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Sobornost wrote: Jeff is either Welsh or lives in Wales
All judgment for sin is evil. God imposed death (mortality) upon all mankind when Adam sinned. This has been the root cause of all subsequent evil in the world that man has done as a consequence of this mortal condition or weakness.
Many do not understand this, and even Bible translators have tried to correct Paul's writings, thinking that he made a mistake. A key misunderstanding is seen in the NASB translation of Romans 5:12,
12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned.
As translated above, it seems to say that through Adam, sin entered the world—because he was the first sinner. And then death came as a result of sin. Then, as Adam begat children, this death (mortality) spread to them as well—"because all sinned."
We are left with the impression that Adam's children all became mortal because they sinned. The implication is that if they had not sinned, they would not be mortal. This is incorrect, and it is not what Paul was actually saying.
The Concordant Literal New Testament translates it this way:
12 Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and thus death passed through into all mankind, ON WHICH [eph ho] all sinned.
The Greek phrase, eph ho, means "on which," and is the equivalent of "therefore." It does not mean "because." This is crucial, because we need to know what caused what. Did mankind become mortal BECAUSE they sinned? No, it is the opposite. Mortality was passed into mankind ON WHICH they all sinned. Mankind sins because they are mortal. Mortality is their fatal flaw, their weakness.
So the order of events is this: First, Adam sinned. God imposed the death penalty upon him, which we know as "mortality." From there, we find that all of his children were born mortal as well. This mortality made them weak and susceptible to sin. Therefore, all have sinned.
This tells us that through Adam, sin entered the world, along with its penalty, death. Adam's sin was then imputed to all of us, not only to His descendants, but indeed to all of creation, which groans in travail because of it (Rom. 8:22).
Adam's sin was imputed to us. That simply means, we were blamed for his sin, though it was an act done outside of ourselves. And thus, we all had to pay the penalty for Adam's sin, which is death. This is why we are all mortal. We are not mortal because WE sinned; we are mortal because Adam sinned, and his sin was imputed to us.
By the same process, the righteousness of Jesus is an act done outside of ourselves, but which is imputed to us. Thus, we benefit from its effect-life, or immortality. We may illustrate the principle like this:
1. Johnny steals a cookie.
2. The whole class gets blamed for it.
3. The class must pay back with 2 cookies.
The trouble is, no one in the class has any cookies, nor do they know how to make them. But suddenly a smart new kid named Ricky comes to class. What a break! He knows how to make cookies! So . . .
1. Ricky makes cookies and repays the debt.
2. The class gets the credit for it.
3. The class is free to go out and play.
Johnny and Ricky have something in common. By one bad deed Johnny brought guilt upon the whole class, and so they all had to pay the penalty. On the other hand, by one good act Ricky brought justification to the whole class, and so they all benefited.
It seems to have similarities to Adam & Eve. Personally I think any intelligence that has the ability to make reasonably conscious/free choices will always eventually make selfish, rebellious (call it sin if you like) & unwise decisions. Any good, loving parent/God would want to help the being make better choices, even if it requires painful discipline. So Genesis, my children & artificial intelligence research all suggest to me the fall & subsequent URCindy Skillman wrote:On a purely observational basis, anyone who has had or spent much time with toddlers has seen the natural human propensity toward selfishness. Is this sin? Well, I suppose . . . no law, no sin. Still, it's hardly desirable behavior. Is this a sign of innate, original sin? Perhaps not punishable as active sin, because of the little ones' inability to understand, but it's rare that you see a wee one whose natural inclination is self sacrifice and preferring others over herself. Yes, they are often very affectionate and loving -- so long as they're getting their way!
What does anybody think of this? What does it mean?
Sobornost wrote:Finally, a Catholic sort of Protestant I may be, but I am still a Protestant..
Sobornost wrote: He - whoever he was - also went on to argue that fear of death is the primary cause of sin because it makes us anxious to preserve ourselves rather than give ourselves away.
In order to fully appreciate the scope of God's redemptive work in Christ, we must reevaluate our perspective on death. Western Christians have inherited an Augustinian view of original sin that deeply influences our understanding of God's redemptive plan. We are often unaware of this influence. However, we must never underestimate the following fact: The way we describe our problem ("original sin") deeply influences what we perceive as the necessary solution to our problem. In other words, our view of salvation is primarily shaped by our understanding of what exactly is wrong and what needs to be put to right.
Following Augustine's lead, Western Christians generally assume that death is God's punishment for sin. In other words, death is God's doing. Stated in the starkest of terms, Western Christians generally assume that daath is God's judgment on guilty sinners - God's punishment for sin. Though we attempt to soften the blow by assigning the devil as God's chosen instrument of death, the implications remain the same: God kills guilty sinners. And God is justified in doing so because of the guilt of sin. The "wages of sin is death" because God vindictively punishes the sinner for his or her sins.[6]
The Eastern Orthodox view of our main problem ("original sin") and God's solution is markedly different. Sin is its own undoing; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Sin is the turning away from the divine life and love, and its ultimate consequence is alienation and death. God did not create death; we brought it upon ourselves through our sin. God warned of death because death is not God's will: "for in the day that you eat from it, you shall surely die" (Genesis 2:16). Rather, communion, obedience, and the sharing of divine life is God's will.
AUniversalist wrote:Death was not a physical consequence of disobedience to God's command but a spiritual one. Spiritual death is not a dead spirit or destruction of the spirit, but is mindset in which one lives in perpetual fear. It is death because those who live in fear and doubt can never truly live. They die unsure, they die in fear, they die in that which they do not know, they are blind, veiled and constantly in anger and frustration.
