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Much of Gaza's historical heritage has been forgotten
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In 1995 Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza by Gerld Butt was published, the first book on Gaza's comprehensive history spanning over 3,000 years.
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Continuing its focus on publishing children's literature, Rimal Publications teams up with author Wafa Tarnawski to bring the ancient Canaanite-Phonecian gods to life in the richly illustrated Dances with the gods.
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The first book to document Palestinian embroidery motifs by name and origin
Margarita Skinner in association with Widad Kamel Kawar introduce a unique book, Palestinian Embroidery Motifs: A Treasury of Stitches 1850-1950, the first to document over 200 Palestinian motifs by name and origin from old dresses.
Rimal launched the book in Amman, Jordan, in 2007. The event was a great success with over 240 guests attending and 35% of the proceeds from the sale of the book were contributed to the Welfare Association in support of projects in Palestine.
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Rimal publishes an intellectual journey in the modern political history of Cyprus with one of it's most beloved Presidents, Glafkos Clerides in Glafkos Clerides: The Path of a Country.
Life at the Crossroads New Edition
A new edition of Life at the Crossroads: A History of Gaza, by Gerald Butt, is published and launched under the auspices of the Mayor of Nicosia, Eleni Mavrou. The event took place on a pleasant summer evening at the Municipal Gardens in the capital of Cyprus. A quarter of the proceeds from the sales were donated by Rimal Publications to the Palestinian Welfare Association's Emergency Appeal for Aid and Support for Gaza.
World Acclaimed Collection
The renowned collector of Palestinian costumes, Widad Kamel Kawar, collaborates closely with Rimal to publish the first book to cover her world acclaimed collection in Threads of Identity: Preserving Palestinian Costume and Heritage. Unlike any other book in its league, this unique book focuses on the oral history told by the owners of the dresses, the great grandmothers of Palestine.
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Rimal started this year on a very positive note with the establishment of a partnership with New York based publishers ORbooks. For more details please visit our partners page.
Iconic author Ghassan Kanafani's complete works are re-published by Rimal
Rimal Publications proudly re-publishes the complete collection - in Arabic - of one of the Arab world's celebrated writers, Ghassan Kanafani. The collection is re-introduced to new generations of readers packaged in modern bold designs based on Ghassan Kanafani's own artwork. For the first time, the Ghassan Kanafani complete works is also available in a collector's box set.
Marking our 20th Anniversary, Rimal Publications moved from the city of Nicosia to a new beachfront office in Limassol, Cyprus.
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I make it sunny again and head off in the direction off the trees. I had a dream that that's where I can get into the camp and yup. There's the gates.
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Once inside the cabin I see two girls, twins I think. I ignore them and dump my stuff on the bed. The girls come over to me, smiling. "Hello, what's your name?" They ask together than suddenly only one girl is there. Cool power.

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This is a 35 Acre Farm with 2 homes - main house located at 630 NE Catawba is 3 beds, 2 baths, unfinished basement with a full unfinished bathroom. There is a 40X60 Steel Bldg. workshop with an attached 10X60 Lean to. Crop Ground 12 acres Wheat, 3.5 acres of Soybeans, 14 acres of Corn not yet planted will remain with the Seller. There are 3 Springs on the property run all year long. Home located to the North at 720 NE Catawba Road is a 2 bed, 1 bath with a detached 24X27 - 2 car garage. Both Homes have Decks just out the back door.
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Gryphon: New and Selected Storiesby Charles Baxter
A New York Times Notable Book
"A warmly disposed yet unsentimental chronicler of American lives.... Some [stories are] poignant and disturbing, and all of them highly readable." The New York Times Book Review
"One of our best storytellers." San Francisco Chronicle
"Baxter lovingly teases anguish, humor, and/i>
A New York Times Notable Book
"A warmly disposed yet unsentimental chronicler of American lives.... Some [stories are] poignant and disturbing, and all of them highly readable." The New York Times Book Review
"One of our best storytellers." San Francisco Chronicle
"Baxter lovingly teases anguish, humor, and heart-rending beauty out of clear, unaffected sentences." The Washington Post
Since the publication of his first story collection in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America's finest short story writers. Gryphon brings together sixteen classics with seven new stories, giving us the most complete portrait of his achievement.
From the bestselling author of The Feast of Love.
Editorial Reviews
This is the fifth story collection from novelist Baxter (The Soul Thief, 2008, etc.); its 23 stories (seven of them new) range from mediocre to memorable to mesmerizing.
