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20759327 No.20759327 [Reply] [Original]

Why is it so good? Its words keep growing on you. I also don't consider it to be a pessimistic text at all.

>> No.20759333

It's an easy to read self-help books wedged between weird tales about an insane and evil god and long lists of rules and tabernacle-construction instructions. In other words it's an oasis for midwits.

>> No.20759334

Job better though

>> No.20759338

>>20759333
glad to be a midwit then

>> No.20759435

>>20759333
But your post is dimwit the post?

>> No.20759438

>>20759333
tranny trips, kys

>> No.20759746

>>20759327
best epicurean text perhaps. whenever it says vapor its horrifying yet the answer it proposes is so simple even a village idiot could do. everything is vapor so one should just live simple, eating and drinking after a day of work. after enlightenment chop wood carry water. things are meaningless but cos we are humans and bound to the silver cords we should just eat n work n sleep. not even power nor knowledge nor wisdom wins in the end. just mundane shit.
good text.
>>20759333
trips checked but i dont concur.
>wedged between weird tales about an insane and evil god
ecclesiastes is also about something insane and evil - life itself. its pretty much in line, and strikes deeper (god is something in the distance but life is very close). even if its not full on rants like job

>> No.20759773

>>20759746
Why do brainlets always understand Ecclesiastes as a pessimistic and nihilistic book? This is not at all the case, the purpose of Ecclesiastes is exactly the opposite, everything in life that is contingent is dust and is doomed to dust, and therefore to avoid sinking into the vanity of things it is necessary to tend to the necessary and the supernatural, The solution to the problem of the best way to live, Ecclesiastes shows that it is not excessive work, it is not the enjoyment of goods, it is not lust, but it is religion which alone links the human being to that which allows him to extract himself from the vapor of things.

>> No.20759876

>>20759773
> Why do brainlets always understand Ecclesiastes as a pessimistic and nihilistic book?
If it's an all lowercase post, chances are that you're better off skipping it.

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20760193

So is this the Bible thread then?

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>>20760193
I just made a Holy Bible thread and it was deleted within a minute. I wonder if I am banned again, Let's see.

>> No.20760886

Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion. Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God. For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.