Is There a Trait That You Could Cultivate Instead of Jealousy?

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Jealousy seems intrinsic to our experience, a that as humans, that we have. People are just defending its presence within us,. A nobody that i know of is saying you should try to become a more jealous person. But if you can't just look at jealousy in isolations, you have to look at it holistically. You have to imagine a different kind of trait that you could cultivate rather than jealousy.

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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