Is Ecclesiastes in the Bible?

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Ecclesiastes is one of the books of wisdom in the bible, along with job and proverbs. It can be interpreted as unrelentingly bleak but also has a sense of enjoy the pleasures of life that are given to you all. The book lapses into poetry in the middle of the prose - so i get what it's about.

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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