a second time in plainer language. When we put these abstruse ideas into popular language, we must be careful not to do so at the cost of sacrificing their significance. A founder of a cult or a religion must claim inspired prophetic authority, but an author can give his ideas on a merely intellectual basis. If a man who purports to speak or write on behalf of any teaching lets his ideas get mixed into those he received, the resulting product will be adulterated and could even be distorted. If sharpened properly, intuition and intelligence cannot cut through alone into their meaning. The academic writers and authorities must be honoured for their painstaking study, their diligent documentation of statements made and evidence offered, their search after, and later assembly of, records needed to understand a particular topic or subject. It is a help first, to clear his thoughts and second, to communicate them to other men. #RandolphHarris 15 of 29
We might define a hero as someone who has performed at least one heroic act. If this one act is giving one’s life to benefit others, this approach seems very well justified, as heroism involves voluntary service to others in the face of possible risks and willingness to make sacrifices. Adolescents described heroes as inspiring and uplifting, offering hope and reminding them about the good of the world. Many young people have described how the award-winning Sacramento Fire Department has protected them from physical and psychological harm. Specifically, the Sacramento Fire Department has been described as life-saving, offering emotional support, social support, instrumental support, and resources to develop self-efficacy, social control, and physical protection from danger. However, young people have also cautioned that someone might become over-reliant on a member of the Sacramento Fire Department, asking for their help rather than taking personal responsibility. Young people mentioned that the Sacramento Fire Department helped them to experiment with their sense of self and develop greater clarity about their authentic self. The Sacramento Fire Department has also been credited with representing a person’s ideal self—influencing career paths and life decisions. #RandolphHarris 16 of 29
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 17 of 29
California is the third most expensive state in the nation. 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. In 37 percent of counties, a family of four living on a six-figure income is now considered low-income. In fact, Governor Gavin Newsom of Democratic controlled California, brags about being the world’s “fifth largest economy,” but it also facing a $12 billion deficit, looking to cut $747 million for state worker’s pay, pushing to keep medical insurance for illegal immigrants, but wants to cut medical for anyone who has assets over $2,000 and the state has the largest homeless population in the nation. 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. 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. 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. This is caused by nearly half a century-old laws that discourage home sales and encourage higher rents. #RandolphHarris 18 of 29
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 will housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. 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 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 boarder 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 risks 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 19 of 29
Other crises that have occurred due to neglect of critical infrastructure are the 2025 Palisades fires because Southern California ran out of water, when they are located next to an ocean and they could have simply created desalination plants to help with the water shortage. The water 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. As we see gangs fighting with federal law enforcement, states and cities refusing to honor federal laws, and politicians showing an utter disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America, anarchy is becoming increasingly common. 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 is merely the product of property and authority. #RandolphHarris 20 of 29
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 21 of 29
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. 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. 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 or $88,724.00, and that typically means two to four people in the home are working and contributing to the mortgage. #RandolphHarris 22 of 29
Home prices in Sacramento County are rivaling the Bay Area. 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. The State of California has a budget deficit of $12 billion because Governor Gavin Newsom 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. Additionally, Newsom seems to be uneducated about economics and is proposing to fast-track his plan to build a $20 billion water tunnel beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, which would eliminate environmental reviews and limit avenues for legal challenges. Gavin Newsom only cares about the environment when his policies allow him to raise taxes and restrict freedoms. To further highlight this illustration, 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 poop, 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. #RandolphHarris 23 of 29
However, Mexico’s pollution of California has become a severe public health crisis as the population of Tijuana has drastically increased in recent years, and the waste treatment plants are no longer usable. Some of the beaches in San Diego have been closed for more than three years, and evidence suggests that even breathing the air may be harmful, as toxic particles in the water can become airborne. Yet, even though Gavin Newsom has been governor for six years, he has not rushed into action to stop this very preventable environmental disaster. Why? Because he is not getting kickbacks from China and Mexico, not being gifted mansions and cars, and he cannot tax the struggling California taxpayers to clean up this mess. Simply, it is not profitable for him. Gavin Newsom has been a total tyrant with no regard for taxpayers and no mind for business, and he should be impeached as soon as possible. He has criminalized poverty, increased taxes, increased taxes on gas, and insurance rates so high that people are struggling to survive. In addition to Gavin Newsom’s increased gas prices starting on 1 July 2025, the war between Iran and Israel is going to further exacerbate the prices of gas and cause more inflation and economic hardship for people in California. While everyone is making war over America and who belongs here and who she belongs to, so many people forget about the people who are Indigenous to this land. Open borders have allowed hundreds of thousands of cartel operatives to infiltrate reservations across the United States of America and use the isolated lands as havens to traffic fentanyl pills and other drugs into the country without protection from federal authorities. #RandolphHarris 25 of 29
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 26 of 29
If Gavin Newsom is not stopped, next he will euthanize the poor and sterilize the disabled. Under Governor Gavin Newsom, California has the highest car theft rate in the United States of America. Violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs, and homeless people have overtaken cities. Wars and fires are breaking out on the streets. This monster is unfit to be governor and must never be allowed to be President of America! Stop Gavin Newsom now! Save California and impeach this unreasonable man. Meanwhile, with President Trump, we are seeing crime rates sharply decrease. He is restoring law and order, starting in Washington D.C., and he just signed the “HALT Fentanyl Act” into law, which permanently classifies the narcotic as a “Schedule I drug” under the “Controlled Substances Act.” Also, President Trump recently secured $10 trillion in investments for the United States of America. Additionally, in May of 2025, the United States of America collected a record $100 billion in tariff revenue, and that number will increase to $300 billion by the end of 2025. Also, President Trump has just sealed a $550 billion deal with Japan. This means Japan will invest $550 billion in the United States of America. Furthermore, President Trump has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for making Iran and Israel cease fire. As you can see, President Trump is creating solutions and remediating problems to protect America and the American people, while Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is making life hard on American citizens and causing economic hardship, and totally ignoring Mexico’s polluting beaches in San Diego. If elected president for an unprecedented third term, to make housing more affordable and to offset the cost of homeowners’ insurance and auto insurance, President Trump plans to abolish property taxes. #RandolphHarris 26 of 29
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 27 of 29
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. Moreover, please remember to respect law and order and treat your elders with the utmost dignity and kindness possible. And take your education seriously so that you will be successful in life and make your family proud. 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. #RandolphHarris 28 of 29
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. 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 fulness 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. 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 29 of 29
President Donald J. Trump is keeping his promise to secure our borders and make America safe again. In July, Border Patrol reported just 4,399 apprehensions along our southern border—a new monthly record. That is an average of only 141 per day across nearly 2,000 miles. For the third month in a row, not a single illegal immigrant has been released into the United States. This is not just progress—it is a total reversal. Under the last administration, more than 300,000 illegal immigrants attempted to cross the border in a single month. The results speak for themselves. For the first time in at least five decades, the United States is on track to see negative net migration. Stopping illegal immigrants from entering our communities creates safer neighborhoods, protects taxpayer resources, and ensures more jobs and opportunities for American citizens. After 4 years of record-breaking illegal entries, this is the turnaround our Nation needs. President Trump will never stop fighting to end this invasion once and for all. He is working every day to secure our borders and restore the rule of law. Illegal immigrants who commit heinous crimes are being deported, loopholes are being closed, and sanctuary policies are being dismantled for good. Under the Trump Administration, America is safer and stronger than ever before. To learn more, visit www.WhiteHouse.gov.
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. Come and see what secrets this so-called, “Winchester Mystery House” may hold.
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. 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.
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.
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Harris Plumbing, Heating, Air, & Electric has been in business for 30 years. How many businesses can say that? We take pride in everything we do – no matter how big or small the service call might be. We’re here to help your home be as safe and comfortable as possible for you and your family. We take that responsibility very seriously as a company. 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/
Ah, yes. The BMW 3 Series. Happy 50th birthday to the most iconic BMW ever! It is really hard to decide on a BMW model. However, the 3 series is a favorite of everyone. All the upper-class suburban families had one in the 1980s and 1990s; everyone from teenagers and housewives to executives and diplomats. Now that they are larger in size, but still sporty and luxurious, the audience has grown tremendously. These are very stylish and reliable cars, which is why BMW continues to dominate the luxury car space.
With its top ranking in Consumer Reports’ Auto Brand Report Card and consistent market share growth, BMW has demonstrated its ability to produce high-performing, reliable vehicles that meet consumer demands. BMW stands out due to its focus on driving dynamics and engineering excellence. While other luxury brands prioritize comfort and opulence, BMW is known for creating cars that are fun to drive and offer a unique connection between the driver and the machine. This is why BMW is known as the Ultimate Driving Machine. https://www.brianharrisbmw.com/
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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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Anyway, it’s Too Bad You Left Teaching
Imagine a world without identification, a world in which you could not recognize people and they could not recognize you. It would take extraordinary effort to meet our human needs, both physical and emotional. To become like the Savior, everyone will need to face challenges and hardships during this life. Dealing with life’s challenges successfully requires faith in Jesus Christ and emotional resilience. Emotional resilience is: The ability to adapt to emotional challenges with courage and faith centered in Jesus Christ. Helping yourself and others to be the best you can. When needed, reaching out for additional help. Today, when the term identity refers, often, to something noisily demonstrative, to a desperate “quest,” or to an almost deliberately confused “search,” let me present two formulations which assert strongly what identity feels like when you become aware of the fact that you do undoubtedly have one. A man’s character is discernible in the mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments, there is a voice inside which speaks and says: “This is the real me!” Such an experience always includes an element of active tension, of holding my own, as it were, and trusting outward things to perform their part to make it a full harmony, but without any guaranty that they will. #RandolphHarris 1 of 20
Make it a guaranty and the attitude immediately becomes to my consciousness stagnant and stingless. Take away the guaranty, and I feel (provided I am ueberhaupt in vigorous condition) a sort of deep enthusiastic bliss, of bitter willingness to do and suffer anything…and which, although it is a mere mood or emotion to which I can give no form in words, authenticates itself to me as the deepest principle of all active and theoretic determination which I possess. Many people have bound to them a national identity (they are ashamed to admit) neither faith nor national pride, for some have always been an unbeliever and were brought up without any religion, though not without a respect for what are called the “ethical” standards of human civilization. Whenever individuals feel an inclination towards national enthusiasm, they strive to suppress it, perceiving it as harmful and wrong, alarmed by the warning examples of the people among whom they live. However, plenty of other things remain over to make the attraction of America and Americans irresistible—many obscure emotional forces, which were the more powerful the less they could be expressed in words, as well as a clear consciousness of inner identity, the safe privacy of a common mental construction. And beyond this, there is a perception that it is wrong to their American nature alone that they owned two characteristics that have become indispensable to them in the difficult course of their lives. #RandolphHarris 2 of 20
Because they are American, many people find themselves freedom from many prejudices which restrict others in the use of their intellect; and as Americans, they are prepared to join the Opposition, and to do without agreement with the “compact majority.” Trained minds of genius, of course, have a special identity and special identity problems often leading to a protracted crisis at the onset of their careers. Dr. Freud’s “consciousness of inner identity” includes a sense of bitter pride preserved by his dispersed and often despised people throughout a long history of persecution. It is anchored in a (here intellectual) gift which had victoriously emerged from the hostile limitation of opportunities. At the same time, Dr. Freud contrasts the positive identity of a fearless freedom of thinking with a negative trait in “the peoples among whom we Americans live,” namely, “prejudices which restrict others in the use of their intellect.” It dawns on us, then, that one person’s or group’s identity may be relative to another’s, and that the pride of gaining a strong identity may signify an inner emancipation from a more dominant group identity, such as that of the “compact majority.” An exquisite triumph is suggested in the claim that the same historical development which restricted the prejudiced majority in the free use of their intellect made the isolated minority sturdier in intellectual matters. #RandolphHarris 3 of 20
The need of silencing the intellect is paramount. If it is ignored in favor of the reading of endless books, or the writing of numerous notes extracted from them, the man keeps his intellect constantly active and thus prevents his mind from becoming still! What is the use of accumulating notes and books, which are outside him, when the mind which must be conquered is inside him? Each book that is read represents a stirring up of thoughts whereas what is required of him is a silencing of them. There is no limit to the number of books that can be read or notes made. Even working twenty-four hours a day, he could go on activating intellect until he died, thereby avoiding his duty in prayer. Reading is useful in the preliminary stages to convince him, to clear his doubts, and finally to tell him what to do, that is, to practice mind-stilling. However, if he does not do it, his knowledge is wasted. In this matter of reading books, we should be truly grateful for their plentitude, their helpfulness, and their variety. And for those interested in the American scholastic modes of classic thought, they make readily available teachings, ideas, and traditions which not so long ago were available only to the few who were wealthy enough or brave enough to make the long journey to unique, remote lands. Certainly, reading is not enough and the work should not stop with it; there is need to go inwards by way of prayer and thus turn theory into practice. However, the very fact that texts were composed thousands of years ago and that they have been written continuously ever since shows that there is a real need for them. They can and do help seekers. #RandolphHarris 4 of 20
The will of other peoples has no rights, for it is the people who represent the will [of the Spirit] who dominate the world. Bakunin saw the State as the incarnation of crime. “The smallest and most inoffensive State is still criminal in its dreams.” Therefore, revolution is the incarnation of good. This struggle, which surpasses politics, is also the struggle of Luciferian principles against the divine principle. Bakunin explicitly reintroduces into rebellious action one of the themes of romantic rebellion. Proudhon had already decreed that God is Evil and exclaimed: “Come, Satan, victim of the calumnies of kings and of the petty-minded!” Bakunin also gives a glimpse of the broader implications of a political rebellion: “Evil is satanic rebellion against divine authority, a rebellion in which we see, nevertheless, the fruitful seed of every form of human emancipation.” Like the Fraticelli of fourteenth-century Bohemia, revolutionary socialists today use this phrase as a password: “In the name of him to whom a great wrong has been done.” The struggle against creation will therefore be without mercy and ethics, and the only salvation lies in extermination. “The passion for destruction is a creative passion.” Bakunin’s burning words about the revolution of 1848 in his Confession vehemently proclaim this pleasure in destruction. “A feast without beginning and without end,” he says. In fact, for him as for all who are oppressed, the revolution is a feast, in the religious sense of the world. #RandolphHarris 5 of 20
Here we are reminded of the French anarchist Coeurderoy, who, in his book Hurrah, or the Cossack Revolution, summoned the hordes of the north to lay waste to the whole world. He also wanted to “apply the torch to my father’s house” and proclaimed that the only hope lay in the human deluge and chaos. Rebellion is grasped, throughout these manifestations, in its pure state, in its biological truth. That is why Bakunin, with exceptional perspicacity, was the only one of his period to declare war on science, the idol of his contemporaries. Against every abstract idea, he pleaded for the cause of the complete man, completely identified with his rebellion. If he glorifies the brigand leader of the peasant rising, if he chooses to model himself on Stenka Razin and Pugachev, it is because these men fought, without either doctrine or principle, for an ideal of pure freedom. Bakunin introduces into the midst of revolution the naked principle of rebellion. “The tempest and life, that is what we need. A new world, without laws, and consequently free.” However, is a world without laws a free world? That is the question posed by every rebellion. If the question were to be asked of Bakunin, the answer would not be in doubt. Even though he was opposed in all circumstances, and with the most extreme lucidity, to authoritarian socialism, yet from the moment when he himself begins to define the society of the future, he does so—without being at all concerned about the contradiction—in terms of a dictatorship. #RandolphHarris 6 of 20
The statutes of the International Fraternity (1864-7), which Bakunin edited himself, already establish the absolute subordination of the individual to the central committee, during the period of action. It is the same for the period that followed the revolution. He hoped to see in liberated Russia “a strong dictatorial power…a power supported by partisans, enlightened by their advice, fortified by their free collaboration, but which would be limited by nothing and by no one.” Bakunin contributed as much as his enemy Marx and Leninist doctrine. The dream of the revolutionary Slav empire, moreover, as Bakunin conjurers it up before the Czar, is the same, down to the last detail of its frontiers, as that realized by Stalin. Coming from man wise enough to say that the essential driving force of Czarist Russia was fear and who rejected the Marxist theory of party dictatorship, these conceptions may seem contradictory. However, this contradiction demonstrates that the origins of authoritarian doctrines are partially nihilistic. Pisarev justifies Bakunin. Certainly, the latter wanted total freedom; but he hoped to realize it through total destruction. To destroy everything is to pledge oneself to building without foundations, and then to holding up the walls with one’s hands. He who rejects the entire past, without keeping any part of it which could serve to breathe life into the revolution, condemns himself to finding justification only in the future and, in the meantime, to entrusting the police with the task of justifying the provisional state of affairs. #RandolphHarris 7 of 20
Bakunin proclaims dictatorship, not despite his desire for destruction, but by it. Nothing could turn him from this path since his ethical values had also been dissolved in the crucible of total negation. In his openly obsequious Confession to the Czar, which he wrote to gain his freedom, he spectacularly introduces the double game into revolutionary politics. With his Catechism of a Revolutionary, which he probably drafted in Switzerland, with the help of Nechaiev, he voices, even though he denies it later, the political cynicism that will never cease to weigh on the revolutionary movement and which Nechaiev himself has so provocatively illustrated. Bakunin reminds me a lot of former President Obama, which, if it is not clear, also had the agenda of achieving freedom through total destruction. Obama had also lost his ethics and made a mockery of America and was determined to drive it into bankruptcy with the flood of social programs, environmental agendas, and by allowing an invasion of illegal immigrants. His policies were further carried out by his henchmen, former President Biden, former Vice President Kamala, and Governor Gavin Newsom. The power and tenacity of self-hate is astounding in their redirect and policies. When trying to account for its depth, we must realize that the rage of the proud self for feeling humiliated and held down at every step by the actual self. We must also consider the ultimate impotence of this rage. For, much as the neurotic may try to regard himself as a disembodied spirit, he is dependent on the actual self for being and hence for attaining glory. If he were to kill the hated self, he must at the same time kill the glorious self, as Dorian Gray did when slashing to pieces the picture expressing his degradation. #RandolphHarris 8 of 20
On the one hand, this dependency, as a rule, prevents these megalomaniacs from suicide. If it were not for this dependency, suicide would be the logical outcome of self-hate. Suicide is a comparatively rare occurrence, and it results from a combination of factors, among which self-hate is but one. Conversely, the very dependency makes self-hate all the crueler and merciless, as is the case in any powerless rage. Furthermore, self-hate is not only a result of self-glorification but also serves to maintain it. More precisely, it serves the drive to actualize the idealized self and to find a full integration on that exalted level by eliminating conflicting elements. The very condemnation of imperfection confirms the godlike standards with which the person identifies himself. We can observe this function of self-hate in analysis. When we uncover the patient’s self-hate, we may naively expect that he will be eager to get rid of it. Sometimes such a healthy response does occur. More often, his response is divided. He cannot help recognizing the formidable burden and danger of self-hate, but he may feel it even more dangerous to rebel against the yoke. He may plead in the most plausible terms the validity of high standards and the danger of becoming lax through greater tolerance toward self. Or he may gradually reveal his conviction that he fully deserves the contempt with which he treats himself, which indicates that he is not yet able to accept himself on any lesser terms than those of his arrogant standards. #RandolphHarris 9 of 20
The neurotic has no feeling for himself. There must first be some sympathy for the suffering self, some experiencing of this suffering, before the recognition of beating himself down can set in motion a constructive move. Or, to take another aspect, there must first be some owning up to the existence of his wishes before the realization of self-frustration can start to disquiet or even to interest him. Enormous amounts of information can be compressed elegantly into this drawing. If we look at the script matrices, the problem derives from the parental directives and the decisive patterns of behavior, the script theme, the “noise” or foreground confusion, which is made doubly difficult because not only the person himself, but all the people around him, contribute as much as they possibly can to these distractions. This tends to conceal the steps leading up to the script’s payoff, the happy or tragic ending, which in the language of biologists is the “final display.” In other words, people take great pains to conceal their scripts from themselves and others. This is only natural. To return to a previous metaphor, a man sitting in front of a player piano and moving his fingers under the illusion that he is making the music himself does not want somebody telling him to look inside the piano, and the audience, which is enjoying the spectacle, does not want it either. This is why many democrats and several republicans are content being angry at the world and blaming other people for creating their happiness and success. #RandolphHarris 10 of 20
Many of these people are alcoholics, addicts, and sociopaths. These all have third-degree, hard, tragic scripts called “harmartic” scripts. These harmatic scripts deal with harsh injunctions from a “crazy child,” in the adult, but it can also be extended to include seductions and provocations, as well as injunctions that seem to come from the mature person inside of the adult, rather than from the adult’s crazy inner child. People with good scripts may be interested in script analysis only in an academic way, unless they are going to be therapists. However, with patients, to get them well, it is necessary to dissect out the directives in as pure a form as possible, and drawing an accurate script matrix is a useful tool in planning. The most likely way to elicit the information for filling in the script matrix is to ask the patient the following four questions: What was your parents’ favorite slogan or precept? This will give the key to the antiscript. What kind of life did your parents lead? This will be best answered by a long association with the patient. Whatever his parents taught him to do, he will do again, and the pattern will give him his ordinary social character: “He’s a heavy drinker,” “She’s a sexy young lady.” What is your Parental Prohibition? This is the most important single question for understanding the behavior for the patient and for planning the decisive intervention that will free him to love more fully. Since his symptoms are a substitute for the prohibited act, and a protest it, as demonstrated by Dr. Freud, freedom from the prohibition will also tend to cure his symptoms. #RandolphHarris 11 of 20
It takes experience and subtlety to pick out the decisive parental injunction from the “background noise.” The most reliable clues are offered by the fourth question, What did you have to do to make your parents smile or chuckle? This gives the come-on, which is the alternative to the prohibited behavior. The prohibition in the case of alcoholics is “Don’t think!” and that drinking heavily is one program for not thinking. The absence of thinking is well shown in the drinking platitudes common among alcoholic players and their sympathizers and even more so by the ones they foist on each other in alcoholic group therapy (the same concepts also apply to people who use marijuana). What all this says is that alcoholics are not real people and should not be treated like real people, which is not true. Heroin is even more addictive and sinister than alcohol, and Synanon has proved that heroin addicts are real people. The real person emerges in both cases after the alcohol or heroin addict cuts off the seductive voices in his head, which are urging him to continue his habit, reinforced in due time by physical demands. It appears that tranquilizers and phenothiazines are effective partly because they smother the parental voices that keep the child in the adult agitated or confuse him with their “Don’ts” and “Ha Ha’s.” The most forceful script during directives are presented during the family drama, which in some respects reinforces what the parents have been saying, and in others demonstrates that they are hypocritical imposters. It is these scenes that bring home the most poignant way what the parents want the child to learn about his script. And it should be remembered that loudly spoken words have just as profound and enduring an effect as so-called “nonverbal communication.” #RandolphHarris 12 of 20