The gospel is that what we don't know doesn't hurt us, in fact we can live by faith and not by sight and that perfect love has come and drives out all fear and we can walk confidently knowing that doing good and remaining humble has no regrets and that one would not want to do the things which brings us back into doubt and hopelessness anymore.
Alex Smith wrote:Thanks Dick. I like the Eastern view, summarised by Ware, but must admit I haven't looked into this as much as I would like.
I think we live in an imperfect world & are born imperfect, generally rebellious, people, although still God's children, made in His image (implying inherent worth). I don't think we can get out the situation we're in without the Holy Spirit's help, often using rehabilitative punishment/discipline.
It's interesting that most Western Christians have softened Original Sin (e.g. children no longer just go straight to hell).
BirdOfTheEgg wrote:I really like this, because this speaks to me a lot, and is part of how I got converted to Christianity.
I was, essentially, converted by Hebrews 11. It's a bit of an existential crisis vs crisis of morality. When you want to do X, Y, and Z, but those things appear to be illogical and not supportive of personal survival or pleasure. When you're trying to figure out what IS wrong, and WHY it's wrong, and your view is faded.
And trying to find a home.
I believe faith is a much more loaded word than just "Oh, I believe in God". It's more akin to what Lewis described as Joy.
Tbh, I'm largely not going to accept this. I do not, will not, view children (in the basic sense) as active sinners. Developmental processes do not make them sinners, because they do not control their own development, so saying a child is a sinner because they are going through an ego-centric phase is really not smart. I guess I'll make a thread on my view on sin sometime to explain. Child corruption is a special topic of mine and if you are going to call children sinners I assure you we are all doomed because we can barely get even there. There's a reason Jesus said that to children belongs the Kingdom of Heaven, because they're not sinners, and put in a proper environment, they would be fine. I believe children will stumble a lot, and not resist corruption very well, and that is their ancestral sin. But not the fact that they think the world disappears when they close their eyes, that's a developmental phase.Sobornost wrote:Children are indeed sinners – if you've been a parent or worked with young children you will know this all too well.
Children are born innocent and pure in the sense that they can discern a lot of things correctly if you let them. How many times I've seen a child make a completely logical request and a parent shut them up. This breeds sin, and destroys faith. Parents raise them in their crooked way, and parents actually make most of their children very, very evil, because they give them false information, and lying creates evil. Lying to children is not cute. Then you have this evil kid who becomes an evil teenager and you have to have society whine about them and fix them.
This implies disobedience is fundamentally negative. This is false by any method of deciding anything that I can possibly use. Blind obedience is the #1 (I'm serious) cause of all evil in this world. The Nazis were caused by obedience, of one ignoring the strife of another. Wars are caused by obedience, of the blind soldier and the spineless citizen. Various disgusting things are obedience of the flesh, greed is obedience to money. We are slaves of the one whom we obey, and we if obey anything but God we are led to evil acts, because all other authorities are faulty. The disobedience of God in favor of authorities with no authority is the evil.AUniversalist wrote:Indeed a child is born innocent but when a child disobeys, they disobey on lack of knowledge to the command that they were given.
This relies on a rather literal reading of Genesis. I would want to have more details regarding Genesis before jumping to such conclusions. For me, Genesis is not significantly better than Revelation in terms of degree of metaphor.AUniversalist wrote:No different than Adam and Woman being commanded not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge, they had no idea what the command meant, nor did they have any experience on what it meant to die.
Jesus had no intention of destroying Mosaic Law. He quoted from it, and said it would not pass away. Instead, Jeremiah says it is to be written into our hearts.AUniversalist wrote:Jesus came to show us that what religion taught us about sin, has been wrong and He died to destroy the Mosiac Law that set itself against man and claiming to be from God.
No, I do not believe we are already justified and sanctified from my reading of the Bible. One is justified by faith, which is regarded as righteousness, and this saves. One is sanctified through baptism and the receiving of the Holy Spirit, which drives a person to avoid sin, and become without blemish, and these are the royal priesthood.AUniversalist wrote:If you learned what sin was from a religious system, you probably don't realize we are already justified and sanctified and the punishment of the Law is not real.
I remember that one Eastern Father - St Iraeneus - interpreted Adam's sin as result of weakness and immaturity, and looked on the process of redemption as being, in part, a process of growing up (as with the history of the species, so with the history of the individual I say).
Proverbs 13:24
New International Version (NIV)
24 Whoever spares the rod hates their children,
but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.
BirdOfTheEgg wrote:I believe corporal punishment definitely has a place but few people seem to know where that place is. For most people, corporal punishment becomes continual, while it should be an, at most, occasionally enforced. It's like the Hebrews never learned about positive/negative reinforcement and stuff, overall that Proverb reeks of the times. It was probably all they knew back then.
Any other thoughts on how this relates to the education of children? – There was another interesting article in the UK press today that chimes with Anthony's insight (above) into punishment and resentment.
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Chapter Summaries
Chapters 1-2 Summary
Chapter 1
Eleven-year-old Jack Gantos lives in the dying town of Norvelt, located in western Pennsylvania. It is early summer in 1962. Jack is outside, watching a war movie on the television in the house through Japanese camouflage binoculars. The binoculars are part of his father's vintage collection of war memorabilia acquired when, as a young conscript, he came across the bodies of Japanese soldiers lying in a bunker. Jack's Uncle Will was also a soldier; Jack's mother says that the army changed him from a "nice kid" to a "confused jerk." Uncle Will keeps an Indian pony on the Gantos property; he has painted the animal's body with large orange and white circles to make him look like he is "getting ready to battle General Custer."
