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On July 30, Waitsfield voters will be asked to pass a bond vote for up to $650,000 to be used towards building new town offices on a parcel of land known as the Farm Stand in Waitsfield Village.
While the select board is working on final cost estimates from professional estimator Henry Ericksen for building at the Farm Stand, rehabilitating the former Methodist Church in the village and a historic re-use proposal for that church, The Valley Reporter asked Waitsfield town administrator Valerie Capels to answer a few questions about the upcoming bond vote.
VR: How does the July 30 vote differ from the March Town Meeting vote on the Farm Stand?
Capels: A proposal to bond for up to $1.6 million for a new town office on the Farm Stand was defeated at March Town Meeting by a vote of 229 to 351. The conceptual plan at that time called for a two-story building with approximately 4,000 square feet of space. The conceptual design for the building was later changed do reduce the square footage of the building by about 25 percent and put the entire office on one story, with an unfinished second story to comply with zoning requirements and allow for future expansion. That reduced the cost by about $400,000 and, of course, the town received a $750,000 grant, which reduced the total likely cost to taxpayers to around $500,000.
VR: At the June 10 select board meeting, Joshua Hanford of the Department of Housing and Community Development explained the terms of the $750,000 grant to the town; can you summarize the status of that grant?
Capels: The $750,000 grant was made through a special Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery program established after Tropical Storm Irene. Moving municipal infrastructure out of flood-prone areas is among the eligible activities. It is available on a first-come, first-served basis and once the funds have been expended the program goes away.
At the direction of the select board, the town applied for the grant for either the Farm Stand or the Methodist Church. The same level of information was provided for both sites to the extent possible, and they were both evaluated and considered by department staff and the Community Development Board. The Community Development Board opted to award the grant only for the Farm Stand property for a variety of reasons, one of which was that the Methodist Church option would require displacing three families and a local business. They felt this element was not adequately addressed in the application and that the funds budgeted to comply with the Uniform Relocation Act were underestimated. The town cannot use the grant funds for another site. We would need to forfeit the grant award and reapply. Though we could re-use information from the original application, we would need to go through the full process again. The availability of funds at that time would depend on the point in time of the application, the competitiveness of other applications also in the queue and how much program funding is available. Because the town will have voted twice on a town office bond this year, another bond vote would need to wait until 2014.
VR: When will the final estimates from Ericksen be available to voters and what will they include?
Capels: The select board concurred with the suggestion at their June 24 meeting to hire Henry Erickson, a professional construction estimator, to develop detailed cost estimates for not only the Farm Stand but for the Methodist Church as well to get a clearer sense of how the most current plans compare in costs. A detailed estimate was developed for an earlier conceptual design for the Methodist Church but, like the Farm Stand, that design was changed to reduce costs when the grant application was submitted. More recently, some citizens have suggested other design changes to the Methodist Church to further reduce costs, and the select board wanted to make sure that voters had accurate information to base their decisions on. This third church design option has not yet been presented to town staff or the select board. I expect new estimates for the Farm Stand and both church options will be reviewed by the board next Monday, July 22.
VR: If the bond vote for the town offices passes, what are the immediate next steps that the town takes?
Capels: 1. Proceeding with the environmental review to meet the conditions of the grant award will be a high priority. I do not expect any matters to come up that will prevent the project from going forward, but it does take some time to get through the process.
2. The town will need to satisfy all grant conditions and execute a grant agreement before it can close on the property. The deadline for meeting the conditions is October 15.
3. In the meantime, we could begin the final design process. Only a conceptual plan for the building and site has been developed. I expect design of the new building and site will be a very public process and generate a lot of attention.
4. The project will also need to go through local and state permit processes.
5. A bond application would be submitted in May 2014 and bond funds awarded in June 2014. A bond anticipation line of credit would be secured to cover costs until the bond proceeds became available.
VR: If the town office vote fails, what are the immediate next steps the town will take?
Capels: 1. If a petition for reconsideration was submitted within 30 days of the vote, the select board would need to make provisions for a another Australian ballot vote within 60 days of the submission. To overturn a vote, the vote to reconsider must garner at least two-thirds of the total number of prevailing votes from the original bond vote (17 VSA 2661).
2. If a petition for reconsideration is not submitted, or was submitted and it remained defeated after the second vote, I expect the select board would step back and assess the options. How they choose to proceed may depend on any number of factors. In the meantime, the pressure on the vault and other space will continue to increase.
VR: If the bond vote for the town offices fails, does the town return money to the Community Development Block Grant program and then go to back of line to ask for more money?
Capels: If the bond vote fails, we will not have met one of the conditions of the grant and the grant would be forfeited, unless the funding agency is willing to provide an extension or make some other accommodation. Whether to reapply for an alternative project would depend on a number of factors, including the readiness of the project if it is not the Farm Stand.
VR: Part of the July 30 vote is a second article asking voters to approve a $200,000 loan to extend the municipal water project to Eagles Resort. If the Eagles water loan vote passes, what are the next steps?
Capels: To secure the loan through Rural Development to proceed with the engineering, permitting, bid documents and construction. The goal is to get water to Eagles Resort this year.
VR: If the Eagles water loan vote fails, what is the next step?
Capels: To re-evaluate. There are few if any other sources of financing that would be cost-effective. The organizational structure of Eagles Resort prevents them from being able to borrow, which is one reason the town is pursuing the financing which they will pay back through their fees. If the bond fails, they may have no other option than to drill yet another low-yielding well, which will be costly and is not likely to meet their immediate and long-term needs. Their paying off a 20-year RD loan to extend the water main to provide them with an ample water supply and fire protection would be a far better investment.
