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In the distant future, in a country simply known as Nation, Arianna Lockheart has always wondered what role she will take in the world. As a girl, she felt the future had already been set out for her, but she yearned for more, for a purpose. From her first sight of a female soldier as a child to when she sees the horrors of war as a young adult, Arianna braves the harsh realities of the world she can only just about understand.
Tree...tree....tree...I keep track of every tree the jeep storms past, while my fist remains buried in my cheek. I'm still a child, and I'm so, so bored. I try my very, very best though, I tried to listen to 'The Big Book of Fairy Tales' but it's so boring! The lady needed help from Prince Charming. I also thought the idea of women needing help stupid if they could do it themselves.
I lean forward, my hands and nose press firmly against the window and I start to damn its existence. While still far away, I catch a glimpse before the soldier is like an little ant. The soldier was a lady standing at the roadside, armed with a gun that my carer said are bad but I have seen soldiers protecting us millions of times with those things, but they were still bad. They are bad for the people getting hit by them, I suppose. The lady had another, a much larger gun strapped to her back. Maybe if she lost the gun, she could use that till she found it again or someone handed it back to her. Anyway, she had hair like the colour of the sandpaper back at the orphanage, while the rest of her hair had been tucked away and hidden under a red hat that seemed to flop to the side, with a shiny gold badge attached to it.
'What're you looking at, Anna, baby?' Sara, my carer, asks. She always knows what I have something on my mind.
The soldier is miles away now, but I remember every detail of the soldier because she fascinates me. She's the right kind of woman that would easily get out of the dungeons and kill the evil dragon that guarded her and would have to save the Prince from certain doom.
'I saw a soldier!' I reply, laughter eating up my words so that now it only comes out in silly sounds. 'She was a girl! I want to be her!'
I look to Sara so she can smile and tell me that I should go for it, like she always does, but I see the doubt in her eyes, making horrible lines above her eyes. She then gets up from her seat, sits by me and then gives me a hug. I giggle once again. She must be happy with my plan to be like the woman. I love Sara. She has been my mummy and my daddy for as long as I can remember, and I guess the thought of her holding a bad gun must have worried her. She starts to braid my hair, her eyes loving. I've finally been adopted but the bond we made could never and will never be broken. I can feel her fingers tremble as she places one strand of my hair over the other. I try not to think of bad things however, and think of what will happen at the end of this drive. I'm being sent to a family called the Lockheart. Arianna Lockheart - I'd take that over Arianna Howard any day. They are in Kiloft, which I know is in the north of Nation from the map Sara gave me for my birthday last month. She told me more about Kiloft the day I found out I had been adopted. It's a village that is cut off from the rest of the country because of the tall mountains and the deep forests that surround it. She must have let me go there because she told me I would be safe there for the rest of my life, away from the soldiers and the dangers that I would often seen in Lower Feopolis - it annoys me. I like danger.
'You sure you wanna to be like that kinda woman? Awful dangerous, you know.'
'I can do it.'
Sara smiles once again, and nods. We both understand my position back at the orphanage. I am Arianna Howard, soon to be Lockheart, the girl who would either break up the fights or start them, would lead groups and hated boys for being do stupid, and I still believe that to this day. Sara finished the braid and then undid it before giving me a big kiss on the top of my head. 'Course you can, sweetheart.'
The jeep finally stops, and my heart starts to flutter. What if this family doesn't like me? What if they want a girl who likes flowers and dresses instead of a girl who hates the thought of shopping and hates boys? My stomach feels funny now, like they have butterflies in them or something, so I look out of the jeep window to see a large helicopter outside. I now remember Sara telling me that you could only get into Kiloft from the air. I giggle with excitement again at the thought of flying, like a bird, in one of those. There were many of them that flew past the orphanage. One boy suggested they are pirates stealing treasure and another said they came from a different planet and want to eat our brains.
The door opens, clinging onto Sara's hand so I know she's there with me, until it slips from my hand when I hop out of the door. I pause for a second and turn to Sara, her eyes fighting back tears. This is confusing. Why do adults smile when they're crying? Why is Sara's crying?
'There's gonna be someone there who'll make sure you get there nice and safe, my girl.'
'But I want you -'
And I do. I want her like crazy. She kneels down to my height and places her soft hands on my shoulder. I hold onto her the apron-like cloth thing she told me is called a scapular in utter desperation. I then hear the sound of footsteps approaching and it only makes me hold onto her more and more. Sara kisses my cheek and scoops me up into her arms, like a baby. We both look at the pilot, who stretched out his arms to take me. I can feel the fear growing and growing inside my stomach and the butterflies are starting to flap their wings hard. The whole of the man's upper face were not there, his eyes are two larges black circles strapped to his face where his eyes should be. He must have been some sort of cyborg, like in the films I'm not allowed to watch. The thick brown moustache under his nose looks like a giant hairy caterpillar. I avoid people with moustaches. I can smell his breath from her, like the drinks adults drink late in the evenings that make them talk funny, and his teeth are like horrible yellow fingernails. I look up at Sara and stroke her flawless olive skin. When she smiles, her teeth are like pearls from Upper Feopolis. Her eyes are a bright blue, which I liked. I've never seen her hair that was always tucked away under her wimple, but I know it's probably very beautiful and shiny.
She brushes a tear away from my cheek and then lowers me back to my feet. She places a warm hand on my back and gently pushes me towards the man, who sighs, and would be rolling his eyes, if he had any.
'Will you be long, Sister?' he asks and taps his gold watch. It's 09:52.
'She coming. Come on, little cherub. It gonna be fine.' She gestures towards the pilot, but I'm not giving up, and I throw my little arms around her reaching as far as I could around her waist. The tears are now coming out of me like rainwater, and I cough when the tears leak from my nose and into my mouth. She kneels down to my height again and takes my chin gently, making me stare into her mystifying eyes.
'Now, you listen here, little missy, you don't need to be all scared and crying like this, Arianna Lockheart, you gotta tough girl reputation you need to maintain (she always knows how to make me giggle). Seriously, though, girl, you need to be strong and kind and good. This may be end with me but now, you're on your own brand new adventure, a new life for yourself, not a lot of people get that chance, you know. (She wraps my little hands around hers and kisses them) You is smart, you is beautiful and you is bossy - they're ain't bad things to be with. You is going to brighten up someone's life, and you is going to do something real important, you be sure about that, little missy.' She kisses me once again and turns me towards the pilot, who had been in the middle of lighting one of the those cigarette things but flicks it away and crushes it under his boot. I frown at this, but I take a deep breath and walk into his arms. He takes me to the helicopter and straps me securely into the seat next to the window. I thought the helicopter would have loads of alien technology on it, or lights flickering on and off like on a spaceship, but there's just a few screens with yellow lines that would spin around, over and over again, and loads of switches. The pilot flicks a few switches and the engine starts, making my seat shake, and makes a loud roaring sound like a motorbike.
