I did not know of this core difference between purgatory and limbo. Thanks for clearing it up! (Also there is the Heaven of Animals where my mom may well be [today is her birthday] because as a child her Sunday school teacher told her animals don't go to heaven, so she made a deal with God that if He'd provide a heaven for the animals she would gladly take care of them all.
“That valley dark and deep and filled with mist, is such that though I gaze into its pit, I was unable to see a thing”
I was taken to the top of the Empire State Building when I turned 21 and was told to spit by a wise older friend, he told me what i see is limbo and that life begins after……….. He was a different type of dude but….
I don’t know ……. if the two are connected this quote hits home
The biological liminal spaces inside the human body are really interesting. I'm looking at you, blood-brain barrier. I might also be looking at you, skin!
I love all liminal as well. Twilight, all of it. I wrote a really fun paper in college about the graffiti on the restroom stall door in Wise Blood for instance, fun!
Interesting detail - thanks. I grew up a Catholic in the 40's and 50's - until as a teenager I recanted. I remember the priests and nuns teaching about Limbo, this vague indefinite holding pattern where some people would exist for all eternity. HArsh. I've since learned that the Church of LDS has a workaround, whereupon the can do a 'sealing' and pull those entities into the fold.
We also learned about sin - venial and mortal - via a fascinating milk bottle analogy. I found this image online.
I did not know of this core difference between purgatory and limbo. Thanks for clearing it up! (Also there is the Heaven of Animals where my mom may well be [today is her birthday] because as a child her Sunday school teacher told her animals don't go to heaven, so she made a deal with God that if He'd provide a heaven for the animals she would gladly take care of them all.
Oh happy birthday in animal heaven to your mom! That is so sweet!
“That valley dark and deep and filled with mist, is such that though I gaze into its pit, I was unable to see a thing”
I was taken to the top of the Empire State Building when I turned 21 and was told to spit by a wise older friend, he told me what i see is limbo and that life begins after……….. He was a different type of dude but….
I don’t know ……. if the two are connected this quote hits home
It’s all connected! Pit and spit :) I used to live on that block, my first apt in NYC. You coulda spat on me!
The biological liminal spaces inside the human body are really interesting. I'm looking at you, blood-brain barrier. I might also be looking at you, skin!
oooh I love this as a topic to further explore! I mean religion detours/"dead" ends are fun and all, but the brain blood body is where it's at!
Also the metaphorical liminal spaces between asleep and awake, death and life, etc. I think it's a pretty good concept to explore.
I love all liminal as well. Twilight, all of it. I wrote a really fun paper in college about the graffiti on the restroom stall door in Wise Blood for instance, fun!
Interesting detail - thanks. I grew up a Catholic in the 40's and 50's - until as a teenager I recanted. I remember the priests and nuns teaching about Limbo, this vague indefinite holding pattern where some people would exist for all eternity. HArsh. I've since learned that the Church of LDS has a workaround, whereupon the can do a 'sealing' and pull those entities into the fold.
We also learned about sin - venial and mortal - via a fascinating milk bottle analogy. I found this image online.
https://kurmudjin.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/lesson-6-actual-sin1.jpg
Oh my gosh, I love that milk bottle graphic, I may have to use that sometime. A workaround seems like a kind idea!