Animating Principle

By Darin Graves

My book questions whether or not the main character, Jim, can sin against what he believes in and still pass into heaven's gates.

Wealthy yet sad through his entire life, Jim has his whole life stolen from him as he loses his loved one. He asks, "will revenge somehow make my life better? Will killing another human being who may or may not

• Language: English
• Publisher: Darin Graves
• Release date: Feb 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9781957378176

Darin Graves

It is quite a bit moving forward religiously about our creator. He is a scientist as much he is spiritually. The thought of space is forever, is mind boggling. It is my true belief that our Souls, beyond material world, can travel space, our material bodies cannot. I am not a Catholic but many of their beliefs and faith are firm. The resurrection of Jesus Christ, the pain burning for our sins is my ultimate faith. St. Lucifer, I believe shows strength in the simple fact he believes humans, seen same as by God, to be equal level with the Saints, he stands by himself against God and his creation, people. Devil takes "originality of natural sin" in man and exploits it, pushes sin forward with every human being possible. God and Devil's reliance trust and are so close yet so far away.

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ANIMATING

PRINCIPLE

DARIN GRAVES

Animating Principle

Copyright © 2022 by Darin Graves

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

ISBN

978-1-957378-18-3 (Paperback)

978-1-957378-17-6 (eBook)

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Socially Unacceptable

Chapter 2 The Beginning

Chapter 3 Harmony

Chapter 4 Warning Signs

Chapter 5 Future

Chapter 6 The Awakening

Chapter 7 Resentment Of Displeasure

Chapter 8 Commerce

Chapter 9 The Weapon

Chapter 10 A Chance To Score

Chapter 11 The Dream

Chapter 12 Predator’s Glory

Chapter 13 The Gray Heart

INTRODUCTION

I was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, on April 11, 1965. I had a normal childhood, and I decided to go to North Dakota State University in 1984. During the next four years, I learned a lot about science. It was difficult to find any religious outlets that made sense to me. My parents raised me Lutheran. I earned a degree in psychology, and it seemed evident to me that culture, individual environments, and DNA made people what they were. Through experience, the unexplained and simply feeling alive opens your mind to life beyond death.

My book questions whether or not the main character, Jim, can sin against what he believes and still pass into heavens gates. Wealthy yet sad through his entire life, Jim has his whole life stolen from him as he loses his loved one. He asks, Will revenge somehow make my life better? Will killing another human being who may or may not be guilty show how I am happy exploring the vastness of heaven?

The book covers a range of topics—dreams, desires, law, and order. What should we do with criminals? Individual changes and culture can influence how a person feels. Pure love is growing with Jim and Allicia, and because of that, they change. Evolution is brought forward by Andy and his dogs, the combination of religious beliefs and evolution. They are cousins just like Jim and Andy. The story of their entire lives, how their future and pasts altered.

I ask about what makes a person tick and what motivated someone. Most people care about themselves only. The result of their action must benefit them. Jim thinks only of Allicia. Revenge on her killer will not bring Allicia back, so his retaliation is mostly for himself. He’s alone, and her killer must pay for it.

A man took something away from him, and he must lose his life because of Jim’s loneliness. But heaven is not some imaginary place of beauty you have dreamed of. It is everything around you—galaxies of stars and planets. Common physical people cannot go to, but souls can.

There are several reasons I wrote this book, but most of them are personal to me. I would like for you, the reader, to be aware of how I see the struggle of life. This is just a drop in the ocean compared to what is beyond. I would also like to tell you a story that changed how I saw life. The last time I saw my mom alive, we were at a caretaker’s home in Fargo. For five years she had called me by my older brother’s name. I played along with it. I always listened and showed respect. One time when she was in her bed, she opened her eyes and said, Darin. I was shocked. I smiled and said, I love you, Mom. She looked back at me and smiled, I love you too. She died a couple days later.

CHAPTER

1

SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE

June 2017

There was no dark without light. The light always filled and embraced the land, filling it with color, shapes, depth, and in a bizarre way for many people, a brightness of hope.

Jim looked up at the sun, which was hot enough to make his forehead sweat. Up in the sky, he saw strange shapes in the clouds. When he was young, he and his older cousin Andy used to lie in the grass and see different creatures in the clouds. There is a whale, Jim said out loud.