Mom comes out to inform Jack that Miss Volker, an eccentric neighbor, has requested for him to be at her house early the next morning to help on a project. When she leaves, Jack turns his attention back to the movie, playfully picking up an old sniper rifle which is also part of Dad's collection. After removing the ammunition clip, he trains the rifle's sights on the television screen, aiming at the "enemy." Pulling the trigger, he is shocked when the gun discharges violently.
Mom sprints out of the house to find Jack covered in blood. Fortunately, the offending liquid is coming only from his nose. Jack is a nosebleeder, and when he is overexcited, blood "spray[s] out of his nose holes like dragon flames." An ambulance drives up to Miss Volker's house down the way, and for a moment, Jack is afraid that the stray bullet has killed her. To his relief, Mom informs him that the sound of the blast only caused the old lady to drop her hearing aid down the toilet. She called the plumber for help; in a town as small as Norvelt, the plumber serves as the ambulance driver as well.
As a punishment for playing with his father's gun, Mom sends Jack to his room, to be grounded at least until Dad returns home from a business trip. There, Jack, who likes history and adventure books, reads about Pizarro's conquest of the Incas in Peru. He finds it tragic that, because the conquistadors were blinded by their lust for gold, a whole civilization was destroyed.
Chapter 2
Jack reports to Miss Volker's house the next morning at six as directed. On her porch he notices a heart-shaped box of chocolates left by Edwin Spizz, the "town...
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Chapters 3-4 Summary
Chapter 3
Jack's favorite article in the newspaper is a daily column of facts titled "This Day in History." The entries were written by Miss Volker "ages ago," before her hands were rendered useless by arthritis. According to Jack's mother, the newspaper just repeats the columns every year, which works out well, because "history does not really change."
After breakfast, Mom sends Jack out to cut the weeds in the gutter, but the family is soon penalized for not following community laws. As Jack labors, Mr. Spizz, who enforces the rules, stops by, riding a ludicrous adult-size tricycle and towing a red wagon full of Sunday dinners for the needy. Mr. Spizz announces that he will return later to check on the weeds, and Jack recalls that his father thinks that Mr. Spizz is "cracked."
Chapter 4
Jack finishes with the weeds and stacks them in the gutter to haul away later. Unfortunately, he gets sidetracked and the family receives a three-dollar ticket for "weed obstruction of gutter water." Jack hides the ticket under his mattress, knowing that he will have to figure out how to pay it without his parents' knowledge. He then goes out to do the one chore he enjoys: mowing the lawn with the tractor.
While he is engaged in this task, Dad, who has returned from his business trip, comes out and makes a startling request. Pointing to the patch of fresh corn that Mom has planted to make money for the charity dinners she cooks, he orders his son to mow it down. Knowing that Mom will be furious, Jack protests, but Dad is unyielding. With an inexorable sense of doom, he proceeds to do as he is told.
As expected, Mom comes running out of the house when she sees what Jack is doing. Planting herself in front of the tractor, she demands to know what is going on. Just then, Dad comes out of the garage where he keeps "all his secret stuff," and tells Mom that he needs the area cleared to build a bomb shelter for protection against "whatever bomb attack" the "Russian Commies" plan to launch in the near future. After arguing briefly, Mom stalks back to the house, warning Jack that he had better not dare to destroy the rest of the corn. When she leaves, Dad tells Jack to finish the job, then meet him in the garage.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place, Jack envisions his impending death at the hands of his mother as blood flows out of his nose. He...
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Chapters 5-6 Summary
Chapter 5
Jack's best friend Bunny is "the size of one of Santa's little helpers." Her real name is Stella Huffer, and her father owns the funeral parlor. Jack thinks that Bunny is "better than any guy" because she is "tough, smart, [and] daring."
Due to her father's occupation, Bunny knows about "a million dead person jokes," but Jack, in contrast, is terrified by the subject of death. Determined to help Jack overcome his fear, Bunny had once arranged to have him touch a dead body at her father's place of employment. Sadly, her experiment was unsuccessful and Jack had run from the room panic-stricken, humiliated, and with blood streaming from his nose.
When Jack arrives at baseball practice and tells Bunny about his father's plans to build a bomb shelter and a landing strip, she observes that the whole plan "sounds nuts." While they are talking, Jack spots his mother riding her bicycle up the road in his direction. He runs toward second base in a desperate attempt to escape, but to his utter mortification, Mom nabs him, and, with her hand firmly clamped on the back of his neck, marches him off the field. When they arrive home, she informs him that he is now grounded for the entire summer. In a cowardly attempt to shift the blame for his actions away from himself, Jack whimpers that his father had made him cut down the corn. Mom's rage is not palliated by this admission however, and she threatens darkly that she will first make Dad "cut [Jack] down to size," and then wreak vengeance on them both.
Chapter 6
Two days later, Jack's father comes into his room and reprimands him for violating the rules of gun safety in shooting off the Japanese rifle. While he is talking, Jack reminisces about the first time he had gone hunting with Dad. On the first day of deer season last November, they had gone out in the early morning darkness to "get the jump on the other hunters." Along the way, Dad had given him a rudimentary lesson on gun safety and had emphasized that in order to get close enough to a deer to shoot it, there was to be complete silence: "no sneezing...no coughing...no farting." According to Dad, passing gas in particular would scare away a potential victim, as deer have "very sensitive noses and ears."
Dad and Jack had settled in their deer-spotting tree house, and before long a beautiful white-tailed deer had appeared....
