Proclamation of the World Culture and Sports Festival

Sun Myung Moon
September 27, 1988
Hannam-dong Residence, Seoul, Korea
Compiled by Taekon Lee

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On September 17, 1988, True Parents announced at the Hannam-dong Residence that they would hold the ‘World Culture and Sports Festival’ at an assembly for leaders from 120 nations. Main daily newspapers in Korea reported the proclamation of the World Culture and Sports Festival, and there was a press conference at the Seoul Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel. After preparing for more than four years, the First World Culture and Sports Festival was held in Seoul during August, 1992. (Materials provided by the FFWPU History Compilation Committee)

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"Think about holding an ideal families’ blessing event as a cultural event that has never happened i human history, at the Olympic Stadium, through satellite. Would people want to see an Olympic game or a blessing event? With live broadcast through satellite, it would show Reverend Moon standing in the center betrothing couples. People would say that they would watch that, wouldn’t they? They have interest in that. They don’t have interest in other things. How many young people of the world would take interest in it? They would easily all be tied into pairs. If we tell them our statistics of a wonderful spiritual union, such as the number of those who did not separate and that it has a 100 percent effect on the birth problem, it will become an opportunity to completely embrace the young people. "(The Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Book 182 P.22, 1988.10.04)

Prayer and Report from Korea's Internal Olympics

Sun Myung Moon and Ian Haycroft
September 27, 1988
World Mission Department

Father welcomes representatives of 120 nations to his home in Korea

Father welcomes representatives of 120 nations to his home in Korea

Father's Prayer on September 27, 1988

Our loving Father,

Representatives of Your 120 countries have gathered in this place on this afternoon of September 27, 1988. These representatives of the worldwide Unification Church, gathered here from 120 countries, represent the number 360 in this place. The fact that they have gathered with the True Parents in Korea, as well as with the True Children and members representing the Korean Unification Church, signifies an internal unification, a heartistic unification, a unification of the Korean Church centering on the family of the True Parents. Thus may the countries and spirit worlds of 120 nations be connected together through these virtuous men and women who, as representatives of the one Abel realm, can claim the birthright and, on this occasion of the Olympic Games, absorb the Cain realm of the state. Thus may they connect all people around the world, enabling all the people they represent to become united here in this place.

We know that, together with the providential history that is centered on vertical history, innumerable virtuous ancestors and saints and sages are involved here and that their cherished desire has been to lay a central foundation enabling Cain and Abel to become one. We are born in an age in which the Unification Church shoulders the unfulfilled responsibilities of religion, acting as a pivot and establishing an indemnified standard. We must know clearly that in this age of indemnity in which Cain and Abel realms can be brought together, we have the chance to be blessed within the liberated realm of the Parents.

We thank You for granting us this day. In the midst of intense concern by all heaven and earth, we are able to indemnify all 24 hours with Your assistance. And in this external atmosphere hosted by all 5 billion of the world's people, we are able to establish a heartistic foundation of unification upon which the Archangel can proclaim to the individual, family, ram, nation, and entire world our authority to unify spirit and flesh which, though divided until today, can now be made one.

Report on Korea's Internal Olympics

On September 27, 1988, in Seoul, Korea, Father and Mother proclaimed in prayer the Opening of the Gates of the Kingdom of Heaven. This prayer, offered at the time of the 24th Olympiad in Seoul, represented the culmination of the restoration mission of the True Parents and the completion of God's historical course to restore the elder brother's position. On this day, God could begin to create the Kingdom of God as He intended before the fall.

Dr. Mose Durst meets with members of the international press at our Hospitality Center during the Olympic Games.

Dr. Mose Durst meets with members of the international press at our Hospitality Center during the Olympic Games.

This pronouncement by True Parents was made at 1:30 p.m. before the leaders and representatives of 120 nations at Han Nam Dong, True Parents' home in Korea. Father had called these representatives to bring to fruition all of his historical work and to stage an "internal Olympics" that would represent the meeting of Cain and Abel on a worldwide level. From this moment in history a whole new era for humankind could begin.

The national representative of the Solomon Islands, Beat Z'Rotz, chats with Olympic athletes

The national representative of the Solomon Islands, Beat Z'Rotz, chats with Olympic athletes

Representing the Fruits

Only a couple of weeks before the start of the Olympic Games, Father asked the national leaders and two other national representatives from each nation to come to Korea by September 15. Although of course we could guess that we might have some role to play in relation to the Olympics, none of us understood clearly what Father had in mind for us.

Father explained later that we, as the Abel representatives of the nations of the world, must meet our Cain brothers at this worldwide event prepared by God in Korea. In that light, it was clear that our role was not only a symbolic one, but a substantial one -- involving reaching out to our brothers. As Jacob had done so long ago, we too, representing our True Parents, were to bear gifts representing the fruits of a long-suffering course in Haran.

We visited the embassies and the national delegations of each of the 160 countries represented at the Olympic Games. We were able to make real and lasting relationships with them that we can hopefully develop further, back in our mission countries. Our visits to the embassies and to the delegations in the Olympic Village were enhanced not only by the open spirit engendered by the Games, but by the gifts we were able to bring. Over a period of 18 days, the athletes, officials, and friends of many nations accepted more than 40,000 cans of McCol and bottles of Ginseng Up. Although Coca-Cola was the official drink of the Games, the preferred drink of True Parents made its way into many a training session and team apartment.

During the Olympics, just about every visitor to Korea was being bombarded on the streets with religious literature of every conceivable variety. Rather than join in that campaign, we instead invited these visitors, including diplomats, athletes, and officials, to attend such beautiful cultural events as performances of the Universal Ballet and The Little Angels at the Little Angels Performing Arts Center. Both these companies of our True Parents were official cultural events of the 24th Olympiad. Father allowed us to hold special performances to invite those whom we had been meeting.

In all, more than 2,000 guests came to the special presentations. Without exception, these guests were moved by the staggering beauty of the performances and could feel something of the giving heart of God and True Parents through this gesture.

Un Jin Nim riding for the joy of God and the sake of True Parents

Un Jin Nim riding for the joy of God and the sake of True Parents

The Embrace of True Parents

At each of these events, we also held special receptions for the diplomats, coaches, heads of delegations, and medal winners from many nations. Through us, these people, representing the best of their nations, could receive gifts of suit or dress material or beautiful silk scarves and ties. To delegates from every part of the world, including the Eastern bloc nations, hundreds and hundreds of gifts could be given with the embrace of True Parents.

