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03.05.26 | Been watchin the sopranos | PsychLizard
03.05.26 | I left my 5´s my lists and my reviews at the bottom
I 2'd Animals and The Wall back in autumn
I must not have got em
| Hawks
03.05.26 | The Sopranos is the best show ever made, good call. | unclereich
03.05.26 | One of em’s only great songs | ArsMoriendi
03.05.26 | "Been watchin the sopranos"
Same, I'm mid season 4 rn | pizzamachine
03.05.26 | Sorry =( | Sharenge
03.05.26 | "Been watchin the sopranos"
you depressed? | DocSportello
03.05.26 | All is vanity, Quohelet contends, but he reserves a unique esteem if not reverence for eating, drinking, and joyful occupation––that is to say, for the basics of existence itself. Though the naïve reader might accuse Quohelet of hedonistic inclination, a majority of commentators read these passages much more positively. Bartholomew argues that “[t]he carpe diem passages celebrate creaturely human life as God has made it. The attitude recommended will certainly include eating and drinking and working, those fundamental, embodied human activities, but these activities are also metaphors for an approach to life . . . an expression of the shalom that God intended for his creation and humankind in particular” (Bartholomew 152). Thus even though Quohelet may complicate these gestures towards existential joy––in verse 2:26 he remarks ambiguously that “this is also vanity and a chasing after wind”––he continually reinforces his faith in this vision through these repeated articulations of joy in simple God-given pleasures. As Bartholomew says, “[c]ontradictory juxtapositions open a gap in the reading; they ask to be filled in some way, and this mirrors the gap in Quohelet’s experience. How does he reconcile the tensions between what he observes and what he knows as a believer? In a nutshell, Ecclesiastes is about the resolution of that tension” (153). Indeed, it is; though in the process it highlights the life-affirming power of the ordinary things that steer Quohelet, and ourselves, away from despair. Again, it is mere existence itself, figured in the text as a paradigm of eating, drinking, and working joyfully, that sounds a counterpoint to the refrain of vanity. Quohelet suggests that should any of these things be removed from a human life, it careens into Sheol, and when these things are in harmony, mankind’s relationship to God becomes coherent albeit tormenting to the uncertain and ever-questioning mind. These three things, then, serve as the minimum of Quohelet’s minimalism. Quite fittingly, Elsa Tamez sees in Quohelet’s carpe diem insights a nod towards a “utopia of the quotidian feast” (Tamez 62), and even Tremper Longman III, whose reading of Ecclesiastes is essentially comfortless, indicates the presence of this minimalist, neo-Edenic spirit, noting that “the lifestyle [Quohelet] advocates is the pursuit of the basic necessities of life” (Longman 107). | DominionMM1
03.06.26 | dont they have medicine theyre supposed to take these assholes? | rockandmetaljunkie
03.06.26 | The sopranos ending is goat |
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