I look to the right of me to find what I guess is my new carer until I'm handed to my new family. Her outfit bulge from wearing clothes a few sizes too small, but she seems friendly enough and I feel safe around her, which is always good I suppose. She had heard the most terrible of adoption stories, like my once best friend Jessica who was adopted by a family in Upper Feopolis. We all thought she would be treated like a princess and get everything she wants and become one of the fancy ladies I often see on the billboards near the junkyards, but we found out a week later that she was treated like the staff. But this woman feels nice because she smiles warmly and this gives me confidence. Sara always told me never to judge someone by their appearance, unless it was to compliment it.
I look back to Sara and the jeep. She blows a kiss to me, and I try to catch it, lifting my hand and wanting to catch it. I know I did catch it though, even through this thick glass. Kisses can pass through anything.
'We'll see each other again!' I just about hear her say. I nod and smile. I look forward to that day. I'll come back as a really famous soldier or maybe the most famous girl in Nation. Whatever happens to me, I'm sure she will be proud of me.
The helicopter lifts off the ground, bouncing up and down on the seat, maybe the pilot's way of trying to scare me, and Sara starts to get smaller and smaller until she becomes ant-size, like the soldier.
'Are you okay, sweet pea?' the woman asks, and places a heavily jeweled hand on my head, which hurt a little as her rings brush hard against my scalp. They are nothing like Sara's soft and beautiful hands that were the last thing I would feel before going to bed at night. I look to the woman and, for the first time, notice her circle shaped head that's caked with make up with crayon red lipstick splattered all over her lips.
'Strong...and kind...and good...'


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I am surprised no one just came out and said the reason why he was scratched was that he was 38.
You can bag skate an old mule but its not going to get any faster, or plow any longer. And maybe have the opposite effect.
Sad thing was he probably was in as good a shape as he can be. Torts and others are using code speak for "you are old but I cant say it out loud". It happens every year a guy close to retiring but thinks they can still help out for one more year. If you got paid 3M you would try too.
just from memory off the top of my head. jf fortin was called out for bad nutrition and being out of shape. eric fehr was called out for being out of shape. ov has been called out for being fat and out of shape. backstrom has been called out for being swedish meatball out of shape. so....because hamrlik was overweight and out of shape it really means that he is old? as i recall the quiet talk of knuble last season was that he had lost a step that he needed and was aging out. no mention of knuble being out of shape. he was just getting too old.
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A collection of "Fair Game" columns by Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times.
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With a new administration relaxing oversight, the prospect of curbing executive pay or forcing climate change accountability may fall to investors....
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Routehappy is about to launch a new way for travelers to search for flights — and TechCrunch readers can actually take a look now. The idea, as explained to me by co-founder and CEO Robert Albert, is to move beyond the focus on price and schedule that you find on every other flight search site. Sure, those things are important, but as I noted when Routehappy raised seed funding last year, when you suddenly find yourself stuck in a cramped seat without Wi-Fi, you realize that other factors matter, too.
So Routehappy has built a big database of information drawn from "hundreds of sources" — including commercial data providers (mostly for on-time data), reviews, and the airlines themselves. It then looks at the various factors that a traveler might consider and combines them into a "happiness score" between 1 and 10. So if a flight has lots of leg room, a great entertainment system, and Wi-Fi, it should get a high score. And actually, schedule does play a role in the score — for example, there's a demerit if there's a long layover or if it's a red eye flight, because those things will probably make you unhappy.
Albert gave me a tour of the site, where he showed me lots of different searches. His main point: There are plenty of improvements that Routehappy can help you identify that don't make a big difference in the price. He pointed to flights where the difference between WiFi and no WiFi, or between a personal entertainment system and those crappy overhead TV screens, was only a small percentage of the overall price, or there was no difference at all. He also pointed out that choosing by airline isn't enough — there are some airlines with a significant difference between the planes in their fleet.
I was particularly impressed by Routehappy's interface. Although searching by happiness is not something I'm used to (the closest thinge I've seen is Hipmunk's "agony" ranking), it was easy to understand how to use the site. You can also filter your results based on specific factors (I'm guessing a lot of you would be most interested in Wi-Fi), or, yes, on price — I kind of like the idea of ranking flights by price and then choosing the cheapest one that doesn't seem totally miserable. There are also nice little touches, like Routehappy's ridicule of planes that still have overhead entertainment systems — "What is this, the '80s?"
As for how reliable this data is, well, there's definitely some acknowledged uncertainty. On the Wi-Fi front, there are flights that are simply listed as "yes" or "no," but also others that say "maybe" or "test." Albert said some airlines are actually happy to work with Routehappy, because "they don't want to be commoditized," but he noted that even their data can be wrong, and that he's tried to help them correct their own information at times.
