Ecclesiastes 1: Everything Is Meaningless
1 The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
3 What does man gain from all his labour
at which he toils under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 There is no remembrance of men of old,
and even those who are yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow.
Wisdom Is Meaningless
12 I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men!
14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
15 What is twisted cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.
16 I thought to myself, “Look, I have grown and increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.”
17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.
March 13th, 2008 at 4:47 am
use your name in other contexts
think perhaps
the title for your next painting
March 13th, 2008 at 9:00 am
this made me so sad
don’t know if it’s because we know
or if it’s because we think we know
or if it’s because we don’t know
March 13th, 2008 at 10:01 am
or perhaps it’s because of all three..
“What a heavy burden God has laid on men!”
March 13th, 2008 at 11:48 am
god..goddamn god
god made men(and all dem other ism’s right)
men made burdens(and all dem other is isms
and women niggardly passed
it on screaming(nothing nothing if not bank statements)
what of our children luv..
the x y and z of it all
hangs in the balance
..petit bourgeois.
all gnostics.
March 13th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
gnostic schmostic, huddie
our bodies and minds are bogged down in spacetime
meaning lies beyond all this
March 14th, 2008 at 11:40 am
meaning or the lack therein
lies in the grave..
the unconscious piles of dirt
schmosing with the worms
..next stop
125th street.