Some well-meaning moralists who say that the disciple should no longer look for the evil in others swing to the other extreme and say that he should look only for the good. Philosophy, however, does not endorse either point of view, except to remark that we have no business to judge those who are weaker than ourselves and less business to condemn them. It further says that to look only for the good in others would be to give a false picture of them, for a proper picture must combine the bright and the dark sides. Therefore, it prefers mentally to leave them alone and not to set any valuation upon them, to mind its own affairs and to leave them to the unerring judgment of their own cycles of retaliation. The only exception to this rule is when a disciple is forced to have dealings with another man which make it necessary for him to understand the character of the person with whom he is dealing; but even this understanding must be fair, just, calmly made, impartial, and unprejudiced. Above all, it must not arouse personal emotions or egoistic reactions: in short, he will have to be absolutely impersonal. However, it is seldom that a disciple will have to make such an exception. He should refrain from giving attention to the imperfections and shortcomings of others, and he should certainly never blame them for these. He should turn his critical gaze towards himself alone—unless he is specifically asked by others to examine them—and exercise it to correct himself and improve himself and reform himself. #RandolphHarris 1 of 24

To create a lasting, happy marriage, couples must learn how to resolve conflicts so that each individual feels understood and decisions are made that involved acceptable compromise. “If a husband and wife sometimes enjoy pleasures of the flesh for different reason, is there good communication? I mean, suppose for one it is an emotional things on the one part and physical on the other?” Wonderful blessings flow from resolving conflict in an atmosphere of love. “There are times when I feel much more emotionally in need than physically. Isn’t it perfectly all right for me to go ahead and just find the emotional satisfaction I want even thought I know it would be more stimulating to my husband if I reacted more physically?” Of course, it is all right. Both you and your husband must be completely free to express what you want and feel what you want every time. And knowing there is complete trust between the two of you, you are completely attuned to each other’s wishes, and understand that you have moods and that you are a different person with different needs at different times. “Can any couple ever really be completely attuned to each other?” Well, being attuned is not magic. It is communication. It is something you participate in by identifying with another person and sharing with that person and learning how to reconcile your private, intimate thoughts and feelings with those of other person. #RandolphHarris 2 of 24

Being attuned results as well from good nonverbal communication. And being attuned is the key to an important point. Expression of intimate passions is not necessarily a matter of yes or no, to bed or not to bed. Expression of pleasures of the flesh exists on a continuum. It includes a very wide range of behaviour. It means reaching out just to touch, drawing close to share a mood, developing it or letting it drift. It means enjoying the feelings of pleasures of the flesh in the moment without necessarily turning them into an invitation or request or command. However, being attuned also means sensing when the mood is right to take the next step, and then you should be free to respond in the way that feels best for you. To be able to say, “This time I am going along for the ride.” Or not even say it; just feel it. Or to be demanding—and, if it goes wrong, to communicate and say, “look…” “Isn’t it natural sometimes not to be completely with it? To be a little removed? Sometimes I even find I’m short of watching…Is there anything wrong with that?” There probably is not anyone who, while having pleasures of the flesh, does not become a spectator for a time. On occasion, we watch what we ourselves may be doing or what our partner is doing. It is perfectly natural to consciously observe the procedure; in fact, it is quite stimulating to do this now and then. What is important is the degree to which we assume this spectator’s role. In some cases, being the spectator on occasion may reflect a detachment from any emotional involvement. This is natural and no cause for concern. #RandolphHarris 3 of 24

However, being a spectator does cut down on the input of the stimulus. If you are the spectator during pleasures of the flesh activities, for instance, some degree of your wife’s pleasure and excitement does not really get through to you, which means you lose that stimulation. Ans to a degree your own pleasure is dulled because you are not lost in the experience—you are observing. I am not saying that you experience no pleasure at all. I am just saying that some of it is blocked. A level of perception is blocked. This becomes critical in cases of sexual dysfunction. For example, suppose the male has trouble achieving or maintaining “attention.” In that circumstance both partners have fears. Whenever the wife approaches her husband, he worries: can I? will I? And then there is his wife’s fear: will he? can he? or am I going to be left hanging? “Is it my fault?” Do I contribute to the problem? Am I pushing him too much? And in that case, when dysfunction crops up, the fear of performance rather than the pleasure of performance becomes dominant. Then one really becomes a spectator. Because both partners are off in the corner, watching to see what happens. Usually nothing does. “What the male cannot sustain himself in the long run—what is the main cause? Are you asking about the male who loses “attention” without climax or who climaxes too soon? “Too soon.” #RandolphHarris 4 of 24