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Chapters 7-8 Summary
Chapter 7
While reading about Hernan Cortes' conquest of Mexico, Jack notes that the atrocities committed presage Pizarro's destruction of the Inca civilization a short time later. He concludes that the "big lesson" Pizarro learned from history was that "it was okay to kill innocent people and steal their gold." The writer of the book Jack is reading calls Cortes a "great man." Jack remembers that Miss Volker had once cautioned that he should "be suspicious of history that is written by the conquerors."
Mom comes into Jack's room and orders him to put on some "respectable" clothes. She then walks him over to Dr. Mertz' office and tries to persuade the physician to cauterize the inside of Jack's nasal passages so that he will not bleed so frequently. By her manner, Jack knows that his mother had hoped that the doctor would perform the procedure free of charge, but instead, the physician quotes her a price. Mom asks if he will accept homemade jarred fruit or pickles as payment, but to her disappointment, he will not.
On the way home, Mom complains about how the town has changed. In the "old days," people could trade goods for the things that they needed to sustain themselves. It occurs to Jack that today, people "want gold just like Pizarro and Cortes and just about everyone else." As they walk along the street, Mom uncharacteristically kisses her son on the forehead, and the two enjoy a lighthearted exchange. Jack is still grounded, however, and Mom tells him that "not even cash can buy away [his] trouble."
Chapter 8
A few days later, Miss Volker calls the house again to request Jack's help. She has just learned that another Norvelt original might have passed away and wants to investigate. The person in question, Mrs. Dubicki, has not been seen for a week. Miss Volker orders Jack to take her over to the Dubicki residence, where, if nothing can be seen from the windows, he will have to sneak inside to determine the condition of the resident. So that he will not be recognized, Miss Volker suggests that Jack wear a disguise. Fittingly, the only costume he owns is one of the Grim Reaper.
Jack has never driven a car before, but Miss Volker insists that he take the wheel of her old Plymouth Valiant. After a madcap ride, the two somehow arrive safely at Mrs. Dubicki's house. The windows are covered with old blackout curtains dating back to World War...
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Chapters 9-10 Summary
Chapter 9
Dad comes into Jack's room one morning and invites him to "escape" his exile for awhile. Jack is at first elated, but his enthusiasm is squashed when he discovers that his father wants him to spend the day digging a hole in the ground for the bomb shelter. Pensively, Jack asks his father which he thinks is more deadly—past history or future history? Without hesitation, Dad replies, "future history," because each war that is fought becomes more deadly as humankind "gets better at killing each other."
Mom comes out with some cold water for Dad and Jack as they labor under the sun. She offers to get some men from the Community Center to help with the digging, but Dad declines, saying that he'd rather keep the project "in the family." A short time later, Bunny comes running over with some exciting news. A visiting Hells Angels motorcyclist had been inexplicably dancing in the middle of the road earlier in the day and had been run over by a cement truck; his mangled body has just been delivered to the funeral parlor.
News travels fast in a small town like Norvelt, and it is not long before Miss Volker calls to ask Jack to take her to the mortuary so that she can examine the body. Jack dutifully drives her to Huffer Funeral Parlor, where the stranger's gory remains have been scooped onto an examining table. Bunny is there and excitedly describes the dead man's lurid tattoos. Jack becomes queasy and must leave the room. On the way back to her house, Miss Volker muses about what she will write for the motorcyclist's obituary. She is especially intrigued by the fact that, before his untimely death, the man had been seen "dancing a jig" all the way across town. This odd phenomenon reminds her "of some convulsive condition [she] read about once," and she vows to research the matter.
Chapter 10
Early the next morning, Jack hurries over the Miss Volker's house to help with the Hells Angel's obituary, but when he arrives, he finds that the old woman has other plans. She has decided to fix Jack's nose before doing anything else and orders him to take her to the drugstore to get supplies for the operation. While they are there, they run into Mr. Spizz. The disagreeable man and Miss Volker exchange pointed verbal barbs. Later, Mr. Spizz tells Jack that he knows about the runway his father is building and that he has already issued a zoning violation against...
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Chapter 11
Jack begins another boring summer day with a breakfast of peanut butter-covered Nilla Wafers. As usual, he reads his favorite newspaper column, "This Day in History." Today, the article ironically talks about both the death of the Inca-exterminator, Francisco Pizarro, and a charter signed by the United Nations, pledging peace around the world. Sadly, the reality is that millions have continued to die in wars started after the pact.
After breakfast, Jack peruses a copy of John F. Kennedy and PT-109, a book about the nation's president. Jack is intrigued by the story of Kennedy's heroic efforts to save his shipwrecked crew after their torpedo boat is hit by a Japanese destroyer during World War II. Kennedy served in the Solomon Islands during the war, the same place where Jack's father fought. Jack finds that he is proud to be an American.
In the obituary for the Hells Angels motorcyclist, which appears in the newspaper the next day, Miss Volker recounts how the stranger had spontaneously begun dancing down the road and had met his macabre end when he was flattened by a cement truck. She then goes on to describe a phenomenon known as the "dancing plague," which has afflicted populations throughout history. Miss Volker suggests that the plague has demonic origins and warns that deadly evil has arrived at the doorstep of Norvelt.
Just as Jack is finishing reading the obit, a swarm of motorcyclists roars past the house; the Hells Angels have come to Norvelt to retrieve the body of their fallen comrade. After a short time, the cyclists return, heading back the way they had come. Strapped on one of their sidecars is a coffin which looks like a silver torpedo.
Bunny Huffer comes running up the road in the wake of the noisy procession. She tells Jack that the Hells Angels made her father pull the body of the dead man out of the freezer and then stole a coffin. Mr. Spizz, the "volunteer cop," has been called, and it is not long before the man is seen pedaling his tricycle laboriously up the road in hot pursuit of the motorcycle gang, a ludicrous sight. Bunny relates that the "dead guy" had bought an empty Norvelt house and was planning to turn it into a Hells Angels clubhouse; rumor has it that he was killed to prevent this from happening. Before the gang left, the leader had put "a devilish curse" on the town to avenge the death of their "brother."
