You Lose So Much of Poetry, You Don't Like Anymore

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"Everything is a little hard now, just getting out of bed. The things that you used to like, you don't like any more," he says. "I can't get as excited about certain things as i used to when I was a kid" 'Youth is wasted on the young,' writes David Walliams in his new book - and it doesn't take hardly any time at all'

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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