Editor's Note – The bond vote for the town offices as well as Eagles Resort takes place by Australian ballot on July 30 and polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Absentee ballots are available now. There will be a pre-meeting about the bond vote on July 29 at Waitsfield Elementary School at 7 p.m. and the Waitsfield Select Board will discuss Ericksen's final estimates at its regular meeting on July 24 at the town offices.


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Their 35-20 loss to Lakeside-Evans at home last week dropped Jones County to fifth in the Region 2-AAAAA standings. With only four teams from the region advancing to state, the Greyhounds must win both of their final two games – at Houston Thursday and at Grovetown next week – to claim the fourth slot.
And they have to play this week in the haunted house named McConnell-Talbert Stadium, where Jones County has never won a game. True, the sampling is small – the Greyhounds have only played there four times previously. But all four trips resulted in lopsided losses – two to Northside-Warner Robins and one each to Houston County and Warner Robins.
The Greyhounds were whipped 49-21 at McConnell-Talbert by Northside two weeks ago, and they fell to Warner Robins 35-7 there last year. In their only previous road contest against Houston County, the Greyhounds lost 36-7 at McConnell-Talbert in 1996.
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I sometimes feel like Im close minded or pessimistic against any Christian literature that is not openly UR, or at least annihilationist. Any suggestions on fellowship with other Christians who arent openly UR? Anytime I see any Christian, Catholic or Protestant literature, I automatically think that this is more soul winning exclusivist legalism. Not to mention, I have a bias against Christians, automatically believing them to be strong Hellfire believers. Not to mention the bias that Hellfire believers are self righteous, sadistic, biggoted, narrow minded, pro-cruelty, legalistic and selfish. I dont know for sure, but does anyone have any suggestions on tackling this bias? Like I feel that I can be a bit pessimistic about this campaign known as "Catholics come home". I feel skeptical about reading any such books such as "The Purpose Driven Life" not to mention listening to megachurch pastors, like Joel Osteen, John Ankerberg, Erwin Lutzer, and a strong need to run away from anything Fundamentalist.
Lately, I've heard messages in two of my favourite "tv preachers" (the only ones I really respected anyway) - saying in tantamount that universalism is a load of bullocks.Sufficed to say...I've just not been able to watch anything from Charles Stanley, or even Joyce Meyer since those specific times. Though in the case of Joyce Meyer, while she has been significantly a help in her ministry to my own needs, I've found myself feeling very leery about the whole "Word-Faith, name it, claim it, if you don't get it you didn't have enough faith" stuff...But when she (and I figured it would happen at some point sooner or later) denounced UR I just felt in my spirit and soul a *click* lights off, turned off. I couldn't really even finish the program that day...haven't watched it since. I just haven't felt the desire to anymore.
Consider this . . .We passionately appreciate the fact that God's unconditional love never fails regardless of our blindness, stubbornness, rebellion, ignorance . . .on and on . . .we embrace God's mercy on us. I don't want to sound pious or disconnected but these opportunities that arise are times when we should exercise that same unconditional love toward others, regardless of what they're saying or doing. Love is not a reward for good, it's the very core of our Father. It's the dna of God. It's our minds that are accusational in nature . . .the satan within . . . and it is our minds we're to take captive of, if we don't, we begin manifesting those discolored attitudes towards the very ones God holds precious. Easier said than done . . .but necessary nonetheless.Whenever I come across a speaker, I don't pay attention to appearance or even the sermon, I listen for sounds of life. I don't, or try not to, discredit them should their message be anything but, at the same time, I don't continue to receive from them either AT THAT TIME . . .they still have messages that still can be illuminative, but if it's a first time thing, I don't, or try not to, write them off all together . . .however there are others who've made it their mission to be religious alarmists . . .i don't give them the time of day. Sad to hear about Joyce Meyer, I beleive she's still an asset to God's purposes in her ministries, people still need that in order to grow into something more solid to where they no longer rely on a message for the day just to get through the day . . .but until then, the Joyce Meyers and others like her are still very much an iimportant part of the body of Christ. We're not above anyone, nor should we wag our fingers as if we are . . . appreciate the passion, but keep those thoughts of rejection of the person in check . . .God loves us all. We should do the same.
What you may have felt, is what I have felt with Joyce. She ministered to you and myself for a season. That season has passed and God has pushed us further. But, I think it's important not to discredit her ministry in that process. Do I believe her ministry is helpful to the body of Christ...yes. Do I listen to Joyce anymore? Rarely and only when I feel led to do so.
QuoteWhat you may have felt, is what I have felt with Joyce. She ministered to you and myself for a season. That season has passed and God has pushed us further. But, I think it's important not to discredit her ministry in that process. Do I believe her ministry is helpful to the body of Christ...yes. Do I listen to Joyce anymore? Rarely and only when I feel led to do so.I do not discredit her ministry, I didn't mean to present that idea. Only that I'd been fading out of that for a while, and hearing her denounce UR I suppose was just my cue to move on. Just as you rarely listen and only when you feel led, so too it is with me - I just haven't felt led.As for the word-faith movement, I've just been leery about it (not Joyce Meyer specifically, and so I do not mean to discredit her ministry which is based on such principles) but it is a matter mostly of something I'm thinking about in the back of my head.But yes, Joyce has been exceedingly helpful in my growth, and for that she is certainly a woman of good faith. I just don't feel hurried or driven to watch and read her stuff - though I do post often on her facebook discussion board, where people (most people) seem to enjoy what I have to say. :)
And Lefein, don't take it wrong. Sometimes I make a bigger point to a bigger audience when quoting others. It can lead to confusion. I don't think you discredited her minisitry, just stated a couple things that gave you pause.