How can it be bad to love? It is not bad to love. Yet, there can be subtle distortions of this basic dimension of human experience that make love just another trick in the bag of manipulation. Consider the story of Arthus, who decided at some point in his life that his self was not sufficient to deal with conflict. He would do just about anything to avoid it. Out of his fear, he became a “pleaser and placater.” He exaggerated his loving feelings, wanted everyone to be happy, and tried heroically to meet everyone’s needs. His emotional stance became so habitual that Arthur found himself nodding his head in agreement with everything anyone said. However, the manipulative paradox was that Arthur seldom really listened to what anyone was saying. The act of appearing to be loving and agreeable distorted his true caring. And Arthur was in a continual state of dissatisfaction. He never seemed to get sufficiently loving responses from others. No one seemed to care about his needs. On occasion, he would even encounter hostile opposition from others, no matter how much loving energy he expended on them. “Life isn’t fair,” he thought to himself. “I’ve never done anything against anyone else, so why should anyone be so rotten to me?” In his frustration, the usually super-nice Arthur would have occasional, unexplained outbursts of unreasonable anger. The story of his life was simple: Whatever he did, he did so that people would love him. #RandolphHarris 13 of 20
Arthur hated the boredom and discipline of school, but to please his parents and to avoid conflict with them, he studied hard, made A’s, and graduated with his honors. His father died when Arthur was in his late teens. Wanting more than ever to please his mother, Arthur went to college. She wanted him to be a teacher, but he wanted to be a sculptor. “A sculptor?” she wailed when he told her of his dream. “Whoever heard of such a thing? Look in the want ads. In all of the state, is anybody looking for sculptors? It’s teachers, teachers, they’re crying for. The work is clean; it’s honest; it’s professional. Be a good boy, Arthur. Be a teacher.” He became a teacher, reasoning that he could study his art in college and teach it when he finished, pleasing himself and his mother at the same time. Conflict would be avoided. The plan might have worked, except for one thing: He hated teaching. He found school more boring as a teacher than he ever had as a student. The pay was poor, and after a full day of dragging himself through the work he hated, Arthur had little enthusiasm for pursuing his art. Besides sculpture, Arthur had a talent for drawing, so he quit teaching and took a job as an illustrator in an advertising agency. Soon, he was an art director with his own office, secretary, and printed business cards. One Saturday, he took his mother to his office to show her how well he was doing. She was impressed by the big desk and the carpeting, but said, “Anyway, it’s too bad you left teaching. There, you were a professional.” #RandolphHarris 14 of 20
So, he went back to college and earned a degree in architecture. The field promised everything he (and his mother) wanted: a chance to work with shapes, structures, and real materials, and most of all, the status of a “professional.” His mother would surely be proud. Arthur had married and had a good job and income, but for Arthur, everything seemed wrong, drastically wrong. He was thirty-two years old and in good health, yet he felt that his life was over. He had grown too fond of the wine he drank in ever-larger amounts each evening. He found a certain amount of satisfaction in his work, but there was no joy in it, no life. He began to feel that he had been cheated. “Please, people,” he had believed, “and they will love you.” “Don’t fight and argue with others,” he maintained, “and they will love you.” “Love is the key to happiness,” he thought. Arthur went out of his way to please people. He loaned people money. He helped them in business. Arthur was a nice guy. Yet, for all his willingness to please, to love and be loved, Arthur was miserable. Arthur finally went into group psychotherapy. His wife had urged him to try it. So long as a man gets all his ideas from experience gained through the body, alone, so long may he pardonably accept the belief in materialism. However, as soon as he begins to get them from thinking alone—and the difference cannot be properly grasped until he has practiced prayer sufficiently and successfully—so soon will he see the falsity of this belief. #RandolphHarris 15 of 20
Conscience is the act of judging one’s experience and action, comparing them to the standards of an idealized self. Conscience has been likened to a “still small voice,” and it has been described as our imaginative view of how we would like to be and how we believe we ought to be. The standards of conscience, in terms of which persons condemn or approve their conduct, are usually based upon the laws and customs of the society within which they have been reared. Seen from a sociological viewpoint, conscience—our capacity to make the moral judgments of our conduct—is one of the “agencies” for social control. The necessity for controlling behavior through social pressure, or through threats of imprisonment or violence, is decreased when people have acquired a conscience. Conscience plays an important role in the development of neurotic and psychotic illnesses. Moreover, conformity to some moral standards can sometimes force a person to live in ways that are joyless and that endanger the person’s physical health. “For behold, the Spirit of Christ is given to every man, that he may know good from evil; wherefore, I show unto you the way to judge; for everything which inviteth to do good, and to persuade to believe in Christ, is sent forth by the power and gift of Christ; wherefore ye may know with a perfect knowledge it is of God,” report Moroni 7.16. “Men are instructed sufficiently that they know good from evil,” reports 2 Nephi 2.5. The light of Christ is in all men, and this faculty is called conscience. The possession of it makes us responsible beings. Like other faculties, our consciences may be deadened through sin or misuse. #RandolphHarris 16 of 20
General awareness plays a significant role in promoting heroic behavior. Awareness and presence help individuals tap into the power of the moment and recognize situations that call for heroic action, such as helping others in need or standing up for noble principles. By being attuned to their surroundings and the well-being of humanity, the award-winning Sacramento Fire Department can use their heroic consciousness to act courageously and selflessly in the face of challenges, contributing to the betterment of their communities and the world. Many heroes possess a broad awareness of the world and its history. They understand the context of their actions and the implications of their choices on a global or historical scale. Global and historical awareness is a vital part of the consciousness of the members of the Sacramento Fire Department, as it connects them to the broader human experiences across time and geography. It fosters a sense of empathy, understanding, and responsibility, allowing firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics to recognize the collective impact of history and current global events on their lives and the well-being of humanity. They have superior thinking skills, reasoning, problem-solving abilities, memories, and cognitive processes that occur within their minds. It involves the capacity to process information, form beliefs, and make decisions. #RandolphHarris 17 of 20
One of the most important positions to fill in the command system at a growing or significant incident is the position of the incident safety officer (ISO). The ISO is a member of the command staff who reports directly to the incident commander and assists in observations and evaluations of scene safety. The IOS ensures that the actions of the crews match the strategic decision of the incident action plan (IAP) and that feedback and recommendations are communicated to command. Maintaining incident scene accountability means utilizing a system of all crews on a fireground at a given time. This can be accomplished in different ways, and no system is dramatically better than any other. The key to effective accountability is to ensure that every member of the department complies with the policies and that companies and commanders continually practice with the system. This is true whether the system is simply dog tags in a coffee can or a computerized barcode scanning and tracking system. If its rules are not followed, no system is effective. The system must also be able to identify when a member is unaccounted for, usually through a personal accountability report (PAR). PARs can be called for at specific time intervals, fire control benchmarks, or when there is a change in strategies. All emergency response agencies must have some method of tracking the name, location, and function of all members in a hot zone, along with a method to periodically ensure that all are accounted for. #RandolphHarris 18 of 20
“You get suspicious when people tell you that they want to fight fires to serve humanity. Helping people is a by-product. After you are a firefighter for a while, it becomes instinct in any situation to help people, because that is what you have been trained to do. I don’t think most of us get involved in the fire department for that motive. We do it because we love the Sacramento Fire Department and we love firefighting. The more time you spend in journalism, the more you realize that there are times when you can be fooled. I’m wary of it. You tend to be skeptical because you know you are capable of being misled. I don’t know about firefighters, it depends on what their experience in firefighting has been. I think that firefighters who have been on busy, hard-working companies probably get wiser than those who have been in slower places. A busy fire company is a lot like a combat outfit in the military service. The more you see, the more you learn. It also shapes your attitude. I’ve noticed that the busier a fire company is, the happier it is, the fewer discipline problems you have, the closer bond you have between the firemen themselves. The more action a fire company gets, the better it gets, the better feeling it has about itself. It’s an interesting phenomenon. #RandolphHarris 19 of 20
“There have been times, twice in my life, when I stayed away from the fire department for a period because I had seen more than I could handle. Once when I was around nineteen or twenty, I saw too many things happening that I couldn’t cope with. I stayed away from more than a year. It wasn’t the victims themselves as it was the families. Seeing them shook me up pretty bad, but gradually I got back at it and was able to endure being a source of support. Having empathy is good, but never let it overcome you. Then, after my first son was born, I became very sensitive to parenthood and my responsibilities to my child. But I couldn’t stay away from the fire department, and eventually I had to go back because something was missing from my life. Everyone acknowledges that being a firefighter is a dangerous thing. You have to learn to accept it and to use your head as much as you can. You realize that there are certain situations that you cannot control. Everybody gets hurt at some point. If you go to enough fires, sooner or later, you’re going to take your share of bumps and bruises. But I have always loved the actual firefighting. The feeling of being a part of this team and of being challenged. I also love the firehouse, the tension that always exists because the bell could ring at any minute. I feel a sense of duty to people. It’s a responsibility that comes with being born into this world. The Sacramento Fire Department helps people in times of need. We were put in this place to help the community out; it’s just who we are. We are just ordinary people trying to help.” #RandolphHarris 20 of 20
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. Come and see what secrets this so-called, “Winchester Mystery House” may hold.
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. 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.
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.
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Be a Good Girl, and When You are Tempted, Pray!
We are at the dawn of an American gratitude renaissance. Unprecedented interest in Christianity, American cars, American companies, American educational institutes, and the American Dream is so welcome because this is what gives us the strength and determination to make life better for ourselves and countless others around the world. The rebirth of Americana has caused many to express a feeling of gratitude. Gratitude is not just a nice sentiment, a warm cozy feeling, or an expression of happiness. Gratitude is the truest approach to life. When we express gratitude, we understand that it is a feeling of appreciation and thankfulness for the blessings or benefits we have received. As we cultivate a grateful attitude, we are more likely to be happy and spiritually strong. We should regularly express our gratitude to God for the blessings He gives us and to others for the kind acts they do for us. The Lord has promised, “He who receive all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious.” Gratitude is an uplifting, exalting attitude. People are generally happier when they have gratitude in their hearts. We cannot be bitter, resentful, or mean-spirited when we are grateful. The effects of showing gratitude are sustainable and quantifiable, and the practice of gratitude is readily accessible, available to everyone. You are never too old, too young, too rich, too poor, to live gratefully. #RandolphHarris 1 of 35
We should be thankful for the wonderful blessings that are ours and for the tremendous opportunities we have. We can be thankful to our parents, family, friends, and teachers. We should express appreciation to everyone who has assisted us in any way. Gratitude is not information, but enthusiasm and commitment. The enlightenment that can ignite a trend toward global gratitude is the seal of men and women who discover that grateful living makes life meaning and fulfilling. So, living in gratitude is living in touch. It is the most accurate and honest approach to life. Yet the grateful state of mind, as accessible as it is, can be fleeting, difficult to sustain over the long-term unless it is practiced with attention and intention. We should thank our Heavenly Fathers for His goodness to us by acknowledging His hand in all things, thanking Him for all that He gives us, keeping His commandments, and serving others. We should especially thank God for His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, for the Savior’s great example, for His teachings, for His outreaching hand to lift and help, and for His infinite Atonement. As we have seen, Human nature is characterized by polarities. Humans are active and passive, weak but strong, independent yet dependent, affectionate yet aggressive. They are both dominate with great authority and marginalized with little recognition. We would like to introduce two more general terms—conservative and liberal—chosen because of their universal usage and because of their non-moralistic connotations. #RandolphHarris 2 of 35
The two-party system of politics in America is a good example of the importance of giving credence to opposing viewpoints. In Great Britain, the part out of power is referred to as “Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition.” In every one of us there is a similar two-party system, each with its loyal opposition, sometimes in power and sometimes not. We use the terms liberal and conservative to describe these several “me’s” because they imply the truth, which is that both are parts of a potential unity. Too often people would repress or destroy one side or the other of this polarity. The truth is that ultimate mental health requires retaining, valuing, and living with both sides of ourselves. The two sides of our psychological nature may be thought of as parallel to the two sides of our physical nature. We have right and left eyes, right and left ears, and so on. Recently a patient came in, complaining that her husband was unfaithful. She was afraid that he was about to leave her, and she wanted to save their marriage. As she talked, it became obvious that the left side of her body was paralyzed. She made every gesture with her right hand, while her left hand lay limply in her lap. She had been referred, she said, by her family physician, who could find no physical ailment to explain her disability. This woman, who for twenty years had been a kindergarten teacher, has been quite conventional and very conservative. It became quite clear that her entire orientation was “right.” She always did the “right thing,” said the “right thing,” and never expressed a “different” point of view. In effect, she was dull and lifeless. #RandolphHarris 3 of 35
It is said that an art student can learn to “seduce” his or her right hand to more expressiveness by drawing with the left. Use of the left hand seems to release the right hand to greater freedom. Therapy for this woman, then, is to help impart new life to her thinking and, hence, her body, which had become as rigid, stiff, and unresponsive as her thinking. When she is free to express both sides of her nature, which we describe as her conservative and liberal sides, she will be more interesting to her husband and to herself. This is not to say that conservatism means complete control and liberalism means complete license. Rather, when we use both eyes and both ears, we see and hear in depth. The actualizing person dances between the right and left complementary polarities, and in this process, there is a natural restraint, rather than an artificial one, as demonstrated by our school teacher. Suppose we regard our organism as a dynamic, ever-changing unit, yet bipolar in its potential for expression. A person in balance is one whose see-saw is moving continually in dynamic interplay between his or her conservative and liberal potentials. One side goes up, and that side comes into awareness; the needs of that ide of nature dominate. Circumstances change, and the other end of the personal see-saw goes up. If we continue to live by the law of expression (expressing what we feel by behavior or verbal expression) then we will continue to be in balance. Neither the conservative nor the liberal tendencies will dominate or become fixed. #RandolphHarris 4 of 35
One of the basic needs of every person is to take responsibility for his or her own balance. Now here is the ethic we want to suggest: Responsibility in this sense means accepting responsibility for oneself and one’s own natural rhythmic balance, not depending on anyone else to establish controls for behavior. We all have liberal and conservative sides. The conservative must accept her or his liberal side just as the liberal must accept her or his conservative side. In the open expression of both sides of one’s nature, the individual has a natural means by which to live life with ease, combining challenge with a minimum of artificial controls imposed from the outside. External systems of morality may be seen as blankets of artificial control requiring to keep immature people from behaving unwisely. As parents and spouses, we feel that we need to impose such systems on our children and our mates because, usually, we really do not trust our own balance and, therefore, cannot trust the balance of those we love. An internal system of bipolar expression is, of course, the alternative to the external system of control. This has been described as a system of organismic self-regulation. Instead of simply controlling or braking one’s natural expression, one focuses instead on an understanding of one’s potentialities. I have still to see a case of neurosis which is not due to over-control, and to its aggravation by the nagging of friends to “pull yourself together.” #RandolphHarris 5 of 35
The overcalled person behaves exactly like a car which has many controls. The brakes are only one of them. The experienced driver understands how to handle all the controls, the more efficiently will the car function. However, if her drives with the brakes permanently on, the wear and tear on the brakes and engine will be tremendous…and sooner or later there will be breakdown. The overcontrolled person experiences this same type of pressure as the inexperienced driver. He knows no other means of control than the brakes—than repressions. Because of increased stress and anxiety, a person may experience avoidance in many different specific matters. Thus, a person may avoid speaking in public, participating in sports, telephoning. If somebody else is around to do the telephoning, to decide, or to deal with the landlord, he will leave it to them. In these specific activities, he is most likely to be aware of shirking something, while in the larger areas the issue is often more befogged by an attitude of “I cannot” or “I do not care.” Examining these avoidances, we see in operation two principles which determine their character. One is, briefly, safety through restricting one’s life. It is safer to renounce, to withdraw, or to resign than to take the risk of exposing one’s pride to injury. Perhaps nothing demonstrates so impressively the overwhelming importance of the pride in many instances as the willingness, for its benefit, to restrict one’s life to an often-cramping degree. #RandolphHarris 6 of 35
The other principle is: It is safer not to try than to fail. This latter maxim gives the avoidance the stamp of finality because it deprives the person of the chance of gradually overcoming whatever difficulties he has. It is even unrealistic based on the neurotic’s premises, for he has not only to pay the price of unduly restricting his life but in the long run his very recoiling damages his pride more deeply. However, of course he does not think in long-rage terms. He is concerned with the immediate danger of trial and error. If he does not try at all, it does not reflect on him. He can find an alibi of some sort. If he had not tried, at least in his own mind, he can have the comforting thought that he could have passed the examination, secured a better job, won a woman. Often it is more fantastic: “If I applied myself to composing or writing, I would be greater than Chopin or Balzac. In many instances, the avoidances extend to reaching out in our feelings for anything desirable: in short, they may encompass our wishes. I mentioned people who feel it a disgraceful defeat not to attain something they wish to have. The mere wishing then entails too great a risk. Such a check on wishes, however, means putting a lid on out aliveness. Sometimes people also must avoid any thought that would hurt their pride. The most significant avoidance on this score is shunning thoughts about death, because the idea of having to get older and having to die like any other mortal is unbearable. Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray is an artistic presentation of the pride in eternal youth. #RandolphHarris 7 of 35
As psychoanalysis came into its own, it pushed aside much valuable work that had been done previously. Thus, free association replaced the centuries-long tradition of introspection. Free association was concerned with the contents of the mind, leaving it to the psychoanalyst to figure out from this how the mind worked. This could only be done when it did not work smoothy. If it works perfectly, there is no way to figure out how a closed machine (a “black box”) works. If it makes mistakes, or is induced to make a mistake by throwing a monkey wrench into it, only then can this be found out. Thus, free association is only as good as the psychopathology behind it: the switches, the intrusions, the slips, and the dreams. Introspection, on the other hand, takes the cover off the black box, and lets the Adult of the person peer into his own mind to see how it works: how he puts sentences together, which direction his images come from, and what voices direct his behavior. Almost everyone has said “to himself” at some time: “You should not have done that!” and he may even have noticed that he answers “himself”; “But I had to!” In this case, it is the Parent saying, “You should not have done that!” and the Adult or Child saying: “But I had to!” This exactly reproduces some actual dialogue of childhood. There are three “degrees” of such internal dialogue. In the first degree, the words run through Jeder’s head in a shadowy way, with no muscular movements, or at least none perceptible to the unaided eye or ear. In the second degree, he can feel his vocal muscles moving a little so that he whispers to himself inside his mouth; in particular, there are small abortive movements of the tongue. #RandolphHarris 8 of 35
In the third degree, he says the words out loud. The third degree may take over certain disturbance conditions so that he walks down the street talking to himself, and people turn their heads to watch and are likely to think he is suffering from psychosis. There is also a fourth degree, where one or other of the internal voices is heard as coming from outside the skull. This is usually the voice of the Parent (the voice of his father or mother) and these are hallucinations. His Child or may not answer the Parental voices, but in any case, they affect some aspects of his behavior. Because people who “talk to themselves” are thought to be suffering from psychosis, nearly everyone has an injunction against listening to the voices in his head. However, if the proper permission is given, this is a faculty which can be quickly recovered. Then, almost anyone can listen in on his own internal dialogues, and that is one of the best ways to find out the Parental precepts, the Parental pattern, and the script controls. A young woman, who was tempted by pleasures of the flesh, started to pray in her head so that she would be able to resist her boy friend’s seduction. She clearly heard herself directed by the Parental precept: “Be a good girl, and when you are tempted, pray.” A man got into a fight in a bar and was very careful to fight skillfully. He clearly heard his father’s voice saying: “Do not telegraph your punches!” which was part of his father’s pattern: “Here is how to fight in a bar.” He got into the fight because his mother’s voice said provocatively: “You are just like your father, some day you will get your teeth smashed in a bar fight.” At the critical moment, a stock-market speculator heard a demonic whisper telling him: “Do not sell, buy.” He abandoned his carefully planned campaign, and lost his entire capital—“Ha ha,” he said. #RandolphHarris 9 of 35
The Parental voce exerts the same kind of control as a ventriloquist. It takes charge of the person’s vocal apparatus, and he finds himself saying words which come from someone else. Unless his Adult steps in, he then follows the instruction given by this voice, so that his Child acts exactly like a ventriloquist’s dummy. This ability to suspend one’s own will, usually without realizing what has happened, and to let someone else take charge of the vocal muscles and the other muscles of the body, is what enables the script to take over at the appropriate time. The remedy for this is to listen to the voices in one’s head, and let the Adult decide whether to follow their instructions or not. In this way, the person frees himself from the control of the Parental ventriloquist, and becomes master of his own actions. To accomplish this, he requires two permissions which he can give himself, but which may be more effective coming from someone else, such as a therapist. 1. Permission to listen to his internal dialogue. 2. Permission not to follow the directive of his Parent. If he dares to disobey the Parental directives, there is some peril in this undertaking and he may require protection from someone else. Thus, if they act independently of their ventriloquist Parents, the one job of the therapist is to give his patients protection and try to be real people instead of dummies. It should be added that while Parental voices tell him what he can or cannot do, it is Child pictures that tell him what he wants to do. Desires are visual, and directives are auditory. #RandolphHarris 10 of 35
We Instruct Others on How We Wish Them to See Us. People attribute to the “others” the traits and qualities that they believe define them. Thus, the parents of a student who consulted me told him many times: “You are such a nice, obedient boy. You always do what you are told. Ever since you were a baby, you wanted to please us.” Under such a hypnotic and persuasive regime, he came to believe he was nice and obedient, eager to please others. Once he formed his concept of himself, his way of relating to others functioned as an invitation to them to view him as he had come to view himself. It seems strange, but persons’ self-concepts represent an answer to the question, “Who am I?” that their parents first answered. If they accept their answer, they transmit it to others who want to know who they are. They tell others who they are, in every relationship that they enter. If you and I are no more than carriers of a view of ourselves that our parents gave us as a kind of legacy, how odd. We define ourselves in terms provided by our parents, say, and confirm that definition by our actions, which invites and persuades others to believe we are that way. The student I saw in psychotherapy told me that for years his father had been saying, “You take after your uncle Billy. He started many things, but always gave up halfway through.” His father was defining him as essentially a failure, and he believed that was how he was. He tried to persuade me that he was, essentially, a failure, and there was little anyone could do about it. #RandolphHarris 11 of 35
Of course, I refused to see him that way. Instead, I attributed strength to him and the capacity to overcome self-doubt and the difficulties of study. The student did change his concept of himself under this continuous “invitation” to change it. After having had competence attributed to him, the student not only changed his self-concept, but invited others including his father, to change their views of him. This cycle of having one’s identity defined by others, believing it, and then persuading others to view oneself in the way say is continuous throughout life. It is the basis for personal growth, and it also can be the basis for endless confirmation of a sense of identity that is defeating. I open the Old Testament and encounter the sentence: “There is nothing new under the sun.” This judgment, made thousands of years ago, is echoed in memory by the more recent one of Jean de la Bruyere: “Everything has been said.” Yet books keep on pouring, like a flood, from the presses. So, old thoughts circulate in new minds. Most people look to the West for living representatives of this knowledge and to ancient or medieval literature for written records of it. They fall into the faith that the distant is better, and the dead are wiser. Is he to remain the prisoner of his own past thinking or is he free himself from it? Is he to remain faithful to everything he once believed even after he has found it to be no longer true or only partly true? Has long habit so committed him to certain ideas that he can no longer escape into better and larger ones? #RandolphHarris 12 of 35
