Preface
In this article, I try to extract and amplify what is already set in the Hebrew text of Job. Job’s story might very well reach back beyond 4 millenia to make it the oldest book in the Bible. Therefore, the time tested story of Job exceeds in antiquity that of the Mosaic Torah. Though the genius of the Hebrew language’s usage was employed to exemplify Job’s timeless lessons (Doctrine of Sovereignty over sheer fate, retribution and rogue agency free will, etc.), Job’s kernel of genius was found all throughout Mesopotamia in several different languages. Such stories of “the man of affliction”/ “the despised one”/ etc. did indeed time capsule other ‘notes’ to the Story of the Biblical Job. These “notes” all do compliment Job’s narration and fill us to the brim with meaning, reference, sense, significance, etc.
The “nature” of the Illusory Doctrines of Fatalism
In Job 3:3, we find the Fates and their illusory doctrines of fate called upon by Job through his newly ‘gifted’ worldview.
If I may turn my explanation to an interpretation of the storyline of Job for a moment: *God places Job in “Abad (Hebrew: Abaddon: “place of perishing”)” without dying. For the “story’s sake”, Job is the journalist placed into the world of non-sense which generates infinite regress (one action leading to another without resolve or significance). This “Abad” takes its toll upon Job’s critical thinking and emotional well being. Nonetheless, Job remains consistently truthful in his Shadow logic throughout his delusions much like an Alzheimer’s patient who speaks truthfully through their afflictions. Poignantly, how would you like to be judged as ‘evil’ by actions out of your control such as schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, manic-depression, borderline personality disorder, etc.? -If these are not meaningless afflictions then they must be meaningful. Then, the question arises: what is meaningful?
To me, maybe to you, a dog cannot ‘choose’ to purr like a kitten, gibber like an ape, chut like a guinea pig or whinny like a zebra by its nature. A dog, by the limitations of its nature, does ‘act’ to bark. In this ‘act’ to bark there is honesty/ integrity to the ‘integral’ function of what “dog”, as verb and noun “means” and “does”. Therefore, there is no sin accrued to the account of the dog. Therefore!!! –wait for it—ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN!! 🙂 –sigh, I had to.
From my take on Job’s case, I do not see that Job has sinned in his newly found limitations. He ‘acts’ from the limitations of his nature”. Job acts within the integrity of his beset delusion.
The Hand of Darkness
I believe that the DARK honesty spoken through Job’s mouth was from the “moors” or heathen field of Satan’s limited voice. Consistently, I witness throughout the dialogues of Satan in the Bible the laws of limitation, hence, the “moors” by which he must travail upon, always governed to being on the outskirts of the sheep gate of God unless let in by God for ‘a time’. In contrast, the relationship of Satan to God and to others is not a necessary constant in memorialized Heathen Literature – or movies, comic books, etc..
Job 3:3-5 (vs. 3)
“Damn the Day I was bor
The night that said, ‘a boy
was begot’
(vs. 4) That Day -let it be darkness.
God above ignore it.
No light break upon it
(vs. 5) Darkness and gloom claim *it*,
Cloud settle over it
Eclipse terrify it
In Job 3:3, Job says, “damn *The Day*”. In the Hebrew text of Job 3:3 – we read: “ya-abad-yom” {Qal imperfect – “let perish the Day”}
In this statement, Job assigns no Deity to Damn the Day in the Hebrew.
SO, I ask the question: by what “agency” is Job referring to? That is, who would “Damn the Day”?
The Integrity of error
Job declines from his sound doctrinal stance with God yet does not sin–because he is still saying the truth from the perspective of his worldview. That is, Job is consistently honest with his new participation inside Shadow Logic.
The MISS
Job spoke for AGONY as though it was Reason. Still, in Job’s Shadow Logic, Job never attributed power or causality to another Deity other than YHVH. Even in the words of Job’s Shadow Logic, Job reasoned the “impossibility” of another Deity other than YHVH. Though, constantly not mentioning YHVH, the spoken words from Shadow Logic seemed to ‘give way’ to YHVH. That is, Job’s words were shown to be governed by a specified ‘blindness’ of THE CAUSAL AGENCY —( God blinds, gives sight, gives reason, takes reason away, etc.) first seen in Job 3:3 as Job’s failure to assign in “Damning the Day”. To me, this failure to assign causality was a painfully obvious “aporia (irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction in a theory)” – if applied to the illusory doctrines of “fatalism” to “nihilism”. Fate cannot hold non-agency for causality, Fates are meaningless by their definition—a bios, a current, an effect. Nature and Fate might be equitive terms.
Job’s actions thus so far have led me to conclude that Job was arrested with what I will call, Shadow Logic.