Premature climax is very difficult to define. However, or concept of it, basically speaking, hold that is a man maintains control long enough to provide the opportunity for his female partner to achieve satisfaction approximately fifty percent of their coital opportunities, he cannot be consider a premature climaxer. Now, there are certain circumstances under which any man may tend to function to such a rush that his partner is unsatisfied. Suppose he had been away for a couple of weeks. The first time after that he usually has trouble, He may have similar trouble during his first encounter with a new woman. These are classic situations. However, if the problem is a consistent one within the marital unit, there is a technique to remedy matters. When this technique is used longingly by husband and wife together, almost every man can learn self-control. It is simple enough to put into practise easily but too complicated to describe in detail right now. “You said before that pleasures of the flesh are a natural process. To not wait it—is that unnatural?” On occasion or for a long period of time? It is perfectly natural on occasion—sometimes you are just not hungry. If it lasts two or three weeks, though, it may be time to give the matter some thought. “Say it lasts a month.” Tension involving pleasures of the flesh exists in the body just as the appetite for food exists. If the desire for intimate passions is lacking, we would first want to check for physical disability, just as we would if a person went too long without feeling hungry. #RandolphHarris 5 of 24

However, in one respect pleasures of the flesh is like no other physical process. It is the only physical process that can be denied indefinitely, even for lifetime. It is one thing, of course, for someone with reasons that are valid for him or her deliberately to condition himself to set it aside. However, fi you are talking about someone who suddenly finds that now there is no interest where there was interest before, and if there seems to be no physical explanation, then the answer may lie in the cares and concerns that are draining his energies. “Is this problem—you know, lack of desire and all that—is it the same for a woman? If she’s busy with the house and the children and she’s just beat…” Of course that is going to affect her responsiveness! How could it not? There is probably no young mother in the country who would not know what you are talking about. “Isn’t it a fact that women have their strongest sexual drive at a later age than men? What is it—eighteen to twenty-five for men and twenty-give to thirty-three for woman?” That is a reflection of the old Kinsey data. It is not a physiological fact but a sociological one. It is culturally induced. Perhaps one of society’s ways of protecting young girls from the risk of pregnancy was to teach them that they had no feelings for pleasures of the flesh; they were given all the moral precepts to make sure they remembered the lesson. Boy were permitted—even encouraged—to have pleasures of the flesh feelings, so they got off to a head start. Girls took longer to catch up, that is all. It is cultural, not biological. #RandolphHarris 6 of 24

Differences of opinion, habit, or background are inevitable, but we have ample resources to help us know how to cope. Couples can learn methods for dealing with conflict. Inspiration can lead to changing hearts that soften each spouse from the inside. Some of our greatest opportunities to demonstrate our love will be within the walls of our own homes. Love should be the very heart of family life, and yet sometimes it is not. There can be too much impatience, too much arguing, too many fights, too many tears. When troubles persist and become destructive to family life, there can be more serious causes of conflict, including immaturity, selfishness, desire to win power struggles, and pride. I have long felt that the greatest factor in a happy marriage is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one’s compassion. In most cases, selfishness is the leading factor that cases argument, separation, divorce, and broken hearts. Whenever one considers the bad feeling and the unpleasantness caused by contention, it is well to ask, “Why do I participate?” It is important to recognize that we choose our behaviour. At the root of this issues is the age-old problem of pride. When problems persist, whatever the cause, we need to learn new skills and soften our hearts. If his higher faculties have not yet awakened and possessed him, why blame a person for what he does? He is only doing what he can. Moreover, it is prudent never to condemn others. For others will then by retaliation condemn you. #RandolphHarris 7 of 24

