Is Dante's limbo just describing depression?

Is Dante's limbo just describing depression?

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Yep

Or the feeling of hopelessness that comes with almost having the good life and never quite getting it

Yep

No, it's describing Limbo.

Wish it away all you want. You're going to hell. You didn't put in the Herculean spiritual effort. Close to 0 people do. Then it's 800-1,000 years, going deeper and deeper down, time getting slower and slower as it gets worse and worse, you won't repent, you will curse god, and then when it's over, after you're in the worst part, where you feel the full inertia of the Earth screaming through space at full speed, will you be spat out, clean again, and up you will go through the lower life forms until you get another 100 tries at being human and escaping the circle through HERCULEAN EFFORT

That's like describing what the stages of true enlightenment are.

>going through hell is similar to achieving enlightenment
>eternal suffering that is tailored to your earthly sins is comparable to nirvana

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I often feel like earth is a level of hell, it's so senseless and painful.

Suffering brings two options, destruction and stagnation or progression and adaptation. The act of opening one's virgin eyes to the light is in no shape or form a pleasurable experience. It burns, it stings, it can and will kill you forcing you to start over again.

Hercules is a pagan demi-god. Why would I want to do anything with his amount of effort?

Sounds like it could still be describing depression desu

Limbo is not a Biblical concept, btw, it's not in the Scripture.

>Suffering in hell is eternal, there is no opportunity for betterment. Overcoming an ordeal is not in any way relatable to an inescapable torment. This earthly coil is meant to be a staging ground to determine the content of your character and the strength of your will, not a warm up for some fictional, extra-dimensional adventure.

Eternity for us is different than the eternity the dead experience. Obviously you wouldn't have a brain if you're a random spirit floating around so the perception of time or even time itself works differently. You could suffer more than one eternity or cycle.

I'm not saying it wouldn't be harsh but still you gotta take everything in consideration.

It was life without Beatrice.

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The original >tfw no gf

No. Limbo is actually real.

Limbo is another name for the Abraham's bosom.

This, life without love is torture without weapons.