These people pulled down the blinds over their minds soon after reaching maturity, because they did not desire to see any horizon wider than the strict and rigid doctrines which they possessed. The independent-minded seeker will welcome truth from any quarter, any era, will be avid for whatever fragments of it he can find, and wherever he may find it. Why hide views which a wide experience and wider study have forced into supremacy? I respect what the past has bequeathed us but this must not be allowed to enchain us to them alone. He should take those old texts and render their ideas more intelligible to his own generation. If the work and discoveries or others are ignored, the search for the spiritual truth and the spiritual self cannot be economically done, in terms of energy and time. So, the records left by past men and the experiences of present ones are worth our study. They give it a spiral pattern; it moves around through them, turns, and climbs higher. When Herzen, in making his apology for the nihilist movement—only to the extent, it is true, that he sees in it a still greater emancipation from ready-made ideas—writes: “The annihilation of the past is the procreation of the future,” he is using the language of Bielinsky. Koteiarevsky, speaking of the so-called radicals of the period, defined them as apostles “who thought that the past must be completely renounced and the human personality must be constructed to quite another plan.” #RandolphHarris 13 of 35
Stirner’s claim reappears with the total rejection of history and the determination to construct the future, no longer regarding the historical spirit, but to coincide with the man-king. However, the man-king cannot rise himself to power unaided. He has need of others and therefore enters a nihilist contradiction which Pisarev, Bakunin, and Nechaiev will try to resolve by slightly extending the area of destruction and negation, to the point where terrorism finally kills the contradiction itself, in a simultaneous act of sacrifice and murder. The nihilism of the of the 1860’s began, apparently, with the most radical negation imaginable: the rejection of any action that was not purely egoistic. We know that the very term nihilism was invented by Turgeniev in his novel Fathers and Sons, whose hero, Bazarov, was an exact portrayal of this type of man. Pisarev, when he wrote a criticism of this book proclaimed that the nihilists recognized Bazarov as their model. “We have nothing,” said Bazarov, “to boast about but the sterile knowledge of understanding, up to a certain point, the sterility of what exists.” “Is that,” he asked, “what is called nihilism?” “Yes, that what is called nihilism.” Pisarev praises Brazarov’s attitude, which for the sake of clarity he defines as thus: “I am a stranger to the order of existing things, I have nothing to do with it.” Thus, the only value resides in rational egoism. #RandolphHarris 14 of 35
In denying everything that is not satisfaction of the self, Pisarev declares war on philosophy, on art, which he considers absurd, on erroneous ethics, on religion, and even on customs and on good manners. He constructs a theory of intellectual terrorism which makes one think of the present-day surrealists. Provocation is made into a doctrine, but on a level of which Raskolnikov provides the perfect example. At the height of this fine transport, Pisarev askes himself, without even laughing, whether he is justified in killing his own mother and answers: And why not, if I want to do so, and if I find it useful?” From that point on, it is surprising not to find the nihilists engaged in making a fortune or acquiring a title or in cynically taking advantage of every opportunity that offers itself. It is true that there were nihilists to be found in advantageous positions on all levels of society. However, they did not construct a theory from their cynicism and preferred on all occasions to pay visible and quite inconsequential homage to virtue. As for those we are discussing, they contradicted themselves by the defiance they hurled in the face of society, which was the affirmation of a value. They called themselves materialists; their bedside book was Bucher’s Force and Matter. However, one of them confessed: “Every one of us was ready to go to the scaffold and to give his head for Moleschott and Darwin,” thus putting doctrine well ahead of matter. Doctrine, taken seriously to this degree, has an air of religion and fanaticism. #RandolphHarris 15 of 35
For Pisarev, Lamarck was a traitor because Darwin was right. Whoever in this intellectual sphere began talking about the immortality of the soul was immediately excommunicated. Vladimir Veidle is therefore right when he defines nihilism as rationalist obscurantism. Reason among the nihilists, strangely enough, annexed the prejudices of faith; choosing the most popularized forms of science-worship for their prototype of reason was not the least of the contradictions accepted by these individualists. They denied everything but the most debatable of values, the values of Flaubert’s Monsieur Homais. However, it was by choosing to make reason in its most limited aspect, into an act of faith that the nihilists provided their successors with a model. They believed in nothing but reason and self-interest. However, instead of skepticism, they chose to propagate a doctrine and became socialists. Therein lies their basic contradiction. Like all adolescent minds, they simultaneously experienced doubt and the need to believe. Their personal solution consists in endowing their negation with the intransigence and passion of faith. What, after all, is astonishing about that? Veidle quotes the scornful phrase used by Soloviev, the philosopher, in denouncing this contradiction: “Man is descended from monkeys, therefore let us love one another.” #RandolphHarris 16 of 36
Pisarev’s truth, however, is to be found in this dilemma. If man is the image of God, then it does not matter that he is deprived of human love; the day will come when he will be satiated with it. However, if he is a blind creature, wandering in the darkness of a cruel and circumscribed condition, he has need of his equals and of their ephemeral love. Therefore, keep in mind that gratitude is a Spirit-filled principle. It opens our minds to a universe permeated with the richness of a living God. Do you know of any place on the face of the Earth, where human beings have more liberty, and where they enjoy such high and glorious privileges as they do here, as American citizens” I bear witness that the people of American do enjoy grand and glorious privileges. Gratitude requires awareness and effort, not only to feel it but to express it. Frequently we are oblivious to the Lord’s hand. We murmur, complain, resist, criticize; so often we are not grateful. In the Book of Mormon, we learn that those who murmur do not know “the dealings of that God who created them.” The Lord counsels us not to murmur because it is then difficult for the Spirit to work with us. Gratitude is a Spirit-filled principle. It opens our minds to a universe permeated with the richness of a living God. Through it, we become spiritually aware of the wonder of the smallest things, which gladden our hearts with their messages of God’s love. This grateful awareness heightens our sensitivity to divine direction. #RandolphHarris 17 of 35
We are all grateful for the award-winning Sacramento Fire Department. Emergency scenes are where the rubber meets the road, and the results of safety culture pay off. After a high-stress emergency call, responders sometime claim that they really did not think about what to do or how to do it. They say they did not really think about the danger either—they just did what needed to be done, what they were trained to do. If we have spent our nonemergency time practicing a culture of safety, when the emergency does come, then safety is already second nature. Take running a chainsaw, for instance. If safety glasses are an afterthought at the station, you will not remember them at an emergency when stress levels are up. The best way to perform emergency scene duties safely is to not know how to perform them unsafely. Learning the aspects of personal accountability is a skill needed to develop a safety culture, as well as to grow as a person. Looking back on your best mentors, teachers, or leaders, you will see aspects of personal accountability. Likewise, if you ever worked for a great company, department, or division, your probably saw what organizational accountability looks like. Because these people and organizations are led by human decisions, even the best will trip up occasionally. Virtually, every time this happens, lack of accountability is at the root. If it happens, simply recognize it for what it is, pick yourself up, and take responsibility. If fire and emergency services are going to be truly accountable for health and safety, these attributes are vital. #RandolphHarris 18 of 35
When we think of line-of-duty death, an emergency situation is usually the first location that comes to mind. The dynamic changes that occur during an emergency incident put a constant stress on emergency responders. Additionally, the chance of injury or death is increased due to a genuine or perceived urgency in managing the incident. This feeling of compressed time creates additional stresses and forces quick decisions. Many times, the decisions are based on unknown factors and unknown dangers. The weakest link in the system is the human decision. In a documentary, author Joseph T. Hallinan claimed that humans make hundreds of mistakes every day. The brain is too “clogged up,” with attempting to decipher all the messages it’s receiving, especially when multitasking and considering options. Unfortunately, an emergency scene is a breeding ground for such mistakes. One effective way to maintain a safety culture on emergency scenes is to treat each job with a risk versus benefit analysis. Risk-benefit analysis is simply the weighing of the facts by determining the advantages and disadvantages of a certain activity. For risk-benefit analysis to be effective, all the possibilities must be considered. Unfortunately, creating a list of all the possibilities is time-consuming in the initial stages of an incident, and sometimes the list lacks all the information necessary. #RandolphHarris 19 of 36
Preincident plans allow the Sacramento Fire Department to create “boilerplate” lists when time is not an issue. Many they instead rely on their experience and training to complete risk-benefit analysis. Take, for instance, that the captain one is assigned to a heavy-rescue company stationed downtown when you receive a call for a motor vehicle crash on an interstate overpass that involves a tractor-trailer. While en route, dispatch updates the responding companies that the truck is hanging from the “high-bridge.” The responder knows the “high bridge” refers to the uppermost bridge of an area where two bridges cross the interstate below. The first-due engine company reports that they are stuck in traffic approaching the high bridge and that a black smoke column is around the bridges. They call for another alarm, with the best approach from the opposite direction. The responder decides the best route will take one under the crash on the second bride, where one can pass underneath and backtrack to the high bridge. As one arrives “under” the crash, the responder is the first fire apparatus close to the scene. The responder reports that there is a semi-truck on the high bridge with the tractor hanging off the edge 25 feet above the bridge he is on. There is also a fire above, but he cannot tell what is involved or how many people are trapped or injured. One can talk to the driver from his position and it is clear he is unhurt but ready to jump. He tells the responder that he is carrying an enclosed trailer with pallets of 5-gallon pails containing hydraulic oil. He has already removed his seat belt and is half out the window; he is cared his truck is going to blow up and fall. It is time for a risk-benefit analysis. #RandolphHarris 20 of 35
Fire and emergency responders of the Sacramento Fire Department have been completing risk-benefit analyses in their heads and on-the-fly for a long time. Unfortunately, the analysis is only as good as the person completing the assessment. Experience goes a long way to success, but it only comes with the expense of making mistakes. Mistakes while learning are okay when they do not cause damage, but the risk-benefit mistakes the Sacramento Fire Department is talking about here can kill someone. As stated earlier, everyday emergency scenes are not necessarily the ideal location to pull out a pad of paper and a pen to list all the hazards. Some emergency responders might believe that they are proficient at (mental) risk-benefit analysis and that the method is sufficient. However, that is not always the case, and this is something one learns with experience. “I always knew we were underpaid, but we never know how much until we saw the figures of what everybody else is making. In Sacramento the cost of living is high. There shouldn’t be that much disparity of pay, but there is. Pay and equipment. Sacramento is changing, and we are getting a lot more equipment. After my injury and a colleague’s injury, we had two lieutenants who died, and the fire department went out and purchased those personal alert devices which give a signal if you’re pinned. We never had them before. One of the lieutenants was blown down into a basement and burned, and a floor collapsed under the other one and he fell into the fire. I’m not saying it would have helped them, but it might have helped my other colleague and myself. #RandolphHarris 21 of 36
“There are little things that they’re buying now that they probably never would have bought years ago. It was a big fight with the unions over the air mask. They city wanted to stay with the old filter mask, and the union wanted the self-contained air mask. You have to have something like a union say to the city, ‘If you can’t afford to pay us the money, at least give us the tools and the proper equipment to do to job.’ But the city holds the salary down, and they hold the equipment down. You look at the firefighters from Placer County, I’m not trying to put them down, but these don’t get the fires that the people in Sacramento do. They have one-story ranch houses, and they’re running around with top-notch gear. It’s unreal. The chief of the fire department does the best he can for us, but from there on up nobody gives a care about the firemen. The mayor sees a fire on TV, and he’ll show up and say, ‘Oh, these firemen are great.’ We had a nine-alarm fire a little while ago. The manning and the equipment in the city is so low that we need more resources. The city is trying to save money here, and here it is as an expense. It’s the taxpayer who’s going to be hurt, and the fireman is breaking his back more.” First arriving companies set the groundwork for how well the incident will be controlled. This occurs primarily by picking a strategy. Realize that choosing an offensive strategy without sufficient personnel to reinforce that strategy could ultimately cause the operation to fail. If adequate personnel are not assembled when the strategic decision is made, consider holding the incident in check with a defensive strategy while preparing a plan and the necessary equipment until help arrives. #RandolphHarris 22 of 35
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 fighters 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 motions, 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 peoples’ 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 35
California is the third most expensive state in the nation. A single person making an income above $100,000 is now consider low-income in five counties in California. This distinction now applies to individuals living in Santa Cruze, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin counties. In 37 percent of counties, a family of four living on a six-figure income is now considered low-income. In fact, Governor Gavin Newsom of Democratic controlled California, brags about being the world’s “fifth largest economy,” but it also facing a $12 billion deficit, looking to cut $747 million for state worker’s pay, pushing to keep medical insurance for illegal immigrants, but wants to cut medical for anyone who has assets over $2,000 and the state has the largest homeless population in the nation. 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. 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. In 2025, many people in California saw their bills increase by an estimated $500 a month. This includes things like food, automobile insurance, homeowner’s insurance, 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. This is caused by nearly half a century’s old laws that discourage homes sales and encourage higher rents. #RandolphHarris 24 of 35
Meanwhile, China, where we are sending all our jobs and money has more than 50 ghost cities. Ghost cities are regions will housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. 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 amongst 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 2,500 and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. 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 boarder 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 risks 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 end-of-life of machinery is how the Oroville Dam Crisis occurred in 2017. #RandolphHarris 25 of 35
Other crises that have occurred due to neglect of critical infrastructure is the 2025 Palisades fires because Southern California ran out of water, when they are located next to an ocean and they could have simply created desalinating plants to help with the water shortage. The water 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. As we see gangs fighting with federal law enforcement, states and cities refusing to honor federal laws, and politicians showing an utter disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America, anarchy is becoming increasingly common. 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, regard property as a means of tyranny, and believe that crimes is merely the product of property and authority. #RandolphHarris 26 of 35
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. Anarch 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 prior to the situation becoming 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 35
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 their infrastructure, provide adequate resources, nor 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 is 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. 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. 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 or $88,724.00 and that typically means two to four people in the home are working and contributing to the mortgage. #RandolphHarris 28 of 35
Home prices in Sacramento County are rivaling the Bay Area. Historically homes in the Bay Aera 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. The State of California has a budget deficit of $12 billion because Governor Gavin Newsom Granted 700,000 illegal immigrants free health care, which cost taxpayers of $3 billion annually. At the same time, Newsom cut vital programs for veterans, school children, the disabled and the homeless. Additional, Newsom seems to uneducated about economics and is proposing to fast-track his plan to build a $20 billion water tunnel beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, which would eliminate environmental reviews, and limit avenues for legal challenges. Gavin Newsom only cares about the environment when his policies allow him to raise taxes and restrict freedoms. To further highlight this illustration, 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 poop, 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. #RandolphHarris 29 of 35
However, Mexico’s pollution of California has become a severe public health crisis as the population of Tijuana has drastically increased, in recent years, and the waste treatment plants have no longer usable. Some of the beaches in San Diego have been closed for more than three years, and evidence suggests that even breathing the air may be harmful, as toxic particles in the water can become airborne. Yet, even though Gavin Newsom has been governor for six years, he has not rushed into action to stop this very preventable environmental disaster. Why? Because he is not getting kickbacks from China and Mexico, not being gifted mansions and cars, and he cannot tax the struggling California taxpayers to clean up this mess. Simply, it is not profitable for him. Gavin Newsom has been a total tyrant with no regard for taxpayers and does not have a mind for business and should be impeached as soon as possible. He has criminalized poverty, increased taxes, increased tax on gas, and insurance rates so high that people are struggling to survive. In addition to Gavin Newsom’s increased gas prices starting 1 July 2025, the war between Iran and Israel is going to further exacerbate the prices of gas and cause more inflation and economic hardship for people in California. While everyone is making war over America and who belongs here and who she belongs to, so many people forget about the people who are Indigenous to this land. Open boarders have allowed hundreds of thousands of cartel operatives to infiltrate reservations across the United States of America, and use the isolated lands as havens to traffic fentanyl pills and other drugs into the country without protection from federal authorities. #RandolphHarris 30 of 35
Drug cartels have been threatening the health and safety of Native American communities. The trafficking of the dangerous and illegal drugs into their territories is leading to a second genocide. The overdose rate for Indigenous 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 boarders and increase federal funding to Native America 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 also has totally ignored the cartel problems on American lands. Clean air, water, land and preserving our heritage extremely important. #RandolphHarris 31 of 35
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 who tax citizens without representation. Taxation without representation is what led to the American Revolution. If Gavin Newsom is not stopped, next he will euthanize the poor and sterilize the disabled. Gavin Newsom has wars and fires breaking out on the streets, but goes out of his way to arrest people who have no place to live. This monster is unfit to be governor and must never be allowed to be President of America! Stop Gavin Newsom now! Save California and impeach this unreasonable man. Meanwhile, with President Trump, we are seeing crime rates sharply decrease. President Trump just signed the “HALT Fentanyl Act” into law, which permanently classifies the narcotic as a “Schedule I drug” under the “Controlled Substances Act.” Also, President Trump recently secured $10 trillion in investments for the United States of America. Additionally, in May of 2025, the United States of America collected a record $100 billion in tariff revenue, and that number will increase to $300 billion by the end of 2025. Also, President Trump has just sealed a $550 billion deal with Japan. This means Japan will invest $550 billion into the United States of America. Furthermore, President Trump has been nominated for a Noble Peace Prize for making Iran and Israel crease fire. As you can see, President Trump is creating solutions and remediating problems to protect America and the American people, while Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is making life hard on American citizens and causing economic hardship and totally ignoring Mexico polluting beaches in San Diego. If elected president for an unprecedented third term, to make housing more affordable and to offset the cost of homeowner’s insurance and auto insurance, President Trump plans to abolish property taxes. #RandolphHarris 32 of 35
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 immigrant 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 American, 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 33 of 35
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 American 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 nation debt, plus you are helping to strengthen these foreign nations by send 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. Moreover, please remember to respect law and order and treat your elders with the utmost dignity and kindness possible. And take your education seriously so that you will be successful in life and make your family proud. It is inborn in the human minds 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. #RandolphHarris 34 of 35
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. 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 arrived at this fulness 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, pleasure teach your children 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. 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 it 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 35 of 35
Park Haven
Rancho Cordova, CA | low $500,000.00s
Now Selling!
Welcome to Cresleigh Park Haven; the newest home community in Rancho Cordova.
Nestled in the heart of Rancho Cordova, Park Haven is a thoughtfully planned community offering 71 homes —perfect for those seeking comfort, convenience, and more time to enjoy life.
Located adjacent to the beloved Exploration Park, this neighborhood blends modern living with outdoor adventure right at your doorstep.
Choose from five beautifully crafted floor plans ranging from approximately 1,342 to 2,547 square feet, with options for 3 to 5 bedrooms, flexible living spaces, and open-concept layouts designed for today’s lifestyles.
Whether you’re a first-time buyer, growing family, or looking to simplify without sacrificing style, Park Haven offers a home that fits your needs.
Enjoy the ease of a maintenance-friendly yard, the charm of a close-knit community, and the everyday convenience of nearby parks, trails, shopping, and top-rated schools. At Park Haven, you’ll find more than just a house—you’ll find your place to thrive.
Cresleigh Park Haven is an inviting community of single-family detached residences that blend classic and contemporary styles.
Plenty of options are available to you to let you personalize your new home, including a main level guest suite with full bath, lower level expanded rec room, and lower-level bedroom and flex room and much more. https://cresleigh.com/park-haven/
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. Take advantage of this fascinating experience. After tour, there will be time enjoy the mansion’s splendor at your own pace. You might even discover secret passages. Or, perhaps you will see Mr. Hansen, Mrs. Winchester’s head foreman.
Although the actual mansion is much older, we wish to wish the Winchester Mansion a Happy 102 years of giving tours, and express our gratitude to our families, ancestors, spirits, and friends and to our many associates and clients, whose lives touched our lives and whose ideas helped us to grow. We would also like to thank our employees and care takers for putting the technical ideas of this estate into conversational style, and we are, of course, extremely thank to all of our patrons for helping to keep the legacy of the Winchester Family alive. The Winchester Mystery House is full of surprises. What was your favorite, “Oooh!” moment during your visit at the mansion? (And for those of you who still have to check it off your bucket list… we will hopefully see you soon.) https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/
Go beyond the velvet ropes with the woman who knows the mansion best 🔍
Join Janan Boehme – official house historian and curator – for a rare and intimate 2-hour tour through the Winchester Mystery House. With a small group, you’ll go past ropes and through locked doors, gaining a deeper understanding of the house’s construction and ongoing preservation efforts. All from the foremost expert on the property 📖
For the first hour and 20 minutes, your group will have the mansion entirely to yourselves… no other guests in sight.
This limited experience takes place select Saturday mornings in August. Tickets are on sale now, link in bio. https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/tours/
Harris Plumbing, Heating, Air, & Electric has been in business for 30 years. How many businesses can say that? We take pride in everything we do – no matter how big or small the service call might be. We’re here to help your home be as safe and comfortable as possible for you and your family. We take that responsibility very seriously as a company. 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/
Ah, yes. The BMW 3 Series. Happy 50th birthday to the most iconic BMW ever! It is really hard to decide on a BMW model. However, the 3 series is a favorite of everyone. All the upper-class suburban families had one in the 1980s and 1990s; everyone from teenagers and housewives to executives and diplomats. Now that they are larger in size, but still sporty and luxurious, the audience has grown tremendously. These are very stylish and reliable cars, which is why BMW continues to dominate the luxury car space.
With its top ranking in Consumer Reports’ Auto Brand Report Card and consistent market share growth, BMW has demonstrated its ability to produce high-performing, reliable vehicles that meet consumer demands. BMW stands out due to its focus on driving dynamics and engineering excellence. While other luxury brands prioritize comfort and opulence, BMW is known for creating cars that are fun to drive and offer a unique connection between the driver and the machine. This is why BMW is known as the Ultimate Driving Machine. https://www.brianharrisbmw.com/
Randolph Harris San Francisco Taxation & Mergers
Building strong and lasting client relationships is crucial for a successful legal career. Many lawyers mistakenly believe that mastering legal skills alone ensures success, but law is fundamentally a service industry—our job is to solve problems through the time we sell. To build long-term relationships, attorneys must focus on three core elements: knowing their clients, understanding how their legal issues fit into a larger context, and consistently delivering exceptional service.
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
Be Your Own Snotty, Little Self!