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Chapters 13-14 Summary
Chapter 13
Jack's birthday falls on the first Sunday in July; he is turning twelve. Mom gets him the one gift he has asked for: a tin of industrial-strength grease remover that will clean bloodstains and airplane oil off of everything, including the circles Uncle Will has painted on his Indian pony, War Chief. Mom tells Jack that she has called a farrier over to trim the horse's hooves. She teasingly tells her son that she tried to barter Jack's services as an apprentice to the tradesman in exchange for the work, but, as expected, the farrier was willing to work for cash only.
When Dad arrives, Mom explains that it is "the old Norvelt way" to give three gifts on a person's birthday—good, better and best. The good gift is something useful, so she and Dad have gotten Jack a shovel and three cotton dish towels. The better gift is "a deed you do because . . . [it] makes you a better person." With this in mind, Dad and Mom have arranged for Jack to volunteer at a nearby hospital, reading to patients who cannot read for themselves.
The best gift is something that fits the recipient best. Dad hands Jack an envelope with three handmade tickets in it. The first ticket will allow him to be "un-grounded" for twenty-four hours, the second ticket will let him take one flight in Dad's airplane, and the third ticket will admit him to a double feature at the local drive-in theater. In addition, Mom and Dad have decided that Jack should have an allowance. Jack reacts with delight when he hears he will have an allowance because now he will be able to save the money to pay for the weed ticket before his parents find out about it.
Miss Volker calls and asks Jack to drive her to church. Along the way, she tells him that, as a birthday gift, she will be giving him her car after she dies. When they arrive at the church, Miss Volker goes to sit with the "old folks" in front, while Jack remains by himself in the back. Jack finds that he is happy at church, because he can use his imagination and make the preacher's words come to life. As he listens to the sermon, Jack envisions heaven as an idyllic place completely free of worry. He reflects that his Dad dreams of buying a little piece of heaven in Florida, while his mother thinks that Norvelt is "heaven on earth." For Jack, heaven is simply "everything good [he can] imagine."
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Chapters 15-16 Summary
Chapter 15
Reading the house obituary, Mom is saddened; she comments that Miss Volker should do what she longs to do and just leave Norvelt to live with her sister in Florida. When Jack reminds her about the old woman's promise to Mrs. Roosevelt to remain in town until the last original Norvelter has passed away, Dad comes by and remarks cryptically that his "new top secret job" will leave "no town to nurse."
Later, as Jack is working on the bomb shelter, Mr. Spizz arrives. He intimates that he will make trouble for Dad regarding the construction of his runway unless Jack gets a tin of 1080 poison for him to use to kill vermin over at the dump. Mr. Spizz says that he cannot go on the errand himself because he has hurt his leg; he offers to forgive the cost of the weed ticket, as well, if Jack will help him out. Desperately hoping to avoid his mother's knowing about the weed ticket, Jack runs to the hardware store for Mr. Spizz. The owner makes him sign a log as required by law to obtain the poison. Jack notices that the last person to sign before him is Mr. Huffer. As he hurries home to give the poison to Mr. Spizz, Jack notices that his nose is bleeding again—a bad omen, he feels.
As he had feared, Mom has seen Jack coming out of the hardware store and reprimands him. When Jack readily admits that he had disobeyed her and gone out of the house, however, she softens her tone. She leaves him with an admonition to consider the consequences of lying, to himself and to others.
Chapter 16
The next time Jack sees Miss Volker, the woman is elated because another original Norvelt homesteader has died. The deceased is Mrs. Dubicki, whose end has truly come this time. After dictating a lengthy, heartfelt summary of Mrs. Dubicki's life, Miss Volker launches into her usual historical commentary, the part of the obit she likes best. This time, she notes that Mrs. Dubicki died on the day before the anniversaries of the deaths of two other great Americans—John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. She observes that beyond the fact that these two men were both American presidents, they were also notable because they were great friends, despite being bitter political enemies. Miss Volker points out that the relationship between Adams and Jefferson reflects the "American way" of focusing not on our differences but on what we have in common. She further expostulates that Mrs....
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Chapter 17
Complaining that Jack has done nothing with her the whole summer, Bunny demands that he prove his friendship by finding a way to play baseball with her and the team later that day. Jack talks to his mother and trades his birthday ticket for a ride in his father's airplane in exchange for the freedom to go out and play. Sadly, as he runs over to the baseball field with Bunny, he hears Miss Volker calling to him; he cannot ignore her.
Miss Volker excitedly tells Jack and Bunny that Mrs. Linga, another Norvelt original, has passed away. The three pile into the car and head for Mrs. Linga's house so that Miss Volker can examine the body. Mr. Huffer has beaten them there; he asserts that Mrs. Linga died because of complications from a broken hip. Jack notes that the dead woman is covered with a white sheet and that a partially-eaten casserole and an open bag of Girl Scout cookies are nearby on the kitchen table. When everyone finally leaves the house, Jack and Bunny are anxious to get to their game, but Miss Volker insists they stay with her so that she can dictate Mrs. Linga's obituary.
In the car, Mrs. Volker immediately begins her recitation about the details of the deceased's life. As he is writing, Jack happens to look up just as his father drives by in a flatbed truck, towing a Norvelt house on a double-wide trailer. Dad hollers gleefully that he is taking the house to Eleanor, West Virginia, where investors are paying to add the dwellings "to their own Roosevelt town." When Miss Volker hears what Dad is doing, she is irate; she cries out that he ought to be ashamed of himself for participating in the destruction of Norvelt. Dad counters that he is not destroying anything; he contends that he is "just moving the dead parts of [the] town to a . . . location that's still alive."
