Just Fear God, Follow His Commandments

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A lot of this is lamenting the injustice of the world. Some of it seems to be just likea meditation on it, saying like, you know, don'tlike just, this is how this world is. There's a few other things, but fear god. God will judge all your deeds. But there do ar. This is why i i was saying, i forget where, maybe on twitter, with some somebody who eat tweeted aus about this,. I think you could make an argument that the last few verses aren't tacked on. Just fear god, follow his commandments, because there are sprinkled throughout the the text.

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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