what is limbo..?

Question

is limbo a place or a thing..or something that happens to you..being (caught or left in limbo).

Answer 1

This comes from RomanCatholic theology. It is a place like heaven or hell, where some people go after they die.
The Church has changed its stance on this, just this year, I believe.
Limbo was the place where unbaptized babies went, as well as rightous pagans, because they were not evil, so shouldn't go to hell, but not baptized christians that could go to heaven.
Now the Church has a different opinion on this, but I suspect they should not think so much about what the afterlife is like, since they can do little more than speculate anyway.
It would be better for all of us to concentrate on how God wants us to behave before we die, rather than on what comes later.
So, being 'stuck in limbo' means that you have neither succeeded nor failed, and are not moving in either of those directions, but are simply 'stuck'.
I hope that helps.

Answer 2

Limbo is an old term. Here is a page from the catholic encyclopedia which gives a thorough historical background of the term.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09256a.htm

This reference page was updated March 2007 so it may include canonical changes that another person who answered your question alluded to.
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Limbo

(Late Latin limbus) a word of Teutonic derivation, meaning literally "hem" or "border," as of a garment, or anything joined on (cf. Italian lembo or English limb).

In theological usage the name is applied to (a) the temporary place or state of the souls of the just who, although purified from sin, were excluded from the beatific vision until Christ's triumphant ascension into Heaven (the "limbus patrum"); or (b) to the permanent place or state of those unbaptized children and others who, dying without grievous personal sin, are excluded from the beatific vision on account of original sin alone (the "limbus infantium" or "puerorum").

In literary usage the name is sometimes applied in a wider and more general sense to any place or state of restraint, confinement, or exclusion, and is practically equivalent to "prison" (see, e.g., Milton, "Paradise Lost," III, 495; Butler, "Hudibras," part II, canto i, and other English classics). The not unnatural transition from the theological to the literary usage is exemplified in Shakespeare

Answer 3

Limbo was a Christian theological construct which postulated that there was a state of natural happiness bestowed upon those who had died, who, through no fault of their own, had not received the sacrament of baptism. The popular cultural usage of the term refers to a transitional or liminal state of existence.

Answer 4

Limbo is a PLACE for innocent souls.(Roman Catholic)

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo

Answer 6

Unanswered questions become a reality and you are that reality. Or, manifestation of a meaning of a term "question" as a reality...

Answer 7

wildness