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brian
United States
Cedar Lake
Indiana
Mourning the end of the Manning era.
Welcome baby brother Toby James, 03/24, 8 lb. 15 oz.
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geberus wrote: That is because scholarship has traditionally focused on what she said, and only what she said. What she did is not recorded in the text, but there is a long tradition of her comforting Job in his despair. Remember, she lost everything too. I really like William Blake's take on it, as can be seen below, but look through the whole gallery for more images too. Blake clearly shows Job's wife comforting him in his distress.
OK. It isn't in the text which is why I don't recall it.
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Colorcrayons
United States
Maplewood
Minnesota
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I'd say the entire art piece on the board is offensive if you ask me.
Let's start with the upper left corner and work counterclockwise to find out why:
1) We have Adam's big fat white bare ass mooning us playing "pull my finger" with some old man's torso that magically floats. If that isn't a middle finger to Queen Games customers I have no idea what is then.
2) We see a snake sniffing Adam's bare ass. This is clearly subliminal messaging to tell us to pay attention to Adam's ass again.
3) Eve is dragging Adam by the hand, in obvious embarrassment over how much emphasis is being put onto his ass by Queen Games and this very post.
4) An old man writing about sky boats. What the hell was this guy who painted this picture smoking?
5) A winged robed mutant is swooping down to kill an old dude and some kid. Not only should mutants be banned, but that damned mutant knocked the knife away that old dude was going to use to protect himself and the kid from harvey birdman.
6) Some old dude holding a tombstone over his head. This pic tells me he is strong, but what else? he is ready to go beneath his tombstone. I have no idea. It is offensive simply because it is confusing.
7) The glowing moon cow was the only survivor from the burning city? color me skeptical.
8) Some puritan lady dumping water on a greek. Not only do the timelines not add up, but I think that woman needs to learn her place and not go around dumping water on innocent greek citizens.
9) Some black haired chic praying to a fish god. Clearly, more subliminal messaging and proof that Cthulhu is real. Ia!
10) This time in the center of the picture we have... another mutant! Queen games is clearly endorsing half breeds with bestiality. But why only birds? Clearly, there is some favoritism as well as discrimination being sublimated into the minds of Queen Games consumers. Likely propaganda for fascist breeding programs.
Despicable! All of it! Not a single redeeming feature to the portrait! I say burn this filth!
[edit to add pic for reference while reading]
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Lynette
United States
Richland
Washington
Yep, I am a girl Scientist. Come for the breasts; Stay for the brains!
For as long as I shall live I will testify to love; I'll be a witness in the silences when words are not enough.
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ah3Dog wrote: How's about that burning temple?
Except I think it isn't a burning temple.
Looks like Elijah's challenge to Baal to me. One "alter" burning the other not.
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David White
United States
Unspecified
Unspecified
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Meerkat wrote: ah3Dog wrote: How's about that burning temple? Except I think it isn't a burning temple. Looks like Elijah's challenge to Baal to me. One "alter" burning the other not.
It probably goes with the Job picture, showing a conflation of the fire and wind destruction ( http://www.esvbible.org/search/Job+1%3A16-19/)
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Bryan Jensen
United States
Layton
Utah
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geberus wrote: That is because scholarship has traditionally focused on what she said, and only what she said. What she did is not recorded in the text, but there is a long tradition of her comforting Job in his despair. Remember, she lost everything too.
Note that Dürer's painting is called "Job castigated by his wife" even though she is shown washing his sores. My understanding is that the text of the poem, while it merely depicts Job's wife telling him to "Curse God and die" the role of comforting is loaded in the cultural stereotypes of how a wife could come unto her husband so that she may nag him like that with Eve-like seduction. If a man returned home afflicted like Job it would be the expected role of a wife to clean him, just like a servant would. In this intimate and vulnerable moment she can gain the upper hand over Job's attention whereby she can give him stereotypically stern wifely nagging and advice. Otherwise she would not come unto him unless were she called to bring food and it would be Job's traditional and stereotypical leadership role to be the advice-giver.
