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by shrimp_emoji 807 days ago
*As Saladin* Nothing... Everything.

What's the deeper meaning of getting heart disease and myopia by sitting at a computer learning how to be a good programmer?

What's the deeper meaning of doing anything? It's all temporary vanity. In a million years, even the Pyramids will have worn away!

It's all ships in bottles to keep us busily interested til we die. :D

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Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us.

There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.