How well do you know your other half? The question haunts some of the relationship stories. As Dennis and Emily are splitting up after eight years, they learn new things about each other ("Poor Devil"). Janet (in "Flood Show") has a lesson for husband Conor, still obsessed with his first wife. Our ultimate unknowability is driven home most strongly in "Kiss Away." In this radiant love story, Jodie and Walton are head over heels. Then Jodie meets his ex, who tells her Walton is abusive. Is she lying? Is Jodie ready to make that leap of faith into marriage? With its cliffhanger ending, this is one for the anthologies. Sometimes it's parents and children who don't know each other. Jaynee, a troubled teenager, is threatening to shoot a lion in the Detroit zoo ("Westland"). Her propensity for violence shocks Earl, her harried parent, but not as much as her diary revelations.Borderline crazies figure prominently: A guilty liberal tries to help three of them, all homeless ("Shelter"). Melissa tells an intruder he's a devil, though a really minor one, before sleeping with him ("Ghosts"). That's pure Baxter—he's forthright but unpredictable, a sweet combination. "Royal Blue" is not a 9/11 story, as first appears: It's the coming-of-age of a pretty boy after his girlfriend's miscarriage. The encounter of a desperate recovering alcoholic and a paroled murderer, next-door neighbors, should read grim, but "The Old Murderer" is so fast-paced it's oddly buoyant.
The uncanny power of Baxter's work derives from his knowledge of our secret selves as well as our surface ones.
The Washington Post
The New York Times
"[A] career-encompassing collection.... Baxter's legacy to fiction is clear: For more than twenty-five years he's insisted that we're kidding ourselves a little whenever we call ourselves 'normal.'" —Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Remarkable. The early stories are terrific, and the new stories are terrific. Often, in this type of retrospective, it is obvious how much a writer has matured and developed. Rarely, but as demonstrated in this collection, we're struck by the realization that the writer has always been this good." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"This is Baxter at his best: a subtle and astute observer of the human." —The New York Review of Books
"Baxter lovingly teases anguish, humor, and heart-rending beauty out of clear, unaffected sentences." —The Washington Post
"A warmly disposed yet unsentimental chronicler of American lives…. Some [stories are] poignant and disturbing, and all of them highly readable." —The New York Times Book Review
"This is a marvelous book." —Kansas City Star
"Baxter shines [a] bright light on his characters, so bright that the landscape around them, in almost every story, shimmers like a mirage in extreme heat." —Los Angeles Times
"Baxter is a genius. . . . [Gryphon] keeps us mesmerized to the end. Baxter brings to his masterful stories a quirky slant born of the straight-faced humor of the Midwest." —Jane Ciabattari, Books We Like, NPR
"Baxter's writing is spare, but, like a flash of cat eyes in the night, well-crafted images and wit flit onto the pages." —Providence Journal
"Baxter is always engaged in a kind of chemistry experiment, closely monitoring what will ensue when two or more disparate elements are—often impulsively—combined. The results, always complex, can be surprising: and, like Miss Ferenczi in 'Gryphon,' they can bring us wonders we had not known we might see." —The New York Review of Books
"Baxter is a writer who plainly enjoys writing, who revels in it, which is rarer than you might think—not the enjoyment, necessarily, but the palpability of the pleasure. . . . Keen and playful." —The Boston Globe
"What a treasure this volume is! . . . Dazzles us with the full brilliance of this writer's vision." —Andrea Barrett, author of The Air We Breathe
"Elegant. . . . Baxter is a melancholy expert craftsman." —The New Yorker
"[Baxter] truly excels at the short form. He observes Chekhov's admonition not to bore people by telling them everything. And yet his delicately carved slices of life contain a surprising amount of detail and depth." —The Miami Herald
"There is both humor and truth in both the miniscule and the grand in Baxter's writing, which makes this book as memorable as his work always is." —Time Out Chicago
"Baxter's constructs are of the muscular, straight-no-chaser variety that you might expect from Hemingway. . . . Never strikes a false note." —Time Out New York
"Further cements [Baxter's] reputation as a master chronicler of the Midwest." —The Christian Science Monitor
"A feast of affecting encounters." —Parade Magazine
"Like those of other masters of the form, Baxter's short stories don't seem abbreviated at all; he manages to suggest the complexity of an entire life within a few pages. . . . Gryphon is a fine introduction for Baxter novices and an exciting addition for connoisseurs." —The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)
"Baxter's pilgrim's journeys and tragicomic tales plumb the depths of psychology and faith. . . . Baxter exemplifies how entertainment and enlightenment come together in good fiction." —Asheville Citizen-Times
"Baxter is a subtle and sophisticated writer, and each of these stories merits multiple readings. . . . For those unfamiliar with this great writer, I can't think of a better introduction than this book." —Devon Shepherd, MostlyFiction.com
"Baxter is our modern short story master because he knows how to dig at a particularly Midwestern brand of human frailty. . . . His stories quietly enter the reader's subconscious and reverberate." —Austin American-Statesman
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The Next Building I Plan to Bomb
In the parking lot next to the bank, Harry Edmonds saw a piece of gray scrap paper the size of a greeting card. It had blown up next to his leg and attached itself to him there. Across the top margin was some scrabby writing in purple ink. He picked it up and examined it. On the upper left-hand corner someone had scrawled the phrase THE NEXT BUILDING I PLAN TO BOMB. Harry unfolded the paper and saw an inked drawing of what appeared to be a sizable train station or some other public structure, perhaps an airport terminal. In the drawing were arched windows and front pillars but very little other supporting detail. The building looked solid, monumental, and difficult to destroy.
