tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post4629712359059333826..comments2023-06-01T09:22:18.917+01:00Comments on Liturgiae Causa: An atrophied will...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-2721253439701034132014-10-17T18:28:17.768+01:002014-10-17T18:28:17.768+01:00I would add that, like Mr Crisp, I do not long for...I would add that, like Mr Crisp, I do not long for death and am by no means suicidal (though I have thought a lot about suicide). Death just seems the lesser of two evils.Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-35809877491526535212014-10-17T18:12:39.965+01:002014-10-17T18:12:39.965+01:00Hmm, I agree. But why post it here? My knowledge o...Hmm, I agree. But why post it here? My knowledge of both those quotes, and their contexts, is profound. But I also understand Mr Crisp. When the circumstances of one's life are so inferior that suicide seems the only option the "domination of the Dark Power" seems fallacious. The Numenoreans were terrified of death. Mr Crisp and I couldn't care less about life and are more like the lords among men who took unto themselves Rings of Power. To them life seemed hateful, akin to O'Brian's prophecy about the process of life in Nineteen Eighty-Four, but they didn't commit suicide. They merely continued until waking life and death were indistinguishable and they walked under the shadow of Sauron's Eye. If Hell is a dark solitary room beyond light and knowledge then I call it Heaven. If Heaven is being in the light, in the midst of great concourse of people then that is Hell.Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-45323772187413154052014-10-17T17:17:37.723+01:002014-10-17T17:17:37.723+01:00'Authority is not given to you, Steward of Gon...'Authority is not given to you, Steward of Gondor, to order the hour of your death,' answered Gandalf. 'And only the heathen kings, under the domination of the Dark Power, did thus, slaying themselves in pride and despair, murdering their kin to ease their own death.' Lord of the Rings, Book 5 Chapter 7<br /><br />“Actually I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’— though it contains (and in legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory” J.R.R. Tolkein, Letters, 255 http://blogs.ancientfaith.com/glory2godforallthings/2014/07/15/tolkiens-long-defeat/Fr. Yousufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06430669853591411729noreply@blogger.com