Today we talked in class about Frye's chapter on "The Mountain". This was particulary interesting to me because my group also read this chapter. The concept of time is such a crazy thing, I think. I feel like time will never end when I have to run a long distance.....ok, any distance! I feel like there are literally 1 million other things I could be doing and that it will never end. Not only do I find it boring but it is also exhausting! :-) On the other end of the spectrum, I hope that time will go slowly when I am eating Sunday dinner with my family. There is always so much to talk about and everyone is as comfortable as possible. Then I dread the time when I have to go home. This all got me thinking about the similarities between the two ideas. In both, I am expecting the end to come...or atleast very aware that it is coming. I think that is the difference between time on earth and time in both heaven and hell. On earth, humanity is usually aware of the fact that time has constraints. There is a beginning and an end to almost everything. One day you are born, and you know that one day you will die. In heaven there is eternity. Literally, time ceases to exist. The concept of forever takes over and everyone is happy...Happiness doesn't even do it justice. Everyone is in a perpetual state of joy! Hell has the same concept, only it is horrible. And once again, "horrible" doesn't do it justice. The idea of eternal suffering is excruciating, not just because of the pain itself but because there will NEVER be an end to the pain. Basically, anything solid ceases to exist. You might be able to sollace yourself by thinking that eventually you will be finnished suffering, but the person in hell would probably be very aware that this end will never come. I think its kinda cool that they operate on the same basis and yet evoke such opposing emotions in us.