sotto voce

As serious as they take them now.

Sheshbazzar

Oh really? The 'all and sundry' population is either equipped to read the written word, or they are not. That is what is understood as 'literacy'.

So you think every other 3rd century BCE Avram, Yehud, and Miriam were well educated and literate scholars that had the luxury of spending their days sitting around reading obscure scrolls?

sotto voce

Really, really, really. One of the fundamental errors of those who somehow get themselves paid to slob around in undistinguished US universities is to suppose that if something was not written down, it did not matter. Even the brief history of the USA shows that a false premise.

Sheshbazzar

What the hell are you going on about? We are not discussing US universities nor the history of the USA.
The subject here is the book of Ecclesiastes, and the question of whom would have been able to read it.

Doug Shaver

I have tried, and so have countless other people. It doesn't work.

sotto voce

That's easy to say. You have to try it here.

Go right ahead.

Doug Shaver

Here in this forum? I've been here for over 11 years. Everybody sees everything I post, and I've made some mistakes. What are you talking about?

sotto voce

Better than another, surely.

Doug Shaver

Whatever, it falsifies any claim that people who are "under scrutiny by all and sundry" become infallible.

sotto voce

So a reason given in some unspecified/hypothetical forum elsewhere falsifies any claim that people who are under scrutiny by all and sundry becomes infallible? Or may we see it here?