Contrast the void of hedonism with the headiness of accomplishment.  Qohelet gives accomplishment three times the attention as hedonism.  “I undertook great projects…” he says, and then catalogs what he has done: building, planting, accumulating, creating culture.   Qohelet proficiently executes the cultural mandate of Genesis 1: 28 “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and … Continue reading YOLO: A Meditation on Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 (part 2)