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Ecclesiastes, Chapter 9

This chapter is about a common destiny for all & wisdom better than folly. 4 more chapters to go. Let’s go!

So I reflected on all this & concluded that the righteous & the wise & what they do are in God’s hands. But no man knows whether love or hate awaits him. All share a common destiny – the righteous & wicked, the good & the bad, the clean & the unclean, those who offer sacrifices & those who don’t.

As it is with the good man, so with the sinner. As it is with those who take oaths. So with those who are afraid to take them. This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of men, moreover, are full of evil & there is madness in their hearts while they live.

Afterward, they join the dead. Anyone who is among the living has hope. Even a live dog is better off than a dead lion! For the living know that they’ll die. But the dead know nothing. They’ve no further reward. Even the memory of them is forgotten. Their love, their hate, & their jealousy have long since vanished.

Never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun. Go, eat your food with gladness, & drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favors what you do. Always be clothed in white, & always anoint your head with oil.

Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun – all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life & in your toilsome labor under the sun. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.

For in Sheol, where you’re going, there’s neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom. I’ve seen something else under the sun: The race isn’t to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned. But time & chance happen to them all.

Moreover, no man knows when his hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare. So men are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them. I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me.

There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it & built huge siegeworks against it. Now there lived in that city a man, poor but wise, & he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man. So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.”

But the poor man’s wisdom is despised, & his words are no longer heeded. The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war. But 1 sinner destroys much good.

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Ecclesiastes, Chapter 9

This chapter is about a common destiny for all & wisdom better than folly. 4 more chapters to go. Let’s go!

So I reflected on all this & concluded that the righteous & the wise & what they do are in God’s hands. But no man knows whether love or hate awaits him. All share a common destiny – the righteous & wicked, the good & the bad, the clean & the unclean, those who offer sacrifices & those who don’t.

As it is with the good man, so with the sinner. As it is with those who take oaths. So with those who are afraid to take them. This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of men, moreover, are full of evil & there is madness in their hearts while they live.

Afterward, they join the dead. Anyone who is among the living has hope. Even a live dog is better off than a dead lion! For the living know that they’ll die. But the dead know nothing. They’ve no further reward. Even the memory of them is forgotten. Their love, their hate, & their jealousy have long since vanished.

Never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun. Go, eat your food with gladness, & drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favors what you do. Always be clothed in white, & always anoint your head with oil.

Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun – all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life & in your toilsome labor under the sun. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.

For in Sheol, where you’re going, there’s neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom. I’ve seen something else under the sun: The race isn’t to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned. But time & chance happen to them all.

Moreover, no man knows when his hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare. So men are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them. I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me.

There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it & built huge siegeworks against it. Now there lived in that city a man, poor but wise, & he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man. So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.”

But the poor man’s wisdom is despised, & his words are no longer heeded. The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war. But 1 sinner destroys much good.

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New headcanon:

Live life as authentic as possible.
Then in the afterlife no matter which deity sorts you into what group you will get sorted into the group with all of your kind.
Salads and harps in heaven or rock music and queer culture in hell?

Just another idea why one should not let religion change oneself.

Sidenote: as a satanist I don't believe in afterlife anyway. Upon death counciousness just ends forever according to satanic beliefs.
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