Angry that she and Jack are about to miss the game, Bunny hitches a ride with Jack's father, while Jack takes Miss Volker home. There the old woman tells him about Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, "two great American anarchists who wanted to improve the lives of all Americans." The tragic tale, at its core a love story, includes a botched assassination attempt, a prison sentence, and a bungled escape plot. Although Miss Volker admits to Jack that the story would not be an appropriate addition to Mrs. Linga's obituary, the account of the failed quest for freedom leaves them both in a melancholy...
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Chapter 19
Jack calls Bunny every day for the next four days, but she will not talk to him. She finally relents on the fifth day, demanding with exasperation, "Do you know who put the bullet in your rifle?" Jack counters her question by asking why her father is buying and moving the Norvelt houses to West Virginia. Bunny replies that, although it is a secret, she will tell him if he will meet her that night at ten o'clock, past the school where she and some of the other Girl Scouts will be on patrol to prevent the Hells Angels from torching any more houses.
Jack makes a decision "that almost [gets] him killed forever." He sneaks out of the house after his mother is asleep and meets Bunny, as directed. Bunny tells him that her father is buying the houses and selling them to Eleanor, West Virginia, because it is a bigger town with a larger population; therefore, there are more people who will die, and his funeral parlor business will be more prosperous. When Jack points out that moving the houses is "driving Miss Volker nuts," Bunny nonchalantly responds that "she'll get over it."
As they are talking, Bunny and Jack notice a car headed their way. The vehicle stops at a vacant house, and a Hells Angel gets out and douses the dwelling with gasoline. Bunny stands up and yells at the man, throwing a fist-sized rock. Jack follows her lead; then, as the house bursts into flames, Jack realizes the man is looking right at him, threatening to kill him.
Bunny blows frantically on a silver whistle. She and Jack then take off in different directions, running for their lives. By the time Jack reaches home, the community fire alarm is blaring. Knowing that his mother is awake, he heads to the garage where his father keeps his war memorabilia collection. Jack enters the kitchen carrying the Japanese binoculars and hands them to his mother, who immediately uses them to scan the houses in town. Fortunately, the fire is put out by neighbors before it does any real damage.
Chapter 20
Mom never figures out that her wayward son had gone out to meet Bunny on the night of the fire. Jack escapes further punishment at her hands, but the image of the Hells Angel looking at him and threatening him with death remains with Jack. Consequently, he is terrified when a ferocious-looking man riding a motorcycle stops by one day when Jack is working on the bomb shelter. As it...
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Chapter 21
Miss Volker summons Jack to her house again, only this time no one has died. She sends him over to Girl Scout Mertie-Jo's house to buy more cookies. Mertie-Jo is elated because earlier that day, she had sold cookies to Mr. Spizz and Mr. Huffer. Miss Volker is now buying all that she has left.
Jack delivers the cookies to Miss Volker's house and does odd-jobs around the place because he does not want to go home. The telephone rings, and he answers it; it is Mr. Huffer, who reports that Mrs. Hamsby, another Norvelt original, has died and that if Miss Volker wishes to examine the body, she should get to the funeral parlor "on the double." Mr. Huffer says that Mrs. Hamsby died of natural causes, and he is in a hurry to cremate her remains.
Miss Volker becomes pensive when she hears about the latest death. She had liked Mrs. Hamsby and hates to see her go, but she believes her passing is "for the better." In her obituary, Miss Volker notes that Mrs. Hamsby had been the first postmistress of Norvelt. The industrious woman had lined the walls of her dwelling with letters that over the years had been returned as undeliverable, thus creating "a library full of abandoned histories." Bitterly, Miss Volker comments that Mrs. Hamsby's unique legacy will probably be lost when Jack's father hauls the house away to West Virginia. Miss Volker says that preserving history is vital because "you never know what small bit of it might change your life—or change the whole world." She cites the case of Anne Frank, whose diary is "one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war and its impact on human beings that [she has] ever read."
When Jack delivers Mrs. Hamsby's obituary to the newspaper office, the editor expresses dismay that so many old ladies "seem to be dropping like flies." Wondering if something sinister is going on, he suggests that someone should look into the matter.
Chapter 22
One morning Dad announces that he is finally ready to fly his airplane. Jack begs to be allowed to go along, but since he has traded in his ticket for one ride in the contraption, Mom will not let him. Dad, however, invites him to help get the plane ready, and Jack excitedly participates in the take-off.
Mom and Jack watch from the ground as the plane circles the area; it then comes in low over the house, causing them to "hit the deck." Jack is...
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Chapters 23-24 Summary
Chapter 23
Jack is worried that his father might have given old Mrs. Vinyl a heart attack with his airplane shenanigans, but Miss Volker assures him that she had spoken with Mrs. Vinyl the day after the incident, just after the woman had enjoyed one of Mom's casseroles. Nonetheless, she is concerned enough to ask Jack to take her to pay a visit. The two arrive at the house to find that Mrs. Vinyl has indeed died. Mr. Huffer is already at the scene; he had learned about the woman's passing from Mr. Spizz, who had stopped by to collect her newspaper payment. Miss Volker complains that someone is selling the vacant Norvelt houses to Eleanor, West Virginia, and when Mr. Huffer comments, "Nothing lasts forever," she snaps, "History lasts forever . . . and we'll be judged by our history."
