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“Sometimes a jerk just talks God into messing with you to see what you’ll do.”</p>
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<p><strong>benitocereno — Yesterday at 6:04 PM</strong><br />
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I’m sure someone theorizes that the frame sequence is a later addition but basically everything I’ve read says the frame is the oldest part and the poem was the addition</p>
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<p><strong>Future’s so bright… — Yesterday at 6:07 PM</strong><br />
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<p><strong>Future’s so bright… — <a href="Yesterday.html">Yesterday</a> at 6:07 PM</strong><br />
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The poem, yeah. Its so out of place I expect to see it in a different font with slightly different formating from the rest of the document.</p>
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<p><strong>Jon M — Yesterday at 6:08 PM</strong><br />
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I’m not familiar. My apologies, I listen to ska, not pop 😝</p>
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<p>Yeah, you can’t get mad at a hurricane for wrecking your house</p>
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<h2 id="workshops">Workshops</h2>
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<li class="done0"> <a href="../writing/workshops/it-was.html">“It is/was” story starters</a></li>
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<li class="done0"> Writing voice for characters/types out of your wheelhouse<ul>
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<li class="done4"> <a href="../writing/workshops/it-was.html">“It is/was” story starters</a></li>
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<li class="done4"> Writing voice for characters/types out of your wheelhouse<ul>
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<li>I have no clue about detectives, haven’t liked those kinds of stories</li>
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<li>Write one</li>
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<p>His friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar commiserate with him, sitting silent with him for seven days and nights. Even Job’s wife seems to sigh: “Do you still cling to your innocence? Curse God and die.”<sup id="fnref:1die"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1die">6</a></sup> (Job 2:9, Alter)</p>
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<p>And now we skip all the way to the last chapter of the book for the conclusion of the framing device. God commands that Job’s friends offer up sacrifices on his behalf, and when they do, all of Job’s wealth is restored twice over. 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels and so on, down to seven more sons and three more daughters (which he gives the delightful names Dove, Cinnamon, and Horn of Eyeshade). Job lives another hundred and forty years, long enough to see four generations of offspring, until he dies “aged and sated in years.” (Job 42:17, Alter)</p>
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<p>Of all of the book of Job, it is this framing device which seems to cause the most controversy. Even the Apocrypals podcast, whose tagline is “Where two non-believers read the bible and try not to be jerks about it”, drops the ‘and try not to be jerks about it’ for this episode, host Chris Sims explaining, “Unfortunately, this week we are reading the book of Job.” \parencite{apocrypals}</p>
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<p>Sims’s argument boils down to the fact that this framing device leads to Job being a narrative, moral, and commercial failure: a narrative failure for not resolving any of its plot points, a moral failure because it fails to explain why bad things happen to good people, and a commercial failure because “it is the most cogent argument against religion that I have ever heard.”</p>
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<p>It’s a compelling argument, too. He goes on to explain that it is almost the inverse of Pascal’s wager, in that it “presents a world where it is impossible to distinguish between God’s wrath and God’s indifference.” Whereas Pascal would have it that there is no downside to believing in God as there is the possibility of infinite salvation if you do and you’re right and infinite damnation if you don’t and you’re wrong. Here, we are presented with the fact that, whether or not you believe in God, you’re equally liable to suffer.</p>
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<p>“Mining on our planet and our planet’s moon,” the skunk said after a moment’s thought. “As well as limited mining of asteroids at stationary points of orbit.”</p>
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<p>“You call Lagrange point, <em>ka?</em>” Stolon asked.</p>
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<p>She nodded. “Correct.”</p>
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<p>“We saw…<em>lu…</em>” They chattered their teeth for a moment, then looked to Iska. “<em>Baenå’ puta’ ‘esbrohakadåt’?</em>“</p>
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<p>“We saw…<em>lu…</em>” They chattered their teeth for a moment, then looked to Iska. “<em>Baenå’ luta’ ‘esbrohakadåt’?</em>“</p>
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<p>“Space-constructs,” they said, filling in. “We saw constructs of various size at your planet-moon and planet-star Lagrange points.”</p>
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<p>True Name stiffened, but any response she might have had was preempted by Tycho. The astronomer, who had appeared largely overwhelmed by the meeting to date had steadily grown more excited during the questioning phase. “You did? How? Radio? When did you see them? During gravity assist? How–“</p>
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<p>“Tycho, hold up,” Sarah said, laughing. “There will be time.”</p>
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<p>Stolon, meanwhile, was clacking claw-tipped fingers against the table and bobbing their head. “<em>Za putatier! Za, za,</em>” they said quickly. “Will say, will say. Excited also, scientist Tycho.”</p>
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<p>Stolon, meanwhile, was clacking claw-tipped fingers against the table and bobbing their head. “<em>Za lutatier! Za, za,</em>” they said quickly. “Will say, will say. Excited also, scientist Tycho.”</p>
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<p>Codrin grinned, scribbling further notes on in eir notebook. Ey was pleased to see that there was also excitement around the table, rather than simply anxiety.</p>
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<p>“Scientist Stolon, please answer scientist Tycho’s question regarding how,” Turun Ka said, voice bouncing through tones.</p>
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<p><em>Amusement, perhaps?</em> Codrin thought. The atmosphere certainly seemed to have lightened.</p>
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<p>“I don’t know about that either, as representative. I hope I get to ask more. Though, well…” Sarah glanced over to where True Name and Why Ask Questions had sat at a table, still talking earnestly within a cone of silence. “I don’t know what’s more interesting. The emissaries or the Odists.”</p>
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