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Originally posted by KingGator
Raph Koster of SWG (and other games) design fame said in a recent video that MMOs, in the mold of what they originally were, are no longer being made. And haven't been.
He called what is being made these days "SPG games in shared space" (or words to that effect).
And I strongly agree.
What is lacking are things like player interdependency, social hubs/functions, real functioning economies, and allowing for multiple playstyles.
That is what most of these "1-month wonders" that MMO makers are putting out have been sorely lacking.
Thing is, for the person looking for a good, well made sandbox-ish game (and who doesn't like EvE), there is nothing out there.
And there is very little hope either, on the horizon we have DF whatever, made by the same clowns that put out the first one as a buggy, exploit riddled mess, and Archage, which if it ever comes out in the West will have a cash shop, and that is something that has no real place in a sandbox MMO.
So, no, there is not a whole lot out there for people looking for that.
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Yeah, we need a true MMO. A game that translates the great experience of pen and paper into a computer game. So far have nothing been even close (and only a few with UO in the lead did even try).
But difficulty is not what makes a true MMO, even if I prefer more than what we seen in games lately.
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Originally posted by Loke666
I'd love to see something that brings that pnp feel to a graphical MMO. I'm starting to think it isn't going to happen though. While I don't kid myself, I am probably going to give Neverwinter a shot just to see what the community can do with the ugc tools, if ever a community was destine to make something interesting it was the NW players.
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there "were" alot of good MMO's out there but as always the creators get greedy and ruin the game by releasing content that we dont need.
For example of some good MMO's ruined by company gettign greedy..
Rohan BloodFued: YNk came out with Epic weapons and litteraly killed the game.
Grand Fantasia: They made fortification increase without increasing the dificulty of make the mobs stronger therefore all u need is a little cash and you can solo the whole game and no need for a healer or tank.
Luminary Rise of goonzu: not much i can say bout this game. it was a social political game that was ruined by the players itself.
i mean i can go on and on but, there is never gona be one game that not gonna get ruined by a greedy company wanting more money. there are other way of getting more moeny with out ruining the game. examples:
new content:
new maps
level cap increase
NEW CLASSES!! <<---- dont see much of this anymore..
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Oh my, if only I had the funds, I'd give you your MMO. It would have a massive world. It would take real time weeks to cross on foot. So most people, unless they become adventurous would rarely go beyond the confines of where they started in the game. That is not a bad thing. There would be plenty to do within the area you start within the game. There would be no classes. No levels. It would be skill based(limited of course). Stats based(limited here as well). Your stats and skills would define what you can and cannot do. A player with low str is not going to be wearing platemail and weilding a huge arse sword for instance. I think I would take the basic game of Mount and Blade(keep the combat and archery as is for the most part) and then make a hybrid online persistent world based on a medieval setting. There would be quest of sorts - but nothing like we see in todays MMO's. Your actions would have an impact. For intance...
Let's say you are part of a growing village. It requires resources to stay healthy. You as a player can do a number of things to help keep the village healthy - either by being a farmer - or by hunting - maybe fishing. As long as you do your part and provide to the health of the village - it'll grow and become stronger. You may have to fight off brigands from time to time. Maybe even go on caravan duty to protect a cities caravan from bandits. Maybe wolves are raiding farms and killing livestock. You as a player would need to go hunt them down. There would be endless possibilites for you the player to partake of. Who knows...you might even one day live long enough to see your village become a city and that city beome the capitol of a kingdom and you it's King or Queen. How cool would that be?
So my game would be like Mount and Blade - crossed with Age of Empires - and Skyrim, but be an MMORPG through and through.
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I think what the OP needs is to give the new Darkfall a chance once it comes out. That was one of the hardest MMOs I played since UO
Now: Skyrim
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I DO NOT PAY MONTHLY FEES to be A BLIND LOYALIST.I would rather GET PAID to be 1.
"We DO need. A somewhat hard mmo. One that relays on the guy next to you having a hard time soloing too. A game that joining a guild means something, and helps the players progress as a team. Make a friend that you click with?....Add him to your friends list....It's all about survival in a hard world."
Don't we already have Darkfall for this? I mean seriously...No sorry. I'm being semi sarcastic. Well Shadowbane wasn't really sandbox-ish (was it?) but I wish .. really wish that it went open source specifically to sort this kind of dilemma. Won't happen though. Actually something did happen. Wait what? Like every MMO...
Look... To me it doesn't matter which old school title we came from. It's not the game mechanics. It's not the rulesets, level/map/world design, skill trees, class stats' modifiers bla bla bla. It's the players. New or old. Warped expectations. That's all and that's the fucking problem.
F2P. P2P. Don't matter. Waste bandwidth for gigabytes of the installer. Set game + forum accs. Waste time from char/class customizations. Go out look at NPCs, maybe look at global chat and then figured "OK maybe I'll solo this 1st 20..". Or maybe 1 time paid for an acc, waste time + bandwidth again for the installer. Rinse. Repeat. Oh? It's good? OK I'll pay for next month again.