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On September 30, Striders International sponsored a special reception and a performance of The Little Angels to honor the head coaches of several nations, representing the major continents of the world. On this evening, coaches from the United States, China, the Soviet Union, the Gambia, Poland, and Greece stood hand in hand on stage to receive the warm applause and the honor of an overflow audience of Olympic delegates and international visitors. This event, just prior to the closing ceremonies of the Olympics, was able to capture the hope of a new era in international cooperation and certainly fulfilled the hard work of our "internal Olympic team," who had made countless valuable relationships with their national delegations during the days of the competition.

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Throughout the Olympic Games, True Parents had made the special condition of watching as many of the events as possible. In the living room in their home, True Parents watched three TV sets for the entire time that television transmissions were on, often until 12 midnight or 1:00 a.m. I believe that, in the eyes of God, the Olympic Games are to be held before the True Parents. As the children of the world play and compete, ideally they should do so for the honor, glory, and joy of God and True Parents. Especially these Seoul Olympics held in this providential year of 1988, and encouraged and supported so much by God, should be for that purpose. To fulfill that desire of God, True Parents watched and received the play of the world's children, from morning to night.

Hyun Jin Nim riding for the joy of God and the sake of True Parents

Hyun Jin Nim riding for the joy of God and the sake of True Parents

It Warmed All of Our Hearts

Of course, most gratifying to True Parents was watching their own children, Un Jin Nim and Hyun Jin Nim, ride in the Olympic equestrian events. On three occasions we were able to join True Parents at the jumping arena to see the True Children compete. Faced with the experienced competition at these games, Un Jin Nim and Hyun Jin Nim were not able to win medals. But it warmed all of our hearts to see these children of Heaven riding not for their own glory and prestige, but for the joy of God and for the sake of True Parents.

After True Parents' historic pronouncement of September 27, Father made yet another proclamation. At a press conference on September 30, it was announced that every three years, beginning in Seoul in 1990, a World Festival of Culture will be held. Centered on the ideal of God, such a meeting of the world should not only be conducted to honor external or physical excellence but must include the internal aspect of man as well. Accordingly, the World Festival of Culture will include other events that represent that multitude of aspects of the human family under Go,. In 1990, not only athletic events but also the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, inter-religious conferences, student conventions, cultural performances, art exhibitions, and, most significantly, a Blessing are scheduled to be held.

As the Olympics drew to a close and our representatives prepared to return home, True Parents had one more astounding proclamation of victory to make. Before all the national leaders of the world Unification movement, True Parents formally proclaimed October 3 as the Foundation Day for the Nation of the Unified World. Father explained that as the gates of the Kingdom of God swing wide open, it lies in our hands to follow the tradition of True Parents. It is through a responsible life in attendance to God and True Parents that we may walk through the open gates and bring our families, tribes, and nations with us.

In the spirit of his prayer of September 27, Father spoke of the fulfillment of God's restoration work in history. God's tireless effort in history has been to restore the lost position of elder brother in Adam's family. It was to be on this foundation that the right order of God would be established on the family, national, and worldwide levels. At this time, True Parents' offering, especially over these past 43 years, could be totally accepted by God. Thus the year of 1988 begins a new era in human history.

The press conference announcing the World Festival of Culture

The press conference announcing the World Festival of Culture

Unity of the Nations

Father proclaimed the next four years as the time of Kingdom building. Each of us can now inherit the position and victories of True Parents and the birthright to our nations.

Also in his speech on October 3, Father "matched" 360 blessed families from around the world to blessed families in Korea. Through this horizontal pairing of younger brother families with elder brother families, the worldwide family of our True Parents can build a foundation representing the unity of the world's nations with the country of God's providence.

I believe many of us from nations all over the world will have a chance in the near future to work in Korea. We will have the opportunity to experience the roots of our True Parents and to benefit directly from the over 4,000 years of history there. We can bring to our true homeland the diversity of culture and character that represents the world. As the world and the elder brother nation of Korea embrace, love, and understand each other, surely God's blessing can become more and more substantial on the earth.

The nation of Korea heaved a sigh of relief and felt tremendous pride at the successful completion of the 1988 Olympics. Far more significantly, God could view with tears the successful completion of the restoration process that has been His agony throughout human history. It is now with absolute hope and anticipation that He and we can look to the substantial building of His Kingdom.

"The real lovers and leaders of their nations.”

"The real lovers and leaders of their nations.”

A Personal Reflection

During the time of the Olympics in Korea, Father was able to culminate his years and years of suffering and proclaim the victory of God over Satan in the restoration of the elder brother's position. I was grateful that we national representatives called by Father could contribute in some small way in the final moments of those victories and thereby share in the beginnings of this historical new era.

In the midst of this precious moment in history I experienced many, many things, two of which I'd like to share.

Firstly, I saw True Parents openly weeping in prayer. In my many years in the Unification movement I have often heard and read about the tearful prayers and speeches of our True Father in the early days. Though in the more recent past the intensity of Father's life and love for God are always evident when he speaks, I have never actually seen him sob in public prayer.

But at the closing of his meeting on October 3, when Father sealed the proclamation of Foundation Day in prayer, his overflowing tears seemed to call up all the suffering, pain, and rejection that True Parents have gone through on so many levels all these years, as well as his tremendous gratitude to God. Witnessing such a prayer, I caught for a short moment what Father's life must mean to God and just how significant the declaration of this day was. For a moment, our ever- victorious Parent revealed the absolute surrender and abandonment he shows before his Heavenly Father, which is the root of all his strength, confidence, and love.

Secondly, I had a chance to meet all of the representatives of our movement from around the world. Many of these brothers and sisters are the ones whom Father sent out to the 120 mission countries in 1975. Now, 13 years later, I was deeply moved by the heart they showed towards True Parents and by their attitude of sheer persistence. The perseverance of these brothers and sisters in their nations and in this Olympic experience was so clearly born of love. As with any pioneers, there are qualities of the rough and tumble amongst our members, but I could clearly see that their driving force and deepest motivation has its source in an unending love for our True Parents and God. Before this visit to Korea, these brothers and sisters were only names on my prayer list. After this opportunity to be with them, they mean much, much more to me than that, and in the sense that they really love True Parents, they are, in my eyes, the real lovers and leaders of their nations.

