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by downerending
2349 days ago
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It's worth noting that Ecclesiastes (or Qohelet or Qoheleth in the original Hebrew) was written well over 2000 years ago, by an anonymous author or set of authors (probably scribes?). Their understanding of statistics, science, math, etc., would have been pretty minimal. It is indeed quite amazing that the basic message holds up so well over the centuries. Once you start looking, a lot of other disparate sources of wisdom line up with it pretty well. Taoism and Buddhism surely. Kansas' "Dust in the Wind"? Paul Simon's "Slip Sliding Away"? Ecclesiastes, too, whether inspired directly or not. Also quite amazing that this rather pessimistic/nihilistic/quietist message made it into the Bible. If you want to read a modern (though imperfect) paraphrase, highly recommend this one by Adam S. Miller as a start: https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-New-Under-Sun-Ecclesiastes-eb... |
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