tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post7460884373631822335..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-53171973526637721472015-05-25T16:36:08.625-04:002015-05-25T16:36:08.625-04:00I don't disagree at all, AOW, but I think The ...I don't disagree at all, AOW, but I think The Preacher means that most-if-not-all the things we value in our mortal existence are fundamentally unimportant, even while we live and vainly imagine they are. Life, Truth, Love, Intelligence and Principle –– and what they imply –– may be all that truly matters in the long run,FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-540040576821509382015-05-25T16:03:13.770-04:002015-05-25T16:03:13.770-04:00FT,
The poem is merely a corollary -- not "th...FT,<br />The poem is merely a corollary -- not "the whole ball of wax."<br /><br />Still, the passing nature of things so valued in this life is part of what is posited in the book of Ecclesiastes as well as in the poem.<br /><br />All the power in the this life -- however one defines <i>power</i> other than loving one's neighbor as oneself -- means nothing after we have crossed the bar.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-6683825870238434542015-05-25T15:12:01.998-04:002015-05-25T15:12:01.998-04:00I can readily see how some might think that, AOW, ...I can readily see how some might think that, AOW, although I'd say Ozymandias is more a reminder that "All things are passing," than the statement of a philosophical position claiming the nature of reality to be frivolous and even fundamentally absurd.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-32591069175601514982015-05-25T15:05:21.458-04:002015-05-25T15:05:21.458-04:00Oh Scholars! PHEW! Latterly they see themselves no...Oh <i>Scholars!</i> PHEW! Latterly they see themselves not as Bearers of Enlightenment and Illuminators of Immortal Truth, but act, instead, as cynical DEBUNKERS preoccupied –– even obsessed –– with pettifogging details that have no bearing on TRUTH whatsoever.<br /><br /><br />SF was correct when he said. <i>"[W]hile Solomon is traditionally acknowledged as the author of [Ecclesiastes], Biblical scholars tell us that may not be the case. ... Jews and Christians accept that possibility. It does not change the nature or stature of the text itself."</i><br /><br />All that matters in ANY written commentary is QUALITY of CONTENT.<br /><br />I frankly don't CARE who "actually" wrote Shakespeare. All that matters to ME is the existence of these marvelous works of literature.<br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-86779232679023944362015-05-25T10:51:25.672-04:002015-05-25T10:51:25.672-04:00Jersey,
Don't pleasure yourself thinking you&#...Jersey,<br />Don't pleasure yourself thinking you've burst anyone's bubble.<br /><br />We're all familiar with the influence of different philosophies. No society, including the Hebrews of the time, invented it all whole cloth. Intellectual cross-pollination is a constant throughout history.<br /><br />Also, while Solomon is traditionally acknowledged as the author of this great work, Biblical scholars tell us that may not be the case, and Jews and Christians accept that possibility. It does not change the nature or stature of the text itself.<br /><br />The scholars don't make the categorical statement you do, so that must mean you're smarter than them.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-35989606760068698982015-05-25T09:42:48.135-04:002015-05-25T09:42:48.135-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.stomp, snort, and gruntnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-81372459696909252862015-05-25T07:58:14.731-04:002015-05-25T07:58:14.731-04:00"Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley mig..."Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley might be considered a corollary of the cited portion of Ecclesiastes:<br /><br /><i>I met a traveller from an antique land<br />Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone<br />Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,<br />Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown<br />And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command<br />Tell that its sculptor well those passions read<br />Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,<br />The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.<br />And on the pedestal these words appear:<br />`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:<br />Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'<br />Nothing beside remains. Round the decay<br />Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,<br />The lone and level sands stretch far away". </i>Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-55802069840125836772015-05-25T07:38:33.030-04:002015-05-25T07:38:33.030-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-31334159477391610082015-05-25T01:53:06.732-04:002015-05-25T01:53:06.732-04:00There was an awful lot of Greek in Solomon's w...There was an awful lot of Greek in Solomon's wisdom, especially in Ecclesiastes, which was written looooong after he could ever have lived.<br /><br />JMJJersey McJoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426560061830038806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-44429435079351411512015-05-24T13:27:00.176-04:002015-05-24T13:27:00.176-04:00That's a much-recorded song!
http://en.wikipe...That's a much-recorded song!<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Satisfied_Mind<br /><br />I was only familiar with the Porter Wagoner version.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing!Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-23015192242042179022015-05-24T11:13:47.958-04:002015-05-24T11:13:47.958-04:00:P...
...and no, it's NOT Turn, turn, turn!<a href="https://youtu.be/BboZB0GuZhw" rel="nofollow">:P</a>...<br /><br />...and no, it's NOT Turn, turn, turn!-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-90148705694878662182015-05-24T10:49:09.384-04:002015-05-24T10:49:09.384-04:00I love Ecclesiastes, and I return to it often. Qo...I love Ecclesiastes, and I return to it often. Qoheleth indeed speaks wisdom.Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com