Fairy Tale Spotlight: Ecclesiastes [Book Review]

"Ecclesiastes" is the twenty-first book of the "Holy Bible," and, by all reason that I have, it was written by King Solomon. The word "Ecclesiastes" is a sort of Greek translation of the Hebrew word "Koheleth" which means "Gatherer" or "Teacher" or "Preacher," just to give you an idea of why the the book has the strange name.

This book is essentially a sermon given by Solomon himself about how a lot of people just throw their short lives away on stupid, pointless, spiritually meaningless things. It is due to vanity that a lot of people do this, and I have already observed this before actually reading this book. I'll give you a brief idea of what I had considered.

I got the idea that people did not really understand how time worked and at what rate it actually was passing. When we are bored, we see time as very slow. When we are having fun, time seems to pass very quickly. This got me thinking that people really had a difficult time understand how fast time was actually moving, and this also applies to the time in which a person has to live. People are born and die in the blink of an eye, if you consider how much time has actually gone by since the Beginning. People don't really think of it, and this is likely how they tend to waste their lives without actually bothering until it's too late.

In "Ecclesiastes," Solomon bemoans that people literally throw their lives away to vain exploits. Anything and everything you own in this world will someday be owned by another. The reason for this is that the flesh ultimately breaks down and falls away, and the spirit remains immortal for eternity. Knowing that eternity is infinitely longer than what mortality gives us, it makes the lives of human seem stupidly short, and the fact that we bother with anything vain at all seems ridiculous. I don't blame Solomon for feeling depressed when he wrote this book.

I do recommend this book in the hopes that it will give you some perspective on things. I'm not holding my breath though. The entire theme of this book is that people are incredibly dense and stupid. It's true. Even I have fallen for this crap. It's one of the things that makes me feel bonkers half of the time. A small warning though: Solomon may have gotten it because he has the wisdom of God, but he ultimately fell for vanity later on in life. If Solomon fell short, what chance do any of us have? I guess at the end, there will only be a small handful who actually gets it.

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