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Judaism - If This Life Is All We Get, Then I Want My Money Back
The preacher in ecclesiastes is the most miserable gospel or scriptural writer you'll see, because he's working under the assumption that this life is all i get. I call this the miopia of mortality for us. Unka see beyond the grave and realize there are reasons to live well. In verse or chapter seven, he says in verse three, sorrow is better than laughter. For b the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better. And then he adds in verse six, for as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity. Man, he can't even find happiness, and happiness