More on Human ABILITY to REASON, Human RIGHT to CONSENT - Proem & Poem No. 109

Most likely to be published later this summer of 2019, my 11th book entitled appropriately; More 100 Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the previous....

PROEM & POEM No. 109 - Solomon's Ecclesiastical Slip / Part 1

Traditionally attributed to King Solomon, and well referenced among pop-cultures’ music, poetry/literature, etc., thus often quoted innumerably and appropriately; To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven (Ec 3:1). Twelve verses further he elaborated quite interestingly; And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour (Ec 3:13). The timeliness of such enjoyments would be endlessly argued even complicated by some theologians. Although, the simpler back-pew approach could hint towards the obvious shadows cast by the concise words eat and drink. That is to say, to enjoy the good is not the only noteworthy consideration. 

      Indisputably, eating and drinking are daily activities, additionally the quoted verses lack reference, distinction or emphasis upon the occasionally celebratory over the regularly necessary. To logically reaffirm, the consumption or utilization of all the good that comes from all of one’s labour would require most or all eating, drinking thus consuming as well utilizing to be enjoyed. The implication is obvious, unless preferring to do otherwise the individual may retain, maintain, donate, gift or sell any and all his labor produces, that is to say, all that his expended time afforded. The individual is therefore encouraged by Solomon to dispense with the fruits of his/her labour as he/she so enjoys or sees fit, as psalm’ed by his father King David; Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee (Ps 128:1). A few centuries later, Isaiah was not acquiesced for he too wrote; Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings (Is 2:10).

      Such an interpretation of course does not negate any Biblical admonition towards charity, rather, merely define or identify the quite naturally preferred context in which the encouraged reader or admonished listener is to give; willingly, voluntarily or consensually. For if not the context allowing those to give willingly, voluntarily or consensually then a context disallowing therefore forcing those to forgo unwillingly, involuntarily or coercively. It is either charity when consented else confiscation when dissented, there is no third interpretation. 

      Now Solomon was a king, monarch, diademed or crowned head, sovereign or potentate, while the same titles modernly critiqued by many would be autocrat, despot even tyrant. Regardless of personal character good or bad, kings assumingly and routinely taxed, fined, licensed, tolled, levied, confiscated, seized, conquered therefore plundered and more, seen not as executing their office but their divine or inherent right. Solomon was king, yet oddly unbecoming to royal office his words; man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour (Ec 3:13). The word all was in direct conflict to his regular practice per divine or inherent right. Was the moment flippantly poetic, whimsically literary, carelessly inebriated, or perhaps empirically insightful, consistently logical thus ethical? To implicate a bit further, did his renowned wisdom yet again illuminated, overwhelmed then interceded despite himself quite humanly flawed, aristocratically privileged hence potentially unaware of common inclination and preference? To say concisely, satirically, was it an ecclesiastical slip?

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O the complexities then inconsistencies per the propensity
For error then excess, or as Calvinistically noted; depravity
Somber the concavity, within the mind, worst for the soul
(Now wallow thou in thyself hence thine pride may console)

It is right to say, Man stares in a glass darkly, image dim
Reflection distorted, perspectives dreamt along the whim
Oddly whilst prim, onward to hymn, the banality as morality
The choral sodality, excusing all truths as impracticalities

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

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