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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - July 25, 1985, New Braunfels, Texas Bank head resigns over bad collateral New Braunfels Herald-Ze/ft/n^ Thursday, July 25,1935 3A Texas DAINGERFIELD (AP) — Residents in this as* Texas town are shocked over the resignation of a bank president, who bank officials said kept t lousands of dollars in counterfeit money as collateral on loans. John Scott Jr., 33, president of the Daingerfield National Bank, quit a week ago, said Buck florence, majority stockholder and board chairman. "We're in a state of shock. He was a local sports figure in high school, he has always done real well, he s widely respected in this county," Daingerfield Mayor Jerry Grainger told The Dallas Morning News. "We have all watched him grow up." Before working for the largest local bank, Scott had been president of the Daingerfield Chamber of Commerce. I don't believe it still. I love Johnny Scott," Mariann Wood, office manager of the chamber of commerce, said. T've worked with him for four years, and Johnny is super. I just don't believe it." Scott had been bank president for the past 18 months, and he had worked at the bank for about eight years. "I hand-picked him to be president," Florence said. "Johnny Scott was part of my most inner circle." The bank executive committee, Florence said, discovered "considerable inconsistencies" with two loans involving a mother and son, whom he declined to identify. "Mr. Scott had made loans, taking bogus money as collateral," Florence said. Scott told Florence the loans were covered with cash, but the money turned out to be bogus, Florence said. He did not say how much counterfeit money was involved, but The News reported it was $600,000 worth. The loans were made over the past ll months, the last on July 12. The situation came to light last week, Florence said. According to Florence, he confronted Scott when the bank president returned from a vacation, and Scott told him he had a large mount of cash he was holding as collateral. Florence said he knew the money was counterfeit when he touched the bills. "I reached down and touched it, and I instantly knew it was bogus. It felt sort of like a sheet of paper that you'd run through a copy machine," said Florence. Using cash as collateral is "not a customary banking practice," he said. The bank may recoup a $75,000 building, and he said he expects remaining losses to be covered by insurance. Customers have been curious about Scott's resignation, but "we've had no significant withdrawals," Florence said. He said that a check of the vault revealed no other counterfeit funds and there was "no indication whatever that anybody else in the bank is a party to this." Scott could not be reached for comment by the Associated Press on Wednesday. The Secret Service is investigating the couterfeit money case, The News reported. Local law enforcement officicals are mystified about where Scott got the bogus bills. "There is a lot to this story that remains to be unraveled," said Morris County Sheriff Joe Skipper. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Angelo of Tyler said his office was investigating the matter but he declined any further comment on the case. Mom 8- Pop slayings GRAND PRAIRIE (API - Police early today searched for a motive in the stabbing deaths of an elderly operator of a small grocery and his mother, whose bodies were found in the store Wednesday night. George Grant, about 71, and his mother, Lillian, about 93. were found stabbed repeatedly in the back after police were notified of the slayings shortly after 8 p.rn at Grant's Grocery Store, police spokesman Gaylord Hayes said A teen-age girl discovered the mother's body in the living quarters of the store Wednesday night, and the man s binh was found nearby The Grant family had operated the store for at least 30 years Hayes said officers had not determined if the store was robbed late Wednesday night A small amount of change was found in the store's cash register. "We don't know what the motive was. whether it was a robbery or it was just a murder," Hayes said He said small amounts of money usually were kept at the store. Mrs. Grant was last seen after 5 p.m. Wednesday, and police believed that both she and her son had been dead about two hours before they were discovered, Hayes said. Roy Holland, pastor for the Freetown Road Church of Christ, said the Grants normally would attend worship services on Wednesday night. But he said Mrs. Grants health problems occasionally kept her from attending services. Holland said Mrs. Grant had to use a walker as a result of a stroke she had suffered. Neighbors said the Grants often extended credit to residents of the low income neighborhood where the store is located. • They would have done anythingElderly couple found dead in family store for anyone," said Marie Mack, 23, a neighbor who grew up with the Grant family. Police Chief Harry Crum said the store has been robbed several times, but there had never been any violence directed at the owners. "This was a mom and pop operation" smaller than an average convenience store, Hayes said, adding that the store usually shut down about 5 p.m. However, Grant had a practice of selling merchandise to neighborhood children who came by late, he said. "They'd usually open the door and let them get what they wanted," he said. "There was no cause for anyone to kill somebody over food or something because they had tickets in there where people could buy on credit," Hayes said. 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On an emotional night in the Bronx, where fans saw Mariano Rivera's final game at Yankee Stadium, the Rays won their seventh straight. Alex Cobb pitched for seven innings, allowing no runs and three hits, leading his team to a 4-0 victory. Tampa Bay is now 12-3 in their last fifteen games, and appear to be red-hot heading towards October. They have completed sweeps of two AL East competitors in a row, and are on their way to clinching one of the coveted Wild Card spots. Will Myers (Photo credit: Elsa/Getty Images) The magic number for the Rays is two games, and with a three-game series against the last place Toronto Blue Jays to start tonight, the Rays seem to be in a pretty good position. The Rays have been able to last in an extremely competitive Wild Card race that has spanned over the course of the last moth of the season. With the New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles, and Kansas City Royals all eliminated from playoff contention, it is now a three-man race for the top two spots. The Rays hold the first spot with a one game lead over the Cleveland Indians, and the Texas Rangers sit one game behind them as we enter into the last three games of the season. Looking ahead the Rays should be very confident in the way that they have played over the course of the past couple of weeks. This was a team that looked as though it was going to self-destruct towards the end of the season, but got hot at precisely the right time. After their performances against both the Orioles and the Yankees, Tampa Bay has sent the message to the rest of the American League that they will be contenders in the postseason. Before that, however, the Rays will want to focus on finishing first in the Wild Card standings in order to host their one game playoff at Tropicana Field.
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My buddy has a 97 Sahara and the defrost does not work, it only blows out the vents. We pulled the dash out over the weekend and discovered that the flap that changes the flow of air has broken where the vac. control hooks to it. Do you have to buy the whole heater core box or is there some way to replace just the flap? We tried epoxy but it only made it work for a few seconds before it broke free again!:banghead:
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Help for HDD upgrade from 160gb to 500 gb[ Edited ]
I've got a 160 gb fat ps3, and somehow its hdd is full; it says something like: ''less than 500mb left''. Soo, I (MAY) upgrade it to a 500 gb HDD. Since I don't want to delete my data, I have to buy an external hdd to save my stuff. I wondered if any of you could tell me if these to devices will work for completing my ps3 upgrade:
as internal:
as external:
all together this is a bit expensive, so I don't know if I'm going to do this, but I still want to ask!
- thanks!
Re: Help for HDD upgrade from 160gb to 500 gb
Both drives are fine
But for the external drive you'll need to have it formatted to FAT32 otherwise the PS3 will never recognize it.


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Over 40% of the population have no choice but to collect dirty water from unsafe sources.
people in Ethiopia don't have access to safe water.
Over 71 million people don't have access to adequate sanitation in Ethiopia.
Over 9,000 children die every year from diarrhoea caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation in Ethiopia.
Ethiopia is in the Horn of Africa, where an extended period of droughts, famines and conflicts has had a serious impact on health and life expectancy. Many children die before the age of five.
42 million people in Ethiopia don't have access to safe water and over 71 million don't have adequate sanitation. More than 9,000 children die every year from preventable diarrhoeal diseases caused by poor water and sanitation.
Most people in Ethiopia make a living through farming. However, without water they cannot grow the crops they need to feed and support their families.
