Are Human Beings Just Like Animals?

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Ark: It's funny, because both of us are trying to resolve the contradiction in some way. And maybe with no, the author has no wish to reconcile them, because they're not totally reconcilable. So let me ask you, i have a question for you. As a religious person, and especially christian, i was struck by this when i read it. I said in my heart, with regard to human beings, that god is testing them to show that they are but animals. For all is vanity.

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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