@DavidGodar
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I don't know what you meant by "far more targeted". Wouldn't polyamory probably typically be more beneficial to men evolutionarily, if there would be any difference? I don't know that it would be common for men to vote for female suffrage to increase their chance of successful reproduction. Also, while many men might not have a big problem with allowing women to vote, they might have quite a big problem with women being allowed to vote while they aren't allowed to vote. If women voted to take away male suffrage, there could be a war between the sexes for power, and, contrary to Henry Kissinger, men would probably win.
Kristin de Montfort@kdemontfortAug 18
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Men don’t really organize as a class, though, because there is an incentive for each individual man to defect, as men have to be far more targeted in their reproductive strategy than women do. So there would be large incentive for many men to peel off and grant female suffrage.
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Let's suppose you flip a coin and it ends up heads Let's suppose you flip it again with everything in the exact same position, using the exact same motion, and exact same environment What are the odds it will be heads again?
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In addition, celebrating someone’s life leads to better mourning, it seems. If something should not be celebrated in any sense, its loss should not be mourned.
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If mourning is the sober recognition of the loss of a good thing, then mourning can be good in that it can lead one to more deeply understand that judgment will happen and convince one to act well. Mere absence of happiness is not a good thing.
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Verses 12-18 describe a few related things. For one, he claims that having and seeking wisdom is a burden. He also says that everything “under the sun”, including the pursuit of wisdom, is vanity and striving after wind.
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Verse 15 is I believe best translated as what the Douay Rheims translation says: “The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite”. I think this ties in best with the passage if we glean that understanding our fellow man is inherently pointless.
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It is only useful to understand our fellow man, and our world, to the extent that it helps us serve God.
Also, these patterns, if we seek them in order to know how to serve God more effectively, will be intelligible and useful to us. Also, “there is no remembrance of former things” seems hyperbolic as well. I think it means that we tend to not recognize historical patterns.
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In addition, we tend to not be very good at applying historical knowledge to our lives, and thus act foolishly. I think it is ironic that according to verse 8, we are overwhelmed by the world, yet we do not remember former generations. There is much data, and little information.
Verses 5-7 are poetic illustrations of the cyclical nature of our world. Verse 8 describes how man is overwhelmed by God’s creation to the point of weariness, and we are unsatisfied. I believe the desire to satisfy ourselves leads to weariness.
In verse 4, we have an issue with translations. It is commonly translated to say that the earth remains forever, but I think this is also hyperbolic, given Revelation 21:1. I think a better translation would say that the earth lasts throughout this age.
In verse 3, he asks how man profits from his work. I think we do actually profit from our work if it is directed towards serving God, because we our part of God’s creation, and it is honorable for us as his creation to align with his will.
Continuing, we see that in verse 2, he uses the term vanity. This may more literally be translated as “vapor”. “All is vanity” means in my estimation that all things on earth are short lived and are not inherently valuable, but it does seem hyperbolic.
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God is eternal, and he can infuse things with value, and he has infused us with value. Similarly, while things like wisdom and money are not inherently valuable, they can be directed towards serving God, and so become valuable.
Starting in Chapter 1, we can reasonably infer that the “preacher” is Solomon, due to his being son of David and the king over Israel in Jerusalem. Even if “son” meant “descendant” it would still probably be Solomon.
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This is due to the fact that after Solomon the kingdom of Israel split into two kingdoms, called Israel and Judah. The new kingdom of Israel did not contain Jerusalem, and therefore the preacher is not one of their kings.
I’ve been reading the book of Ecclesiastes, and I would like to comment on it for myself and anyone else who is curious.
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Today we celebrate the lives and achievements of Americans with Down Syndrome. @VP and I will always stand with these wonderful families, and together we will always stand for LIFE! #WorldDownSyndromeDay
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