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To: DUMBGRUNT

“I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?” - Ecclesiastes 2:18-22 NIV


8 posted on 10/24/2022 10:10:14 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

Yup, I’ve seen it all to many times before. A lifetime of accumulation of treasures that will be problem junk for someone else to get rid of. It is all truly vaporware and vanity.

Some guy I knew was fretting about what would happen to his stuff when he died. I scoffed that he would be dead and it would not matter one whit what happened to his stuff.

Stuff is like knowledge, it is only important if you understand the back story.


26 posted on 10/24/2022 10:25:26 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: chajin

Well, work nights then.


62 posted on 10/24/2022 12:32:29 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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