Monday, April 21, 2014

Another Take on Afterlife for the Living

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality" -John F. Kennedy [*possibly attributed to Dante Alighieri]


Considering the above quote, moments of great moral crises are opportunities for us to live. Choose  to maintain neutrality--in other words, choose indifference--and we forfeit an opportunity to live and exist to our fullest within the moment.

So in the spirit of keepin' it real: It is often in retrospect that we burn by flames of our own anger, shame, and unrest over those pivotal moments of crisis in life.  It's a waking and living afterlife in itself.

For a few tangents, I'll pose a pseudo-scholar's conjecture: Perhaps Dante's inferno was also an early attempt at psychology--using heaven and hell as allegory to how we live our lives immediately as well as in his broader interpretation of religious afterlife. [disclaimer, last time I read Dante's Inferno was in high school, early 2000s]

I'm tempted to loosely ponder how other dimensions of reality and alternative universes can exist via physics too, but that's probably too much pseudo anything for today...

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