We need not be unaware to the vaults and lapses of inspired men, but we ought to forgive them. A balancing of accounts justifies this attitude. Those who bring this rare gift with them deserve a wider indulgence than others. We should always remember that everyone, on all the different and varying levels of spiritual advancement, has his own difficulties and problems. To accept these without giving way to negative emotions is the first step in the right direction. Coming to terms with life and oneself is a never-ending procedure from which no one is exempt. The very nature of existence is synonymous with the individual struggle for self-development. Do not belittle any human being who is awake to his higher nature. Do not condemn another soul for his misdeeds, even though he be the wickedest of all men. Firstly, because he cannot be other than he is, for time, experience, tendencies, and destiny have brought him to this particular point and way of self-expression. Secondly, because the worse his misdeeds the greater will be the redemptive suffering to which he unconsciously condemns himself. It seems to me that this way of living is also the way of exploration and the way of science, when it is truly exploring and truly scientific, and the way of learning (education), and that this is also the way of infants before they know anything except what they are born with. An adult is a deteriorated child. One of the major theoretical hypotheses of client-centered therapy is that during therapy the concept of the self is revised to assimilate basic experiences which had previously been denied to awareness as threatening. #RandolphHarris 8 of 24

Why do we “do it” to each other in our relationships? Why do people manipulate each other? Why do some women constantly “do it” to their husbands by reminding him of his obligations rather than supporting his need for self-expression?” Some women prevent their husbands from doing what he wants to do, just so they can keep up the mask. Each of us has a number of emotionally charged ideas about life, which are called values: anger, love, strength, weakness, criticalness, support, dependency and control. Somewhere in our development, we form the notion that one of more of these values is “taboo,” forbidden. One of the forbidden values is sometimes control. To some women, the woman is supposed to be dependent. The man is supposed to be in control. Yet women know, deep down, that they have the capacity to be independent, to take control, to support themselves and their family. This is the reality. The forbidden reality. However, because women have formed the opinion that this reality is unavailable to them, they mask it with the opposite face, the face of the helpless manipulator. However, women may not know on a conscious level that they have to capacity to be independent. On this level, all many of them have are their ideas, the values impressed on them during their upbringing, her thoughts about the way things should be and her obvious actions. It is inly by coming into touch with her feelings about dependency that a woman is able to get a conscious knowledge of what is really true for her. #RandolphHarris 9 of 24

This is not always easy. At one point in any relationship, matters sometimes get so strained, couples sometimes have a hard time being together at all. Women sometimes constantly judge their husbands for wanting to shirk his duties; men sometimes constantly put their wives down for not appreciating them. Sensing is a great way to start doing things together so as to create a closer relationship. Taking walks together, doing household chores together, reading to each other are great ways to bond and heal a relationship. After a woman realizes that she is masking her true values, she may find it increasingly easier to be comfortable with herself, with the notion that she no longer needs her husband’s income or control. After that session, when he usually begins to talk about his frustration with a therapist or ministry, a woman will typically open up and may become spontaneously warn towards her husband. She understands she can just “be with” his frustration and not try to avoid or condemn it. Interestingly, the number of things a could does together decreases after a time, yet their relationship still grows closers because as they learn to unmask their feelings, they can be together more, while actually seeing each other less. In order to make her martial relationship free, some woman lean to understand the concept of interdependence. She cannot be dependent upon her husband all the time, though this is precisely what some women have tried to do. Since two people are in an intimate relationship, one spouse cannot be entirely independent of the other all the time either. There are times, however, when it is appropriate for woman to be totally dependent or independent. #RandolphHarris 10 of 24

For example, some women do not have the heart to discipline their children. When they do something which is a clear violation of the rules, about all she can do is scold them with, “You know you are not supposed to do that. You should be ashamed of yourself.” On the other hand, many the fathers find it easy to be the disciplinarian, taking away the children’s privileges and putting up with their protests. Thus, when it comes to discipline, woman can be totally dependent on their husband—without manipulation or suppression. When it comes to running the house, generally women feel entirely competent. Man can feel lost. A woman does not typically have to consult her husband on how much to pay for caviar or when to get a faucet fixed. In that realm, she can be totally independent—again, without manipulation or suppression on the part of either of them. Apart from these instances, there are a number of situations which call for interdependence. If a man should leave his job and stay at home writing, he would need his wife’s ability to work and provide an income for them. At the same time, however, sometimes a housewife knows nothing about investing and the needs of her husband’s help in committing their excess funds to the financial plans. What some women have to learn is that no relationship can exist for long with one person always being the superior and the other being the subordinate. #RandolphHarris 11 of 24

