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In the desire and quest to make sense of the world and our existence, three great sirens have lured men and women into a lull with the empty promise to make their lives meaningful. The great king of Israel, Solomon, though the wisest man, was not immune to their song. But at the end of his life, Solomon, in all of his God-given wisdom, stopped to contemplate on all that competed for his...
Man will never learn. He will always repeat his humanistic folly. There is no remembrance of earlier things; And also of later things which will occur, There will be for them no remembrance Among those who will come later still. (v. 11) Intellectualism Solomon offers himself as a living example of this quest for meaning. He goes through three stages—intellectualism, hedonism, and materialism—of pursuing meaning in life and shares his results. His first stop? Intellectualism: the idea that by
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