Poor roads make it difficult for engineers to reach remote villages and low water tables present additional challenges.
We work with local partners that understand local issues. These include regional governments, technical experts and other charities.
We also coordinate a country-wide water, sanitation and hygiene coalition, uniting government organisations, donors, the media and private sector to help promote the right to water and sanitation throughout Ethiopia.
In Ethiopia last year we reached:
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Ethiopia is Africa's second most populous country yet is one of the least well served in terms of sanitation and water. Since 1983 we have reached more than 1.7 million and more than half a million with safe sanitation.
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But Noah had done his research and assured me it was a good idea. He's kind of our vacation planner - I call him Clark Griswold when it comes to vacations. :) He's way into it. So I trusted his opinion, and we signed up for a 5-day cruise out of New Orleans. Just for good measure, we invited my parents to tag along too. They both have fall birthdays, so we thought it would be a perfect time to celebrate them!
And y'all? Noah was right. It ended up being the perfect vacation for our family this year.
We had to wait until Jackson was 6 months old to even think about doing a cruise (cruise line rules). So we knew we couldn't go until at least August. The further you get into the fall, the better the prices get...and we thought it would be a little bit cooler and less crowded if we went in September. This is Emmie's last year to get to ditch school for a vacation, so we took advantage of it! The weather and crowds ended up being great in mid-September.
I'm going to split this post up into two parts; today's post will have pictures and recaps from the vacation and I'll have one next week with tips and planning advice on cruising with kids. Get ready for a picture overload today! :)
We sailed out of New Orleans on the Carnival Triumph. We originally had a balcony room booked, but a few weeks before the trip Carnival offered us an upgrade to a suite for a few hundred dollars. We accepted, and it ended up being the best thing we could have done for the vacation! Not only did it give us a little more room, but gave us priority status for boarding and disembarking. We got to skip a lot of the huge lines, which is huge with little children!
The room was perfect for the four of us. It had room for a crib (which Carnival had waiting on us when we boarded) and a couch that converts to a twin bed for Emmie. There was room for the kids to kind of play if we were in the room and we had plenty of space to all get ready at once.
Crib and couch (that converted to a bed for Emmie)
Looking back towards the door. There was a whole bar area with a fridge...huge if you have a baby! There was also storage under the bar area that we used for toys, so they weren't cluttering up the room.
The bathroom was much bigger than a standard cruise bathroom. It had a shower/tub combo that was really nice, as opposed to the matchbox that you normally have to shower in!
There was a dressing area that we used to store baby items and to have a little bit of privacy from kids while we were getting ready.
And lots of extra storage! We used one closet for our double stroller and the others were great for clothes and baby junk.
And we had a huge balcony! The view you see here is only half of it. This was a must-have for after we put the kids to sleep every night.
As soon as we boarded, we had a little fun surprise waiting in the room for Emmie. Carnival offers a little gift pack you can have waiting for you in your room, with pool floaties, a coloring book, and a backpack. She was so excited!
Our first day was a day at sea. One of the biggest things I loved about cruising with kids was the number of activities on board. We joked that Emmie was the busiest one in the family on vacation! Up first was a character parade with several Dr. Seuss characters.
We paraded through the whole boat with instruments and signs. She got a kick out of it!
That led to a reading of Cat in the Hat by our cruise director. And guess who got picked to play Thing 2 in the reading...
It was so cute!
She got so into it and was so excited to get to keep her Thing 2 hair. It was a fun little touch that she is going to remember forever.
That night, we went to our first sit-down dinner (and of course my camera died about 5 minutes after we got there). This guy did great...he even sat in a high chair for the first time!
And we came back to one of Emmie's favorite parts of the whole trip - the nightly towel animal. It's the little things, you know? :)
The next morning, we had an awesome Seaday brunch. Afterwards, Emmie went to Camp Carnival. And that was about the end of our time with her.
Camp Carnival is the babysitting service (that is included in your cruise price) that is absolutely packed full of activities for kids. From the day that she went for the first time, she absolutely begged to go every single day! They had everything from crafts to games to competitions for the kids. It was amazing. (I'll try to remember to find the schedule and put a copy in my tips/tricks post...but they had a schedule from 10am every morning to 10pm at night, with a hour or two break in the afternoon.)
That afternoon, while Jackson napped and I stayed with him in the room, Noah and Emmie did a family scavenger hunt (and they won!). This was Emmie's first trophy ever...she was so proud of it. It is currently being displayed front and center in our living room.
They also had the chance to do a Carnival-themed Build a Bear.
Hula Starfish Elena is the newest member of the Lambert family.
That night was our formal dinner. If you've never been on a cruise, typically there is one night that is nicer than the others. You're expected to wear nicer clothes and the food is usually the best you'll get on the whole trip.
And the food didn't disappoint! One of my favorite food features of the boat was The Taste Bar - before dinner, a smaller appetizer from some of the nice restaurants on board would be served. This was an incredible meatball from the Italian chefs.
And the meal in the dining room was just as amazing. I had stuffed mushrooms and a crab ravioli. SO good.
We came back to the room to our favorite towel animal!
Day 3 was our day in Mexico.
Of course, even in Cozumel, everyone had to wear their Alabama clothes...it was a game day!
Before heading out, we went to the top deck for breakfast and to check out the towel animals. They were on every chair by the pool.
Emmie just loved them.
We honestly didn't stay in Mexico for very long. It was insanely hot that day (had to be well over 100°...even the Carnival employees were commenting on how hot it was), but we did have a little authentic Mexican food and do some shopping.
And once we got back on the boat, Emmie, Noah and I got in a little pool time while Jackson napped in the room with his Mimi!
Noah has been talking up that water slide for months. I wasn't sure if she would do it or not, but once Noah kind of coaxed her into it, she begged to do it again.
On day 4, we had probably my favorite event of the whole trip. There is a Cat in the Hat brunch option available that was absolutely precious.
All of the dining tables were Dr. Seuss-themed and the menu was full of fun Dr. Seuss breakfast treats.
I had the Belgian Waffles...
...Noah had the Fox in Socks Steak and Eggs...
...and Emmie had the Yogurt Parfait.
The characters were also there to sign autographs and take pictures!
We had the best time at this one...if you're taking kids on a Carnival Cruise, I think a lot of the ships have this option on one of the sea days now. It was so worth the very reasonable cost!
