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Aug. 6th, 2003 08:54 pmWhen I was in Catholic school, I was told that Limbo was a supernatural state between Earth and Heaven. Good people, before the time of Jesus but after Adam and Eve, went to Limbo after they died, where there was happiness and paradise marred only by the absence of God. After Jesus died, during the three days, he rescued the good souls from Limbo and brought them into Heaven proper, where the good and just could have happiness and paradise along with the benevolent presence of God.
It's interesting, the metaphysical states of existence we drag into English and distort into common words. Nirvana, rather than being a state of pleasure, is thought by many Hindus to be a state of nothingness, of oblivion, which is the best state one can reach if one considers all of existence to be nothing but sorrow -- forget winning pleasure, go for the mere, numbing draw.
In the English sense, I am in limbo. In the supernatural sense, I am, perhaps, in Nirvana.
I feel as if I'm in a bus station. Waiting. There is no near-future for me, I just need to slog my way through the next couple months, straighten some crap out in my life, then, perhaps, I can afford to let myself have what I want.
It's interesting, the metaphysical states of existence we drag into English and distort into common words. Nirvana, rather than being a state of pleasure, is thought by many Hindus to be a state of nothingness, of oblivion, which is the best state one can reach if one considers all of existence to be nothing but sorrow -- forget winning pleasure, go for the mere, numbing draw.
In the English sense, I am in limbo. In the supernatural sense, I am, perhaps, in Nirvana.
I feel as if I'm in a bus station. Waiting. There is no near-future for me, I just need to slog my way through the next couple months, straighten some crap out in my life, then, perhaps, I can afford to let myself have what I want.
