Speaking of unpleasant fates - who got torn apart by the furies?

The Furies or the Maenads? Orpheus was killed by the Maenads, I think, and so was...the king in The Bacchae, whose name I'm forgetting.

The Furies chased after Orestes for a while because he killed his mother.

Loads of Aeneus' shipmates got eaten by Furies, I think.

Speaking of unpleasant fates - who got torn apart by the furies?

Any number of demons, vampires, etc.

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

I sent my niece this book recently and it was a HUGE hit with her, my brother, SiL, and parents. They all love it. I haven't read it yet - got it for her based on Buffistas. So, thanks!

Furies, sirens, harpies, Maenads, Bacchantes -- the Greeks kind of had an Issue with their womenfolk going off wild and crazy.

The Greeks kind of had an Issue with women overall, but the wild-and-crazy women: well, look what they did to Klytaemnestra.

I haven't read it yet

I bet your mom would let me.

Someone said in Bitches that they find birthday discussions offensive.

Oh, really? That's my least favorite thing abut Jahovah's Witnesses, at least the one bitchy woman I used to work with. Back to the drawing board.

OK, googling "Bahai birthday" led me to this guy's blog, where he talks about Baha'i and also his birthday party, so I'm going to go with that not being a big part of the religion, if at all. [link]

who got torn apart by the furies?

I read this as "who got torn about by the FURRIES?"

Cute overload is crashing my browser. Woe.

I just found out that the place DH and I went for lunch on Saturday is where Mel Gibson was allegedly drinking before his arrest. I feel so chic.

WRT Job, I don't focus so much on the God doing stuff to him to test him part. What's striking me right now as the most important bit is when his friends come to him and ask him to confess whatever he must've done to deserve all this terrible misfortune, and he knows that he is righteous.

One of the things we lost in Katrina was DH's Pentateuch, along with pretty much all of our Judaica. As we were collecting the ruined books so they could be disposed of properly, I had the thought - what if those guys saying the storm was God's wrath were right? It was a fleeting thought, supplanted by my old reliable then that's not a god I want on my side rebuttal, but it was a scary amount of doubt for a moment there.

I wasn't thiking of Job at the time, but Job's faithfulness in the face of trials he doesn't understand - all that business of tests, he's not privy to any of that - is comforting to me. If the lesson of the Book of Job is that following God's Law won't get you rewards or even allow you to escape terrible sorrows, but it may afford you some kind of serenity and surety in an uncertain world, well, that works for me.