Ecclesiastes 3-19-21, " For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast; for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?"
Wikipedia (the closest thing i'll ever have to a god) says, "according to the Talmud, however, the point of Qohelet (the narrator of the book) is to state that all is futile under the sun. One should therefore ignore physical pleasures and pul all one's efforts towards that which is above the sun. This is summed up in the second to last verse: "The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; that is the whole duty of everyone."
hrmm... "all has been heard." my interpretation? there is no need to search farther than a simple set of morals, the ten commandments in this case, because that is the be all, end all way to lead a moral life. don't search for more meaning, be satisfied in knowing the reason to live a moral life is the moral life itself. alright, i see this is starting to get a bit preachy, i'll have to change up the format somehow.
-Jake
