Snoopy is one of the central characters in the comic strip Peanuts by American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. He also appears in all of the Peanuts films and television specials. Debuting in the strip on October 4, 1950, the original drawings of Snoopy were inspired by Spike, one of Schulz's childhood dogs.
C01 31:28 - When you love the immutable, it will bring tranquility. If you love anything that you can lose, anything in this world: [a] It won't be big enough to fill your heart, your heart is deeper than you know. [b] It's too fragile, one of the things that my wife & I know, "we've got three sons/daughters-in-laws/grandchildren, we've got a loving family & we know even if you're fortunate enough to live a long time—if you do live a long time, you will live to see everyone that matters to you in the ground." And you're the fortunate one bc you have a long life.. And if all the source of your love & contentment is your family, that's intolerable! [32:12]
Augustine says only if you love GOD more than you love anything else, will your heart not always be broken; or you'll be hardening it in order to deal with how it tears you up if you love anything more than you love GOD—you've got to love GOD supremely!!! because HE's the only thing that can't be taken from you.. [32:30]
Tim Keller: Uncovering Satisfaction || Oxford Christian Union 📦fulfillment
Hey! I finally understand the concept of why ppl like Nolan takes issue with living forever, bc they see it from the perspective you will be the only person who outlives everyone you love—rather than the idea of living forever together like in vampire movies since even then they are constantly warring against other covens which can kidnap your family. Then there is the 50 First Dates silliness that ignores the finite nature of time in a day, and simply stretch it out to sell the audience on a happy fake ending where the mc can restart everyday with the same goal, in a Sisyphus like condemnation—which I still hate the premise of, sorry peeps who are in this unruly tribe you do not know that you cannot live like that. Imagine being forced to build s/t you desperately want & need completed, without which it breaks your mind & sends you into a fit of rage, imagine that to infinity & beyond. As beings who seek meaning & purpose, we will care regardless how many times it destroys us inside. That is a curse! I have a feeling some of you are about to find out, bc your countries are in the crux of it for the first time in many moons.
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus or Sisyphos is the founder and king of Ephyra. He reveals Zeus's abduction of Aegina to the river god Asopus, thereby incurring Zeus's wrath. His subsequent cheating of death earns him eternal punishment in the underworld, once he dies of old age. The gods forced him to push an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down every time it neared the top, repeating this action for eternity. Through the classical influence on contemporary culture, tasks that are laborious, futile, and never-ending are therefore described as Sisyphean. In other versions of the myth, Sisyphus was the true father of Odysseus by Anticleia instead of Laërtes.
Cheating Death
Sisyphus betrayed one of Zeus's secrets by revealing the whereabouts of the Asopid Aegina to her father, the river god Asopus, in return for causing a spring to flow on the Corinthian acropolis. Zeus ordered Thanatos to chain Sisyphus in Tartarus. But Sisyphus sensed him coming, and seized the opportunity to trap Thanatos himself in chains instead. Once Thanatos was bound by the strong chains, no one died on Earth, causing an uproar. Ares, the god of war, perhaps annoyed that his battles had become less diverting bc his opponents would not die, intervened & freed Thanatos, enabling deaths to happen again, and turned Sisyphus over to him.
In some versions Hades was sent to chain Sisyphus and was chained himself. As long as Hades was trapped, nobody could die. Consequently, sacrifices could not be made to the gods, and those that were old & sick were suffering. The gods finally threatened to make life so miserable for Sisyphus he would wish he were dead. He then had no choice but to release Hades.
Before Sisyphus died, he had told his wife to throw his naked corpse into the middle of the public square (purportedly as a test of his wife's love for him). This caused Sisyphus to end up on the shores of the river Styx when he was brought to the underworld. Complaining to either Hades or Persephone this was a sign of his wife's disrespect for him, Sisyphus persuaded her to allow him to return to upper world, in order to scold his wife for not burying his body and giving it a proper funeral as a loving wife should.
But when back in the world of the living, Sisyphus refused to return to the Underworld. He returned many years later either from dying of advanced age, or being forcibly dragged back there by Hermes. In another version of the myth, Persephone was tricked by Sisyphus that he had been conducted to Tartarus by mistake, and so she ordered he be released.
In Philoctetes by Sophocles, there is a reference to the father of Odysseus (rumoured to have been Sisyphus, and not Laërtes, whom we know as the father in the Odyssey) upon having returned from the dead. Euripides, in Cyclops, also identified Sisyphus as Odysseus's father.