After brunch, we had a little time in the room with Thing 1 while Thing 2 went to Camp Carnival. Once she was done with that, we headed to High Tea at Sea!
This is a (free!) tea time that is offered one or both afternoons at sea. It was such a fun little thing to do with kids.
There were lots of little treats and tea offered. One of the many reasons you're never hungry on a cruise. :)
We also headed by the arcade (and I'm pretty sure if you ask Emmie, this was her highlight of the trip).
I didn't get many pictures of that night and getting off the boat, because honestly those aren't a lot of fun. :) Lots of packing and waiting in lines. But I did snap this one Sunday night, while I sat on the balcony as Jackson napped...
It was the perfect sunset to cap off our first big vacation as a family of four!


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Waldemar Christofer Brøgger (geologist)
|Waldemar Christofer Brøgger
Brøgger in 1922
|10 November 1851
|17 February 1940 (aged 88)
|University of Stockholm
|Doctoral students
|Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
|Known for
|Formation of rocks
|Notable awards
|Murchison Medal (1891)
Wollaston Medal (1911)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Waldemar Christofer Brøgger ForMemRS[1] FRSE (10 November 1851 – 17 February 1940) was a Norwegian geologist and mineralogist. His research on Permian igneous rocks (286 to 245 million years ago) of the Oslo district greatly advanced petrologic theory on the formation of rocks.
He was born and died in Oslo, Norway, then called Christiania. He attended the Cathedral School in Oslo before studying at Oslo University.[2]
He was professor of mineralogy and geology from 1881 to 1890 in the University of Stockholm, and from 1890 to 1916 was Professor of Mineralogy and Palaeontology in the University of Christiania. He also became rector and president of the senate of the royal university of Christiania.
His observations on the igneous rocks of South Tyrol compared with those of Christiania afford much information on the relations of the granitic and basic rocks. The subject of the differentiation of rock-types in the process of solidification as plutonic or volcanic rocks from a particular magma received much attention from him. He dealt also with the Palaeozoic rocks of Norway, and with the late glacial and post-glacial changes of sea level in the Christiania region. [3]
He is credited for proposing that pegmatites form through the interaction of silicate melt and supercritical water. Credit for this discovery is often given to Richard H. Jahns.[4]
He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1890 and a fellow of the Royal Society.[1] The honorary degree of Ph.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Heidelberg and that of LL.D. by the University of Glasgow in 1901.[5] He was awarded the Murchison Medal in 1891 and the Wollaston Medal in 1911, both by the Geological Society of London.[3]
- ^ a b c Tilley, C. E. (1941). "Waldemar Christofer Brogger. 1851-1940". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (10): 503–526. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0018.
- ^ http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911.
- ^ London, David (1 March 2005). "Granitic pegmatites: an assessment of current concepts and directions for the future". Lithos. 80 (1-4): 281–303. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2004.02.009.
- ^ "Glasgow University jubilee". The Times (36481). London. 14 June 1901. p. 10.
- Attribution
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Brögger, Waldemar Christofer". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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Five letters to strike fear into the heart of even the most well-remunerated of basketballers: DNP-CD.
It's the ultimate measure of disgrace and disenchantment when your contribution to the box score statistic is illustrated, not by points, rebounds or assistants, but instead with confirmation that (you) Did Not Play - Coach's Decision. That you sat, unused and unwanted at the end of the bench, in that netherworld known as the doghouse. The best you can hope for is the occasional TV appearance in a time-out, listening to instructions which you will never have to carry out.
Welcome to the world of Stephon Marbury, now officially the NBA's highest-paid cheerleader. Twelve years in the league. Twice an All-Star. Career averages of a shade under 20 points and eight assists. And now an outcast in his hometown of New York, the fall guy as the Knicks clean house and attempt to rid themselves of all traces of their sordid and ignominious recent past.
To use a Big Apple-ism, they've sucked. For several years, the league's highest payroll has bought nothing but embarrassment. Ever since their Patrick Ewing-inspired run to the Finals over a decade ago, it's been downhill all the way at Madison Square Garden. Bankrolled limitlessly by James Dolan, a wealthy cable magnate, coaches have come and gone, so-called stars have arrived and immediately lost their veneer, and boos have out-weighed the cheers at the ultimate mecca of American sport.
But this season is where Mike D'Antoni draws the line. There's a new sheriff in town, charged with weeding out the trouble-makers, and the Knicks' new coach has made his intentions clear by leaving Marbury out in the cold. The point guard has repeatedly signalled his disinclination to accept a buy-out of his gargantuan $21m-a-year deal, a financial millstone bequeathed by Isiah Thomas, one of many past coaches and team-mates with whom he has feuded. Dysfunction was the hallmark of Thomas's calamitous reign, but under D'Antoni and new general manager Donnie Walsh the ghosts will be ruthlessly buried, Marbury included.
D'Antoni's reputation was forged during his long stint in charge of the Phoenix Suns, where his run 'n' gun philosophy won hearts, if not championships. It's just what New York needs. With their current roster, and the immediate limitation of the salary cap, the play-offs are an unlikely destination this season, and probably next. All they can offer their unforgiving public in the interim is entertainment and, averaging 98 points from their opening three games, the offense-first philosophy is clear.
It is, curiously, one made for a playground-schooled shooter like Marbury. Except in consecutive losses to Philadelphia and Milwaukee, his attire was suit rather than jersey and shorts, sat closer to Spike Lee than the parquet. Having DNP-CDed in the opening-night win over Miami when some fans chanted "We Want Steph", the inactive list beckons and there is no telling when, or if, the Legend of Coney Island will come off it again.
Officially, at least, D'Antoni will leave the door ajar. "He does make a lot of money and you never know what happens," he said. "Obviously we went into a different direction but at the same time we owe him money and if an injury happens I wouldn't hesitate putting him back in."
In truth, the most naturally gifted player at his disposal will play no role in the revolution. His contract, the second highest in the NBA, means it will be impossible to trade Marbury away, even though, at 31, he still has miles left in his tank. Likewise, if he is waived, the Knicks will have to cough up his full salary. "I signed the contract," he pointed out, "and in the contract it says this is how much money I'm going to make this year." Hence his options are limited to seeing spirits sag in the DNP Club, or take a boatload of cash and let both parties move amicably on.
