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Faizan
Author's Prologue
Some folks sport military garb, signifying being a Marine, or Army Ranger, or Seal, kind of a cape for courage, who are far from their courage. As well as others who sport a monkish cloak, or clergy collar, for Godliness, who are the very reverse of that inside? I usually do not write a prologue for my short stories, or for that matter, novelettes or novels, but this very prologue is the reason you should read this story and carefully weigh up its contents, you may discover the potency within is far more valuable than the title suggests. That is to say, the subject here treated is not as foolish as the title promised. Yes, it is written in a lightheartedness, but there is marrow in the bone to be discover and once discovered you must guard it with eyes of a devoted dog. To the dog the marrow is more delicious than the meat. For marrow is the perfect food invented by nature. This is a dreaded mystery, concerning religion and private life. Moreover, the manner of its writing and content are plain and boorish, laughable, playful, and always concealing. Some invisible courage, some over confidence, incredible contempt for what men struggle against. That is the reason you must open this story and carefully and not be deterred by what might look like nonsense, nor look at the literal meanings, but be like Plato infers in his "Republic", look for that marrow bone!
Analogue
There was a man in the land of Uz, a perfect and upright man, one that feared God, and of substance, and God boasted of this man. And there was a day the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan was among them. And the devil told God, that yes Job feared him, but should he take the hedge about him away, he would curse him after he got through with Job. And so God gave Job over to Satan with one limitation, not to kill him, otherwise to do with him for a short while, as he pleased, and Satan took away all his substance, all he valued the most, and Job was miserable but he knew God did not forsake him. And Job unaware of this meeting, was steadfast through all the destruction Satan threw at him. Yes there was difficulties job never expected, but had he not taken a closer look at who was the door-keeper, and the shadow of the devil with his big sharp nose and long thin black beard he was so famous for, he might have thought what everyone told him, he had a mark of some sin upon him, but he knew he didn't, he knew he was already weighed and balanced. His neighbor's, sons and wife cursed his bad luck. He even told his wife, "Can you not see the devil, he is right behind you, following you like a serpent in heat"; thus, she in heart, abandoned him. Many times the devil thought Job had reached his end, and thought he had let his failing senses catch the words and roars in his ear of those around him. Job knew, God did not cast any evil thing, so it must be something else, someone else, some hidden counsel that might have taken place, who's to say, I mean when God asked Job "Do you know what's in my storehouses," and Job said "No" well God simply put the brakes on there, said "Then you don't know everything do you wise guy?" Of course I'm stretching it a tinge. Well, in the long run, Job lived 140-years, and was given a double portion of substance after the secret game was over between the devil and God, a double portion from what he had lost that is, for his resoluteness, his devotion, and forever after it became one of the most told tails ever told. Job of course is only one book out of the Old Testament, we can go to the story of Cain and Abel, and it turns out quite different, a little envy on behalf of Cain because God chose Abele's offering more satisfying. Matter of fact we can even look at Noah's grandson Canaan, who was inflicted by Satan and got Noah to drink until he was drunk on his rump, and whooped it up bare flesh and all! So these stories are worth remembering when reading "Osmoses" and perhaps we might somewhere along the line as the question: why does God take the good and leave the bad? My best guess is, to prevent the good from going bad, and hoping the bad in time will turn out to being good.
If you find yourself asking the question, why the protagonist did what he did, when h
Some folks sport military garb, signifying being a Marine, or Army Ranger, or Seal, kind of a cape for courage, who are far from their courage. As well as others who sport a monkish cloak, or clergy collar, for Godliness, who are the very reverse of that inside? I usually do not write a prologue for my short stories, or for that matter, novelettes or novels, but this very prologue is the reason you should read this story and carefully weigh up its contents, you may discover the potency within is far more valuable than the title suggests. That is to say, the subject here treated is not as foolish as the title promised. Yes, it is written in a lightheartedness, but there is marrow in the bone to be discover and once discovered you must guard it with eyes of a devoted dog. To the dog the marrow is more delicious than the meat. For marrow is the perfect food invented by nature. This is a dreaded mystery, concerning religion and private life. Moreover, the manner of its writing and content are plain and boorish, laughable, playful, and always concealing. Some invisible courage, some over confidence, incredible contempt for what men struggle against. That is the reason you must open this story and carefully and not be deterred by what might look like nonsense, nor look at the literal meanings, but be like Plato infers in his "Republic", look for that marrow bone!
Analogue
There was a man in the land of Uz, a perfect and upright man, one that feared God, and of substance, and God boasted of this man. And there was a day the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan was among them. And the devil told God, that yes Job feared him, but should he take the hedge about him away, he would curse him after he got through with Job. And so God gave Job over to Satan with one limitation, not to kill him, otherwise to do with him for a short while, as he pleased, and Satan took away all his substance, all he valued the most, and Job was miserable but he knew God did not forsake him. And Job unaware of this meeting, was steadfast through all the destruction Satan threw at him. Yes there was difficulties job never expected, but had he not taken a closer look at who was the door-keeper, and the shadow of the devil with his big sharp nose and long thin black beard he was so famous for, he might have thought what everyone told him, he had a mark of some sin upon him, but he knew he didn't, he knew he was already weighed and balanced. His neighbor's, sons and wife cursed his bad luck. He even told his wife, "Can you not see the devil, he is right behind you, following you like a serpent in heat"; thus, she in heart, abandoned him. Many times the devil thought Job had reached his end, and thought he had let his failing senses catch the words and roars in his ear of those around him. Job knew, God did not cast any evil thing, so it must be something else, someone else, some hidden counsel that might have taken place, who's to say, I mean when God asked Job "Do you know what's in my storehouses," and Job said "No" well God simply put the brakes on there, said "Then you don't know everything do you wise guy?" Of course I'm stretching it a tinge. Well, in the long run, Job lived 140-years, and was given a double portion of substance after the secret game was over between the devil and God, a double portion from what he had lost that is, for his resoluteness, his devotion, and forever after it became one of the most told tails ever told. Job of course is only one book out of the Old Testament, we can go to the story of Cain and Abel, and it turns out quite different, a little envy on behalf of Cain because God chose Abele's offering more satisfying. Matter of fact we can even look at Noah's grandson Canaan, who was inflicted by Satan and got Noah to drink until he was drunk on his rump, and whooped it up bare flesh and all! So these stories are worth remembering when reading "Osmoses" and perhaps we might somewhere along the line as the question: why does God take the good and leave the bad? My best guess is, to prevent the good from going bad, and hoping the bad in time will turn out to being good.
If you find yourself asking the question, why the protagonist did what he did, when h
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