When you realize all is vanity.

Do you kids only read half of Ecclesiastes?
The second half of the book declares that vanity is fine as long as vanity is admitted and God is put above it.

>>9867533
Yes I did finish it, but sometimes you just get reminded of the prior fact very hard.

The only real solace is in the scripture, or silence.

>>9867540
>prior fact
That is only relevant if you're atheist.

>>9867542
I disagree. Even for the faithful there are times when one drifts off into the ways of the world; understanding it's all vanity keeps things in perspective.

>>9867547
Wrong.

>>9867550
I dont know what you actually practice, but that is what happens.

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Ecclesiastes 4:2-3
>And I thought the dead, who have already died, more fortunate than the living, who are still alive; but better than both is the one who has not yet been, and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

>>9867552
No, they aren't faithful if they do.
Childhood is believing physicality is sole.
Adulthood is believing physicality is fallen.
Kind im Spiel is realizing that all of creation is wonderful.

>>9867574
I'm getting there. I think really its just me seeing my own actions, not so much a projection on the world.

>>9867569
Was Silenus the satyr the same as Qohelet? Was King Solomon, finally, so opposed to Greek cheerfulness? And did Socrates not, in the end, deserve his hemlock?

What thou lovest well remains,
the rest is dross
What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage
Whose world, or mine or theirs
or is it of none?
First came the seen, then thus the palpable
Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell,
What thou lovest well is thy true heritage
What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee

The ant’s a centaur in his dragon world.
Pull down thy vanity, it is not man
Made courage, or made order, or made grace,
Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down.
Learn of the green world what can be thy place
In scaled invention or true artistry,
Pull down thy vanity,
Paquin pull down!
The green casque has outdone your elegance.

“Master thyself, then others shall thee beare”
Pull down thy vanity
Thou art a beaten dog beneath the hail,
A swollen magpie in a fitful sun,
Half black half white
Nor knowst’ou wing from tail
Pull down thy vanity
How mean thy hates
Fostered in falsity,
Pull down thy vanity,
Rathe to destroy, niggard in charity,
Pull down thy vanity,
I say pull down.

But to have done instead of not doing
this is not vanity
To have, with decency, knocked
That a Blunt should open
To have gathered from the air a live tradition
or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame
This is not vanity.
Here error is all in the not done,
all in the diffidence that faltered

>>9867528

Felix... easy on the juice.

>when you realize there is a reason

>>9867528

g2bed Ecclesiastes you're drunk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2qh18GoEGI

What's the difference between an obnoxious hedonist and a depressing nihilist?

Erectile dysfunction

>>9867547
If you were truly faithful you would never drift from the truth. Believe harder faggot.

>>9869391
This is a good quip on biodeterminism regarding politics/morality/opinion

>>9869391
I'm a 9/10 depressed nihilist with a sex drive so high I have to jack off at least 4 times a day to stay sane. Fucking women was fun for a awhile... now I see it as just another necessity to clear my head