What's Good About Life?

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i take under the sun to be a poetic wave saing anywhereye agree? We can talk about some of them ys of that one, both both with toil and with pleasureta. So i, i, i'm made of it. Here's maybe why it didn't seem like a contradiction to meii,. feels as if the approach to why you're doing these things really matters. If you're chasing tail or whatever, chasing strangestism, strange because you want to feel meaning in life, then you're going to be disappointed.

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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