His cousin replied, You always say that.

It was a nice area by the golf course where they lived as kids. They were two boys dreaming of their future in the bruised and sullen shapes above them. To Jim, it seemed so long ago.

He looked down at the soil in the fields, which had not been used for crops for more than two years. Previously, they had been used for sugar beets. Many areas were filled with weeds now. There was a circular area of trees about thirty yards across. The rest of the farm fields stretched as far as the eye could see. His Ford truck was parked where the dirt road came to a halt. A small folding table stood outside his truck, and his wallet, several pictures, and a loaded handgun were on top of it.

The breeze felt good. It took away the heat and made things tolerable. He had thought about it a thousand times before. He had his own thoughts about the truth of life and how faith and evolution factored into that truth. He always thought they counteracted each other, but as his own experience grew, he found they were intertwined. They were two strands of life mixed together like DNA, each strand embracing one another. There was no light without dark. The brain gave rise to thoughts and awareness, and millions of cells combined to make even simple gestures. How did simple cells determine what was evil and what was good? With both evolution and faith, he only asked more questions, but Jim craved thoughts of this nature. He needed to dissect his surroundings and make things organized in his mind.

He was fascinated with the knowledge and study of evolution. Put simply, he enjoyed evolution. He was fascinated by changes in biological populations brought about by successful generations. The man who did not, by diversity died, the man who died, maybe carrying his DNA traits to the next generation, often repeated formation of newer more adaptable traits. It never stopped. On this planet there were seven billion people, and not a single person’s DNA was like anyone else’s.

Many species have different sexual combinations. The more offspring, the better. Two mates offered two different sets of DNA. Sometimes random recombination affected heredity. Other times one DNA set would dominate the other recessive one. This idea reminded him of two girls he had seen in a bar and grill one Saturday night a month or two ago—conjoined twins with two heads and two spinal cords but one body. Nerves, muscles, and hormones reacting to two individual brains had to be difficult. Each brain was in control of half the body. It took cooperation from both brains to run collectively. It must have been hard just to clap hands.

It made him wonder how fast evolution ran. Thousands of years? Or could humans evolve in one generation? Could dinosaur offspring be born with wings and turn into birds so quickly?

He thought of the ostrich people, a tribe from Zimbabwe, Africa. The Vadoma people had a rare genetic condition called ectrodactylism. They had two large toes on each foot. He remembered reading an article where a prince had also possessed that genetic trait. As a prince, he had many women to procreate with, and like him, their offspring were born with two enormous toes on each foot. Thus, they were called the ostrich people.

The man in the chair ten feet away from his table moaned. Still unconscious, he was handcuffed to a chair, and a belt held him tightly around his waist. The chair was held down by large bricks on its legs.

He looked at the wallet on the table and said, Marko Ivonov. The green card granted him the ability to live and work in the United States on a seven-year basis.

He looked at the picture and writing on the green card—dates, country of birth, and given name. At the top it said, Permanent resident.

He thought, Russian asshole, you brought Eastern criminal values with you. How unfortunate.

The man had a thousand dollars in cash in his wallet as well. Jim looked down at Marko, who was still unaware of the spiderweb he was caught in. He would be awake soon. Jim continued his thoughts about evolution and the process of life. His favorite animal was Canis familiaris—dogs.

All modern dogs came from wolves. Man was a hunter, so the master who bred them usually wanted the dogs to be more vicious. Man could also make them smaller or furrier. He could make them whatever he desired. Their traits were then bred. The best dog was then paired with another dog that had the best traits, all in an effort to advance the dominant traits. Then the man bred them over and over again. It did not take too long to make the trait or action more precise. If one had a time machine and went back a thousand years, one would never see a Doberman pinscher.

Jim always went to the library. New theories about evolution had fascinated him for years. Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species, brining the transmitting of species to a halt. He thought several other men knew of the branching pattern of evolution long before Darwin. The descent of pigs from wild boars and dogs from wolves had been documented for more than nine thousand years. Those people just never wrote a book on this subject.

But evolution had many flaws. When was life originally created? Many widespread theories sounded too much like jokes to even consider. Evolution was real, but the creation of life was something