What Is Meaningless?

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The more knowledge, the more grief. Yeh ye the more grief, the more you know just how inexplicable everything is and how unjust everything is. And so we have contradiction one, well, maybe not contradiction, but at least unexpected sort of wisdom. I mean, even in the begin when he says, a, i i applied my mind to study and explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens, the very authority that he has to be telling us is that this comes from great wisdom,.

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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