For example the previously mega "Why can't I solo in a MMO?" debacle. It's simple. Right intention. Wrong genre. Grey wanted to be seen in black or white. Went for about hundreds of pages that thread iirc.
Newer generation of MMO players are primed, optimized and desensitized in a Twitter-rage, iChat, Whatsapp, Facebook environs and thinks that a 10Mb bigger file to their phones'or tablets' Dungeon Hunter 3 installation is an unnecessary addition w/o even making the effort to read changelogs or comprehend why. It's socializing in acronyms and abbreviations. It's not even a proper verbal exchange with correct spellings. We have kids right now who can't even form proper sentences to hang onto their dear lives on manual essays. This phenom irks the older player base while the young uns are just too plugged in and out to even be bothered. Older players should have naturally exercised just enough years-forged patience nonetheless...but the lot of us choose to ridicule, isolate and/or just ignore the community factor.
This is now. Progress we like it or not will always be a moving target. MMO publishers' idea/symbol of a community stat are the sales stat. Smaller/indie devs maybe. Overall everyone, their paid girlfriends and expenses need to be well funded. Preferably long term.
When you try to get into something with proportionate positive:negative ratio whilst lacking control over the negative, it will be negative.
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We could try and sort the funding out on Kickstarter, only need 20 million dollars, about 16 million pounds, easy. :D
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I agree OP, and that's why I'm 99% sure I'm going to buy the new Darkfall release.
Who f**king cares if my gear get taken, I want an MMO that doesn't feel like someone is holding my hand the whole way.
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Originally posted by ZigZags
Thank you for your concern for the us that would like mmo's back Zig.
However I would like to back myself up a bit by saying that both I and many of us would like harder, not full hard. Just something that works better with a community. A game that is risky to leave that safe haven of a city town or outpost. An mmo that can be played solo when your just not in that kind of mood to talk chat or group every minute of play. But one that AS YOU LOG IN FRIENDS ARE ALREADY ASKING IF YOU CAN HEAL TANK OR DPS, or simply play together because your not selfish.
An mmo where you know the environment, all the fun features because you know all that already. BUT your logging on to be part of, feel needed. Like UO, EQ, EQ2,Vanguard,Vanella WoW,EvE,D&D Online, LOTRO. I'm absolutely sure there is a full market for games like this, They just need to be made better by 2012 standards, AND VERY IMPORTANT NEVER GO F2P. This kills the communities too. Who is Paying ?...Who is not ?...Who is gimped because they never paid a cent....How can someone really trying to progress know who they are trying to play with.
What would be nice :
I'm sorry, I don't think a single voice could be of any help to developers, BUT if mmorpg.com could set up some sort of voting system, and pass there findings on to developers, they may take some advice.....BECAUSE DEVELOPERS ARE ACTING ON THERE OWN IN MAKING EASY MODE. They think everyone loves WoW's easy mode !!!
Have to run off to work now, I'm late...........
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I DO NOT PAY MONTHLY FEES to be A BLIND LOYALIST.I would rather GET PAID to be 1.
Originally posted by Scot
this >>> http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/09/project-eternitys-all-star-effort-to-revive-the-classic-pc-rpg/ ~ Arcanum I want that back soooo bad. But this is OT. And if even with them street cred, they got as of now $2,168,211 pledged of $1,100,000 goal it doesn't seem that easy. I would have thought it's double that by now.
There may be only 500k looking for a fantasy "world" to stay a while but after this year I bet 500k and slowly building looks pretty good.
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Originally posted by Aelious
You are pretty much pulling that number out of your ass. And its direction.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been -Wayne Gretzky
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Sorry for my English xD
Originally posted by delete5230
Darkfall Unholy Wars is comming. And it has all and more of those you are asking ;)
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Originally posted by Kyleran
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Yes they are... and they are making too much noise for this introvert.
I'd tell them to "Pipe Down!" but then that would start them asking what I meant.
So... I think I am gonna go kill some mobs. Virtual Mobs. (with this crowd I figure I had better be specific)
No it was pulled from an earlier discussion and of course it's a made up number. I was pointing out the fact that an older sandbox style game would be more designed to keep people for a longer period than those coming out now designed, intentional or not, for short stays.
A smaller playerbase that grows over time is more beneficial to a developer IMO because they can project for updates and expansions focusing on the game and not thier finances.
Buy hey, +1 for meaningful discussion amiright?
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Originally posted by Aelious
You could've just said that instead of pulling out numbers and whatnot. The crux is that from the investor standpoint, not only do the "short term games" pay out much faster but they are more lucrative overall. Even if a "long term game" can attract the critical mass of players to survive, it is hard to predict or ensure it will last long enough to make similar or greater profit.
Sandboxes are already riskier because while players can make the game, they can also break it.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been -Wayne Gretzky
Option A: Roll out the same old shit in a different skin for a quick turn over and profit. Rinse and repeat.
Option B: Try take the hard road and make the kind of game that is notoriously difficult to do right, whilst having a smaller and more vocal/opinionated audience to try and sell to.
I've always been an advocate of sandbox games and I've actually spent money supporting/playing them. But whilst it is clear that some of us need a "true mmo"(sic), for the main part, a lot of the dev/publisher teams certainly do not.
Roll on Unholy Wars.
Can you provide one MMO example where a short, though larger, gain and quick decline was good for the game or it's makers?
And likewise you could have said something different to get your point across. Guess we're even :)


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What's needed in catechesis?
