Is There No Just Distribution of Gifts?

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There's definitely a lot of passages that suggest that there's no just, i think, one of the key themes. That's why when i do cocaine,. i do it expressly realizing there's no meaning in life, and not as a way to try to sort of fill it's a very, very differentex ecet. But what i kind of lik the kind of comforting part of that is, i think implicit in people who complain about injustice is that the unjust people are getting a better deal. Like you're no worse off if you're just than unjust.

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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