This world is ordered by the spirit of reason, this reassures me about everything else. When you are given a great, superior intelligence, it is necessary to give glory to God. Some deny God, but have a great pride of intellect, and pride often goes before a fall. Therefore, one’s punishment is greater than most. There are diverse ways to restore pride, which are well known but seldom understood in this context. We may, for example, have said something which later appears silly to us—off the point, inconsiderate, too arrogant, or too apologetic—and we may forget about it, deny that we said it, or content that it meant something quite different. Akin to such denials are distortions of an incident—minimizing our share, omitting certain factors, emphasizing others, interpreting them in our favor—so that in the end we are whitewashed and our pride is unscathed. The embarrassing incident may also stay in our mind unchanged but be whisked away by excuses and alibis. Somebody admits having made a nasty scene, but it was because he had not slept for three nights or because others provoked him. He has hurt somebody’s feelings, was indiscreet or inconsiderate, but his intentions were good. He has failed a friend who needs him, but it was because of lack of time. All these excuses may be partly or wholly true, but in the person’s mind they do not serve as extenuating circumstances for a failing but erase it altogether. Similarly, many people feel that to say they are very sorry about something sets everything right. #RandolphHarris 1 of
All these devices have in common the tendency to refuse responsibility for self. Whether we forget something we are not proud of, or embellish it, or blame somebody else, we want to save face (retain respect; avoid humiliation) by not owning up to shortcomings. The declining of responsibility for self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient may make astute observations about himself and give a fairly accurate report of what he dislikes in himself. On the surface, it seems as though he is perceptive and honest about himself. However, “he” may be merely the intelligent observer of a fellow who is inhibited, fearful, or arrogantly demanding. Hence, since he is not responsible for the fellow he observes, the hurt to his pride is cushioned—even more so because the flashlight of his pride is focused on his faculty for keen objective observations. Others do not care for being objective, or even truthful, about themselves. However, when—despite the diffuse evasiveness this attitude entails—such a patient does become aware of some neurotic trends, he may make a neat distinction between “him” and his “neurosis” or his “unconscious.” His “neurosis” is something mysterious that has nothing whatever to do with “him.” This sounds startling. It is for him not only a face-saving but a life-saving, or at any rate a sanity-saving, measure. The vulnerability of his pride has assumed such extreme proportions that he would be split wide open by owning up to his disturbances. #RandolphHarris 2 of 36
So much for the devices employed to restore pride when it has been hurt. However, the pride is both so vulnerable and so precious that it also must be protected in the future. The neurotic may build an elaborate system of avoidances in hope of circumventing future hurts. This too is a process that goes on automatically. He is not aware of wanting to avoid an activity because it might hurt his pride. He just avoids it, often without even being aware that he is. The process pertains to activities, to associations with people, and it may put a check on realistic strivings and efforts. If it is widespread, it can cripple a person’s life. He does not embark on any serious pursuits commensurate with his gifts lest he fail to be a brilliant success. He would like to write or to paint and does not dare to start. He does not dare to approach girls lest they reject him. He may not even dare to travel lest he be awkward with hotel managers or porters. Or, since he would feel like a nonentity with strangers, he may go only to places where he is well known. He withdraws from social contacts lest he be self-conscious. So, according to his economic status, he either does nothing worth while or sticks to a mediocre job and restricts his expenses rigidly. In more than one way, he lives beneath his means. In the long run, this makes it necessary for him to withdraw father from others, because he cannot face the fact of lagging behind his age group and therefore shuns comparisons or questions from anybody about his work. #RandolphHarris 3 of 36
To endure life, he must now entrench himself more firmly in his private fantasy-world. However, since all these measures are more a camouflage than a remedy for his pride, he may start to cultivate his neuroses because the neurosis with a capital N then becomes a precious alibi for the lack of accomplishment. These are extreme developments and pride is not the only factor operating in them, although it is one of the essential ones. More often, avoidances are restricted to certain areas. A person may be quite active and effective in those pursuits in which he is least inhibited and which are in the service of glory. He may, for instance, work hard and successfully in his field but shun social life. Conversely, he may feel safe in social activities, or in a Don Juan role, but would not dare to venture into any serious work which would put a test his potential capacities. He may feel safe in his role as an organizer but avoid any personal relations because he would feel vulnerable in them. Among the many fears of getting emotionally involved with others (neurotic detachment) the fear of injuries to pride often plays a prominent part. Also, for many reasons, a person may be particularly afraid of not being glamorously successful with the opposite gender. He unconsciously anticipates—on the case of a man—that when approaching women, or having pleasures of the flesh with them, his pride will be hurt. Women then present to him a potential threat (to his pride). This fear can be powerful enough to dampen, or even crush, his feelings of attraction to them and thereby cause him to avoid heterosexual contacts. The inhibition thus generated does not alone account for his turning homosexual, but it is indeed one of the contributing factors to a preference for own’s own gender. Pride in many diverse ways is the enemy of love. #RandolphHarris 4 of 36
Pride does not look up to God and care about what is right. It looks sideways to man and argues who is right. Pride is self-will as opposed to God’s will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God. Humility responds to God’s will—to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in the ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. Pride is a very misunderstood sin, and many are sinning in ignorance. In the scriptures, there is no such thing as righteous pride—it is always considered a sin. Therefore, no matter how the world uses the term, we must understand how God uses the term so we can understand the language of holy write and profit by it. “And upon these, I write the things of my soul, and many of the scriptures which are engraven upon the plates of brass. For my soul delighteth in the scriptures, and my heart pondereth them, and writeth them for the learning and the profit of my children,” reports 2 Nephi 4.15. The central feature of pride is enmity-enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity means “hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.” It is the power by which the adversary wishes to reign over us. Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We put our will against God’s. When we direct our pride toward God, it is in the spirit of “my will and not thine be done.” As Paul said, they “seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s,” reports Philippians 2.21. #RandolphHarris 5 of 36
Manipulators never have learned the secret of balance between authentic surrender and honest striving. They are instead junior gods who try to run their lives and the lives of others by control and manipulation. They have a deeply rooted attitude of distrust in themselves and others. Even their passive, helpless manipulations are a form of striving for omnipotence, in that the helpless one always controls and directs the active ones in his or her life. The active demanding and “shoulding” of a manipulator are also forms of omnipotence that display a deep distrust of other persons’ potential for independent action. Actualization is the alternative that offers humanness. It offers belief in oneself and in one’s full potentials, valuing one’s limitations, and loving oneself despite these limitations. Actualizers balance their polarities of love and anger, weakness, and strength, allowing each full measure in their day-to-day experience. Actualizers believe that their organisms, as made, can be trusted to work in their efforts to cope with the problems of living. Possibly the most important idea we can offer is that the human need not to be a manipulator and, equally important, need not be a helpless victim of manipulation. With awareness, manipulation decreases and actualization increases. A basic concept of Gestalt therapy is of the “continuum of awareness.” This means that one can learn to focus on the ever-changing moment and express what she or he is experiencing from moment to moment. What we focus on now seems to be summarized in three dimensions: (1) Here vs. There (someplace else), (2) Now vs. Past or Future, and (3) Feeling vs. Thinking. The therapist, in helping a patient learn how to sharpen her awareness continually asks her to finish this statement: “Here and now, I am aware that _______.” #RandolphHarris 6 of 36
The patient then describes what she is feeling, thinking, and sensing in the here and now. Her thinking consists either of remembering the past of planning the future. Her sensing is what she is now seeing or hearing. Her feeling is the emotions she is experiencing at the time. People must learn to be obvious. The manipulator customarily does not see or hear such small things as movements of hands and feet, facial expressions, posture, and intonation in his or her voice or in the voices of others. However, as he is guided to raise his awareness through exercises such as the above, he moves from deadness to aliveness. Instead of relying on calculated manipulations to deal with others, the manipulator is helped to trust his spontaneous reactions to his world. Why is awareness so important? The reason is that awareness is the first strep to change. Awareness really does not require striving. It requires looking and really seeing, listening, and really hearing, touching, and really feeling. If you are really listening to what the person is saying, it is impossible to manipulate someone. Sometimes awareness even comes when you play your phony, manipulative role when seeking external support. Especially in the safety of a therapeutic setting, you can critically experience your manipulative roles—be your own “snotty, little self”—no matter how foolish or ridiculous they may be. #RandolphHarris 7 of 36
The awareness comes when you both intellectually admit your phoniness and at the same time experience it emotionally. You can then experience the self-defeating quality of manipulation and become freer to create from these roles the complementary, actualizing behaviors. By asking a patient to experience her dependent manipulation, and then by asking her to be the “wise therapist,” the therapist gets her to discover and respect her own wise, actualizing potential, which lies deep within herself. So, we see that the road to emotional health runs through the expression of manipulative behaviors, not through rejection and striving for change! Awareness of the futility of manipulation leads to the power of self-actualization. Persons’ self-concepts are open to influence by views that other people have of them. Beliefs about oneself are not based on conclusions arrived at through independent self-study, but rather are derived by listening to what other people have said about one’s nature. If we listen to them, other people define us to ourselves. Thus, one’s mother says, “You are lazy, like your father.” The child did not know he was lazy until he was told. Once he believes that his is his essential nature, he will act as a lazy person is expected to. When other people attribute traits to a person, their descriptions function like hypnotic suggestions, inducing or persuading the individual to conform with the others’ view. If the others define the person as weak or bad, this vulnerability to others’ influence is a liability; it is also an asset, because one can attribute strength and goodness to a person, who then will discover he or she can be strong and good. #RandolphHarris 8 of 36
When all others, including the patient sees themselves as weak, dependent, and worthless, psychotherapists exert a beneficial influence upon their patients by seeing them as potentially strong and self-reliant. People constantly define one another, thereby confirming one another’s self-concepts, for better or for worse. Listen to everyday conversations between parents and their children, between close friends, or between spouses: “Carter, put your coat and hat on; you know you are weak and will catch a cold.” (Carter is being led to believe that his body will not tolerate temperature changes without risk of pneumonia.) “Paris, you are such an obliging and generous girl—you could never refuse anyone or say an unkind work.” (Paris is being condemned to a life in which she cannot lose her temper or do anything to please herself; her nature has just been defined for her.) A husband may define his wife as follows: “Here, dear, let me balance the checkbook; you know you could never add two numbers together.” (She is confirmed in a view of herself as silly, helpless, and impractical.) Besides the biological and psychological characteristics of the human organism which allow the preprogrammed script to become the master of personal destiny, societies are set up in such a way as to encourage this lack of autonomy. This is done by means of the transactional social contract, which reads: “You accept my persona or self-presentation, and I will accept yours.” #RandolphHarris 9 of 36
Any abrogation of the social contract, unless it is one specifically permitted in each group, is regarded as rudeness. The result is a lack of confrontation: confrontation with others and confrontation with oneself, for behind this social contract lies a hidden individual contract between the three aspects of the personality. The Parent, Child, and Adult agree among themselves to accept each other’s self-presentation, and not everyone is courageous enough to change such a contract with himself when it is advisable. Lack of confrontation is seen most clearly in the case of schizophrenics and their therapists. Most therapists (in my experience) say that schizophrenia is incurable. By this they mean: “Schizophrenia is incurable by my kind of psychoanalytic therapy, and I am darned if I am going to try anything else.” Hence, they settle for what they call “making progress,” and like the well-known electrical manufacturer, progress is their principal product. However, progress means merely making the schizophrenic live mor bravely in his crazy world, rather than getting him out of it, and so the earth is full of brave schizophrenics living out their tragic scripts with the help of not so brave therapists. Two other slogans common among therapists are also common among the general population: “You cannot tell people what to do,” and “I cannot help you; you have to help yourself.” Both are outright falsehoods. You can tell people what to do, and many of them will do it and do it well. And you can help people, and they do not have to help themselves. They merely must get up, after you have helped them, and go about their business. #RandolphHarris 10 of 36
However, with slogans such as those, society (and I do not mean Arisiety, I mean all societies) encourages people to stay in their scripts and carry them through to their often-tragic endings. A script merely means that someone told the person what to do a long time ago and he decided to do it. Especially if you have children, this demonstrates that you can tell people what to do, and are in fact telling them all the time. So, if you tell people to do something other than what their parents told them, they may decide to follow your advice or instruction. And it is well known that you can help people become inebriated, of die from death by suicide, or end someone else’s life; therefore, you can also help them stop abusing alcohol, stop them from dying from death by suicide, or stop killing other people. It is certainly possible to give people permission to do certain things, or to stop doing certain thins which they were ordered in childhood to keep doing. Instead of encouraging people to live bravely in an old, unhappy world, it is possible to have them live happily in a brave new world. Acceptance of a teaching ought to come from a deeper level than surface attraction only. There ought to be an understanding also. The power of the mind needed to find truth is not commonly possessed. Those who lack it can benefit by the discoveries made by the self-actualized. However, they ought to test them in their own life-experience to confirm whether they be true. #RandolphHarris 11 of 36
Other men also have striven for self-mastery, have sought for truth since centuries ago. He should take advantage of their discoveries and secure the benefit of what they have learned. Whatever is learnt from this valuable heritage of the past must still be applied in the present to make it a living force in one’s own existence. This brings it to fill meaning, instead of remaining half-lost. Thos earlier statements of truth have their value; but it is unwise to forget the time and place of their making, for we must remember our own too. It is not by wholesale swallowing of traditionally accepted doctrines that we are going to expand our intelligence. Amid such diversity of schools, the bewildered student would do well to pause and study the history of thought before choosing among the many rivals competing for his favor. Amidst such a chaotic welter of ideas, he should look rather for a master key which will reconcile them all than for a single satisfying system, because undoubtedly each has its special contribution to make towards the case of Truth. The key exists and search will find it out. There may be no sense of recognition, no feeling of ancient familiarity with these teachings, and yet they may have a strong appeal and attraction for him. It is not enough in these days to quote scripture. There are many who do not hold it in awe and who consequently remain unconvinced. It is now necessary to quote facts also. #RandolphHarris 12 of 36
He need not share the timid concern for consistency. He need not be imprisoned forever in views which he held long ago. If at different periods of his life, he has slowly changed or abruptly altered his world-view, he need not be intimidated by his own past record. Had he not been a seeker, quite probably this would not have happened, and he would have remained sunk in the ignoble complacency of thoughtless orthodoxy. Do not believe merely because the written statement some educated person has produced. Why not accept the best of the past? It is at least as valuable as the best of the present, while having the added advantage of having been tested by time. These writing have roused some sleeping minds, and galvanized some sleeping souls. With that their work was done: teaching must be sought elsewhere. In the 1820’s among the first Russian revolutionaries, the Decembrists, virtue still existed. Jacobin idealism had not yet been uprooted from the hearts of these gentlemen. They even practiced conscious virtue: “Our fathers were sybarities, we are Catos,” said one of them, Peter Viazemsky. To this only added the opinion, which will still be found in Bakunin and the revolutionary socialists of 1905, that suffering regenerates. The Decembrists remind us of the French nobles who allied themselves with the third estate and renounced their privileges. Patrician idealist, they deliberately chose to sacrifice themselves for the liberation of the people. #RandolphHarris 13 of 36
Even though their leader, Pestel, was a political and social theorist, their abortive conspiracy had no fixed program; it is not even sure that they believed in the possibility of success. “Yes, we shall die,” one of them said on the eve of the insurrection, “but it will be a fine death.” It was, in fact, a fine death. In December 1825 the rebels, arranged in formation, were mown down by the cannon fire in the square in front of the Senate at St. Petersburg. The survivors were deported, but not before five had been hanged, and so clumsily that it had to be done twice. It is easy to understand why these ostensibly inefficacious victims have been venerated, with feelings of exaltation and horror, by all the revolutionary Russia. If not efficacious, they were exemplary. They indicated, at the beginning of this chapter of revolutionary history, the ambitions, and the greatness of what Hegel ironically called the beautiful soul in relation to which Russian revolutionary ideas were, nevertheless, to be defined. In this atmosphere of exaltation, German thought came to combat French influence and impose its prestige on minds torn between their desire for vengeance and justice and the realization of their own impotent isolation. It was first received, extolled, and commented upon as though it were revelation itself. The best minds were inflamed with passion for philosophy. They even went so far as to put Hegel’s Logic into verse. #RandolphHarris 15 of 36
For the most part, Russian intellectuals at first inferred, from the Hegelian system, the justification of a form social quietism. To be aware of the rationality of the world sufficed; the Spirit would realize itself, in any case, at the end of time. That is the first reaction of Stankevich, Bakunin, and Bielinsky, for example. If not intentional, then the Russian mind recoiled at this factual complicity with absolutism and, immediately jumped to the opposite extreme. Nothing is more revealing, in this respect, than the evolution of Bielinsky, one of the most remarkable and most influential minds of the 1830’s and 40’s. Beginning with a background of rather vague liberation idealism, Bielinsky suddenly discovers Hegel. In his room, at midnight, under the shock of revelation, he bursts into tears like Pascal and suddenly becomes a new man. “Neither chance nor the absolute exists, I have made my adieux to the French.” At the same time, he is still a conservative and a partisan of social quietism. He writes to that effect without a single hesitation and defends his position, as he perceives it, courageously. However, this essentially kindhearted man then sees himself allied with what is most detestable in the world: injustice. If everything is logical, then everything is justified. One must consent to the whip, to serfdom, to Siberia. To accept the world and its sufferings seemed to him, at one moment, the noble thing to do because he imagined that he would only have to bear his own sufferings and his own contradictions. #RandolphHarris 16 of 36
However, if it also implied consent to the sufferings of others, he suddenly discovered that he had not the heart to continue. He set out again in the opposite direction. If one cannot accept the suffering of others, then something in the world cannot be justified, and history, at one point at least, no longer coincides with reason. However, history must be completely reasonable or it is not reasonable at all. This man’s solitary protest, quieted for a moment by the idea that everything can be justified, bursts forth again in vehement terms. Bielinsky addressed Hegel himself: “With all the esteem due to your philistine philosophy. I have the honor to inform you that even if I had the opportunity of climbing to the very top of the ladder of evolution, I should still ask you to account for all the victims of life and history. I do not want happiness, even gratuitous happiness, if my mind is not at rest concerning all my blood brothers.” Bielinsky understood that what he wanted was not the absolute of reason but the fullness of life. He refuses to identify them. He wants the immortality of the entire man, clothed in his living body, not the abstract immortality of the species become Spirit. He argues with equal passion against new adversaries, and draws, from this fierce interior debate, conclusions that he owns to Hegel, but which he turns against him. These are the conclusions of individualism in revolt. #RandolphHarris 17 of 36
The individual cannot accept history as it is. He must destroy reality, not collaborate with it, to affirm his own existence. “Negation is my god, as reality formerly was. My heroes are the destroyers of the past: Luther, Voltaire, the Encyclopedists, the Terrorist, Byron in Cain.” Thus, we rediscover here, simultaneously, all the themes of metaphysical rebellion. Certainly, the French tradition of individualistic socialism always remained alive in Russia. Saint-Simon and Fourier, who were read in the 1830’s, and Proudon, who was imported in the forties, inspired the great concepts of Herzen, and, very much later, those of Pierre Lavrov. However, this system, which remained attached to ethical values, finally succumbed, provisionally at any rate, during its great debate with cynical thought. On the other hand, Bielinsky rediscovers both with and against Hegel the same tendencies to social individualism, but under the aspect of negation, in the rejection of transcendental values. When he dies, in 1848, his thought will moreover be very close to that of Herzen. However, when he confronts Hegel, he defines, with precision, an attitude that will be adopted by the nihilists, and at least in part by the terrorists. Thus, he furnishes a type of transition between the idealist aristocrats of 1825 and the “nothingist” students of 1860. It is not easy to struggle against ancient and strong-rooted errors. For some of the seeming escapes turn out to be merely another kind of error. #RandolphHarris 18 of 36
When it comes to the award-winning Sacramento Fire Department, practice is the only way to perform effectively for the rare occurrence of high-risk incidents. Just as important are the everyday events they respond to. Lack of training on the common occurrences leads to bad habits, the use of antiquated techniques, complacency, and, often, injuries. The adage, “If you do not use it, you lose it” applies to emergency responders. Training reinforces their actions and knowledge of how to handle a given situation, and how to improvise when they have never seen it before. Without training, the Sacramento Fire Department is forced to improvise every day. A well-trained responder has a distinct effect on the outcome of a call. Fire teams are divided into two-officer buddy teams. Buddy teams support and watch out for each other during operations. The Sacramento Fire Department must be able to engage a fire, put it out, save lives, and protect themselves not only from the fire, but also from seedy elements in the community that they might be targeted by. Firefighters, paramedics, and EMTs must be tacticians. They cannot rely on a book to solve tactical problems. The understand and use initiative in accomplishing the mission…The art of making sound decisions quickly lies in the knowledge of tactics, the estimate process, and the crew’s techniques and procedures. #RandolphHarris 19 of 36
The award-winning Sacramento Fire Department of today has changed. The modern, trained crew member uses traveling techniques, movement formations, and cover and concealment to advance and defend objects with the fewest possible casualties and to limit any property and environmental damage. Knowing how to move during an emergency is key to staying alive. However, before an emergency officer or medical officer moves, one must know where they want to move next. Stay on the route that their leader selects for them. Then, identify their next position that is nearby. They select their route to their next position so they are exposed to the least amount of fire. And they do not rush into situations without first having a plan. Firefighters, paramedics, and EMTs must afford themselves a degree of protection from the scene or from direct or indirect danger, such as gun fire. Depending on the situations, sometimes they have to find cover so they can be concealed from enemy observation. Concealment means the enemy cannot see them, but concealment does not protect them from situations where there might be a fire and a gang war going on. Emergency crews have sometimes been the target of an ambush. The lower crawl offers them the greatest protection with the slowest movement in these situations. The low crawl is especially useful when crews must move quickly and have less than a vertical foot of cover and concealment to get out of the kill zone and survive. #RandolphHarris 20 of 36
If the Sacramento Fire Department never improves their level of service, they remain stagnant. Therefore, they are cognizant of what needs evolve in their jurisdiction and how the rest of the industry is reacting to their needs. They must reevaluate what they do and how they do it, and make appropriate alterations in their techniques. Much like lobbying for better equipment, the Sacramento Fire Department must also lobby for improved services. “There are several things that have made me angry. What makes me most angry is the needless loss of life to fire. Over the years, as a journalist more than as a firefighter, I became involved in fire safety and fire prevention. I learned as much as I could about it, and I wrote many stories on the subject. What always strikes me, especially at the major disasters, the big multideath fires that I have covered as a reporter or been at as a firefighter, is that in every case the loss of life did not have to happen. But they failed to heed the lesson of the past. They failed to pass the fire codes that would prevent this from happening, or they failed to make them retroactive. They failed to put sprinklers in the buildings where you have the potential for a high loss of life—high-rise hotels, office buildings, the theaters, nightclubs, nursing homes. #RandolphHarris 21 of 36
“I have been to fires in all of those types of places. I have never been to a major fire disaster in which the loss of life would not have been prevented had the building met the standards we know a building should meet—which is to be protected by automatic sprinklers. There has never been a multideath fire in a building fully protected by a properly installed and operating sprinkler system. The indifference to fire safety in this country is probably the most depressing thing of all. People look at fires as bad luck, and fire the insurance will cover their loses. They are not concerned about the loss of lives more than they are concerned about saving money. The real bad luck was that people were in a place that should have been protected, and that they were in a city or a state that had failed to pass and enforce the laws that would have saved their lives. I see to many cases in which the people who build, own, and operate the buildings have the political influence and the money to block the passage of proper fire codes and proper inspections. One of the things the fire service has to do through the news media is to create a public opinion that is concerned about fire safety. When that happens, you get results. The metaphor of the phoenix rising from the ashes has been misused as a reason for allowing fires to ravage communities and properties. #RandolphHarris 22 of 36
“People are always trying to put an optimistic spin on a tragedy when prevent would have been the key to protecting lives, property, and the environment. In many cases, we need to just do want is right and not turn try to turn a tragedy into a reflection on the bright side. When a life is unnecessarily lost, there is nothing good that comes out of it. A beautiful life was cut short, a person never got to retire and enjoy their grandchild, a piece of history was lost, or a modern work of art was destroyed. After a disaster is your best chance to get a retroactive fire code passed that will correct the problem that caused a multideath fire. It’s a slow process, but I think we have been making progress in recent years. Another thing that is tremendously important about the fire service is leadership. Most of the guys I served with who went on to career officers, some of them top-ranking chiefs of their departments, were dedicated people who came up through the ranks, but who also did all the studying they had to do, and they worked hard to get where they are. I think that modern leadership has an opportunity to overcome so many problems of the past. In the old days we had leaders, chief officers, who were good firemen, but they weren’t necessarily good leaders and administrators. Today, a fire chief has to be much more than a good officer on the fireground. We’re starting to see that type of diversity develop now, chiefs who are good all-around leaders. I think that the salvation for the fire service, with all the problems that face us today, has to come from that wiser, more enlightened, more sensitive leadership. Many of the problems we face today wouldn’t be there had there been an enlightened leadership that was willing to change with the times, twenty and thirty years ago. Unfortunately, too many were not.” #RandolphHarris 23 of 36
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 fighters 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 motions, 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 peoples’ 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 24 of 36
California is the third most expensive state in the nation. A single person making an income above $100,000 is now consider low-income in five counties in California. This distinction now applies to individuals living in Santa Cruze, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin counties. In 37 percent of counties, a family of four living on a six-figure income is now considered low-income. In fact, Governor Gavin Newsom of Democratic controlled California, brags about being the world’s “fifth largest economy,” but it also facing a $12 billion deficit, looking to cut $747 million for state worker’s pay, pushing to keep medical insurance for illegal immigrants, but wants to cut medical for anyone who has assets over $2,000 and the state has the largest homeless population in the nation. 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. 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. In 2025, many people in California saw their bills increase by an estimated $500 a month. This includes things like food, automobile insurance, homeowner’s insurance, 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. This is caused by nearly half a century’s old laws that discourage homes sales and encourage higher rents. #RandolphHarris 25 of 36
Meanwhile, China, where we are sending all our jobs and money has more than 50 ghost cities. Ghost cities are regions will housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. 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 amongst 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 2,500 and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. 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 boarder 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 risks 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 end-of-life of machinery is how the Oroville Dam Crisis occurred in 2017. #RandolphHarris 26 of 36
Other crises that have occurred due to neglect of critical infrastructure is the 2025 Palisades fires because Southern California ran out of water, when they are located next to an ocean and they could have simply created desalinating plants to help with the water shortage. The water 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. As we see gangs fighting with federal law enforcement, states and cities refusing to honor federal laws, and politicians showing an utter disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America, anarchy is becoming increasingly common. 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, regard property as a means of tyranny, and believe that crimes is merely the product of property and authority. #RandolphHarris 27 of 36
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. Anarch 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 prior to the situation becoming 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 28 of 36
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 their infrastructure, provide adequate resources, nor 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 is 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. 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. 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 or $88,724.00 and that typically means two to four people in the home are working and contributing to the mortgage. #RandolphHarris 29 of 36
Home prices in Sacramento County are rivaling the Bay Area. Historically homes in the Bay Aera 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. The State of California has a budget deficit of $12 billion because Governor Gavin Newsom Granted 700,000 illegal immigrants free health care, which cost taxpayers of $3 billion annually. At the same time, Newsom cut vital programs for veterans, school children, the disabled and the homeless. Additional, Newsom seems to uneducated about economics and is proposing to fast-track his plan to build a $20 billion water tunnel beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, which would eliminate environmental reviews, and limit avenues for legal challenges. Gavin Newsom only cares about the environment when his policies allow him to raise taxes and restrict freedoms. To further highlight this illustration, 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 poop, 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. #RandolphHarris 30 of 36
However, Mexico’s pollution of California has become a severe public health crisis as the population of Tijuana has drastically increased, in recent years, and the waste treatment plants have no longer usable. Some of the beaches in San Diego have been closed for more than three years, and evidence suggests that even breathing the air may be harmful, as toxic particles in the water can become airborne. Yet, even though Gavin Newsom has been governor for six years, he has not rushed into action to stop this very preventable environmental disaster. Why? Because he is not getting kickbacks from China and Mexico, not being gifted mansions and cars, and he cannot tax the struggling California taxpayers to clean up this mess. Simply, it is not profitable for him. Gavin Newsom has been a total tyrant with no regard for taxpayers and does not have a mind for business and should be impeached as soon as possible. He has criminalized poverty, increased taxes, increased tax on gas, and insurance rates so high that people are struggling to survive. In addition to Gavin Newsom’s increased gas prices starting 1 July 2025, the war between Iran and Israel is going to further exacerbate the prices of gas and cause more inflation and economic hardship for people in California. While everyone is making war over America and who belongs here and who she belongs to, so many people forget about the people who are Indigenous to this land. Open boarders have allowed hundreds of thousands of cartel operatives to infiltrate reservations across the United States of America, and use the isolated lands as havens to traffic fentanyl pills and other drugs into the country without protection from federal authorities. #RandolphHarris 31 of 36
Drug cartels have been threatening the health and safety of Native American communities. The trafficking of the dangerous and illegal drugs into their territories is leading to a second genocide. The overdose rate for Indigenous 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 boarders and increase federal funding to Native America 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 also has totally ignored the cartel problems on American lands. Clean air, water, land and preserving our heritage extremely important. #RandolphHarris 32 of 36
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 who tax citizens without representation. Taxation without representation is what led to the American Revolution. If Gavin Newsom is not stopped, next he will euthanize the poor and sterilize the disabled. Gavin Newsom has wars and fires breaking out on the streets, but goes out of his way to arrest people who have no place to live. This monster is unfit to be governor and must never be allowed to be President of America! Stop Gavin Newsom now! Save California and impeach this unreasonable man. Meanwhile, with President Trump, we are seeing crime rates sharply decrease. President Trump just signed the “HALT Fentanyl Act” into law, which permanently classifies the narcotic as a “Schedule I drug” under the “Controlled Substances Act.” Also, President Trump recently secured $10 trillion in investments for the United States of America. Additionally, in May of 2025, the United States of America collected a record $100 billion in tariff revenue, and that number will increase to $300 billion by the end of 2025. President Trump has also been nominated for a Noble Peace Prize for making Iran and Israel crease fire. As you can see, President Trump is creating solutions and remediating problems to protect America and the American people, while Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is making life hard on American citizens and causing economic hardship and totally ignoring Mexico polluting beaches in San Diego. If elected president for an unprecedented third term, to make housing more affordable and to offset the cost of homeowner’s insurance and auto insurance, President Trump plans to abolish property taxes. #RandolphHarris 33 of 36
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 immigrant 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 American, 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 34 of 36
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 American 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 nation debt, plus you are helping to strengthen these foreign nations by send 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. Moreover, please remember to respect law and order and treat your elders with the utmost dignity and kindness possible. And take your education seriously so that you will be successful in life and make your family proud. It is inborn in the human minds 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. #RandolphHarris 35 of 36
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. 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 arrived at this fulness 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, pleasure teach your children 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. 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 it 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 36 of 36
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. Take advantage of this fascinating experience. After tour, there will be time enjoy the mansion’s splendor at your own pace. You might even discover secret passages. Or, perhaps you will see Mr. Hansen, Mrs. Winchester’s head foreman.
