The Day of Death Better Than of Birth

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"Enjoy this world. Enjoy this life if can, because you might not be able to cause shit," he says. "I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they have no comforter power was on the side of their oppressors,. And i declared that the dead, who had already died are happier than the living who are still alive." He then goes on to contradict himself by saying it's better to be a live dog than a dead lion. It's clear contradiction, like it's li it's no, because dad is nothing.

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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