Doctrinal Essays

For many years I've felt an urge, a longing to contribute something to this world. A contribution that would affect the orbit of the earth, or change the way mankind thinks, behaves, or functions. Something like Edison's light bulb, or Einsteins's theories on relativity. Four years ago it seemed the way to make this contribution was through further education. Scientific research is both exciting and rewarding, and presents a great opportunity to make humanitarian contributions. This course has lead me to providing scholarly research for NASA related to fire suppression and mitigation, which might be considered a humanitarian contribution, or the giving back to society hope that I've wanted for many years. Earlier today I was sitting in a room at Idaho State University in Pocatello among scientists and NASA scholars discussing these issues, and I felt strangely unsatisfied. This unsatisfactory feeling was irksome to me and I didn't know what to make of it. Thre...