He glanced around the parking lot. There he was in Five Oaks, Michigan, where there were no such buildings. In the light wind other pieces of paper floated by in an agitated manner. One yellow flyer was stuck to a fire hydrant. On the street was the daily crowd of bankers, lawyers, shoppers, and students. As usual, no one was watching him or paying much attention to him. He put the piece of paper into his coat pocket.
All afternoon, while he sat at his desk, his hand traveled down to his pocket to touch the drawing. Late in the day, half as a joke, he showed the paper to the office receptionist.
"You've got to take it to the police," she told him. "This is dangerous. This is the work of a maniac. That's LaGuardia there, the airport? In the picture? I was there last month. I'm sure it's LaGuardia, Mr. Edmonds. No kidding. Definitely LaGuardia."
So at the end of the day, before going home, he drove to the main police station on the first floor of City Hall. Driving into the sun, he felt his eyes squinting against the burrowing glare. He had stepped inside the front door when the waxy bureaucratic smell of the building hit him and gave him an immediate headache. A cop in uniform, wearing an impatient expression, sat behind a desk, shuffling through some papers, and at that moment it occurred to Harry Edmonds that if he showed what was in his pocket to the police he himself would become a prime suspect and an object of intense scrutiny, all privacy gone. He turned on his heel and went home.
At dinner, he said to his girlfriend, "Look what I found in a parking lot today." He handed her the drawing.
Lucia examined the soiled paper, her thumb and finger at its corner, and said, " 'The next building I plan to bomb.' " Her tone was light and urbane. She sold computer software and was sensitive to gestures. Then she said, "That's Union Station, in Chicago." She smiled. "Well, Harry, what are you going to do with this? Some nutcase did this, right?"
"Actually, I got as far as the foyer in the police station this afternoon," he said. "Then I turned around. I couldn't show it to them. I thought they'd suspect me or something."
"Oh, that's so melodramatic," she said. "You've never committed a crime in your life. You're a banker, for Chrissake. You're in the trust department. You're harmless."
Harry sat back in his chair and looked at her. "I'm not that harmless."
"Yes, you are." She laughed. "You're quite harmless."
"Lucia," he said, "I wish you wouldn't use that word."
" 'Harmless'? It's a compliment."
"Not in this country, it isn't," he said.
On the table were the blue plates and matching napkins and the yellow candles that Lucia brought out whenever she was proud of what she or Harry had cooked. Today it was Burmese chicken curry. "Well, if you're worried, take it to the cops," Lucia told him. "That's what the cops are there for. Honey," she said, "no one will suspect you of anything. You're handsome and stable and you're my sweetie, and I love you, and what else happened today? Put that awful creepy paper back into your pocket. How do you like the curry?"
"It's delicious," he said.
After Harry had gotten up his nerve sufficiently to enter the police station again, he walked in a determined manner toward the front desk. After looking carefully at the drawing and the inked phrase, and writing down Harry Edmonds's name and address, the officer, whose badge identified him as Sergeant Bursk, asked, "Mr. Edmonds, you got any kids?"
"Kids? No, I don't have kids. Why?"
"Kids did this," Sergeant Bursk told him, waving the paper in front of him as if he were drying it off. "My kids could've done this. Kids do this. Boys do this. They draw torture chambers and they make threats and what-have-you. That's what they do. It's the youth. But they're kids. They don't mean it."
"How do you know?"
"Because I have three of them," Sergeant Bursk said. "I'm not saying that you should have kids, I'm just saying that I have them. I'll keep this drawing, though, if you don't mind."
"Actually," Harry said, "I'd like it back."
"Okay," Sergeant Bursk said, handing it to him, "but if we hear of any major bombings, and, you know, large-scale serious death, maybe we'll give you a call."
"Yeah," Harry said. He had been expecting this. "By the way," he asked, "does this look like any place in particular to you?"
The cop examined the picture. "Sure," he said. "That's Grand Central. In New York, on Forty-second Street, I think. I was there once. You can tell by the clock. See this clock here?" He pointed at a vague circle. "That's Grand Central, and this is the big clock that they've got there on the front."
