OneWingedBird
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Or insurance scam...
Does Hell Exist?
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BlackRiverFalls said:
Or Ponzi scheme.
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I now know why Denmark is considered to be the happiest country. Surely there must be a correlation?
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100% of Belgians believe in Hell. They live there!
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Anytime I think about heaven or hell, I am reminded of a friend who lived with her father in a large 3 story house, her mother had passed on.
When her father died, she was having trouble keeping up the maintenance on this empty house, and ended up in the hospital in intensive care.
I went to visit her, hearing that she had now developed pneumonia. She was very religious and a parish priest was in her room when I got there. I overheard him asking her to sign over the house to him, and he ordered me to leave when I walked in.
She did survive and sold the house herself.
I seriously wonder about heaven and hell.
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In the American TV news this week a Pastor and his son in Florida where arrested for stealing 8 million dollars of covid relief funds from the government instead of distributing this money to the many needy in his large Ministry.
The Pastor and son wanted to buy a large estate near Disney World with the money.
Obviously, this Pastor and his son were not afraid of “ hell “.
So, what is “ hell “ ?
Is it some one that has an incurable disease or maybe a person who has no money or means of support ?
Just like heaven, hell is a individual interpretation.
The Pastor and son wanted to buy a large estate near Disney World with the money.
Obviously, this Pastor and his son were not afraid of “ hell “.
So, what is “ hell “ ?
Is it some one that has an incurable disease or maybe a person who has no money or means of support ?
Just like heaven, hell is a individual interpretation.
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I think that the lyrical descriptions and visual representations of Hell as a site of primarily physical torment can only helpfully be viewed as figurative illustrations of the mental and physical anguish a soul—for whatever reason—may be subjected to in a post-physical realm.
That or perhaps Hell evolves along with the most Hellish perils of the age. Perhaps neolithic man woke from fevered dreams of broken limbs and the slow and lonely death of resulting starvation? Have our Heavens done likewise?
For me, much as I find Bosch endlessly diverting, the most plausible presentation of a hellish experience is Samuel Beckett's Play.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_(play)
Doomed beneath the glare of a silent and unseen inquisitor to endlessly revisit the shallow concerns of the corporeal world (and the flesh) while uttering self-serving justifications to oneself—for eternity.
As if one had missed one's only chance and is now set to punish oneself.
That or perhaps Hell evolves along with the most Hellish perils of the age. Perhaps neolithic man woke from fevered dreams of broken limbs and the slow and lonely death of resulting starvation? Have our Heavens done likewise?
For me, much as I find Bosch endlessly diverting, the most plausible presentation of a hellish experience is Samuel Beckett's Play.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_(play)
Doomed beneath the glare of a silent and unseen inquisitor to endlessly revisit the shallow concerns of the corporeal world (and the flesh) while uttering self-serving justifications to oneself—for eternity.
As if one had missed one's only chance and is now set to punish oneself.