Job is the oldest or one of the oldest books in the biblical canon and reveals ancient near-East poetic grappling with injustice and suffering. Scholarship generally holds that Genesis is an amalgam of oral-literary traditions that contrasts and fuses the beliefs of Eloists with the beliefs of the YHWH'ists. Job as ancient poetry informs us of the grapplings of the Eloists with God's permissive role in suffering and injustice more than it reflects the Yahwehists; the Eloists personified God with human like emotions, appearances and dialogues compared to Yahwehists that depict God more alien and sovereign. The "wrap-up" of end of the Book of Job today is newer than the earlier parts of the poem and reveal how YHWH belief came to dominate in defending the role of God in suffering and the need/desire for an intermediator and advocate for divine justice.
Today in the Hebrew and Christian canon Job forms a bookend role together with Ecclesiastes of being a "counter wisdom" poetic wisdom book - contrasting suffering and lamentations against the other wisdom books between them that are generally more affirming of God's might in victory, blessings, joy, etc.
geberus wrote: ps, Job is one of my favorite books in the whole Bible, but I am weird like that 
I agree. It is beautiful and troubling, kind of like the Coen Brothers' modern retelling of the story in their A Serious Man (2009): "If the truth is found to be lies and all the hope within you dies, then what?"
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Jeff Shoot
United States
Southfield
Michigan
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Thanks for posting this picture of the board... IMHO the artwork is mostly "cheezy".... Disappointing would probably be the best word... The bearded person, presumably God, "floating" down to touch Adam's hand is particularly funny-looking..
As for the sense of humor from Minnesota, well, it is a long winter up there. Chalk it up to "cabin fever"?
As for the earlier comment about "only in the US" or whatever that was, I would like to quote a professor and biblical expert that I remember from my grad school days...
"The Hebrews loved their bodies, and covered them. The Greeks hated their bodies (as the prison of the soul) and uncovered them."
The point? People who cover their bodies are not necessarily doing so because they find them offensive... 
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Andrew Harcourt
United States
Greenville
Pennsylvania
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The burning temple may be when the temple of Solomon was destroyed.
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Francis K. Lalumiere
Canada
Brossard
Quebec
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zollom04 wrote: l-hansen wrote: Only in USA  Please don't stereotype us like that. I for one enjoy some hardcore porn now and then 
Doesn't mean they're not wearing clothes, though!
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Mik Svellov
Denmark
Copenhagen N
EU
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zollom04 wrote: l-hansen wrote: Only in USA Please don't stereotype us like that. I for one enjoy some hardcore porn now and then
This is a topic that has been discussed with alarming regularity on this site for the last 10 years.
And it is a topic I have never seen raised on any of the many other gaming discussions fora I read.
So stereotype or not, I still only meet it in USA.
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joel siragher
United States
silver spring
Maryland
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uh oh! you can see his bitter twizzler. (hiding eyes but peeking)
Knave wrote:
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Michel Yannakis
Canada
Montreal
Quebec
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Great Dane wrote: zollom04 wrote: l-hansen wrote: Only in USA Please don't stereotype us like that. I for one enjoy some hardcore porn now and then This is a topic that has been discussed with alarming regularity on this site for the last 10 years. And it is a topic I have never seen raised on any of the many other gaming discussions fora I read. So stereotype or not, I still only meet it in USA.
Religion and prudeness not necessarily mix together as some heavy religious country are less prude than the US about nudity.
Even if I think that religion discriminates against free thinkers, people that has different beliefs and sexual orientations, I still think that unless being an extremist, a religion could guide the person that needs it to do something better of his life.
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Michel Yannakis
Canada
Montreal
Quebec
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Knave wrote:
Always find myself very fortunate by nature when I look at this painting.
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LordHellfury wrote: I'd say the entire art piece on the board is offensive if you ask me.
Let's start with the upper left corner and work counterclockwise to find out why:
1) We have Adam's big fat white bare ass mooning us playing "pull my finger" with some old man's torso that magically floats. If that isn't a middle finger to Queen Games customers I have no idea what is then.
