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7 - work and toil
1 - anything new?
7 - meaninglessness of life
12 - the future and death
3 - fatalistic
2 - unanswerable
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7 - work and toil
1 - anything new?
7 - meaninglessness of life
12 - the future and death
3 - fatalistic
2 - unanswerable
I subscribed to Office 365 when I lost my job. Using Solus, I can log into OneDrive and run an online version of Word to do my writing and editing, if I want to.Bootstrap wrote:Cool!lesterb wrote:On a side note, I'm writing this in Solus, a Linux version that I suspect will really go places if it catches on. I downloaded the 2017 version and so far I really like it. I'm running off a USB live setup. Pendrivelinux.com has a multi-boot live USB creator [called YUMI] that allows you to install various OS's and choose which one to boot from.
Interesting. I hadn't noticed that he said this when I went through this earlier. But I was thinking today of the parallels between the two books.Bootstrap wrote:Kirk Lowery wrote: . . . Ecclesiastes is the philosophical explanation for what happened to Job.
lesterb wrote:
I loved the contrast in your post. I did struggle at the end with the comparison. I get concerned that it is easy for us to compare people when situations are really different. I don't really disagree with the contrast but comparing how different people go though life may not really be a good way to evaluate things. We are all individuals and each has to find their own way. Job's way would not have worked for Solomon, or versa visa.haithabu wrote:In terms of the Parable of the Talents, Solomon is the man who buried his talent and at the end hastily dug it up and put it in the bank - just in time! While Job is the man who invested his talent and earned ten-fold - certainly materially as the epilogue makes clear but more importantly his gain was spiritual.