The meaning of True Father's suffering in Seodaemun Prison

Sun Myung Moon
August 14, 1988
Chambumo Gyeong - Book 7. True Parents' Course of Suffering and Victory, Chapter 2.
The Ehwa University and Yonsei University Incident and Suffering in Seodaemun Prison, Section 3. Bearing Society's Sin, The meaning of True Father's suffering in Seodaemun Prison

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Photo date and location unknown

6. I did not perish. People were saying that Mr. Moon of the Unification Church danced naked. If they were cursing me because I really danced naked, I would not have so much pain and grief about it. I have never seen anyone dancing naked; even so, I became known as the ringleader of a naked dancing cult. Nevertheless, by accusing me that way, if the people of Korea could receive many blessings, I would welcome it unconditionally. Let them strike and curse me all they like; if the Korean people would be greatly blessed by striking and cursing me, one person, then why not? It would be good for the nation. In that case, I would be more than happy and willing to be cursed. If their motivation in doing so were for the love of the people and the nation, I would personally report to God that they had done a holy and righteous deed. (032-270, 1970/07/19)

7. The providence of re-creation cannot be accomplished by money, power or knowledge. We can only do it with true love. Even when I was in Seodaemun Prison, I did not wish for the Republic of Korea to perish. I did not wish for Christianity to perish. Instead, my heart was, "Please forgive their sins, for they do not know what they are doing. Let me bear the burden to indemnify the sins of the Republic of Korea. Have compassion on the nation. They are cursing me, and I only hope that by my accepting their curse they will receive blessings. If that happens, there will be no greater joy." With this heart, I overcame every challenge, one by one.

When we sow seeds, we can harvest a hundredfold and a thousand fold. Accordingly, now we can connect tens and hundreds of times more people to salvation in God's love. Heavens law operates according to this fundamental principle for multiplying the root of life. When we go the way of love based on heaven's law, we can harvest a hundredfold and even a thousand fold. In the universe, such things can occur in the bosom of love. (179-300, 1988/08/14)

8. The 30 million people of Korea said, "You ringleader of heretics, you must perish." But did I perish? No, I did not. If they did not have a legitimate basis for striking me, they will have to pay me damages.

I was working for God under miserable circumstances while they were pointing fingers at me. While pioneering the path, they put me through all sorts of hardships. Nevertheless, each time I thought, "God has suffered more hardships than I have; how can I not endure this degree of hardship?" The more hardships and difficulties you endure in a public position, the more your storehouse will be filled with treasures -- treasures that no one else can ever have. (017-252, 1967/01/29)

9. The history of the Unification Church started from prison. Even after I came to South Korea, my path began with curses, betrayals and persecution.

I am not a spineless man. I have not forgotten what the manager of the cell block said to me when I entered Seodaemun Prison. Even after I die, I will not be able to forget it. But before one month had gone by, he came to me and said, "The Moon of the Unification Church that I heard about in the past is different from the Mr. Moon of the Unification Church that I know now. I am sorry." He apologized to me; I saw this clearly with my own eyes. In that experience, I witnessed that righteousness can defeat even the crudest prison chains.

Therefore, although the path of righteousness is difficult, we must not be discouraged. I am responsible to lead this group of people for whom God has been searching. This is my path, and I never let myself become discouraged along the way. I carry numerous scars from the ordeals, tribulations and beatings, but I do not mind the wounds. (064-148, 1972/10/29)

10. When you are going through hardships, ordinary things can be lifted up and become objects of absolute value. If you were to experience prison life or live through a severe famine, you would understand this.

Indeed, trials and suffering are not bad. Those who possess the strength, hope, and desire to affirm the value of life while undergoing trials and suffering are not crushed by the difficulties of those tests and hardships. Rather, they become a stimulus to find joy in the future. Not only that, they can enable you to find the nation of hope, even God's kingdom.

If you keep your hope alive while you are going through difficulties, you can realize the joy of the kingdom of heaven. Without overcoming difficulties, you can never achieve your hopes. Therefore, the God of love trains people so that they will be able to overcome a wide spectrum of trials that will come during the course of their lives. In this sense, the course of that training is not an end in itself. It is a path of suffering that is given as a gift, enabling you to feel value and motivating you to find greater joy.

When we think like this, suffering and difficulties are not bad. They can become the foundation of our happiness today and the means enabling us to inherit the happiness of tomorrow. (042-320, 1971/04/04)

11. I have been walking a long and arduous path alone, pioneering the mission of a forerunner. But I did not speak about it to others. My mission requires me to risk my life. Nevertheless I am not a lonely man. I do not need sympathy from you, either.

Actually, I am a happy person. Since God, the owner of the universe, recognizes me, I could be happy even through torture, when my tendons were cut, my flesh was torn and blood flowed from my torn flesh. I could be happy, because I knew the heart of God, who suffered more than I in order to send His Son on such a path. I was fighting to find the nation that would be able to embrace and comfort heaven. For that I could endure any torture, no matter how severe. Even when the path of the cross came to me unexpectedly, and even when that path drove me into difficult and despairing circumstances, I remained determined to go forward, renewing my resolve and renewing my hope. (065-091, 1972/11/13)

12. Looking at the trail of history until now, we see that the central figures of history are the ones who in their time surmounted suffering and fought unceasingly while never giving up hope for their nation and for the kingdom. Such people are the owners of history.

Saints and sages are the people who honored the will of heaven. They gave up any attachment to what the human world valued, and more than that, they changed its direction. They elevated the existing world to the world of hope by overcoming all the difficulties in their environment, even at the sacrifice of their lives. Hence, although their lives appeared to be miserable, all the pain and suffering they experienced internally became the motivating power that enabled them to connect the existing world to the world of joy.

The suffering path that God made the Unification Church walk until now was not for the purpose of bringing our church to ruin. On the contrary, its purpose was for the sake of God's love. The Unification Church has been developing so that it can meet the spring of tomorrow and become a greater light to the world. (042-320, 1971/04/04)

13. When I entered Seodaemun Prison in shackles, I was not ashamed. I had nothing to be ashamed of before heaven or earth. I kept my back straight and walked tall. When I was released from prison, I remember that four prison guards stepped forward and said that they would become members of the Unification Church.

