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.
You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.
Xander ,'Help'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
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.
Calli - Aug 02, 2006 9:39:06 am PDT #22 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Volans - Aug 02, 2006 9:43:32 am PDT #23 of 10001
move out and draw fire
::keeps misreading "stout" as "stoat"::
::backs out of Natter::
Calli - Aug 02, 2006 9:45:06 am PDT #24 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
::keeps misreading "stout" as "stoat"::
That's the furry discussion. The Stoats and the Redshirts should be friends.
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2006 9:46:38 am PDT #25 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Furry, or otherkin?
DavidS - Aug 02, 2006 9:47:22 am PDT #26 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
::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."
Vortex - Aug 02, 2006 9:49:06 am PDT #27 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
That's the furry discussion. The Stoats and the Redshirts should be friends.
as should the farmer and the cowman
Pix - Aug 02, 2006 9:52:23 am PDT #28 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
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.
Jesse - Aug 02, 2006 9:52:39 am PDT #29 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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!"
DavidS - Aug 02, 2006 9:53:51 am PDT #30 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
Sean K - Aug 02, 2006 9:57:42 am PDT #31 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Also, God is not supposed to be understood to be an asshole in the OT - that's a fairly contemporary reading.
It was considered more on the level of a fratboy prank back then?