Joseph A. Komonchak May 7, 2013 - 11:18am
Claire, one of the frequent participants in our dot-Commonweal conversations, teaches catechism in France to eighth-graders, 13 or 14 years old. The other day I sent her a link to a website that specializes in catechesis. She was unimpressed by it and its materials, and, with her permission, I pass on her remarks in the hope that they might prompt a general reflection.
I've read a few of the texts and their proposals do not at all match the needs of my kids.Those texts emphasize the spiritual, experiential and community aspects, but that's what the Mass (in particular) is for. I try to prepare them so they can get more out of the Mass, but I cannot substitute for it, and I don't want to.Those texts downplay knowledge, but my youth are plagued by ignorance.When last month they had confession (for the first time in several years for most of them), the preparation consisted in giving them a long list of possible actions and asking them to think about whether each was good or bad, sinful or not; and in giving them a print-out of the words to be said by them and said by the priest, like a script of the event. But the words were not really explained and the sacramental aspect not mentioned, so, although they went to confession, they had the experience but not the understanding of what they did. That's ignorance.When we studied the Creed, I asked them: 'When at Mass we read the words "and was made man", sometimes at that point the people in the assembly do something. What is it?', and the only ones who had an answer offered: "Yes, at that point, we beat our chest." That's ignorance, too.The last but one session, I asked them what mission Jesus had given to his disciples. The more knowledgeable kids answered: "To announce the Good News". I asked: "And what is the Good News?" - Nobody knew, nobody could suggest an answer, even a wrong answer! That's profound ignorance.So all those texts from that website, with their insistence that the catechist is not a teacher, that the dynamics are different, that there are no lessons to be memorized by the children, that catechism has completely changed and is no longer about teaching facts and doctrines, those texts do not convince me. I have many uncertainties about exactly what to teach and how best to teach it, but not about whether to teach.
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Mr. Barberi:I'd be interested in how you would state the distinction between doubt and difficulty. I responded, not to what you said about catechesis, but to what you said about "the center of theological dispute." The discussion on the thread had moved in a direction that seemed to me to suggest that raising difficult questions was incompatible with firm faith. I thought Newman's distinction between doubt and difficulty was pertinent, and that it might even be useful in thinking about the meaning and manner of catechesis, for which, lest there be any doubt, I agree that something "more than prohibitions and negative injunctions and memorizations of things" is needed.I am aware that many moral theologians disagree with some magisterial teachings; the question I put was whether there were Christian moral teachings or principles with which they do not disagree, on which they have no doubts even as they confront difficult questions. If there are some, then perhaps Newman's distinction again is pertinent. My reference to Muslims was simply to illustrate how the "center of theological dispute" is not exhausted by moral questions and could readily involve doctrines such as that of the Triune God. I happen also to think that the communication of the faith is the primary challenge and that the moral questions can only be properly addressed from within a faith-perspective.
My problem with Newman here is that his distinction is not clear.He begins talkimg about "intellectual differences", but later talks generically, about "difficulties", which, I think, should include doubts in any sense of "doubt", whether doubt as an uncomfortable feeing associated with a dogma or doubt as an outright denial of a dogma.But Newman makes it very clear that a difficulty cannot be a doubtcof any sort.
Oops -- should have been "intellectual difficulties"Not " intellectual differences"
Another quote from Newman: That is no intellectual triumph of any truth of Religion, which has not been preceded by a full statement of what can be said against it. (Newman, The Idea of a University; ch. 8, section 7; p. 476).
Fr. Komonchak,I think we are agreeing on the major points of discussion regarding doubt, difficulty, catechesis, Muslims et al.To get into a heavy discussion about doubt and difficulty would not be as fruitful as your interest in my distinction would lead you to think. There are levels or degrees of intellectual difficulties as well as doubts. Some people have great difficulty in understanding theoretical physics but only have a small or inconsequential doubt about a particular theory. In my case, I have difficulty understanding the works of Martin Rhonheimer and have to read his works 5 or more times to understand his thinking and be able to either agree or disagree (or have serious doubts) with some of his philosophical conclusions about morality. While I may have serious doubt about some of his conclusions, and in certain Church teachings, I remain open to further education and realize that we must approach such issues with humility.As for whether moral theologians can agree on certain principles for which they have no doubt seems to me a moot point. For example, I think that most theologians agree with many principles of Aquinas's ethics but disagree on certain interpretations of his texts as they are offered in support of or in disputation of Church teachings. Few theologians would disagree that in human actions, good and evil are predicated in reference to the reason, as Dionysius says "the good of man is to be in accordance with reason, and evil is to be against reason." However, when we move to specific applications about the role of reason in the moral specification of voluntary human action, there are disagreements, doubts and difficulties among theologians. I am afraid that this subject can bring us far from your major point and it is easy to forget the major issue under discussion.I have no issue with your thinking that "communication of the faith is the primary challenge and that the moral questions can only be properly addressed from within a faith-perspective." However, I was more focused on the specific moral issues and problems that divide our Church and agree that we need more dialogue to reach a consensus of argument and a closer understanding of the truth. This also means better catechesis, less doubt and difficulty. The last thing we need is to close the book on such debates which the Magisterium has done regarding many moral teachings.When we both get to heaven we will know the truth. Until then, doubt and difficulty is the unfortunate part of the process of striving to understand the truth.