The warden came to see me a number of times. He was thinking, "Is this the man whom the people of Korea consider so bad? He is not really the person they say he is." Outside the prison, all the Unification Church members waited in line, competing to see me. When the warden saw the young men and women lining up early in the morning, waiting to see me, he acknowledged, "Oh, I really did not understand him." This is the kind of path I have walked thus far. (065-063, 1972/11/13)

14. Never forget that I was chased out by the churches and the nation, which persecuted the Unification Church. Never forget that I stood before the presiding judge in a prison uniform, wearing shackles.

Now the season of sorrows is over, and our time has come. Springtime, the time for sowing seeds, has come. When we sow them they will sprout. However, sprouts will not germinate where people oppose us. Throughout history until today, we have been accumulating the merit of life and merit of love on behalf of our fellow citizens, all the people of Korea. The day will come when we can bequeath these merits to all those who are building the nation. Christians are still treating us as their enemies, but the path for those numerous Christians will be opened here. (048-318, 1971/09/26)

Victorious Concept

Sun Myung Moon
July 5, 1988
The Science Office at WRIST USA, East Sun Building, Long Island City, New York
True Parents and True Children visit
Translator: San Kil Han - Contributed by Peter Nordquist

True Father visits the WRIST institute in August 1983 - John Park is on the left

True Father visits the WRIST institute in August 1983 - John Park is on the left

(Father) How much do you think Father should expand? To what range should Father expand - to a universal range? What has that kind of power? Father has the concept. What kind of level will you continue with in the United States? That is the subject.

This is the beginning here in America. Everybody takes for granted that WRIST is like this in America, but Father is thinking of having a research center like this in Germany. Father is thinking of having such a research center even in Russia. As you know, in Russia the psychological or psychic experimental labs and research centers are more advanced than in America. Is that true?

What do you think about Mr. Park? You can speak up while he is away!

(Edmund Bolton) Very interesting character.

(Father) "Very interesting character." That means that is not the way of business.

(Michel Magnin) He is good, dynamic.

(Chris Barker) He pushes very hard for us to accomplish.

(Father) Pushing is not bad. Pushing is good if it is for a successful purpose. That's most important. It is good thinking. It brings good luck.

(Frank Bell) He wants us to get many things done.

(Father) To push is not bad; to push is good. It is a way to make people effective.

(Edmund Bolton) He loves True Parents.

(Father) I don't know that. Among you there must be somebody who loves Father more than Mr. Park.

According to the average standard of the outside world for researchers such as yourselves, two thirds, or seventy percent of you are supposed to be abnormal. In the same way, Father is an abnormal person. If Father was so-called normal then Father wouldn't have been opposed; he would never have been persecuted. People first start off seeing the abnormal, then the normal. History really has to twist, toss and turn before they see that. It takes at least ten years for your work to be recognized and given the proper respect. Also, research usually takes as long as ten years, sometimes even longer, before it results in a practical product ready for production. That means that for ten years the research program you are involved in doesn't have any tangible meaning to other people.

When you develop something fantastic you know that it is fantastic. You feel that it's fantastic. You tell people that it is fantastic. But Father has to assess or judge what it takes for your fantastic idea to materialize and he has to do this immediately, even before the practical result of the research is clear. There are people in four specialized areas who do nothing but this. You devise things. You invent things. You develop things. But on the other hand, is it going to be viable, is it going to be possible? There are people who must consider this.

Let's take a typical example. You come up with an invention. This invention is on a high theoretical plane. You know that ordinary people may not understand the invention but you know that it is really the product of the future. Invention is only the half of it. In reality, it's less than the half of it. You should be able to introduce this to the average person, to the critics, to those who say "oh, that product is not going to be practical." You need to have the ability to convince people. Intellectual people see it in this way: conceiving an invention and the research into the perfect product is not all that must be done - that is only the half of it; the other half is how to convince those people who criticize it - how to convince those people who do not understand what you are doing.

Father can give you a perfect example of this idea right here and now. Take the Divine Principle. Liken it to an invention so that you can compare it directly to your invention; it is something fantastic. Yet what happened? All the people around the world opposed it. Father had the ability to convince people: "you don't understand, this is it!" He developed many other areas to convince people about the Principle, the invention, before people started understanding him. You should do the same thing! How do you make it effective in reality, in the actual world? What Father is saying is that debut is something else. You have to be very strong theoretically.

Now let's take another example. Let's look at yourself. You had proposed to Father "Father, we can make this loran." You told Father that this loran had such capabilities that there was nothing that could compare to it on the market. So Father said that it was all right to go ahead with it. Now you have produced it, but why did you wait for other people to come and buy it instead of going to the many boats we already have made? You should have installed it for them; you should talk to the captain. We have boats all over the world. Introduce it to them and make them as excited as you are in this laboratory. Put the loran on our boats! Testify! Every day! Why don't you do that? Our boats are famous all over the world! You didn't know this kind of concept. Father really scolded Mr. Park for that: "why are you waiting for customers?" We build and renovate boats in Korea. Father told Mr. Park about those boats and said: "why don't you take one, go right there and install it and tell the captain to use it or to buy it?" Did Mr. Park tell you about this? As you know, Korea is more advanced in catching fish than is America or even Russia. Do you know that? The Korean technique of catching fish excels all others. That is one example.

You must use your faculty to explain to customers and other people what you have invented and what you have produced, or manufactured, here. That kind of arena is necessary for you. Just being a laboratory is only the half of it.

You have all been to Tong-il industry in Korea, haven't you? Those who have never visited Tong-11, raise your hands. (About six hands go up) You must all go! Does this means that you are neither so intensely interested nor so intensely concerned about your environment and your future? Why not talk to Mr. Park: "Mr. Park, I must visit Tong-Il industry." Why don't you say that?

Tong-Il not only developed as a manufacturing facility. It has a research center that is capable enough to back up, or explain, everything that they manufacture. The staff at Tong-Il can also do the same for any other type of machine, whether it was developed at Tong-Il or not. You should be able to do that too.

Father is planning to buy the Cincinnati machine factory - a machine factory here in America. Through that we can achieve much of what Father has just explained to you. You need your own foundation of deploying what you have made.

