https://www.feanorsworkshop.com/blog/logorss.jpg You mentioned that the story of Gilgamesh seemed a bit "schizophrenic" to you because the story begins by praising him, but then continues on to recount all his failures...
I'm just wondering if you can't see the parallel here... David's life starts out pretty well, but he falls into sin as king over Israel. He has relations with Uriah's wife, Bathsheba, she becomes pregnant, and then David goes on to arrange Uriah's death on the battle field...Yet even though David commits this horrendous evil, God still singles him out as "a man after (His) own heart".
You're Jewish from what I know..I believe in having a personal, saving relationship with Jesus Christ. But I don't think either of us, even though our beliefs differ, would describe God as schizophrenic..and yet I see the way God narrates the history of the Jewish people in the Bible as being quite similar to the way the author narrates The Epic of Gilgamesh (based on how you described the book, because I have never personally read it). The story of the Bible starts out with God creating the heavens and the earth..breathing life into humanity..and placing Adam and Eve in a perfect environment...they had the beginnings of a wonderful and noble life, yet, like Gilgamesh, they, like the rest of humanity to follow, are more notable for their failures than for any success they may attain.

Let me know what you think..I'd love to hear your comments! ]]> Wednesday, August 11, 2010 09:17 AM Sunday, March 14, 2010 03:20 PM Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:28 AM Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:33 AM
You're only saying that because he's a brilliant deductive misanthrope whose name starts with H who lives with his doctor friend/hetero(?) lifemate whose name starts with W and whose address used to be 221B. I mean, those could all just be huge coincidences.]]> Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:34 AM Sunday, January 24, 2010 09:42 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 03:20 PM Wednesday, October 7, 2009 07:52 PM
Point 2: Television is magic! But for me, even crazier is airplane travel. As you know I fly a lot for work and every single time I'm hurtling through the sky in that big metal tube, I get sort of freaked out (in a good way) in utter amazement that it's even happening. Especially during takeoff...I just stare out the window, fascinated that the plane is leaving the Earth's surface.

Point 3: Also awful are those free credit report commercials...totally scammy. It's general common knowledge that everyone is entitled to one free credit report per year, but a lot of people don't know that the proper way to do it is to go to the websites of one of the three major credit reporting companies and follow the links from there. Those commmercials cash in on that and get people (usually people with not a lot of money knowledge in the first place) hooked into their paid services. Yuck.

Point 2: ]]> Friday, August 21, 2009 10:41 AM 2: Agreed. Reminds me of that Louis CK routine: "You're sitting in a chair in the sky!"
3: Agreed again. Although I do love the FreeCreditReport.com songs. :)]]> Friday, August 21, 2009 10:56 AM