Message from @Ecclesiast Orev Chet

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2020-03-30 21:21:07 UTC  

Aye gud

2020-03-30 21:22:05 UTC  

NRX I guess.

2020-03-30 21:22:13 UTC  

I wished to see what this is all about.

2020-03-30 21:22:19 UTC  

Then I found out The Distributist is here so I stayed lmao

2020-03-30 21:23:13 UTC  

What are your thoughts on the Book of Ecclesiastes?

2020-03-30 21:23:35 UTC  

Ever dwelt on it more than just once?

2020-03-30 21:23:51 UTC  

Orthodox.

2020-03-30 21:24:06 UTC  

Yeah I get you lmao

2020-03-30 21:24:41 UTC  

I find reading it once every two months to be extremely eh

2020-03-30 21:24:43 UTC  

Insightful.

2020-03-30 21:26:09 UTC  

Does anyone know how to connect Ecclesiastes to the book of Job?

2020-03-30 21:26:39 UTC  

Well other than the fact that they're part of the same part of the Tanakh, namely Ketuvim, or Wisdom Writings.

2020-03-30 21:26:53 UTC  

There's a certain sin which Job commits to which Ecclesiastes speaks of.

2020-03-30 21:26:57 UTC  

Do you know what it is

2020-03-30 21:27:09 UTC  

Or rather, to make it simpler:

2020-03-30 21:27:13 UTC  

Do you know what Job's sin was at all?

2020-03-30 21:27:35 UTC  

Yep; but there's a specific way in which he did so.

2020-03-30 21:27:43 UTC  

Do you think that Job's friends sinned?

2020-03-30 21:28:00 UTC  

Do you know how?

2020-03-30 21:28:16 UTC  

Yeah but how did his friends sin?

2020-03-30 21:28:37 UTC  

Not entirely; I'll let you know

2020-03-30 21:28:45 UTC  

Both Job and his friends sinned in the same manner.

2020-03-30 21:29:03 UTC  

They thought they knew God. They thought that God worked like a machine; Sin = Punishment, Virtue = Reward

2020-03-30 21:29:14 UTC  

That God owed Job something. That's Job's sin.

2020-03-30 21:29:27 UTC  

On the flip side, Job's friends also thought they knew God.

2020-03-30 21:29:48 UTC  

They thought that since Job had been suffering, HE MUST'VE done something wrong. They were right but, not entirely. In this assumption they were also sinning.

2020-03-30 21:29:56 UTC  

And this is explained in the book of Ecclesiastes:

2020-03-30 21:30:05 UTC  

Bad things happen to good people, good things happen to bad people.

2020-03-30 21:30:13 UTC  

There's no karmic justice in our Canon.

2020-03-30 21:30:28 UTC  

But that doesn't mean there isn't justice in general.

2020-03-30 21:30:51 UTC  

Since all the bad things obviously have a purpose, and all the catastrophes.

2020-03-30 21:31:03 UTC  

A blacksmith doesn't gently caress his sword hoping the sword will be good.

2020-03-30 21:31:24 UTC  

A blacksmith hammers the impurities out of it any way he can so that the sword remains good, not too soft but not too brittle, for its duration.

2020-03-30 21:32:13 UTC  

He was refering to something else from the Ketuvim.

2020-03-30 21:32:17 UTC  

In Proverbs.

2020-03-30 21:33:19 UTC  

Man my net is crap, care to repeat that in a moment?

2020-03-30 21:33:23 UTC  

Give it like 2 minutes

2020-03-30 21:33:41 UTC  

Oh yeah.

2020-03-30 21:53:19 UTC  

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2020-03-30 21:55:30 UTC  

The Warsaw Ghetto 1942 colorized