I find the idea that there is 'nothing new under the sun' as crippling and undermining man's ingenuity. It's a singularly cynical passage.. all is vanity, indeed. phooey. Glad you scraped some kind of positive message off of it...
Scott On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Jack Woehr <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > > > Is that the future for the mainframe ? ** > > The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. > Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. > What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun? > One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth > abideth for ever. > The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place > where he arose. > The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it > whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his > circuits. > All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full: unto the place > from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. > All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied > with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. > The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done > is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. > Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been > already of old time, which was before us. > There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any > remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. > - Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 > > The best management stuff is always hiding there in the Bible. They just > don't teach folks anymore to read it the right way. > > -- > Jack J. Woehr # Reality is unpredictable, and no amount of > computer technologyhttp://www.well.com/~jax <http://www.well.com/%7Ejax> # is > going to change that. - David Brooks, conservative pundit, > http://www.softwoehr.com # "The God That Fails", 2009-12-31 New York Times > >
