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.
But if the world doesn't end, I'm gonna need a note.
Cordelia ,'Potential'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
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.
Nutty - Aug 02, 2006 8:26:57 am PDT #9952 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
sarameg - Aug 02, 2006 8:27:50 am PDT #9953 of 10002
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.
tommyrot - Aug 02, 2006 8:27:54 am PDT #9954 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Some excellent cat stacking.
Did those cats stack themselves?
Trudy Booth - Aug 02, 2006 8:28:10 am PDT #9955 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
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.
Jesse - Aug 02, 2006 8:29:13 am PDT #9956 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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??
Aims - Aug 02, 2006 8:30:16 am PDT #9957 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I am!! I am!!
Nutty - Aug 02, 2006 8:30:56 am PDT #9958 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
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.)
Sophia Brooks - Aug 02, 2006 8:31:01 am PDT #9959 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
A second (earlier) cat stack: [link]
Calli - Aug 02, 2006 8:31:23 am PDT #9960 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
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.
Allyson - Aug 02, 2006 8:33:20 am PDT #9961 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Yeah, the Abraham story, I always thought, was a way for people to learn that no just God needs the sacrifice of your children as proof of faith. Still makes God look like a total bastard. Though, wasn't that the first time in human history that someone got Punk'd?