Please come and enjoy a delicious meal in Sarah’s Café, stroll along the paths of the beautiful Victorian gardens, and wonder 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 to purchase. https://shopwinchestermysteryhouse.com/
Although the actual mansion is much older, we wish to wish the Winchester Mansion a Happy 102 years of giving tours, and express our gratitude to our families, ancestors, spirits, and friends and to our many associates and clients, whose lives touched our lives and whose ideas helped us to grow. We would also like to thank our employees and care takers for putting the technical ideas of this estate into conversational style, and we are, of course, extremely thank to all of our patrons for helping to keep the legacy of the Winchester Family alive. The Winchester Mystery House is full of surprises. What was your favorite, “Oooh!” moment during your visit at the mansion? (And for those of you who still have to check it off your bucket list… we will hopefully see you soon.) https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/
Harris Plumbing, Heating, Air, & Electric has been in business for 30 years. How many businesses can say that? We take pride in everything we do – no matter how big or small the service call might be. We’re here to help your home be as safe and comfortable as possible for you and your family. We take that responsibility very seriously as a company. 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/
Ah, yes. The BMW 3 Series. Happy 50th birthday to the most iconic BMW ever! It is really hard to decide on a BMW model. However, the 3 series is a favorite of everyone. All the upper-class suburban families had one in the 1980s and 1990s; everyone from teenagers and housewives, to executives and diplomats. Now that they are larger in size, but still sporty and luxury, the audience has grown tremendously. These are very stylish cars and reliable cars, which is why BMW continues to dominate the luxury car space.
With its top ranking in Consumer Reports’ Auto Brand Report Card and consistent market share growth, BMW has demonstrated its ability to produce high-performing, reliable vehicles that meet consumer demands. BMW stands out due to its focus on driving dynamics and engineering excellence. While other luxury brands prioritize comfort and opulence, BMW is known for creating cars that are fun to drive and offer a unique connection between the driver and the machine. This is why BMW is known as the Ultimate Driving Machine. https://www.brianharrisbmw.com/
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Welcome to Cresleigh Park Haven; the newest home community in Rancho Cordova.
Nestled in the heart of Rancho Cordova, Park Haven is a thoughtfully planned community offering 71 homes —perfect for those seeking comfort, convenience, and more time to enjoy life. Located adjacent to the beloved Exploration Park, this neighborhood blends modern living with outdoor adventure right at your doorstep. See an example here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DMIR0kwMFhb/
Choose from five beautifully crafted floor plans ranging from approximately 1,342 to 2,547 square feet, with options for 3 to 5 bedrooms, flexible living spaces, and open-concept layouts designed for today’s lifestyles.
Whether you’re a first-time buyer, growing family, or looking to simplify without sacrificing style, Park Haven offers a home that fits your needs.
Enjoy the ease of a maintenance-friendly yard, the charm of a close-knit community, and the everyday convenience of nearby parks, trails, shopping, and top-rated schools. At Park Haven, you’ll find more than just a house—you’ll find your place to thrive. Park Haven – Cresleigh Homes
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I Do Not Love Him Anymore
Dr. Freud once said, “Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.” The pernicious character of neurotic pride lies in the combination of its being virtually important to the individual and at the same time rendering him extremely vulnerable. This situation creates tension, which because of their frequency and intensity are so unbearable that they call for remedies: automatic endeavors to restore pride when it is hurt and to avoid injuries when it is endangered. The need to save face is urgent, there are so many ways which can be gross or subtle. The most effective and, it seems, almost ubiquitous one is interlinked with the impulse to take revenge of hostility to the pain and the danger involved in a hurt pride. However, vindictiveness may in addition be a means toward self-vindication. It involves the belief that by getting back at the offender one’s own pride will be restored. This belief is based on the feeling that the offender, by his very power to hurt our pride, has put himself above us and has defeated us. By our taking revenge and hurting him more than he did us, the situation will be reversed. We will be triumphant and will have defeated him. The aim of the neurotic vindictive revenge is not “getting even” but triumphing by hitting back harder. #RandolphHarris 1 of 30
Nothing short of triumph can restore the imaginary grandeur in which pride is invested. It is this very capacity to restore pride that gives neurotic vindictiveness its incredible tenacity and accounts for its compulsive character. Because the power to retaliate is so valuable for the restoration of pride, this power can itself be invested with pride. In the minds of certain neurotic types, it is equal to strength, and often is the only strength they know. Conversely, the capacity to hit back usually registers as weakness no matter whether external or internal factors prohibited a vindictive move. Thus, when such a person feels humiliated, and either the situation or something within him does not allow him to retaliate, he suffers a double injury: the original “insult” and the “defeat,” as opposed to a vindictive triumph. The need for a vindictive triumph, as stated before, is a regular ingredient in the search for glory. If it is the dominant force in life, it sets going a vicious circle that is most difficult to disentangle. The determination then to rise above others in every possible way is so gigantic that it reinforces the whole need for glory, and with that the neurotic pride. The inflated pride in turn enhances the vindictiveness and thereby makes for a still greater need for triumph. Among ways to restore pride the next in importance is losing interest in all situations or people who in some way hurt this pride. #RandolphHarris 2 of 30
Many people relinquish their interest in sports, politics, intellectual pursuits, etcetera because their impatient need to excel, or to do a perfect job, is not satisfied. The situation then may become so unbearable for them that they give up. They do not know what has happened; they merely become uninterested and may instead turn to an activity which is beneath their potentialities. A person may have been a good teacher but assigned to a task he cannot master right away or which he feels degrading, his interest in teaching wanes. Such changes in attitudes also are relevant to the learning process. A gifted person may start dramatics or painting with enthusiasm. His teachers or friends find him promising, and encourage him. However, with all his gifts he is not a Barrymore or a Renoir overnight. He realizes that he is not the only gifted one in his class. He is naturally awkward in his initial efforts. All of this hurts his pride, and he may suddenly “realize” that the painting or dramatics is not in his line, that he never was “really interested in this pursuit. He loses his zest, skips classes, and soon gives up altogether. He starts something else, only to repeat the same cycle. Often for economic reasons, or because of his own inertia, he may start with the activity but does it so listlessly that he does not make out of it what would otherwise have been possible. The same process may occur in relations with other people. #RandolphHarris 3 of 30
Of course, we may stop liking a person for good reasons: we may go in divergent directions. However, it is in any case worth examining why our liking turns into indifference, instead of simply putting it down to lack of time or deciding that it was an error in the first place. What may have happened is that something in this relationship has hurt our pride. It may be comparison with thew other fellow in his favor. Perhaps he had paid us less deference than before. We realize that we have failed him and, hence, feel ashamed him. All of this may play an incisive role in marriage or love relationship and we are inclined than to let it stay at, I do not love him anymore.” All these withdrawals entail a considerable waste of energy and often much misery. However, the most ruinous aspect of them is that we lose interest in our real self because we are not proud of it. That can also be because pride is a lack or absence of humility or teachableness, and it may take many forms, all of them not becoming of a Christian. Pride leads us away from God and stops us from becoming the person we should be. Furthermore, pride can set people in opposition to each other and to God. A proud person sets himself above those around him and follows his own will rather than God’s will. Conceit, envy, hardheartedness, and haughtiness are also typical of a proud person. “Beware that thou forget not the Lord lest thine heart be lifted up,” report Deuteronomy 8.11-14. #RandolphHarris 4 of 30
Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We set our will against God’s. When we direct our pride toward God, it is in the spirit of “my will and not thine be done.” As Paul said, they “seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.” (Philippians 2.21). Our will in competition to God’s will allows desires, appetites, and passions to go unbridled. The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives. They set their perceptions of truth against God’s great knowledge, their abilities versus God’s priesthood power, their accomplishments against His mighty works. Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God. Another major portion of this very prevalent sin of pride is enmity toward our fellowmen. We are tempted daily to elevate ourselves above others and diminish them. The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others. Even if a belief were held throughout the world, it is not thereby proven true. It may still be a world-wide self-deception or, more likely, traditionally received suggestion. #RandolphHarris 5 of 30
Our Wester culture rests generally on Judeo-Christian theology, and the United States of America is dominated particularly by a puritan spirit that stresses activity, striving, and hard work. Dr. Karen Horney speaks of the Apollonian and Dionysian tendencies, the latter stressing the value of surrender and drift, the former emphasizing the master and molding of life. Both are natural human tendencies, she says, but positive value of surrender or nonstriving is a deep-rooted attitude, pregnant with potential satisfaction. Alan Watts puts the value of nonstriving in still another context: “I have always been fascinated by the law of reversed effort. Sometimes I call it the ‘backwards law.’ When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float. When you hold your breath you lose it—which immediately calls to mind an ancient and most neglected saying, “Whosoever would save his soul shall lose it.” Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure, and that, contrariwise salvation and sanity consist in the most radical recognition that we have no way of saving ourselves. The Chinese sage Lao-tzu, that master of the law of reversed effort…declared that those who justify themselves do not convince, that to know the truth one must get rid of knowledge, and that nothing is more powerful and creative than emptiness—from which men shrink.” #RandolphHarris 6 of 30
What Watts is saying that the more we try in some situations, the more we seem to fail, and that there are some goals that can never be achieved by active striving. We find this particularly true in psychotherapy, when the more one tries to become a certain way, the more one fails. Leslie H. Farber speaks of the paradoxical nature of certain qualities of being and the impossibility of striving for such qualities as wisdom, dignity, courage, and humility. The element that characterizes each of these virtues is that one’s possession of them lies outside of conscious effort. As Farber observes: “Most accomplishments and some virtues do not have this paradoxical nature. Skill or tact or a capacity for honest, for example, may be pursued directly; to acknowledge and enjoy possession of them does not contradict their nature. However, only the fool proclaims his wisdom, only the proud man his humility, only the coward his courage. Not only do these virtues make a liar of the man who claims them, they forever evade any effort to achieve them. I may seek knowledge; I may not seek to be wise. Sharing an essential freedom from self-concern…such virtues are not accomplishments and cannot be learned. They must be deserved, but their possession is a matter of grace.” Whatever the reason does to dissolve superstition serves to open a way to discover another truth. #RandolphHarris 7 of 30
Understanding this concept is extremely important as a basis of self-actualization, for it means that the most profound qualities of actualization—such as wisdom, dignity, humility, courage, respect, and love—cannot be striven for! They cannot be learned. And they are most often achieved when one surrenders to the impossibility of being wise, dignified, humble, courageous, respectful, and loving. In psychotherapy, for example, we hear a patient striving to be “real”; the more she strives, the phonier she becomes. After many hours, she finally says, “I give up. I just can’t seem to make it.” In that moment, paradoxically, she is real! The religious provides another example: The more he strives to be humble, the more he becomes proud. Curiously, the most lovable person is one who has truly given up trying to be lovable! This is why therapy for actualization and realness requires something more than motivated striving and simple conditioning. It requires being able to discover the wealth of personal growth instead of striving for it. Four characteristics of actualization—honesty, trust, freedom, and awareness—share this paradoxical quality. They can be accomplished by engaging in a process, but the process requires that the patient give up striving to be honest, trusting, free, and aware. #RandolphHarris 8 of 30
He who has made this research a serious matter, who has travelled widely in its cause, listened, seen much and read more, who has become well educated in the subject and quite sophisticated in its application, is entitled to hold views even though they do not coincide at all points with the traditional ones. No human authority can be final for all authorities are liable to make mistakes. He must settle these questions in a scientific manner by appeal to facts and reason or, where it is not possible to get the facts, to make it quite clear to himself that he is holding a belief as an opinion and nothing more. Certainly, it cannot be held as a truth when it is held only as an opinion. By refusing to be tied to a particular school, one remains free to study as many of the doctrines of the different schools as he wishes. The teachings of one organization should help him to see the limitations of another. Instead of merely repeating certain sentences which you have read or been taught, think them over for yourself. If you were really the Real how could you become Illusion? If you were the True, how could you succeed in deceiving yourself so far as to become the False? If ignorance, error, and illusion can happen to the One Mind, then they are just as powerful as It. #RandolphHarris 9 of 30
It is not other men’s knowledge and power that we have to live by in the end, but our own. Those who can think deeply upon such matters and are also quite well-informed, will find that much of their thinking has been done for them already by sages who preceded us. Such a man does not ask whether this idea is included in the body of ideas which he has hitherto accepted by inheritance or tradition, education, or choice. He asks rather whether it is true. As if they were one’s own, Ideas are imposed upon the mind from various sources, accepted consciously or subconsciously, swallowed, and later regurgitated. Such is the power of suggestion! Learn from the past without becoming a mere imitator of it. If we allow authority in doctrine to step beyond its rightful place, then instead of fulfilling a useful function it paralyzes our powers of thinking. Whatever the reason does to dissolve superstition serves to pen a way to discover another truth. When a stronger mind imposes its ideas on a weaker one, it is called teaching. When the weaker mind receives them passively (because of its trust in the guru’s authority, his presumed knowledge of what he talks about) it is called learning. The independent thinker cannot conform to the opinions of his age merely because he happens to be living then; he will not cut the cloth of his thoughts to patterns by his contemporaries but always to his own. When he begins to scrutinize the religious and intellectual authority behind what he is taught or receives, and especially their sources, questions come up, doubts filter in. #RandolphHarris 10 of 30
As the human embryo grows, it relives the whole evolutionary tree. Sometimes it gets hung up and is born with relics of ancient stages, such as gill clefts. As children grow, they relieve the prehistory of the human race and go through hunting and planting and manufacturing stages, and they may get hung up at any of these. However, everyone retains some vestiges of all of them. The small fascist in every human being is a little torturer who probes for and enjoys the weakness of his victims. If this comes out openly, he is a cripple-kicker, a stomper, and a rapist, sometimes with some excuse or other such as toughness, objectivity, or justification. However, most people suppress these tendencies, pretend they are not there at all, excuse them if they show their colors, or overlay and disguise them with fear. Some even try to demonstrate their innocence by becoming the purposeful victims instead of the aggressors, on the principle that it is better to shed their own blood than that of others, but blood they must have. These primitive strivings become interwoven with injunctions, precepts, and permissions of the script, and from the basis for third-degree or “tissue” games that draw blood. He who pretends that these forces do not exist becomes their victim. His whole script may become a project to demonstrate that he is free of them. However, since he is most likely not, this is a denial of himself and therefore of his right to a self-chosen destiny. #RandolphHarris 11 of 30
The solution is not to say, as may do, “It is frightening,” but rather, “What can I do about it and what can I do with it?” It is better to be a martyr than to be a troglodyte, that is, a man who refuses to believe he has ascended from an apelike creature because he has not yet, but to know oneself is better than both. It is important to realize that certain “genocidal” aspects of human nature have remained unchanged during the past five thousand years regardless of any genetic evolution which has taken place during this period; they also remain immune to environmental and social influences. One of these is the prejudice against darker people which as persisted unchanged since the dawn of record time in ancient Egypt, whose “miserable people of Cush,” are still represented in oppressed African populations throughout the world. The other is “search and destroy” warfare. For example: The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry reports that at least 58,386 people have been killed and 139,077 wounded in Gaza since the start of the current conflict with Israel in October 2023. Compare: “800 of their soldiers by my arms I destroyed; their populace in the flames I burned; their boys, their maidens, I dishonored. 1000 of their warriors’ corpses on a hill I piled up. On the first of May, I killed 800 of their fighting men, I burned their many houses, their boys and maidens I dishonored,” etcetera. (From the Annals of Assur-Nasir Pal, Column II, about 870 B.C.E.) Thus, for at least 2800 years, there have been willing and eager corpse-counters. The good guys end up as “casualties”; the bad guys as “bodies,” “dead,” or “corpses.” #RandolphHarris 12 of 30
Pisarev, the theoretician of Russian nihilism, declares that the greatest fanatics are children and adolescents. That is also true of nations. Russia, at this period, is an adolescent nation, delivered with forceps, a little over a century ago, by a Czar who was still ingenuous enough to cut off the heads of rebels himself. It is not astonishing that she should have pushed Germanic ideology to extremes of sacrifice and destruction which German professors had only been capable of theorizing about. Stendhal noticed an essential difference between Germans and other people in the fact that they are excited by medication rather than soothed. That is true, but it is even more true of Russian. In that young nation, completely without philosophic tradition, some very young people, akin to Lautreamont’s tragic fellow students, enthusiastically embraced the concepts of German thought and incarnated the consequences in blood. A “proletariat of undergraduates” then took the lead in the great movement of human emancipation and gave it tis most violent aspect. Until the end of the nineteenth century these undergraduates never numbered more than a few thousand. Entirely on their own, however, and in defiance of the most integrated absolutism of the time, they aspired to liberate and provisionally did contribute to the liberation of forty million muzhiks. Almost all of them paid for this liberation by suicide, execution, prison, or madness. #RandolphHarris 13 of 30
The entire history of Russian terrorism can be summed up in the struggle of a handful of intellectuals to abolish tyranny, against a background of a silent populace. Their debilitated victory was finally betrayed. However, by their sacrifice and even by their most extreme negations they gave substance to a new standard of values, a new virtue, which even today has not ceased to oppose tyranny and to give aid to the cause of true liberation. The Germanization of nineteenth-century Russia is not an isolated phenomenon. The influence of German ideology at that moment was preponderant, and we are aware, for example, that the nineteenth century in France, with Michelet and Quinet, is the century of Germanic thought. However, in Russia, this ideology did not encounter an already establish system, while in France it must contend and compromise with libertarian socialism. In Russia, it was on conquered territory. The first Russian university, the University of Moscow, founded in 1750, is German. The slow colonization of Russian by German teachers, bureaucrats, and soldiers, which began under Peter the Great, was transformed at the instance of Nicholas I into systematic Germanization. The intelligentsia developed a passion for Schelling (simultaneously with their passion for French writers) in the 1830’s, for Hegel in the 1840’s, and in the second half of the century for German socialism derived from Hegel. #RandolphHarris 14 of 30
Russian youth then proceeded to pour into these abstract thoughts the inordinate violence of its passion and authentically experienced these already moribund ideas. The religion of man already formulated by its German pastors was still missing its apostles and martyrs. Russian Christians, led astray from their original vocation, played this role. For this reason, they had to accept life without transcendence and without virtue. And the funny thing is, in an adult this is often seen as “dangerous.” How can there by anything for anyone to be afraid of, either the one from who love flows or the receivers? Spread around like that, why should there be fear? Because the fear—which I now know as possessiveness—is not in myself, I cannot understand it. I feel so completely innocent and am charged with being guilty. When I am still strongly myself and clear about what was going on in me, this seemed to me just silly. However, as it continued, there was more pain in me, and increased confusion. I am often assumed of thinking that I have something special that is not available to others. It is not that, either. However, there was a period when I became as confused about it as anyone else. Now that I am really clear, I do not need to talk about it—but I still tend to hide my love so others will not misunderstand. When I do not let it flow through me in its own expression, it dies in me a little, and I die a little too—not just “emotionally” but in my body too. I become more old and less alive. I bet others in Russia have the same experience. #RandolphHarris 15 of 30
A man’s high position in one field of activity does not necessarily add great weight to his pronouncements in a totally different field. His personal knowledge in the second one may be nil. Today, the complexities of tactical operations and deployment of troops are such that it is essential for all Sacramento Fire Department members to be able to read and interpret their maps to move quickly and effectively when dealing with an emergency. As officer of the award-winning Sacramento Fire Department, one of the most important pieces of equipment is the map. Knowing how to read that map, knowing where you are, and knowing where you are going allows you to call for indirect fire (for example, paramedics, EMTS, and/or another engine) close air support (such as Fire Department aviation assets), and evacuation. Using that map is critical to the survival of the Sacramento Fire Department, and the success of their mission. Once you know where north is and where you are, you are ready to find where you want to go and determine how to get there. It is crucial to identify the control points. (Control points are your targets or the locations you want to go to.) Members of the Sacramento Fire Department with sharply honed skills are experts at fire science and medical care. They maintain a high state of physical fitness. They are experts in the use of their primary tools and equipment. They are proficient in safety skills (land navigation, camouflage, individual movement techniques, survival techniques, and so forth.) They also know and practice their roles as fire fighters, paramedics, and EMTs. #RandolphHarris 16 of 30
“A lot of times I try to put myself in the public’s place, as opposed to being a firefighter, and try to think what they’re thinking. I think the outside world has to realize the dangers involved in the fire service, along with the mental pressures and the stress. They should know that this firefighter is doing whatever he’s doing to save somebody else’s life. He’s putting his own life on the line, which I know has been said a hundred times over. We’ve had different classes in the area on things like hazardous materials. I’ve attended every class I can. Because you never know. You may not have had a toxic spill in your area or something really dangerous where you’ve had to evacuate schools. But you’re going to. It’s going to happen, and somebody’s got to have the knowledge and the ability to keep the public together, and help them get out of it.” Accountability to safety is very important: for the Sacramento Fire Department, their crew, their victim, and the general public. Taking responsibility for their own safety is the main component of a safety culture. If they remain uninjured on the scene, they can continue to be a resource rather than another liability. Their own seat belt, their own hood, and their crew integrity are their concerns. Without personal accountability to safety, the incident is destined to have a bad outcome. Everyone is responsible for safety. Nothing affects the outcome of an emergency call more than how prepared the Sacramento Fire Department is for it. #RandolphHarris 17 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 fighters 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 motions, 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 peoples’ 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 18 of 30
