I actually had an interesting conversation about life, death, and purgatory last night. The jist of it was that the fear of death is always on ones mind even when not thinking about it and that death will end that fear and bring happiness...but then we got into thinking that one cannot truely enjoy death either as they will then fear life which when attained again will repeat the cycle. Yes, the conversation went in circles until we finally changed the subject to music being the only universal langauge...which that ended up going in circles, too.
A side note on purgatory that really has nothing to do with the previous conversation. This pretains to Cotard's Syndrome (classified medically as Nihilistic Delusional Disorder). The person who has this has the unshakable conviction that he/she is certain they are already dead...and at the most extreme cases, they think they can smell their own flesh rotting. These people are close to truth because nobody on "earth" knows that they are, in fact, dead, even though it will suddenly become obvious when we get to the end. Anyways, this starts to make one think that life on earth
is purgatory, that your time on earth is an inverse reflection of a previous life; for example, infants who die from SIDS were actually great people when they alive "for real", so they get to go to heaven after a mere five weeks in purgatory. Meanwhile, anyone that lives to 102 has much to repent for in a previous life and had to spend many moons in his or her unknown purgatory (even though the person seemed perfectly wholesome in this particular world). Kind of jumbled, I know, but it's just the basics...and I don't feel like typing out a page.
Just some food for thought.
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