This is late in the thread to bring this up, but I see in Rocco's post today that the Alpha Course (a very successful catechetical program initiated by the Anglicans) is now being adopted in some Catholic countries as well as by many Protestant churches worldwide. I really don't know anything about it except that I've read that the Anglicans have had success with it. See Rocco at:http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2013/05/schonborn-as-alpha-male-...
Oops -- that should have been "Alpha courses". There are many of them for different ages groups, etc.
Meanwhile I considered using the catechism http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM and http://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/archive_2005_comp... to see if there was anything that could be integrated to class, for example some concise definitions that could be carried over from year to year across different instructors, but it is not helpful. For example, on the definition of sin: "Sin is a word, an act, or a desire contrary to the eternal Law (Saint Augustine). It is an offense against God in disobedience to his love." Two problems. First, it gives two definitions, not one, so that's already a problem for consistency - I would like it minimalistic. Second and more importantly, that is not how to teach sin. The law-and-order emphasis, the perspective of legalism, obedience, offense against the supreme being, are counterproductive because they do not evangelize: it's not attractive. (For the opposite, look at how Paul's letters are full of often annoying directives but at the same time filled with contagious love!) In my setting at least, it is of no use.
Claire: I agree with your second point, but not with the first. There is nothing inconsistent in the two statements you cite. The second introduces considerations not found in the first, and one could argue that sin is an offense against God precisely because it is an act contrary to his law.The problem with considering sin in terms of violation of divine law is that law is almost always considered to be something external to the person, imposed from without, whether by God or by man. But the essence of sin as personal is that it runs counter to inwardly perceived and experienced obligation. That is, one has by one's intelligence and reason concluded that something ought to be done (or not done) and yet refuses to do it (or does it). And since it is by intelligence, reason, and freedom that we are made to move towards God, sin is both personal failure and a failure to advance in the path toward God. There are few places in theology in which extrinsicism has done more harm than in the matter of sin.
Joe, I agree, but my objection is pedagogical: if you want to teach something easy for children to remember, I think that a good way is to use a short formula, and this offers two of them (both different from the one I used, "turning away from God", and one that they have heard elsewhere, "a lack of love".) Even if, as I believe, all four expressions are valid, hearing a different definition every time they ask someone different creates a lot of confusion and hinders learning.
Claire --Here is Pope Francis' mini-sermon of yesterday about sin. Another little classic. I wonder just how he would define sin.http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/frances...
Claire,A possible third pedagogical problem with those definitions is that they raise more questions than they settle. At some stage of development, a believer may wish or need to hear about "the eternal Law," but that's a big topic to open in a catechism session. In the second definition, "disobedience to his love" is an expression that requires further explanation, because the common understanding, I think, is that love lays the lover under some obligation, not the beloved.
I don't think that any brief definition or description of something as complex as sin is going to obviate the need for further explanation. In fact, I'd prefer one that evoked questions. Questions are the great engine of intellectual development.The ambiguity of the word "law" in a phrase like "eternal law" can be illustrated by St. Thomas's treatment of law in the Summa theologica, which begins with three questions on law in general, followed by one question each on the eternal law and on the natural law, three questions on human law, eight questions on the old law, and three on the new law, or the law of the Gospel. The eternal law is said to be the divine wisdom insofar as it directs all acts and movements; any human knowledge of the truth is said to be "the radiating and sharing in the eternal law"; human laws derive their authority from the divine law to the degree that they conform with right reason; and all human affairs are subject to the divine law insofar as its precepts are known and insofar as it inwardly moves human beings to act. So when it comes to defining the new law, the Gospel's law, St. Thomas can say that "what is most important in it, that in which its entire power consists, is the grace of the Holy Spirit which is given by faith in Christ. And therefore the new law chiefly is the grace of the Holy Spirit itself which is given to those who believe in Christ." Thomas insisted on this to the point that he could write: "Even the letter of the Gospel would kill unless inwardly there were present the healing grace of faith."Ann: I think your comment about love and obligation might apply in many cases of love between human beings, but could scarcely apply to the utterly gratuitous love of the Creator and Savior. How does knowing such love for oneself not place one under an obligation to love in return--and this independently of Jesus' "new command" that we love as we have been loved?
JAK ---Is this addressed to me, Ann O.? At any rate, I don't understand your question exactly. Are you saying that because God loves us for no good reason on our part that we are obliged to love him back? Hmm. I wonder whether love is a matter of oughtness in the first place. Isn't real love, i.e., non-self-serving love, a matter of giving what isn't owed?But, again, "love" is so ambiguous that it's difficult to generalize. Even when it's not ambiguous it's difficult to generalize.
Ann: People who love perceive "oughts" that people who don't love don't see. What's the difference between the father in the parable, who perceives an ought ("We have to celebrate!"), and the older son, who doesn't feel it at all? Da mihi amantem, St. Augustine exclaimed, "and he'll understand."
JAK =-I sense some ambiguities about "ought". There are the oughts of moral obligations, the oughts of promises, and the oughts, no doubt, of giving to loved ones. But they differ in their groundings, I think, so not every "ought" is a moral obligation. Throwing a welcome home party just isn't the same as feeding your child. (This could take a whole thread.)
Ann: Well, of course, there are various kinds of "oughts"--who would deny it? But what might they all have in common? I'm mainly interested in the experience of the ought, e.g., X ought to be done; I ought to do X; etc. I think we all experience various kinds of oughts, and it's worth reflecting on the experience, the inner experience of a "must," an "ought." So often people think of "oughts" as externally imposed by parents, by the state, by God. I think the real oughts are matters of personal authenticity, the felt demand for consistency between what one knows what one should do and what one does.
