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\nI love this analogy. Certainly Facebook is the place in our time where one\u2019s so-called friends aggrivate a person\u2019s suffering by commenting on it at length in \u201cconversations\u201d that are in fact more like independent monologues, or indeed diatribes.<\/p>\nPerhaps it would be a useful activity to try to paraphrase the Book of Job into a Facebook format? Is that something that a professor should do, or would it work better as a student project?<\/p>\n
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