"The f**k it is," the kid said. The kid was in bed with Harry Edmonds in the Motel 6. They had found each other in a bar downtown and then gone to this motel, and after they were finished, Harry drew the drawing out of his pants pocket on the floor and showed it to him. The kid's long brown hair fell over his eyes and, loosened from its ponytail, spread out on the pillow. "I know this f**king place," the kid said. "I've, like, traveled, you know, all over Europe. This is in Europe, this place, this is f**king Deutschland we're talking about here." The kid got up on his elbows to see better. "Oh, yeah, I remember this place. I was there, two summers ago? Hamburg? This is the Dammtor Bahnhof."
"Never heard of it," Harry Edmonds said.
"You never heard of it 'cause you've never been there, man. You have to f**king be there to know about it." The kid squinched his eyebrows together like a professor making a difficult point. "A bahnhof, see, is a train station, and the Dammtor Bahnhof is, like, one of the stations there, and this is the one that the Nazis rounded up the Jews to. And, like, sent them off from. This place, man. Absolutely. It's still standing. This one, it f**king deserves to be bombed. Just blow it totally the f**k away, off the face of the earth. That's just my opinion. It's evil, man."
The kid moved his body around in bed, getting himself comfortable again after stating his opinions. He was slinky and warm, like a cat. The kid even made back-of-the-throat noises, a sort of satisfied purr.
"I thought we were finished with that," Harry's therapist said. "I thought we were finished with the casual sex. I thought, Harry, that we had worked through those fugitive impulses. I must tell you that it troubles me that we haven't. I won't say that we're back to square one, but it is a backward step. And what I'm wondering now is, why did it happen?"
"Lucia said I was harmless, that's why."
"And did that anger you?"
"You bet it angered me." Harry sat back in his chair and looked directly at his therapist. He wished she would get a new pair of eyeglasses. These eyeglasses made her look like one of those movie victims killed within the first ten minutes, right after the opening credits. One of those innocent bystanders. "Bankers are not harmless, I can assure you."
"Then why did you pick up that boy?" She waited. When he didn't say anything, she said, "I can't think of anything more dangerous to do."
"It was the building," Harry said.
"What building?"
"I showed Lucia the building. On the paper. This paper." He took it out of his pocket and handed it to his therapist. By now the paper was becoming soft and wrinkled. While she studied the picture, Harry watched the second hand of the wall clock turn.
"You found this?" she asked. "You didn't draw this."
"Yes, I found it." He waited. "I found it in a parking lot six blocks from here."
"All right. You showed Lucia this picture. And perhaps she called you harmless. Why did you think it so disturbing to be called harmless?"
"Because," Harry said, "in this country, if you're harmless, you get killed and eaten. That's the way things are going these days. That's the current trend. I thought you had noticed. Perhaps not."
"And why do you say that people get killed and eaten? That's an extravagant metaphor. It's a kind of hysterical irony."
"No, it isn't. I work in a bank and I see it happen every day. I mop up the blood."
"I don't see what this has to do with picking up young men and taking them to motels," she said. "That's back in the country of acting out. And what I'm wondering is, what does this mean about your relationship with Lucia? You're endangering her, you know." As if to emphasize the point, she said, "It's wrong, what you did. And very, very dangerous. With all your thinking, did you think about that?"
Harry didn't answer. Then he said, "It's funny. Everybody has a theory about what that building is. You haven't said anything about it. What's your theory?"
"This building?" Harry's therapist examined the paper through her movie- victim glasses. "Oh, it's the Field Museum, in Chicago. And that's not a theory. It is the Field Museum."
On Wednesday, at three a.m., Harry fixed his gaze on the bedroom ceiling. There, as if on a screen, shaped by the light through the curtains luffing in the window, was a public building with front pillars and curved arched windows and perhaps a clock. On the ceiling the projected sun of Harry's mind rose wonderfully, brilliantly gold, one or two mind-wisp cumulus clouds passing from right to left across it, but not so obscured that its light could not penetrate the great public building into which men, women, and children—children in strollers, children hand in hand with their parents—now filed, shadows on the ceiling, lighted shadows, and for a moment Harry saw an explosive flash.
Harry Edmonds lay in his bed without sleeping. Next to him was his girlfriend, whom he had planned to marry, once he ironed out a few items of business in his personal life and got them settled. He had made love to her, to this woman, this Lucia, a few hours earlier, with earnest caresses, but now he seemed to be awake again. He rose from bed and went down to the kitchen. In the harsh fluorescence he ate a cookie and on an impulse turned on the radio. The radio blistered with the economy of call- in hatred and religion revealed to rabid-mouthed men who now gasped and screamed into all available microphones. He adjusted the dial to a call-in station. Speaking from Delaware, a man said, "There's a few places I'd do some trouble to, believe me, starting with the Supreme Court and moving on to a clinic or two." Harry snapped off the radio.
