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title: Serving an Absent God
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date: 2011-10-17
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techne: :wip
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episteme: :believed
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Live as if you've been damned to hell, into eternal isolation from God.
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http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/2011/03/empirical-nature-of-meaning.html
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>> It seems to me that the Book of Job lacks the courage of its convictions: If
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>> the author were really committed to the idea tha virtue isn't always
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>> rewarded, > shouldn't the book have ended with Job still bereft of
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>> everything?
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>> -- Ted Chiang
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>
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> Absent a translated reading copy of the text, I can only speculate as to what
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> exactly Job's retention of faith in the alternate version looks like - it
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> seems wholly implausible that it would be the kind of faith one sees being
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> sold like a drug at the tax-exempt megachurches that hawk drive-thru
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> salvation. I imagine Job would feel something like the Zen master who finally
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> woke up one day and burned all his scriptures and cursed the day he heard the
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> Buddha's name, after wasting decades trying to square the spiritual circle.
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> Your enlightenment may come, that is for sure, but it won't be the cheap
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> dopamine perma-fix you thought it would be. Happiness is a high, but Truth is
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> Truth. And the handmaidens of Truth are disenchantment, disillusionment, and
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> death-awareness.
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>
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> I say that for the truly faithful, God must be seen as nothing other than a
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> yawning void in place of an answer, an untouchable mystery which for no reason
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> at all churns out gasping life, then drowns it in final eternity. This is not
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> the God that anyone would ever go looking for, but the ones who look, who
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> *actually* look instead of just trying to trap their cognitive dissonance in
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> yet another layer of spiritual nonsense, will find this one. Only seek this
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> God if, like Job, you have absolutely no other choice - if you're not ready to
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> throw your entire terror management apparatus out the window, with all the
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> suffering and despair that entails, you're better off at the megachurch.
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> -- Chuck G.
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> It's also interesting that many scholars consider Job to be the oldest book of
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> the bible. Satan seems to be God's official prosecutor and right-hand man. The
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> happy ending does seem tacked on, even more so when considered in the
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> philosophical context of Ecclesiastes, whose message boils down to 'life
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> sucks, then you die, so you probably ought to go ahead and worship God... just
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> in case'.
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> -- metamorphhh
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