Ecclesiastes 11: Ship Your Grains Across the Sea After Many Days

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If all you read it as is somehow god's instruction book rit, then you're missing out. You can just enjoy it as what it is - a deeply wise sort of pondering about the meaning of life. I wanted to say really quickly, ecclesiastes 11, if there's any doubt that this was written by a jew. He gives you investment advice in ecclesiastisyes, ship your grain across the sea after many days. And this is the one. Says, invest in seven ventures. Yes, in eight. You do not know what disaster may come upon yes. For some reason i never got this, eugene, where i'm good with money

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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