Now he sits in the light of the kitchen. He feels as dazed as it is possible for a sane man to feel at three thirty in the morning. I am not silly, nor am I trivial, Harry says to himself, as he reaches for a pad of paper and a no. 2 pencil. At the top of the pad, Harry writes, "The next place I plan to bomb," and then very slowly, and with great care, begins to draw his own face, its smooth cleanshaven contours, its courteous half smile. When he perceives his eyes beginning to water, he rips off the top sheet with his picture on it and throws it in the wastebasket. The refrigerator seems to be humming some tune to him, some tune without a melody, and he flicks off the overhead light before he recognizes that tune.
It is midday in downtown Five Oaks, Michigan, the time for lunch and rest and conversation, and for a remnant, a lucky few, it may be a time for love, but here before us is Harry Edmonds, an officer in the trust department at Southeastern Michigan Bank and Trust, standing on a street corner in a strong spring wind. The wind pulls at his tie and musses his hair. Nearby, a recycling container appears to have overturned, and sheets of paper, hundreds of them, papers covered with drawings and illustrations and words, have scattered. Like a flock of birds, they have achieved flight. All around Harry Edmonds they are gripped in this whirlwind and flap and snap in circles. Some stick to him. There are glossy papers with perfumed inserts, and there are yellowing papers with four-color superheroes, and there are the papers with attractive unclothed airbrushed bodies, and there are the papers with bills and announcements and loans. Here are the personals, swirling past, and there a flyer for a home theater big-screen TV. Harry Edmonds, a man uncertain of the value of his own life, who at this moment does not know whether his life has, in fact, any importance at all, or any future, lifts his head in the wind, increasing in volume and intensity, and for a moment he imagines himself being blown away. From across the street, the way he raises his head might appear, to an observer, as a posture of prayer. God, it is said, resides in the whirlwind, and certainly Harry Edmonds's eyes are closed and now his head is bowed. He does not move forward or backward, and it is unclear from the expression on his face whether he is making any sort of wish. He remains stationary, on this street corner, while all about him the papers fly first toward him, and then away.
A moment later he is gone from the spot where he stood. No doubt he has returned to his job at the bank, and that is where we must leave him.
Meet the Author
Charles Baxter is the author of the novels The Feast of Love (nominated for the National Book Award), The Soul Thief, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, and First Light, and the story collections Believers, A Relative Stranger, Through the Safety Net, and Harmony of the World. He lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota and in the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
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- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Date of Birth:
- May 13, 1947
- Place of Birth:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Education:
- B. A., Macalester College, 1969; Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1974
- Website:
- http://www.charlesbaxter.com
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This engaging twenty story collection from one of the best authors of the short format includes seven new tales and sixteen entries from his previous anthologies. The tales all look closely at ordinary people living mundane lives yet each character possesses a jocular quirkiness that sets him or her just outside the norm. The entire compilation contains all solid tales with a few of the reruns being super and new tales for the most part excellent. "Gryphon" (see Through the Safety Net) stars a fourth grader musing about a substitute teacher providing special reading and times table lessons. The art dealer knows 9/11 changed him forever in enigmatic "Royal Blue" (see The American Scholar). The stranger enters her house and announces to the frightened woman they are soulmates, but she will soon learn what soulmate means to him in "Ghosts" (see Ploughshares). "Fenstad's Mother" lectures him when he visits her adamantly insisting that he just tries to be good, but his daughter Sharon is the real thing. The "Poor Devil" is actually a couple beyond the edge of divorce. As always Charles Baxter provides a strong insightful look at everyman; often through a surreal Dali like eye. Harriet Klausner
"Harry, why does your generation always have to find the right person? Why can't you learn to live with the wrong person? Sooner or later everyone's wrong." These words of wisdom come from Fenstad's mother, in the eponymously titled story from this magnificent collection. I've long heard that short story writers spend too much of their imaginative capital on such writing, and my good friend Julie tells me that the market for even the best short stories is small. That's a terrible shame, as anyone who is smart enough to buy this book will quickly discover. Mr. Baxter's talent is prodigious. These are fascinating stories, written with great wit and feeling about not very remarkable people. I think that his writing is so fine that he could write about almost anything and make it interesting.


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[Note: the contents page for this series can be found here. The previous entry, starting chapter 29, can be found here.]
[This entry continues chapter 29, "Resolving The Grand Paradox".]
God, if He creates, must first create Nature. Let us say Nature is now up-and-running. It does not have to be exactly our Nature; it could for instance be a Nature inhabited by angels or elves or whatever--but, since I am searching for an explanation that deals with you and me and our behavior and qualities, let me stick with what I know best: this Nature, the one you and I obviously inhabit in some fashion.
