To: Rachumlakenschlaff
Meaningless, meaningless, all is meaningless!This is off the point, but your tagline is actually a better translation of the Hebrew text of Ecclesiastes 1:1 than the usual "vanity."
To: Lurking Libertarian
Meaningless, meaningless, all is meaningless! This is off the point, but your tagline is actually a better translation of the Hebrew text of Ecclesiastes 1:1 than the usual "vanity."
"Vanity" was used in the King James Version. "Meaningless" is used in the New International Version. I suspect that vanity was probably very accurate for the time, but it's usage has changed. Then again, I'm not a scholar of King James English.
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