“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”
Death is not an option. You can’t escape this that easily. You will not be condemned. You will not be abandoned. You will not be forgotten. You don’t get to choose what happens to you.
Death is not a solution. It is not an out. It will not provide the escape you wish for.
The grave holds no victory, no relief, no satisfaction. You long for something out of your reach. You long for a pain that you cannot have.
There is no escape, and you must accept that.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
(Apologies for the mildly religious post)
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I think Paul’s problem is that he thought death was a person he could talk to. We do get to choose some things that happen to us. Right now, I’m choosing to continue drinking this glass of whiskey. By the time I’m done, I might choose to go lay down in the snow and make snow angels. Hopefully I won’t get lost in the parking lot.
Thanks for the mention of that passage. I looked into this. Seems like this applies to folks on the other side, yes.
I guess I think he’s saying that death and the grave don’t mean condemnation like they used to, and I know I deserve to be condemned. Hell, I almost wish to be condemned. It’s hard to accept that someone paid your way into heaven when you know just how evil you really are, I guess. And I guess that’s the whole point of this religion. You know, the old “I came not to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.” It’s supposed to be relieving, a release from all the bad shit everyone’s done, but it’s hard to get past the guilt. I guess it’s hard once you actually open up your eyes to the religious rhetoric thrown around. “He died to save /you/ from your sins,” and I guess that just makes me feel like a real shithead. The whole point is that we don’t deserve it, but then why the fuck did He do it, you know?
Anyway, sorry for rambling on about my fallacies.
The idea seems to be to restore relations to the point of eternal face to face because that is really really what He wanted.