The first not-God thing God creates (per se) must be reactive, as distinct from His active character, so that He has created and not begotten (nor generated a Person of God Who has nothing to do with God's own self-generation--but that's a topic for later). If God wishes to introduce further effects into this system, above and beyond the effects that this system of itself produces (along its groundrules which He instituted and maintains), how will He accomplish those effects?
By choosing to cease choosing to cease acting.
Analogically we could see this as the injection of action into the system, the way computer designers inject their input into the systems they create (or, if you distrust that metaphor, the way accountants inject money into the accounting system they have established for a company). But I don't think this is the best way to see it, for in the case of the computer programmer or accountant, they have not quite created their subsystems via the method God must have created Nature. They did not sacrifice themselves in order for something 'other than their self' to come into being, nor do they maintain their systems as utterly as God must maintain Nature. In many ways, what the accountant and the computer programmer have done is discover how the world on which they are already dependent operates (to one degree or other) and are recognizing and manipulating those facts. But that is not what God does.
The better answer, I think, is this: to create further effects within Nature, God brings a bit of Himself back to life.
Within His general choice to cease certain action, thus creating limitations within a particularity of His infinitude (subtracting and thus creating a real '1' from a real 'infinity', to speak in mathematical parlance), He could choose to reinstate certain actions. And He could do this in a number of different ways.
At the most basic natural level, I conclude this would entail a partial 'vitalism'. It would not be quite the same 'vitalism' as that philosophy has historically been presented, but it would be similar in several fashions; rather like pantheists weren't quite incorrect after all, either.
Classical vitalists say the basic units of physical matter are alive and have purposes but are non-rational. (Also, they typically either deny the existence of a supernature, or are philosophically unconcerned with the concept.) In a way, they turn out to be correct; but correct in an unexpected, less contradictory fashion--turning the contradiction into a legitimate paradox with an equally legitimate solution. It is also a solution that avoids falsifying our perception of Nature's mechanistic character (taken as itself) being a true fact; rather like our understanding of quantum mechanics, although transcending Newtonian physics, leaves Newtonian physics still very adequate.
The basic units of matter are, in essence, dead; yet they once were alive (not in the sense of chronological sequence, but in the sense that God self-abdicated a portioning of His infinitude to create something not-God), and could be, in a word, resurrected. It could be a full resurrection across all time and space, the re-absorption of Nature into the totality of Deity; but that would nullify the creation, and as I have concluded that I am not-God myself, then God is obviously not doing that.
It must therefore be a partial resurrection, within a partial declension. God could, in this fashion, bring into existence any particle of matter or energy, or any mass of them at any state of coherence and degree of 'excitement', as a sort of miniature creation within the creation. He could at that point, having created these new pieces and set them into motion within His Nature, immediately tamp down or withdraw that basic Life back to (what we would call) its 'natural' level, so that the new situation begins to react and counterreact with Nature-as-already-established.
For what it is worth, I suspect we see this type of event happening in our sub-physics observations. (I use the term 'see' loosely, of course, for our detection of such events has nothing to do with 'sight' in the common use of that word.)
If God maintained His direct influence (or re-established, rather, a stronger influence) on these particles, rather than withdrawing it again after sub-creating them, then He would be manipulating a clump of natural material directly; driving the material directly, so to speak. But this would still be a limited re-ascendance, for it would be in one place and not another, and might be subject to any number of limitations which God deemed fitting for His purpose in manipulating the material directly in the first place.
So, God could create a bush that burned yet was not consumed, and speak from it; or create a whirling column of fire that moved in many ways according to His direct will and did not naturally dissipate (although its subvenient swirling might at the same time be movements according to the laws He had previously willed into Nature).
These examples would be manifestations of God. Such willful 'driving' of physical material on God's part would not be the creation of derivative sentiences by God; but as possibilities (hypothetical or actual) they do provide some illustrations of important principles to keep in mind. A physical manifestation would be limited in comparison to the totality of God's infinitude--it would be at least in one place and time and not another; yet it wouldn't be limited in quite the same ways (although still in some of the same ways) as the field of Nature.
I have argued that, for God's creation to be a true creation (even if a merely reactive one) and not simply a pantheistic illusion of creation, God must have 'woven' the fabric of the reality so that when basic supernatural energy is fed into it in a specially self-abdicating way, then at those levels it behaves in a random fashion. God never needs to worry about Nature 'behaving' in a surprising manner, for His perception of His creation is not limited by that creation's own limitations (time and space)--the randomness is unpredictable to us, but God transcends the entire natural system. He doesn't "predict" something happening: if He chooses for it to happen, then it happens; and if He chooses for Nature to react in a random fashion, then He perceives at all points of space/time the events and results of Nature's reaction.