Each person in a couple must permit independence, dependence and interdependence. The proper balance of these three aspects is difficult to achieve, but it is equally freeing to both parties, who can then stop “doing it” to each other and just “be with” each other in the way that the situation dictates. Emotional interdependence is like a dance, in which each partner is aware of and sensitive to the movements of the other. They do not battle, they do not fight for control. Rather, each responds to the music in the rhythmic flow with the other. As partners, neither is a superior or subordinate. Each is sure of oneself as a dancer and does not need to push the other around or be pushed around. Many marital or family conflicts arise because of uncontrolled anger. If we are not careful, we can follow an angry incident with constant thinking about how we were wronged. The longer we ruminate, the more reasons we can generate to justify our perspective. This brooding can prevent us from calming down, and when a second wave of anger emerges before the first is resolved, hormonal reactions can lead to additional outbursts. Therefore, before you try tackling a problem, allow your emotions to cool down. Wait out the chemical reaction that may be taking place. Find a distraction. Choose to think about something else or take a walk. Write down your thoughts for feelings. For some, this helps to increase self-awareness. Let it out in productive ways. Yelling about your feelings will not “get it out of your system.” The more you vent in an angry manner, the more intense your feelings will become. #RandolphHarris 12 of 24

Adolescent members of society can face challenges related to navigating the strict moral code of the religion while also dealing with typical teenage pressures like peer influence, identity exploration, and grappling with issues like pleasures of the flesh, particularly when it comes to same-gender attraction, which can lead to feelings of isolation or conflict with religious teachings; additionally, the heavy emphasis on personal accountability and “worthiness” can contribute to anxiety and guilt among struggling teens. Masturbation is something of his own. He is not sure what to do with his new feelings for pleasures of the flesh or hot to fit them into his plan, so he reacts to them with the earlier feelings he has become familiar with, his racket. Masturbation may also put him through the agony of a true existential crisis: it is something he does or does not do at a given moment, and it is (or should be) his decision alone; and once he has done it, he, and he alone, must take the consequences. These may be private feeling such as guilt (because masturbation is wicked), fear (because it will damage his health, he thinks), or inadequacy (because it will weaken his will power, he thinks). All these are “head transactions” between the Parent and the Child in his skull. On the other hand, he may have transactional feelings which depend on the reactions, real or imaginary, of his public: hurt, anger, or embarrassment, because now he thinks they have a real reason to make fun of him, hate him, or shame him. In any case, masturbation gives him a way of fitting the new feelings of pleasures of the flesh in with the old feelings he learned as a child. #RandolphHarris 13 of 24

However, he also learns to be more flexible. From his schoolmates and teachers, he gets “permission” to react with feelings other than those encouraged at home, and he also learns to cool it: not everybody takes seriously the things his folks worry about. This switch in his feeling-system gradually separates him from his family and draws him closer to people his own age. He adapts his script to the new situation and makes it more “presentable.” He may even change his role from being a total failure to being a partial success, from being a loser to being merely a nonwinner and at least breaking even. If he has a winning script, he discovers that that requires a certain objectivity. He is not in a competitive situation and victories do not come automatically, but only after a certain amount of planning and work; and he learns to take a few losses without getting shaken up. When children can benefit from their parents’ wisdom is ironically often the time when they are least likely to accept it. Adolescent children, in particular, strive to become independent, and the urgency of that drive, heightened by the pull of peers and Worldly influence, sometimes draws them away from those who could help them the most. Sadly, their parents, wanting desperately to help, sometimes watch helplessly as they make unfortunate mistakes. Headstrong children, bent on doing things their own way, rebuff the most loving of fathers and mothers. #RandolphHarris 14 of 24

