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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Raised atheist, so I feel like I'm missing something important on a cultural lev
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Fred Clark essentially posits Jonah as a response to Job, basically “god is actually good and forgiving and not a jackass who thinks mass murder pranks are a good time”
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The point of Job is the ending, really. We can’t even discuss theodicy because we aren’t the ones who can see the whole picture and know what is evil and what is justified.
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The point of Job is the ending, really. We can't even discuss theodicy because we aren't the ones who can see the whole picture and know what is evil and what is justified.
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@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ Job is, I think, an attempt to repudiate the idea of "if bad things happen to yo
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Well, yes. We can’t check God’s work to know if they are playing for the good ending or the bad ending.
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Well, yes. We can't check God's work to know if they are playing for the good ending or the bad ending.
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Another way I think about it is, if god exists outside of time and can perceive all time at once, the interventions they choose may be largely unrelated to the immediate perceived needs of humans, and more about a bigger picture we can’t perceive because it is too far beyond us. Butterfly chaos theory on a universal space-time level.
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Another way I think about it is, if god exists outside of time and can perceive all time at once, the interventions they choose may be largely unrelated to the immediate perceived needs of humans, and more about a bigger picture we can't perceive because it is too far beyond us. Butterfly chaos theory on a universal space-time level.
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(Reply:)
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That’s precisely what I’ve always loved about Job, is God showing up in a whirlwind and going “you don’t have and can never have literally any idea what you’re talking about”—and then telling the other guys Job was the only person present who said what was right. The sense of intrusion from another plane is as bizarre as anything in Ezekiel, it just involves fewer eyes
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That's precisely what I've always loved about Job, is God showing up in a whirlwind and going “you don't have and can never have literally any idea what you're talking about”—and then telling the other guys Job was the only person present who said what was right. The sense of intrusion from another plane is as bizarre as anything in Ezekiel, it just involves fewer eyes
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@ -54,10 +54,10 @@ Epigraph: εκαρδίωσας ημάς ενί από οφθαλμών σου ε
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* [o] [A sudden memory](21)
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* [o] [Early crush](30)
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* [o] [Lunch 1 with Kay](31)
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* [.] Act II
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* [o] Act II
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* [o] [A dream](40)
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* [o] [Leaving seminary vs liking Kay](50)
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* [ ] [Lunch 2 with Kay](51)
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* [.] [Lunch 2 with Kay](51)
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* [ ] [Talking with god](52)
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* [o] [Dee chickens out](60)
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* [o] [Confession](61)
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