You regard yourself more or less like a brain. A brain by itself means nothing. You also need hands, feet, a torso, and all the other organs that are necessary to function as a complete entity. The brain alone is only a brain. Does a brain walk? No. You need feet to walk. You have to make it. You said in the beginning that you needed to expand ten- times; from fifteen, that becomes 150. Tong-il is expanding successfully at such a rate that it not only can support you to expand from fifteen to 150, but even to 100 times that. They are capable of producing enough material and money to do that. Yet even though you expand your research facility, your lab and research center, by ten times, how are you going to digest everything that you produce? Are you just going to wait for other people to come to buy what you produce? No. Never. Never that way! Father is a most capable person. Father is as capable now as he was from the beginning - from thirty, forty, fifty years ago. But it even took Father thirty five to forty years to come to this point. You cannot do this. You cannot say: "here is my foundation. You inherit that. You stand on that. You do this." No, Father would never do that. Father says, "You start." That means you have to start from scratch. In other words, what Father is saying is that you should be able to adapt yourself to a research organization, to a big existing company, or to a big nation. You have to belong there and then work together or else you cannot function.

R&D is research and development. You must plan for the possibility that ninety percent of the money spent on R&D could be washed away. Yet there is also a business sense to the R&D office, don't you see?

Suppose that there is a big corporation that makes much profit; it's going to go to taxes anyway. So why pay tax? Instead, it is better to put the money into a huge R&D budget and count it as an expense. Then ten percent of what is spent brings results. That ten percent can bring in huge results ten years later. Corporations are spending R&D money in this strategic manner.

We all come under Father and now you have such a tremendous brain power here at WRIST. You have to think: "what direction shall I go. What direction shall we go?" We must all be thinking that Tong-il industry is my main body and that I am their brain. I will go in the same direction as they do. I will support them. I will get the order, the direction. We will research the subject and then feed the results back to them. We must have this kind of thinking now.

Father understands and appreciates your independent position. Now, you come under Mr. Park, the "very interesting person." When Mr. Park runs out of money then you run out of money' too. Then you go out and fundraise to maintain this office somehow. That is not what you are going to do forever and ever.

This time Mr. Park came here and he only stayed for a few days before he went right back home again, didn't he? He went right back to Korea. This is because Father really scolded him. This is the way you ought to think: "Are you going to isolate the brain? Don't do that or you can never make it! " Now he understands what direction WRIST must go. Now you understand because Father told you directly! Father is affiliating with the Japanese too. You must think clearly that Tong-il is my company; don't think that it's our company. If we think it's our company then there are many loose holes - then it is partly mine and mostly someone else's. Don't think that it's our company, it is my company! Can you say what practical difference it makes? Let us imagine a German research center. These Germans are working very hard. They want to make some breakthrough. Because of this desire they would even want to steal from an American or a Japanese company. The German researcher would want to do this because it's his company. This is just what the Soviets are doing now. This is because it is his company, not their company. If they feel that is their company then they wouldn't do that. This is because if it's my company then I would even steal the information from the outside and use it as if it were my own.

How many countries are represented here? (Twelve) Twelve countries! Twelve countries, twelve nationalities. How difficult is it for are all twelve countries to work together in one group?

(Frank Bell) It takes a Korean, Mr. Park.

(Father) if something happens to him, what are you going to do? I said to you clearly that you have to have the concept. Now Father is teaching the concept that this is mine, not ours, but mine! If it is mine then how can we have this all over the world? There must be one world with the same concept. The scientific economies of every country are fighting each other at a higher level to decide who will become the leader - who will become number one. Each country claims that it is the most excellent. This is our enemy! Our enemy is the concept of national boundaries that surround the country. Our enemy!

American people live all over the world. If only Americans lead the world all the time think what would happen. It would be English against German against Italian against Japanese. Now that we know the situation how can we resolve the world situation? That is Father's problem. Father's enemies are standing all over the world, both in the democratic world and in the communist bloc. You look at it so that you can change the whole free world. If America changes it on their own then what kind of world will there be in the future? There would be no hope! There is only hope from Reverend Moon! How would the world be in the future? Look at it! I know that it is a big problem. How can you survive? The German people and the English have been enemies for over forty years. The Americans and the Japanese are enemies all over the world. How can the countries overcome their national tradition? That is a problem. Most of all, you have to make a standard of "this is mine! My country, my standard over that of the boundary world." How can we make this foundation? This is our first responsibility. Do you know what I mean? If Mr. Park is not here then isn't it true that you will split up the whole department? Everyone will claim: "this is mine! Mine!" All fourteen people will then fall down while only one remains in control as the leader. (To John Potjewyd) Do you understand?

(John Potjewyd) I think I do.

(Father) "I think I do?!" Thinking is not relevant! The concept doesn't believe, doesn't do the work. You have to know the problems. You have to know the easy way, the most simple way, not the difficult way. How can we overcome the world's difficult boundary situations, traditions, and habits! How can those things be digested? No way! No way! God's situation is that everybody in this whole universe is mine. Do you belong to God? (Yes) Did you belong to God? Do you all want to belong to God? Father has the same situation. Don't think of America as being for other Americans but America as my country. The whole world, the whole globe, is mine. This is a most precious concept, isn't it? (Yes) You have to have this concept in this laboratory. Father has that kind of basement. Without it, he cannot do anything.

When twelve people act in twelve different ways it is a most serious thing. You have to come into complete oneness. You shouldn't think that Father's mission is just Father's mission and that it is not mine! That's bad! That's bad! Father's mission is mine. That is a good soldier. That is an Unificationist. A true Unificationist knows that Father's work is my work. There are not two separate works. Father works so hard and all Unificationists think about being thankful for Father. Why is this so? It is because Father is working for me - instead of me. With this understanding we can connect anywhere; if you cannot understand this then you cannot. This means that you can access the totality of human relations. That is the concept; that is the theory. Did you think like that? Did you think that this is mine? Mine! Who can imagine it? Whose is it? Mine, mine. Our biggest problem is knowing whose work it is. We have to think: it's mine, it's Father's, it's mine. Father is doing it for us.

When you educate the youngsters you ask the small child, "Whose son are you?" That child is God's son. That is the way that we must educate him. We should not educate him to say that he is so and so's son. My son is God's son. Then both God and my son are mine. How wonderful. The world is mine! Why!? Because the world belongs to God! It is simple; it is clear.