Boredom arises from doing repetitive, unchallenging work. It arises as a consequence of relationships with persons who lack spontaneity and who do not relate to us in ways that meet our needs for affection, understanding or intellectual stimulation. Boredom arises when people do not actively choose what they will do, but instead permit their lives to be lived for them by social pressures to conform with rigid roles and concepts of respectability. Boredom is inevitable in human life, but there are healthy and unhealthy methods of coping with it. The unhealth patterns include permitting it to continue for indefinite periods of time without making an effort to understand its causes, and impulsively seeking excitement or diversion without striving to understand the causes of boredom. For example, some people may drive automobiles at breakneck speeds, smoke marijuana, or fornicate simply to interrupt monotony. Other flee ennui by attending many movies, drinking too much liquor, using other drugs, watching television for long hours, staying on the Internet, or reading escape literature. The healthier approach to boredom is to reflect upon one’s life, to ascertain what one truly wants and the ways in which existence if failing to provide legitimate satisfaction. If persons are unable to diagnose their own needs, they are serving the interests of healthy personality by discussing their situation and personality with a friend or by seeking counseling. #RandolphHarris 15 of 24

Geography is important because it provides a foundational understanding of how the physical environment interacts with human societies, allowing us to analyze and address global issues like climate change, resource management, population distribution, and political conflicts, essentially giving us a holistic view of the World and how different places are connected and influenced by their geographic features. The most instructive way to look at a World-Map is to reposition the map so that East is down. The reexperience the long climb of humanity from East to West. The busy caravans like ant-files shuttling up and down the Asian trade routes. The enormous ant-armies of Alexander overrunning the past—no Worlds for him to conquer westward. Genghis Khan’s fast-moving mobile, equine technology storming columns. Roman legions painfully pushing up into Gaul sense the movement of human swarms over the centuries—the empire-hives sending out columns and waves, the exploratory probes westward. The flotillas of frail craft moving up the Atlantic, shipping that most basic cargo: sperm and eggs. The other cargoes are support-logistic. When you watch the sun disappear over the horizon, you are looking into the future. The greatest technological problems faced by DNA on this planet was scaling the Atlantic Ocean. For over a thousand years, from 40 to 1400 AD, the waves of mobile-elite sperm-eggs splashed up to the Western-European Atlantic beach-ledges—and waited. It was the greatest swarming phenomenon in human history! #RandolphHarris 16 of 24

Port-cities teeming with migragents, explores, and space-travelers. Western Fever! And Columbus—Columbus obsessed with this Everest problem, commanded by genetic directive to scale this mountain of water three-thousand-miles-high. He said, “I gave the keys of those mighty barriers of ocean which were closed with such mighty chains.” Not the timing of Atlantic Ascent. It has to await the Protestant Reformation. The Luther self-actualization freed gene pools from the Catholic-hive center. Only a society of self-actualized families, democratically linked together, was capable of pushing gene pools three-thousand-miles up, into the storm altitudes of the North Atlantic. Recall that the ascent had been made mover and over again during the ten centuries before Columbus by doughty Vikings, fervent Irish monks and hundreds of masculine bands. Some returned to tell the story of the new ecological niche. However, this signal did not activate the swarm because the technology for lifting gene pools three-thousand-miles into the unknown had not yet emerged. Thousands of European sailors who found the new lands did not return. Instead, they were absorbed by native gene pools. If thousands of Amazon female sailors had reached North American before the Protestant Revolution, they too would have been swallowed up by the native gene pools. #RandolphHarris 17 of 24

Philosophy secularized the ideal. However, tyrants appear who soon secularize the philosophies that give them the right to do so. Nietzsche had already predicted this development in discussing Hegel, whose originality, according to him, consisted in inventing a pantheism in which evil, error, and suffering could no longer sever as arguments against the divinity. “But the State, the powers that be, immediately made use of this grandiose initiative.” He himself, however, had conceived of a system in which crime could no longer serve as an argument and in which the only values reside in the divinity of man. This grandiose initiative also had to be put to use. Socialism in this respect was only a transitory heir, only the speculative and rabid outcome of nihilism. In all other respects those who, in correcting Nietzsche with the help of Marx, will choose to assent only to history, and no longer to all of creation, will be perfectly logical. The rebel whom Nietzsche, at least in his theory or superhumanity, and Marx before him, with his classless society, both replace the Beyond by the Later On. In that way, Nietzsche betrayed the Greeks and the teachings of Jesus Christ, who according to him, replaced the Beyond by the Immediate. Marx, like Nietzsche, thought in strategic terms, and like Nietzsche, hated formal virtue. Their two rebellions, both of which finish similarly in adhesion to a certain aspect of reality, end by merging into Marxism-Leninism and being incarnated in that caste, already mentioned by Nietzsche, which would “replace the priest, the teacher, and the doctor.” #RandolphHarris 18 of 24