General manager Donnie Walsh plans to step in to try and break the deadlock to end this sorry sideshow. He can ask his outcast again how much it would take him to make leave quietly via the side door. Or hand him a pair of pom-poms to wave, and keep him well out of potential harm's way. The Knicks might still suck but the coach's decision looks final. Allowing Marbury to infect the rejuvenation treatment is just a risk too far.
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• The team-work experiment is over. Monday's unexpected trade which sees Allen Iverson arrive in Detroit and Chauncey Billups and Antonio McDyess head to Denver signals the effective end of the Pistons' 2004 Championship squad, a group which broke the recent mould by lifting a title without a single major star. After losing in the last three Eastern Conference Finals, Detroit GM Joe Dumars said all summer that change was needed. By acquiring an ageing Iverson in the last year of his contract, re-building is now the aim. But you have to wonder when, or if, we'll see the likes of that admirable Pistons squad again.
• With Great Britain set to learn the identity of their opponents for next summer's Eurobasket finals in Saturday's draw, it is a good sign when Londoner Pops Mensah-Bonsu gets named as the Euroleague's Most Valuable Player of the week for his club, Joventut Badalona. Yet NBA commissioner David Stern doesn't think Euro teams are a real threat to his league because top players won't want to play in front of a few thousand spectators. "It's not something that we spent a lot of time on," he said last week. However, failing to attract the likes of Mensah-Bonsu - who rebuffed the Minnesota Timberwolves in the summer - will seriously weaken NBA benches, chipping away at the overall health of Stern's product. Ignore Europe's rich owners at your peril.


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Introductory note from Jason Pratt: I am here appending in several parts some excerpts from an unpublished book of mine (not CoJ incidentally), originally composed late 99/early 2000, wherein I work out a progressive synthetic metaphysic. The current topic is ethical grounding; and up until recently I have been analyzing crippling problems along the three general lines of ethical explanation, including general theism. Recently though, I returned to the argument I had been developing for several hundred (currently unpublished) pages, and used those developed positions to begin solving the philosophical dilemmas I had covered in previous entries. In my most recent entry, however, I discerned that an earlier argument (from a currently unpublished section) might be returning now to cause me some problems!
This entry begins chapter 33, "a necessary truth of God's relationship to Man", in my original text. I ended my previous entry by writing, "Does not God, as a Person, also require a common overarching system for interacting with us? [...] The answer to this question shall provide another important bit of information to work with, including in connection to the whole question of evil (and particularly to the question of my own guilt). "
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If we cannot perceive something of the principles of God's interPersonal love (the love between Father and Son that grounds all reality), then we will be working at dangerous inefficiency against reality. I think it would be inconsistent with God's love and justice for Him to prevent us from perceiving this (although we might ourselves choose to turn away from it--a topic I will be discussing later). It is not a mere fact about God that we need here, but the possibility of a real relationship to Him, as person (you and I, individually and corporately) to Person (God--Who Himself is a substantial interPersonal unity).
Unfortunately, an argument I made some time ago may be returning here to nix me. I insisted, back when I was discussing your and my relationship to God and Nature, that you and I needed a common overarching system--specifically, you and I need such a system in order to relate to each other. This requirement happens to be rather nicely fulfilled by an impersonal reactive Nature. [Footnote: This was not my argument for the created and instrinsically reactive characteristics of Nature, though. I had argued for those conclusions already, before arguing that you and I need a common overarching system in order to related personally with each other.]
But if the necessity of an overarching system of commonality for interpersonal relation, really is a necessary principle of reality, then it would also apply to any proposed relationship you or I have with God, as people to Person.
So: does God, as a Person, also require a common overarching system for interacting with us?
If so, this might be a serious contradiction: I have denounced many times as nonsense the proposal that God, the Independent Fact, would at His most basic level be 'inside' an overarching system. If He doesn't require an overarching system to interact with us, then I may be endangering my earlier argument concerning the necessity of God's non-equivalence to Nature. If I avoid the question by stating that God would not have a Personal relationship with us, then I not only void my attempt at establishing a practical doctrine concerning true objective ethics (they might still exist between the Persons of God in unity of substance, but would not concern us); I also risk introducing an inconsistency in God's love and justice, neither of which can be set aside.
Altogether, it's a serious problem, although an obscure one! But examining it does lead to a very interesting conclusion, I think.
If the Son ever happened to be Incarnated [see first entry in the comments below for a footenote here] then certainly Nature would serve the purpose of being a common overarching system; but also the limitations of Nature would intervene: the Incarnate God, by being manifested in that way, would be in one place (in that way), and not another, or perhaps could be in numerous discreet places. Yet the Incarnated Son (as such) could not be everywhere within a Nature, all at once, as God Himself; or else Nature would be reverted to the status of God and we would be annihilated via absorption into the Absolute, which would negate any loving purpose to our creation in the first place. So, Nature would fit the bill as a proper overarching system in terms of God's Incarnation. But due to the special limitations involved, I am not talking about Incarnation theories right now.
I mean instead, the personal contact of a somewhat different sort: the type of contact almost any theist insists that God either always has with every created person, or at least could have with a person without God being Incarnated. I mean our contact with God as 'pure spirit'.
In that case, Nature cannot be the overarching system, for then it would be including God. This would be fine for an Incarnation, but I am not talking about that type of contact. An Incarnation would be a special case, a special self-abdication on God's part.
But I am speaking instead of God's usual mode of operation with respect to us; and Nature will not quite do for that. The question should be, rather: if persons do need an overarching system within which to communicate to each other as persons, what sort of overarching system normally encompasses God?
There are two answers. The first is that no system encompasses God; the consequent conclusion would be that therefore no personal communication between us as Person-to-person can follow. This would be another way of saying that on these terms such contact would be self-inconsistent, and God cannot be self-inconsistent. However, if I have argued correctly that some kind of personal contact with God must be taking place within us (otherwise there would be a violation of God's love and justice), then I think we should look at the second answer, for the first will not fit. It wouldn't fit even if we allowed for the existence of supernatural mediators, for they would only put the question one stage further back for no gain: how did they manage to communicate personally with God? If there is some principle that allows them to do this, I think we would be prudent to at least check to see whether we fit under the same principle.
As it happens, I don't think I need to posit mediators to answer this question--although mediators could make contact with us for other purposes, perhaps. [Footnote: I am not arguing against the existence of derivative mediators per se, here; only that their existence would not solve this problem.]
