I always felt sorry for Job - he had to put up with all this crap just so God could prove a point to Satan. Like, God should totally not give a fuck what Satan thinks and just not be so mean to Job....
This whole conversation is going to end up in bibledom_wank.
I couldn't really eat yesterday, and felt mild vertigo throughout, and now am home sick, stuffy nose, scratchy throat. I feel like a total jackhole because I couldn't really sleep last night and then fell asleep with the phone in my hand, so I didn't call in til 9:30.
Prometheus.
Narcissus is the one who stared into his own reflection, rapt, till he withered and died. Which is where the term "narcissism" comes from.
Prometheus. Liver, I think.
Being the gruesome child I could be, I once illustrated that with great glee for a book report in elementary school.
Some excellent cat stacking.
Did those cats stack themselves?
Job doesn't bother me so much, but Abraham getting ready to sacrifice his son really gets up my nose.
Well, yes.
But its more than just his son he's willing to give up, its his ONLY son. Abraham with a barren wife was promised he'd be the father of a great nation and ::boom:: God gave him a son. Then God goes and says "Give him back". Abraham being willing to sacrifice his son yet still believe that he will Father a great nation shows that he trusts God no matter what crazy-ass thing God says.
I've also heard commentary that it was an object lesson. Other neighborhood gods would have actually demanded a human sacrifice but God would not -- which he made clear in a very memorable way.
Allyson, I think calling in to work late looks like you tried really hard to make it in, but it's just not going to work.
Also, everything on the front page of Cute Overload is killing me dead with cuteness! Who's a widdle cutie? Who is??
That's all well and good, but it's the jerking around that kind of gets up my nose. In a civil lawsuit, it would be called "pain and suffering," and worth at least an extra million.
(I don't like practical jokes among the mortal, much, so immortals pulling my leg -- let's just say they better not.)
A second (earlier) cat stack: [link]
but iirc, part of the story is that Job is the most faithful guy EVAH. His being picked is something of a compliment.
I get that. But it loses me when we get to the dead kids part. (Especially given an OT context where we don't necessarily assume they're in heaven.) They seem to be irrelevant as individuals, or as humans in their own right. Their only function is as something important to Job that's taken away. Letting kids die to prove a point about their father's loyalty? I have trouble with the concept of an allegedly good deity who'd do that.