2) We see a snake sniffing Adam's bare ass. This is clearly subliminal messaging to tell us to pay attention to Adam's ass again.
3) Eve is dragging Adam by the hand, in obvious embarrassment over how much emphasis is being put onto his ass by Queen Games and this very post.
4) An old man writing about sky boats. What the hell was this guy who painted this picture smoking?
5) A winged robed mutant is swooping down to kill an old dude and some kid. Not only should mutants be banned, but that damned mutant knocked the knife away that old dude was going to use to protect himself and the kid from harvey birdman.
6) Some old dude holding a tombstone over his head. This pic tells me he is strong, but what else? he is ready to go beneath his tombstone. I have no idea. It is offensive simply because it is confusing.
7) The glowing moon cow was the only survivor from the burning city? color me skeptical.
8) Some puritan lady dumping water on a greek. Not only do the timelines not add up, but I think that woman needs to learn her place and not go around dumping water on innocent greek citizens.
9) Some black haired chic praying to a fish god. Clearly, more subliminal messaging and proof that Cthulhu is real. Ia!
10) This time in the center of the picture we have... another mutant! Queen games is clearly endorsing half breeds with bestiality. But why only birds? Clearly, there is some favoritism as well as discrimination being sublimated into the minds of Queen Games consumers. Likely propaganda for fascist breeding programs.
Despicable! All of it! Not a single redeeming feature to the portrait! I say burn this filth!
[edit to add pic for reference while reading]
Haha, great job
It's so ludicrous to worry about this naked picture.
And it's sad not to play this game because of it.
And this prudity can only be found in the USA or maybe in some islamic countries.
Don't you go swimming to the sea or make holiday at the beach with all the almost naked people?
The USA is the country of the extremes.
Biggest porn industry and biggest prudness.
C'mon, it just a nice innocent game.
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Erik Rodriguez
United States
College Station
Texas
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kackarschen wrote: LordHellfury wrote: I'd say the entire art piece on the board is offensive if you ask me.
Let's start with the upper left corner and work counterclockwise to find out why:
1) We have Adam's big fat white bare ass mooning us playing "pull my finger" with some old man's torso that magically floats. If that isn't a middle finger to Queen Games customers I have no idea what is then.
2) We see a snake sniffing Adam's bare ass. This is clearly subliminal messaging to tell us to pay attention to Adam's ass again.
3) Eve is dragging Adam by the hand, in obvious embarrassment over how much emphasis is being put onto his ass by Queen Games and this very post.
4) An old man writing about sky boats. What the hell was this guy who painted this picture smoking?
5) A winged robed mutant is swooping down to kill an old dude and some kid. Not only should mutants be banned, but that damned mutant knocked the knife away that old dude was going to use to protect himself and the kid from harvey birdman.
6) Some old dude holding a tombstone over his head. This pic tells me he is strong, but what else? he is ready to go beneath his tombstone. I have no idea. It is offensive simply because it is confusing.
7) The glowing moon cow was the only survivor from the burning city? color me skeptical.
8) Some puritan lady dumping water on a greek. Not only do the timelines not add up, but I think that woman needs to learn her place and not go around dumping water on innocent greek citizens.
9) Some black haired chic praying to a fish god. Clearly, more subliminal messaging and proof that Cthulhu is real. Ia!
10) This time in the center of the picture we have... another mutant! Queen games is clearly endorsing half breeds with bestiality. But why only birds? Clearly, there is some favoritism as well as discrimination being sublimated into the minds of Queen Games consumers. Likely propaganda for fascist breeding programs.
Despicable! All of it! Not a single redeeming feature to the portrait! I say burn this filth!
[edit to add pic for reference while reading] Haha, great job It's so ludicrous to worry about this naked picture. And it's sad not to play this game because of it. And this prudity can only be found in the USA or maybe in some islamic countries. Don't you go swimming to the sea or make holiday at the beach with all the almost naked people? The USA is the country of the extremes. Biggest porn industry and biggest prudness. C'mon, it just a nice innocent game.
Sexy people are constantly being oppressed by the not so sexy.
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