Yet this randomness allows Nature to behave with its own self-consistent character, under the aegis of God's upkeep. Thus a real creation, not a mere seeming, is accomplished. This is, in effect, a type of 'freedom' for Nature. It is not a freedom that is (necessarily) action, nor a freedom that 'produces' (in the total sense) action. But it is a freedom as a result of particular actions of God. It is one, but not necessarily the only, type of derivative freedom.
It is also the sort of freedom that I think must exist, prior to qualitatively higher types of derivative freedom. If that matrix of randomness is not provided within a Nature created by God, then only hard determinism can result in that Nature--indeed only a type of pantheism could be true after all!--and there could never be free derivative actions at all within that Nature.
What I am tempted to do here, is suggest that God 'added up' or 'glued together' in aggregation certain physical structures which exhibit this special matrix behavior, thus creating a free-willed creature (in one day by cataclysmic creation, or through billions of years of evolution, it would make no difference in principle).
That, however, doesn't seem to me to be quite the right path. Certainly, I am an aggregate (physically) of particular matter/energy states; but I have already decided that an aggregate of non-rational behaviors merely produces a more complicated set of non-rational behaviors--and for my argument to work (in many senses of that phrase) I must be doing rational (active) behaviors.
Then again, the behaviors of Nature turn out to be not quite completely non-rational! They are effectively non-rational by God's choice, by His self-abdication; but (so to speak) bits of His rational choices still adhere in many ways to the material.
This is verging too close to an argument by analogy, though. I will try to propose this idea in a slightly different way, so that the eventual analogy will be informed by the principle, not vice versa.
Every bit of reactive Nature has, behind it, an action of God. At the most primary of levels, the action of God is God Himself (in other words the self-begetting of God); but once Nature is in existence (I must speak metaphorically about the 'timeframes' involved here, quite literally 'with respect to the Eternal'), I am no longer considering the most primary level of reality anymore. Within the created subsystem, the actions of God are no longer coterminous with God Himself; this is another way of saying that there are some consequences which are not-God to actions of God, or that God has created a distinctive 'something' along with begetting Himself. Yet, those actions of distinctive creation also remain connected to the natural events, primarily by means of God's continual direct active upkeep of this self-abdicated system of creation.
Thus, within the perspective of a subsystem 'nature', there will be reactive events with actions of God as grounding, yet without those actions of God being fully coterminous with God Himself. And by tautology, something not coterminous with God is not-God.
This is not quite the same as a situation where God acts directly within Nature; in that case, the results of His actions will be limited by the fact that He would be manipulating a system that is itself 'limited'.
For instance, it would be inconsistent, as far as I can tell, for Him to create a boulder that is, at the same time and place within that Nature, also completely and fully the entity we know as a 'cat'. It could look like what we call 'a cat'; God could even make it behave similarly to what we call 'a cat'. It might even be an interesting and viable creation, going about 'its own business' without God constantly pulling its strings for every behavior (the way Nature must be able to go about its own derivative business, to one extent or other, or else no 'creation' has actually taken place). But the boulder would still not be utterly coterminous with the biological entities we know as 'cats'. This remains true even if God did not let it run on the leash of Nature but constantly moved it directly Himself. The results of His actions can be limited; must be limited, or else there is no creation. [See first comment below for a footnote here.]
But those are direct manipulation events. Although Nature, at bottom, is directly maintained by God, and even is made 'out of' God by God Himself, as a viable creation [see second comment below for a footnote here], it is not utterly directed (even though it is upkept) by God's full intentions at every moment; just like a jazz scat is certainly created by the jazz artist at every moment, and guided by her in a complex pattern of its own created 'flavor' or 'character', but is nevertheless not sung with the directness that the same woman might sing a Bach hymn. I think we can reasonably expect God to be capable of a creativity similar to the jazz scat-er, except to the nth degree.
God thus initiates created events which each have a sort of shadow of action: real action, God's actions, but a self-limited type of action. Indeed, such events would quite literally be 'types' of God's direct actions, technically speaking.
And now I have reached the point where I can safely return to all those interesting observations naturalistic atheists refer to when attempting to explain how we humans came to be rational thinkers in an atheistic reality.
[Next up: the creation of me]
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- Jason Pratt said...
[First footnote]
I have often found it interesting, by the way, to contemplate the evident importance of movement as an intrinsic aspect of this Nature we live in. From the atomic and subatomic microscale, out to all levels of the universal macroscale, everything in Nature is moving. The most evident 'illusion', so to speak, in Nature, is the notion that 'stillness' involves 'not moving'. I think the reason 'stillness' often seems so precious and right, is because 'stillness' is an exquisite unity of movements--as lovers often experience their sharpest, deepest love with each other, in mutual stillness.
- Jason Pratt said...