'I think the real oughts are matters of personal authenticity, the felt demand for consistency between what one knows what one should do and what one does."Aren't there uses of the terms "ought" and "must" and "demand" which signify something objective, e.g., "It ought never to be done", "It's a must", and "The insult demands a response". What is a "felt demand"? If it's a feeling, then it's a subjective reality, while if it's a demand then it sounds like an objective reality. How can one act be both? Or should the concept "felt demand" be analyzed into the parts of some sort of process?I don't think that the expectations which result from being loved are "demands". If they were, then the lover would not be acting gratuitously in granting them. (ISTM gratuity is a defining characteristic of love). When God loves us it isn't because of what we are but because of what He is. (Actually I think that is a bit of an oversimplification, but it gets at my main point.)At any rate, I think that the subjective and objective meanings of "ought", "demand", etc. need to be sharply distinguished. They all connote some sort of requirement (whatever a requirement is), but that doesn't specify them as generically the same.And isn't "what one should do" ambiguous also? Did any of the phenomenologists do analyses of "feeling" obligated? I can't think of any, but I don't know them well. The linguistic analysts' talk a lot about Hume's is-ought distinction, so you'd think they would have done an lot of analysis of the meaning of "ought", but I don't think that's the case either.
Ann: In reply to some of your comments:
Arent there uses of the terms ought and must and demand which signify something objective, e.g., It ought never to be done, Its a must, and The insult demands a response.
Yes, of course, there are oughts that signify something objective. Thou shalt not... really means This ought not be done or You ought not do this...
What is a felt demand?
Its what one experiences when one has judged that I ought to do X. The judgement of duty poises you before the requirement of consistency between judgment and action. If I am a reasonable person and have reached a reasonable judgment about what I ought to do, then there is an inner push to do it. One can perceive it negatively, when one is sorry that one didnt do what one should have done, or did what one shouldnt have done. A guilty conscience, in other words, testifies to this radical inconsistency, which is basic sin.
If its a feeling, then its a subjective reality, while if its a demand then it sounds like an objective reality. How can one act be both?
I dont see why you think this is a problem. The demand may be existential, personal: This is what I myself ought to do. "It may also be general: This is what everyone should do. In both cases the judgment of duty can be mistaken or correct; if it is correct, then the subjective demand urges one toward what is objectively required. One doesnt have to choose between subjectivty and objectivity; its by the exercise of our subjectivity, intellectual, rational, and responsible, that we achieve objectivity.
I dont think that the expectations which result from being loved are demands. If they were, then the lover would not be acting gratuitously in granting them. (ISTM gratuity is a defining characteristic of love). When God loves us it isnt because of what we are but because of what He is. (Actually I think that is a bit of an oversimplification, but it gets at my main point.)
Once again, I was speaking of demands as experienced by the one loved, not as demands imposed extrinsically by the one who loves. For example, would you not think gratitude a felt demand consequent upon an awareness of having been gratuitously loved and blessed? Wouldnt we be rather harsh in our judgment of someone who was not grateful for it. Think of the parable of the unmerciful servant who, after being forgiven an immense debt, has a fellow-servant thrown into debtors prison over a relatively trivial debt. The master rebukes him: I canceled your entire debt when you pleaded with me. Should you not have dealt mercifully with your fellow servant, as I dealt with you (Mt 18:32-33)? Ought not those undeservedly forgiven forgive in their turn?
At any rate, I think that the subjective and objective meanings of ought, demand, etc. need to be sharply distinguished. They all connote some sort of requirement (whatever a requirement is), but that doesnt specify them as generically the same.
I dont have a problem with distinguishing between objective and subjective demands, on the grounds that not all subjective judgments of oughts are correct, that is, objective, that is, stating what really and truly ought to be done, either by me alone or by anyone similarly situated. But distinction is not separation, and objective moral judgements are reached only by the exercise of my subjectivity. Correct and concrete recognition of duty yields the felt demand for consistency, that is, a sense of obligation.
And isnt what one should do ambiguous also?
I dont know that the phrase is ambiguous. It just covers a very broad expanse of obligatory actions, actions, that is, that are obligatory on various grounds and for the sake of various goals.
Did any of the phenomenologists do analyses of feeling obligated? I cant think of any, but I dont know them well.
Max Scheler did a great deal of work in this area. But isnt it already in Aristotle who makes the just person the measure of what justice requires? By the way, another area that goes unexplored, at least as far as I know, is the experience of wonder? I think it was Aristotle who said that wonder is the beginning of philosophy, but do you know anyone who has studied wonder for itself, wonder as experienced?
