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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.
The Book of Job adresses the tough questions like, "Why do bad things happen to good people" and "Why does God allow suffering and evil?"
The Book of Job also says that the answers to those questions are "God's got a bet on with the Devil on how faithful you really are." Not a reassuring thing to base a faith on.
It's easy to keep faith when you've got all the sheep in the meadow and lots of comely daughters and stout sons.
But if you're the comely daughter or stout son who gets offed to make a point, the faith may take on a different feeling for you.
::keeps misreading "stout" as "stoat"::
::backs out of Natter::
::keeps misreading "stout" as "stoat"::
That's the furry discussion. The Stoats and the Redshirts should be friends.
Furry, or otherkin?
::keeps misreading "stout" as "stoat"::
What makes a stoat comely anyway?
the answers to those questions are "God's got a bet on with the Devil on how faithful you really are."
That's not the answer, that's just plot mechanics. I know folks read for narrative, but that's not the best reading of Job. Also, God is not supposed to be understood to be an asshole in the OT - that's a fairly contemporary reading.
Though that is one of the answers in Job: "Quit being a punk-ass bitch expecting God to be your magic genie of good luck. It's not about what God has done for you lately. It's also not about what God has done to you lately."
That's the furry discussion. The Stoats and the Redshirts should be friends.
as should the farmer and the cowman
New thread!
This is also the first time I am completely caught up in a Natter thread in months. Yes I know there aren't even 50 posts yet. Hush.
Can't believe all the Job haters in the hizzouse. Jesse, I thought you were a PK?
I was a PK. Still creeped out by the Job story, sorry. Not that I've read it in years.
NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T WATCH COLBERT: Every week, he profiles a Congressional district and interviews its Rep. Every week, he says this week he's doing "[State's] [#] District -- The fightin' [#]!!" Except, of course, last week, when he did DC, and could only say "The Fightin' District!"
Of course, I post all this in the full knowledge that probably everyone on earth, with the possible exceptions of Alan Moore and maybe victor, will think I'm on the crackiest crack that ever was cracked.
I cannot believe my wife would leave me off this list with Alan Moore and Victor when I pimped the damn book to her in the first place and have written on more than one occasion about the "Evey" section of the book. Fie.