Research is very important but the basic human being is more important. You must have the concept that: it's me, I belong to God, this is my work. So far the knowledge, the technique, the know-how has been different from one country to another. The trend is toward rapid normalization. There will be neither any country that is too advanced compared to the other nations, nor any country that is too back-ward. All countries will be about average. Father already anticipates this happening in the future. Thus he is working along that direction, striving to make that a reality. Now, compare this to what the Americans are doing about the world situation. America is controlling the direction of South America by political power, by economic power, and by military power. Military power incorporates technical skill, engineering skill. With military power, America is making them a slave country, a colony. How about Africa! You think about that. Five countries control Africa. This is the same situation. They didn't teach technical engineering. That is a great sin to God. The world is to be equalized now; thus the equalization of technical things is our future. The reason is that Father thinks in this way: this is God's country. That's why Father can spend so much money in this country. How else can you spend so much money in this country? How many hundreds of millions of dollars went into the newspaper company? For what? For God's country!

Every time you think about using paper for a memo (holds up a memo from All-State from Andy's desk) think that this is mine. Mine. Know that everything is mine. This is a public thing; it is public property; it more than just a personal thing. Everyone knows that public things are more valuable than private things. This is the normal relation and it is social tradition. This is mine, mine, mine; everything is mine. You understand some concept: you can cut away part of the paper. The easy way is to cut. Yet we cannot make that our kind of concept. This is the problem. America is now going down. Is the concept right? It is because of a concept like that that America is declining now. America is just wasting so much because they can think of nothing as being mine. They all think it is public property; they think it is part of somebody else's. So, what is America doing now? America is not really being constructive; America is even spreading AIDS all around the world. Would America do that if they were their own sons and daughters - their own kin? It happens because America thinks that me is me and someone else is someone else. Father has been fighting for the righteous stand. You must really join in as one and fight against this target.

We have to fight against the competition, first of all, with technique. Time is just as important. So is money. Suppose that you have money and technique but you are wasting much time. This is the same as if you are spending twice as much money. You lose. This is what happens if Father goes and everybody is just idling around.

Let us summarize. Do you understand what Father is telling you? Every one of us must have the same goal - a common goal. We cannot have different ways to reach the same goal. This makes much sense to those who are intelligent. If you fifteen people become united and work together as one then you will have fifteen times the result. But if you work separately, even though you concentrate on just one work each, each one of these works may be fighting against the others. If this happens then not even one work will be done. However, if you unite and each one does one work, that's fifteen works. Then there would be fifteen results. Why don't we do that?

In the beginning many people joined: Americans, and even people from other countries. Father taught these members. They left the church because they were very doubtful, they didn't know, or they didn't have confidence. However, they are crawling back now. They want to be back in the church. They say: "Father, please let me be in again because I didn't understand at the time, I was immature, so I left, but I want to come back." However, when he came to America, Father always thought: "I will do this for the sake of this country and if they want to help my work, which is their work, it's fine." But American members at that time thought "well, we did all the work but nobody else did." This is why revolution comes. Father decided single-handedly: "I will help all of America - all 200 million people." Father did not think: "I will benefit from America." Mine! Everybody mine! Mine. Even if everybody has forsaken us, they are still mine. I don't take any of this for myself. How can we bring motivation here? Think about that.

Here the world will just turn around. The world may be going in one direction, but they know that the direction that they are going in is wrong. Because they know this, they will just turn around to the right direction. Father's work is so closely tied with America. If America doesn't listen then America will decline - America will perish. What will happen to the Unification Church and Father? What will happen to us and to Father? Do you think that we will perish too? No! No! I have confidence. This is the right concept: I am making the foundation all over the world. I am making the right atmosphere. Why didn't I fall down? I continued to fight the problem of bad habit. Day and night I endured constant torture. The problem in Satan's world is this: How can Satan break down Reverend Moon's power basement? The KGB thinks about it. The CIA thinks about it. No matter what they do, they cannot change the victorious atmosphere. This is Father's exact, unchanging concept. The first time that I visited America I brought down my foot on this earth and I claimed it! I will be a patriarch in this country.

Testify to me. Even though I was in Danbury, the concept of the political world organization was being protected through the Washington Times, the courts, Insight, and the World & I. These were all being lead by me. Yet the American people, those who interviewed me, were saying: "Oh Reverend Moon, oh! The basic concept that you want to lead with is bad! It is bad! Go back home! We don't need you!" That is what the American voice has said until now. Now very intelligent people have become interested and they say: "Reverend Moon our country must protect you. Don't go back to Korea, we will protect you!" Day by day, the response is growing into this attitude. You tell me who are the ones who can protect me?

To especially the young ones among you I ask you this: are you going to suffer and that would be the end of your career? No! Have you ever seen any outside Ph.D.'s going out to fundraise? No. Father knows that they do not do this! Father knows that it is not effective to send Ph.D.'s out to fundraise. Yet Father made you Ph.D.'s fundraise. Father never stopped you from doing so because, by you going through it, Father knew that you would become a different Ph.D. - a Ph.D. who can reign over all other Ph.D.'s. Father knew that this added record would make you so. That's why Father let you fundraise. You had many experiences in the hostile atmosphere. That is most precious.

Why is it that outside people unite against the Moonies? They do this so that Moonies can make a unified heart. Now no one can dissolve this unified heart. This is the most important thing. You came into the Unification Church and worked hard for many years. Think back on the times in your past. Ask yourself: "Did I lose time or gain time?" Which one is it?

(Everyone) Gained time.

(Father) Gained time!

(Frank Bell) Gained experience.

(Father) My concept! I am not falling down. About this same situation with time: do you want me to wait? Who is the most perfect one? All this time Father has been standing despite all the bad experiences in the hostile atmosphere of the outside world. One time Father will never come back and what shall you do then? Aren't you going to go in four directions against me - saying that it is time to go home, time to go to your family? Against me! Do any of you think bad? What! How could you do otherwise? You have a bad tradition of concept! You have a bad tradition of habit!

(To David Hughes) Are you an American?

(David Hughes) Canadian.

