Weed Convo: Ecclesiastes Book Review

ECCLESIASTES


Yeah... So, you know... The nigga Solomon was wise and shit. Niggas been knew that. But right before the nigga became king, God showed up and was like: "Yo... I'ma hold you down. All you gotta do is... I mean, you can fuck as many women as you want; but just be easy with it, my nig. Don't OD on that shit. Pussy kills, you feel me?! Plus, don't have too many whips. Like, get them shits 'cause you royalty and niggas need to see royalty ride in the best; but don't OD on that shit. And don't stack up too much bread. Yeah, you wanna stack ya bread. But don't stack bread just for the sake of stackin' it. You dig what the fuck I'm talkin' 'bout?"

So the nigga Solomon said, "Aiight."

And the nigga was wise and God blessed him and all that shit. But then, the nigga Solomon started ballin' on another level. This nigga was diamonded out and eything. This nigga fucked more broads than Kennedy, Clinton, and Hov' combined, fam! And so... The nigga stayed on point. All of his reign, Israel never went to war. He forged mad alliances with niggas up north. Some niggas think he smashed this Ethiopian broad and that Ethiopians is, like, Israel second cousin and shit. But at the end of his life and shit, the nigga started stressin'. He wasn't beefin' wit' nobody. He was just stressin'. Just sittin' around, observing the world, and seeing how righteous niggas still got did dirty. And it led him to write the book of Ecclesiastes.

The scholars and them niggas debated about whether to include that shit in the Bible because a lot of the jewels this nigga dropped in there was on the secular tip. But then them niggas at the Nicea Council (the niggas who came up with the modern day canon) decided that, in the end, the book did mention God so it was good enough to put in there. So in the book of Ecclesiastes, the nigga start out on some "Life's a Bitch" type shit.

Nigga start out like, "Fuck eything. Ain't nothin' worth shit."

And he start pointing out shit like the fact that the wind blows in circular motion, and the rivers flow back and forth and empty out into the ocean all like a fucking cycle. Like, that shit is mad deep when you think about it. Shit don't change. Shit just keep goin' in circles, fam. Democrat or Republican, niggas is still hated. You feel what the fuck I'm sayin'? So, the nigga kept goin' and shit...

And he was like, "Yo, call me the seeker. I'm just this dude seeking wisdom and shit. And I been watchin' the world lately and it's some shit I don't like that I'm seein'."

The nigga said it was a time for everything. Nigga, it's a time to live, time to die. Mu'fuckin' time to laugh and cry. Mu'fuckin' time to work and play. All that shit, fam. The nigga was straight droppin' science.

Then the nigga said, "How come mu'fuckas stack bread when they gonna die eventually anyway? And you can't take that shit with you."

Nas bit off King Solomon in "Nas is Like" when he said: "But what's it all worth? Can't take it with you under this Earth./Rich men died and tried but none of it worked."

Then for the rest of the book, the nigga was just droppin' science. The nigga had quotables like every other bar, fam, off the no bullshit.

Nigga said, "Niggas who put in work sleep well even if they not rich; but rich niggas can't even sleep!"

Nigga said, "The more you talk, the less that shit mean. So why the fuck you keep talkin', nigga?"

Straight bodied niggas. Plus he believed in fate as opposed to free will. That's it, mainly. The nigga just be sharin' his observations throughout the text. He concludes that the only thing that matters is that niggas "fear God and obey his commandments, for this is the entire duty of man." Shit was an interesting book.

 

It was an interesting book... nice summary i laughed at the first paragraph

 

Read that shit for my Origins of Judaism class. I like your version a lot better. :cheers2:

 

i dig your analysis, but Ecclesiastes = Old Testament/Tanakh.

the council of nicea didn't establish the canon [of the New Testament]. it put forth the nicene creed, which was the first uniform christian doctrine. the main debate during nicea was about christology, or the nature of Jesus when it comes to God, ie, how is Jesus God? is he of the same substance/essence: homoousion? or is he of a similar substance/essence: homoiousion? and then of course, the ones that started it all, the Arians, believed that Jesus was simply a creation of God's (just as we all are), except that Jesus was the most perfect.

athanasius was the first person to identify the 27 books of the new testament, which he put together in 367ad. the synod/council of hippo was the first council of bishops to approve it in 393ad.

the council of carthage, or the third synod of carthage, also approved the New Testament canon put forth by athanasius and adopted at Hippo, but also a canon defining the scripture they should use from the Hebrew Bible, which includes Ecclesiastes. i guess this is what you could be referring to, but my "specialty" (if you will) is not judaism or the old testament, nor the canonization of the old testament.

so...yeah. i had to re-rack my brain for all of that, but i'm glad i did.

but back to the original point: i dig your analysis, or, if you'd allow me to go as far as saying, your exegesis. i say you do the whole Hebrew Bible and New Testament.

 

good idea lol El you should Publish a version of the bible summed up like that lol.. I would def read that

 

Who's to say I already haven't?

 

oh shit!

 

you couldn't be that high up in the ranks without nas throwin some props your way...
ain't nothin new under the sun...