Comments on: Heath Ledger found dead http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/heath-ledger-found-dead/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=heath-ledger-found-dead Where The Christian Faith Meets The Common Knowledge of Our Age Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:10:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Dane http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/heath-ledger-found-dead/#comment-471 The Dane Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:18:40 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/heath-ledger-found-dead/#comment-471 Here's a <a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_hZc5oGhyVvw/R5bs5hFLUBI/AAAAAAAAAm8/hpzI9n_11SI/s1600-h/Joker.jpg" rel="nofollow">pretty good homage</a>. Here’s a pretty good homage.

]]> By: Geoffrey Seven http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/heath-ledger-found-dead/#comment-469 Geoffrey Seven Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:59:30 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/heath-ledger-found-dead/#comment-469 A good friend of mine is an entertainment reporter who knew Heath Ledger and said he was super driven, and super torn apart by the breakup of his family. The police are not exactly saying he committed suicide, but they think it was potentially an OD of some kind of drug. Not to go all Christian on everybody about this or anything, but it struck me that the things we think will make us happy and ok (like being uber-handsome, famous, rich and sought after) really won't. And sometimes if we get those things, we are even worse off than we were before. Maybe we were unhappy with ourselves before, but we could tell ourselves that if we could only get famous and rich, we'd be ok. Then if we get famous and rich and have all the things that were supposed to make us ok, and we still aren't ok -- at that point, we aren't merely unhappy, we're totally desperate. A good friend of mine is an entertainment reporter who knew Heath Ledger and said he was super driven, and super torn apart by the breakup of his family. The police are not exactly saying he committed suicide, but they think it was potentially an OD of some kind of drug.

Not to go all Christian on everybody about this or anything, but it struck me that the things we think will make us happy and ok (like being uber-handsome, famous, rich and sought after) really won’t. And sometimes if we get those things, we are even worse off than we were before. Maybe we were unhappy with ourselves before, but we could tell ourselves that if we could only get famous and rich, we’d be ok. Then if we get famous and rich and have all the things that were supposed to make us ok, and we still aren’t ok — at that point, we aren’t merely unhappy, we’re totally desperate.

]]> By: Alex Fear http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/heath-ledger-found-dead/#comment-466 Alex Fear Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:56:30 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/asides/heath-ledger-found-dead/#comment-466 I was gutted when I found out this morning. Apparently Jack Nicholson is already quoted as saying "I did warn him". Wonder if there will be a tribute in the credits of The Dark Knight? I was gutted when I found out this morning.

Apparently Jack Nicholson is already quoted as saying “I did warn him”.

Wonder if there will be a tribute in the credits of The Dark Knight?

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