The fundamental difference is that Nietzsche, in awaiting the superman, proposed to ascent to what exists and Marx to what is to come. For Marx, nature is to be subjugated in order to obey history; for Nietzsche, nature is to be obeyed in order subjugate history. It is the difference between the Christian and the Greek. Nietzsche, at least, foresaw what was going to happen: “Modern socialism tends to create a form of secular Jesuitism, to make instruments of all men”; and again: “What we desire is wellbeing…As a result we march toward a spiritual slavery such as has never been seen…Intellectual Caesarism hovers over every activity of the businessman and the philosopher.” Placed in the crucible of Nietzsche philosophy, rebellion, in the intoxication of freedom, ends in biological or historical Caesarism. The absolute negative had driven Stirner to deify crime simultaneously with the individual. However, the absolute affirmative leads to universalizing murder and mankind simultaneously. Marxism-Leninism has really accepted the burden of Nietzsche’s freewill by means of ignoring several Nietzsche virtues. The great rebel thus creates with his own hands, and for his own imprisonment, the implacable reign of necessity. Once he had escaped from God’s prison, his first care was to construct the prison of history and of reason, thus putting the finishing touch to the camouflage and consecration of the nihilism whose conquest he claimed. #RandolphHarris 19 of 24

The Sacramento Fire Department exists to serve the residents and visitors of the City of Sacramento, and the entire Capital Region.  They accomplish this through a full-time, career staffing. Their team is comprised of well-trained, diverse, and highly motivated individuals who provide services in fire safety education, fire codes enforcement, emergency management, and all-hazards emergency response. “In Sacramento, I was rotating from the squad to the engine. I worked the engine that night, and I had the tip. We had two first-engine jobs and I was taking a beating, because I was fighting a lot of fires. I had also been a paramedic for a long time. So it was two good jobs, and I hate the tip in both. When you fight fire constantly, you grow accustomed to it, but when you rotate, you’re in squad 90 percent of the time. I think that the most meaningful thing is being both a firefighter and a paramedic and just whipping them all together. There’s great satisfaction in fighting a fire. And when you’re a paramedic and you get somebody who is having a heart attack, you know that if you don’t do the right thing within the next five minutes, this person is going to be down. You feel obligated, you give them the right drug, and they get straightened out. That’s meaningful. The paramedic just does rescue work when there are two men on the squad. If you have three men, that third man rotates out to the engine. What happened was, I had been on a two-man squad for many a year, and I was constantly doing paramedic work. Then we got a third man and we started rotating, so that every third week you would go on an engine. When you’re been away from breathing smoke for a while, it’s a little bit harder. #RandolphHarris 20 of 24

“I got into the paramedics by accident. I was a rookie in a ladder company, and when they needed an EMT, they naturally picked on the rookie. So they made me an EMT, and I worked the rescue squad. An EMT does basic life support, that is, splinting legs, doing CPR if necessary, then running the patient to the hospital. A paramedic goes into heavy life support, he gives IVs, gets into cardiac defibrillation and drug administration, he gets patients to the hospital and contacts the doctor. He has basic command with the doctor and does what is called prehospital care. I love the system in Sacramento, where we rotate into the engine. Some paramedics don’t like that. When I got into the fire department, being a fireman was something I had always dreamed of doing. Ever since I was a little kid, I loved the horns, I used to watch the engines go by, and my dream was to be one of the guys on the fire truck. I did a lot of job. As a matter of fact, I was in my forth year as a pipefitter’s apprentice, and I quit when I was called for the fire department. I loved fighting the fires, and I still love it. When you’re fighting fires, you say, “There’s a fire. There’s a challenge.” You rise to that challenge, you want to beat it. When you do, you feel high. When you’re a paramedic, it gets down to you and your partner. You find somebody who is unconscious, you’re got to find out what’s wrong, figure out the right thing to do, and do it. There’s satisfaction in know that you are doing something for somebody, you’re doing something that’s important. #RandolphHarris 21 of 24

