Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
You don't need that, when winter comes the gorillas will just freeze to death.
Of course, that's what everyone says, but do we really want to base the fate of the world on that assumption?
Like what if they are really just bears in gorilla suits? Then they'll just hibernate.
Like what if they are really just bears in gorilla suits? Then they'll just hibernate.
I suppose we could trick them with drugged picanic baskets....
Like what if they are really just bears in gorilla suits? Then they'll just hibernate.
We can lure them away with Delicious Pots of Hunny.
ETA: Appropriate Pooh case.
Doormat? For half of it, Job is calling God a callous bully. And complaining that he'd love to argue his case to God, if only God would take his calls.
I need my copy of Ken's Guide.
if only God would take his calls.
This is the problematic part. When he just doesn't call you back, for weeks on end, and just sends you dead bunnies in shoeboxes? It is time to break up with him.
Job, I haev Sally Jesse on the phone. She would like to stage an intervention. Are you free on Thursday?
I'm afraid if I were being hit with a variety of calamities that seemed like directed divine acts rather than simple misfortune, I'd be looking into working for the competition and seeing if they needed an extra hand for scrubbing down Dagon's altar or somesuch.
And where are those confounded snakes?
That's taking me to a Led Zeppelin place.
I have recently become a lot fonder of the Book pf Job than I used to be, and I've already deleted several posts trying to explain why. It's all kind of tangled up with Camus's Sysyphus in my head.
Camus's Sysyphus was ultimately happy with his burden, right?
Job doesn't bother me so much, but Abraham getting ready to sacrifice his son really gets up my nose.
Also, it is now 85 degrees and work, and it is getting hard to do boring work in semi business-like attire, while being sticky and cranky.
Like Gud said above, if you think of it as an object lesson, not a true story, that helps a lot.
I just spent way too long talking and thinking about the Baha'i. They just seem so sensible and nice!