https://padlet.com/kemphugh1/aras5kuj1ht826zp What are your impressions of the book of Ecclesiastes? en-us 2022-02-15 22:18:59 UTC 2022-02-15 23:31:22 UTC hello@padlet.com kemphugh1 https://padlet.com/kemphugh1/aras5kuj1ht826zp/wish/2049650208 Read the first few chapters of Ecclesiastes. Flick through the whole book? Here's the link

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What are your first impressions? What genre do you think it is? Do you agree? Disagree? Do you think Carter and Edward should read Ecclesiastes? How would the writer of Ecclesiastes respond to Carter and Edward's appeal to "Have you found joy in your life?". Is the author of Ecclesiastes trying to teach you something, or maybe he's just musing about life..... ]]> 2022-02-15 22:18:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kemphugh1/aras5kuj1ht826zp/wish/2049650208 https://padlet.com/kemphugh1/aras5kuj1ht826zp/wish/2049707289 The teacher laments that everything in life in endless, as well as meaningless and that nothing is every truly new on Earth.  The teacher also thinks that he is cursed with the sad task of discerning wisdom.

The teacher then starts to drink, become wealthy and gains power, as well as viewing artistic entertainment.  Non of these activities satisfy him.  The teacher realizes that the wise and foolish die the same death, so to he comes to the conclusion that the best humans can do is to eat, drink, have fun and honor God.]]> 2022-02-15 23:11:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kemphugh1/aras5kuj1ht826zp/wish/2049707289 https://padlet.com/kemphugh1/aras5kuj1ht826zp/wish/2049718790 The first chapter basically discusses about how everything is meaningless and that in the end nothing matters and as the times pass by, we will eventually be forgotten. An excellent word that can be use to describe this is impermanence. This chapter is used to highlight the emptiness of life if it was just about existing. The second chapter is an elaboration on the first chapter about meaningless. It elaborates and gives some real world examples. The third chapter includes God and uses the assumption that uses the meaningless life as a test. My first impressions of the Ecclesiastes chapters 1-3 is that it is very bleak and implying the fact that the only way to find meaning in life is with good. The genre is epistle as it is written by Solomon as a letter to all. I agree and disagree. The fact that impermanence is true does not have to mean that God must be needed to put meaning in life, but by just realizing that you exist is enough. Carter and Edward should read it, but they have to read in-between the lines to get the deeper meaning. The writer of Ecclesiastes would respond to Carter and Edward by emphasizing that the small things in life matters as they prove of your existence, therefore, proving that someone was there especially when they both do not have much time to live. The author of Ecclesiastes probably is trying to teach the law of impermanence and using this to explain that regardless of this, you can still find meaning in life somehow. ]]> 2022-02-15 23:23:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kemphugh1/aras5kuj1ht826zp/wish/2049718790