[Second footnote]
This is what 'ex nihilo' rightly means; not that God took 'nothing' and fashioned 'something' out of it--that is contradictory--but that God did not shape a pre-existent reality other than Himself. 'Ex nihilo' is a denial of multiple IFs: Nature is not an Independent Fact, Chaos is not an Independent Fact; and it asserts God's status as the Independent Fact: God's creativity ultimately does not depend on anything other than Himself. (I say 'ultimately' because so long as He treats His creation as a creation, not as Himself, then He will respect its existence as such and will work to some extent within its created and limited 'not-God' character.)
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I knew I shouldn't have brought them to church.
I was already having a hard time fitting in, but then Dakota went over and mouthed off to the pastor! I mean, I loved him and all, but this was a little more than my temper could take.
I knew the church wasn't the best, but it was the only one that I'd been to yet. All the others were either too far away or had some wonky religious views - I'd been doing my research. And while this church was far from perfect, I figured it was better to attend a legalistic church than no church, right?
No, I wasn't right, and I knew it. The only thing I'd accomplished that day was making Dakota, Devyn, and Cole even more disapproving of religion than they'd been before. Somehow, I'd been hoping that today's service would get through to them, but now, I wished I'd never brought them in the first place. What must they think of God now?
Devyn was walking beside me. He reached over and awkwardly patted my shoulder. "I know you tried," he said, "but maybe you shouldn't bring anyone back here - not even yourself."
"Ya think?" I asked, rolling my eyes. "That turned out to be an epic failure!"
Sighing, Devyn shook his head. "I still don't see why you're into this stuff, Nadia. It's not like you. You're not like all these legalistic people. Christianity is a legalistic religion - why are you into it?"
"It's not Christianity," I replied quietly. "It's the people who are into Christianity for their own purposes that give God a bad name."
Devyn shrugged, and I could tell he didn't want to talk about it. But I did, so I kept going.
"I'm a Christian because I'm tired of bowing to the obstacles life keeps putting in my way. I can't handle all these troubles without God on my side. Besides, I know it sounds lame, but...I really believe God loves me."
"If God loves you, then why are you dealing with all these hard things?"
Panicking, I blanked out for a second. I hated asking myself that question, since even I didn't have a fully developed answer. "I believe," I finally said, "that it's because of humanity that this world is in the mess it's in - that my family is in the mess it's in. God gave humans a choice - Him or sin. We all are inclined to choose sin, so we made a disaster of this world. God didn't."
"But you didn't make a disaster of this world, Nadia! You're innocent and gentle! Why would He make you go through something like this?"
"I think," I said slowly, "that God doesn't save us from the pain because the pain is what teaches us to hang onto Him. If life was all a field of roses, we wouldn't have a need for God. We wouldn't come to Him." I shook my head. "I honestly don't know the entire answer to that, Devyn."
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"Erm, no thank you. I've got to get back really"
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closing the rickety door behind him Paul wondered how long the old man had jabbered about a life in turmoil. Though soon his thought turned to self pity. He considered himself a drifter, sailing with the current. He wasn't sure where he would end up, but would never look that far ahead anyway. The way home seemed like hours as Paul pictured the goals and aspirations now lost in a childhood that's just a distant memory.


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I received a sample of this cleanser in a past Birchbox Man Beta. This is the first cleanser that my boyfriend grabbed at of the box, because I think it's a brand he recognizes (I mean, everyone's mom used Clinique at some point, am I right?). This one is his favorite so far, as it helps control his oily skin and makes his face feel cleaner and less weighed down. It's also less drying than my COSRX Good Morning Gel Cleanser that he's been using, so that's a plus! I love stealing this from him whenever I can, it works great for my skin and I love the scent.
My husband uses this face wash before he shaves his face. He is very happy with the results and finds that the product quickly absorbs into his skin. It leaves his skin thoroughly cleaned and helps reduce any possible ingrown hairs. This gentle cleanser if perfect for all skin types.
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Holding Hands 4 Equality was started off nearly 2 years ago as the brain child of Andy, born from the simple idea that the simple acts should be free for everyone to do. During this time we have worked with some amazing organisations such as IBM, Hampshire County Council, South Central Ambulance Service and the Eastleigh Mela Festival.
But the time has come for us to re-evaluate our ability to carry on the campaign while also doing our full time jobs. The level of time and focus we know the campaign deserves is beyond what we can currently commit to so we have made the hard decision that we will be taking a short break while we concentrate on the things we need to do to pay the bills. This is not us saying we are giving up – it is a short holiday while we regroup and re-energise ourselves.
We will carry on sharing anything appropriate we come across on both our Facebook and Twitter pages and would ask you to do the same. Thank you for all your support over the last two years. Equality for all of us is an important mission and we couldn't have done what we have without you. So for now….. till we meet again.
Andy Cast
Campaign Director
James Mead
Operations Lead
Holding Hands 4 Equality
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