Behold,
a sparkling new rendition of the Book of Ecclesiastes. Egad, it may even be better than Lloyd Geering's translation. The Word of Lord, just in time for the New Zealand elections on the 20th.
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Satirist, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
3 What profit hath a man of all his efforts to decide who to vote for?
4 One leader passeth away, and another leader cometh: but the attempted superficial charm abideth for ever.
5 The poll riseth, and the poll goeth down, and hasteth to his place whence it arose.
I'm not sure a lot - or maybe any - of the specifics will make much sense for our American brethren (and frankly, not much of theirs makes much sense here either), but the general thrust should be clear enough.
6 And I considered what I had thought was the result of skilful but short-sighted politics might also be partly due to actual corruption, and I threw up in my mouth a little.
Amen brother.
Clever.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure a lot - or maybe any - of the specifics will make much sense for our American brethren
You're wrong about that. We get it. Pretty much all of it. It applies to us:
a time to have your computers accessed without authorization
Think CIA.
Heck, maybe New Zealand computers are hacked by the CIA. These days, who knows? None of us would know if it weren't for Eric Snowdon, but I doubt that he will be a candidate in a Kiwi election any time soon.
See? It's all relevant.
It's too bad that Werewolf skipped Chapter 3 and 5 through 11. Who knows what truths we could have epiphanied on?
Thanks for the reference: It seems appropriate here on September 11.