California is the third most expensive state in the nation. A single person making an income above $100,000 is now consider low-income in five counties in California. This distinction now applies to individuals living in Santa Cruze, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin counties. In 37 percent of counties, a family of four living on a six-figure income is now considered low-income. In fact, Governor Gavin Newsom of Democratic controlled California, brags about being the world’s “fifth largest economy,” but it also facing a $12 billion deficit, looking to cut $747 million for state worker’s pay, pushing to keep medical insurance for illegal immigrants, but wants to cut medical for anyone who has assets over $2,000 and the state has the largest homeless population in the nation. 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. 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. In 2025, many people in California saw their bills increase by an estimated $500 a month. This includes things like food, automobile insurance, homeowner’s insurance, 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. This is caused by nearly half a century’s old laws that discourage homes sales and encourage higher rents. #RandolphHarris 19 of 30
Meanwhile, China, where we are sending all our jobs and money has more than 50 ghost cities. Ghost cities are regions will housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. 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 amongst 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 2,500 and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. 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 boarder 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 risks 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 end-of-life of machinery is how the Oroville Dam Crisis occurred in 2017. #RandolphHarris 20 of 30
Other crises that have occurred due to neglect of critical infrastructure is the 2025 Palisades fires because Southern California ran out of water, when they are located next to an ocean and they could have simply created desalinating plants to help with the water shortage. The water 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. As we see gangs fighting with federal law enforcement, states and cities refusing to honor federal laws, and politicians showing an utter disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America, anarchy is becoming increasingly common. 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, regard property as a means of tyranny, and believe that crimes is merely the product of property and authority. #RandolphHarris 21 of 30
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. Anarch 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 prior to the situation becoming 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 22 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 their infrastructure, provide adequate resources, nor 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 is 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. 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. 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 or $88,724.00 and that typically means two to four people in the home are working and contributing to the mortgage. #RandolphHarris 23 of 30
Home prices in Sacramento County are rivaling the Bay Area. Historically homes in the Bay Aera 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. The State of California has a budget deficit of $12 billion because Governor Gavin Newsom Granted 700,000 illegal immigrants free health care, which cost taxpayers of $3 billion annually. At the same time, Newsom cut vital programs for veterans, school children, the disabled and the homeless. Additional, Newsom seems to uneducated about economics and is proposing to fast-track his plan to build a $20 billion water tunnel beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, which would eliminate environmental reviews, and limit avenues for legal challenges. Gavin Newsom only cares about the environment when his policies allow him to raise taxes and restrict freedoms. To further highlight this illustration, 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 poop, 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. #RandolphHarris 24 of 30
However, Mexico’s pollution of California has become a severe public health crisis as the population of Tijuana has drastically increased, in recent years, and the waste treatment plants have no longer usable. Some of the beaches in San Diego have been closed for more than three years, and evidence suggests that even breathing the air may be harmful, as toxic particles in the water can become airborne. Yet, even though Gavin Newsom has been governor for six years, he has not rushed into action to stop this very preventable environmental disaster. Why? Because he is not getting kickbacks from China and Mexico, not being gifted mansions and cars, and he cannot tax the struggling California taxpayers to clean up this mess. Simply, it is not profitable for him. Gavin Newsom has been a total tyrant with no regard for taxpayers and does not have a mind for business and should be impeached as soon as possible. He has criminalized poverty, increased taxes, increased tax on gas, and insurance rates so high that people are struggling to survive. In addition to Gavin Newsom’s increased gas prices starting 1 July 2025, the war between Iran and Israel is going to further exacerbate the prices of gas and cause more inflation and economic hardship for people in California. While everyone is making war over America and who belongs here and who she belongs to, so many people forget about the people who are Indigenous to this land. Open boarders have allowed hundreds of thousands of cartel operatives to infiltrate reservations across the United States of America, and use the isolated lands as havens to traffic fentanyl pills and other drugs into the country without protection from federal authorities. #RandolphHarris 25 of 30
Drug cartels have been threatening the health and safety of Native American communities. The trafficking of the dangerous and illegal drugs into their territories is leading to a second genocide. The overdose rate for Indigenous 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 boarders and increase federal funding to Native America 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 also has totally ignored the cartel problems on American lands. Clean air, water, land and preserving our heritage extremely important. #RandolphHarris 26 of 30
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 who tax citizens without representation. Taxation without representation is what led to the American Revolution. If Gavin Newsom is not stopped, next he will euthanize the poor and sterilize the disabled. Gavin Newsom has wars and fires breaking out on the streets, but goes out of his way to arrest people who have no place to live. This monster is unfit to be governor and must never be allowed to be President of America! Stop Gavin Newsom now! Save California and impeach this unreasonable man. Meanwhile, with President Trump, we are seeing crime rates sharply decrease. President Trump just signed the “HALT Fentanyl Act” into law, which permanently classifies the narcotic as a “Schedule I drug” under the “Controlled Substances Act.” Also, President Trump recently secured $10 trillion in investments for the United States of America. Additionally, in May of 2025, the United States of America collected a record $100 billion in tariff revenue, and that number will increase to $300 billion by the end of 2025. President Trump has also been nominated for a Noble Peace Prize for making Iran and Israel crease fire. As you can see, President Trump is creating solutions and remediating problems to protect America and the American people, while Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is making life hard on American citizens and causing economic hardship and totally ignoring Mexico polluting beaches in San Diego. If elected president for an unprecedented third term, to make housing more affordable and to offset the cost of homeowner’s insurance and auto insurance, President Trump plans to abolish property taxes. 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. #RandolphHarris 27 of 30
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 immigrant 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 American, 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 American 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 nation debt, plus you are helping to strengthen these foreign nations by send 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. Moreover, please remember to respect law and order and treat your elders with the utmost dignity and kindness possible. And take your education seriously so that you will be successful in life and make your family proud. It is inborn in the human minds 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. #RandolphHarris 29 of 30
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. 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 arrived at this fulness 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, pleasure teach your children 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. 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 it 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
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. Take advantage of this fascinating experience. After tour, there will be time enjoy the mansion’s splendor at your own pace. You might even discover secret passages.
Please come and enjoy a delicious meal in Sarah’s Café, stroll along the paths of the beautiful Victorian gardens, and wonder 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 to purchase. https://shopwinchestermysteryhouse.com/
Although the actual mansion is much older, we wish to wish the Winchester Mansion a Happy 102 years of giving tours, and express our gratitude to our families, ancestors, spirits, and friends and to our many associates and clients, whose lives touched our lives and whose ideas helped us to grow. We would also like to thank our employees and care takers for putting the technical ideas of this estate into conversational style, and we are, of course, extremely thank to all of our patrons for helping to keep the legacy of the Winchester Family alive. The Winchester Mystery House is full of surprises. What was your favorite, “Oooh!” moment during your visit at the mansion? (And for those of you who still have to check it off your bucket list… we will hopefully see you soon.) https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/
Harris Plumbing, Heating, Air, & Electric has been in business for 30 years. How many businesses can say that? We take pride in everything we do – no matter how big or small the service call might be. We’re here to help your home be as safe and comfortable as possible for you and your family. We take that responsibility very seriously as a company. 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/
Ah, yes. The BMW 3 Series. Happy 50th birthday to the most iconic BMW ever! It is really hard to decide on a BMW model. However, the 3 series is a favorite of everyone. All the upper-class suburban families had one in the 1980s and 1990s; everyone from teenagers and housewives, to executives and diplomats. Now that they are larger in size, but still sporty and luxury, the audience has grown tremendously. These are very stylish cars and reliable cars, which is why BMW continues to dominate the luxury car space.
With its top ranking in Consumer Reports’ Auto Brand Report Card and consistent market share growth, BMW has demonstrated its ability to produce high-performing, reliable vehicles that meet consumer demands. BMW stands out due to its focus on driving dynamics and engineering excellence. While other luxury brands prioritize comfort and opulence, BMW is known for creating cars that are fun to drive and offer a unique connection between the driver and the machine. This is why BMW is known as the Ultimate Driving Machine. https://www.brianharrisbmw.com/
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Park Haven
Rancho Cordova, CA | low $500s
Now Selling!
Welcome to Cresleigh Park Haven; the newest home community in Rancho Cordova.
Nestled in the heart of Rancho Cordova, Park Haven is a thoughtfully planned community offering 71 homes —perfect for those seeking comfort, convenience, and more time to enjoy life. Located adjacent to the beloved Exploration Park, this neighborhood blends modern living with outdoor adventure right at your doorstep.
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What is Man that Thou Art Mindful of Him?
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil,” said Aristotle. However, fear, anxiety, and panic may also occur as reactions both to anticipated humiliations or to ones that have taken place. Anticipatory fears may concern examinations, public performances, social gatherings, or a date; in such instances, they are usually described as “stage fright.” If we use it metaphorically for any irrational fear preceding public or private performance, it is a good enough descriptive term. It covers situations in which we want either to make a good impression—as, for instance, on new relatives, or some important personage, or perhaps a headwaiter in a restaurant—or in which we start new activities, such as beginning a new job, starting to paint, going to a public speaking class. People who are afflicted with such fears often refer to them as fears of failure, disgrace, ridicule. This seems to be exactly what they are afraid of. Nevertheless, it is misleading to put it this way because it suggests a rational fear of a realistic failure. It leaves out the fact that what constitutes failure for a given person is subjective. It may encompass all that falls short of glory and perfection, and the anticipation of this possibility is precisely the essence of the milder forms of stage fright. A person is afraid of not performing as superbly as his exacting should demand, and therefore fears that his pride will be hurt. #RandolphHarris 1 of 36
There is a more pernicious form of stage fright which we will understand later; in it unconscious forces operate in a person, obstructing his capacities in the very act of performing. The stage fright then is a fear that through his own self-destructive tendencies he will be ridiculously awkward, forget his lines, “choke up,” and thus disgrace himself instead of being glorious and victorious. Another category of anticipatory fears does not concern the quality of a person’s performance but the prospect of having to do something that will hurt his special pride—such as asking for a raise or favor, making an application, or approaching a woman—because it entails the possibility of being rejected. If the latter means for him being humiliated, it may occur before pleasures of the flesh. Reactions of fear also may follow “insults.” Many people react with trembling, shaking, perspiration, or some other expression of fear to a lack of deference or to arrogant behavior on the part of others. These reactions are a mixture of rage and fear, the fear being in part a fear of one’s own violence. Similar reactions of fear may follow a feeling of shame without the latter being experienced as such. If he has been awkward, timid, or offensive, a person may suddenly feel overwhelmed by feeling of uncertainty, or even panic. #RandolphHarris 2 of 36
For instance, there is a case of a woman who drove up a mountain road, from the end of which a small path led up to the top. Though steep, the path would have been easy to walk had it not been muddy and slippery. Moreover, she was not properly dressed: she wore a new suit, high-heeled shoes, and had no stick. She tried nevertheless; but after having slipped several times, she gave it up. While resting, she saw further down a big dog barking furiously at passers-by and she became frightened of the dog. This feeling startled her, because she was usually not afraid of dogs and because she also realized that there was no sound reason to be afraid since there were people around to whom the dog obviously belonged. So, she started to think about this, and there occurred to her an incident from her adolescence which has caused her to be terribly ashamed. She recognized then that she was just as ashamed in the present situation on account of her “failure” to get to the mountain top. “But,” she said to herself, “it really would not have been sensible to force the issue.” Nest she thought, “But I should have been able to make it.” This gave her the clue: she recognized that it was a “stupid pride” as she put it, that was injured and make her feel helpless toward a possible attack. She was helplessly delivered to her own attacks on herself and had externalized the danger. Though not quite complete, the piece of self-analysis was effective: her fear disappeared. #RandolphHarris 3 of 36
We have a more immediate understanding of the reactions of rage than those of fear. They can sometimes be interlinked, which means we may not understand one without the other. Both occur because a hurt to our pride constitutes a terrifying danger. The reason for it lies in part in pride substituting for self-confidence. This, however, is not the whole answer. The neurotic lives between the two alternatives of pride and self-contempt. This is a most important connection to keep in mind for the understanding of many spells of anxiety. Though both the reaction of rage and that of fear may in our own mind have nothing to do with pride, they may nevertheless serve as road signs pointing in that direction. If even these secondary reactions do not appear as such, the whole issue is far more beclouded, for they in their turn may be repressed—for whatever reason. In this case, they may lead or contribute to certain symptomatic pictures, such as psychotic episodes, depressions, drinking, psychosomatic disorders. Or the need to sit tight on the emotions of anger and fear may become one of the factors conducive to a general flattening out of emotion. Not only ager and fear but all the feelings then tend to become less full and less sharp. Modern man is being led by a new path, by reason’s discoveries rather the revelation’s doctrines. Exaggerated respect for established views can soon lead into servitude to them. #RandolphHarris 4 of 36
“What is man that thou art mindful of him?” the psalmist asks. The question strikes to the heart of the human condition, for while the need to understand ourselves is all-important, the process of doing so is a complex one. One of the measures of the greatness of writers down through the ages is that they have given us some insight, some answers. In Resurrection, Leo Tolstoy includes this cogent paragraph: “One of the most widespread superstitions is that every man has his own special, definite qualities; that a man is kind, cruel, wise, stupid, energetic, apathetic, etcetera. Men are not like that…men are like rivers: the water is the same in each, and alike in all; but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm. It is the same with men. Every man carries in himself the germs of every human quality, and sometimes one manifest itself, sometimes another, and the man often becomes unlike himself, while remaining the same. We have suggested that persons can be separated into, or identified by, two broad categories of behavior: the manipulator and the actualizer. Yet, as Tolstoy tells us, each person has within herself or himself the potential of every human quality. What that means, then, is that while each person is a manipulator, he or she is (or can be) also an actualizer. The important fact seems to be that each of us has a continuing choice, each of us is free to choose one or the other. #RandolphHarris 5 of 36
Men dispute over truth and fail to agree and have done so for over five thousand years at least. Two very important qualities that characterize the actualizer are: freedom and awareness. By “freedom” we do not simply mean freedom from the control of others, but rather the freedom to actualize, to be our best, real selves. Freedom is the choice we make and the responsibility we take for a style of expression we use. Erich Fromm believes that we have “the freedom to create, to construct, to wonder, to venture.” He goes on to define freedom as the capacity to make a choice, to choose between alternatives. Yet, only when we are aware of our manipulations are we free to experience them and to derive from them actualizing behavior. Actualizers are free in the sense that, while they may play the game of life, they are aware that they are playing it. They play it “tongue in cheek,” Alan Watts says. They realize that they sometimes manipulate and at other times are manipulated. However, in both cases, they are aware of the manipulation. They do not try to change the manipulators themselves. Taking the responsibility to change another is, paradoxically, to be manipulated by that person. One may describe the other person as a manipulator, or to confront that person with his or her manipulation, but one need not take responsibility for him or herself. #RandolphHarris 6 of 36
Actualizers also realize that life need not be a serious game, but rather more akin to a dance. No one wins or loses in a dance; a dance is a process. Actualizers dance among all their complementary potentials. What is important is to enjoy the process of living rather than to achieve the ends of living. Since actualizing people appreciate doing for its own sake, they enjoy the process of getting someplace as much as the arriving. The actualizer does not take life with dead seriousness. Manipulators, on the other hand, see life as a competition, a rat race, something to be conquered. They take life so seriously that they are frequently candidates for nervous breakdowns. The educational institutions purvey information but only great souls can provide inspiration. We should not defend sound truths on unsound grounds nor should we defend unsound truths on sound grounds. It happens often that erroneous religious doctrines or false mystical teachings are defended by declaring that they pertain to a higher dimension and transcend the intellectual capacity to understand when in fact they also transgress against its capacity to reason correctly. It is his inalienable privilege to hold whatever opinion he pleases, as it is to hold whatever religious belief sustains him. However, it must be said that there is a vast difference between what he has inherited and accepted unchanged from society or family, and what he has arrived at by his own diligent, determined, original, and independent research. #RandolphHarris 7 of 36
Authority, the two kinds of experience—ordinary and mystic—logic, reason, intuition: each of these is to be regarded as a valuable help in eliminating error or doubt and ascertaining truth or fact, but none is to be regarded as the only means of doing so. There are very few right-thinking people for the simple reason that there are very few people who ever think at all. Oh yes, there are multitudes of people who shuffle ready-made thoughts in their brains, just as they would shuffle cards at a table—after they had been handed the cards! This freedom which must be given to the intellectual approach to and communication of truth forbids a narrow rigid conformity to any one of the known systems, whose comparative study is itself a beneficial consequence. It must apply to all of them, even to the terms and images used by the mind. In this kingdom of Truth I accept no authority save that of Reason. Rationalism must replace superstition. Reason must reign supreme. All arbitrary assumptions must be set free from authority. Inquiry must be fearless, full, and unbiased. We may accept the judgement of authority but only after we have examined the history and tested the worth of such authority, be it book or man, tradition, or institution. He is wary of falling into superstition, whether sanctified by religion’s faith in the intangible or by science’s incapacity for it. #RandolphHarris 8 of 36
Since these mahatmas disagree on certain points, it is obviously safe to follow them only on those points where they agree. He will study several different teachings, approving here, disapproving there, suspending judgement often, but committing himself to none. He can afford to wait for the most satisfactory one or to remain permanently free. Hegel believed that history in 1807, with the advent of Napoleon and of himself, had come to an end, and that affirmation was possible and nihilism conquered. The Phenomenology, the Christian Bible that was to have prophesied only the past, put a limit on time. In 1807 all sins were forgiven, and time has stopped. However, history has continued. Other wins, since then, have been hurled in the face of the world and have revived the scandal of the former crimes, which the German philosopher had already forgiven forever. The deification of Hegel by himself, after the deification of Napoleon, who would henceforth be innocent since he had succeeded in stabilizing, nihilism once more covered the face of the earth. Philosophy, even servile philosophy, has its Waterloos. However, nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man. Others have come and are still to come who, forgetting Waterloo, still claim to terminate history. #RandolphHarris 9 of 36
The divinity of man is still on the march, and will be worthy of adoration only at the end of time. This apocalypse must be promoted and, even though there is no God, at least a Church must be built. After all, history, which has not yet come to an end, allows us a glimpse of a perspective that might even be that of the Hegelian system but for the simple reason that it is provisionally dragged along, if not led, by the spiritual Hegel. When cholera carries off the philosopher of the Battle of Jena at the height of his glory, everything is, in fact, for what is to follow. They sky is empty; the earth delivered into the hands of power without principles. Those who have chosen to kill and those who have chosen to enslave will successively occupy the front of the stage, in the name of a form of rebellion which has been diverted from the path of truth. Before we try to rid ourselves of traditions, we ought to make sure that we have learnt their best lessons. He who is discontented with conventional doctrines and who disagrees with orthodox authorities must be willing to think in isolation. When he is unreceptive to new ideas unless they have first been authenticated by a certain teacher, cult, or book, he is trapped in a closed system. Judge every source, and the teaching which emanates from it, independently. #RandolphHarris 10 of 36
Make use of confirmatory or negatory comment to help you in the matter but do not follow any of them in utter blindness. For you cannot evade your personal responsibility. Whether you accept or reject a teaching, just because you accept or reject a particular institution or authority, your judgment will be there anyway hidden in your belief, only it will be there unwittingly. There is no need to depart from reason but only to illumine or inspire its working by intuitive revelation. However, where one is unable to provide this himself, then he ought to go to the great masters for it. Or, if they are unavailable through distance or inaccessible through death, consult their writings. Since all teachings are related to the stage of development, the time in history, and the area where they are given out, they must be regarded as relative. This means, in the end, that they are arguable and, even more, that they are personal opinions, speculations in someone’s mind. To study the imaginations and theories of limited minds upon this subject is to waste time and squander energy. Are we to reject every machine, ship, carriage, and alphabet merely because Lao Tzu recommends us to do so, and he is an illuminated soul? This shows up the childishness of setting up a single absolute authority to cover and govern every facet of living and thinking. #RandolphHarris 11 of 36