“That’s the basic line in both jobs. You’re doing something important. That’s what all firefighters feel about themselves: they feel important. I’ve done other jobs where I’ve made more money, but I never felt any sense of worth. It makes me feel good when the kids in the neighborhood come to me when one of them’s  gotten cut playing football or something. I’m the neighborhood medic, a sort of neighborhood hero. The kids look up to you. It takes some intelligence to become a paramedic, but we all have to have a certain amount of intelligence to get where we are, the ability to grasps the information, retain it, and then apply it. It’s not a matter of superior intelligence, just being open to somebody teaching you something. What makes a good fireman is being able to do anything that’s put before him. Most of us have another occupation, we’re plumbers, carpenters, electricians, whatever. Each one is a jack-of-all-trades. They can do just about anything. We have deaths too much, too often. My life peaked when I first became a fireman, I was doing everything I ever wanted to do. Then they made me a paramedic, and I went through a little valley. As a rookie paramedic, I was a little unsure of myself, then I had a few failures, patients who didn’t make it. I remember going home and spending four days off just sitting in the house, depressed, worried that I didn’t do the right thing. Then as time went on, I felt better, I got more confidence in myself. I knew I was doing the right thing, and whatever happened was the will of God, whether it was a save or not. #RandolphHarris 22 of 24

“Being a paramedic is hard mentally, because you have to deal with people at their worst. Sometimes you can change it, you can right it and make things better. But sometimes you can’t, so you have to deal with a lot of tragedy. You have to get used to it, and that’s where it takes a good partner. If you don’t have a good partner, being a paramedic can get real depressing. The worst things that stick in my mind are crib deaths, babies. Elderly persons have already lived their lives. But a dead baby is somebody who didn’t even have the chance to talk yet, or see where they’re going. What bothers me most is kids. You have to deal with the parents, but after you’ve been a paramedic for a while, you know who to tune in, and who to tune out. So a lot of times you have to tune a parent out, just to deal with their kid and with the situation. The only thing that really affects me is my particular patient. I’ll do anything the fire department wants me to do. I don’t know if I can do anything else that would make me more satisfied. The only thing that they could do for me now is give me more time off and more money. There is no other job I could want. If there’s anything else, this is just a personal thing with me, I would like to go fifty-fifty between the fireman and paramedic. I would like to do it more firefighting. I like to do them both, for they are important in different ways.” #RandolphHarris 23 of 24

Because of the Sacramento Fire Department, Sacramento City has been blessed with a great and noble heritage that offers a pathway to salvation. The dedicated EMTs, Fire Fighters, CHP and Police risk their lives to protect that community and keep people safe. The people of Sacramento do not underestimate the worth of emergency services. The Sacramento Fire Department has a firm adherence to a code of moral and ethical standards: Honesty, Trust, and Accountability. You can help save lives by donating to the Sacramento Fire Department. It is also very important to raise your children to love America and to be patriotic. Elon Musk recently warned that America is going bankrupt. The national debt is nearly $40 trillion, and the interest payments on the debt is $1 trillion. America is paying more in interest than on the principal of the national debt. By having pride in America, and purchasing American made cars and other goods and services, we can make America a creditor nation again and ensure that this sacred land will be enjoy by your family for generations to come. Teaching children to love God and Jesus Christ will also preserve our American heritage and allow us to make sure our children are set on a path that will lead them to success and help them reserve a seat in Heaven. The Ten Commandments in the Christian Bible are a good guideline of how everyone should live. Furthermore, by respecting law and order, we will ensure the tranquility of this great nation and make sure that we are setting an exemplary example for other nations to follow. And by treating others with dignity, respect, and compassion, this will ensure that we are following the golden rule, “Do on to others as you would have them do on to you,” reports Luke 6.31. #RandolphHarris 24 of 24

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