(Father) Canadian. This is the same as an American. You like cheese and hamburger everywhere you go. Every place that you go there they are. You say: "I miss hamburger and cheese. There are no hamburgers here. I haven't got any." Think about that! Is the way of change an easy way or a difficult way? Which one is it? Is it easy to change that way or is it difficult? How difficult it is! All that time you have grown used to that way. Time causes change. For forty years, for seventy years, you have been forming that tradition of harmful habits. You think about that. Compare this to the bad habits that Satan has made in this world. How much bigger are those bad habits? For thousands of years, thousands of years, Satan has been forming these bad habits! Is it easy to change that kind of tradition of habit? How difficult it is! You think about that. Father is fighting that kind of habit. He has no sleep. He goes without. He stays away from women. A long time after he remained standing, after conquering the atmosphere around him, you worldly people followed me! If you don't follow me then you cannot win over Satan's tradition of habit. You think about that. How difficult is it to break out of that habit? Is it an easy way or a difficult way? It is so difficult.

How old is Father now? Almost seventy! He is a grandpa! How is it possible that he can even be talking about it? This is serious! Serious! If you are not serious then you cannot overcome bad habit. This is the place where bad habits are broken. It is not the easy way. This concept is a most necessary concept. You must first begin with that concept, with unity.

How are we going to meet death years from now? In the same way as Father would. Father is struggling all by himself to return everything to God because God never gives up. Even though this is a stained world, a dirtied-up world, still God never gives up. Still God says: "This is my world. I'm going to clean this!" Father is saying the same.

I am Unification Church member. That is not easy. How very difficult is it to be a Unification Church member?! There is no comparison in this world. You cannot even compare how difficult it is. With that concept, Father is making a highway - complete with pavement, with asphalt too. You have to build a motorcycle to go on that highway. You have to make that. Is that an easy way? It is just as hard. Father controls everything, everywhere. Father is making this basement for the life of the world with this kind of atmosphere - with this kind of environment. How can that foundation be made? It can be made only with a victorious concept! If we follow that concept then we can do it.

Here we are all scientific people. We can see that cause and effect are clearly connected. It is a precise, theoretical method. The concept is the same scientific concept. Father has been making that preparation. He has been making that foundation not just here - not just in this isolated place - but all over. Always think, therefore, "Tong-Il industry is mine. That's my body and I am the brain. That's mine" We must always think this way. This lab is mine. Combined together, I am making an organization that can embrace worldwide organizations. All the famous labs in the world are also mine and I have the responsibility to restore them for the sake of God. We must have that concept. How proud are we when we think like that and work? This lab can be attached to any first rate corporation - to the biggest corporation - and become a lab, a research unit, for that corporation. How proud can we be?

Just watch; you will see that the whole world will go to precisely the way Father has said it will go. You already know that it has. There will be no mistake in the direction that Father has said it will go. Now many people are beginning to see that; now they are beginning to understand that; now they are beginning to believe that. The world is moving just like Father predicted.

Why is Father speaking about this to you? Because Father wants to make a master out of you, not a servant. Father wants to make you the owner of this world. You need to own your own foundation everywhere in this world. After Father goes to spirit world we will inherit everything that Father has done. Then, everything that Father has done is mine. I inherit it all. You will really have accomplished the greatest thing if you fifteen people from fifteen nations understand what Father is talking about and really come to unite. You must understand that. There is nothing greater that has been achieved. You can do anything now.

Imagine what is the biggest testimony, the strongest testimony, in history. Look where Father comes from: a small countryside, a mountainous countryside in North Korea that nobody ever thought about just a few years ago. In this remote countryside there was one idea. Father proclaimed his idea. Follow me! This culture is number one all over the cosmos. What a big concept! What a powerful concept! Who can change this country? It is mine. The whole cosmos is mine, with true love.

Do you know that Father is smart, smarter than most people? Don't you think so? (Yes) Yet throughout his whole life he has been spending - he has been losing. I know that! Don't you think I'm smart enough to know what I'm doing?! Do you think I am just stupid? I have been gaining results. I have educated people clearly. I have moved the floor of the whole world with new truth. You must have that kind of confidence. You must embrace all life. You must fight and never be defeated. You must never become incapable. It is very difficult. Think in the same way about the economical habit of your world. Someone must think about Father, about atmosphere, about the concept that it is all mine! Mine! I will teach the concept. How precious it is. How wonderful it is!

It will not be the same as in the past. Father is already thinking about you connecting to the Japanese research lab and also to Tong-Il. In your work, you must constantly move back and forth between Tong-i1 industry and here. Father is thinking about rotating people: the people here can work for Korea and the people who work in Korea will work here. You will be introduced to Wacom in Japan. You will go to Wacom in Japan. When Father tells you to go to Wacom they will accept you and you will be able to work together. Also, if there is excellent work to be done in Germany, you can go to Germany and work with them. This is one, this is all one country, and that will be practiced now. It really doesn't make any difference what nationality you are, it is all one. The lab is under God - it is Father's, and it is mine. Father will begin to interchange people freely from now on. Think about that and don't think about what country you are in. Just believe what country we are under: the heavenly country - just one country.

Today, you must revolutionize yourselves. A new concept begins on this day. Never go back to the old concept that claims: "still I am German, etc." Don't do this. That would be the enemy's concept. If we continue to think like that, then that would be a betrayal of Father. It is a shameful concept. We have had a most shameful concept. Is your understanding clear now? (Yes Father) Don't doubt it. Don't forget that point. You won't forget that will you? (No)

The Trueness and the True Person

Sun Myung Moon
May 17, 1988
Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book 2: True Parents, Chapter 1: Section 4

Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han at their marriage March 16,1960, Seoul, South Korea

Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han at their marriage March 16,1960, Seoul, South Korea

What do we mean when we say something is true? Is it round, angular, or flat and wide? How can we define it? What is the basis for a definition of the word? This is the question. We say "true person" but what kind of person is a true person? A true person also has eyes, a nose, a mouth and a body.

Then, is trueness limited to some location or does it transcend location? It transcends. Why does it have to go over such limits? What does this mean? We can know that this must be something that can represent and measure everything.

Mathematics talks about formulas and geometry talks about axioms and definitions, but what are they? Is a formula something small?

The units of a formula are simple, but a formula should have an essential character against which everything can be evaluated. Only then will the standard of the formula or unit of measurement be established. You should know this. If something is off, it will not fit with this vast universe.

With measurement there are systems like the decimal system and the duodecimal system. Their units are small, but their forms fit everything. Otherwise, they would not work. The whole thing won't work. If they were to fit only some areas and not all, they would not work. All existence could not be perpetuated. You should know this.