Keep in mind, however, that you are on the Lord’s errand. You are His agent, and you are authorized and commissioned to represent Him and to act on His behalf. As His agent, you are entitled to His help. You must ask yourself, “If He were here, what would the Savior say of my behavior?” You must then keep the gospel in mind and reflect on how to behave. The responsibility of being a child of God may cause some to feel inadequate or even somewhat fearful. The pathway is not difficult. The Lord has provided the way for every worthy Latter-day Saint to bring their behavior in alignment with God’s word. Our first and foremost responsibility is to live so that we can have the Holy Ghost as our guide and companion. The Holy Ghost will help you to know what to do. Your own testimony will grow, your conversion will be deepened, and you will be strengthened to meet the challenges of life. God gives man authority for his guidance and protection. Without it, there would be no order or freedom. God has commanded us to respect the authority of home, church, and community. “Honor they father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,” reports Exodus 20.12. Parents must explain to their family that to honor means to obey, esteem, support, and sustain. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the condition of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee of being right. #RandolphHarris 12 of 36
The “slender guarantee,” rests, in large part, on exercising rigorous intellectual discipline in weighing alternatives and their possible effects. This holds true for moralists as well as politicians. “We believe that every man should be honored in his station, rulers and magistrates as such, being placed for the protection of the innocent and the punishment of the guilty; and that to the laws all men owe respect and deference, as without them peace and harmony would be supplanted by anarchy and terror; human laws being instituted for the express purpose of regulating our interests as individuals and nations, between man and man; and divine laws given of heaven, prescribing rules on spiritual concerns, for faith and worship, both to be answered by man to his Maker,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 134.6. In regards to pleasures of the flesh, if the church is to continue to make progress away from a negative philosophy, liberal religious leaders must have strong support. However, that support does not relieve them of the obligation to learn everything they can about the physiological and psychological realities of human pleasures of the flesh experience before they recommend changes in ethical standards, particularly those relating to commitment. Otherwise, the “new” morality, like the old, will amount to little more than empty pontification, an unreliable guide for the millions for emotional principles that they can trust in structing their relationships. #RandolphHarris 13 of 36
These are the men and women who constitute the overwhelming majority; when they are single, they know they will eventually marry, and when they get married, they do their best to stay married. However, any confidence they may have in achieving their goals cannot avoid being undermined by society in which most of what is published in books and magazines about pleasures of the flesh and marriage promotes the idea that, to paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson, a foolish fidelity is the hobgoblin of little minds. In such a climate of opinion, discussions of commitment are not likely to flourish. An entire vocabulary shrinks; among educated people who consider themselves sophisticated, such words as loyalty and faithfulness, honor, and trust, are avoided because somehow, they seem suitable only for sermons. Yet, all human association depends on these and other such values, and they cannot be ignored in relation to marriage. They certainly cannot be ignored by those men and women who, while welcoming their new freedom to enjoy pleasures of the flesh openly, hope to use that freedom not just for novelty in passionate relationships but to intensify an intimate relationship. As couples, the question they want answered is not what makes extramarital pleasures of the flesh right or wrong—but what makes it unnecessary. #RandolphHarris 14 of 36
Understanding the God-given gift of sexuality within the plan of happiness helps us understand the importance of the law of chastity. Our purpose in mortality is to become like our heavenly parents. Our divine understanding and use of intimacy are essential to that process. The law of chastity is an eternal law, given by our Heavenly Father to all His children in all ages. It remains in force and is as applicable today as it was in earlier times in history. As with other commandments, the law is given by Heavenly Father to bless and help His children achieve their divine potential. Obeying the law of chastity includes abstaining from all pleasures of the flesh before marriage and remaining completely faithful and loyal after marriage. Pleasures of the flesh are to be limited between a man and a woman. Heavenly Father intends that pleasures of the flesh in marriage be used to create children and to express love and strengthen the emotional, spiritual, and physical connections between husband and wife. In marriage, intimate passions should unite wife and husband together in trust, devotion, and consideration for each other. Pleasures of the flesh within marriage must respect the agency of both partners and should not be used to control or dominate. As with all of God’s commandments, the law of chastity is best understood within the context of Heavenly Father’s plans of salvation and exaltation. “Therefore, God gave unto them commandments, after having made known unto them the plan of redemption, that they should not do evil, the penalty thereof being a second death, which was an everlasting death as to things pertaining unto righteousness; for on such the plan of redemption could have no power, for the works of justice could not be destroyed, accord to the supreme goodness of God,” reports Alma 12.32. Obedience to the law of chastity will bring extraordinary blessings. #RandolphHarris 15 of 36
Another abstraction of great importance in the self-system is one’s own evaluation of one’s self. Among different researchers this may be called the self-appraisal, self-regard, or self-assessment. It may be expressed in some of the research data, as in the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, as a single number. A score of 75 would be considered in the normal rage for that test. Or it may be expressed in a series of sub-scores, sometimes equivalent to the role concept. One might have a self-appraisal score in relationship to one’s primary group or family, one’s physical self, one’s social-self, and so on, or one may appraise oneself as a great writer and a terrible athlete. In many instances, when we speak of the self-concept, many persons mean simply the self-appraisal, the evaluation of self as adequate or not. Every human being seems to have a small fascist in his head. This is derived from the deepest layers of the personality (the Child in the Child). In civilized people, it is usually deeply buried beneath a platform of social ideals and training, but with proper permissions and directives, as history has shown repeatedly, it can be liberated into full bloom. In the less civilized portion of the population, it is openly exposed and nurtured, and awaits only proper opportunities for periodic expression. In both cases, it is a strong force in advancing the script; in the first case, secretly, subtly, and denied; in the second case, crudely or even proudly acknowledged. However, it may be said that whoever is not aware of this force in his personality has lost control. #RandolphHarris 16 of 36
He has not confronted himself, and cannot know where he is head. A good example of this occurred at a meeting of “conservationists,” where Conservo remarked how much he admired a certain tribe in Africa for taking such good care of their natural resources, “much better than we do.” A humanist countered, “Yes, but they have a terrible infant-mortality rate.” “Ho, ho,” said Conservo, and several other joined in. “That’s all to the good, now isn’t it? There are too many babies as it is.” A fascist may be defined as a person who has no respect for living tissue and regards it as his prey. This arrogant attitude is no doubt a relic of the prehistory of the human race, still surviving in the gusto of cannibalism and the joys of massacre. For carnivorous anthropoids on the hunt, ruthlessness meant efficiency and greed was motivated by hunger. However, as the human mind and brain evolved through natural selection, these qualities were not bred out. After they were no longer necessary for survival, they became detached from their original goal of brining down the dinner meat and degenerated into ends in themselves, luxuries often indulged in and enjoyed at the expense of other human beings. Ruthlessness developed into cruelty, and greed into exploitation and theft. Since the prey—the flesh itself, and especially human flesh—was largely replaced by more compliant stomach-filling commodities, it began to be used to satisfy psychological hungers. #RandolphHarris 17 of 36
The pleasures of torture replaced or preceded the pleasures of eating, and “He He” took over from “Yum Yum.” It became less important to kill him (or her) than to hear and watch him (or her) scream and grovel. This became the essence of fascism—a roving band seeking male or female prey to torment or deride—whose art lay in probing for the victim’s weakness. There are to by-products of the grovel, both advantageous to the aggressor. The biological effect is sexual pleasure and excitement, with the victim available to indulge even the most ingenious perversions, the favorite of record being anal rape. Torture brings about a peculiar intimacy between the torturer and the victim, and a profound insight into each other’s soils, an intimacy and insight which is often otherwise lacking in both their lives. The other by-product is a purely commercial one. The victim always has valuable which can yield a profit. For cannibals, it may be strength derived from magic organs such as the heart or the testicles, or even the ear. For advanced peoples, the fat can be used to make soap, and golden tooth fillings can be salvaged. These yields are exploited after the furor of personal encounter has subsided, and they are “melted down” into anonymity. Acceptance of a teaching ought to come from a deeper level than surface attraction only. There ought to be understanding also. The power of the mind needed to find truth is not commonly possessed. Those who lack it can benefit by the discoveries made by the sages. However, they ought to test them in their own life-experience to confirm whether they be true. #RandolphHarris 18 of 36
In the award-winning Sacramento Fire Department, the corporate culture for firefighters, paramedics, and EMTs is found, in part, in its customs and courtesies. What does corporate culture mean? It refers to a group of people experiencing a sense of belonging or a common bond. Among professionals in the Sacramento Fire Department, corporate culture tends to result from the following factors: A common bond of mission, shared customs and courtesies, and comradeship, a desire to remain autonomous, and a unique professional knowledge and expertise. The factors tend to lead to standard professional practices. Among them are: A desire to police the profession. The Sacramento Fire Department has specific doctrine to follow; it also has codes and its own justice system. Control of entry. You must pass the numerous tests used to place professionals into positions, and you must go through extensive training and education to receive your commission. A commission is to the officer what a license or certification is to a doctor, attorney, or accountant. The need to promote professional knowledge. The key focus is to develop leaders who can fulfill the mission. This requires continuous, extensive training and education. A desire to represent the profession. Every action taken by a member of the Sacramento Fire Department is a representative of the Sacramento Fire Department, down to the uniform he or she wears of the language he or she uses. #RandolphHarris 19 of 36
Members of the Sacramento Fire Department exhibit professionalism as a firefighter, EMT, or paramedic and as the respect the Constitution of the United States of America and their leadership; as they live the Creed of the Sacramento Fire Departments Values; and when they apply the elements of the Sacramento Fire Department’s Leadership Framework—to preserve life, protect property, and safeguard their city through fire prevention efforts, community relations and effective emergency response supported by a relentless commitment to professionalism and progressive leadership—in all of their daily activities, no matter their rank, their current job, or where they are assigned. While most professionals serve an individual client, the Sacramento Fire Department’s officers client is the nation—whether helping in disaster recovery, protecting national security, or defeating an enemy. The Sacramento Fire Department’s professional failure would be catastrophic. Officers of the Sacramento Fire Department—like their counterparts in the other departments—study, work, and train throughout their professional careers to ensure that the Sacramento Fire Department will not fail when duty calls. The Sacramento Fire Department is the cornerstone of the city of Sacramento. Without a strong fire department, the city of Sacramento lacks the basis of professionalism critical for national security. Being a Sacramento firefighter, EMT, or paramedic is not just another job. It is a proud profession with a rich history of serving the nation. Training and leader development of the Sacramento Fire Department are unrivaled in the world. The Sacramento Fire Department helps members become the kind of firefighter, paramedic, or EMT—to each a degree of professionalism—of which them, their family and their country can be proud of. #RandolphHarris 20 of 36
The Sacramento Fire Department improves their personal accountability by taking responsibility for the outcome of the emergency calls that they respond to. They have always taken the approach that they did not create the emergency and that buildings will continue to burn down and people will die despite their best efforts. These are true statements, and they have realized that they are not here to change the word. However, it is difficult to make an argument for personal accountability and then dismiss the most important component of their jobs as “out of our control.” It is true that deciding when personal accountability can be applied is directly tied to the amount of control they have over a specific situation. Fire and emergency services have three specific components of an emergency that they deal with that dictate how much control they have over them. They are uncontrollable, semicontrollable, and controllable components. Uncontrollable components–emergency calls are initially uncontrollable. If a man has a diabetic emergency while driving and ends up parking his Buick on a crowd at a street fair, there is not much they can do about that. That is why fire and emergency responders will never “prevent” themselves out of a job. #RandolphHarris 21 of 36
Semicontrollable Components—immediate response to the pedestrians stuck is partially controllable. There are various ways the Sacramento Fire Department’s actions prior to the incident could change the outcome. They have influenced getting enhanced 911 in the town. They have taught first aid classes and pushed to have automated external defibrillators (AEDs) at public events. They have met with the festival committee and ensured there were good maps for them and that fire lanes were kept open. They have worked in the past with the police who arrive on scene before them, and the police give them information the fire department needs to make decisions. Controllable components—based on dispatch and police reports, the Sacramento Fire Department calls for extra equipment. They pick their route to the call, and decide on the speed and style of their driving. Training has taught them how to rapidly triage and handle a mass-casualty incident. In no time, the Sacramento Fire Department has all the manpower, ambulances, and helicopters they need to give the best possible medical care. Morals and opinions guide the Sacramento Fire Department in everyday decisions, but personal accountability is what hold them to what they do or do not do. If personal accountability was easy, everyone would be doing it. That is precisely why the Sacramento Fire Department practices accountability. #RandolphHarris 22 of 36
“I’ve seen the good times, I’ve seen the bad times. I’ve gone to jobs, and we didn’t wear masks—three days with splitting headaches. I wear my mask now. The greatest thing that happened to me was when I was sworn into the Sacramento Fire Department as a deputy chief. I am happy with the Sacramento Fire Department because they’ve been good to my family. I work for an excellent chief. He has bought a lot of new apparatus that we’ve long needed. I’m proud to be here, and if my health stays with me, I foresee another twenty years with the department.” The safety aspect of situations follows the same model as the outcomes of calls. The Sacramento Fire Department does not have much influence over safety when the emergency occurs. Their influence on safety increases when they are responding, and is entirely their responsibility when they get on scene. That is because if they examine emergency calls, they discover that they are not a single event waiting for the fire department to arrive and take command of; they are actually a progression of foreseeable and unforeseeable independent events. At any point during this dynamic process, they can make a conscious decision to act or not to act in a specific manner that either changes or does not change the outcome. Even on significant incidents where numerous emergency responders converge, a decision for personal accountability has an influence on the potential outcomes of the incident. #RandolphHarris 23 of 36
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 fighters 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 motions, 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 peoples’ 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 24 of 36
California is the third most expensive state in the nation. A single person making an income above $100,000 is now consider low-income in five counties in California. This distinction now applies to individuals living in Santa Cruze, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin counties. In 37 percent of counties, a family of four living on a six-figure income is now considered low-income. In fact, Governor Gavin Newsom of Democratic controlled California, brags about being the world’s “fifth largest economy,” but it also facing a $12 billion deficit, looking to cut $747 million for state worker’s pay, pushing to keep medical insurance for illegal immigrants, but wants to cut medical for anyone who has assets over $2,000 and the state has the largest homeless population in the nation. 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. 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. In 2025, many people in California saw their bills increase by an estimated $500 a month. This includes things like food, automobile insurance, homeowner’s insurance, 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. This is caused by nearly half a century’s old laws that discourage homes sales and encourage higher rents. #RandolphHarris 25 of 36
Meanwhile, China, where we are sending all our jobs and money has more than 50 ghost cities. Ghost cities are regions will housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. 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 amongst 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 2,500 and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. 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 boarder 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 risks 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 end-of-life of machinery is how the Oroville Dam Crisis occurred in 2017. #RandolphHarris 26 of 36
Other crises that have occurred due to neglect of critical infrastructure is the 2025 Palisades fires because Southern California ran out of water, when they are located next to an ocean and they could have simply created desalinating plants to help with the water shortage. The water 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. As we see gangs fighting with federal law enforcement, states and cities refusing to honor federal laws, and politicians showing an utter disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America, anarchy is becoming increasingly common. 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, regard property as a means of tyranny, and believe that crimes is merely the product of property and authority. #RandolphHarris 27 of 36
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. Anarch 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 prior to the situation becoming 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 28 of 36
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 their infrastructure, provide adequate resources, nor 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 is 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. 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. 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 or $88,724.00 and that typically means two to four people in the home are working and contributing to the mortgage. #RandolphHarris 29 of 36
Home prices in Sacramento County are rivaling the Bay Area. Historically homes in the Bay Aera 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. The State of California has a budget deficit of $12 billion because Governor Gavin Newsom Granted 700,000 illegal immigrants free health care, which cost taxpayers of $3 billion annually. At the same time, Newsom cut vital programs for veterans, school children, the disabled and the homeless. Additional, Newsom seems to uneducated about economics and is proposing to fast-track his plan to build a $20 billion water tunnel beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, which would eliminate environmental reviews, and limit avenues for legal challenges. Gavin Newsom only cares about the environment when his policies allow him to raise taxes and restrict freedoms. To further highlight this illustration, 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 poop, 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. #RandolphHarris 30 of 36
However, Mexico’s pollution of California has become a severe public health crisis as the population of Tijuana has drastically increased, in recent years, and the waste treatment plants have no longer usable. Some of the beaches in San Diego have been closed for more than three years, and evidence suggests that even breathing the air may be harmful, as toxic particles in the water can become airborne. Yet, even though Gavin Newsom has been governor for six years, he has not rushed into action to stop this very preventable environmental disaster. Why? Because he is not getting kickbacks from China and Mexico, not being gifted mansions and cars, and he cannot tax the struggling California taxpayers to clean up this mess. Simply, it is not profitable for him. Gavin Newsom has been a total tyrant with no regard for taxpayers and does not have a mind for business and should be impeached as soon as possible. He has criminalized poverty, increased taxes, increased tax on gas, and insurance rates so high that people are struggling to survive. In addition to Gavin Newsom’s increased gas prices starting 1 July 2025, the war between Iran and Israel is going to further exacerbate the prices of gas and cause more inflation and economic hardship for people in California. While everyone is making war over America and who belongs here and who she belongs to, so many people forget about the people who are Indigenous to this land. Open boarders have allowed hundreds of thousands of cartel operatives to infiltrate reservations across the United States of America, and use the isolated lands as havens to traffic fentanyl pills and other drugs into the country without protection from federal authorities. #RandolphHarris 31 of 36
Drug cartels have been threatening the health and safety of Native American communities. The trafficking of the dangerous and illegal drugs into their territories is leading to a second genocide. The overdose rate for Indigenous 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 boarders and increase federal funding to Native America 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 also has totally ignored the cartel problems on American lands. Clean air, water, land and preserving our heritage extremely important. #RandolphHarris 32 of 36
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 who tax citizens without representation. Taxation without representation is what led to the American Revolution. If Gavin Newsom is not stopped, next he will euthanize the poor and sterilize the disabled. Gavin Newsom has wars and fires breaking out on the streets, but goes out of his way to arrest people who have no place to live. This monster is unfit to be governor and must never be allowed to be President of America! Stop Gavin Newsom now! Save California and impeach this unreasonable man. Meanwhile, with President Trump, we are seeing crime rates sharply decrease, and he recently secured $10 trillion in investments. Additionally, in May of 2025, the United States of America collected a record $100 billion in tariff revenue, and that number will increase to $300 billion by the end of 2025. President Trump has also been nominated for a Noble Peace Prize for making Iran and Israel crease fire. If elected president for an unprecedented third term, to make housing more affordable and to offset the cost of homeowner’s insurance and auto insurance, President Trump plans to abolish property taxes. 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. #RandolphHarris 33 of 36
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 immigrant 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 American, 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 34 of 36
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 American 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 nation debt, plus you are helping to strengthen these foreign nations by send 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. Moreover, please remember to respect law and order and treat your elders with the utmost dignity and kindness possible. And take your education seriously so that you will be successful in life and make your family proud. It is inborn in the human minds 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. #RandolphHarris 35 of 36
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. 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 arrived at this fulness 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, pleasure teach your children 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. 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 it 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 36 of 36
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. Take advantage of this fascinating experience. After tour, there will be time enjoy the mansion’s splendor at your own pace. You might even discover secret passages.