Later, Miss Volker dictates Mrs. Vinyl's obituary, emphasizing that the deceased had a great sense of humor and that her two sons had served honorably in the war. Then noting that the woman had died on the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, she observes that the winners of wars are not necessarily "more moral or ethical or nicer or more democratic than [the] enemy," nor does God have anything to do with winning or losing. Miss Volker says that countries win wars "by being tougher and meaner and more ruthless than [the] enemy." She concludes that "the only way to turn enemies into friends is with respect."
When Dad reads Mrs. Vinyl's obituary the next day, he is annoyed with Miss Volker's commentary; he feels that she is just reminding ex-soldiers like himself about horrors they are trying hard to forget. Jack suggests that perhaps remembering is a good thing, so that the mistakes of history will not be repeated. Dad counters by saying that people do not forget, and the atrocities of the past are what make them so fearful of the future. With this thought in mind, Dad sends Jack back to work on the bomb shelter, but the boy continues to argue. He asserts that instead of putting so much energy into surviving the next atomic bomb, it would be easier and more sensible if people would just focus on not having bombs at all. As Jack grudgingly gets ready to go out and dig as directed, Dad mentions that he will soon be moving Mrs. Linga's house to West Virginia.
Chapter 24
Two days later, Miss Volker calls again to report that yet another Norvelt original, Mrs. Bloodgood,...
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Chapters 25-26 Summary
Chapter 25
The next day, the editor of the newspaper prints an article calling for an investigation into the rash of old lady deaths that has plagued the town. Miss Volker takes personally the suggestion that something sinister is going. She asserts that the ladies in question were all of "advanced age" and died "by natural causes"; she further argues that their passing is not nearly as much of a problem as is the destruction of Norvelt's history.
Mom, on the other hand, has quite a different reaction to the newspaper editorial. She fears that she has contributed to the ladies' deaths by inadvertently using poison mushrooms in their casseroles. When Dad and Jack convince her that this cannot be the case, she is relieved, but she insists that something is definitely amiss in Norvelt.
Jack shares his mother's feelings of uneasiness about the deaths of the old ladies. As he lies in bed that night, he thinks of the Compound 1080 that Miss Volker uses to kill rodents in her basement, and he recalls that both Mr. Spizz and Mr. Huffer have utilized it, too. With horror, he remembers that he had bought some of the poison himself and that he had signed a list to get it. If Mr. Spizz should decide to lie about the incident, Jack himself would be a suspect in the old ladies' deaths.
Chapter 26
The next time Jack returns to Miss Volker's house, he notices that the woman has again laid out in her basement chocolates sprinkled with 1080. While he is there, Miss Volker receives a phone call informing her that Mrs. Droogie, the last of the Norvelt originals besides herself and Mr. Spizz, has died. Elated that her promise to Mrs. Roosevelt is almost fulfilled, she commandeers Jack to take her to the deceased's house.
Mr. Huffer, Mr. Spizz, and two county troopers are present when Jack and Miss Volker arrive at the Droogie residence. After conducting an unusually thorough examination, Miss Volker concurs with the funeral parlor owner that Mrs. Droogie died of natural causes. When "cremation as usual" is suggested, the troopers interject. They have been ordered to take the body to the lab for a full autopsy and to release the remains to Mr. Huffer only when it is concluded.
Back in the car, Miss Volker tells Jack the story of Antony and Cleopatra. Antony tried to kill himself with his sword when he heard erroneously that the love of his life had...
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Chapter 27
Mom goes off to the woods one morning to gather raspberries. She feels sorry for Miss Volker, who is under house arrest, and plans to make her a tart. Jack is reading the newspaper in the kitchen when he hears a rifle shot. He runs outside to find a small deer standing dazed in the backyard, with blood running from a wound in its neck.
Mom comes crashing out of the woods, hollering for Jack to fetch the Japanese rifle. A man in a black ski mask is right behind her, aiming his own gun at the wounded deer. As his mother steps between the man and the deer, Jack hurries to the garage but cannot find the rifle. He takes a long Japanese sword instead and gives it to his mother. Mom uses the sword fearlessly to hold off the hunter; standing about two feet away from him, she realizes the hunter is her wayward brother, Will.
Having been recognized, Will disappears into the woods after dropping his firearm. Jack is surprised to see that the weapon is the Japanese rifle from Dad's collection. He is certain it was Will's bullet which had been in the chamber on that fateful night when he had foolishly pulled the trigger. Jack argues he never should have been grounded for the summer, but Mom says the more important reason for his punishment was the destruction of her cornfield. When Jack counters that he only cut the corn because Dad made him do it, Mom replies that his summer has not been a total loss because he has become such good friends with Miss Volker. Mother and son share an uncharacteristic hug. Then Mom warns Jack that if he ever tells Dad about her brother Will and the gun, he will be grounded until he turns eighteen.
The deer is dead now, lying with its eyes open but unseeing. Jack goes over and gently closes its eyes, lamenting that the poor creature "never did anything wrong in its entire life except to be in the wrong place." He reflects that history is often like that, especially for the innocent.
Chapter 28
In the morning, Jack tries to write an obituary for the deer; he knows he will have to find "some good history to go along with it" in order to get it published in the newspaper. After butchering the animal, Dad comes in with the bullet that had been in its neck. He tells his son that he knows he didn't load the Japanese rifle; Dad says it was still wrong, however, that he played with the gun and pulled the trigger. Jack...
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This season, the Phillies' Domonic Brown is doing a lot…
By Chris Murray
When Phillies leftfielder Domonic Brown first came up from the minors in 2011, he was struggling in just about every aspect of the game and the sentiment among fans was that he would be a bust.