The second answer begins by remembering that God is, Himself, a self-existent system: He is, at least, a self-begetting entity Who is a Person and thus (by being 'self-begetting') is at least Two Persons in Unity. Or, put another way, the answer to the question "What system encompasses God" is: God (as the Independent Fact) encompasses Himself.
So; can God, the basic self-existent foundation of reality, serve as the overarching system for interacting with us? I think this must be true, if He chooses to relate to us as Person to person; and I think it would be self-inconsistent of God not to relate to us in some fashion as Person to person.
Therefore, this introduces a second discovered distinction in God's eternal--that is, time-transcending--self-existence. God, in the mode of interacting with all of us everywhere as a Person, is in distinction from God the (overarching) Foundation, just as God the Begotten is in real distinction from God the Begettor; yet at the same time this Interactor will still be God, fully God, in the same way that the Son is in Unity of substance with the Father.
I am, in short, deducing the existence of the Third Person of God, also known as the Holy Spirit--and now the Unity has reached a Trinity!
[Next up: an introduction to the 3rd Person of God.]
[A very abbreviated and incomplete summary of the several hundred pages of argument preceding these chapters, can be found in my July 4th essay The Heart of Freedom. It does not, however, cover the particular problem referenced here--I did say abbreviated and incomplete... {g}]
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Introductory note from Jason Pratt: I am here appending in several parts some excerpts from an unpublished book of mine (not CoJ incidentally), originally composed late 99/early 2000, wherein I work out a progressive synthetic metaphysic. The current topic is ethical grounding; and up until recently I have been analyzing crippling problems along the three general lines of ethical explanation, including general theism. Recently though, I returned to the argument I had been developing for several hundred (currently unpublished) pages, and used those developed positions to begin solving the philosophical dilemmas I had covered in previous entries. In my most recent entry, however, I discerned that an earlier argument (from a currently unpublished section) might be returning now to cause me some problems!
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- Jason Pratt said...
One of my footnote comments was too long for me to feel like I could include it in the text, so I am appending it here.
....... [footnote begins afterward]
He would be the Son, not the Father; because the Son--the self-expression, the self-begotten aspect of God--is the basic action of God, and the Incarnation of God would be an action of similar type. This would also include the general category of divine manifestations of Himself, I think. Keep in mind that I am not necessarily talking about sexual gender (if any) in such manifestations; the choice of this would be God's, and would depend on His purposes for the manifestation. I will have more to say about this later.
- slaveofone said...
"If we cannot perceive something of the principles of God's interPersonal love (the love between Father and Son that grounds all reality), then we will be working at dangerous inefficiency against reality. I think it would be inconsistent with God's love and justice for Him to prevent us from perceiving this...(God--Who Himself is a substantial interPersonal unity)."
A couple thoughts.
First, I admit that in even entering this conversation, I am at least beyond the perceptible realm of my own interests. Therefore it should come as no wonder if I appear ignorant about a great many things in terms of theological ethics.
Second, you seem to be operating upon the presupposition of an "interpersonal" deity (that is, a deity whom is himself more than one person). I find this extremely odd—although Orthodox—and suggest that unless you have done so already, if you want what you are writing to be received by those who do not already believe what you do, it would benefit you greatly to spend several chapters setting up the arguments and evidences that suggest an interpersonal deity...especially if the fact of this deity's interpersonal existence is so vital to your ethical discussion. And I hope I am not suggesting something new if I say you should also interact with the arguments of detractors in doing so.
Third, as someone who is mostly interested in ancient near eastern and old testament literature, languages, and history...I must say that I have never come across anything in the ancient world or even in ancient Judaism that would suggest YHWH or the ultimate god as being interpersonal. If it would be inconsistent for God to not let us perceive his interpersonal nature—and if you belief that God is not inconsistent—then I suggest you also spend a great deal of time going through the historical and literary evidences which verify this interpersonal nature throughout the many millennia before the Trinity was codified. Although I do not believe there is much of anything to suggest this, I would welcome the attempt.
- slaveofone said...
Some things that don't make sense...
"I mean our contact with God as 'pure spirit'" doesn't make sense in terms of a purity of spirit that has nothing to do with nature. If there were such a "pure spirit" it would be beyond our ability for contact with it. What we human beings refer to when we use the word "contact" is interaction with something that is part of the forms and structures of our creation. Contact according to a definition which sidesteps this would be an inconsistent Romanticism—using the word to mean something it cannot mean in the same way that Naturalists will speak of personality even thought the consistent end of their own idea makes personality a nonsense word.
This also doesn't make sense: "But I am speaking instead of God's usual mode of operation with respect to us; and Nature will not quite do for that." I don't know what God you're referring to... But the god called YHWH has a very usual modus operandi (at least when it comes to his creation) and that always involves nature.
"He is, at least, a self-begetting entity Who is a Person and thus (by being 'self-begetting') is at least Two Persons"
Why should or would YHWH have to be two persons if he is self-dependent on himself for his existence? I don't see any logical or rational reason to deduce this.
- Jason Pratt said...
Hi Slav! Nice to hear from you again; been a while! Hope things are going as well as can be expected with you!
{{First, I admit that in even entering this conversation, I am at least beyond the perceptible realm of my own interests.}}
I am a little surprised that you bothered to comment at all, then. {lol!} But I appreciate the comment anyway. {s} (Um, comments.)
{{Second, you seem to be operating upon the presupposition of an "interpersonal" deity (that is, a deity whom is himself more than one person).}}
This was covered near the end of those "several hundred (currently unpublished) pages" I mentioned in my intro, which being currently unpublished I cannot point to yet. {g} Several of my recent entries have referred back to the argument, but only very generally since (in theory) someone would have plowed through the previous material first to even get to this section of chapters. A highly abbreviated and somewhat incomplete version of those several hundred pages of prior argumentation can be found in the "Heart of Freedom" essay, though, as I mentioned at the bottom of the page.
Topically of course the position can be considered 'presupposed' at this point, but only because I've worked on it already. That being said, you are of course entirely correct that the position being developed here hinges on that doctrine having already been established as something I should believe to be true. (All this was written more as a personal exercise originally, and remains that in form and intention, though one I can and do invite a reader to share along with me, so far as the reader can go.)
{{And I hope I am not suggesting something new if I say you should also interact with the arguments of detractors in doing so.}}
Certainly; in fact I wouldn't have reached an inference about the 3rd Person if I wasn't taking seriously a particular complaint from detractors (typically applied against monotheism, but still of interest and importance in considering binitarian theism, too.)