"[A felt demand] is what one experiences when one has judged that I ought to do X. The judgement of duty poises you before the requirement of consistency between judgment and action. If I am a reasonable person and have reached a reasonable judgment about what I ought to do, then there is an inner push to do it."JAK =So a felt demand is a feeling which is the result of and accompanies a judgment of duty, such that the judger is inclined to act consistently with the judgment.My problem with this is that it reduces an "ought" to the subjective part of the ought -- to the feeling and judgment of the judger. As I see it, "ought" it is a relational word with two relata: 1) the person who has a duty, and 2) the *object* of the judgment and the inclination, viz., the objective reality which is produced by the judger's action. The object to be produced is *essential* to the notion of doughtiness. It is a*necessary* part of an equation concerning justice, so to speak. And the next paragraph of your post seems to agree with this. Why is it essential? Because *what the object is* constitutes the reality which grounds the obligation. It calls the obligatory relationinto being, so to speak.. For instance, you have an obligation to grade your students fairly because of what they are, not because of some subjective feeling. I would say that the subjective feeling to do right by them is itself produced by your grasp of what they are. In other words, "ought" cannot be defined apart from an object of the ought. (I once had a room-mate who thought that she was obliged to help clean the apartment only out of love, so she only cleaned up when she felt like it. I felt that was terribly unfair. She didn't know what a duty is.) As to gratitude, I don't think that gratitude is a felt demand to act in the sense above. The sense above pertains to a process involving rational thinking and choice. Gratitude, I think, is just a natural feeling which is psychologically automatic -- somebody gives us a gift and consequently we like the person and wish them well. Does gratitude demand that we reciprocate with a gift? Not if the gift was really a gift. Yes, some people are so self-centered that they have little if any feelings of gratitude, but that is just an ugly situation, not an immoral one.You might make a case for reciprocation on *aesthetic* grounds -- as a matter of fittingness. But not, I think, on moral grounds.Thanks for the Scheler recommendation. I've ordered a book.
Ann: I think I've been saying all along that one mustn't separate the subjective and the objective in the experience of an ought. I've used clauses like: "I ought to do X" or "X ought to be done" to convey what I'm talking about, so I haven't been excluding the object, the action, from my considerations. But it remains that in the conscientious person obligations are experienced as personal oughts. It's not just that cheating, for example, is wrong, but that I should not cheat: that "should" is now personal, now is part of what defines, constitutes, me, so that then to go on and cheat is not only to do what ought not be done but is also to betray my own self, my own integrity. What I am talking about as the experience of an "ought" is what the conscientious person recognizes when he has to admit to himself that he has violated his conscience. Think of the difference between giving a reason why you did something and rationalizing it away. If we have a reason why we didn't do something, it's not a violation of conscience, of personal integrity, whereas when we are offering a rationalization to oneself or to others, we know in our own hearts that it's not true, not an excuse, not a real reason.
JAK --So are you saying that a "personal ought" is personal not only in the sense that it is a person who has a moral relationship to something/someone else, but it is personal *also* in the sense that there is also an obligation to the self/the subject involved? I wouldn't dispute that. But the obligations are not identical.I think that especially in this culture we have to be careful not to see obligations and just acts as primarily concerned with the self. Much too often Americans judge moral acts on the basis of whether or not one is "comfortable" with the results. Being satisfied, or dissatisfied with one's actions is not a criterion for deciding whether or not one has done right by the object. Making self-satisfaction the criterion of for judging what is good distorts the whole process of making moral judgments. Further, on a theological level, having self-perfection as the goal of one's spiritual program is a distorted view of what a truly virtuous life is, I think. Self-perfection follows from perfecting our relationships with others, so our relations with others ought to be what we concentrate on, not our own being virtuous. "Spiritual" writings generally turn me off because too often they put the emphasis on one's own perfection, not on loving others. Still further, too often when smug Christians attempt to evangelize, their/our self-satisfaction turns off the seekers who want nothing to do with such an apparently self-centered moral system. I'm convinced that Pope Francis' success in capturing people's hearts so quickly is due in large measure to his message that what Christ calls us to first is service to others, not making perfect confessions. I love his term of scorn "self-referential". He sees that orientation as the source of much that is wrong with the world, including the Church. Not that you're disagreeing. I just think that when we don't make a clear distinction between the good of the subject and the good of the object that we can easily end up kidding ourselves about our own virtue.
Ann: I wasn't talking about some kind of narcissistic "Do your own thing", and, of course, judgments have to be made about what is the truly good, worth-while, thing to be done. In Lonergan's terms, for the morally converted (Aristotle's "just man"), authenticity, self-fulfilment, is self-transcendance, that is, decision moves away from a criterion that pivots on a calculus of pleasure and pain, to the genuinely valuable, whatever its cost to them might be. But it remains that "oughts," however "objectively" right, are experienced as "oughts" precisely because they are objectively the right thing to do.St. Thomas once commented that if a person does the good and avoids evil only because God commands the first and forbids the second, that person is not free, is not self-directed (He cites here Aristotle's dictum: "Liber est causa sui.") But if by inner inclination he does the good because it is good and avoids the evil because it is evil, then he is free, and this, he says, is what the Holy Spirit does in the hearts of the converted. Catholics still have such a problem with, such a fear of, subjectivity, which many of them cannot think of except as subjectivism. In that respect, we are so far from the likes of Augustine and Aquinas.
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I think we'll have to suffer for a while, like the Wii did, when they got a lot of ports with no real understanding of how to use the new control paradigm of the Wii-mote.
I think there the iPhone will succeed in gaming in that its gameplay is much closer to the Nintendo DS. I don't think the processing power argument really matters because both the Nintendo DS/Wii are more successful than the PSP/PS3, respectively, and yet we know that the processing power of the latter is exponentially better than their Nintendo counterparts. You're right, developers need to make "fun" games that focus on interactive gameplay in order to make the iPhone a worthy contender in the gaming arena as proven by Nintendo's recent success with their current "fun" consoles.
On a side note, Dreamcast is STILL my favorite console from that generation.
AND, the iPhone is STILL my favorite phone that I've ever had (and, dare I say, even better than my BlackBerry tear).
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