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A Small Mentality Can Only Mangle a Large Truth
Shame and guilt are rich human emotions that serve important functions at both the individual and relationship levels. On the one hands, as moral emotions, shame, and guilt are among our most private, intimate experiences. In the face of transgression or error, the self turns toward the self—evaluating and rendering judgment. Thus, the experience of shame or guilt can guide our behavior and influence who we ae in our own eyes. On the other hand, shame and guilt are inextricably linked to the self in relationships with others. These emotions develop from our relationships. Ans throughout the lifespan, these emotions exert a profound and continued influence on our behavior in interpersonal contexts. Shame and guilt are thus both “self-conscious” and “moral” emotions: self-conscious in that they involve the self evaluating the self, and moral in that they presumably play a key role in fostering moral behavior. However, sometimes it may seem easier to feel hopeless about yourself than to feel the love the Savior has for you—but as Nephi knew, it does not have to be that way. When you do something wrong, you might have thoughts cross your mind that you are a failure. That you should have known better. That you are not worth loving. Deep down, you know that none of those things are true. You have learned about your worthy as a son or daughter of God, and you know that repentance is real and possible. #RandolphHarris 1 of 30
However, still after you have sinned or made a mistake, you might be tempted to punish yourself more than anyone else would with thoughts of guilt and shame. Feelings of shame may appear in our awareness as vague uneasiness, as embarrassment, or, more specifically as feelings of guilt. This transformation is of particular importance because it allows for a rather quick understanding of certain guilt-feelings. If, for instance, a person full of pervasive unconscious pretenses is guilty perturbed by a comparatively harmless and inconsequential lie, we may safely assume that he is more concerned with appearing than with being honest; and that his pride is hurt by not having been able to maintain the fiction of ultimate and absolute veracity. Or If an egocentric person feels guilty about some inconsiderateness, we have to ask whether this guilt feeling is not shame about having besmirched the halo of goodness rather than an honest regret for not having been as sensitive to others as he would like to be. Furthermore, it may be that none of these reactions, whether direct or transformed, is consciously felt; we may merely be aware of our reactions to these reactions. Prominent among such “secondary” reactions are rage and fear. That any hurt to our pride may provoke vindictive hostility is well known. It goes all the way from dislike to hate, from irritability to anger to a blind murderous rage. #RandolphHarris 2 of 30
Sometimes the connection between rage and pride is easily enough established—for the observer. For instance, a person is enraged against his boss who he feels has treated him cavalierly, or against a taxi driver who has cheated him—incidents which, at most, would account for annoyance. The person himself would only be aware of a justified anger at the bad behavior of others. The observer, let us say the analyst, would see that his pride was hurt by incidents, that he felt humiliated and then reacted with rage. The patient may accept this interpretation as most likely accounting for the excessive reaction, or he may insist that his reaction was not excessive at all and that his anger was a warranted reaction to the wickedness or stupidity of others. While of course not all irrational hostility is due to hurt pride, it does play a greater part than is generally assumed. The analyst always should be alert to this possibility, particularly concerning the patient’s reaction to him, to interpretations, and to the whole analytic situation. If the hostility has ingredients of degradation, contempt, or intent to humiliate, the connection with hurt pride is more easily discernible. What operates here is the straight law of retaliation. The patient, without knowing it, has felt humiliated and returns in kind. After such incidents it is sheer waste of time to talk about the patient’s hostility. The analyst must go straight to the point by raising a question as to what has registered in the patient’s mind as humiliation. #RandolphHarris 3 of 30
Sometimes impulses to humiliate the analyst, or thoughts about it unaccompanied by any effect, appear right at the beginning of the analysis, before the analyst has touched any sore spot. In this case, it is likely that the patient feels unconsciously humiliated by the very fact of being analyzed, and it is the analyst’s job to bring this connection into clear focus. Naturally, what happens is analysis also happens outside. And, if we thought more often of the possibility that offensive behavior may stem from hurt pride, we would save ourselves many painful or even heartbreaking troubles. Thus, when a friend or relative behaves in an obnoxious fashion after have liberally helped him, we should not be upset over this ingratitude but consider how badly his pride may have been hurt by accepting help. And, according to circumstances, we might either talk to him about it or try ourselves to help him in a way that saves his face. Likewise, in the case of a generally contemptuous attitude toward people, it is not enough to resent a person’s arrogance; we must also regard him as someone who goes through life with a raw skin because of being pervasively vulnerable through his pride. If we feel we have offended our own pride, what is less well known is that the same hostility, hate, or contempt may be directed against ourselves. Violent self-reproaches are no the only form this rage at self may assume. Vindictive self-hatred has so many far-reaching implications. #RandolphHarris 4 of 30
Looking more closely at the concept of the healthy individual as one who lives primarily in the present, we see that living fully in the moment requires no concern for external support or sustenance. To say, “I am adequate now” rather than “I was adequate once” or “I will be adequate again” is self-validating and self-justifying. Just being in the moment is sufficient and is an end. Being has its own reward—a feeling of trust in one’s self-support. Experiencing self-support, a by-product of living in the present, is being “inner-directed” as opposed to “other-directed.” Maslow said that a person experiencing time in this way is one living in a state of “creative innocence.” In the child, there is a total unquestioning acceptance of whatever happens. Since there is also very little memory, very little leaning on the past, there is little tendency in the child to bring the past into the present or into the future. The consequence is that the child is totally without past or future. If one expects nothing, if one has no anticipations or apprehensions, if in a certain sense there is no future, because the child is moving totally “here—now,” there can be no surprise, no disappointment. One thing is as likely as another to happen. This is “perfect waiting” and spectatorship without any demands that one thing happen rather than another. There is no prognosis. And no prediction means no worry, no anxiety, no apprehension, or foreboding. #RandolphHarris 5 of 30
This is all related to the conception of the creative personality as one who is totally here—now, one who lives without future or past. Another way of saying this is: “The creative person is an innocent.” An innocent could be defined as a grown person who can still perceive, or think or react like a child. It is this innocence that is recovered in the “second naivete, or perhaps the “second innocence” of the wise old man who has managed to recover the ability to be childlike. The manipulators may be past-oriented and using the past as an excuse for failure. They may be future-oriented and using the future for promises that never materialize. Or they may be present-oriented and using the present to talk about everything they are doing but getting none of it done. In any event, they spend most of their time justifying and defending themselves: If they are marginalized manipulators, they are criers or blamers, asking for love despite bad luck. If they are in positions of power and authority, they con us into pseudo-support and justification, in that the deception of another person gives them a feeling of power. If they were deeply honest, they would have to admit that their ventures are empty and unfulfilling. Actualizers, on the other hand (as always), are doers, be-ers. They express feelings and talents to cope with life in the present. #RandolphHarris 6 of 30
Actualizers feel good about themselves because their existence is filled with ongoing activity. They experience self-support and self-expression in living life in the here and now. They move freely into the past for memories and into the future for goals, but remember that these, too, are acts of the present from which self-support comes. For actualizers, life is an exciting process of trusting themselves in the here and now. The self-concept itself is an abstraction. Like the “mind,” it has no special location and is not comprised of any particular organ. (Children asked to locate their selves usually point either to their chest or their forehead.) The self-concept may be conveniently thought of as being divided into several sub-selves or “roles.” Thus, you may find included in your self-concept your role as a student, as an athlete, as a first child of the family, as a dancer, as a lover, as a spouse, as a parent, as a teacher, or as a merchant. While persons differ widely in their most important sub-self or role, for most people their way of earning a living becomes a major role. Thus, in one of Bugental’s earliest self-concept tests, the WAY (Who Are You?), many people replied in terms of their job. In the opening lines to Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Flavius, walking the streets of Rome, is dismayed to find the populace walking about in their best clothes and chides a workman: “What, know you not…you ought not walk upon a laboring day without the sign of your profession?” #RandolphHarris 7 of 30
Whether deeds or rules should be the basis of a moral code is a thorny theological issue. Certain theologically oriented writers have rightly reacted against the old moral rigidity and have rejected automatic condemnation of fallible men and women for behavior of pleasures of the flesh which are disapproved of by the church. However, have they presently overreached themselves and therefore inadvertently undermined the concept of voluntary commitment to pleasures of the flesh? Is it possible that they have lost sight of a human need for the security of reasonable limits in relationships that involve pleasures of the flesh, a need that exists independently of religious doctrine? Extramarital pleasures of the flesh is a case in point, and one pronouncement on the subject can be singled out both because it summarizes the issues and because it has been commended for its wisdom by a Catholic priest, Robert T. Francoeur. It originally appeared in 1968 in Honest Sex, a book with the subtitle, “A Revolutionary Sex Ethic by and for Concerned Christians,” written by a husband and wife, Rustum and Della Roy. They are described as “active Christian lay people involved in church, community and educational organizations and concerned with mental health.” The sentences quoted below are referred to with unequivocal approval by Dr. Francoeur in his book, Eve’s New Rib. #RandolphHarris 8 of 30
The Royas write: “We find that sexual relations with persons other than a spouse are becoming more common. When other criteria of appropriateness are fulfilled, such relations do not necessarily destroy or hurt a marriage, nor do they inflict an unbearable hurt on the partner not involved. Indeed, when human need is paramount, such relationships can serve as the vehicle of faithfulness to God.” These are not three sentences taken out of context; they express the core of a particular philosophy, which is why they were chosen by Dr. Francoeur as a summation of his own beliefs. Their meaning, however, is something less than precise. For example, what is the purpose in noting that extramarital pleasures of the flesh are “becoming more common”? Is the frequency with which something happens a reliable indication of its value? Besides, by what objective measure have the Roys been able to confirm as a fact that such behavior is more common? Compared to when? Who sets the “criteria for appropriateness” by which extramarital intercourse is to be judged, the partner who participates or the partner who does not—or do they decide together, and if so, who has the final decision? Whose “human need” is being considered—that of the involved partner, the noninvolved partner or the third party? Moreover, who is to define these needs, sexual or otherwise, and then weigh them to determine which deserved to be labeled “paramount”? #RandolphHarris 9 of 30
Such a fantasy conjures up an image of passionless creatures who expect that their rational minds, like computers that have been fed all the available data, can be trusted to make the right decision, uninfluenced by such a natural emotion, for example, as physical desire. To encourage such a belief is to encourage the dangerous and self-serving malady of megalomania. The Roys verge on doing this with their assurance that having extramarital relationships may “serve as the vehicle of faithfulness to God.” However, since they are aware that men and women caught in sexual triangles are imperfect and vulnerable human beings, they must acknowledge that there are risks. They do so, however, in evasive terms. Extramarital pleasures of the flesh, they say, does not “necessarily” harm or destroy a marriage, nor does it inflict “an unbearable hurt” on the uninvolved partner. Not necessarily—but possibly? Even probably? And who decides whether this real risk of harming or destroying the marriage is worth taking—the partner who will enjoy having an affair in which the act of intercourse is conceptualized as an act of Christian charity? Or the involved partner, who has little, if anything to gain, and a lot to lose? As for being hurt, what does “unbearable” mean? Must the hurt partner commit suicide to prove that it was beyond endurance? Or suffer an emotional collapse? Or does asking for a divorce suffice to make the point? #RandolphHarris 10 of 30
It is one thing to repudiate the idea that every instance of extramarital pleasures of the flesh is an anathema to God; it is something else to advance the idea that in certain cases, extramarital pleasures of the flesh is a way of being faithful to God. Such a suggestion, coming from authorities who are concerned with the ethics of pleasures of the flesh, is doubly dangerous. Not only does it lend itself to the most seductive of rationalizations but it undermines the value of pleasures of the flesh commitment by subordinating the exclusive physical bond between husband and wife to the apparent needs of a third person. Marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children. When a man and woman are married in the temple, their family can be together forever. This is a common goal of Latter-day Saints. Life’s greatest joys are found in the family. Strong family relationships require effort, but such effort brings great happiness in this life and throughout eternity. In our Heavenly Father’s plan of happiness, a man and a woman can be sealed to one another for a time and all eternity. If they are true to their covenants, those who are sealed in the temple have the assurance that their relationship will continue forever. They know that nothing, not even death, can permanently separate them. The covenant of eternal marriage is necessary for exaltation. #RandolphHarris 11 of 30
After receiving the sealing ordinance and making sacred covenants in the temple, a couple must continue in faithfulness to receive the blessings of eternal marriage and exaltation. The Lord said: “If a man marry a wife by my word, which is my law, and by the new and everlasting covenant, and it is sealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of promise, by him who is anointed, unto whom I have appointed this power and the keys of this priesthood; and if [they] abide in my covenant, it shall be done unto them in all things whatsoever my servant hath put upon them, in time, and through all eternity; and shall be of full force when they are out of the world.” Those who are married should consider their union as their most cherished earthly relationship. A spouse is the only person other than the Lord whom we have been commanded to love with all our heart. Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither person exercising dominion over the other but with each encouraging, comforting, and helping the other. Because marriage is such an important relationship in life, it needs and deserves time over less important commitments. Couples can strengthen their marriage as they take time to talk together and listen to one another, be thoughtful and respectful, and express tender feelings and affection often. #RandolphHarris 12 of 30
Cynicism, the deification of history and of matter, individual terror, and State crime, these are the inordinate consequences that will now spring, armed to the teeth, from the equivocal conception of a world that entrusts to history alone the task of producing both values and truth. If nothing can be clearly understood before truth has been brought to light, at the end of time, then every action is arbitrary, and force will finally rule supreme. “If reality is inconceivable,” Hegal exclaims, “then we must contrive inconceivable concepts.” A concept that cannot be conceived must, perforce, like error, be contrived. However, to be accepted it cannot rely on the persuasion innate in order and truth, but must finally be imposed. Hegel’s attitude consists of saying: “This is truth, which appears to us, however, to be error, but which is true precisely because it happens to be error. As for proof, it is not I, but history, at its conclusion, that will furnish it.” Such pretensions can only entail two attitudes: either the suspension of all affirmation until the production of proof, or the affirmation of everything, in history, which seems dedicated to success—force in particular. And both attitudes imply nihilism. Moreover, of we overlook the fact that unfortunately it derived a large part of its inspiration from a philosophy of conformity and opportunism, it is impossible to understand twenty-first century revolution. True rebellion is not jeopardized on account of the distortion of these ideas. #RandolphHarris 13 of 30
People with small mentalities are constitutionally incapable of perceiving any other truth besides the new one which they happen to have embraced now, dazzled by its blaze as they are. People can see every half-truth and every quarter-truth, but they can not see the obvious truth. This is because they are so sated with self-interest and prejudice. The aspirant, too, may be crammed full of prejudice and have enough self-interest to fill a bank but—he knows it; he is trying to disentangle it, whereas they go on in blissful ignorance and imagine they are envisaging facts when they are only pampering to prejudice. It is a common habit to belittle ideas and practices simply because they are unknown or less familiar, but it is not a wise habit. When he finds that the truth is not what he had always supposed it to be, he is either shamed and humiliated or surprised and exhilarated. It is possible to know some things; only to believe other things: while the residue may be hoped for—nothing more. It is not an uncommon experience to observe how some persons project their own fancies on outer happenings, meetings, and persons—in other words, bringing their own thoughts and imaginations into real events and confusing the two. That latest knowledge is not the last nor the latest governmental form the final and best. #RandolphHarris 14 of 30
The conventional mentality thinks and therefore speaks in clichés. Its capacity for independent activity does not exist. It is a common enough mistake among the thoughtless to confound the abstruse with the absurd. This is surely something that should appeal to a reasonable and reflective person. That is why few will be found at first to listen to it, for few take the time to reflect; most are led by the nose since they are led by prejudice. There are so many men who believe that they know very well where they stand, but who believe wrongly. If challenged, the mass mind, with its ignorance and from the varied pressures, suggestions, traditions, or authorities imposed on it from outside and opposed by resistances or desires from inside, is at first thrown into greater confusion. His mind acknowledges no criterion of truth, no convention of goodness, no taste in beauty merely because convention tradition or society supports it. He must examine it first; he has also to find out what other minds in olden and medieval as well as modern times, in widely differing Eastern lands as well as Occidental ones, thought of these matters; finally, he had to consult his own reason, and above all, his own intuition and compare all these views quite impartially and without selfish interest. If they are to yield proper solutions, we may apply human reason, not supernatural “revelation,” to all our problems. #RandolphHarris 15 of 30
Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, Jr. reinforced the importance of personal accountability as he tells a story from his career. He was thrown out of a game in the first inning for arguing with an umpire. He later found out that a fan had brought his young son all the way to Baltimore to see his favorite baseball player, but never saw him take one swing. The boy was heartbroken, and the press ran with the story. Cal felt horrible. He began evaluating what was important to him and where he needed to improve. He settled in about personal accountability. A short time later, he was playing a game in Toronto. As he took the field in pregame warm-ups, he noticed the sod where he played shortstop was raised up to a hump. Apparently, the irrigation or drainage system had leaked the night before and froze under the turf. His first thought was to complain to the umpires and groundskeepers. He could have chosen to ask them to delay the game to fix the field or he could have used it as an excuse if he had a bad game. Instead, he chose to suck it up and play a couple feet in from his normal spot, making the most of it. He decided he was not going to allow outside circumstances to affect his performance. He played that game without a complaint and went on to continue playing every game for the record of most consecutive games played in this history of professional baseball. #RandolphHarris 16 of 30
People in leadership position have even a greater need for accountability. How many times have you noted a popular politician, movie star, church leader, or public safety official plummet in disgrace as the result of a scandal? Many sources suggest that as people work their way higher in an organization, the hard work and accountability to get there has been replaced by an entitlement once they arrive. In his book, Why Great Men Fall, author Wayde Goodall theorizes that the failure of leaders is not necessarily one big misstep, but rather a series of temptations that eventually are reasoned as privilege. In his farewell speech, Senator John Ensign apologized for his actions that came easily with “more power and prestige.” Many leaders that ignore personal accountability when they are successful make poor moral decisions, yet carry on with their business as though nothing happened. Eventually, the behavior catches up, and the leader is forced to give up everything that was earned. As a result, emergency workers must realize that although personal accountability is a tough skill to master, promotions will only make it tougher to maintain. A fire fighter with the Award-winning Sacramento Fire Department, who works his or her way up through the ranks to a chief position will find it might be easier to come in late, take a longer lunch, or leave a little earlier at the end of the day. Failing to meet minimum training requirements might be rationalized as less relevant than completing administrative duties. Unfortunately, this example also can carry over to accountability safety. #RandolphHarris 17 of 30
Many agencies can provide pictures of emergency scenes where an officer is not wearing proper personal protective equipment (PPE). Maybe they reasoned that they were only entering the hazard zone to “take a look,” or that they were not “actively involved” in the incident so their risks were lower. All members must learn ways to improve personal accountability for health and safety regardless of rank. Improving personal accountability is key to eliminating blame and ultimately improving safety. There are several ways to help achieve accountability, including making the decision to be accountable, becoming an active member of your department, speaking up, taking responsibility for the outcome of calls, and taking responsibility for safety. As you have seen, professionals require intensive education in a particular service or skill that most members of society do not have. Along with all of this expertise are some distinct responsibilities. As a professional with the award-winning Sacramento Fire Department, you must be aware of them. Professionals offer a service that is vital to society. This service is performed for a person or group of people commonly referred to as clients. Professional expertise is so complex that laymen are usually not capable of understanding what the professional does or how he or she does it. Therefore, the professional has exclusive possession of a certain skill set, and the client agrees to accept the professional’s application of those skills. This relationship creates certain expectations. Just as the professional expects the client to place affairs completely within his or her hands, the client expects the professional to observe certain ethical standards of behavior. #RandolphHarris 18 of 30
Society expects the professionals with the award-winning Sacramento Fire Department to fulfill three key obligations: Not exceed professional competence (no “Custer’s Last Stands”), act only in the nation’s best interest, maintain integrity with the American people. Clearly, the professional has most of the leverage in this relationship, at least until proven otherwise, and he or she is accepted as the unquestioned authority. Most people enter a profession because of an abiding desire to serve society and their fellow man. Many endure great personal hardship to meet the standards of their “calling.” Consider the medical student who graduates with hefty student loans after spending many years as a full-time student—or your own sacrifices to attend college and become a professional with the Sacramento Fire Department. Most professional also desire to maintain their ability to control their profession. They realize that only as long as the profession abides by ethical standards will society allow it to keep functioning autonomously. “The salary thing has got to be separate, because nobody could continue to do this unless they wanted to. I’ll be forty in December, and I see things a lot differently, looking back and looking ahead. I love this job. It’s a lifetime challenge because every fire is different, even the same variables move around in different sequences. We pay a lot of attention to building construction and renovation. And it amazes me how hard young officer work to come up through the ranks and how much intensive knowledge of fire science and fireground experience they have. #RandolphHarris 19 of 30
“The guys in our battalion work hard every day. If I ever get lucky and make district chief, a top priority will be to continue to improve our knowledge of the conditions we work under and what certain types of buildings are going to do before the fire, so we are prepared when we get there. Not everything is a three-story frame—we call them three-deckers—where you finish yawning and the fire is out. This is a serious profession. We’re trying to maintain this image that we’re supermen but at the same time acknowledging that we’re not indestructible or infallible but only human. Some officers misinterpret the way the guys behave. There is just plain a lot of stress that goes with the job. I wish we could have a program in all the fire departments where the media actually go to drill school. I’d like to see the reporters and the mayors of all these cities go down the long hallway trying to search, or pulling a line and trying to pull ceilings at the same time. I believe they’d have a different view of firefighter if they could go to two or three jobs in a row, then come out and say, ‘I didn’t quite realize it was like that.’ Civilians just don’t believe how fast that fire will travel. They leave their kids unattended for a couple of minutes, shoot out the door, and go down to the corner for a second. How quickly it spreads. Those things hit me nowadays.” Leaders can enhance their ability to maintain accountability by surrounding themselves with people who will be honest with you about who you really are or what you are becoming. Since officers may have trouble noticing a change, it’s vital that they are ready for it and use colleagues or family members to maintain an awareness for them. #RandolphHarris 20 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 fighters 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 motions, 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 peoples’ 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 30
California is the third most expensive state in the nation. A single person making an income above $100,000 is now consider low-income in five counties in California. This distinction now applies to individuals living in Santa Cruze, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin counties. In 37 percent of counties, a family of four living on a six-figure income is now considered low-income. In fact, Governor Gavin Newsom of Democratic controlled California, brags about being the world’s “fifth largest economy,” but it also facing a $12 billion deficit, looking to cut $747 million for state worker’s pay, pushing to keep medical insurance for illegal immigrants, but wants to cut medical for anyone who has assets over $2,000 and the state has the largest homeless population in the nation. 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. 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. In 2025, many people in California saw their bills increase by an estimated $500 a month. This includes things like food, automobile insurance, homeowner’s insurance, 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. This is caused by nearly half a century’s old laws that discourage homes sales and encourage higher rents. Meanwhile, China, where we are sending all of our jobs and money has more than 50 ghost cities. Ghost cities are regions will housing has been overdeveloped to the point that these places are uninhabited. 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 amongst the names on that list. #RandolphHarris 22 of 30
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 2,500 and Meta has terminated 4,000 employees. 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 boarder 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 risks 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 end-of-life of machinery is how the Oroville Dam Crisis occurred in 2017. Other crises that have occurred due to neglect of critical infrastructure is the 2025 Palisades fires because Southern California ran out of water, when they are located next to an ocean and they could have simply created desalinating plants to help with the water shortage. The water 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 23 of 30
The American government should know all exploitable vulnerabilities and fix them prior to the situation becoming 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. 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 their infrastructure, provide adequate resources, nor 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 is 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. #RandolphHarris 24 of 30
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. 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 or $88,724.00 and that typically means two to four people in the home are working and contributing to the mortgage. Prices in Sacramento County are actually rivaling the Bay Area, and the Bay Aera is so expensive because they have more higher paying jobs and is a tourist destination. And with the State of California being in a budget deficit of $12 billion, Governor Gavin Newsom Granted 700,000 illegal immigrants free health care at a cost to taxpayers of $3 billion annually, while cutting vital programs for veterans, school children, the disabled and the homeless, and is proposing to fast-track his plan to build a $20 billion water tunnel beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta by eliminating environmental reviews and limit avenues for legal challenges. Gavin Newsom only cares about the environment when his policies allow him to raise taxes and restrict freedoms. #RandolphHarris 25 of 30
In fact, 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 poop, 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. However, it has become a public health crisis as the population of Tijuana has drastically increased, in recent years, and the waste treatment plants have no longer usable. The beach has been closed for more than three years, and evidence suggests that even breathing the air may be harmful, as toxic particles in the water can become airborne. Yet, even though Gavin Newsom has been governor for six years, he has not rushed into action to stop this very preventable environmental disaster. Why? Because he is not getting kickbacks from China and Mexico, not being gifted mansions and cars, and he cannot tax the struggling California taxpayers to clean up this mess. Simply, it is not profitable for him. Gavin Newsom has been a total tyrant with no regard for taxpayers and does not have a mind for business and should be impeached as soon as possible. He has criminalized poverty, increased taxes, increased tax on gas, and insurance rates so high that people are struggling to survive. In addition to Gavin Newsom’s increased gas prices starting 1 July 2025, the war between Iran and Israel is going to further exacerbate the prices of gas and cause more inflation and economic hardship for people in California. #RandolphHarris 26 of 30
While everyone is making war over America and who belongs here and who she belongs to, so many people forget about the people who are Indigenous to this land. Open boarders have allowed hundreds of thousands of cartel operatives to infiltrate reservations across the United States of America, and use the isolated lands as havens to traffic fentanyl pills and other drugs into the country without protection from federal authorities. Drug cartels have been threatening the health and safety of Native American communities. The trafficking of the dangerous and illegal drugs into their territories is leading to a second genocide. The overdose rate for Indigenous 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 boarders and increase federal funding to Native America 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 also has totally ignored the cartel problems on American lands. Clean air, water, land and preserving our heritage 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 who tax citizens without representation. Taxation without representation is what led to the American Revolution. If Gavin Newsom is not stopped, next he will euthanize the poor and sterilize the disabled. Gavin Newsom has wars and fires breaking out on the streets, but goes out of his way to arrest people who have no place to live. This monster is unfit to be governor and must never be allowed to be President of America! Stop Gavin Newsom now! Save California and impeach this unreasonable man. #RandolphHarris 27 of 30
Meanwhile, with President Trump, we are seeing crime rates sharply decrease, and he recently secured $10 trillion in investments. Additionally, in May of 2025, the United States of America collected a record $100 billion in tariff revenue, and that number will increase to $300 billion by the end of 2025. President Trump has also been nominated for a Noble Peace Prize for making Iran and Israel crease fire. If elected president for an unprecedented third term, to make housing more affordable and to offset the cost of homeowner’s insurance and auto insurance, President Trump plans to abolish property taxes. 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 have the ability to 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 immigrant 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 American, 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 American 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 nation debt, plus you are helping to strengthen these foreign nations by send 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. Moreover, please remember to respect law and order and treat your elders with the utmost dignity and kindness possible. And take your education seriously so that you will be successful in life and make your family proud. It is inborn in the human minds 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. #RandolphHarris 29 of 30
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. 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 arrived at this fulness 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, pleasure teach your children 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. 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 it 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
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. Take advantage of this fascinating experience. After tour, there will be time enjoy the mansion’s splendor at your own pace. You might even discover secret passages.
Please come and enjoy a delicious meal in Sarah’s Café, stroll along the paths of the beautiful Victorian gardens, and wonder 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 to purchase. https://shopwinchestermysteryhouse.com/
Although the actual mansion is much older, we wish to wish the Winchester Mansion a Happy 102 years of giving tours, and express our gratitude to our families, ancestors, spirits, and friends and to our many associates and clients, whose lives touched our lives and whose ideas helped us to grow. We would also like to thank our employees and care takers for putting the technical ideas of this estate into conversational style, and we are, of course, extremely thank to all of our patrons for helping to keep the legacy of the Winchester Family alive. The Winchester Mystery House is full of surprises. What was your favorite, “Oooh!” moment during your visit at the mansion? (And for those of you who still have to check it off your bucket list… we will hopefully see you soon.) https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/
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