The Lover of Wealth and Possessions

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"If things are going shoody, remember it's better to be alive. And even when your toil is hard, you know, its give a little sicipian smilee like that," he says. "There's a lot in here that's been become just part of, like, just part of culture." He adds: 'The lover of money will not be satisfied with money, nor the lover of wealth with gain'

David and Tamler dive into the book of Ecclesiastes, an absurdist classic that is somehow also a book of the Bible. Is everything meaningless, vain, and a chasing after the wind? Are humans just the same as animals? Are wise people no better off than fools? Will God judge us after we die, rewarding the good people and punishing the shit-heels? What if there is no afterlife and this is all we get? How should we deal with our pointless, unjust existence? Plus we return to our opening-segment bible— Aeon—and talk about an argument for replacing jealousy with...wait for it…compersion.

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