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Mnemonics For Antiquity: Part Four

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it --Lysander Spooner In the previous chapter,  Mnemonics For Antiquity: Part Three , we have continued to examine the Old Testament with a focus, fashioned after the thoughts of Louis Althusser, of the mechanisms put in place which have been built upon, like a canon, resulting in the duplication of itself, through the worker, creating the world as we know it today. In Part Four, I shall continue to analyze the Testament continuing from the last segment of Part Three. ECCLESIASTES This chapter follows closely behind Proverbs with an almost last ditch attempt by a remaining elder to guide those that did not live in his time. It appears too that this is a personal account of life and experience, rather than words handed down from an unseen entity (God). Are we seeing man come to the conclusion that speaking from the self, relaying the personal may be more meaningful, have more impact and result in...