Spectrox Celery
Fan of Doctor Who, history and generally nerdy stuff. Left the bird after some unpleasantness. Slightly left of centre left. All views my own and don't reflect my employer or anyone else.
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View full threadOn both an emotional and intellectual level on a way I absolutely was not expecting. As a theological statement about God I think it actually makes me more likely to be an antitheist (God in this is a massive dick), but as an almost proto absurdist statement on attitudes to misfortune
- Or suffering, I think it almost works. Job is very relatable.
- Assholes who know Job mocking his misfortune while Job responds in absolutely beautiful and poetic verse about his torments. It really doesn't do what it sets out on the tin (address the problem of evil and suffering) and God does not come out of it well, but as a work of literature, it is fabulous.
- Just very beautifully written and expressed, with imagery and phrases that we have all probably read of heard before without even realising this is where it comes from. It's problematic in the way it portrays God, even in the context of the OT, but it is still engaging and challenging
- So, the Book of Job is an interesting one. The popular image of the book is that the devil screws over Job, and God doesn't intervene to show how strong Job's piety and decency is, and Job is basically "shit happens", but really that's only the first two chapters of it. Most of the book is a few
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- No it isn't. It's cowardly and disrespectful.
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- Yeah, I hate lawns. Sterile lifeless and beloved only by anal retentive boomers in gilets.
- Where's the outrage of Microsoft changing the default font from Calibri to Aptos. It should be as intense if not more, than when Apple gave us U2.
- We use Arial at work, so don't really give a shit tbh
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- That's Dr Hypnotits to you. He revolutionised the field of boob hypnotism.
- Dad bought a new mini in 2005, returned it after 6 months as the suspension was shot and everything felt lose, what he didn't know was I used to drive it top speed up cobbled roads to make my girlfriends boobs bounce
