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About "Plowed Territory"
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Sat, 2 Dec 2000 18:32:56 GMT
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(RSV, from http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/bible_browser/ ) Ecclesiastes
1
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
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 for
ever.
The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it
rises.
The wind blows to the south, and goes round to the north; round and
round goes the wind, and on its circuits the
wind returns.
All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where
the streams flow, there they flow again.
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 happen
among those who come after.
I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.
And I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is
done under heaven; it is an unhappy
business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.
I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, all is
vanity and a striving after wind.
What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be
numbered.
I said to myself, "I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were
over Jerusalem before me; and my
mind has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."
And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I
perceived that this also is but a
striving after wind.
For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge
increases sorrow.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: About "Plowed Territory"
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes: <snip a long winded Bible cite... it's not enough that we're getting passages repeated that we could go follow a ref to, now they're getting LONGER> When the Son of God appears here, as a LUGNet member, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: About "Plowed Territory"
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| So, what you're saying, being a Christian, and a believer in the Bible, is that you'd rather be ignorant and happy? Then stop posting in and reading .debate ;-) (...) <snip> (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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