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In The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote, "What is hell?
I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." Hell is usually imagined as a world after this one, where someone is punished and made to suffer, but that vision of hell never really spoke to me.
What Dostoevsky says is much more interesting and relevant to me, and when understood, I think one learns to see hell and heaven as real entities inside of ourselves, not just some imagined world.
As usual, I'm gonna explore this idea through a dialogue.
After years of reading and believing in the bible, a young student (S) had a sudden crisis of faith.
He went to the house at the end of his neighbourhood where it was rumoured that a retired priest lived, one who had walked away from the church.
The retired priest (P) allowed the student into his home, and after a bit of small talk, the following conversation ensued.
S: Do you believe in any of this?
Do you believe there's really a heaven or a hell after we die?
