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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIt occurs to me that there are two kinds of DUers.
Those who understand Ecclesiastes, and those who do not.
-- Mal
Wounded Bear
(58,792 posts)and those who don't.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
malthaussen
(17,241 posts)Sometimes, I can't resist either.
-- Mal
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Those who know binary and those who don't
mackerel
(4,412 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)Does that count?
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)And those who make the lists of the forbidden words.
It's rough over in GD lately
hay rick
(7,669 posts)It's the unholy of unholies!
cwydro
(51,308 posts)T* b* s*f* from banning.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Strike that...I'm thinking of Don Knotts....
MerryBlooms
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Skittles
(153,311 posts)YES INDEED
malthaussen
(17,241 posts)-- Mal
Skittles
(153,311 posts)YES INDEED
betsuni
(25,815 posts)Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)Prisoner_Number_Six
(15,676 posts)One of my all-time favorites. Solomon rocked!
petronius
(26,613 posts)1:2
Meaningless! Meaningless!
says the Teacher.
Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.
1: 9-10
What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there anything of which one can say,
Look! This is something new?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
2:11
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun.
5:1
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
7:10
Do not say, Why were the old days better than these?
For it is not wise to ask such questions.
7:15
In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these:
the righteous perishing in their righteousness,
and the wicked living long in their wickedness.
Q.E.F'n.D.
malthaussen
(17,241 posts)Sheer poetry.
-- Mal
eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)DFW
(54,506 posts)Note for note on a Rickenbacker 12 string just like McGuinn did.
Which kind does that make me?
*Full disclosure--I can't sing it like McGuinn and Crosby did.
malthaussen
(17,241 posts)DFW
(54,506 posts)DU is comprised of good guitarists and bad guitarists.
So subtle and yet so cleverly simple--hidden there in plain sight, so no one saw it!
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Seeger added: "I got a letter from my publisher, and he says, 'Pete, I can't sell these protest songs you write.' And I was angry. I sat down with a tape recorder and said, 'I can't write the kind of songs you want. You gotta go to somebody else. This is the only kind of song I know how to write.' I pulled out this slip of paper in my pocket and improvised a melody to it in fifteen minutes. And I sent it to him. And I got a letter from him the next week that said, 'Wonderful! Just what I'm looking for.' Within two months he'd sold it to the Limelighters and then to the Byrds. I liked the Byrds' record very much, incidentally. All those clanging, steel guitars - they sound like bells." (this appears in Zollo's book Songwriters On Songwriting)
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=246
Quotes tagged as "ecclesiastes" (showing 1-12 of 12)
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
(Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, NIV)
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/ecclesiastes
"Turn! Turn! Turn!"
To everything - turn, turn, turn
There is a season - turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep
To everything - turn, turn, turn
There is a season - turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven
A time to build up, a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones
A time to gather stones together
To everything - turn, turn, turn
There is a season - turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven
A time of love, a time of hate
A time of war, a time of peace
A time you may embrace
A time to refrain from embracing
To everything - turn, turn, turn
There is a season - turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven
A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time for love, a time for hate
A time for peace, I swear it's not too late!
DFW
(54,506 posts)When I heard Leo Kottke, I was drawn into the instrument as if melded into it. That was in 1971. I now keep one in the three cities I frequent most (Düsseldorf, Dallas, Washington) and take one with me when I go to Cape Cod every year. If I go weeks without being near one, I go through withdrawal symptoms. It is not a pretty sight.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Those that are good at math, and those that aren't.