Despite being the best prospect in the Phillies organization and lacking in significant league experience, more than a few people called for the team to cut ties with Brown. But so far this season, Brown is making the most of his chance to play on a regular basis.
"You definitely can find your rhythm when you're playing every day because that's what I'm used to," said Brown, who went 0-for-3 in the Phillies 2-0 loss to the Miami Marlins. "I'm not used to coming off the bench. It's been a blessing for Charlie to tell me I'm going to be in the lineup every day."
Brown is starting to show the potential that the Phillies were raving about since the team selected him in the 20th round of the 2006 draft.
In his last nine games coming into Saturday's game against the Marlins, Brown is batting .382 with two doubles, three homeruns and eight runs batted in over his last nine games. He is currently tied for second on the team in homeruns (six) and is third on the team in runs batted in with 15. Brown has also batted .353 with runners in scoring position.
"When the season started, he was working to hold his own," said Phillies manager Charlie Manuel. "I think right now you're starting see that some of the at-bats he's putting on that's how he was doing it in the spring. He was very consistent in the spring. He showed his power, he showed his talent. We're starting to see that and that's good."
Earlier this week against the San Francisco Giants, Brown hit a home run over the right field wall at AT&T Park and into the waters of the San Francisco Bay in what is known as McCovey Cove.
During spring training, Brown batted .356 with seven home runs and 17 runs batted in. Manuel said playing on a regular basis at the major league level and being around batting coaches like Wally Joyner has helped him as well.
"I think being around the game, learning about the major leagues and learning about himself," Manuel said. "I think he talks a lot with our coaches, he's relaxed and feels a lot better about himself."
Of course, the name of the game for Brown will be consistency and doing it on a regular basis. That also means doing in the field as well. Since Brown misjudged a ball that turned a routine single into a triple in the Phillies home-opener versus the Kansas City Royals, he's done a solid job playing the outfield.
For a team that already has sluggers like Ryan Howard and Chase Utley, Manuel believes that Brown has the potential to hit a lot of home runs for the Phillies.
"I think he's capable of hitting some. How many he hits, I'd like to let him play and see how many hits," Manuel said. "(30 home runs) is not beyond the realm of possibility."
We'll have a quite few games to see if that all rings true.
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A mountain gorilla census supported in part by the Wildlife Conservation Society has found that the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Africa, is the only place on Earth with an expanding population of any gorilla species.
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The latest census of mountain gorillas in Bwindi provides the conservation community with much needed good news, said Dr. Liz Macfie, Gorilla Coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society. The results also show us that enforcement efforts by the Uganda Wildlife Authority there are paying off.
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Item 1. Organizational matters
Joint Segment
Item 5. Report to the Economic and Social Council
E/2011/5 | Report of the Administrator of UNDP and the Executive Director of UNFPA to the Economic and Social Council | French | Spanish |
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Because Antigo Yamaha is on the outskirts of town, riders can hop on a sled and take off right from the store. This year, people haven't been able to do so, until how.
Snowmobile clubs spent Wednesday grooming trails, but regardless of what kind of shape they're in, all 551 miles of trails in Langlade County will be open Thursday at 8 a.m.
Langlade County Recreation Coordinator Tammy Kubiacyzk says if you want to ride, it could be your last chance.
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The organization's safety rules, such as the one prohibiting adults from being alone with unrelated youths, aren't always enforced. That has enabled some adults to isolate Scouts and molest them -- on camping, hiking and canoe trips, during "tick checks" for bloodthirsty insects.
Sometimes, it's because the person in charge is the predator.
Such was the recent case with William Hoefling, a suburban Detroit troop leader who took exceptional interest in a Scout he'd described as "shy and green." When parents raised concerns about the relationship, "I quickly told them that I was the only one that was to correct" the teen's shyness, he wrote in a Facebook message included in the court file.
On the teen's 15th birthday, Hoefling gave him a small bottle of Canadian Club whiskey before a Scout meeting, the first of a dozen times he gave the teen liquor, according to court records.
In late August 2009, he and the teen sat drinking liquor in Hoefling's van when the Scout leader grabbed the teen's genitals. Two months later, at a Scout ranch in Metamora, Mich., Hoefling lured the teen into his tent for a drink and grabbed again.
"I was livid, and because I couldn't sleep, what he had just done to me … I really wanted to go away for a bit," the teen testified.
He also was confused, he said, and stayed in the tent for another drink. Hoefling later snuggled up, wrapping his arm around the teen's shoulders. "I tried to, like, push … his arm off me, but, he -- I mean, he wouldn't get it off," the teen told the court.
The teen wasn't Hoefling's only victim. The Scout leader also showed pornography to another Scout.
Finally, in 2010, Hoefling was caught, convicted and imprisoned for crimes including child sex abuse and criminal sexual conduct. He's incarcerated in Marquette Branch Prison, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
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Cavadus, on 09 November 2011 - 10:22 AM, said:
I've said this a few times but for the clan invasion give the clans IS Level 2 tech, let the IS be a little disadvantaged for a 30-day in-game invasion event, and then merge it all after the event.
That'll simulate the clan invasion, allow the clans to be initially technologically superior, and still maintain complete balance after the event is over and the IS gets bumped up to Level 2 tech.
As for omnimechs, they need to be converted to battlemechs and introduced that way. I said this in the OP very clearly. There's no point in using the TT's crit slot system as that makes every make an omnimech plus that system was made for building completely new and custom mechs. It was never really meant for modifying canon mechs. Many people don't understand that.
You are still ignoring the simplest balance option and that is assigning Battle Value to units in the game. It is how the TT game is balanced, and with some tweaking it could be adapted to work just as well in this iteration of the game.


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