For that matter, I proffered the (previously developed) doctrine of God's interPersonality as the solution to an extremely common and (I argued) weighty complaint lodged by sceptics against theistic ethics. This was also mentioned in recent entries, though the actual explication of the complaint was done some time ago in "the fatal problem with theistic ethics".
I frequently bend over backward to allow sceptics credit on topics, and I think my record on this is at least better than average.
{{Third, as someone who is mostly interested in ancient near eastern and old testament literature, languages, and history...I must say that I have never come across anything in the ancient world or even in ancient Judaism that would suggest YHWH or the ultimate god as being interpersonal.}}
Obviously there is going to be a debate, then, between you and someone like Robert Morey. {g} I would also argue in favor of this being a feature of the canonical Jewish scriptures (though admittedly that isn't my own forte); but my argument doesn't require this to be true, and I don't proceed in this argument from scriptural authority anyway. (That would beg far too many questions. You may notice Dawn Treader and I are having a disagreement about this in another recent thread.)
{{If it would be inconsistent for God to not let us perceive his interpersonal nature...}}
First, I carefully qualified this, in the previous post (and did so more generally above: "something of the principles of" does not mean "a lot of details about the nature of", though taken in abstraction from my previous entries I can see why someone might think I meant that.) In my previous post, I wrote "To go against the principles of this 'behavior of reality', would be to minimize our efficiency at dealing with reality... Therefore, I think it would be necessarily contrary to God's love (and thus also to His justice, which is the positive enactment toward fair-togetherness) for Him to prevent us from perceiving something of the principles of His love and justice." Going back yet another post (which I was summarizing there), it should be obvious that I'm talking about ethics, not about specific doctrinal facts concerning God's nature.
It may be perceived that I have built in a wide minimum here, so to speak. I haven't discussed the minimum level yet, but for what it's worth I don't consider the minimum level to be a knowledge about God's own multipersonal character.
Second, I also wrote (in the previous entry), "If any given person never came to know God as a Person, that would be a fundamental breach of love on God's part." This was in context of the considered possibility that "God might [even] completely mask His personhood from us as a species." My insistence though was about an eventuality to be fulfilled, which God would be intending and acting toward. This leaves over a very broad swath for results to fall within at any given time and place.
{{If there were such a "pure spirit" it would be beyond our ability for contact with it.}}
It would be beyond our ability to force a contact, that's true; if a supernatural entity upon which we are totally dependent does not institute contact with us, then no contact will be achieved by us. (Keeping in mind that my discussion at the point you referenced was on a somewhat different topic anyway; but I still accept the question.) On the other hand, by tautology if such an entity enacts contact with us who are within this system, then the effects (whatever they are) will be within this system. (This was discussed in those several hundred currently unpublished pages, incidentally.)
This being said, there is an important qualifier in your complaint which involves something different from what my argument is about: our contact with God "doesn't make sense in terms of a purity of spirit that has nothing to do with nature." [my emphasis added]
But according to my argument, God _does_ have something to do with Nature: God is the creator and sustainer of Nature. Admittedly, if there was an entity that had nothing at all to do with our natural system, then by tautology not only could there be no contact from us to it, there would be no contact from it to us. (This was addressed in at least two different Sections of chapters in that still unpublished material, incidentally.) But if God is continually sustaining our natural system, which is what supernaturalism involves, then contact is being constantly and most intimately maintained. (Incidentally, this would also be true if supernaturalistic atheism was true instead, the difference being that the Independent Fact wouldn't be actively intentional.)
Granted, if God/Nature cosmological dualism was true, then God would have nothing at all to do with Nature, and would be unable to affect Nature even if He intended to. But I decided long ago against cosmological dualism (God/Nature or otherwise) on various grounds, so that isn't the kind of God I'm talking about now.
{{What we human beings refer to when we use the word "contact" is interaction with something that is part of the forms and structures of our creation.}}
Or at least is affecting the forms and structures of our natural system. Or moreover is the sustaining Creator of our 'creation'. {g}
It should be noticed that I am not sidestepping your complaint, but acknowledging the proper strength of it (where applicable) and even working within it (in this case.)
{{But the god called YHWH has a very usual modus operandi (at least when it comes to his creation) and that always involves nature.}}
Certainly no disagreement from me. {g} (I am a little surprised you didn't bother to apply this against your own previous complaint...)
What I am talking about, when I said "Nature will not quite do for that", is in reference to a special problem of common overarching grounding being necessary for communication--a special problem usually leveled by sceptics against theism, by the way. You may have noticed that I was referring back to an argument along this line already made back in those unpublished chapters; here I was conscientiously applying the same potential problem to God's communication with us.
{{Why should or would YHWH have to be two persons if he is self-dependent on himself for his existence? I don't see any logical or rational reason to deduce this.}}
Covered in a previous section, but that's an important question of course. I occasionally mention it in recent chapters (each entry on the journal is usually part of a chapter), but not fully. I started this series of entries from another topical context, so those chapters weren't referred to.
You may recall me saying over on Victor's board occasionally, that in order to solve a problem on a particular metaphysical point, I would have to argue first for numerous other points, and there simply wasn't any way I could do that in a comment. Similarly, in order to properly answer your question, I would have to go back and do several entries on the topic--at which point even if the argument was technically accepted, many things could (and should) still be pointed out that are having to be accepted first--and so I'd have to go back further and further, etc.
The shortest answer, then, is that I can't answer this question without simply starting from the very outset of the argument and proceeding forward, and we'd still have to cover several hundred pages of other things before getting to _that_ topic. I plan to do it eventually, but... {shrug} To be fair, it's entirely possible you could dissent irreconcilably with the argument a long time before getting to the answer of your question.
I certainly don't ask you to accept that (or any) position, though, without seeing the reason of it first; not in an argument of this sort. (Sometimes it's necessary to accept a position on personal trust, but this isn't that kind of case, and I see no reason why you would personally trust me on it anyway. {shrug}{s})
So, I don't mind at all if you hold off thereby on this ground. That's the reasonable and prudent thing to do.
- Jason Pratt said...
Incidentally, looking over my notes for the next entry, I see I am summarizing positions reasoned out in the previous section of chapters before the section represented by these entries, in regard to the multipersonal unity of God's active self-existence. It still isn't the full argument, but it may be clearer than the other references I've recently made in the entries.
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