To Morrow, Not Omorro, Not Promised

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I think there really is something so, so important about this idea that in this world, time and chance happen to them all. The one thing that you can do, the little bit of control that you have, is to enjoy the times where the roulette wheel spends your way. Runnot just abandon that too bright. That's a recurring theme. Like, the worst thing is when people who have riches or who have knowledge and wisdom when they don't enjoy those things when they could.

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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