In #Ecclesiastes 1:2-8, the #Preacher set forth the cyclical nature of life.
There is nothing really new; everything has some antecedent in the past. What happens now is what happened in the past and will happen again. This is true on every level: individually, communally, socially.
We experience this acutely in terms of all of our #constant #behaviors: daily, weekly, monthly, annual tasks and such things.
Some such things we enjoy; many of them we find intolerable.
📖 Eclesiastés - Ecclesiastes 2:9-14 | Lectura con comentarios | Reading with comments
Lectura bilingüe de la Biblia en español e inglés. Se leyó el libro de Eclesiastés en la Biblia Reina Valera 1960 y la Biblia King James.
Bilingual Bible reading in Spanish and English. The book of Ecclesiastes was read from the Reina Valera 1960 Bible and the King James Bible.
I got my first #tattoo! An #ouroboros #snake around my right arm. Broadly speaking everything sucks right now, but I've been looking forward to this for a while and it has given me a big mood boost to have it done.
I made a little website to share what it means to me: http://tattoo.mcwizard.club/
Thanks to the artist Kali Farrell! https://www.instagram.com/kalifarrelltattoos/
Thanks to @bw for making https://htmlforpeople.com ! I'm a software engineer but not frontend, so it was a great starting point for the site!
📖 Eclesiastés - Ecclesiastes 2:1-8 | Lectura con comentarios | Reading with comments
La lectura fue del capitulo 2 de los versos 1 al 8, se realizaron preguntas y comentarios.
The reading was from chapter 2, verses 1 to 8. Questions and comments were made.
📖 Eclesiastés - Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 | Lectura con comentarios | Reading with comments
Lectura bilingüe de la Biblia en español e inglés. Se leyó el libro de Eclesiastés en la Biblia Reina Valera 1960 y la Biblia King James. La lectura fue del capitulo 1 de los versos 12 al 18, se realizaron preguntas y comentarios.
Is life futile? If so, why?
Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, which goes down to the earth? So I perceived that nothing is better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his heritage. For who can bring him to see what will happen after him? Ecclesiastes 3.18-22
#church #Ecclesiastes #faith #israel #jesus #jesuschrist #Messiah #newtestament #oldtestament #salvation
https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/christians-issues/is-life-futile-if-so-why/
My favorite Ecclesiastes quote:
Monday...Miscellany!
This week:
- #Ecclesiastes 12:1-8
- #Disability and #Faith
- neo-paganism on the Internet
- Book reviews: Second Temple #Judaism, allergies
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Everything is aging and decaying. It's all futile; vain; absurd.
So remember your #Creator
in your (relative) youth. Today is better than tomorrow in terms of energy and vitality.
The Difficult Days | #Ecclesiastes 12:1-8
Life is short but sweet for certain.
The Preacher is not depressing, really. He just wants you to enjoy life and youth for what they are, and not for what they aren't.
It comes from the Book of Ecclesiastes, attributed to King Solomon, and it's a poetic reminder that, despite our technological marvels and modern innovations, the fundamental experiences of humanity remain remarkably constant.
So, as you embark on your Hebrew journey, remember that you're not just learning words; you're unlocking the wisdom of generations past.
#nothingnew #nonews #sayings #ecclesiastes #kingsolomon #hebrew #jewish #wisdom
Been reading #Ecclesiastes.
Life goes by fast, and the last half is faster than the first.
There is a Season
“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?” — Edward Albee
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” — Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Sometimes we find ourselves stressed out and distracted when we're p
https://alexandersmap.com/2023/07/31/there-is-a-season/
#Lifestyle #Exploration #PersonalGrowth #Seasons #Stoicism #Ecclesiastes #EdwardAlbee
African Gemstone #Sculpture now in #KingstonOntario. This piece is entitled "It Will Continue" by Stanley Mutanga who is the 2023 visiting artist at Gunguo.
Mutanga aka "weMbizi" draws this title of this piece in a rare, newly-discovered gemstone called "naartjie unakite" from the biblical text #Ecclesiastes
#Canada #torontoart #kingstonart #nationalgalleryofcanada #ottawaart #kingstonart #ontario #kingston #toronto #ygk #gem #thousandislands #princeedwardcounty #picton #sandbanks
For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins. Ecclesiastes 7. 20 NET.
So said the wisest man who ever lived (besides the Lord Jesus). Solomon also sinned, especially during his latter days. Jesus came to die for all people.
I never considered myself as a religious person, but when I heard this in a movie, many many years ago, I thought it was great whisdom, so I made a search to see where it came from, and I finally discovered that it came from #Ecclesiastes 3: A time for everything. #Bible #religion
A Time for Everything
3 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
sometimes I want to #READ ALL THE #BOOKS and sometimes I feel like the author of #Ecclesiastes who said, "of making many books there is no end; and much #study is a weariness to the flesh."
Asymmetry, Hierarchy, and the Ecclesiastes Trap
(2019) : Musgrave, Paul
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viz002
#asymmetry #coercion #ecclesiastes #foreign_policy #geo_politics #hierarchy #international_relations #manipulation
#my_bibtex
A time to refrain – Forthright Magazine http://forthright.net/2021/06/12/time-to-refrain/
> When my wife and I read Ecclesiastes in our daily devotional recently I paused at the end of 3:5 to ask facetiously, “Is this a prophecy of the Covid Pandemic?”
