Comments for Gilgamesh’s Despair & Today’s Deceptions at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 22 May 2013 19:45:10 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/gilgameshs-despair-a-todays-deceptions.html#comment-5648 As I see it, the epic of Gilgamesh arrives at a surprisingly modern and humanistic attitude to death. Gilgamesh seems to acquire a modicum of wisdom only when he realises that his search for immortality is futile. In an old babylonian version, Sidhuri tells him that this quest actually detracts from the responsibilities and simple pleasures of life in words that almost exactly mirror those of Ecclestiasties 9:7-9. - The Gilgamesh Police Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:57:44 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/gilgameshs-despair-a-todays-deceptions.html#comment-5643 It is interesting to note that Hormuzd Rassam, the archeologist who discovered the clay tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh, was a Chaldean Catholic. - Margaret Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:11:01 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/gilgameshs-despair-a-todays-deceptions.html#comment-5630 Woody Allen: "I'm not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Grump Sat, 08 Jan 2011 06:53:59 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/gilgameshs-despair-a-todays-deceptions.html#comment-5626 There is a downside to the removal of the fear of death. Any American I discuss the subject with assures me that when Americans die, they go to Heaven. As a Catholic (with an American passport) I rely on this wisdom: "Prepare for death, for it comes as a thief in the night". - Bill Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:32:30 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/gilgameshs-despair-a-todays-deceptions.html#comment-5620 Can one overcome a fear of death by reading the NY Times? - Yezhov Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:53:15 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/gilgameshs-despair-a-todays-deceptions.html#comment-5618 With regard to this splendid article on mankind's fear of death one should note what the Epistle to the Hebrews says at 2,15: that one of the reasons the Son became man was "to set free all those who had been held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death". - James Swetnam Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:00:04 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/gilgameshs-despair-a-todays-deceptions.html#comment-5617 An interesting construct with the ring of historical truth. Thank you Mr. Hanley. The moral theology of the Catholic Church has attracted (and is attracting) many, myself included. The Church stands athwart a declining and diminishing Western Civilization and, with a clear and courageous voice cries "stop". For that the entire world can be thankful. - Ray Hunkins Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:28:00 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/gilgameshs-despair-a-todays-deceptions.html#comment-5616 Present attacks on Truth bear traces of distorted genius - diabolically distorted, one might say. St. Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle. - Bangwell Putt Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:08:12 +0100