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I've been thinking a lot about this lately, and does anyone have any comments on it? I have heard many opinions on what it is exactly. But I think it's where you go, when you have lived a neutral life, and your not quite good enough to get into heaven, but still not bad enough for hell. Most of you will probubly disagree with me by saying that anyone who has done something good, or nothing bad, your going to heaven. But what if you have done a bit of both and it's equalled itself out, then what happens.

I think strange things at night...

I've always thought purgatory was some sort of isolated exile of the afterlife. That left you to drive yourself to insanity for eternity. For not giving alms of any kind to your higher being. Not exactly coming from my religious side.

Well, being raised Catholic, but now only coming to Faith at the begining of last year; I was taught that if you didn't do your penence and you died, or you killed yourself, you were to be judged and were in purgatory for a while. Honestly, now I do not believe that. Excuse me for refrencing the Bible on this one, and please don't throw down my opinion for it; but it says in the Bible that no one gets to the Father BUT only through Jesus Christ, and His saving blood. Also, it doesn't actually say anything in the Bible about purgatory. Though, I may be wrong on that. I am just going by what I have been taught through many years at being a Christian school.
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I have also learned the same beliefs that Onyx has learned from being raised a catholic and going to a catholic school all my life. One thing different about us though is that instead of all that bringing me closer to catholicism and christianity it drove me away from it and im now non-denomination. I do still believe in God of course but in my own God (if anything that can be called God actually exists. Im having my doubts), not some rich, Hypocritical institution's God. I apolagize for going off-topic.

Now as for Purgatory well im not sure that really exists anymore. But I guess its only fair to have a place of neutrality in the afterlife. Everything needs a Switzerland after all.

Purgatory is a bit of an odd area in religion. It's sort of an outdated part of the belief in the afterlife that doesn't get voiced often anymore, mostly due to the hardline "you either go to heaven or you go to hell" mentality of modern religion.

As an atheist (or agnostic, it's kind of hard to place me, really), purgatory to me is more a state of mind than a place. I think good and bad are far too complex to weigh against eachother, let alone to balance eachother out - an idea which kind of makes life sound like some sort of point-scoring game. To me, purgatory is the place in our minds where we cannot make a decision, or a period of time in which all you can do is wait for a reaction (i.e death, or to be judged). It's about feeling little to no power over your future, while still holding on to memories of the past, wondering if the actions you have taken will bring consequences for the better or worse.

A good example of this kind of view of purgatory can be found in the movie "In Bruges". I won't reveal much about the plot, but I'll say that the main character is essentially a man trapped in purgatory (symbolized by the Belgian city of Bruges) awaiting the consequences of previous actions. The whole film is kind of symbolic of the state of purgatory, and also throws in a bit of the religious concept as well.

Chaz's is right, sins cannot be weighed against good deeds, if it were true no good deed would go without the thought of say "Yes now I can forget the time I cheated on my wife! Three more and that murder will be history."

I understand, I've heard that side of the story as well. It's mostly your religious beliefs, if I understand correctly. It all depends on what you believe, and what you think happens when you die, and so on...