Everything in this worlds pointless, but not in the world to come.

This week we learned that there are two ways to understand that "all man does under the sun is pointless." One interpenetration is that everything we do is pointless and the second is that everything we do in this world (under the sun) is pointless, but what we do in the world to come (above the sun) is not. The second interpretation seems to be saying that only Olam Haba matters. This is a similar concept to what we learned in World History. Many of the early civilizations believe in after life. They spent most of their lives pleasing their gods so they could go to the afterlife. The Egyptians even mummified their deceased so that their bodies would be preserved and look nice for the gods of the afterlife. These early civilizations believed that this world was all about trying to get to the afterlife, just like the second interpenetration that says only things we do in Olam Haba or worth anything.