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WCDT Strips 3411 to 3415 (6th to 10th February 2017)
TinPenguin:
It's as if you went to the police to ask permission to rob someone, and the police were all "sure, go ahead, I'm sure he won't lose faith in the justice system or anything".
Zebediah:
And then when you have the nerve to protest, the police are all "WHO ARE YOU TO QUESTION THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM?" Um, I'm the guy who the criminal justice system deliberately let down, that's who.
Yeah, all kinds of philosophical problems in the Book of Job.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Ben ---Don't forget that God also stopped Job from being killed and then fixed everything better than it was before. In the process, it proved that the human creation was not intrinsically flawed and can remain faithful no matter the scale of the apparent injustice they suffered. More importantly, it showed that human faithfulness didn't depend on being shielded from harm.
--- End quote ---
A. If I burned your house down and destroyed everything you own and hold dear, and then a week later told you I bought you a nicer house and replaced everything inside it, would that undo the trauma of my original crims? Even if it did...
B. HIS CHILDREN ARE STILL FUCKING DEAD. And even if you interpret it as them as being resurrected instead of "replaced" (which...eww), that opens up a whole new can of worms.
BenRG:
Let's try not to stray onto a scriptural discussion here. Discussions of Job, the whys, the wherefores and the nature of the need to publicly demonstrate what is and is not so aren't really relevant. Spookybot is torturing Corpse Witch because they can and because they are using it as negative reinforcement. There is no comparison with the events in Job whatsoever.
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 08 Feb 2017, 11:42 ---A. If I burned your house down and destroyed everything you own and hold dear, and then a week later told you I bought you a nicer house and replaced everything inside it, would that undo the trauma of my original crims? Even if it did...
B. HIS CHILDREN ARE STILL FUCKING DEAD.
--- End quote ---
A) He didn't do anything; the Devil chose to do these things (of his own free will, forced to do nothing) and, according to the account, yes, Job's trauma was erased. At the end of his life, he was considered to be 'satisfied with his days' (happy, in other words);
B) Not according to Hebrew theology; death is undoable and the sacred writings of that culture make it completely clear that it will be undone.
Method of Madness:
Check my edited post, and "he didn't do anything" is meaningless when Satan asked for and received permission.
Edit: But we're straying too much. Let's end this here.
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