February 12, 2007
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Creative Energy
I just thought I’d let you all know that I’ve had the creative juices flowing like crazy recently. Everything from new and inventive ways to play Sid Meier’s Pirates! to the invention of an entire hero for Johannes and Susanna’s underground world. I think the 7 months I’ve spent adjusting to the new job and the responsibility involved with it had pretty much stifled the creative process that usually came so naturally to me. The best way to put it is to say that unless it came to understand copyright law and the intricacies of professionalism that much more, I provided my energy with no outlet. As a result, I think a lot of creative energy got dammed up in my head and it’s all bursting forth like a massive flood. My poor wrist can’t keep up(don’t ask why, but I’ve always preferred pen and paper to a keyboard).
Anyways, I’m just forewarning my readers that 2, possibly 3, short stories will be making their way to this board in the coming months. The first, Tears in the Rain, I’m about 6 pages into, and have quite a ways to go on paper – though it’s entirely written in my head. The second, Auburn Eyes, doesn’t have a word on paper yet, but the rough outline also exists in my head and the rest will be shored up as I write and get a better feel for the setting and characters. The third, Five Years, may not make it to Xanga – but it’s only a rough idea right now so that status may change between now and March/April.
Oh yeah, you may find this odd, but I find that for some reason the Tiberian Sun soundtrack is a highly effective cd to listen to while writing.
-Shadowrunner81
Comments (4)
As for the question, “Is God free to create a rock big enough that he can’t lift it?” I really don’t know how to answer it, because it seems silly. Wait, hm, if God creates something, he would have control over it, if he wanted to control it. So I don’t think there would ever be a rock that God created that would be so big that he couldn’t lift it. On another note, unless I’m just not thinking about this question like you intended, this question seems more rooted in God’s omnipotence than his freedom.
“I was always under the understanding that God not do evil because it was not in His nature.” Me too. I just needed to hear it talked about to connect that with freedom.
As for goodness and omniscience, I don’t know. But say he only created beings that he knew would not sin, even though they still had free will. I wonder if that would be too selective? Well, probably not. Philosophers would probably say that him choosing people like this would show his omniscience and goodness. But what about the children of these people, and on down the generations? If those people really have free will as we do, I think it would only be a matter of time before someone sinned. I do think there is evil, but I also think there’s opportunity for good (especially in Christ’s redemption).
For what I mean by obligation, the best way to get an answer is to read Lana’s post. “The True Nature means ‘Being Yourself’” at http://thepxii.blogspot.com/2007/02/true-nature.html
In sum though, once you get a fuller understanding of what I mean, obligation is not free and responsibility can be.
hey, what happened to the protected post? it went missing and i was going to use it…
I privatized everything beyond December or so a couple months ago.
I still don’t see the creating a rock question as having anything to do with freedom, maybe because if it does relate to freedom, it’s along the lines of having alternate possibilities. It would be like saying, is Camille free to run and jump off of a roof to go swinging from tree to tree? [Or insert something much more unlikely and outlandish.] I would never want to do such a thing, that is, it would not come out of the freedom of me acting out of my nature. So the question of whether I’m “free” to do that seems silly. If God doesn’t want to do something people ask about him (creating a big rock…), that doesn’t make him less free. I’m saying that maybe our views of what freedom is are making us look at this question differently.
I don’t think that would make God reactionary. Our evil actions have no bearing on his goodness, because he is apart from us. He has no duty (obligation) to us. We have done evil of our free will. He can punish us, or he can have mercy on us. Both of those actions are not reactionary (not reactionary in the sense that God is below us, not a free self, just responding to others). These actions, however, are relationary (pardon the jargon) to us. In being relationary, not reactionary, God has freedom and power. He relates to us not as a being under his creation, but a being above his creation. He chooses, out of his own nature, what to do about us. His nature as good desires to punish evil. His nature as loving desires to save us despite our sin.