5/18/2023 0 Comments Creature streetThe class culminates with a made-for-video show, or a staged performance, parade, or "creature street-theatre" event. Original and extraordinary "Creatures" are developed by way of a creative process that investigates 3-D building techniques with foam, fabric and a variety of other ingredients in combination with experimental theatre games designed to improve movement, improvisational and storytelling skills. However, the imperfect creature is, by contrast, capable of deficiency, of “falling short,” so to speak."Creature Creation" is a performance-oriented class in which the masks, costumes, and puppet-sculptures which students create will be transformed into characters and brought to life to form collaborative theatre pieces and environments. Thus God, the perfect good, Goodness Itself, can in no way be said to be the source of evil in the world. Hence, union with God in the interior life is the “one thing necessary,” as our Lord says in Luke 10:42 in the story about Mary and Martha. For Thou has made us for Thyself and our hearts are restless till they rest in Thee.” Thou dost so excite him that to praise Thee is his joy. He bears about him his mortality, the evidence of his sinfulness, and the evidence that Thou dost resist the proud: yet this tiny part of all that Thou hast created desires to praise Thee. He is but a tiny part of all that Thou has created. “Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised great is Thy power, and of Thy wisdom there is no number. Augustine famously wrote in his Confessions: And our happiness can only be found in union with God by knowing and loving Him, since only He can satiate us as the perfect good, as Goodness Itself. Only the Uncreated Good, only the Creator Himself, can be the object of our happiness. Reaching for HappinessĪnd so we read in Ecclesiastes 1:2, “Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.” What’s the point to it all?! The cars, the money, the house, even spouse, the children…here today, gone tomorrow. As such, it is impossible for any created good to be perfectly good-the creature, by definition of being a creature, cannot be goodness itself. But only God is Goodness Itself, while everything else, all created goods, are good merely to the extent in which they participate in He Who is Goodness Itself. Happiness is found in the perfect good, where nothing is lacking and nothing else desired. This is why, for example, our ultimate happiness can only be found in God. That does not necessarily mean morally imperfect, but certainly ontologically imperfect: the creature is not God, and therefore not goodness itself, and therefore capable of falling short of goodness itself, and therefore imperfect. In contrast to God, the creature, who is not the source of its own existence, is, by definition, imperfect. So it is impossible for God to actively will the evil of sin, all sin standing out of harmony with the nature of His will. Yet only a finite, limited being could choose something other than God, Who necessarily loves Himself and so cannot wish anything other than Himself. ![]() This moral evil of sin consists in choosing some real or apparent good in opposition to the Supreme Good, God Himself. This is especially true when it comes to choosing the moral evil of sin, which is a turning away from the Divine goodness, for this would be a choice in opposition to His very Being. God, by contrast, is “pure act” and “immutable.” As such, God has not the power to choose evil. ![]() In possessing the perfection of all things, God must not lack any perfection in His free will, meaning that He cannot possess the human imperfections in the will of “potentiality” (i.e., is not yet, but could be) and “mutability” (i.e., capable of change). This is, after all, one of the major differences between the creature and the Creator. And that good which is the cause of evil is the creature, who, by definition, is not perfect and therefore capable of deficiency. And since, as a privation, evil is not a thing in itself, does not exist per se, its cause must be in some good that is not perfect and therefore capable of evil. If getting mad at God for all of the evil in the world is getting mad at the wrong person, then to whom, or to what, should we direct our ire? Because, while true that evil does not come from God, its cause must nonetheless still be accounted for.
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5/18/2023 0 Comments Play the game of life online free![]() From a core gameplay perspective, Brawlhalla mirrors Smash in that the goal is to knock other fighters off the map. Ubisoft’s spunky mascot Rayman will enter the fight then, too. Currently, it’s available on PS4, Switch, Xbox One, iOS, and Android - and it’s a mobile game that you won’t want to miss out on. ![]() Brawlhalla‘s ascent to landing with one of the biggest video game studios in the world means that the game will reach new heights. In 2018, Blue Mammoth Games, the studio behind the peculiar brawler, was acquired by Ubisoft. Once forge mode gets introduced later in the game’s life, the amount of content will essentially be … well … infinite.Īfter spending a couple of years in early access, Brawhlhalla, a fighting game that can only really be compared to Super Smash Bros., was released as a free-to-play title in 2017. The battle pass offers tons of reasons to get invested, but even without it the core game just feels so solid and addictive you will want to keep going match after match. You won’t have any trouble finding a match in any of the major game modes, of which all the old favorites are making a return. ![]() Being free to play but also fully cross-platform play means that Halo Infinite‘s player base is incredibly healthy already. Throwing in some more modern mechanics, like sprint, plus a host of new tools like the incredibly fun grappling hook, this is the perfect way to get back into the Halo experience. This latest Halo game from developer 343 takes the game back to the type of tactical, positioning, and skill-based multiplayer that made the older games so beloved. While you will either need a Game Pass subscription or a retail copy of Halo Infinite to play the game’s campaign, the multiplayer component of the Microsoft-exclusive shooter is completely free to play on PC and all Xbox platforms. |