It is the same in the human world. Who is the true person? In life, there should be something like a scale or yardstick and one should give it power to expand to the world. It will expand so that everything can be balanced. We are led to say that human life, a person's course of life, needs such a public path. (133-9, 1984.7.1)

There are billions of people alive in the world today. How many ancestors who lived and died here on earth do these people alive today have? Have you ever thought about this? At least several hundred or several thousand times as many people as those currently living must have lived and died. Among them, how many true people would there have been of the sort humankind longs to see? That which is true is always true whether a thousand years ago or now.

When we say pure gold, we mean twenty-four karat gold. It does not change according to space or time. It does not change depending on its position. It does not change in any rapidly changing environment whether in the hands of a king or in the hands of a scoundrel. Thus, we call the color of gold a true color. People like the color of gold. What does light resemble? It resembles the color of gold. Bright light is close to the color of gold. Sunlight is also gold. Evening glow is even more so.

In a similar vein, the question is whether or not there is a true man among us who has a color that will not change for hundreds of millions of years. Is there such a true woman? What do you think?

The religious world sees human beings as fallen. Of course, there are religions with different backgrounds, but they are all looking for a new person of value through whom to receive salvation. What does this mean? It means that since they have not attained true original personhood, the true original human image, they are always seeking it. This is the same whether it is a thousand years ago, hundreds of thousands of years ago, or in the present day. Even in the future, people are bound to seek it in any environment or age where humanity exists.

You, also, are looking for that true person. You are looking for a true man and a true woman. All men and women who have lived in history are bound to stake their lives on this and think about it. This is why, when you live in a certain village, you want to be the best true person in that village. (177-99, 1988.5.17)

Loving Parents

Sun Myung Moon
April 17, 1988

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No matter how much evil we encounter in our social environment, we still have loving parents; how happy we are to be able to go to them and shed tears in their warm embrace! No amount of money could ever buy that feeling of embrace or comfort you receive from your father and mother while leaning your heavily burdened body, letting tears flow over their bosom and feeling their hands quietly caress you. It is in those times that you can have a heart of thankfulness, and feel joy that surpasses even that of an earthly commander who has just won a victory over the enemy forces.

That is why I am asking you to become filial sons and daughters. When you hurt yourself, your mother and father are always ready to listen to you, night or day. They are always ready to pat you on the shoulder and embrace you. They will give you a bandage of love or some medicine of love even if they haven't managed to prepare a bandage or some medicine. This is truly amazing. Such a place is filled with the fragrance of peace. You must know that there is no power that is greater than this.

Nothing can quench the hope that burns in the hearts of parents who live all their lives, bound by the cords of love, for the sake of their children, offering their sweat and blood with backs bent by age and faces ravaged by time. Within them resides a force enabling them to clear the obstacles they encounter with a strutting gait however insurmountable they maybe.

The path of a patriot is the same. The ancestors of our nation walked the path of patriotism imbued with a heart of deep love for their parents. Our cherished pride as their descendants who can inherit this love is to love as they did.

Accordingly, we should love our country as its citizens. We should not eat the bread of idleness to the detriment of our nation. You may do this until you grow up; that holds true while you are still immature and undergoing education, but not when you come of age. Are babies not also weaned off their mother's milk after some months? When they become toddlers, it is not a sin for them to swipe the food that their mother and father have put away and stuff it into their mouths. When they do that their parents are not going to yell at them, saying, "Hey, you little scoundrel! You're a thief. I'm going to teach you a lesson!" More likely, they will tap their child on the bottom and say, "You smart guy! How did you know it was there? You are sharper than I!" Such is the heart of a parent.

Nature is a textbook teaching the ideal of love

Sun Myung Moon
April 16, 1988
Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book 3 True Love, Chapter 2, Section 9.2

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What is nature? It is an exhibit that God has given us as a gift, something He prepared for the birth of His beloved sons and daughters. Even the song of a bird and a stem of grass growing are decorations prepared to bring beauty into the lives of His beloved sons and daughters. Even the rocks rolling on the road were created as decorations for a nation, as God knew that His sons and daughters would be the owners who would rule over that nation. It is the same with flowing water. God did not want things to be dry and monotonous, so He created so as to establish a "prince" of dreams and of hope who could look at this infinitely colorful and harmonious garden – this world of love – and inherit it. Hence, we learn from all things of creation. When the male and female birds sing, the lady who owns them should learn from them. You should be able to sing praises for the beauty of the original world of creation, where everything devotes its entire life living for the sake of the other. Then, even young birds will want to come and live in your home and have their young there. Do you understand what I am saying? (175-186, 1988.4.16)

No matter how precious a work of art in a museum may be, can it have more value than a living work of art? I am asking who has loved this earth, the museum of all things and the work of God, more than God has. I am asking if anyone has loved it more than the museums in his own country. Can you compare a gold crown from the Shilla Dynasty in a museum with a dandelion lying on the road, which has been made directly by God? If there is a king, who understands God's heart and who takes care of the creation with such a heart that says to the creation "I feel sorry and shameful because I cannot love you from the position of an unfallen king whom God can love and had loved," the tufts of grass would want to follow that king and be with him eternally. This is how people should live. (175-186, 1988.4.16)

You should know how to love nature and love people. You should know that those who cannot love people or love nature cannot love God. Because all things of creation are symbols of God and because people are beings of His substance, those who know how to love all things of creation and people will come to love God. (70-181, 1974.2.9)

You should always love nature. You should love nature and love people. You should love people of all five colors of the human race. Would God say, "Oh, I only like the white people"? Then everyone would have to wear only white clothes. All white people would have to wear only white clothes, and throw away all their colored clothes. Why would you wear black clothes or colored clothes? That would be a contradiction. (133-30, 1984.7.1)

We should feel that all creatures of God are objects of our love. We should be the people who can love even all the minute forms of life and be the people who can receive love from them. The same is true for our fellow human beings, as well as everything visible and invisible in heaven. When a bird calls "chirp, chirp, chirp" in the morning, instead of grumbling, "You pesky sparrow, why are you chirping when I am trying to sleep late?!" say, "Oh, thank you. You came to wake me up. Ha ha! You are telling me that an important guest is coming to see me." The outlook is different. That is a great thing. (112-219, 1981.4.12)